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Which was the last horse before Nijinsky to win the English Triple Crown of 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and St. Leger?

Nijinsky II Derby Winner Nijinsky In 2000, British racing aficionados voted Nijinsky as their Horse of the Millenium. It was a tremendous honor considering that so many great horses have made their mark on the British horse racing scene over the last century. But the 2000 poll conducted by the Sun newspaper spoke loud and clear -- Nijinsky was the horse the people loved the most. It's easy to say that Nijinsky was pegged for greatness at birth. As the son of two winners of the prestigious Queen's Plate race (Northern Dancer and Flaming Page), Nijinsky had an excellent gene pool in his favor. But his amazing performances over a sterling 13-year span would clearly mark Nijinsky as one of the greatest of the greats. Incidentally, the name Nijinsky II was recorded simply for registration purposes. To his legion of fans around the world, he was known simply as the one and only Nijinsky. During his standout career, Nijinsky blazed a trail like no other horse before him. He was the first horse to win the coveted English Triple Crown in 35 years, after capturing the Epsom Derby, St. Leger Stakes and the Two Thousand Guineas in 1970. That same year, Nijinsky was honored as Europe's Horse of the Year. He also shattered the European Earnings record after winning $677,177, Nijinsky was later syndicated for a world record sum of $5.4 million. In 1969, Nijinsky began his career as two-year-old in Curragh, Ireland, where he won the Erne and Railway Stakes, followed by the Anglesey Stakes and finally the Beresford Stakes to cap his career as a two-year-old. With his victories, Nijinksy was heralded as the two-year-old champion of both Ireland and England. He also began his career as a three-year-old in Curragh where he won the Gladness Stakes. He followed this up with the Two Thousand Guineas to capture the first jewel of the Triple Crown. His next two races were easy victories for the muscular thoroughbred as he left the field eating his dust in the English Derby and the Irish Sweeps Derby. The prestigious King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Ascot came next, where Nijinsky faced an elite and older field that included the 1969 Epsom Derby winner, Blakeney. Despite that, Nijinsky would defeat this heralded field and, with his jockey, Lester Piggott, would gain consideration as the most formidable horse and jockey combo ever. An attack of ringworm after that victory left Nijinsky inactive for a significant period. Despite that, Nijinsky captured the St. Leger Stakes upon his return to complete the Triple Crown, the first to do so since Bahram accomplished the feat 35 years earlier. In the world-famous Prix de l�Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Nijinsky would suffer his first defeat, losing by a head by Sassafras. Many pundits blamed his jockey, Piggott, for what critics claimed was a sloppy performance. However, in his final race, the Champion Stakes, Nijinsky would again finish second, signaling the fact that the end had arrived for the champion colt. After his retirement, Nijinsky was assigned as a stud at the Claiborne Farm in Kentucky, with his owners earnestly hoping that the great horse could pass on his strength, stamina and incredible will to win. In 1970, a film was released commemorating Nijinsky's brilliant racing career. Orson Welles was the film's narrator. The film was later released in VHS video format in 1988. Bookmakers

Which team won baseball's first World Series of the 60s?

Baseball History in 1903: The First World Series 1903 Leaders & Numbers 1902 1904 1900s 1903 The First World Series Both the American and National Leagues finally agree to co-exist in peace, leading to an inaugural "world's championship" between the two pennant winners. On January 9, 1903, the hatchet was finally buried. It was on this day in Cincinnati that the powers that be for both the National and American Leagues began the process of co-existing harmoniously, ending two years of bitter fighting. Gone would be the player raids, the cutthroat crosstown rivalries and the clandestine undermining of each other. Although nothing was said about the leagues playing one another—be it as regular season interleague play or postseason competition—the door was certainly propped open more widely than ever for the possibility. Ironically, it was the National League—the established entity of big league baseball—that more or less waved the white flag to the relatively infant American League, singularly run by Ban Johnson. Talent and attendance had both swayed in favor of the AL, and there was still ongoing pilferage of NL rosters. Jack Chesbro, Jesse Tannehill, Willie Keeler and Sam Crawford had already defected to the junior circuit since the end of the 1902 season, and AL owners were closing in on signing Christy Mathewson, Tommy Leach, Vic Willis and Sam Mertes, among others. To stop the bleeding, the NL decided to put the emergency brakes on the feud and meet with Johnson. Though the Cincinnati talks supposedly provided a level playing field between the leagues, there was no mistaking that Johnson and his AL owners were firmly in charge. The NL magnates gave it the good ol’ college try anyway. Johnson was initially asked by NL executives, led by president Harry Pulliam, to merge the two leagues—eliminating the four AL franchises doing business in NL cities, while allowing the other four to continue as part of a 12-team National League. An incredulous Johnson quickly rejected the idea and walked out, only to return four days later with his own list of demands—many of which he’d get. Johnson demanded that all existing player contracts be honored, allowing AL teams to hold onto the players snapped up from the NL; in return he would stop the player raids. Johnson also pledged not to follow through on his threat to move the Detroit Tigers to Pittsburgh—but only on the condition that he could move his tampered Baltimore franchise to New York. The NL reluctantly, though not unaminouslyJohn Brush, who helped scuttle the Baltimore Orioles and now owned the New York Giants—where most of the released Orioles wound up—vehemently decried the AL’s move to New York. , agreed to these key issues. Out of the Cincinnati talks came the National Agreement, the bylines of which both leagues would be run; and the National Commission, an executive group of three representatives from both leagues that would rule over the game. The three elected to the Commission were Johnson and two NL executives: Pulliam and Cincinnati Reds owner Garry Herrmann. On the surface, the AL appeared outnumbered 2-to-1 within the Commission, but it was a deceptive facade; Herrmann, a long-time pal of Johnson, brought a more impartial voice to balance out the trio. The negotiating power and dominating presence of Ban Johnson proved one thing as the new season proceeded in April: It was he who now ran the whole show. The shortest end of the peace stick would not be reserved for the NL, but for the players. They once considered Ban Johnson their savior for thumbing his nose at the reserve clause and encouraging them to jump to his fledgling circuit. But the AL-NL peace treaty also brought agreement by both leagues to respect each other’s roster sovereignty and, therefore, the reserve clause. The players were once again perpetually chained and enslaved to the owners. Of all the teams hit hard by the pre-peace player movement following the 1902 season, no one was hit harder than the Pittsburgh Pirates—ironically, the team that had been least touched by player raids the year befo

Who was the first woman tennis player born in the US to win the US Open after Chris Evert's 1984 triumph?

