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Hercule Poirot | 1000-0 | Hercule Poirot (, ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh, and John Malkovich.
Overview
Influences
Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poiret, a retired French police officer living in London. Evans' Jules Poiret "was small and rather heavyset, hardly more than five feet, but moved with his head held high. The most remarkable features of his head were the stiff military moustache. His apparel was neat to perfection, a little quaint and frankly dandified." He was accompanied by Captain Harry Haven, who had returned to London from a Colombian business venture ended by a civil war.
A more obvious influence on the early Poirot stories is that of Arthur Conan Doyle. In An Autobiography, Christie states, "I was still writing in the Sherlock Holmes tradition – eccentric detective, stooge assistant, with a Lestrade-type Scotland Yard detective, Inspector Japp". Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of "ratiocination" prefigured Poirot's reliance on his "little grey cells". Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté, who first appeared in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose and predates the first Poirot novel by 10 years.
Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 and published in 1920. The large number of refugees in the country who had fled the German invasion of Belgium in August to November 1914 served as a plausible explanation of why such a skilled detective would be available to solve mysteries at an English country house. At the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy towards the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasised the "Rape of Belgium".
Popularity
Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920, and exited in Curtain, published in 1975. Following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to receive an obituary on the front page of The New York Times. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-1 | Appearance and proclivities
Captain Arthur Hastings's first description of Poirot:
Agatha Christie's initial description of Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express:
In the later books, his limp is not mentioned, suggesting it may have been a temporary wartime injury. (In Curtain, Poirot admits he was wounded when he first came to England.) Poirot has green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining "like a cat's" when he is struck by a clever idea, and dark hair, which he dyes later in life. In Curtain, he admits to Hastings that he wears a wig and a false moustache. However, in many of his screen incarnations, he is bald or balding.
Frequent mention is made of his patent leather shoes, damage to which is frequently a source of misery for him, but comical for the reader. Poirot's appearance, regarded as fastidious during his early career, later falls hopelessly out of fashion.
Among Poirot's most significant personal attributes is the sensitivity of his stomach:
He suffers from sea sickness, and, in Death in the Clouds, he states that his air sickness prevents him from being more alert at the time of the murder. Later in his life, we are told:
Poirot is extremely punctual and carries a pocket watch almost to the end of his career. He is also particular about his personal finances, preferring to keep a bank balance of 444 pounds, 4 shillings, and 4 pence. Actor David Suchet, who portrayed Poirot on television, said "there's no question he's obsessive-compulsive". Film portrayer Kenneth Branagh said that he "enjoyed finding the sort of obsessive-compulsive" in Poirot.
As mentioned in Curtain and The Clocks, he is fond of classical music, particularly Mozart and Bach.
Methods
In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based and logical detective; reflected in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of "the little grey cells" and "order and method". Hastings is irritated by the fact that Poirot sometimes conceals important details of his plans, as in The Big Four. In this novel, Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax. This aspect of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator to mislead.
In Murder on the Links, still largely dependent on clues himself, Poirot mocks a rival "bloodhound" detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues established in detective fiction (e.g., Sherlock Holmes depending on footprints, fingerprints, and cigar ash). From this point on, Poirot establishes his psychological bona fides. Rather than painstakingly examining crime scenes, he enquires into the nature of the victim or the psychology of the murderer. He predicates his actions in the later novels on his underlying assumption that particular crimes are committed by particular types of people. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-2 | "If I remember rightly – though my memory isn't what it was – you also had a brother called Achille, did you not?" Poirot's mind raced back over the details of Achille Poirot's career. Had all that really happened? "Only for a short space of time," he replied.
Poirot is also willing to appear more foreign or vain in an effort to make people underestimate him. He admits as much:
It is true that I can speak the exact, the idiomatic English. But, my friend, to speak the broken English is an enormous asset. It leads people to despise you. They say – a foreigner – he can't even speak English properly. ... Also I boast! An Englishman he says often, "A fellow who thinks as much of himself as that cannot be worth much." ... And so, you see, I put people off their guard.
He also has a tendency to refer to himself in the third person.
In later novels, Christie often uses the word mountebank when characters describe Poirot, showing that he has successfully passed himself off as a charlatan or fraud.
Poirot's investigating techniques assist him solving cases; "For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away..." At the end, Poirot usually reveals his description of the sequence of events and his deductions to a room of suspects, often leading to the culprit's apprehension.
Life
Origins
Christie was purposely vague about Poirot's origins, as he is thought to be an elderly man even in the early novels. In An Autobiography, she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920. At the time, however, she did not know that she would write works featuring him for decades to come.
A brief passage in The Big Four provides original information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: "But we did not go into Spa itself. We left the main road and wound into the leafy fastnesses of the hills, till we reached a little hamlet and an isolated white villa high on the hillside." Christie strongly implies that this "quiet retreat in the Ardennes" near Spa is the location of the Poirot family home.
An alternative tradition holds that Poirot was born in the village of Ellezelles (province of Hainaut, Belgium). A few memorials dedicated to Hercule Poirot can be seen in the centre of this village. There appears to be no reference to this in Christie's writings, but the town of Ellezelles cherishes a copy of Poirot's birth certificate in a local memorial 'attesting' Poirot's birth, naming his father and mother as Jules-Louis Poirot and Godelieve Poirot. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-3 | Policeman
Gustave ... was not a policeman. I have dealt with policemen all my life and I know. He could pass as a detective to an outsider but not to a man who was a policeman himself.
— Hercule Poirot, The Erymanthian Boar
Hercule Poirot was active in the Brussels police force by 1893. Very little mention is made about this part of his life, but in "The Nemean Lion" (1939) Poirot refers to a Belgian case of his in which "a wealthy soap manufacturer ... poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary". As Poirot was often misleading about his past to gain information, the truthfulness of that statement is unknown; it does, however, scare off a would-be wife-killer.
In the short story "The Chocolate Box" (1923), Poirot reveals to Captain Arthur Hastings an account of what he considers to be his only failure. Poirot admits that he has failed to solve a crime "innumerable" times:
I have been called in too late. Very often another, working towards the same goal, has arrived there first. Twice I have been struck down with illness just as I was on the point of success.
Nevertheless, he regards the 1893 case in "The Chocolate Box",
Inspector Japp offers some insight into Poirot's career with the Belgian police when introducing him to a colleague:
You've heard me speak of Mr Poirot? It was in 1904 he and I worked together – the Abercrombie forgery case – you remember he was run down in Brussels. Ah, those were the days Moosier. Then, do you remember "Baron" Altara? There was a pretty rogue for you! He eluded the clutches of half the police in Europe. But we nailed him in Antwerp – thanks to Mr. Poirot here.
In The Double Clue, Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until "the Great War" (World War I) forced him to leave for England.
Private detective
I had called in at my friend Poirot's rooms to find him sadly overworked. So much had he become the rage that every rich woman who had mislaid a bracelet or lost a pet kitten rushed to secure the services of the great Hercule Poirot.
During World War I, Poirot left Belgium for England as a refugee, although he returned a few times. On 16 July 1916 he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. It is clear that Hastings and Poirot are already friends when they meet in Chapter 2 of the novel, as Hastings tells Cynthia that he has not seen him for "some years". Agatha Christie's Poirot has Hastings reveal that they met on a shooting case where Hastings was a suspect. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-4 | After the war, Poirot became a private detective and began undertaking civilian cases. He moved into what became both his home and work address, Flat 203 at 56B Whitehaven Mansions. Hastings first visits the flat when he returns to England in June 1935 from Argentina in The A.B.C. Murders, Chapter 1. The TV programmes place this in Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, in the wrong part of London.
According to Hastings, it was chosen by Poirot "entirely on account of its strict geometrical appearance and proportion" and described as the "newest type of service flat". His first case in this period was "The Affair at the Victory Ball", which allowed Poirot to enter high society and begin his career as a private detective.
Between the world wars, Poirot travelled all over Europe and the Middle East investigating crimes and solving murders. Most of his cases occurred during this time, and he was at the height of his powers at this point in his life. In The Murder on the Links, the Belgian pits his grey cells against a French murderer. In the Middle East, he solved the cases Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia with ease, and even survived An Appointment with Death. As he passed through Eastern Europe on his return trip, he solved The Murder on the Orient Express. He did not travel to Africa or Asia, probably to avoid seasickness.
It is this villainous sea that troubles me! The mal de mer – it is horrible suffering!
It was during this time he met the Countess Vera Rossakoff, a glamorous jewel thief. The history of the countess is, like Poirot's, steeped in mystery. She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question. Even Poirot acknowledges that Rossakoff offered wildly varying accounts of her early life. Poirot later became smitten with the woman and allowed her to escape justice.
It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women. Poirot had never been able to rid himself of the fatal fascination that the countess held for him.
Although letting the countess escape was morally questionable, it was not uncommon. In The Nemean Lion, Poirot sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, allowing her to evade prosecution by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who, Poirot discovered, had plans to commit murder. Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff prior to the conclusion of her dog kidnapping campaign. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Poirot allowed the murderer to escape justice through suicide and then withheld the truth to spare the feelings of the murderer's relatives. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-5 | Considering it poetic justice that twelve jurors had acquitted him and twelve people had stabbed him, Poirot produced an alternative sequence of events to explain the death involving an unknown additional passenger on the train, with the medical examiner agreeing to doctor his own report to support this theory.
After his cases in the Middle East, Poirot returned to Britain. Apart from some of the so-called Labours of Hercules (see next section) he very rarely went abroad during his later career. He moved into Styles Court towards the end of his life.
While Poirot was usually paid handsomely by clients, he was also known to take on cases that piqued his curiosity, although they did not pay well.
Poirot shows a love of steam trains, which Christie contrasts with Hastings' love of autos: this is shown in The Plymouth Express, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Murder on the Orient Express, and The ABC Murders. In the TV series, steam trains are seen in nearly all of the episodes.
Retirement
That's the way of it. Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna's farewell performance won't be in it with yours, Poirot.
Confusion surrounds Poirot's retirement. Most of the cases covered by Poirot's private detective agency take place before his retirement to attempt to grow larger marrows, at which time he solves The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It has been said that the twelve cases related in The Labours of Hercules (1947) must refer to a different retirement, but the fact that Poirot specifically says that he intends to grow marrows indicates that these stories also take place before Roger Ackroyd, and presumably Poirot closed his agency once he had completed them.
There is specific mention in "The Capture of Cerberus" of the twenty-year gap between Poirot's previous meeting with Countess Rossakoff and this one. If the Labours precede the events in Roger Ackroyd, then the Ackroyd case must have taken place around twenty years later than it was published, and so must any of the cases that refer to it. One alternative would be that having failed to grow marrows once, Poirot is determined to have another go, but this is specifically denied by Poirot himself.
In "The Erymanthian Boar", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937. Another alternative would be to suggest that the Preface to the Labours takes place at one date but that the labours are completed over a matter of twenty years. None of the explanations is especially attractive. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-6 | He continues to employ his secretary, Miss Lemon, at the time of the cases retold in Hickory Dickory Dock and Dead Man's Folly, which take place in the mid-1950s. It is, therefore, better to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement but assumed that he could either be an active detective, a consulting detective, or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate case required.
One consistent element about Poirot's retirement is that his fame declines during it, so that in the later novels he is often disappointed when characters, especially younger characters, recognise neither him nor his name:
"I should, perhaps, Madame, tell you a little more about myself. I am Hercule Poirot."
The revelation left Mrs Summerhayes unmoved.
"What a lovely name," she said kindly. "Greek, isn't it?"
Post–World War II
Poirot is less active during the cases that take place at the end of his career. Beginning with Three Act Tragedy (1934), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a subgenre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events. In novels such as Taken at the Flood, After the Funeral, and Hickory Dickory Dock, he is even less in evidence, frequently passing the duties of main interviewing detective to a subsidiary character. In Cat Among the Pigeons, Poirot's entrance is so late as to be almost an afterthought. Whether this was a reflection of his age or of Christie's distaste for him, is impossible to assess. Crooked House (1949) and Ordeal by Innocence (1957), which could easily have been Poirot novels, represent a logical endpoint of the general diminution of his presence in such works.
Towards the end of his career, it becomes clear that Poirot's retirement is no longer a convenient fiction. He assumes a genuinely inactive lifestyle during which he concerns himself with studying famous unsolved cases of the past and reading detective novels. He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins. In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves such inconsequential domestic riddles as the presence of three pieces of orange peel in his umbrella stand.
Poirot, and, it is reasonable to suppose, his creator becomes increasingly bemused by the vulgarism of the up-and-coming generation's young people. In Hickory Dickory Dock, he investigates the strange goings-on in a student hostel, while in Third Girl (1966) he is forced into contact with the smart set of Chelsea youths. In the growing drug and pop culture of the sixties, he proves himself once again but has become heavily reliant on other investigators, especially the private investigator, Mr. Goby, who provide him with the clues that he can no longer gather for himself. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-7 | Death
On the ITV television series, Poirot died in October 1949 from complications of a heart condition at the end of Curtain. This took place at Styles Court, the scene of his first English case in 1916. In Christie's novels, he lived into the early 1970s, perhaps even until 1975 when Curtain was published.
In Curtain, Poirot himself became a murderer, in order to prevent further murders instigated by a man who manipulated others to kill for him, subtly and psychologically manipulating the moments where others desire to commit murder so that they carry out the crime when they might otherwise dismiss their thoughts as nothing more than a momentary passion. Poirot executed the man, as otherwise he would have continued his actions and never been convicted.
Poirot himself died shortly after having committed murder. He had moved his amyl nitrite pills out of his own reach, possibly because of guilt. Poirot himself noted that he wanted to kill his victim shortly before his own death so that he could avoid succumbing to the arrogance of the murderer, concerned that he might come to view himself as entitled to kill those whom he deemed necessary to eliminate.
It is revealed at the end of Curtain that he fakes his need for a wheelchair to fool people into believing that he is suffering from arthritis, to give the impression that he is more infirm than he is. His last recorded words are "Cher ami!", spoken to Hastings as the Captain left his room. The TV adaptation adds that as Poirot is dying alone, he whispers out his final prayer to God in these words: "Forgive me... forgive...". Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings' daughter Judith. Hastings reasoned, "Here was the spot where he had lived when he first came to this country. He was to lie here at the last."
Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in Curtain, years after his retirement from the active investigation, but it was not the first time that Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend. In The Big Four (1927), Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.
Recurring characters
Captain Arthur Hastings
Hastings, a former British Army officer, meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England. He becomes Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many cases. Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them and for his tendency to unknowingly "stumble" onto the truth. Hastings marries and has four children – two sons and two daughters. As a loyal, albeit somewhat naïve companion, Hastings is to Poirot what Watson is to Sherlock Holmes. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-8 | The two are an airtight team until Hastings meets and marries Dulcie Duveen, a beautiful music hall performer half his age, after investigating the Murder on the Links. They later emigrated to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind as a "very unhappy old man". Poirot and Hastings reunite during the novels The Big Four, Peril at End House, The ABC Murders, Lord Edgware Dies, and Dumb Witness, when Hastings arrives in England for business, with Poirot noting in ABC Murders that he enjoys having Hastings over because he feels that he always has his most interesting cases with Hastings.
The two collaborate for the final time in Curtain when the seemingly-crippled Poirot asks Hastings to assist him in his final case. When the killer they are tracking nearly manipulates Hastings into committing murder, Poirot describes this in his final farewell letter to Hastings as the catalyst that prompted him to eliminate the man himself, as Poirot knew that his friend was not a murderer and refused to let a man capable of manipulating Hastings in such a manner go on.
Mrs Ariadne Oliver
Detective novelist Ariadne Oliver is Agatha Christie's humorous self-caricature. Like Christie, she is not overly fond of the detective whom she is most famous for creating–in Ariadne's case, Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson. We never learn anything about her husband, but we do know that she hates alcohol and public appearances and has a great fondness for apples, until she is put off them by the events of Hallowe'en Party. She has a habit of constantly changing her hairstyle. In every appearance by her much is made of her clothes and hats. Her maid Maria prevents the public adoration from becoming too much of a burden on her employer but does nothing to prevent her from becoming too much of a burden on others.
She has authored more than 56 novels and greatly dislikes people modifying her characters. She is the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that "It's not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all have a motive for killing B." She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has bothered him ever since.