American winners of the U.S. Open tennis title | Sporting News View Fullscreen Close American winners of the U.S. Open tennis title Their names echo in history as the greatest in tennis. From Bill Tilden and Helen Wills in the 1920s to Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert in the '70s; Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova, John McEnroe and Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras and Maureen Connolly, Althea Gibson and the Williams sisters. Meet the players who won the United States national championship. (Getty Images) 2 View Fullscreen Close Richard Sears: 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1887 Wilmer Allison chats about the game with Sears, the grandfather of tennis and the first U.S. champion. (AP Photo) 3 View Fullscreen Close Bill Tilden: 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929 In the Golden Age of Sports, Tilden was revered with Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Red Grange and Jack Dempsey. He dominated the 1920s until he became a professional. But later incidents amid reports of his homosexuality lessened his prominence. (AP Photo) 4 View Fullscreen Close Helen Wills: 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931 There's a great argument about whether Wills or France's Suzanne Lenglen was the greatest player of their age. We'll stick with the American. She won half her titles under her married name, Helen Wills Moody. She also won two gold medals in the 1924 Olympics. (AP Photo) 5 Chris Evert: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982 In an era of an American renaissance, Evert was the queen of Queens. (AP Photo) 6 View Fullscreen Close Jimmy Connors: 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983 If Evert was the queen, Connors was the peevish king. Few players overwhelmed the Open with personality to the extend of "the Belleville brat." (AP Photo) 7 View Fullscreen Close Pete Sampras: 1990, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2002 For more than a decade, Sampras was the final name in grand slam tournaments. He was the last great American international champion. (Getty Images) 8 View Fullscreen Close Serena Williams: 1999, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2014 A lioness, Williams stalks her prey for a fourth consecutive Open title, a fifth consecutive major title and a calendar grand slam. (Getty Images) 9 View Fullscreen Close Molla Mallory: 1920, 1921, 1922, 1926 Born in Norway, Anna Margrethe Bjurstedt was the Serena of her age, tough, powerful and aggressive. Mallory was her married name, and she was a naturalized U.S. citizen. She was, one observer remembered, a fighter. (AP Photo) 10 View Fullscreen Close Alice Marble: 1936, 1938, 1939, 1940 Marble was a U.S. spy in Switzerland during World War II and escaped death on one occasion. Her husband, Joe Crowley, died in combat. On the court, Marble was a successor to the Helens and later coached Billie Jean King and helped clear the way for Althea Gibson to becomes a precedent-setting star. (AP Photo) 12 View Fullscreen Close Pauline Betz: 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946 Betz reigned during World War II. She was compared to Wills but never got to rule in Queens against the best players from abroad until her final title in '46. (AP Photo) 13 View Fullscreen Close Billie Jean King: 1967, 1971, 1972, 1974 The first great American champion of the Open Era, she ruled Queens and dominated the game worldwide. The USTA named its Flushing mecca in her honor. (AP Photo) 14 View Fullscreen Close John McEnroe: 1979, 1980,1981, 1984 Two things you could count on: McEnroe would act the spoiled, petulant brat on the court and then manhandle the competition. Like Connors, he was a lefty who honored tennis by winning. (AP Photo) 15 View Fullscreen Close Martina Navratilova: 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987 Dismissed by her home country of communist Czechoslovakia for being too Western, Navratilova became an American en route to being perhaps the greatest women player of all time. (Getty Images) 16 View Fullscreen Close Margaret Osborne DuPont: 1948, 1949, 1953 DuPont failed to become a grand slam champion because she never entered the Australian Open. Too bad, because in her heyday she dominated Wimbledon, Roland Garros and Forest Hills. (Getty Images) 17 View Fullscreen Close Maur

Which Bond movie used Stoke Poges golf club for some location shots?

Movie History at Stoke Park | Luxury 5 Star Hotel, Spa & Golf in Buckinghamshire Movie History Movie History "From Bond to Bridget Jones, Stoke Park is amongst Hollywood’s hottest – and its right on our doorstep" - Wedding Ideas Stoke Park has always had a close relationship to Pinewood Studios (four miles away) and the British film industry. Two James Bond movies, Goldfinger (1964) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) were filmed at Stoke Park. The epic duel between James Bond (Sean Connery) and Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) is still considered to be the most famous game of golf in cinematic history. The famous ‘mini break’ and rowing scenes from Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) were filmed in the Great Hall, Lakes and The Pennsylvania Suite with Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger and Colin Firth. In 2004, three movies were released all featuring Stoke Park: Wimbledon, Bride & Prejudice and Matthew Vaughn’s Layer Cake. In Wimbledon, Paul Bettany is featured on the grass tennis courts. Layer Cake featured Stoke Park in many scenes including the dramatic ending with Daniel Craig and Sienna Miller, filmed on The Mansion’s front steps. Bride & Prejudice, a Bollywood reworking of Jane Austen's classic novel, featured shots throughout the grounds. Guy Ritchie’s 2008 movie RockNRolla also featured the grass tennis courts and the 21st green. The Stoke Park estate once again featured in W.E., Madonna's 2011 film about the romance between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson and its effect of a modern day New Yorker.. Dead of Night - 1945 Two golfers, having fallen for the same woman battle it out in style on the golf course. They decide to play 18 holes who ever loses would leave the area for good. The location, none other than Stoke Park. James Bond - 007 The third and eighteenth movies in the James Bond series of feature films, Goldfinger (1964) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), were filmed in and around the mansion and on our championship golf course. Goldfinger - 1964 It would be only a matter of time before James Bond's creator Ian Fleming would inject his passion for golf into a 007 adventure, and in his seventh Bond novel, published in 1959, he had his hero face-off against a villain with the Midas touch. In the novel Goldfinger, Bond finds himself very much in the rough when playing against Auric Goldfinger, international jeweller, gold smuggler and golf cheat. Set at the fictional Royal St Mark's at Sandwich in Kent (although a rather transparent use of Fleming's own club, Royal St George's), 007 narrowly escapes defeat by bringing a little gamesmanship of his own into play. The golf match for the film version Goldfinger (1964) was shot at Stoke Park, and remains cinema's most famous golfing scene. Sean Connery's agent 007 is pitted against Auric Goldfinger, in the monumental form of the late Gert Frobe - complete with Plus Fours! After catching Goldfinger cheating, Bond switches balls on his opponent during the match. Realising that Bond is attempting to interfere in his affairs, Goldfinger motions to Oddjob, his deadly Korean manservant and caddie, to sever the head of a nearby statue with his steel-rimmed bowler. Bond is suitably impressed, but wonders what the club secretary will have to say. Goldfinger explains smugly, "Oh nothing Mister Bond - I own the club!" Tomorrow Never Dies - 1997 Stoke Park was proud to welcome back Bond in 1997 when scenes filmed at Stoke Park. The film crew and technicians converted our Ballroom into Bond's hotel room in Hamburg. James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver is manipulating world events via an exclusive flow of information through his satellite system reaching all corners of the planet. With a stealth battleship sinking a British naval vessel, Carver sees that the Chinese are blamed. Crashing Carver's party in Hamburg, Bond meets "journalist" Wai Lin, later revealed as a Chinese agent. In a brief tryst, filmed at the club, Bond renews his past relationship with Carver's wife Paris (Teri Hatcher). Carver dispatches Stamper (Gotz Otto) cancel Bond, a struggle between them was f

How many races did Ed Moses win in succession between '77 and '87?

Sporting dominance | Motor Sport Magazine Sporting dominance by Paul Fearnley on 7th November 2013 Mission Complete in the 2.40 at Chepstow: there could be no better name for AP McCoy’s 4000th winner. Destiny called. Except that the seven-year-old gelding was withdrawn because the going was deemed too soft. Domination in sport, apparently robust, is in fact fragile. Failure, so much easier to attain, can overtake you, trip and blind-side you at the drop of a clutch, catch or shot. McCoy in 2006 McCoy, who today (Thursday) might complete his mission at Lord Hesketh’s Towcester Racecourse, is the greatest National Hunt jockey. His victory tally stands almost 1500 proud of the next highest and he is on the verge of his 19th champion jockey title on the trot. Such longevity and consistency do not sit comfortably with a bone-jarring/breaking sport that has at its heart an unspoken partnership with another sentient, willful and fallible species. No wonder multiple successive race victories are hard to come by in McCoy’s world. It’s the same on the flat. Sir Gordon Richards’ 12 in October 1933 appears to be the best run, although a Puerto Rican stallion called Camarero reportedly won 56 straight between 1953 and ’55. Individual sports, where you have only yourself to blame if self-motivation, self-reliance and your talent come up short, is a happier home for the sporting hot streak. Ed Moses, uniquely grooved at 13 strides between the barriers, won 122 consecutive 400m hurdles between 1977 and ’87, while Michael Phelps had gone 10 years unbeaten in 200m butterfly finals by the time Bert le Clos’ “beautiful boy!” finger-pipped him to gold at London 2012. Michael Phelps celebrates his eighth gold medal in during the 2004 Olympics. Photo by Bryan Allison Despite the more obvious wear and tear of boxing, Julio César Chávez reached 87 and O before being held to a draw by Pernell Whitaker in 1993. Sugar Ray Robinson’s eight-year, 91-bout undefeated streak, including two draws, ended unexpectedly against Britain’s Randolph Turpin in 1951. And Welsh flyweight Jimmy Wilde, known as ‘The Ghost with the Hammer in his Hand’, won 103 in a row before Scotsman Tancy Lee floored him in 1915. Racquet sports provide another rich seam for the dominant. Martina Navratilova prevailed in 74 consecutive singles matches in 1984. Helen Wills Moody, the tennis queen of the 1920s and ’30s, strung together at least 158 wins without conceding a set, and her predecessor, La Divine Suzanne Lenglen, successfully netted 182 between 1921 and ’26. And then there’s squash, that most claustrophobic test of fitness and resolve. Pakistan’s Jahangir Khan squished 555 consecutive opponents in the first half of the 1980s, and yet Aussie Heather McKay, unbeaten during her 19 years as a professional, is likely to have squished even more. The search for perfection in team sports, where the cliché holds that you are only as good as your weakest member, is a more complex task. Even Arsène Wenger’s Arsenal ‘Invincibles’ of 2003-’04 drew 12 of their 38 Premier League fixtures. A draw being an alien concept to American sport, the Miami Dolphins of 1972 remains the only team to complete a perfect NFL season: 17 and O. And that same year, Wilt ‘The Stilt’ Chamberlain’s LA Lakers stretched its NBA record to 33 victories on the bounce. Wilt Chamberlain (right) in 1966 during his time with the Philadelphia 76ers An MLB baseball season is more convoluted, with 162 fixtures per team before the best-of-seven post-season play-offs and World Series, and just once since 1935 has a team won 20 games in a row: the Moneyball Oakland Athletics of 2002. Formula 1 Although F1’s calendar is less crowded, it is no less demanding and, I would argue, possesses many more facets capable of sustaining error. With one man at the apex of a huge team – some number more than 600 staff (plus those of its main suppliers) – and in ultimate control of a finely honed machine that incorporates many hundreds of mechanical, hydraulic and electrical parts constructed from a wide variety of materials

What distance is the Breeders' Cup Sprint?

Bill Finley: Breeders' Cup handicapping analysis 21dMatt Hegarty | Daily Racing Form Breeders' Cup handicapping analysis • Bill Finley is an award-winning horse racing writer whose work has also appeared in The New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated. • To contact Bill, email him at wnfinley@aol.com Friday's Races Sixth Race: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Based on how well the Europeans have performed in North America so far this year, we're going to go with all foreigners all the time in the Breeders' Cup turf races. In seven runnings, an American-based horse has won this race only once, and Aidan O'Brien has won it two of the past three years. So let's go right back with O'Brien's War Envoy. He's lost six straight since breaking his maiden but has been competitive in top class races and need not be a star to defeat the Americans. Hootenanny is actually trained in the U.S. by Wesley Ward but has made his past two starts in Europe. He probably is the most talented Euro in the race, but he has never gone beyond six furlongs, and Ward's strength is not with route horses. Aktabany exited the same race as the top pick and finished only three-quarters of a length behind Hootenanny. Seventh Race: Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile Although this isn't a very creative pick, Goldencents looks like he's ready to win this race for the second straight year for trainer Doug O'Neill. He has been lightly campaigned this year, has remained in good form, drew the perfect post and has done some of his very best running at this distance and over this track. Fed Biz looks like the main threat, but it's hard to overlook that Goldencents beat him handily in the Pat O'Brien back at Del Mar. After showing nothing in the Kentucky Derby, Tapiture has come back strong, won two straight and then run second behind the freakishly fast Bayern in the Pennsylvania Derby. Eighth Race: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf Osaila didn't beat much in her latest start, a non-graded race, but she more than held her own in her previous start in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes in Ireland. She has won the past three times Dettori was aboard. Welcome back, Gary Stevens. What a story it would be if the jockey pulled this one off with Sivoliere while coming back from knee-replacement surgery. The filly, entering the Chad Brown barn, was a creditable third in a Group 3 race, her latest outing in France and seems to prefer the type of firm going she should get at Santa Anita. Aidan O'Brien sends out Group 3 winner Qualify, who is likely going to have a hard time overcoming the 14 post. Ninth Race: Breeders' Cup Distaff Untapable's win in the Cotillion was more on the workman-like side, but don't forget she was one of the few horses all day to close any ground on a track that was severely speed-biased. Steve Asmussen certainly knows what he's doing and should have this filly primed for an improved effort. Iotapa hasn't been quite the same since her brilliant 10-1/4-length romp in the Vanity, but she will be dangerous if she can run back to that race. Tiz Midnight showed some fight when coming back to miss to Beholder by just three-quarters of a length in the Zenyatta Stakes. I'm going to take a stand against Close Hatches, who drew poorly and ran miserably in her latest start. She's not worth taking at a short price. Saturday's Races Fourth Race: Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Conquest Eclipse has improved with every start and closed well to finish second behind Angel Renee in the Chandelier. She might have to step it up a notch but certainly seems capable. Top Decile drew poorly (post 11), but you can't ignore the huge run she put in to close from 10th to second in the Alcibiades at Keeneland. She showed speed in her debut and can be closer early. Puca goes from a maiden special weight race to the Breeders' Cup, but that was no ordinary maiden special. She won by 16 lengths and adds Lasix for this race, and the stable is showing it means business by replacing jockey Junior Alvarado with Joel Rosario. Fifth Race: Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf Continuing with the all-Eur

Which team won the most Super Bowls in the 1980s?