Miss Felicity Lemon
Poirot's secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon, has few human weaknesses. The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried about strange events surrounding her sister who worked at a student hostel at the time. Poirot described her as being "Unbelievably ugly and incredibly efficient. Anything that she mentioned as worth consideration usually was worth consideration." She is an expert on nearly everything and plans to create the perfect filing system. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-9 | Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
Japp is a Scotland Yard Inspector and appears in many of the stories trying to solve cases that Poirot is working on. Japp is outgoing, loud, and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the refined Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot's world. He first met Poirot in Belgium in 1904, during the Abercrombie Forgery. Later that year they joined forces again to hunt down a criminal known as Baron Altara. They also meet in England where Poirot often helps Japp and lets him take credit in return for special favours. These favours usually entail Poirot being supplied with other interesting cases.
In Agatha Christie's Poirot, Japp was portrayed by Philip Jackson. In the film, Thirteen at Dinner (1985), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations.
Major novels
The Poirot books take readers through the whole of his life in England, from the first book (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), where he is a refugee staying at Styles, to the last Poirot book (Curtain), where he visits Styles before his death. In between, Poirot solves cases outside England as well, including his most famous case, Murder on the Orient Express (1934).
Hercule Poirot became famous in 1926 with the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including Murder on the Orient Express (1934); The ABC Murders (1935); Cards on the Table (1936); and Death on the Nile (1937), a tale of multiple murders upon a Nile steamer. Death on the Nile was judged by the famed detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.
The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs (a.k.a. Murder in Retrospect), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, has been called "the best Christie of all" by critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard.
In 2014, the Poirot canon was added to by Sophie Hannah, the first author to be commissioned by the Christie estate to write an original story. The novel was called The Monogram Murders, and was set in the late 1920s, placing it chronologically between The Mystery of the Blue Train and Peril at End House. A second Hannah-penned Poirot came out in 2016, called Closed Casket, and a third, The Mystery of Three Quarters, in 2018.
Portrayals
Stage |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-10 | Another production of Black Coffee ran in Dublin, Ireland from 23 to 28 June 1931, starring Robert Powell. American playwright Ken Ludwig adapted Murder on the Orient Express into a play, which premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey on 14 March 2017. It starred Allan Corduner in the role of Hercule Poirot.
Film
Austin Trevor
Austin Trevor debuted the role of Poirot on screen in the 1931 British film Alibi. The film was based on the stage play. Trevor reprised the role of Poirot twice, in Black Coffee and Lord Edgware Dies. Trevor said once that he was probably cast as Poirot simply because he could do a French accent. Notably, Trevor's Poirot did not have a moustache. Leslie S. Hiscott directed the first two films, and Henry Edwards took over for the third.
Tony Randall
Tony Randall portrayed Poirot in The Alphabet Murders, a 1965 film also known as The ABC Murders. This was more a satire of Poirot than a straightforward adaptation and was greatly changed from the original. Much of the story, set in modern times, was played for comedy, with Poirot investigating the murders while evading the attempts by Hastings (Robert Morley) and the police to get him out of England and back to Belgium.
Albert Finney
Albert Finney played Poirot in 1974 in the cinematic version of Murder on the Orient Express. As of now, Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov played Poirot six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978). He reprised the role in Evil Under the Sun (1982) and Appointment with Death (1988).
Christie's daughter Rosalind Hicks observed Ustinov during a rehearsal and said, "That's not Poirot! He isn't at all like that!" Ustinov overheard and remarked "He is now!"
He appeared again as Poirot in three television films: Thirteen at Dinner (1985), Dead Man's Folly (1986), and Murder in Three Acts (1986). Earlier adaptations were set during the time in which the novels were written, but these television films were set in the contemporary era. The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Bros. It also starred Faye Dunaway, with David Suchet as Inspector Japp, just before Suchet began to play Poirot. David Suchet considers his performance as Japp to be "possibly the worst performance of [his] career".
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh played Poirot in film adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, Death on the Nile in 2022, and A Haunting in Venice, based on the novel Hallowe'en Party, in 2023. Branagh directed all three and co-produced them alongside Ridley Scott. They were all written by Michael Green.
Other
Anatoly Ravikovich, Zagadka Endkhauza (End House Mystery) (1989; based on "Peril at End House") |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-11 | Television
David Suchet
David Suchet starred as Poirot in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 1989 until June 2013, when he announced that he was bidding farewell to the role. "No one could've guessed then that the series would span a quarter-century or that the classically trained Suchet would complete the entire catalogue of whodunits featuring the eccentric Belgian investigator, including 33 novels and dozens of short stories." His final appearance in the show was in an adaptation of Curtain, aired on 13 November 2013.
The writers of the "Binge!" article of Entertainment Weekly December 2014/January 2015) picked Suchet as "Best Poirot" in the "Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple" timeline.
The episodes were shot in various locations in the UK and abroad (for example "Triangle at Rhodes" and "Problem at Sea"), whilst other scenes were shot at Twickenham Studios.
Other
Heini Göbel, (1955; an adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express for the West German television series Die Galerie der großen Detektive)
José Ferrer, Hercule Poirot (1961; Unaired TV Pilot, MGM; adaptation of "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim")
Martin Gabel, General Electric Theater (4/1/1962; adaptation of "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim")
Horst Bollmann, Black Coffee 1973
Ian Holm, Murder by the Book, 1986
Arnolds Liniņš, Slepkavība Stailzā (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), 1990
Hugh Laurie, Spice World, 1997
Alfred Molina, Murder on the Orient Express, 2001
Konstantin Raikin, Neudacha Puaro (Poirot's Failure) (2002; based on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd")
Anthony O'Donnell, Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, 2004
Shirō Itō (Takashi Akafuji), Meitantei Akafuji Takashi (The Detective Takashi Akafuji), 2005
Mansai Nomura (Takeru Suguro), Orient Kyūkō Satsujin Jiken (Murder on the Orient Express), 2015; Kuroido Goroshi (The Murder of Kuroido), 2018 (based on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"); Shi to no Yakusoku, 2021 (based on Appointment with Death)
John Malkovich was Poirot in the 2018 BBC adaptation of The ABC Murders.
Anime
In 2004, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK produced a 39-episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, as well as a manga series under the same title released in 2005. The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan. Poirot was voiced by Kōtarō Satomi and Miss Marple was voiced by Kaoru Yachigusa.
Radio
From 1985 to 2007, BBC Radio 4 produced a series of twenty-seven adaptations of Poirot novels and short stories, adapted by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams. Twenty five starred John Moffatt as Poirot; Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis played Poirot on BBC Radio 4 in the first two adaptations, The Mystery of the Blue Train and in Hercule Poirot's Christmas respectively.
In 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Players dramatised Roger Ackroyd on CBS's Campbell Playhouse.
On 6 October 1942, the Mutual radio series Murder Clinic broadcast "The Tragedy at Marsden Manor" starring Maurice Tarplin as Poirot. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-12 | An adaptation of Murder in the Mews was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1955 starring Richard Bebb as Poirot; this program was thought lost, but was discovered in the BBC archives in 2015.
Other audio
In 2017, Audible released an original audio adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express starring Tom Conti as Poirot. The cast included Jane Asher as Mrs. Hubbard, Jay Benedict as Monsieur Bouc, Ruta Gedmintas as Countess Andrenyi, Sophie Okonedo as Mary Debenham, Eddie Marsan as Ratchett, Walles Hamonde as Hector MacQueen, Paterson Joseph as Colonel Arbuthnot, Rula Lenska as Princess Dragimiroff and Art Malik as the Narrator. According to the Publisher's Summary on Audible.com, "sound effects [were] recorded on the Orient Express itself."
In 2021, L.A. Theatre Works produced an adaptation of The Murder on the Links, dramatised by Kate McAll. Alfred Molina starred as Poirot, with Simon Helberg as Hastings.
Video games
In the video games Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases and Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case, Poirot is voiced by Will De Renzy-Martin.
Parodies and references
Parodies of Hercule Poirot have appeared in a number of movies, including Revenge of the Pink Panther, where Poirot makes a cameo appearance in a mental asylum, portrayed by Andrew Sachs and claiming to be "the greatest detective in all of France, the greatest in all the world"; Neil Simon's Murder by Death, where "Milo Perrier" is played by American actor James Coco; the 1977 film The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977); the film Spice World, where Hugh Laurie plays Poirot; and in Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Poirot appears as a young boy on the train transporting Holmes and Watson. Holmes helps the boy in opening a puzzle-box, with Watson giving the boy advice about using his "little grey cells".
In the book series Geronimo Stilton, the character Hercule Poirat is inspired by Hercule Poirot.
The Belgian brewery Brasserie Ellezelloise makes a stout called Hercule with a moustachioed caricature of Hercule Poirot on the label.
In season 2, episode 4 of TVFPlay's Indian web series Permanent Roommates, one of the characters refers to Hercule Poirot as her inspiration while she attempts to solve the mystery of the cheating spouse. Throughout the episode, she is mocked as Hercule Poirot and Agatha Christie by the suspects. TVFPlay also telecasted a spoof of Indian TV suspense drama CID as "Qissa Missing Dimaag Ka: C.I.D Qtiyapa". In the first episode, when Ujjwal is shown to browse for the best detectives of the world, David Suchet appears as Poirot in his search.
See also Poirot InvestigatesTropes in Agatha Christie's novels
Works
Goddard, John (2018), Agatha Christie’s Golden Age: An Analysis of Poirot’s Golden Age Puzzles'', Stylish Eye Press,
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Eiffel | 10000-0 | Eiffel may refer to:
Places
Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, designed by Gustave Eiffel
Champ de Mars – Tour Eiffel station, Metro station serving the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Bridge, Ungheni, Moldova, designed by Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Bridge, Láchar, Spain, built by the studio of Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Bridge, Zrenjanin, Serbia, built by Gustave Eiffel's company
Eiffel Building, Sao Paulo, Brazil; a mixed use building
Eiffel Peak, a summit in Alberta, Canada
Education
Eiffel School of Management (est. 2007), Creteil, France
Gustave Eiffel French School of Budapest, Hungary
Gustave Eiffel University (est. 2020), Champs-sur-Marne, Marne la Vallée, France
Lycée Gustave Eiffel (disambiguation)
Music
Eiffel 65, an Italian electronic music group, originally called Eiffel
Eiffel (band), a French rock group
5 Eiffel (EP), a 1982 record by Kim Larsen
"Alec Eiffel", a song by the alternative rock band Pixies
Other uses
Eiffel (company), successor of Gustave Eiffel's engineering company
Eiffel (film), a 2021 French film
Eiffel I'm in Love, a 2003 Indonesian teen romantic comedy film directed by Nasri Cheppy. The film stars and Shandy Aulia as the main characters
Eiffel (programming language), developed by Bertrand Meyer
EiffelStudio, a development environment for the programming language
Visual Eiffel
Eiffel Forum License, a free software license
People with the surname
Erika Eiffel, American woman who "married" the Eiffel Tower
Gustave Eiffel (1832–1923), engineer and designer of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty |
Juan que reía | 10000001-0 | Juan que reía is a 1976 Argentine film.
Cast
Luis Brandoni, Ana María Campoy, Enrique Pinti, Luisina Brando, Federico Luppi, Gianni Lunadei |
La Noche del hurto | 10000009-0 | La Noche del hurto is a 1976 Argentine comedy film directed by Hugo Sofovich.
Cast
Ricardo Espalter ... Cacho Fortirolo
Javier Portales ... Cholo
Ethel Rojo ... Señora erótica
Cecilia Rossetto ... Juana Fortirolo
Raimundo Soto ... Raimundo
Mario Sánchez ... Carmelo |
NPU | 1000001-0 | NPU may refer to:
Science and technology
Natural Product Updates, a journal in chemistry
Net protein utilization, the percentage of ingested nitrogen retained in the body
NPU terminology, nomenclature for the clinical laboratory sciences
Computing
Network processing unit
Neural processing unit, for artificial intelligence
Numeric processing unit, or floating-point unit
Organisations
Na Píobairí Uilleann, an organization promoting Uilleann pipes and its music
Neighborhood planning unit, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Nineveh Plain Protection Units, an Assyrian regional militia in Iraq
National Police of Ukraine, a government agency
National Power Unity, a Latvian political party
Universities
National Penghu University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Nilamber Pitamber University, Medininagar, Jharkhand, India
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, California, USA
North Park University, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
No toquen a la nena | 10000012-0 | No toquen a la nena (Don't touch the girl) is a 1976 Argentinian film.
Directed by Juan José Jusid, with a script by Oscar Viale and Jorge Goldemberg and starring Luis Politti, María Vaner, Norma Aleandro, Lautaro Murúa, Pepe Soriano and Julio de Grazia, among others. Among the roster of extras, the film has the participation of an unknown Cecilia Roth. When it was released in Argentina, many of its actors had had to go into exile for reasons of political persecution.
The film has a cast of great Argentinian cinema actors, including the leading role of Julio Chávez. In the technical team Adolfo Aristarain acted as assistant director, and Juan Carlos Desanzo in photography, who would later become prominent directors of Argentinian cinema.
Plot
The film tells in a manners comedy tone, the reactions of young people and adults to the pregnancy of a teenage girl.
Patricia (Patricia Calderón) is a beautiful 17-year-old teenager who has become pregnant and, in desperation, befriended a friend of her hippie brother, Willy (Julio Chávez), in whom she finds support and understanding. When her father (Luis Politti), an Argentine classic of Italian descent, found out, first she hit Willy hard, believing her to be the father, and then she sought to marry her to her daughter to "save face"
Cast
Luis Politti ... Augusto
María Vaner ... Haydée
Norma Aleandro ... Andrea
Lautaro Murúa ... Horacio
Pepe Soriano ... Severino Di Filippi "El Nono"
Julio De Grazia ... Bambi
Pierina Dealessi ... La Mamma
Gustavo Rey ... Javier
Julio Chávez ... Willy
Cecilia Roth ... Cecilia
Patricia Calderón ... Patricia
Alberto Busaid ... Nacho
Lidia Catalano ... Dorita
Claudio Lucero ... Capataz
Patricio Contreras ... Peón
Juan Manuel Tenuta ... Funes
Aldo Marinelli ... El Médico
Chunchuna Villafañe ... La Mercedes
Nora Renzi ... Flequillo
Oscar Viale ... Porta
Atilio Polverini
Divina Gloria
Gonzalo Urtizberea |
Paul Davids | 1000002-0 | Paul Davids is an American independent filmmaker and writer, especially in the area of science fiction. Often collaborating with his wife Hollace, Davids has written and directed several films. He has also written episodes for the television series Transformers as well as a spin-off of the Star Wars series with his wife informally known as the Jedi Prince series.
Screenwriting
Television
The Transformers (1985–1986)
Defenders of the Earth (1986)
Bionic Six (1987)
Spiral Zone (1987)
Garbage Pail Kids (1988)
COPS (1988)
Transformers: Generation 2 (1993)
Films
Roswell (1994), a documentary about the Roswell UFO incident
Timothy Leary's Dead (1997)
Starry Night (1999), a film about Van Gogh
The Sci-Fi Boys (2006) documentary called featuring interviews with Forry Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, and many more sci-fi notables.
Jesus in India The Movie (2008) – a documentary on "American adventurer" Edward T. Martin's quest for the supposed unknown years of Jesus and Russian Nicolas Notovitch's claimed lost Life of Issa. |
Rosie Beaton | 1000003-0 | Rosie Beaton is an Australian radio announcer, best known for her work at Australian youth radio station Triple J.
Radio career
In 2001, Beaton was appointed host of Triple J's evening music program Super Request which aired weekdays at 6pm. Earlier, Beaton co-hosted the Net 50 program with Justin Wilcomes on its debut in 1999.
Rosie also hosts Billboard on Qantas' Q Radio program Billboard, this can be heard while flying on Qantas. Beaton replaced Mike Hammond.
In December 2011, Beaton resigned from Super Request to look for new opportunities. Rosie presented her last Super Request show on 9 December live from the University of Sydney's Manning Bar in Sydney, though will be returning to Triple J in a new capacity in 2012.
From March 2012 Rosie is working as a presenter on triple j unearthed digital radio, interviewing young bands that feature on triplejunearthed.com from Tues-Fridays at 4pm-6pm as her own radio show, presented and produced by Rosie
Rosie Beaton occasionally fills in as Evenings radio presenter with Sydney ABC radio station 702 ABC Sydney.
In December 2014 Rosie left the ABC, but often presents shows for Double J on a casual basis. Rosie is a licensed marriage celebrant in demand for couples all over Australia.
TV career
Beaton has also occasionally appeared on Fly TV and other ABC TV shows.
From 2006 she also hosts triple j tv Saturday on the ABC, which broadcasts the music videos to the 20 most requested songs from Super Request during the prior week.
Rosie occasionally appears on various shows on Foxtel - `The Playlist and Mars Venus'
As of February 2012, Rosie is a regular guest on Network Ten's Breakfast. Following Breakfast's axing in November 2012, Rosie is now a regular on The Project.
Music Programmer & Media Trainer
Rosie often works with young bands for record companies to help artists polish their interview skills. Rosie was Senior Music Curator for Amazon Music ANZ from August 2018 to Mid 2019. |
Men Only Think of That | 10000030-0 | Men Only Think of That () is a 1976 Argentine film directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry.
Cast |
Mid Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) | 10000032-0 | Mid Antrim was a constituency of the Northern Ireland House of Commons.
The House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland), 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections for 48 single-member constituencies (including Antrim Mid).
It was a single-member division of County Antrim represented in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Before 1929, it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from 1929 until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.
In terms of the then local government areas the constituency in 1929 comprised parts of the rural districts of Ballymena, Ballymoney and Larne. The division also included the whole of the urban district of Ballymena.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Parliament prorogued 30 March 1972 and abolished 18 July 1973 |
William Corless Mills | 10000034-0 | William Corless Mills (January 2, 1860 - January 17, 1928) was an American museum curator.
Mills was born in Pyrmont, Ohio.
Mills specialized in Native American remains, leading excavations in Adena Mound, Ohio (1901)
Mills was the fourth curator and librarian of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (1898–1928), following Lucy Allen Smart. He also was
member of the American Ornithological Union
member and librarian of the Ohio Academy of Science
member and president of the Wheaton Ornithological Society
member and treasurer of the Columbus Horticultural Society
charter member of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums)
member of the Columbus Iris Society
member of the National Research Council of Archaeology
fellow of the American Ethnological Society
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
fellow of the American Anthropological Society
assistant editor of the Ohio Naturalist
lecturer in Sociology in the College of Commerce and Administration of the Ohio State University
Mills died in Columbus, Ohio.
Works
Excavation of the Adena Mound (1902) |
El grito de Celina | 10000038-0 | El grito de Celina (Celina's Cry) is a 1983 Argentine romantic drama film directed by Mario David, who also wrote the script, which is based on a short story by Bernardo Kordon. It stars María Rosa Gallo, Selva Alemán, Miguel Ángel Solá and María Vaner. Víctor Proncet composed the soundtrack.
The film was shot in 1975, but it didn't premiere until May 1983 due to military government disapproval and censorship at the time.
Plot
A mother confronts the young woman who is going to marry her youngest son.
Cast
María Rosa Gallo as Juliana
Selva Alemán as Celina
Miguel Ángel Solá as Antonio
María Vaner as Roberta
Pablo Alarcón as Pedro
Aldo Barbero as El hombre
Alba Mujica as Rosalía
David Llewellyn as Carancho
Edith Gaute
Juan Carlos de Seta as the drunkard
Roberto Pieri as old man
María Bufano as Hermana de Celina
Sara Suter
Ramón Perello as man in bar
Jorge Ochoa
Raúl Manso
Tatiana Robi
Roberto Doménico
Eduardo Thau
Patricia Luján
Sergio Birnadussi
Gabriel D. Lentini
S. M. Birnadussi
Production
The film was produced by executive producer Eduardo Thau. The screenplay was written by the director Mario David, based on the short story Los ojos de Celina by Bernardo Kordon. Cinematographer Adelqui Camusso was hired to shoot the film. Víctor Proncet composed the soundtrack, while the editing was done by Oscar Pariso.
Reception
The film was shot in 1975 but because the content and actors were not to the liking of the military government at the time, the film was censored and blocked from release. It didn't reach cinemas in Buenos Aires until 26 May 1983. The film was critically acclaimed upon release, with Daniel López in La Voz del Interior labelling it "Kordon and David's remarkable speech on despotism". Hugo Paredero in Humor described the actors as "very talented, all deserving", surmising that they must have had "inner drama" to be so convincing to the camera. Jorge Miguel Couselo in Clarín described it as a "compelling movie" and stated that there are "no decorations". In their 2001 book Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995), Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela were less favorable, writing: "Rural matriarchy, rustic beings and critical intention against authoritarianism, in a rather static and outdated realization". |
Alexandre Rousselet | 10000040-0 | Alexandre Rousselet (born 29 January 1977) is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 1998. His best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 19th in the 15 km event at Turin in 2006.
Rousselet's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fifth in the 4 × 10 km relay at Sapporo in 2007 while his best individual finish was 25th in the 15 km event in 2005.
His best individual career finish was fourth in a 15 km + 15 km double pursuit FIS race in France in 2006 while his best individual World Cup finish was eighth in a 30 km event in Italy, also in 2006.
Rousselet was born in Pontarlier, Doubs.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Cup
Season standings
Team podiums
1 victory – (1 )
4 podiums – (4 ) |
Glucono delta-lactone | 1000005-0 | Glucono-delta-lactone (GDL), also known as gluconolactone, is an organic compound with the formula . A colorless solid, it is an oxidized derivative of glucose.
It is typically produced by the aerobic oxidation of glucose in the presence of the enzyme glucose oxidase. The conversion cogenerates hydrogen peroxide, which is often the key product of the enzyme:
Gluconolactone spontaneously hydrolyzes to gluconic acid:
Applications
Gluconolactone is a food additive with the E-number E575 used as a sequestrant, an acidifier, or a curing, pickling, or leavening agent. It is a lactone of D-gluconic acid. Pure GDL is a white odorless crystalline powder.
GDL has been marketed for use in feta cheese. GDL is pH-neutral, but hydrolyses in water to gluconic acid which is acidic, adding a tangy taste to foods, though it has roughly a third of the sourness of citric acid. It is metabolized to 6-phospho-D-gluconate; one gram of GDL yields roughly the same amount of metabolic energy as one gram of sugar.
Upon addition to water, GDL is partially hydrolysed to gluconic acid, with the balance between the lactone form and the acid form established as a chemical equilibrium. The rate of hydrolysis of GDL is increased by heat and high pH.
The yeast Saccharomyces bulderi can be used to ferment gluconolactone to ethanol and carbon dioxide. The pH value greatly affects culture growth. Gluconolactone at 1 or 2% in a mineral media solution causes the pH to drop below 3.
It is also a complete inhibitor of the enzyme amygdalin beta-glucosidase at concentrations of 1 mM. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-0 | The Trap is a 1966 British-Canadian adventure western film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. Shot in the wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the film is an unusual love story about a rough trapper and a mute orphan girl.
Plot
French-Canadian fur trapper Jean La Bête paddles his canoe through wild water towards the settlement in order to sell a load of furs.
At the settlement, a steamboat is landing and the Trader and his foster-child Eve arrive at the seaport to fetch mail and consumer goods. The trader explains to Eve that the ship brings "Jailbirds ... from the east" and that "their husbands-to-be had bailed them out and paid their fines and their passages with a guarantee of marriage". Later, the captain is auctioning one of those women because her husband-to-be has died in the meantime. Jean La Bête decides to take his chance to buy the wife but he makes his bid too late. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-1 | La Bête finally agrees to buy the mute girl and takes her against her will into the wilderness of British Columbia. Here the strange couple start a difficult relationship characterised by mistrust and Eve's fear and dislike of the trapper. Eve vehemently rejects the advances of the gruff trapper. La Bête takes her hunting and acquaints her with the beauty and the dangers of the wilderness but here, as well, he fails to win her trust. Eve defends herself from his advances with a knife.
One day, on checking his traps for caught animals, La Bête is threatened by a cougar. He shoots the cat but inadvertently gets his foot into his own bear trap. Badly injured, he tries to drag himself back to his hut, hunted by famished wolves. Eve is waiting at the cabin and hears the distant howling of the wolves approaching the hut. She takes a gun and sets out in search for La Bête; together they get rid of the wolf pack. La Bête's lower left leg is broken, so he asks Eve to bring the medicine man from the next Indian village, a two days trip away. The Canadian winter has already come, so Eve puts on her snowshoes and starts a long, arduous walk over snow-covered hilltops. She finally reaches the village only to find it deserted.
Returning empty-handed, Eve finds La Bête already suffering from sepsis (blood poisoning). Having no time to lose, he urges the terrified girl to immediately cut off his poisoned leg using an axe. After La Bête has tried to stun himself by gulping the last drop of rum, Eve acts as commanded and her patient instantly passes out from pain. Eve nurses the trapper and of necessity learns to hunt on her own and becomes capable of providing for the couple. Eventually, after La Bête learns to say 'please' to her and then thanks her for saving his life and declares he could not live without her, they become intimate.
The morning after, Eve seems to regret her decision and leaves the cabin, holding a rifle against La Bête who follows her to the river, angry and perplexed. Eve flees in his canoe, leaving La Bête floundering in the shallows. Her journey is fraught and she is thrown from the canoe in white-water rapids. The empty canoe is found by native Americans and Eve is rescued, and taken back to the settlement where she was taken from. Although welcome, she remains an outsider. The viewer is told that she remained in bed for two months and lost the child she was carrying. The family have arranged a marriage for her to a man who flirted with her early on in the film. Eve does not appear happy, however. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-2 | Cast
Rita Tushingham as Eve
Oliver Reed as La Bete
Rex Sevenoaks as The Trader
Barbara Chilcott as trader's wife
Linda Goranson as trader's daughter
Blaine Fairman as clerk
Walter Marsh as preacher
Joseph Golland as Baptiste (as Jo Golland)
Jon Granik as No Name
Merv Campone as Yellow Dog
Reg McReynolds as Captain (as Reginald McReynolds)
Production
Filming took place in autumn 1965 in Panorama Studios in West Vancouver. It resumed in 1966 in Scotland.
The soundtrack was composed by Ron Goodwin and the main theme ("Main Titles to The Trap") is used as the theme tune for the BBC's live coverage of the London Marathon, performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Release
The film opened at the Odeon in Kensington, London on 15 September 1966 paired with The Pad (and How to Use It) (1966). It had its official world premiere later in the evening at the Leicester Square Theatre.
Critical reception
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Primitive saga of the pioneering backwoods, a simple story simply told. And this is where the film falls: simple folk the Canadian settlers may have been, but the script makes them crude to boot. Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham (not required to speak) struggle to make their characters more than cardboard cut-outs, and some of their scenes together in the log cabin have a certain charm, but for the most part the script requires them to do little more than register an appropriate expression. Still, there is compensation in Robert Krasker's fine location photography (marred only by studio snow and some very obvious process shots) and in an excellently staged action sequence when the trapper is hunted by a pack of snarling wolves."
Leslie Halliwell said: "Primitive open air melodrama with good action sequences; well made but hardly endearing."
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 4/5 stars, writing: "Made at the height of the Swinging Sixties, this surprisingly moving drama was a distinct change of pace for stars Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. Set in Canada in the 1880s, it traces the relationship of fur trapper Reed and the waif-like Tushingham, a mute he purchases at a wife auction. Acting almost solely with her enormous eyes, Tushingham gives a genuinely affecting performance and, as impatience turns to understanding and ultimately affection, Reed also demonstrates a mellow side that he too rarely allows us to see. Director Sidney Hayers makes their adventures believable." |
Römer (crater) | 1000006-0 | Römer is a lunar impact crater that is located to the north of the Sinus Amoris in the northeast section of the Moon. It was named after Danish astronomer Ole Rømer. It lies in the southwestern part of the mountainous region named the Montes Taurus. It was unofficially named as Atatürk by astronomer Hugh Percy Wilkins in his lunar map, possibly due to the fact that the Montes Taurus (or Toros Dağları in Turkish) are located in Turkey. To the west-northwest is the crater-bay Le Monnier, on the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis.
The rim of Römer has relatively high walls with a terraced inner surface. There is a small craterlet on the north part of the floor, and a large central peak at the midpoint. Römer has a ray system, and due to these rays, it is mapped as part of the Copernican System.
To the northwest of the crater is a prominent system of rilles named the Rimae Römer. These follow a course to the north from the western rim of the crater, and have a combined length of about 110 kilometres.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Römer.
The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.
Römer K — See Franck (crater).
Römer L — See Brewster (crater). |
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic | 10000061-0 | Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic () is a 1976 Argentine black comedy crime film directed by José A. Martínez Suárez. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
Mecha Ortiz as Mara Ordaz
Arturo García Buhr as Pedro
Narciso Ibáñez Menta as Norberto
Mario Soffici as Martín
Bárbara Mujica as Laura |
Brigada en acción | 10000067-0 | Brigada en acción is a 1977 Argentine comedy film directed by and starring Palito Ortega and written by Juan Carlos Mesa. The film premiered in Argentina on 21 July 1977.
Cast
Palito Ortega
Juan Carlos Altavista
Christian Bach
Carlos Balá
Alberto Bello
Marcelo Chimento
Nora Cullen
Alfredo Duarte
Golde Flami
Coco Fossati
Alberto Martín
Evangelina Massoni
Daniel Miglioranza
Ricardo Morán
Blanca del Prado
Andrés Redondo
Raimundo Soto |
El Casamiento de Laucha | 10000072-0 | El Casamiento de Laucha (translated as Laucha's marriage) is a 1977 Argentine film directed by Enrique Dawi.
Cast
Marta Albertini
Max Berliner
Amalia Bernabé
Pablo Cumo Jr.
Ulises Dumont
Coco Fossati
Alberto Irizar
Luis Landriscina
Noemí Laserre
Malvina Pastorino
Pedro Quartucci
Romualdo Quiroga
Luis Sandrini
Mario Sapag
Osvaldo Terranova |
David Littmann | 10000074-0 | David Littmann (July 28, 1906 – January 1, 1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor and researcher. The name Littmann is well known in the medical field for the patented Littmann Stethoscope reputed for its acoustic performances for auscultation.
Littman was born on July 28, 1906 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His parents, Isaac Litman and Sadie Zewat Litman, were Ukrainian immigrants from Novgorod.
With Gustev Machlup, Dr. David Littmann founded Cardiosonics, Inc. to sell his stethoscopes. At that time the stethoscope line consisted of two key models, the doctor's stethoscope and the nurse's stethoscope.
3M acquired the stethoscope company on April 1, 1967, and hired Dr. Littmann as a consultant. 3M currently produces the range of Littmann brand stethoscopes.
The 1960s-era Littman Cardiology 3 stethoscope, which is out of patent, became the basis of a 3D-printed stethoscope developed by Dr. Tarek Loubani and a team of medical and technology specialists as part of the open source Glia project.
Dr. Littmann's son was jazz drummer Peter Littman (1935-1985). |
El Gordo catástrofe | 10000084-0 | El Gordo catástrofe is a 1977 Argentine film.
Cast
Jorge Porcel as Catrasca
Moria Casán as Dr. Linda Winters
Graciela Alfano as Graciela
Osvaldo Terranova as Dr. Galindez
Adolfo García Grau as Don Carlos
Beto Gianola as Igor
Perla Caron as Tamara
Nathán Pinzón
Juan Carlos Galván
Jacques Arndt
Max Berliner
John O'Connell
Tony Middleton
Horacio Nicolai
Juan Vitali
Fernando Iglesias
María Bufano
Délfor Medina
Anita Bobasso la viejita
Inés Murray as Anciana
Jesús Pampín
Cayetano Biondo
Abel Sáenz Buhr
Alicia Muñiz
Alberto Olmedo as himself |
Whispermoon | 10000088-0 | Whispermoon is the debut studio album by Listener. It was released on Mush Records on July 29, 2003. It peaked at number 163 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart and at number 4 on CMJ's Hip-Hop chart.
Critical reception
Jason MacNeil of AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "Not as polished or glossy as bigger rap stars, this record has a certain independent aura around it." Rollie Pemberton of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.6 out of 10 and said, "The saving grace of Whispermoon is its varied production."
Track listing |
Pharmadule | 10000093-0 | Pharmadule was a Swedish company, specialized in design and construction of modular pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities in the same fashion as modular homes nowadays are being built. The unique idea came from its founder, Clas Wallenborg, in 1986 as a result of several troublesome facility constructions abroad for Pharmacia.
Pharmadule Emtunga AB
In July 2001, Pharmadule AB officially merged with Emtunga International AB. The merger completed the two companies long-term relationship. Emtunga had been Pharmadule's exclusive manufacturer of modular pharmaceutical plants and the companies had operated extremely close during a period of fifteen years. In 2001 Flexenclosure is made a separate division of Pharmadule Emtunga and is now a stand-alone company with its headquarters in Stockholm and corporate hub in Vara.
In December 2003, 3i acquired Pharmadule Emtunga from IDI. Pharmadule Emtunga has 600 employees and conducts operations in Emtunga, Vara, Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Pharmadule Morimatsu AB
Pharmadule Morimatsu is a Swedish company owned by Morimatsu Group since 2011. Pharmadule offers complete modular facilities including process design and engineering, facility design and engineering, fabrication, process installation, project management, commissioning and qualification, validation and regulatory services and process equipment for the pharma, biotech and consumer goods industry.