Super Bowl History 1980 - 1989 - Superbowl in the 1980's Super Bowl History 1980 - 1989 Super Bowl XIV Chuck Noll's Pittsburgh Steelers would repeat to win Super Bowl 14 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on January 20th, 1980 against Ray Malavasi's LA Rams. Terry Bradshaw took home MVP for the second straight year as the Steelers won their 4th Super Bowl before any other team had won three. John Stallworth and Lynn Swan each caught touchdowns, while Franco Harris ran for two. Dave Elmendorf, Rod Perry, and Eddie Brown intercepted three Bradshaw passes, but it wasn't enough. Lawrence McCutcheon connected with Ron Smith on a halfback pass but quarterback Vince Ferragamo couldn't make the big throw for the Rams. Unsung hero, Larry Anderson, had 162 return yards setting up the Steeler win, 31-19. Super Bowl XV Tom Flores' Oakland Raiders beat Dick Vermeil's Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10, in Super Bowl 15 on January 25th, 1981 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. Ron Jaworski had 291 yards, but was intercepted by linebacker Rod Martin three times. Jim Plunkett threw three touchdowns in Super Bowl Fifteen; an 80 yard bomb to Kenny King, and two shorter scores to Cliff Branch. An Eagle defense led by John Bunting and Herman Edwards couldn't slow Plunkett and Mark Van Eeghen (75 yards). Ted Hendricks, Matt Millen, Dave Browning, and Martin led the stout Raider defense. Super Bowl XVI On January 24, 1982 Super Bowl 16 was played in Pontiac, Michigan at the Pontiac Sliverdome. Bill Walsh's San Francisco 49ers faced Forrest Gregg's Cincinnati Bengals. MVP, Joe Montana, inched his Forty-Niners into Super Bowl Sixteen by completing a last second touchdown to Dwight Clark in the NFC Title Game, known as "The Catch". Montana took home MVP honors, throwing one touchdown to Earl Cooper, while running for another. Ray Wersching had a Super Bowl record 4 field goals. Ken Anderson brought the Bengals roaring back with a touchdown run and pass to Dan Ross. But early turnovers by Chris Collinsworth and Anderson were too much to overcome as Eric Wright, Lynn Thomas, Ronnie Lott, and Dwight Hicks led San Francisco's defense to victory. Super Bowl XVII On January 30th, 1983, Joe Gibbs' Washington Redskins beat Don Shula's Miami Dolphins 27-17 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Super Bowl 17 MVP, John Riggins, rushed for a record 166 yards, and Joe Theismann threw two touchdowns, to Alvin Garrett and Charlie Brown, leading the Redskin comeback in the second half. Miami's 17 Super Bowl Seventeen points came in the first half; a 76 yard touchdown pass from David Woodley to Jimmy Cefalo, a short field goal by Uwe Von Schamann, and a 98 yard kickoff return by Fulton Walker. Vernon Dean and Mark Murphy led the Washington defense that held Woodley and Don Strock to 4-17 passing. Super Bowl XVIII Joe Gibbs' Washington Redskins were back as Defending Champs for Super Bowl 18 in Tampa, Florida on January 30th, 1983. Super Bowl Eighteen was different for Joe, as Tom Flores' Los Angeles Raiders blew-out Joe Theismann (2-ints), John Riggins (64-yds) and the rest of the Redskins, 38-9, in the Super Bowl's most lops

Anton Geesink was the first non-Japanese judoka to win a judo world championship, but which country did he come from?

Judo Bond Nederland - Condoleanceregister Anton Geesink Condoleanceregister Anton Geesink Condoleanceregister U kunt blijk geven van uw medeleven omtrent het overlijden van Anton Geesink door een bericht te sturen naar condoleance@jbn.nl . Een overzicht van alle condoleances is hieronder weergegeven. -------------------------------------------------------- Eens een Judoka... Altijd een Judoka. Ik wil graag mijn medeleven betuigen aan de familie Geesink met het ontvallen van Sensei Anton. Veel sterkte en kracht toegewenst   Michel van den Eng - Gouda -------------------------------------------------------- Dear Friends,   Let us impress our condolences regarding the passing away of the greatest judoka and fantastic person Mr. Anton Geesink. Our hearts are full of pain and our eyes full of tears realizing that judo world is to be without him. Hope new generation of Nederland will keep judo flag high to give the highest respect to the legends like Mr. Geesink.   Kutaisi, Georgia -------------------------------------------------------- With great sorrow I have taken notice of the sudden and unexpected death of Anton Geesink. In my life I have had the pleasure to meet him only a few times and every time I felt myself in presence of a great and strong personality with a good sense of humour. His pass away is a big loss for Judo and for all of us. I will always remember him with pleasant reminiscence. I would like to express my sincere condolences to his family. May he rest in peace. Nico van Dijk IT member of European Judo Union -------------------------------------------------------- I had the peasure to meet Sensei Anton G 3x at the International judocamp at Papendal. Later on i trained underneat « his wings » at a clinic he was asked to give for the VJF. I like/loved his personality, his way of approaching judo but for sure his training-endurance and RESPECT!!!! Judo and Anton geesink are linked for life and judo will miss this great Champion. He will allways be in my heart/judo-teaching. Werner, Belgium -------------------------------------------------------- I would like to express my deepest condolences for the loss of Anton Geesink. A great athlete and gold medallist in judo, Mr. Geesink dedicated his entire career to the promotion of sport values and education of judo. The Judo Family as well the Olympic Family have lost one of the most popular athletes in the world and a great person. I believe that my sentiments of sorrow are shared by all the Spanish people and in particularly by the Spanish Olympic Family. Please accept my deepest and fraternal condolences. Alejandro Blanco President Spanish Olympic Committee -------------------------------------------------------- We wish to address our most heartfelt condolences for the passing away of Mr. Anton Geesink, to his relatives and the entire judo family, since Mr. Geesink was a true icon in Judo and Sports History. Not only was Mr. Geesink a 10th Dan, but also he was the first non-Japanese World Champion in 1961, won the Olympic title in Tokyo 1964 and was a member of the IOC. We deeply mourn the loss of this great personlaity. With our Highest Regards, President Portuguese Judo Federation -------------------------------------------------------- With great sorrow we learned of the death of Anton Geesink, surely one of the most famous judo legends of all time. From the beginning of my time in judo, I have always heard of Anton Geesink, the first non-Japanese to win a World Championship, first to win Olympic Games against Japanese domination and a leader in so many ways in judo. As an educationalist he showed originality and vision and his ideas have borne fruit in countless ways. In after years I was privileged to work with Anton Geesink on the IJF Education Commission and to see him in action as a teacher and leader. His originality was an inspiration and his kindness and humour made him a pleasure to know and work with. We have lost a giant of judo. His work in judo remains and the legend remains, his friends will remember him all their life as a man of humour and fun

Who was the defending champion when Chris Evert first won Wimbledon singles?