Pharmadule OÜ
Pharmadule OÜ was established in 2005 as a manufacturing unit for Pharmadule. Pharmadule OÜ delivers modular solutions, skids, equipment and orbital welding services. |
National Cycle Route 43 | 10000096-0 | National Cycle Network, Route 43 is part of the National Cycle Network and the Celtic Trail, which connects Swansea with Builth Wells. Most of the route is still awaiting development. As of June 2006, there is a 13-mile section out of Swansea that is open and signed.
The route
The existing developed part of the route uses existing cycleways and canal Paths and follows the River Tawe.
Swansea
The route begins in the Maritime Quarter near the Swansea Bay barrage. It runs alongside the Tawe west bank past the Sainsbury's store where cyclists have to cross via a pedestrian crossing at the Quay Parade bridge. Once across the road, the route turns right over the Quay Parade bridge. Once over the bridge, there is an immediate left turn into a dedicated path which follows the west bank of the River Tawe as far as the Pentre-Chwyth traffic junction, in the White Rock area. To the left of this path the Hafod copper works are visible.
Signage for the route is poor at the White Rock area and there are a number of alternate routes northwards that can be taken there. The most traffic free route from the Pentre-Chwyth junction continues left into the Morfa Retail Park, over the Liberty Stadium foot bridge, then right again following the east bank of the River Tawe past the Liberty Stadium, then under the Landore viaduct.
Clydach
The main route through Clydach follows the direction of the Swansea Canal, and is flat all the way, however there are several barriers which require cyclists to dismount. Kingfishers can be seen, especially close to Pontardawe. The path in the area can be busy with dog walkers.
Trebanos
The path continues from Pontardawe Leisure centre and the Trebanos stretch begins behind the Colliers Arms / post office in Trebanos and follows the canal down towards Clydach. It comes out in Coedgwilym Park.
Pontardawe
In Pontardawe the splits into two sections at the rear of Pontardawe leisure centre. One cycle path goes to the east of the leisure centre alongside the River Tawe. The other path keeps following the canal tow path to Ystradgynlais. The cycle path continues through the Pontardawe recreation ground alongside the river.
Ystalyfera & Ystradgynlais
Takes a little detour on to the public road, but reconnects at "Starving Hill" and has a tarmacked section all the way to the "Heads of the Valleys" road.
Brecon Beacons
The route soon connects with Route 46 at the Heads of the Valleys road, and travels over the Fforest Fawr mountain range to Trecastle at the northern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Builth Wells
The route continues on minor roads across the west flank of Mynydd Epynt, to Tirabad and Llangammarch Wells, then on to Builth Wells where it joins Route 8 (Lon Las Cymru). |
Breydon Water | 100001-0 | Breydon Water is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. It is a Local Nature Reserve, a Ramsar site and a Special Protection Area. It is part of the Berney Marshes and Breydon Water nature reserve, which is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).
It is a large stretch of sheltered estuary. It is at the gateway to The Broads river system on the eastern edge of Halvergate Marshes. It is the UK's largest protected wetland. It is long and more than wide in places.
Breydon Water is overlooked at the southern end by the remains of the Roman Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle. Centuries ago, Breydon Water would have been one large estuary facing the sea. At the western end the water may be considered to start at the confluence of the River Yare and River Waveney; smaller sources including The Fleet flow in from the surrounding marshland. Safe passage for boats is indicated by red and green marker posts. Unlike most of the navigable waterways in the Norfolk Broads, Breydon Water is not subject to a speed limit.
At the east end of Breydon Water the river returns to a narrow channel, passing under Breydon Bridge after which it is joined by the River Bure then under Haven Bridge from where it is through the harbour into the North Sea.
Features
At low tide there are vast areas of mudflats and saltings, all teeming with birds. Since the mid-80s, Breydon Water has been a nature reserve in the care of the RSPB. It has been a popular shooting area for centuries, and the shooting continues, but on a very much reduced scale.
In the winter, large numbers of wading birds and wildfowl use it to overwinter, including 12,000 golden plovers, 12,000 wigeons, 32,000 lapwings and tens of thousands of Bewick's swans. Other species that have been noted there include dunlin, sanderling, Eurasian whimbrel, several (escaped) flamingos, pied avocets and on one occasion a glossy ibis.
There is a bird observation hide at the east end of Breydon Water, on the north shore, looking out towards a breeding platform used mainly by common terns. Other breeding species include common shelducks, northern shovelers, Eurasian oystercatchers and yellow wagtails.
Naturalist Arthur Henry Patterson (1857–1935), who published under the pseudonym "John Knowlittle", extensively documented the wildlife of Breydon and the disappearing lifestyles of the boatmen, wildfowlers and fishermen who made a living from the estuary.
Short sections of the Wherryman's Way and Weavers' Way long-distance paths follow the northern bank of the estuary from Yarmouth to Berney Arms, a distance of about 5 miles. Breydon Water is the site of events in Arthur Ransome's popular Swallows and Amazons series book, Coot Club. |
El Macho | 10000110-0 | El Macho (also known as Macho Killers) is a 1977 Italian-Argentine Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Marcello Andrei and starring Carlos Monzón, George Hilton, Malisa Longo and Susana Giménez.
Synopsis
Kid El Macho, an adventurer who is very skilled with cards and his revolver, is instructed by a sheriff to recover a large sum of money, which was stolen after an attack on a stagecoach by the outlaw Hidalgo, a.k.a. "the Duke", and his gang. The Kid starts posing as The Vulture, another outlaw who is actually dead, but with whom Kid bears a strong resemblance, and seeks to infiltrate Hidalgo's gang under his assumed identity. El Macho succeeds in his enterprise by unmasking an unsuspecting banker who was the mastermind responsible for the robbery. The Kid hopes to share the bounty with his lover, the beautiful Kelly, but his adventures are not over yet.
Cast
Carlos Monzón as El Macho/Kid El Macho/The Kid/The Vulture
George Hilton as Hidalgo, the Duke
Malisa Longo as Helen/Kelly
Susana Giménez as Susana/Soledad
Giuseppe Castellano as Ross
Benito Stefanelli as Sheriff
Bruno Di Luia as Gunner
Vittorio Fanfoni as Angel |
Crazy Women (film) | 10000114-0 | Crazy Women () is a 1977 Argentine drama film written by José P. Dominiani and directed by Enrique Carreras. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where Mercedes Carreras won the award for Best Actress.
Cast
Marta Albertini
Virginia Amestoy
Trissi Bauer
Leonor Benedetto
Olinda Bozán
Alicia Bruzzo
Juan Jos Camero
Mercedes Carreras
Marta Cipriano
Luis Corradi
Mara Danelli
Aurora del Mar
Hctor Fuentes
Carlos Luzzieti
Leonor Manso
Nora Massi
Carlos Muoz
Ins Murray |
La obertura | 10000130-0 | La obertura is a 1977 Argentine comedy film directed by Julio Saraceni.
Cast
Silvia Balán
Edda Bustamante
Beto Gianola
Antonio Grimau
Katia Iaros
Morena Jara
Nelly Lainez
Ricardo Lavié
Don Pelele
Ethel Rojo
Mario Sapag
Raimundo Soto
Amelia Vargas
Enzo Viena
(plus others) |
William Arbuckle Reid | 10000148-0 | William Arbuckle "Bill" Reid (1933 – 2 September 2015) was a British curriculum theorist. |
William Arbuckle Reid | 10000148-1 | Reid's major academic works elaborated on curriculum theorist Joseph Schwab's notion of "curriculum deliberation". He was the author of numerous scholarly articles and several books, and was a regular contributor to the Journal of Curriculum Studies of which he was European Editor from 1975 to 1983 and General Editor from 1986 until the mid-1990s. He regularly presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Education Research Association. Reid had a penetrating grasp of the nature of learning and a deep understanding of the link between theory and classroom realities - an approach both philosophical and practical. Few writers in the field combined his intellectual edge with a solid perspective on teaching and a readiness to address complex issues. In 2007 his article "Strange Curricula: Origins and Development of the Institutional Categories of Schooling" (JCS 22, 203 (1990)) was selected as one of the seminal articles that had appeared in the Journal of Curriculum Studies in the previous 25 years.
In 2014 Reid moved to Nottingham to be close to his family and he died there in September 2015.
Works
Selection of Articles
"Curriculum as Institutionalized Learning: Implications for Theory and Research", Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, Fall 2003, Volume 19, Number 1, Pages 29-43
"Curriculum, Community, and Liberal Education: A Response to the Practical 4", Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 103–111
Books
Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative Tradition (1999)
(reprint IAP, 2006, )
(With J. L. Filby) "The Sixth: an Essay in Democracy and Education", Lewes, Falmer Press, 1982
Thinking about the Curriculum: The Nature and Treatment of Curriculum Problems (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978); reprinted 2013.
(with P. H. Taylor, B. J. Holley and G. Exon ) "Purpose, Power and Constraint in the Primary School Curriculum", Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1974
Reviews
In Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative Tradition, William Reid acknowledges curriculum studies' debt to this Deweyan model of deliberation. He asserts that science's ascendancy in curriculum planning at the turn of the century relegated philosophical deliberation to an inferior position but that Dewey's works "kept the tradition alive" |
La Aventura de los paraguas asesinos | 10000153-0 | La Aventura de los paraguas asesinos ( Adventure of the Umbrella Murderers) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Carlos Galettini.
Cast
Ricardo Bauleo as Tiburón
Víctor Bó as Delfín
Julio De Grazia as Mojarrita
Graciela Alfano as Agente Serena
Gianni Lunadei |
A Intrusa | 10000156-0 | A Intrusa is a 1979 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen, based on the short story "La intrusa" by Jorge Luis Borges. The film is about the parallel lives of two gaucho brothers with Danish ancestry. It was shot in Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul.
Cast
José de Abreu as Christian
Arlindo Barreto as Eduardo
Maria Zilda Bethlem as Juliana
Palmira Barbosa as Efigênia
Fernando de Almeida as João Iberra
Ricardo Marnick
Mauricio Loyola
Heloísa Gadel
Nelson Pinto Bastos
Hermes Lago
Reception
At the 1980 Gramado Film Festival the film won four Golden Kikito awards, including Best Director, Best Actor (José de Abreu), Best Cinematography (Antônio Gonçalves) and Best Music (Astor Piazzolla), and was also nominated for Best Film. |
The Drug Addicts | 10000161-0 | The Drug Addicts (Los Drogadictos) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film drama directed by Enrique Carreras.
Cast
Graciela Alfano
Luis Aranda
Giancarlo Arena
Héctor Armendáriz
Jacques Arndt
Vicente Buono
Juan José Camero
Mercedes Carreras
Rudy Carrié
Luis Corradi
Hector Doldi
Carlos Estrada
Raúl Florido
Ricardo Greco
Ricardo Jordán
Juan Carlos Lamas
Norma López Monet
Mario Lozano
Carlos Luzzieti
Constanza Maral
Adrián Martel
Aldo Mayo
Héctor Méndez
Rodolfo Onetto
Adriana Parets
Mario Pasik
Oscar Pedemonti
Joaquín Piñón
Oscar Roy
Abel Sáenz Buhr
Jorge Salcedo
Jorge Sassi
Ricardo Suñe
Nino Udine
Myriam de Urquijo
Gonzalo Urtizberéa
Carlos Vanoni
Orlando Zumpano
Dobo Jacobo |
Cantaniño cuenta un cuento | 10000166-0 | Cantaniño cuenta un cuento is a 1979 musical comedy film directed by Mario David and starring Berugo Carámbula, Mario Pasik, and Mónica Vehil.
Cast
Berugo Carámbula
Gachi Ferrari as Llí
Mario Pasik as Alfredo
Mónica Vehil as Lucrecia
Javier Portales as Don Roberto Sacote
Juan Carlos de Seta as Inspector
Pablo Cumo
Rina Morán
Coro Sapito de Oro
La Mona Margarita
Virginia Faiad as Maestro
Mario Luciani
Rodolfo Onetto
Sergio Corona
Carlos Romero
Juan Carlos Fontana (II)
Alfredo Pérez
Adriana Salgueiro as Azafata
Alfredo Quesada
Ricardo Suñé
Claudio España
Adolfo Castelo
Nicolás Scarpino
Mangacha Gutiérrez |
Regina High School (Iowa) | 10000169-0 | Regina Catholic Education Center is a PK–12 private, Roman Catholic co-educational school in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport.
Athletics
Regina's sports teams are known as the Regals, with a school mascot named "Crownie," an anthropomorphic blue and gold crown.
The Regals won a state football championship in 2005, and more recently have won a state record six titles in a row from 2010 to 2015, a string that included a record 56 game winning streak from 2010 to 2013. Since 2007, the team has been coached by former NFL tight end Marv Cook, who attended high school at Regina's conference rival West Branch High School.
The Regals have won eight state titles in boys' cross-country since 1993. The girls' softball team took the state title in 2011.
State championships
Boys' Cross Country - 8-time State Champions (1993, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2022)
Boys' Soccer - 8-time Class 1A State Champions (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)* Football - 7-time State Champions (2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019)
Boys' Basketball -3 time Class 1A State Champions (1976, 1978, 1979)
Softball - 4-time Class 2A State Champions (2011, 2015, 2017, 2023)
Girls' Golf - 2009 Class 2A State Champions
Girls' Track and Field - 1995 Class 1A State Champions
Notable alumni
Jim Miller, offensive guard for the Atlanta Falcons |
Contragolpe | 10000171-0 | Contragolpe is a 1979 Argentine drama film directed by Alejandro Doria.
Cast
Marcelo Alfaro ... Gigolo 1
Enrique Alonso
Alberto Argibay
Raúl Aubel
Aldo Barbero
Sergio Bellotti
Héctor Bidonde
Luisina Brando
Rodolfo Brindisi
Cecilia Cenci
Marta Cerain
Martín Coria ... Detenido
Lito Cruz ... Juan de Dios Tolosa / Carmelo Di Prisco
Felice D'Amore
Héctor da Rosa
Ricardo Fassan
Ana María Giunta
Adela Gleijer
Jorge Marrale
Daniel Miglioranza
Gloria Necon
Julio Pelieri
Ignacio Quirós
Gigi Rua
Tina Serrano
Juan Manuel Tenuta
Osvaldo Terranova
Beatriz Thibaudin |
Custodio de señoras | 10000174-0 | Custodio de señoras ( Custodian of ladies) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Hugo Sofovich.
Cast
Jorge Porcel ... Jorge
Graciela Alfano
Javier Portales
Supporting
Anita Almada
Raquel María Alvarez
Cacho Bustamante
Osvaldo Castro
Remedios Climent
Roberto Dairiens
Horacio Dener
Coco Fossati
Hellen Grant
Lalo Hartich
Alberto Irizar
Miguel Jordán
Maurice Jouvet
Mónica Lander
Augusto Larreta
Alberto Olmedo
Raúl Ricutti
Carlos Rotundo
Gloria Ugarte
Emilio Vidal |
Cuatro pícaros bomberos | 10000179-0 | Cuatro pícaros bomberos is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Carlos Galettini.
Cast
Ismael Echevarría
Alberto Anchart
Gianni Lunadei
María Noel
Charlie Díez Gómez
Nelly Prono
Juan Manuel Tenuta
Jorge Villalba
Beatriz Spelzini
Marcelo José
Raúl Ricutti
Juan Carlos Lamas
Pedro Martínez
Mercedes Yardín
Manuela Bravo |
Donde duermen dos... duermen tres | 10000183-0 | Donde duermen dos... duermen tres is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry. This film was distributed by an Argentine distributor named "Paris Video Home", a company that distributes comedy films.
Cast
Juan Carlos Calabró
Juan Buryúa Rey
Alberto Busaid
Berugo Carambula
Elina Colomer
Luis Corradi
Juan Carlos Dual
Cacho Espíndola
Susana Gimenez
Adela Gleijer
Zulma Grey
Norma López Monet
Susana Monetti
Tatave Moulin
Edelma Rosso
Renee Roxana
Vicente Rubino
Tristán
Isidro Fernán Valdez
Sergio Velazco Ferrero |
Grandma (1979 film) | 10000192-0 | Grandma () is a 1979 Argentine comedy drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Pepe Soriano, Juan Carlos Altavista and Osvaldo Terranova.
Synopsis
A poor Argentine family of Italian origin lives with their grandmother Carmen, known by all as "La Nona" (grandma in Italian). Despite her advanced age, La Nona eats nonstop, while the family struggles with the bills and feeding at the same time. La Nona brings the family to the edge of ruin, whose members begin to look for the most diverse ways to earn money and eventually get rid of the old woman.