History - 1970s - The Championships, Wimbledon 2017 - Official Site by IBM  READ MORE 1970: Margaret Court v Billie Jean King: Margaret Court and Billie Jean King contested one of the great Wimbledon finals in 1970. As veteran commentator John Barrett has said, "It produced one of the most dramatic finals ever seen at Wimbledon." The fact it was televised in colour rather than black and white added to the spectacle while also underlining the changing times of a sport that only two years earlier had turned professional. 1970: John Newcombe v Ken Rosewall: John Newcombe defeated his Australian countryman Ken Rosewall and a partisan crowd 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 to win the men’s singles for a second time. From the start the elegant Rosewall, the underdog, had the Centre Court crowd behind for everyone hoped that this, his third appearance in a final, would be his year having previously been the gallant runner-up in 1954 and 1956. The 16-year gap set a record-breaking span between his first and this year’s final, one that was so appreciated by the crowd that it led Newcombe to ask ‘why do they hate me?’ With a nine-year age gap between the two, it was always going to be difficult for the 35-year-old Rosewall to outlast the younger former champion and his play proved patchy as Newcombe exploited his weaknesses with his power and guile to level and take a two-sets-to-one lead. Rosewall recovered in the fourth, helped by Newcombe’s brief loss of concentration and the clear favouritism being shown to the older player, but regained his composure to inflict a quick coup de grace over his tiring compatriot in the fifth. 1971: Evonne Goolagong v Margaret Court: The highlight of the Ladies’ singles was the final clash between Margaret Court and Evonne Goolagong, an all-Australian encounter, which will be perceived as the end of one era and the start of another. Goolagong, at 19, had captured the tennis world’s hearts on her second appearance at The Championships with her breezy, easy-going style and sunny smile, which contrasted greatly with the quiet and dignified defending champion Court. While the Aussie teenager arrived in the final having taken out the previous year’s runner-up, Billie Jean King, in three sets, no one expected her to also get the better of the big-hitting defending champion. The die was cast from the opening exchanges as Court surprisingly, showed more nerves than her challenger who immediately raced to a 4-0 lead with ultimate ease. However, Court drew on her experience and clawed her way back to 3-4 but in the eighth game, with Goolagong 15-40 down, she was unable to capitalise and level as the teenager struck three searing winners to completely deflate the champion. Goolagong showed no anxiety in her free-flowing shots to claim six successive games and take the title 6-4 6-1 to become only the fourth teenager to win the women’s singles since the war. 1971: Ken Rosewall: Classic or epic matches are measured by the numbers watching a struggle to the death and the Ken Rosewall v Cliff Ritchie clash at the quarter-final stage of the 1971 Championships falls firmly into that category. Australia’s Rosewall and Ritchie of the US battled it out for 3hrs 59mins before Rosewall captured the semi-final place at stake, 6-8, 5-7, 6-4, 9-7, 7-5, recovering from two sets down and trailing 2-4 and 0-30 in the third. As the scoreline suggests, Richie the hustler from America, had the match well in hand but failed to maintain his supremacy as Rosewall’s doggedness started to pay dividends. From a near hopeless position, Rosewall levelled and went on to score an excellent victory with one of his trademark backhands, passing an attacking Ritchie attempting to stave off a fifth match point. While the victory was popular, the crowd rose in appreciation to acclaim both protagonists’ efforts. 1972: Stan Smith v Ilie Nastase Rain, the first of the fortnight, washed out Saturday play and for the first time in the history of The Championships, the men’s final was played out on the Sunday to the dismay of traditionalists. Stan Smith, th

Who was Super Bowl MVP in successive years in 1967 and 1968?

Super Bowl II Game Recap Super Bowl II Game Recap Green Bay 33, Oakland 14 SuperBowl.com wire reports Vince Lombardi is carried off the field after leading the Packers to victory. (AP) Green Bay, after winning its third consecutive NFL championship, won the Super Bowl title for the second straight year, defeating the AFL champion Raiders in a game that drew the first $3-million gate in football history. Bart Starr again was chosen the game's most valuable player as he completed 13 of 24 passes for 202 yards and one touchdown and directed a Packers' attack that was in control all the way after building a 16-7 halftime lead. Don Chandler kicked four field goals and all-pro cornerback Herb Adderley capped the Green Bay scoring with a 60-yard interception return. The game marked the last for Vince Lombardi as Packers coach, ending nine years at Green Bay in which he won six Western Conference championships, five NFL championships, and two Super Bowls. Information

Who won the most men's US Open tennis titles in the 20th century?

Tennis players of the century | The Independent Tennis players of the century Tuesday 7 December 1999 00:00 BST Click to follow The Independent Online Rod Laver beat out the player who grew up idolizing him, Pete Sampras, as the men's tennis player of the century, and Steffi Graf edged Martina Navratilova as the top women's player in a poll conducted by The Associated Press. Rod Laver beat out the player who grew up idolizing him, Pete Sampras, as the men's tennis player of the century, and Steffi Graf edged Martina Navratilova as the top women's player in a poll conducted by The Associated Press. Laver, assembled by The AP, while Sampras received no first-place votes and 39 points. Bill Tilden, who dominated men's play in the 1920s, finished third with the help of one first-place vote. Dubbed the "Rocket," Laver is the only double Grand Slammer in history. He won the Australian, French, Wimbledon and US titles in 1962 as an amateur, then repeated the feat in 1969 as a pro. He attacked the net relentlessly, yet possessed a potent all-around game from the baseline. Laver won the Australian singles title three times, the French twice, Wimbledon four times, and the US twice. He probably would have won many more majors but was banned from the Grand Slam events in his prime after he turned pro in 1963. He did not return to the majors until the open era in 1968, then he promptly won Wimbledon for the third time. Sampras always listed Laver as his favorite player, admiring the completeness of his game, his aggressive style on court, and his gentlemanly demeanor off court. Although Sampras owns 12 major singles titles, including six at Wimbledon, he has never gone beyond the semi-finals in 10 appearances at the French Open. That failure on clay led one voter to omit him from the top 10 list, while another rated him only No 5. Bjorn Borg of Sweden and winner of five straight Wimbledon titles from 1976 to 1980, finished fourth, followed by Don Budge, the first player to complete a Grand Slam in 1938. John McEnroe and Lew Hoad of Australia, tied for sixth place, Roy Emerson and Ken Rosewall, both Australians, tied for eighth, and Jack Kramer finished 10th. Hoad and Pancho Gonzales, scintillating players in the 1950s who limited their play in majors by turning pro in their prime, each garnered one first-place vote. In the women's poll, Graf and Navratilova were separated by a point, 52-51, and were followed by Margaret Smith Court - the winner of 24 Grand Slam titles. Billie Jean King, who holds the most Wimbledon titles, with 20 (6 singles and 14 doubles titles) was fourth on the list. Chris Evert was fifth followed by Suzanne Lenglen of France, Helen Wills Moody, Maureen Connolly, Monica Seles of Yugoslavia, and a tie for No 10 between Evonne Goolagong of Australia and Martina Hingis of Switzerland. Graf, of Germany, retired at 30 in 1999 after her emotional victory at the French Open, her sixth at Roland Garros, and a runner-up finish at Wimbledon, where she had won seven times. She is the only player to complete a Golden Slam - winning the four majors and the Olympics in 1988. Four voters ranked Graf No 1, one listed Navratilova, a Czech native, as the best, and another put King at the top, in part because of her influence on the game as the founder of the WTA Tour. The AP panel included six players whose careers spanned six decades: Ted Schroeder, Fred Stolle, Barry MacKay, Pam Shriver, Wendy Turnbull and Virginia Wade. Turnbull and Stolle are Australian, while Wade is from England. "Ranking players of different eras is completely subjective," said Schroeder, who won the US title in 1942 and Wimbledon in 1949 and has been a keen observer of the sport ever since. "My selections are based on levels of competition in their respective eras." Among the surprises in the voting were the low regard the panelists had for Ivan Lendl, who dominated the 1980s with eight major singles titles at the Australian, French and US Open, and two runner-up finishes at Wimbledon. One panelist ranked him No seven, another No 9, and the others left him

Pong was an early console type of game based on which sport?

Ping Pong Arcade Game 57 Ping Pong Arcade Game Ping Pong (table tennis) has been played on many home consoles and arcades. It's regarded as the first popular arcade and home console game. Ping Pong is based on table tennis. Latter games such as Arkanoid were based on the concept of table tennis. Please wait for the game to load. Game not loading? Please enable Active X Content by clicking the circle with a strike through icon in the address bar which looks like this ( ) and clicking the 'Turn Off Active X Filtering' button.

In which decade of this century were airmail letters first carried?

A Brief History of Air Mail | Airtug A Brief History of Air Mail Posted on June 8, 2016 in Blog It all started a very long time, ago – there existed a sophisticated mail service in Ancient Rome; and the postal service of 2nd-century Rome was akin to our postal service today in that regardless of the weather or the circumstances, the mail would simply have to go through!  Horse-drawn carts meandered a good 50 miles per day over the masterfully-constructed roads that covered the sprawling Roman Empire.  Relay teams worked with one another, day and night, to ensure that the most important mail – usually political – would make a 170 mile trip within 24 hours!   As centuries passed, mail delivery became increasingly ‘sophisticated’; and the first aerial mail transportation occurred in 1870 in France.  Here, letters were carried by balloons cast adrift, guided by the wind.  It was on September of 1870 that 500 pounds of mail was carried, although the question remains:  Was the mail actually delivered?  With no way to control the balloons’ flights, the system was doomed shortly after its inception.  With that being said, however, balloon mail was also experimented with in 1877 in Nashville, Tennessee with, presumably, questionable results.   If we fast-forward to the 2nd decade of 20th-Century America, we find government-sponsored flights for domestic US Airmail which took place between 1911 and 1918.  It wasn’t until May 15 of 1918 that the first day of scheduled airmail came to be – the US Post Office Department officially established a new class of mail service – Air Mail was born!  On that date, the first airmail route was inaugurated between Washington DC and New York City.  The US Post Office Department had made an agreement with the War Department which would supply the planes and pilots while the Post Office would manage the mail and relevant details.  This historic flight carried 136 pounds of mail.  During a 76-day operation that followed, Air Service pilots delivered 20 tons of mail.  It should be noted, however, that of the initial 40 pilots, three died in flight crashes in a single year during 1919 and nine more crew died in 1920.   To further demonstrate the potential of utilizing aircraft for mail delivery, however, arrangements were made for a flight from San Francisco to New York City on February 22, 1921; and it was successful!  Including all stops, the flight took 33 hours and 21 minutes with an average speed of 104 mph, covering a distance of just over 2600 miles.  By 1924, transcontinental air mail delivery became serious business; and 5 years later, a total of 45 airlines were chosen for mail delivery.  The compensation for the carriers was a whopping $1.10 per mile!

How many bits are there in a byte?