Cast
Pepe Soriano as Carmen Racazzi, la Nona
Juan Carlos Altavista as Chicho Spadone
Osvaldo Terranova as Carmelo Spadone
Eva Franco as Anyula Spadone
Nya Quesada as María Spadone
Graciela Alfano as Marta "Martita" Spadone
Guillermo Battaglia as Don Francisco
Nelly Tesolín as Severe Nun
Oscar Nuñez as Luque
Pedro Martínez as Vicente
Vicente La Russa as Poroto
Amanda Beitia as Friendly Nun
Aldo Bigatti as Candy store owner
Tacholas as Old man in asylum
Horacio O'Connor as Anthropologist
Coco Fossati as Street vendor
Marta Roldán as Mother Superior
Max Berliner as Old man 2º
Cayetano Biondo as Old man 3º
Roberto Dairiens as Grocer
Emilio Vidal as Baker
Tony Middleton as Doctor
Alfredo Quesada as Radiologist
Gustavo Segal as Fishmonger
Anita Bobazo as Old lady 1º
Remedios Climent as Old lady 2º
Pablo Nápoli as Police officer
Héctor Ugazio as Old man 4º
Horacio Guisado as Ophthalmologist
Walter Korwell as Doorman at the Museum
Raquel Oquendo as Old lady 3º
Aurora Peris as Old lady 4º
Miguel Angel Martinez as Cook at the asylum
Mario Kohut as Old man 5º
Fernando Ayala as Justice of the peace
Eduardo Santibanez as Fishmonger 2º
Roberto Tarsitani as Pimp
BBC Version
A made for TV version was produced in 1991 for the BBC Network, starring comic Les Dawson, as part of the Performance series.
BBC Cast
Les Dawson
Liz Smith
Jim Broadbent
Timothy Spall
Sue Brown
Jane Horrocks
Maurice Denham |
Rödlöga | 10000195-0 | Rödlöga is a cluster of islets outside in the Stockholm archipelago. The main island had been permanently inhabited since the 18th century into the 1970s when its last permanent resident, George Nordström, died. Rödlöga is today a spot for boating vacation. Location shooting took place for the 1938 film Storm Over the Skerries. |
Hotel de señoritas | 10000197-0 | Hotel de señoritas is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Enrique Dawi.
Cast
Jorge Martínez
Juan Carlos Dual
Elena Sedova
Patricia Dal
Gogó Andreu
Rudy Chernicoff
Vicente Rubino
Nené Malbrán
Toto Rey
Alberto Irizar
Adriana Quevedo
Marta Albertini
Carmen Barbieri
Marcos Zucker
Mario Sapag |
Hormiga negra | 10000199-0 | Hormiga negra is a 1979 Argentine film directed by Ricardo Defilippi.
Cast
Miguel Bianco
Víctor Bó
Osvaldo María Cabrera
Mario Casado
Víctor Catalano
Rolando Chávez
Rafael Chumbito
Luis Dávila
Roberto Escalada
Coco Fossati
Héctor Fuentes
Beto Gianola
Oscar Llompart
Aldo Mayo
Delia Montero
Arturo Noal
Pablo Palitos
Miguel Paparelli
Joaquín Piñón
Jorge Molina Sala |
Berney Arms | 100002-0 | Berney Arms is a settlement on the north bank of the River Yare, close to Breydon Water in the English county of Norfolk. It is part of the civil parish of Reedham, in the district of Broadland, and lies within The Broads. It comprises a railway station, a windmill, a farmhouse and a pub which closed in late 2015 (though permission for conversion to a dwelling was refused; campaigners are seeking to reopen it as a pub). In 2020, an adjacent property opened as a bistro. The area is not accessible by public road.
History
Berney Arms takes its name from the Berney Arms public house, which is situated by the staithe on the north bank of the River Yare and served walkers and boaters who pass through the area. It was closed in 2015 and the owner proposed to turn the pub into a private house, but planning permission was refused.
The public house was named after the landowner Thomas Trench Berney who owned the Reedham Cement Works centred on the Berney Arms Windmill. The mill was built in 1865 and is the tallest windmill in Norfolk at tall. It was used to grind cement clinker and was later converted into a drainage mill. It closed in 1948 and is now a Scheduled Monument in the care of English Heritage. At one point the mill supported a small settlement of 11 domestic dwellings and a chapel. Berney sold the land on which the railway was built, on the condition that a stopping place was built to serve the settlement in perpetuity.
Geography
Berney Arms is in an area of marshland, much of which is at or below sea level. It lies on the River Yare just to the west of Breydon Water. The area is part of Berney Marshes RSPB reserve and within the Halvergate Marshes Site of Special Scientific Interest. These provide important habitats for a range of plant and invertebrate species as well as providing important wintering grounds for bird species such as Bewick's swan.
The area is also a Ramsar Site and part of the Broadland Special Protection Area. Ashtree Farm is used by the RSPB as a series of dwellings and as its base for the marshes.
Transport
Berney Arms can be reached only by train, by boat or on foot; it has no public road access, with only a private track running to it.
Berney Arms railway station is a request stop on the Wherry Lines between and , via . Greater Anglia operate a limited number of services each day, with more frequent trains on Sundays. In 2019, it was the least used station in Britain.
The settlement is on both the Weavers' Way and Wherryman's Way footpaths.
In popular culture
Berney Arms was mentioned in Arthur Ransome's children's book Coot Club, which is in the Swallows and Amazon series.
In 1960, BBC reporter Fyfe Robertson made a short black and white documentary covering Berney Arms station and interviewed two residents. |
La Rabona | 10000202-0 | La Rabona ("The Truant") is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Mario David. It stars Alberto Closas, Claudia Cárpena, and Perla Santalla. The screenplay was written by the director Mario David, working in collaboration with Isaac Aisemberg. Atilio Stampone composed the soundtrack.
Plot
A man and his daughter, tired of family feuding and their routines, skip work and school the same day.
Cast
Production
La Rabona was produced by Horacio Parisotto and Mario Fasola under the Fotograma SRL Producciones Cinematográficas production company. The screenplay was written by the director Mario David, working in collaboration with Isaac Aisemberg. Cinematographer José Santiso was hired to shoot the film. Atilio Stampone composed the soundtrack.
Reception
Néstor, writing in Esquiú wrote: "Well-intentioned and with a certain moralizing tendency... the liberality of modernist customs contrasts with the modesty and purity of the traditional family habits".
Rafael Granados opined: "Mario David constructs a sensitive film, whose images are spoken softly". In their 2001 book Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995), Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela describe the film as a "discreet effort to get away from an industry in crisis, in a difficult time not only for the cinema". |
HMS P38 | 10000209-0 | Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS P38.
, a P-class patrol boat launched in 1917. Renamed HMS Spey on 11 December 1925 and assigned to fishery protection, the vessel was sold in May 1938.
, a U-class submarine launched in July 1941 and sunk on 23 February 1942 by the Italian torpedo boat Circe north of Tripoli, Libya. |
Sami Jauhojärvi | 10000217-0 | Sami Jauhojärvi (born 5 May 1981) is a Finnish former cross-country skier who competed between 2000 and 2017. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won men's team sprint with Iivo Niskanen. Germany launched a protest over the result due to a final-leg collision between Jauhojärvi and Tim Tscharnke, but it was rejected by the jury. Jauhojärvi's Finland finished fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay in Vancouver in 2010.
Jauhojärvi won his first medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec with a bronze in the team sprint with Ville Nousiainen, and then added a second in the 4 × 10 km relay. Jauhojärvi has won one World Cup race; in Trondheim 2009 he won the 50 km classic mass start competition.
He was the 2001 Junior World Ski Champion in the 30 km freestyle at Karpacz.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
1 medal – (1 gold)
World Championships
3 medals – (3 bronze)
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
1 victory – (1 )
9 podiums – (6 , 3 )
Team podiums
2 podiums – (1 , 1 )
Awards
Finnish Sports Personality of the Year: 2014 (shared with Iivo Niskanen) |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-0 | The Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver (KDS; ) is a Sikh gurdwara organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Founded in 1906, it is the oldest Sikh society in Greater Vancouver, and its original location was the largest gurdwara in North America. The current gurdwara is located at the intersection of Southwest Marine Drive and Ross Street, in South Vancouver.
History
The Khalsa Diwan Society was founded on July 22, 1906, and was registered on March 13, 1909.
Their first site and gurdwara was built in 1908 at 1866 West 2nd Avenue, inaugurated on January 19. The financial situation of the Society depended on the number of Sikhs living in British Columbia, and donations rose considerably as more Sikhs came to the province. The population of Sikhs rose in the period of 1904–1908 to 5,185, but fell to 2,342 in 1911. The Sikh population dwindled even more, to 1,099, as the year 1918 approached. Verne A. Dusenbery, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Global Studies Program at Hamline University in Minnesota, wrote that the gurdwara served as "truly a religious, social, political, cultural, and social service center for the entire South-Asian immigrant population of the lower mainland" during its early history.
In the 1940s, the KDS served in a leadership role as Indo-Canadians demanded for voting rights, and it did so in a secular capacity. The gurdwara had a homeless shelter and a langar or kitchen. The KDS had a secular social role as a community centre and also served Hindus and Muslims among the Indo-Canadian community. Raj Hans Kumar stated that in political affairs the KDS represented all "Hindus", which at the time meant all people of East-Indian origin. |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-1 | Relocation
By the late 1950s, there were plans to establish Punjabi-language schools for Canadian-born children and to collect funds for a new community centre. In 1963, the Society began planning for a new gurdwara and community centre.
The Society purchased of city land in 1968 at the intersection of Southwest Marine Drive and Ross Street, in South Vancouver.
Construction began in winter 1969, and was completed in the first week of April 1970 for a price of $6,060. Sri Guru Granth Sahib was moved from the 2nd Avenue gurdwara to the Ross Street gurdwara on the day of Vasakhi 1970. The initial plans asked for a library and community centre, but these aspects were eliminated from the plans. The celebration for Guru Nanak's 500th birthday was held prior to the grand opening in 1970. The building was intended to look like a lotus rising from water. To get inspiration for the style, the architect, Arthur Erickson, traveled to Agra and Amritsar.
In 1979, the annual income of the KDS was $300,000. The membership, which came with a $12 membership fee, had been around 5,000 prior to 1979. After the elimination of the fee, membership increased. That year the leadership of the gurdwara changed. Previously, the KDS was controlled by Marxist Sikhs who did not practice Sikhism. According to Kamala Elizabeth Nayar, in 1984, the pro-Khalistan World Sikh Organization (WSO) began controlling the gurdwara. According to Hugh Johnston, Vancouver Sikhs stated that the political bloc that took charge of the KDS Gurdwara network by 1979 consisted of about 10-15 families.
Khalsa Diwan Road
As part of an initiative by Vancouver City Council to commemorate prominent members of the community, Ross Street was alternatively named Khalsa Diwan Road in 2018. Additional street signs marking it as Khalsa Diwan Road were added at from the Gurdwara at SW Marine Drive to 57th Avenue in 2019.
Branches
In the 1960s, the main gurdwara was in Vancouver and the branch gurdwaras were in New Westminster, Abbotsford, Victoria, and Port Alberni.
By 1973, the cities with KDS temples were Abbotsford, Mesachie Lake, New Westminster, Paldi, Port Alberni, and Vancouver. However the New Westminster Khalsa Diwan became its own Sikh society the following year.
In 1975 the Khalsa Diwan Society of Abbotsford also separated, as the title of the Abbotsford gurdwara was transferred to the separated entity. The Abbotsford Sikhs wanted to have local control over their gurdwara, the Gur Sikh Temple.
Events
Every March, a celebration of the martyrdom of Mewa Singh Lopoke is held. Sikhs from California go to the KDS to celebrate the event.
First executive committee
The first executive committee of the Khalsa Diwan Society were members from 1907 to 1909. They included the following. |
Ebe Gilkes Quartet | 10000224-0 | The Ebe Gilkes Quartet was a Guyanese band that became very popular on Barbados in the 1950s, led by Trinidadian jazz pianist Edwin "Ebe" Gilkes.
Other members:
James Gilkes
Jesus Gilkes
Gilkes Gilkes
Arturo Tappin
History
In the 1950s, low wages for jazz musicians led to many Barbadians immigrating abroad to Canada, US, or the UK. Additionally, travel between British Commonwealth countries encouraged movement between countries of the Caribbean, so clubs and hotels in Barbados were bringing in acts from neighboring countries such as Guyana. Gilkes was a part of the Billy Green Quartet that played in the Coconut Creek Nightclub in Barbados, and by the end of the decade he was the only one to remain in Barbados.
By the 1960s, he played at the Bel Air Nightclub in Bridgetown, a venue that was a part of the middle-class nightlife, playing contemporary jazz and bossa nova. Through the 1960s and 1970s, support for jazz was mainly by foreign tourists, and he played in venues such as the Blue Water Beach Hotel and freelanced in other hotels, playing music for dance and floorshows.
Arturo Tappin, a Barbadian saxophonist who was a sideman in the Ebe Gilkes' Band in the early 1980s, went to the US to study jazz formally, and contributed to the jazz scene in Barbados taking a major role in the formation of the International Barbados/Caribbean Jazz Festival. Gilkes played with Bim in the late 1980s as well as other festivals.
In 1989, the After Dark Club was opened and featured nightly performances by the Ebe Gilkes Trio. Their style was considered "modern instrumental".
Legacy
Ebe Gilkes was honored in 2012 at the Naniki Caribbean Jazz Safari by two Barbadian chief justices; David Simmons and Marston Gibson. |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-0 | Julien R. Leparoux (born July 15, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France) is a French Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States. He has won seven Breeders' Cup races, including the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile with Champion Turf Mare Tepin and the 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile with Classic Empire.
Background
Leparoux grew up in a racing family, the son of Robert Leparoux, a jockey turned assistant trainer. He worked at the Chantilly Racecourse as a stable hand and in January 2003 emigrated to California to work as an exercise rider for fellow Frenchman, trainer Patrick Biancone. In 2005, he became an apprentice jockey.
Leparoux is known as a finesse rider. "I just try not to fight so much with my horses," he said in a 2012 interview. "I try to be gentle around their mouths."
Family
In December 2012, Julien married Shea Mitchell who, like Julien, is the child of a racehorse trainer. During one of the races that Shea attended, Julien fell off and broke his hand. Later that week, Shea tweeted at Julien a simple "I hope you're ok". Not long after, they got married. Shea tweeted a picture of Julien and her father with the caption "2007, when Julien rode On the Acorn for dad. He probably never guessed he was looking @ his future son in law". On September 24, 2015, their first son, Mitchell Leparoux, was born. At only 4 days old, Mitchell was out at Keeneland watching his dad warm up horses in the early morning and racing during the day!
Racing career
Leparoux embarked on his professional riding career in the summer of 2005 at Saratoga Race Course where he earned his first win on July 26 on Easter Guardian. He finished the Saratoga meet with 28 wins, the most in track history by an apprentice. In 2006 he was also the leading winning jockey during the Turfway Park winter/spring meet, Churchill Downs spring/summer meet, and Keeneland Race Course spring meet (where he tied with Rafael Bejarano).
For 2006, Julien Leparoux won 403 races to lead all jockeys in the United States. His total wins and earnings of $12,491,316 for the year were the most by an apprentice jockey in racing history. He was voted the 2006 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. He was also the subject of the Eclipse Award-winning photograph, which showed him being unseated when the filly Sanibel Storm ducked into the rail in the stretch at Keeneland. Leparoux somersaulted over her head and landed in the infield: both he and the filly were unhurt.
Leparoux "lost the bug" in September 2006, referring to the five-pound weight allowance an apprentice (bug) jockey is given. Despite this, Leparoux continued winning riding titles, including Turfway's winter/spring meet, Keeneland's spring meet and Churchill Downs' spring/summer meet. On June 27, 2007, Leparoux became only the fifth jockey in the 133-year history of Churchill Downs to ride six winners on a single card. |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-1 | Leparoux had a career best year in 2009, capped by wins in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile on Furthest Land, the Filly & Mare Sprint on Informed Decision and the Juvenile Fillies on She Be Wild. He won the Shoemaker Award as the winningest jockey at the 2009 Breeders' Cup, being only the 2nd jockey in history to win three Breeders' Cup races in a single year, following Garrett Gomez. He led the North American earnings list and received the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey in 2009. He was only the fourth jockey to win Eclipse Awards as both an apprentice and journeyman.
In 2012, Leparoux decided to switch from the Kentucky circuit (Churchill Downs, Keeneland and Turfway Park) to New York, then moved to California to be closer to his then-fiancée's family. At the end of 2013, now married, he moved back to Kentucky. "I wanted to come back here for my career, the same routine I was used to," explained Leparoux. "I'm still young where I want to be at the top and ride a lot of races and try to win as much as I can... And we want to start a family, and I think Kentucky is a great place. It requires a lot of moving around for a family, but a lot of jockeys do it."
Leparoux had one of his best chances to win the Kentucky Derby in 2012 with the talented colt Union Rags but could only finish seventh after a troubled trip. Leparoux told the horse's trainer that he had heard a pop (indicative of a possible injury) with three-eighths of a mile remaining in the race, but no problem was found the day after. The trainer called the race a disaster and replaced Leparoux for the Belmont Stakes with John Velazquez. Union Rags won the Belmont but never raced again due to an injury to his suspensory ligament.
The highlights of 2016 included several notable wins on Tepin, including the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June. Leparoux was also invited to ride Sir Dudley Digges in Canada's most prestigious event, the Queen's Plate at Woodbine racetrack on July 3. He rode in 11 races at Churchill Downs the day before the race, then flew to Toronto with only a few hours of sleep and won at odds of 16-1. Leparoux rode Classic Empire to victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
Keeneland statistics
Leparoux is a regular rider at the Keeneland spring and fall race meetings and has achieved a number of milestones at the track. , he has:
Tied for fourth by stakes wins (52) and fifth by total wins (403).
Won the leading rider title 10 times.
Won the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) on Tepin on Oct. 31.
Won six races on a 10-race card on April 20, 2012, tying Craig Perret and Randy Romero for the most wins on a single card.
Year-end charts |
Barton Academy (Vermont) | 10000230-0 | History
The Academy started in the fall of 1852 in a building on the location now occupied by the school parking lot. There is an early list of students who were enrolled. It was chartered by the legislature in 1854.
A listing of graduates from 1926, lists the first class as 1886.
The cornerstone of the current building is marked "1907." the project was the biggest building project, the town had ever seen. It cost $42,000. An Indian burial ground was discovered during the excavation. There is no record of what happened to those artifacts. The former school was moved across the street in 1909 and later used as a gymnasium and cafeteria. It was torn down in 1980.
In the early 1900s, Barton Academy ranked eighth among all high schools, public and private, in Vermont.
The Academy closed in 1967, replaced by the Lake Region Union High School. The former building, with the name, "Barton Academy and Graded School", carved on a granite slab over the entryway, is used as an elementary school.
An addition was completed in 1979.
Architecture
Architectural historians Glenn Andres and Curtis Johnson commented that the school had a "finely proportioned central pavilion with quoina and a broken pediment, and a Palladian porch that screens a recessed entrance.." and "There is a finesse and logic to the composition that makes this village school more than a pastiche of derivative details, perhaps indicative of industrial Barton's commercial ties to major centers of taste."
Principals
Benjamin Hinman Steele, briefly when he was 20 in 1853 or so, a young graduate of Dartmouth and simultaneously studying for the law at the same time! Went on to become a judge on the Vermont Supreme Court and died at the age of 37
George W. Quimby - about 1859 to 1862. Captain in Civil War, 4th Vermont Infantry, Company D. Killed December 13, 1862, at the Battle of Fredericksburg
Emilie M. Gleason - June 1877
Athletics
The Academy fielded Basketball Teams for both boys and girls and a boys baseball team. It fielded a soccer team beginning about 1958. School colors were orange and black. The mascot was the Yellow Peril. The school's main rival was cross-town Orleans High School.
Recognition
State Class C Champions, Baseball 1951
Notable graduates
Lee E. Emerson (1917), Governor of Vermont
Robert Kinsey (1965?) state representative from Craftsbury (1970-2000
Francis W. Nye (1936), Major General commanding the Sandia, NM Atomic Laboratory
Marion Redfield (1907) - elected to state House of Representatives 1956-?
Notable Attendees
Wallace Harry Gilpin attended briefly in the late 1890s. Owned the Orleans County Monitor 1904-1953
Frederick H. Pillsbury representative from Sutton in 1902. Attended BA in early 1890s. |
Walla Walla Council | 10000237-0 | The Walla Walla Council (1855) was a meeting in the Pacific Northwest between the United States and sovereign tribal nations of the Cayuse, Nez Perce, Umatilla, Walla Walla, and Yakama. The council occurred on May 29 – June 11; the treaties signed at this council on June 9 were ratified by the U.S. Senate four years later in 1859.
These treaties codified the constitutional relationship between the people living on the Nez Perce, Umatilla, and Yakama reservations; it was one of the earliest treaties obtained in the Pacific Northwest.
Washington Territory's first governor Isaac I. Stevens secured this treaty, allowing larger portions of the land to be given to the two largest and most powerful tribes: Yakama and Nez Perce; these reservations encompassed most of their traditional hunting grounds. The smaller tribes moved to the smaller of the three reservations. Stevens was able to acquire of land.
The United States government later violated these treaties, first by failing to pay the agreed sum for the ceded land, and later by reducing the Nez Perce reservation by 90% and forcibly removing the Nez Perce from their lands affirmed by the 1855 treaty. |
Rod Rohrich | 10000242-0 | Rod J. Rohrich ( ), F.A.C.S. is a Dallas-based plastic surgeon, author and educator. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and a founding member of the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute and the Alliance in Reconstructive Surgery.
He is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. A June 2014 journal article in Annals of Plastic Surgery recognized Rohrich as one of the "10 most influential surgeons of the current era" after surveying the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS) and the Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (SESPRS). In 2021, Newsweek recognized Dr. Rohrich as the top ranked plastic surgeon in the United States for both rhinoplasty surgery and facelift surgery. This ranking is based on other surgeon and field member’s opinions, not on patient testimony or results. Actual results from Dr. Rohrich have varied across patients. Many patients report breathing defects after surgery.
Early life and education
Rohrich grew up in rural North Dakota. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate education at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota, then earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine. After general surgery and plastic surgery residencies at the University of Michigan Medical Center, he did further training in pediatric plastic surgery at Oxford University in England, and a hand and microvascular fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.
Career
Rohrich joined the Division of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas in 1986 and succeeded Fritz E. Barton as department chair in 1991. In 2003 he was elected president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for the year 2004. In 2005, Rohrich was appointed editor-in-chief of the journal, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.
Rohrich was chairman of the UT-Southwestern plastic surgery department when it became the largest plastic surgery department in the country, and helped to open an outpatient plastic surgery clinic. Until 2014, Rohrich was one of highest paid state employees in Texas as a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center faculty member. He stepped down as chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center after "an allegation of unprofessional conduct." In 2016, he resigned from UT Southwestern Medical Center, and was later a founding partner at the Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute.
He is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at the Baylor College of Medicine and has been the president of the Association of Academic Chairs of Plastic Surgery, The Rhinoplasty Society, the Dallas Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Texas Society of Plastic Surgeons, as well as a chair on the Residency Review Committee for Plastic Surgery and American Board of Plastic Surgery.
Rohrich was recognized as one of the top plastic surgeons in the United States by Castle Connolly's Top Doctor Program for 2019. He is author or coauthor of 900 scientific articles, 50 textbook chapters in plastic surgery, and editor of 5 plastic surgery textbooks or monographs. |
Diablo Valley | 10000244-0 | The Diablo Valley refers to a valley in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, to the west/northwest of Mount Diablo. The valley contains the cities of Clayton, Concord, Martinez, Pleasant Hill (home to Diablo Valley College), most of Walnut Creek (The southern end is a part of the San Ramon Valley) and the CDP of Pacheco. The Diablo Valley has a diverse population both ethnically, and socio-economically. West of the Diablo Valley lies the Briones Regional Park and the Lamorinda area. |
1622 in music | 10000252-0 | The year 1622 in music involved some significant events.
Events
January 6 (probable) – The Masque of Augurs, written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace, probably to celebrate Twelfth Night. The masque features music by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger and Nicholas Lanier (but only one song by Lanier will survive).
Lutenist Jacques Gaultier begins his correspondence with composer Constantijn Huygens.
Classical music
Adriano Banchieri – , Cantatas for five voices and a harpsichord or theorbo, Op. 46 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
Giacinto Bondioli
, Op. 4 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
(Sweet flowers cultivated in the pleasant garden), Op. 5 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni), a collection of sacred music for two voices and continuo
Christoph Demantius
, for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Matthaeus Heinrich and Justitia
for six voices (Freiberg: Georg Hoffmann), an epithalamium for the wedding of Johann Caspar and Victoria on May 6
Ignazio Donati – Masses for four, five, and six voices (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Giacomo Finetti – (Mary's Crown) for four voices, book five (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano), a collection of motets
Melchior Franck
, parts one to four, for four, five, six, and eight voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of Magnificats in all eight tones
for four voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel for Salomon Gruner), a collection of quodlibets, both previously published and original
for five voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a funeral motet
for six voices (Coburg: Andreas Forckel), a motet for the funeral of Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar
Marco da Gagliano – Second book of motets for one to six voices (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni for Gardano)
Vinko Jelić – for one, two, three, and four voices or instruments with organ bass, Op. 1 (Strassbourg: Paul Lederz)
Carlo Milanuzzi
for four and eight voices with basso continuo, Op. 5 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
for five voices and organ bass, Op. 6 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
First book of for solo voice and accompaniment, Op. 7 (Venice: Bartolomeo Magni)
Second book of for solo voices and accompaniment, Op. 8 (Venice: Alessandro Vincenti)
Pomponio Nenna – for five voices with organ bass (Rome: Giovanni Battista Robletti), published posthumously
Salamone Rossi –
Thomas Tomkins – Songs Of 3. 4. 5. and 6. parts
Opera
Francesca Caccini – (The martyrdom of Saint Agata)
Births
date unknown
James Clifford, churchman and musician (died 1698)
Gaspar de Verlit, composer (died 1682)
Alba Trissina, Italian composer.
Deaths
January 1 – Jakob Hassler, composer (born 1569)
February 11 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer and writer (born 1557)
April 15 – Pietro Pace, composer (born 1559)
October 26 – Sebastián de Vivanco, priest and composer (born c.1551)
November – Giovanni Battista Grillo, organist and composer
date unknown – Giovanni Paolo Cima, organist and composer (born c. 1570)
Music |
Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis | 10000255-0 | Mycolicibacter kumamotonensis (formerly Mycobacterium kumamotonense) is a species of bacteria.
Etymology: kumamotonensis, pertaining to Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan, where the type strain was isolated.
Description
Slowly growing, nonchromogenic.
Pathogenesis
Type strain
First isolated in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan from a clinical specimen. |
Stanley station (North Dakota) | 10000287-0 | Stanley station is a train station in Stanley, North Dakota served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line. The platform, tracks, and wooden depot are owned by BNSF Railway. It was originally a Great Northern Railway station that was a replacement for an earlier one, which is now a private residence. |
Carmovirus | 10000288-0 | Carmovirus was a genus of viruses. The genus was split in 2015 into three genera, each retaining -carmovirus as part of their name:
Alphacarmovirus
Betacarmovirus
Gammacarmovirus
These genera are in the same family, Tombusviridae, as the original genus and are more specifically in the subfamily Procedovirinae. The following species were assigned to Carmovirus and are, as of 2020, placed within Procedovirinae but not assigned to a genus:
Ahlum waterborne virus
Bean mild mosaic virus
Cucumber soil-borne virus
Weddel waterborne virus |
Barbados Chamber Orchestra | 10000291-0 | The Barbados Chamber Orchestra (formerly the Barbados Symphonia) is a chamber orchestra in Barbados. Its current president is Mike Williams, also a leader in the Barbados Boy Scouts Association. |
Organized crime in Minneapolis | 10000292-0 | Organized crime in Minneapolis refers to the illegal activity of the early 20th century in Minneapolis. This issue was first brought to public attention by Lincoln Steffens in the book The Shame of the Cities which chronicles the widespread corruption in major political parties in the 19th century and the continued efforts to fix this ongoing issue. A. A. Ames was a notable figure who was exposed due to this book, as he and the Minneapolis police force were caught dealing with illegal businesses syndicates. In 1902, Ames fled to Indiana and resigned as mayor on the 6th September.
In his memoir Augie's Secrets, Twin Cities journalist Neal Karlen concedes that the power temporarily wielded in Minneapolis by Jewish-American organized crime figures like Kid Cann and David Berman beginning in the Prohibition-era gave a major boost to local anti-Semitism, for which Minneapolis became infamous nationwide. Karlen further argues, however, that the pervasive criminality during Mayor Ames' last term demonstrates that the city of Minneapolis was even more corrupt when Scandinavians and White Anglo-Saxon Protestants were still running it. |
Kyauktada | 10000299-0 | Kyauktada may refer to:
Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Burma
The fictional setting of the novel Burmese Days by George Orwell |
Real Voice | 10000309-0 | "Real Voice" is the third single from female Japanese artist, Ayaka. The song was used as the ending theme to the J-Drama, Suppli. The single reached a peak of eleven on the Oricon weekly singles chart.
Track listing
Charts
Oricon Sales Chart (Japan) |
Rick Elice | 10000310-0 | Rick Elice (born Eric S. Elice; November 17, 1956) is a writer and former stage actor.
Life
Elice was born in New York City, where he attended public elementary, junior high, and high schools. He was the salutatorian graduate of Francis Lewis High School in Queens, New York (class of 1973). He earned a BA from Cornell University, an MFA from the Yale Drama School, and in 1980-81 was a Teaching Fellow at Harvard. He is a charter member of the American Repertory Theater. From 1982 to 1999, Elice was copywriter, producer, creative director and eventually executive vice president of Serino Coyne, Inc., an entertainment advertising agency in New York. From 1999 to 2009, he served as creative consultant to Walt Disney Studios. He was in a relationship with British actor Roger Rees for 33 years, during which Rees converted to Elice's Jewish faith. A couple beginning in 1982, they married in 2011 when it became legal to do so, and remained together until Rees' death from brain cancer on July 10, 2015. Elice's memoir of Rees' life and their much-admired partnership of more than thirty years, called Finding Roger: An Improbably Theatrical Love Story, is published by Kingswell.
Work for the stage
Elice with Marshall Brickman wrote the book for the Broadway musical Jersey Boys, which received a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk nomination for best book for a musical in 2006. With Roger Rees, he wrote the popular thriller Double Double, which has been translated into 16 languages.
He wrote Leonardo's Ring (London Fringe, 2003) and Dog and Pony (New York Stage and Film, 2003). Elice was creative director at Serino Coyne, Inc. (1982–2000), where he produced advertising campaigns for more than 300 Broadway shows including A Chorus Line and The Lion King. He was a creative consultant for Walt Disney Studios from 1999 to 2009.
In 2008, he co-wrote Turn of the Century with Marshall Brickman. The show was directed by Tommy Tune and premiered at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago in September 2008. |
Rick Elice | 10000310-1 | He wrote Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, which opened in California in 2009 and played off-Broadway in 2011. The play moved to Broadway, opening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on April 15, 2012. Peter and the Starcatcher received nine Tony Award nominations, more than any new American play in the history of the Tony Awards. On June 11, 2012, the play won five Tony Awards. The play enjoyed a successful tour throughout North America in 2013–14.
His most recent collaboration with Brickman was for the film of Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood and released by Warner Brothers in June 2014. Brickman and Elice wrote the screenplay, adapted from their book for the stage musical.
A new musical, Dog and Pony, with book by Elice and music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, had its world premiere at The Old Globe in San Diego in June 2014, starring Nicole Parker, Jon Patrick Walker, Heidi Blickenstaff, Beth Leavel and Eric William Morris, directed by Rees.
Elice wrote the book for a new musical based on the early life and career of Cher, titled The Cher Show, which opened at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway in December 2018, starring Stephanie J. Block, Teal Wicks, Micaela Diamond and Jarrod Spector, directed by Jason Moore. The show received two 2019 Tony Awards, for Best Costume Design (Bob Mackie), and Best Actress in a Musical (Stephanie J. Block).
Jerry Mitchell directed and choreographed Elice's next musical, My Very Own British Invasion, based on the teenage years of Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits fame. The show premiered on February 10, 2019 at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ.
In 2019, Disney Theatrical Productions announced that Elice and Tony winner Bob Martin would write the book, and Tony winner David Yazbek would write the score, for a musical adaptation of William Goldman's revered novel and cult film, The Princess Bride, for Broadway.