Bits and Bytes Bits and Bytes At the smallest scale in the computer, information is stored as bits and bytes. In this section, we'll look at how that works. Bit Bit, like an atom, the smallest unit of storage A bit stores just a 0 or 1 "In the computer it's all 0's and 1's" ... bits Anything with two separate states can store 1 bit  -Nick's tennis racket example Chip uses areas of electric charge as 0/1 states Hard drive uses spots North/South magnetism 0/1 states A bit is too small to be much use Group 8 bits together to make 1 byte Everything in a computer is 0's and 1's ... what does that mean? The bit stores just a 0 or 1 .. it's the smallest building block of storage. Byte One byte = grouping of 8 bits e.g. 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 One byte can store one letter, e.g. 'A' or 'x' How Many Patterns With N Bits? How many distinct patterns can be made with 1, 2, or 3 bits? Number of bits 3 bits vs. 2 bits Consider just the leftmost bit It can only be 0 or 1 Lefmost bit is 0, then append 2-bit patterns Leftmost bit is 1, then append 2-bit patterns again Result ... 3-bits has twice as many patterns as 2-bits Number of bits In general: add 1 bit, double the number of patterns 1 bit - 2 patterns 8 bits - 256 - one byte Mathematically: n bits yields 2n patterns (2 to the nth power) One Byte - 256 Patterns 1 byte is group of 8 bits 8 bits can make 256 different patterns How to use the 256 patterns? How to store a number in a byte? Start with 0, go up, one pattern per number, until run out of patterns 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... 254, 255 One byte can hold a number between 0 and 255 i.e. with 256 distinct patterns, we can store a number in the range 0..255 Code: pixel.setRed(n) took a number 0..255. Why? The red/green/blue image numbers are each stored in one byte Bytes "Byte" - unit of information storage A document, an image, a movie .. how many bytes? 1 byte is enough to hold 1 typed letter, e.g. 'b' or 'X' Later we'll look at storage in: RAM, hard drives, flash drives All measured in bytes, despite being very different hardware Kilobyte, KB, about 1 thousand bytes Megabyte, MB, about 1 million bytes Gigabyte, GB, about 1 billion bytes Terabyte, TB, about 1 trillion bytes (rare) The space that data takes up in the computer is measured in by the "byte". One byte is big enough to hold a single typed letter, like 'a'. Here we'll look at storing data in RAM memory and in persistent storage like a hard drive. All of that storage space will be measured in bytes. We'll look at byte arithmetic in more detail later. Bytes and Letters - ASCII Code ASCII is an encoding representing each typed letter by a number Each number is stored in one byte (so the number is in 0..255) A is 65 space is 32 "Unicode" is an encoding for mandarin, greek, arabic, etc. languages, typically 2-bytes per "letter" 32 space 33 ! 34 " 35 # 36 $ 37 % 38 & 39 ' 40 ( 41 ) 42 * 43 + 44 , 45 - 46 . 47 / 48 0 49 1 50 2 51 3 52 4 53 5 54 6 55 7 56 8 57 9 58 : 59 ; 60 < 61 = 62 > 63 ? 64 @ 65 A 66 B 67 C 68 D 69 E 70 F 71 G 72 H 73 I 74 J 75 K 76 L 77 M 78 N 79 O 80 P 81 Q 82 R 83 S 84 T 85 U 86 V 87 W 88 X 89 Y 90 Z 91 [ 92 \ 93 ] 94 ^ 95 _ 96 ` 97 a 98 b 99 c 100 d 101 e 102 f 103 g 104 h 105 i 106 j 107 k 108 l 109 m 110 n 111 o 112 p 113 q 114 r 115 s 116 t 117 u 118 v 119 w 120 x 121 y 122 z 123 { 124 | 125 } 126 ~ Typing, Bytes, and You

Alta Vista is a type of what?

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Barclay Square was an early Internet site offering what?

Barclay Square Apartments Barclay Square Apartments View Our Floor Plans One and two bedroom apartments just a stone's throw from all of the dining, shopping, and entertainment Baltimore City has to offer. Barclay Square Apartments is walking distance to Morgan State University and just a few minutes' drive from Johns Hopkins University. Apartments feature plush wall-to-wall carpeting, oversized closets, and beautifully equipped kitchens. One and two bedroom apartments just a stone's throw from all of the dining, shopping, and entertainment Baltimore City has to offer. Barclay Square Apartments is walking distance to Morgan State University and just a few minutes' drive from Johns Hopkins University. Apartments feature plush wall-to-wall carpeting, oversized closets, and beautifully equipped kitchens. Walk-in closets in some apartments Wall-to-wall carpeting DSL and cable modem available On-site clothes care center 5 minutes to Morgan State University 5 minutes to shopping

What is a message sent to a newsgroup in the Internet called?|

Newsgroups Newsgroups This icon indicates that there is a screen capture or animation describing the concept. This icon indicates that there is a sound clip describing the tutorial.   Topics covered in this tutorial (click link to jump to topic): 1.   Introduction A newsgroup is like an electronic public notice board on a particular subject. Anyone can post a message or read a message. Newsgroups provide a way to communicate with people who share your interests from all over the world. You can read a newsgroup any time and anyone can participate in a newsgroup... though not all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have a news server or offer access to every newsgroup. There are literally thousands of newsgroups covering virtually every topic imaginable - from computers, social issues, literature and science, to recreation, entertainment, hobbies and current affairs. In newsgroups you can find job postings, business and health care advice, announcements about events, referrals, political and religious discussions - even photos you can download. Reading newsgroups is easy. You can use a newsreader that is nested or bundled in your email program although a specialized newseader will allow you to manage the huge volume of information in most newsgroups. You will need to set up your newsreader. This means "pointing" it at your ISPs news server. You will need to know the name of your ISPs news server. It will look something like news.yourisp.com.au. Categories Newsgroups are divided into categories. The categories help you determine what kind of group and what kind of postings you will find there. For example, alt.bicycle.rec.oz means this is an alternative newsgroup for recreational cyclists in Australia. Be aware that some newsgroups are not for the faint hearted. alt.gay.leather would not be a place to read interesting stuff about spring flowers. Some common examples are: alt. means "alternative" and refers to newsgroups that are alternative (and sometime absurd), or simply that they don’t fit into other categories. com. means "computers" and newsgroups proceeded with com. cover areas of interest to computer users or professionals soc. means "social" and cover topics like politics, community groups and social policy talk. Means "talk" and sci. means "science" denotes more discussive newsgroups rec. means "rec" and proceeds newsgroups that are not work related Subscribing You "subscribe" to newsgroups that interest you. To do this you first get a complete listing of all the newsgroups that are available from your ISP. It takes a few minutes to download because the list of newsgroups is very long - there are over 50,000 newsgroups and rising. Once downloaded to your computer, use the "search" or "find" functions in your newsreader to look for topics that interest you. You can build a list of subscribed newsgroups or just view a newsgroup once. When you subscribe to a newsgroup, your newsreader automatically downloads new messages or "posts" to that newsgroup each time you log onto your ISP's news server. Posting A message on a newsgroup is called a "post" or an "article". It may a response to a previous post or be a new post. People reading the newsgroup can reply to any post and in this way a discussion or "thread" is formed. It is often a good idea to read through a thread before posting your own ideas. When replying to a post, try to keep the information relevant and to the point. You post a message in much the same way you create a new e-

A bitmap is a collection of what?