Awards
Source:
2006 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical: Jersey Boys (Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice) – Nomination
2006 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical: Jersey Boys (Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice) – Nomination
2006 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical: Jersey Boys (Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice) – Winner
2012 Tony Award for Best Play: Peter and the Starcatcher (Written by Rick Elice) – Nomination
2012 Tony Award for Best Original Score Written for the Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher (Lyrics by Rick Elice & Music by Wayne Barker) – Nomination
2024 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical: Water for Elephants (Book by Rick Elice) – Nomination |
Wyllis Cooper | 1000032-0 | Wyllis Oswald Cooper (January 26, 1899 – June 22, 1955) was an American writer and producer.
He is best remembered for creating and writing the old time radio programs Lights Out (1934–1947) and Quiet, Please (1947–1949).
Biography |
Wyllis Cooper | 1000032-1 | By the late 1920s he was writing advertising copy in Chicago and entered radio, writing scripts for the 1929–1931 NBC radio program Empire Builders. He later worked as continuity editor of CBS Chicago and, in 1933, left to take the same position at NBC Chicago. In 1934, he created his best known dramatic series, a late night horror radio program called Lights Out, which he also directed. Airing at midnight, the program quickly earned a reputation for its gory deaths and sound effects.
The show would prove to be a long-term success, but in 1936, Cooper capitalized on the fame of Lights Out and resigned from NBC, moving to Hollywood, California, where he worked as a screenwriter for film studios. His screenplay for the 1939 film Son of Frankenstein introduced the much-parodied character of Ygor. He contributed to a few of the Mr. Moto films. At the same time, he continued to provide radio scripts for various series including Hollywood Hotel.
Arch Oboler, who took over the writing of Lights Out when Cooper left, would suggest that Cooper was the first person to create a unique form of radio drama, writing, "Radio drama (as distinguished from theatre plays boiled down to kilocycle size) began at midnight, in the middle thirties, on one of the upper NBC floors of Chicago's Merchandise Mart. The pappy was a rotund writer by the name of Willys (sic) Cooper."
By 1940, Cooper moved to New York City. Here he changed his name from “Willis” to “Wyllis” in order "to please his wife's numerological inclinations". He continued to make a living writing radio scripts for various network programs including The Campbell Playhouse, the sponsored successor of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre.
During World War II, he was made a consultant to the Secretary of War and produced, directed and wrote a weekly news and variety propaganda series entitled 'The Army Hour.
In 1944, Cooper joined the radio department of New York's Compton Advertising, Inc. In 1947, he created what was arguably his finest radio effort, Quiet, Please. It began over the Mutual Broadcasting System network and later moved to ABC. He also wrote and directed a crime anthology for NBC entitled Whitehall 1212, which debuted on November 18, 1951. The series was hosted by Chief Superintendent John Davidson, fictional curator of the Black Museum at Scotland Yard. It featured an allegedly British cast and told stories inspired by artifacts held by the famous London crime museum. Cooper's show competed with a similar program hosted by Orson Welles which ran on Mutual in 1952.
As television became the dominant entertainment medium, Cooper experimented with various programs including Volume One, which he wrote and produced.
Cooper resided in Glen Gardner, New Jersey, and died in High Bridge, New Jersey, on June 22, 1955. |
Juha Lallukka | 10000324-0 | Juha Lallukka (born 27 October 1979 in Kouvola) is a Finnish cross-country skier who competed between 2002 and 2018. He finished 34th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Lallukka's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, was fourth in the 4 × 10 km relay in Oslo in 2011 while, his best individual finish was eighth in the 50 km event at the same championships.
His best World Cup result was a third-fastest stage time in the 15 km pursuit race in Falun in 2009.
On 16 November 2011, it was reported that he had tested positive for HGH. He was banned for two years.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
1 podium – (1 ) |
Williston station | 10000337-0 | Williston station is a train station in Williston, North Dakota, served by Amtrak's Empire Builder line. The brick station was built in 1910 by the Great Northern Railway and is located at the southern end of Williston's downtown. An interior and exterior restoration, begun in 2010 and costing almost $2 million, has returned the station to its original look.
With the opening of the Bakken oil fields in the 21st century, many oil production workers now also board and detrain in Williston, adding additional passengers to the route. Many workers from as far as the Pacific Northwest opt to travel to their jobs via the station rather than fly or take the bus. Amtrak conductors frequently let passengers use Williston as an unofficial smoke break or fresh air stop, partly due to delays caused by the sheer volume of passengers boarding and alighting at the station.
Ridership at the station had a particular spike in Amtrak's 2012 fiscal year, when ridership grew by almost 82 percent to 54,324 from 29,920 the year before (though 2011 ridership had been partly degraded due to flooding along the route). This patronage continued even in the wake of terrible delays that plagued the Empire Builder for much of 2013 and 2014 due to increased freight traffic related to the Bakken boom.
As of fiscal year 2018, Williston is North Dakota's second busiest Amtrak station, behind Minot. |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-0 | Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors such as Agnès Varda and David Lean. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was appointed as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Early life
Ponti was born in Magenta, Lombardy, where his grandfather had been mayor of the city. Ponti studied law at the University of Milan. He joined his father's law firm in Milan and became involved in the film business through negotiating contracts.
Career
Early films |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-1 | Ponti accepted an offer from Riccardo Gualino's Lux Film in Rome in 1941. He made Giacomo the Idealist (1943), A Yank in Rome (1946), To Live in Peace (1947), The White Primrose (1948), Prelude to Madness (1948) andHey Boy (1948).
Ponti produced some films starring Gina Lollobrigida: Alarm Bells (1949), The White Line (1950), A Dog's Life (1950). Her Favourite Husband (1950) was a British-Italian co production with Jean Kent. He made a number of comedies including Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950), Toto the Third Man (1951) and Toto in Color (1952), with Totò, plus The Knight Has Arrived! (1951), The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952) and The Steamship Owner (1951) with Walter Chiari. Ponti alternated this with more serious material such as Europe '51 (1952) from Roberto Rossellini, Brothers of Italy (1952), Lieutenant Giorgio (1953), and Easy Years (1953). The Unfaithfuls (1953) reunited Ponti with Lollobrigida, while Neapolitan Carousel (1954) won the International Prize at Cannes.
International breakthrough and Sophia Loren
In 1954 Ponti had his greatest artistic success with the production of Federico Fellini's La strada. However, Fellini denied Ponti's role in its success and said that "La Strada was made in spite of Ponti and De Laurentiis". Along with a Toto comedy The Doctor of the Mad (1954) he and de Laurentiis produced an international film, Mambo (1954) directed by Robert Rossen. There was An American in Rome (1955) with Alberto Sordi and The Gold of Naples (1954) with a young Sophia Loren.
Loren was the female lead in Ponti's Attila (1954), a biopic of Attila the Hun with Anthony Quinn that became a big box office success. Loren was in The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955), a comedy.
Ponti and de Laurentiis made the epic war film War and Peace (1956). In June 1956 his partnership with De Laurentiis ended after more than eighty films over six years.
Ponti continued to produce smaller movies for the Italian market such as The Railroad Man (1956), and Guendalina (1957), but his focus was increasingly on bigger budgeted films aimed at the international Market starring Loren: The Black Orchid (1959) with Anthony Quinn, That Kind of Woman (1959) with Tab Hunter, Heller in Pink Tights (1960) with Quinn again, A Breath of Scandal (1960) with John Gavin. Two Women (1960) starring Loren and directed by Vittorio de Sica was a huge success, winning Loren the Oscar.
French films
Ponti produced a series of movies in France: Lola (1961) starred Anouk Aimee, A Woman Is a Woman (1961) directed by Jean-Luc Goddard, Léon Morin, Priest (1961) from Jean Paul Melville starring Jean Paul Belmondo, Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) from Agnes Varda, Le Doulos (1962) with Belmondo, Landru (1962), plus The Carabineers (1963) and Contempt (1963) from Goddard.
Ponti continued to make movies in Italy, notably Boccaccio '70 (1962), Redhead (1962), The Empty Canvas (1962), Break Up (1965) and two with Loren, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963) and Marriage Italian Style (1964).
MGM |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-2 | He made The 10th Victim (1965), and some films for Paramount, Smashing Time (1967) Diamonds for Breakfast (1968).
Later career
Ponti's later movies included The Priest's Wife (1970) with Loren, What? (1972) from Roman Polanski, Giordano Bruno (1973), Torso (1973) a gallo with Suzy Kendall, Dirty Weekend (1973) with Oliver Reed, Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973), Flesh for Frankenstein (1974), The Voyage (1974) with Loren, Sex Pot (1975) with Loren and Mastroinanni, L'Infermiera (1975) with Ursula Andress, and Down and Dirty (1977),
His final credits included The Cassandra Crossing (1977), an international co production starring Loren, and A Special Day (1977) with Mastroianni and Loren.
Personal life
Marriages
In 1946, he married Giuliana Fiastri with whom he had a daughter, Guendalina, in 1951, and a son, Alex, in 1953. While serving as a judge in a beauty contest in 1951, Ponti met a minor actress named Sofia Lazzaro (real name Sofia Villani Scicolone). He subsequently cast her in films such as Anna (1951). In 1952, his friend Goffredo Lombardo, head of production at Titanus, changed Lazzaro's name to Sophia Loren.
Five years later, Ponti obtained a Mexican divorce from his first wife and married Sophia Loren by proxy. Divorce was still forbidden in Italy, and he was informed that were he to return there, he would be charged with bigamy, and Loren would be charged with "concubinage".
Ponti co-produced several films in Hollywood starring Loren, establishing her fame. In 1960, he and Loren returned to Italy and when summoned to court, denied being married. In 1962, they had the marriage annulled, after which Ponti arranged with his first wife, Giuliana, that the three of them move to France (which at that time allowed divorce) and become French citizens. In 1965, Giuliana Ponti divorced her husband, allowing Ponti to marry Loren in 1966 in a civil wedding in Sèvres. They later became French citizens after their application was approved by then-French President Georges Pompidou.
Ponti and Loren had two sons:
Carlo Ponti Jr. (born 29 December 1968)
Edoardo Ponti (born 6 January 1973)
Their daughters-in-law are Sasha Alexander and Andrea Meszaros. They have four grandchildren.
Loren remained married to Ponti until his death on 10 January 2007 of pulmonary complications.
Kidnapping attempts
Two unsuccessful attempts were made to kidnap Ponti in 1975, including one involving an attack on his car with gunfire.
Smuggling charges
He was tried in absentia in 1979 for smuggling money and works of art abroad, fined 22 billion lire, and sentenced to four years in prison. Ponti did not attend the hearing, as his French nationality made him immune from extradition. He was finally cleared of the charges in 1990.
Art collection |
Carlo Ponti | 1000035-3 | Over the years, several works have been sold privately. In 2006 two Bacon paintings that had previously been in the Ponti collection were exhibited in an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London. One, a vertical composition of four self-portraits, had already been sold to the American collector Steven A. Cohen. In 2007 another pope painting by Bacon, sold by Ponti in 1991, was sold in a private deal brokered by Acquavella Galleries in New York for more than £15 million. That same year, Study for Portrait II (1956) was consigned by Loren at Christie's; it was auctioned for the record price of £14.2 million ($27.5 million).
Death
Ponti died in Geneva, Switzerland, from pulmonary complications on 10 January 2007. He was survived by his daughter Guendalina (b. 1951), and his son Alessandro (b. 1953) from his first marriage; and by his second wife, Sophia Loren, and their sons Carlo (b. 1968) and Edoardo Ponti (b. 1973).
His body rests in the family tomb in Magenta, Lombardy.
Filmography
Piccolo mondo antico (1940)
Giacomo the Idealist (1943)
A Yank in Rome (1946)
To Live in Peace (1947)
The White Primrose (1947)
Prelude to Madness (1948)
Hey Boy (1948)
Alarm Bells (1949)
The White Line (1950)
Her Favourite Husband (1950)
Figaro Here, Figaro There (1950)
A Dog's Life (1950)
The Knight Has Arrived! (1950)
Toto the Third Man (1951)
The Steamship Owner (1951)
Europa '51 (1952)
Brothers of Italy (1952)
The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
Toto in Color (1952)
Lieutenant Giorgio (1952)
Easy Years (1953)
Le infedeli (1953)
Carosello napoletano (1954)
La strada (1954)
The Doctor of the Mad (1954)
Mambo (1954)
Un americano a Roma (1954)
L'oro di Napoli (1954)
Attila (1954)
The Miller's Beautiful Wife (1955)
War and Peace (1956)
Il ferroviere (1956)
Guendalina (1957)
The Black Orchid (1958)
That Kind of Woman (1959)
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
Two Women (1960)
Lola (1961)
A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
Léon Morin, prêtre (1961)
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Boccaccio '70 (1962)
Le Doulos (1962)
L'isola di Arturo (1962)
Redhead (1962)
The Empty Canvas (1963)
Landru (1963)
Les Carabiniers (1963)
Contempt (1963)
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Break Up (1965)
Operation Crossbow (1965)
The 10th Victim (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Closely Watched Trains (1965, uncredited)
Blowup (1966)
The Firemen's Ball (1967, uncredited)
Smashing Time (1967, uncredited)
La Ragazza e il Generale (1967)
Ghosts – Italian Style (1968)
Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
The Priest's Wife (1971)
Oasis of Fear (1971)
What? (1972)
Giordano Bruno (1973)
Torso (1973)
Dirty Weekend (1973)
Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973)
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Gawain and the Green Knight (1973)
The Voyage (1974)
The Passenger (1974)
Sex Pot (1975)
L'infermiera (1975)
Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
A Special Day (1977) |
Suess | 1000038-0 | Suess may refer to:
Süß, a German surname transliterated as Suess
C. J. Suess (born 1994), American hockey player
Eduard Suess (1831–1914), an Austrian geologist
Mount Suess, a mountain in Antarctica named for the geologist
Suess (lunar crater), named for the geologist
Suess (Martian crater), named for the geologist
Suess Glacier, a glacier in Canada named for the geologist
Suess Land, in Greenland named for the geologist
12002 Suess, asteroid named for his son Franz Eduard
Hans Suess (1909–1993), an Austrian born American physical chemist, nuclear physicist and grandson of the geologist Eduard Suess
Suess cycle, a cycle present in radiocarbon proxies of solar activity
Suess effect, a change in the ratio of the atmospheric concentrations of heavy isotopes of carbon noted by the chemist
Hans Suess, known as Hans von Kulmbach, 16th century German artist
Randy Suess (1945–2019), American programmer, co-founder of CBBS, the first bulletin board system
Ray Suess (1903–1970), American football player
Suess., the author abbreviation of German botanist Karl Suessenguth (1893–1955) |
Acrimony (band) | 10000383-0 | Acrimony was a Welsh heavy metal band from Swansea who was active during the 1990s. Releasing their debut album in 1994, they are regarded as the pioneers of stoner metal in the United Kingdom, and an important influence upon the scene. Although the band never achieved mainstream success, during their career they received much critical acclaim – they were nominated for the Kerrang! Best Newcomer award and earned top review ratings. Acrimony have maintained a cult following in the British metal scene, their records reportedly selling for vast sums as collectors items. AllMusic described their musical style as a "powerful blend of Black Sabbath’s heavy metal riffery, Hawkwind's space rock excursions, and Blue Cheer's fuzzed-out psychedelic feedback." In 2019, Kerrang! listed Acrimony as part of "20 bands who didn't get the respect they deserved".
Present day
Since their split in 1999, Stu O'Hara went on to play guitar in Iron Monkey before the outfit disbanded, then he went on to form the Dukes of Nothing with other ex-Iron Monkey members and members of Orange Goblin. Lee 'Roy' went on to form Swansea-based crust, power violence six-piece Black Eye Riot along with Stu and Dorian. Darren and Mead formed the 9ine, and Mead has his own trance project Yeti. Lee 'Roy' Davies now plays in the heavy metal band Lifer. In 2008 Stu, Mead, Darren and Dorian re-grouped and wrote tracks as Sigiriya, releasing an album called Return to Earth in 2011. A change of vocalist came in Matt "Pipes" Williams for 2013 release Darkness Died Today. Lee 'Roy' formed Woven Man and released their debut album entitled Revelry (In Our Arms) in January 2019.
In November 2019, Acrimony's three albums, Hymns to the Stone, Tumuli Shroomaroom and Bong On - Live Long! were reissued in 3CD digipack and remastered edition by the Dutch music label Burning World Records.
Band members
Dorian "Dexter" Walters – vocals
Stuart O'Hara – guitar
Matthew Lee "Roy" Davies – guitar
Paul "Mead" Bidmead – bass
Darren Ivey – drums
Former members
David "Dai" Jones – Bass
Discography
Albums
EPs and Singles
Compilation appearances
1996 – "Earthchild Inferno" on Dark Passages Volume II, later included on Bong On - Live Long!
1997 – "Bud Song" on Burn One Up
1998 – "Find The Path" on Stoned Revolution
1998 – "O Baby" on Peaceville X, later included on Bong On - Live Long!
1999 – "Tumuli Shroomaroom" on Rise 13: Magick Rock Volume 1
2001 – "Satellite 19" on 21st Century Media Blitz Volume II
2003 – "And the Story Ends" on Tales From the Underworld: A Tribute to Blind Guardian |
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele | 1000044-0 | James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (22 September 1395 – 4 July 1450) was an English soldier and politician. He was born at Herstmonceux, Sussex, the second son of Sir William Fiennes (1 August 1357 – 18 January 1402) and his wife Elizabeth Batisford (Wartling, Sussex, 1363 - Herstmonceux, 18 January 1405). |
James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele | 1000044-1 | He was summoned to Parliament from 1446 to 1449 and is said to have been created Baron Saye and Sele by letters patent in 1447. Saye and Sele was a supporter of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, the principal power behind the throne of Henry VI.
After Suffolk's deposition and murder in 1450, Fiennes was imprisoned in the Tower with his son-in-law William Cromer, deputy-sheriff of Kent. Having been released from the tower and handed over to the rebels as a placatory gesture by the King, Baron Saye was brought to Guildhall for a sham trial. Upon being found guilty of treason, he was paraded through part of London and beheaded by a mob of the rebels in London under Jack Cade at the Standard in Cheapside on 4 July 1450.
His son-in-law was also executed by the rebels outside the city walls on the same day. The heads of the two men were put on pikes and unceremoniously paraded through the streets of London while their bearers pushed them together so that they appeared to kiss. Fiennes was subsequently buried in the Franciscan church at Newgate. Shortly after the burial, English settlers dispossessed from their property in Bayeux and Caen (who had recently arrived in London) removed his coat of arms from the pillar by his grave and reversed it - an act intended to dishonour the dead. .He was succeeded in the barony by his son William.
Ancestry
Family and legacy
He married twice.
His first wife was Joan, whose family name is uncertain, and their children were:
Elizabeth (died 1475), who married three times. First, her stepmother's brother William Cromer (died 1450), of Tunstall, murdered like her father by Jack Cade's rebels; secondly Alexander Iden, of Westwell, Jack Cade's capturer, and lastly Sir Lawrence Raynsford (died 1490). Both her first two husbands had been a High Sheriff of Kent and her last was a High Sheriff of Essex and of Wiltshire.
William (born about 1428), who became 2nd Baron Saye and Sele and was killed in 1471 during the Battle of Barnet.
Before 1441, he married as second wife Emmeline (died 5 January 1452), daughter of Sir William Cromer, twice Lord Mayor of London. They may have had two daughters.
Fiennes appears as a named character in the play Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare, while the Battle of Barnet at which his son William died is referenced in the next play of the trilogy, Henry VI, Part 3.
His elder brother, Roger Fiennes (1384–1449) married Elizabeth Holland (daughter of John Holland (Duke of Exeter, half-brother of Richard II, son of Thomas Holland and Joan "the fair" of Kent) and Elizabeth of Lancaster (daughter of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster)) |
Midaq Alley (novel) | 10000450-0 | Midaq Alley () is a 1947 novel by Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, first published in English in 1966. The story is about Midaq Alley in Khan el-Khalili, a teeming back street in Cairo which is presented as a microcosm of the world.
Plot introduction
Mahfouz plays on the cultural setting. The novel is introduced with description of the Arab culture. It centers around the list of characters described below. The novel takes place in the 1940s and represents standing on the threshold of a modern era in Cairo and the rest of the nation as a whole.
Characters
Each character is expressed like a caricature in which one quality or trait is over-emphasized. Mahfouz is not satirizing the individual character – he is satirizing the character type.
Kirsha, a café owner who illegally sells and uses hashish and has a predilection for young boys
Mrs. Kirsha, infamous for her temper
Uncle Kamil, good-hearted, bachelor sweets-seller, famously bloated and sleepy
Abbas, a young, kindly barber who wants to get married, joins the British army to make money to be able to marry Hamida.
Salim Alwan, the lustful, wealthy businessman who competes with Abbas for the love of Hamida. After surviving a heart attack, he becomes embittered, preventing him from marrying Hamida
Dr. Booshy, the self-proclaimed dentist who sells false teeth at dirt-cheap prices by stealing them off dead bodies
Sanker, the waiter at Kirsha's café
Sheikh Darwish, the old poet and former English teacher, who left his former life to roam the streets.
Radwan Hussainy, a landlord who beats his wife and failed his al-Azhar exams, yet is revered for his high degree of education and devotion to God. He has lost all of his children.
Hussain Kirsha, son of the café owner who works for the British. He marries a woman of lower class and returns home with her and her brother.
Saniya Afify, widowed landlady who desires to remarry. Umm Hamida sets her up with a younger man named Ahmed Effendi Talbat
Umm Hamida, the neighborhood matchmaker and bath attendant; Hamida's foster mother
Hamida, a beautiful young woman who dreams of a better life and has a distinctly self-centered personality, but is easily persuaded by wealth or power.
Husniya, the bakeress who beats her husband with her slipper
Jaada, Husniya's husband
Zaita, the cripple maker who lives outside the bakery and aids Dr. Booshy in his theft of false teeth.
Ibrahim Farhat, a politician
Ibrahim Faraj, a pimp who tries to seduce Hamida into working for him
The Poet, who is replaced by a radio and is barred by Kirsha (only appears in the first chapter) |
Korczowa | 10000462-0 | Korczowa is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Radymno, within Jarosław County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine.
The village lies approximately east of Radymno, east of Jarosław, and east of the regional capital Rzeszów.
Before World War II the settlement was a farmstead in Gnojnice which were a suburb of nearby Krakowiec.
The Korczowa-Krakovets road border crossing with Ukraine is located nearby. As Poland became part of the Schengen Area on 21 December 2007, this border crossing is a Schengen external border. The European route E40 crosses the border here. The eastern terminus of Poland's A4 motorway and National Road 94 are located at Korczowa. |
Greater Western Victoria Rebels | 10000466-0 | Initially known as the Ballarat Rebels and wearing green and gold, the team was established in 1993 as one of four regional under-18s clubs, set up as part of a plan by the AFL Commission to have clubs set in all regions of the state of Victoria. The club became affiliated with the new VFL's North Ballarat Football Club in 1996, and changed its name to North Ballarat Rebels and its colours to black and white to reflect this. In January 2017, the club again changed its name to Greater Western Victoria Rebels to reflect their expanded recruitment zone.
This was to help aid in player development and the process of the AFL draft, which allows U18 players the opportunity to be selected by AFL clubs.
Greater Western Victoria has produced many notable AFL players including Adam Goodes, Drew Petrie, Troy Chaplin, Jed Adcock, Tim Notting, Shannon Watt, James Walker and Shane O'Bree.
Honours
Premierships (1): 1997
Runners-up (0): Nil
Minor Premiers (3): 2006, 2012, 2015
Wooden Spoons (1): 2013
Draftees
1994: Brad Cassidy, Mark Orchard, Tony Bourke, Ross Funcke, Gerard Jess
1996: Brent Tuckey, Tim Notting
1997: James Walker, Shane O'Bree, Shannon Watt, Adam Goodes, Marcus Picken, Sam Cranage
2000: Drew Petrie, Jeremy Humm
2002: Luke Brennan, Tristan Cartledge
2003: Jed Adcock, Troy Chaplin, Adam Campbell
2004: Matt Rosa
2005: Stephen Owen
2006: Nathan Brown, James Frawley, Mitchell Brown, Shaun Grigg, Tim Houlihan, Matt Tyler
2007: Clayton Hinkley, Kyle Cheney, Matt Austin
2008: Nick Suban, Jordan Roughead, Tim Ruffles, Will Young
2009: David Astbury, Matthew Dea, Josh Cowan
2010: Lucas Cook, Tom McDonald, Ben Mabon
2011: Sebastian Ross, Rory Taggert, Tom Downie, Nick O'Brien, Brad Crouch*, Kurt Aylett+, Jeremy Cameron+
2012: Dominic Barry†, Jake Neade†, Michael Close, Tanner Smith, Martin Gleeson, Jake Lloyd
2013: Matt Crouch, Louis Herbert, Dallas Willsmore
2014: Oscar McDonald, Dan Butler, Jesse Palmer
2015: Jacob Hopper, Daniel Rioli, Darcy Tucker, Yestin Eades
2016: Hugh McCluggage, Jarrod Berry, Cedric Cox, Willem Drew, Tom Williamson, Jamaine Jones
2017: Lloyd Meek, Flynn Appleby
2018: Tom Berry
2019: Jay Rantall
2020: Harry Sharp, Nick Stevens
2021: Josh Gibcus, Sam Butler
2022: Aaron Cadman, James van Es, Hugh Bond
Notes:
* Denotes being selected in Greater Western Sydney Mini-Draft (2011)
+ Denotes player was pre-listed by Greater Western Sydney (2011)
† Denotes player was pre-listed and on-traded by Greater Western Sydney (2012)
Sources:1994-2009: AFL Record Season Guide 2010
Team of the Year
1993: -
1994: Shane Snibson, Brad Cassidy
1995: Julian Field
1996: Brent Tuckey, Shane O'Bree
1997: James Walker, Winis Imbi
1998: Marc Greig
1999: Jeremy Clayton
2000: Shane Hutchinson, Drew Petrie
2001: Justin Perkins
2002: Adam Fisher
2003: Jed Adcock, Matt Sharkey
2004: Matt Rosa
2005: Bill Driscoll, Steve Clifton
2006: Nathan Brown, James Frawley, Shaun Grigg, Lachlan George
2007: Kyle Cheney, Nick Suban
2008: Andrew Hooper, Jordan Roughead, Nick Suban
2009: Andrew Hooper
2010: Lucas Cook
2011: Brad Crouch, Nick O'Brien
2012: Nick Rippon, Matt Crouch, Jake Lloyd |
Teemu Kattilakoski | 10000489-0 | Teemu Kattilakoski (December 16, 1977 in Kannus) is a Finnish cross-country skier who has been competing since 1996. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the 4 × 10 km relay in 2007 while his best individual finish was eighth in the 50 km event in 2003.
Kattilakoski's best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 27th in the 15 km event at Vancouver in 2010.
He has a total of four individual victories at various levels all at 10 km from 1998 to 2005.
He made an appearance in a commercial for Tide, playing one of the background civilians.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
1 medal – (1 bronze)
World Cup
Season standings
Team podiums
1 victory – (1 )
3 podiums – (2 , 1 ) |
Atocha station memorial | 10000495-0 | The Atocha station memorial is a memorial monument located at Atocha station in Madrid, Spain, that commemorates the 193 victims of the 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings. Furthermore, it also honors the special forces agent who died when seven suicide bombers blew themselves up on 3 April 2004 during a raid on an apartment used by the bombers.
The tall cylinder stands above Atocha station, the destination of the four trains that were attacked. Texts composed of hundreds of expressions of grief sent in the days after the attack from all over the world are printed on a clear colourless membrane that is inflated by air pressure, rising balloon-like inside a cylinder. That structure is composed of glass blocks and sits on a platform or terrace overhead. The light in the empty blue room below comes from this source alone. At night the cylinder is illuminated by lamps within its base and can be seen throughout the station neighborhood.
King Juan Carlos, Queen Sofia and Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero attended a ceremony at the site on the third anniversary of the bombings, 11 March 2007. Wreaths were laid at the foot of the tower and mourners observed three minutes of silence. |
Ellet J. Waggoner | 10000498-0 | Biography
Waggoner was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin on January 12, 1855, to Joseph Harvey and Maryetta Hall Waggoner. He was the sixth of ten children.
His father had joined an Advent group in 1852, which would later become the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Soon thereafter he became a preacher and writer, and remained active until his death in 1889. He was on the committee that adopted the official name – Seventh-day Adventist – that is still in use today.
Ellet Waggoner attended Battle Creek College (now Andrews University) and later graduated as a physician from Bellevue Medical College in New York City. For some time he served on the staff of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. During this time, he married Jessie Moser, whom he had met at Battle Creek College. Jessie and Waggoner had two daughters, Bessie and Pearl. They moved to California about 1880, where he served as manager of the St. Helena Hospital in Saint Helena, California.
In 1883, Waggoner stopped practicing medicine and became the assistant editor for the Signs of the Times – an official paper presenting the stands and views of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. His father, J. H. Waggoner was then the editor.
He met Alonzo T. Jones in 1884. In 1886 Ellet Waggoner and his friend Jones became joint editors of the Signs of the Times. Waggoner held this post until 1891. The magazine published a number of his articles in the five years preceding the notable 1888 Minneapolis General Conference. In 1888 Waggoner presented his ideas regarding righteousness by faith at the General Conference session held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The events surrounding and topics presented at that session continue to be debated and studied.
In 1892 Waggoner went to England where he became the editor of The Present Truth magazine. He remained there for ten years, working with W. W. Prescott in the training school in England, and continuing in his writing and studies on Christ and His righteousness.
Upon his return to the United States, he joined the faculty of Emmanuel Missionary College (now Andrews University). Because of a divorce and his subsequent remarriage, he separated from denominational employment. He spent the last years of his life employed by the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
Waggoner experienced a stroke in his sleep and died at home in Battle Creek on Friday, May 28, 1916.
Publications
Some of his better known writings include
The Glad Tidings (1900 Original)
The Everlasting Covenant (1896)
The Gospel in Creation (1895)
The Gospel in Galatians (1887)
Waggoner on Romans (1896)
Sermons on Romans (1891)
Christ and His Righteousness (1889)
The Fathers of the Catholic Church
Also:
Prophetic Lights (DjVu format) |
Grebe | 100005-0 | Grebes () are aquatic diving birds in the order Podicipediformes (). Grebes are widely distributed freshwater birds, with some species also found in marine habitats during migration and winter. Most grebes fly, although some flightless species exist, most notably in stable lakes. The order contains a single family, the Podicipedidae, which includes 22 species in six extant genera.
Although, superficially, they resemble other diving birds such as loons and coots, they are most closely related to flamingos, as supported by morphological, molecular and paleontological data. Many species are monogamous and are known for their courtship displays, with the pair performing synchronized dances across the water's surface. The birds build floating vegetative nests where they lay several eggs. About a third of the world's grebes are listed at various levels of conservation concerns—the biggest threats including habitat loss, the introduction of invasive predatory fish and human poaching. As such, three species have gone extinct.
Etymology |
Grebe | 100005-1 | Field characteristics
Grebes are small to medium-large in size ranging from the least grebe (Tachybaptus dominicus), at and , to the great grebe (Podiceps major), at and . Despite these size differences grebes are a homogenous family of waterbirds with very few or slight differences among the genera.
Anatomy and physiology
On the surface of the water they swim low with just the head and neck exposed. All species have lobed toes, and are excellent swimmers and divers. The feet are always large, with broad lobes on the toes and small webs connecting the front three toes. The hind toe also has a small lobe as well. The claws are similar to nails and are flat. These lobate feet act as an oar, as when moving forward they provide minimum resistance and moving backwards they provide a coverage of maximum surface.
The leg bones (femur and tarsometatarsus) are equal in length, with the femur having a large head and the presence of long cnemial crests in the tarsometatarsus. The patella is separate and supports the tarsometatarsus posteriorly which greatly helps with the contraction in the muscles. They swim by simultaneously spreading out the feet and bringing them inward, with the webbing expanded to produce the forward thrust in much the same way as frogs. However, due to the anatomy of the legs, grebes are not as mobile on land as they are on the water. Although they can run for a short distance, they are prone to falling over, since they have their feet placed far back on the body.
The wing shape varies depending on the species, ranging from moderately long to incredibly short and rounded in shape. The wing anatomy in grebes has a relatively short and thin carpometacarpus-phalanges component which supports their primary feathers, while the ulna is long and fairly weak, supporting secondary feathers. There are 11 primaries and 17 to 22 secondaries, with the inner secondaries being longer than the primaries. As such grebes are generally not strong or rapid fliers. Some species are reluctant to fly. Indeed, two South American species are completely flightless. Since grebes generally dive more than fly, the sternum can be as small or even smaller than the pelvic girdle. When they do fly, they often launch themselves off from the water and must run along the surface as they flap their wings to provide a lift.
Bills vary from short and thick to long and pointed depending on the diet, and are slightly larger in males than in females (though the sizes can overlap between younger males and females).
Feathers
Grebes have unusual plumage. On average grebes have 20,000 feathers, the highest among birds. The feathers are very dense and strongly curved. In the larger species feathers are more dense but shorter, while the opposite is true in smaller species where the feathers are longer but less dense. |
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