Vector and Bitmap Images Explained and Compared A Bitmap Image--shown zoomed in with the original size in the upper right corner. Notice the individual pixels that make up the image. View Full Size .  © S. Chastain Updated August 22, 2016. It's almost impossible to discuss graphics software without first establishing an understanding of the differences between the two major 2D graphic types: bitmap and vector images. This is an important lesson and often a tough one to grasp. If you work with graphics at all, it's bound to come up, so it's an important concept to understand. Let's start by talking about the more common type: bitmap images. Facts About Bitmap Images Bitmap images (also known as raster images) are made up of pixels in a grid. Pixels are picture elements; tiny squares of individual color that make up what you see on your screen. All these tiny squares of color come together to form the images you see. Most computer monitors display approximately 70 to 100 pixels per inch--the actual number depends on your monitor and screen settings . continue reading below our video What is Virtual Reality? The Smartphone in your pocket can display up to 3X as many pixels as your computer. To illustrate this, let's take a look at a typical desktop icon such as the one shown in the image here. The icons on your desktop are typically 32 by 32 pixels. In other words, there are 32 dots of color going in each direction. When combined, these tiny dots form an image. The icon shown in the upper right corner of this example is a typical desktop icon at screen resolution. As you can see, when you enlarge the icon, as I have in this example, you can clearly see each individual square dot of color. Note the that white areas of the background are still individual pixels, even though they appear to be one solid color. Bitmap images are resolution dependent. Resolution refers to the number of pixels in an image and is usually stated as dpi (dots per inch) or ppi (pixels per inch) . Bitmap images are displayed on your computer screen at screen resolution: approximately 100 ppi. However, when printing bitmaps, your printer needs much more image data than a monitor. In order to render a bitmap image accurately, the typical desktop printer needs 150-300 ppi. If you've ever wondered why your 300 dpi scanned image appears so much larger on your monitor, this is why. For more in-depth information about resolution, scanning, and printing bitmap images, refer to my article Getting Started Scanning . Because bitmaps are resolution dependent, is impossible  to increase or decrease their size without sacrificing a degree of image quality. When you reduce the size of a bitmap image through your software's resample or resize command, you must throw away pixels. When you increase the size of a bitmap image through your software's resample or resize command, the software has to create new pixels. When creating pixels, the software must estimate the color values of the new pixels based on the surrounding pixels. This process is called interpolation . Interpolation is actually quite easy to understand. If you double the resolution of an image you add pixels. let's assume you have a red pixel and a blue pixel beside eachother. If you double the resolution you will be adding two pixels between the,m. What colour will those new pixels be? Now ask a friend the same question and your will get two different answers. That is interpolation. The computer is adding what it thinks are the right colours. Did you notice how, I specifically talked about resizing images "through your software's resample or resize command"? I want to make the distinction between this method of resizing versus zooming in and out, or dragging the edges of your images in a page layout program to resize it. This type of resizing is more accurately called scaling. Scaling an image does not effect the image permanently. In other words, it does not change the number of pixels in the image. What it does is make them bigger. However, if you scale a bitmap image to a larger size in your page layo

If edu appears at the end of an address, what is the host computer?

How to Get a Free .edu Address for Student Discounts How to Get a Free .edu Address for Student Discounts By | August 8, 2014 11:21 am MORE EDITOR'S NOTE: This method no longer works for acquiring a .edu email address.  Being a student has a lot of perks, such as a deep markdown on Amazon Prime, discounts on major newspapers and savings at numerous popular retailers. Unfortunately, the money saved won’t come even close to displacing the rapidly increasing cost of education, but there’s an easy way to reap many of the benefits of student status without dropping the big bucks on school. Many online retailers will verify your student status by requiring you to sign up with a simple .edu email address, which is typically available only to attendees of a college or university. From time to time, however, an .edu website will allow users to register an email address without actually checking their student status. It’s a way for non-students to get many of the benefits of being a student without taking on loan after loan. This is often subject to abrupt change, when an organization learns how it's being exploited. There are certainly ethical questions about taking advantage of the system, but if you're determined to do it, here’s how to get an .edu email address. 1. Visit the  account creation page  on the California Colleges website and select that you’re a College or Postsecondary School Student. The California Colleges website is a place for students and potential students to plan their educational path. It allows anyone to sign up for an email account, but you’ll want to select that you’re currently a college student.   2. Select Find and choose your favorite college from the list. Have you ever dreamed of attending a California college? Here’s your chance to pretend that you’re really there! There are a long list of schools, from universities to community colleges to choose from. Pick your favorite. 3. Enter in your personal information, and select an account name and password. You certainly can use your real information, but there’s no system in place to check anything. Entering sensitive information, such as your address, is optional. We recommend filling out the bare minimum of the form. Note that your account name will be your new email address. 4. Click to continue once you see the notice that your account has been successfully created. If you’ve filled out the form correctly, you should be redirected to a page that confirms your new account. If you see this page, you now have an .edu email address. 5. Click My Portfolio in the top right corner, followed by Send and Receive Messages to view your new .edu email address. This is where you’ll go when you want to view your messages — which is often required by sites offering student discounts in order to verify that you’re the owner of the account. 6. Send yourself a test email. It’s good to know that your new email address actually works. Head over to an existing email account and send a message to your new .edu address. Then, return to your new .edu inbox and refresh the page to view your test message.

What was the name of the first satellite to relay live TV pictures between the USA and Europe?

The History of Sputnik I and Its Effect on the U.S. By Mary Bellis Updated August 07, 2016. History was made on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball and weighed only 183 pounds. It took about 98 minutes for Sputnik I to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. The launch ushered in new political, military, technological and scientific developments and marked the beginning of the space race between the U.S.and the U.S.S.R.  The International Geophysical Year In 1952, the International Council of Scientific Unions decided to establish the International Geophysical Year. It wasn't actually a year but rather more like 18 months, set from July 1, 1957 to December 31, 1958. Scientists knew that cycles of solar activity would be at a high point at this time. The Council adopted a resolution in October 1954 calling for artificial satellites to be launched during the IGY to map the earth's surface. The U.S. Contribution  The White House announced plans to launch an earth-orbiting satellite for the IGY in July 1955. The government solicited proposals from various research agencies to undertake development of this satellite. NSC 5520, the Draft Statement of Policy on U.S. Scientific Satellite Program, recommended both the creation of a scientific satellite program as well as the development of satellites for reconnaissance purposes. The National Security Council approved the IGY satellite on May 26, 1955 based on NSC 5520. This event was announced to the public on July 28 during an oral briefing at the White House. The government's statement emphasized that the satellite program was intended to be the U.S. contribution to the IGY and that the scientific data was to benefit scientists of all nations. The Naval Research Laboratory's Vanguard proposal for a satellite was chosen in September 1955 to represent the U.S.during the IGY.  Then Came Sputnik I  The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement, it caught the world's attention and the American public off guard. Its size was more impressive than Vanguard's intended 3.5-pound payload. The public reacted with fear that the Soviets' ability to launch such a satellite would translate to the ability to launch ballistic missiles that could carry nuclear weapons from Europe to the U.S. Then the Soviets struck again: Sputnik II was launched on November 3, carrying a much heavier payload and a dog named Laika. The U.S. Response The U.S. Defense Department responded to the political and public furor over the Sputnik satellites by approving funding for another U.S. satellite project. As a simultaneous alternative to Vanguard, Wernher von Braun and his Army Redstone Arsenal team began work on a satellite that would become known as Explorer. The tide of the space race changed on January 31, 1958 when the U.S. successfully launched Satellite 1958 Alpha, familiarly known as Explorer I. This satellite carried a small scientific payload that eventually discovered magnetic radiation belts around the Earth. These belts were named after principal investigator James Van Allen. The Explorer program continued as a successful ongoing series of lightweight, scientifically-useful spacecraft.  The Creation of NASA The Sputnik launch also led to the creation of NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, commonly called the "Space Act,” in July 1958, and the Space Act created NASA effective October 1, 1958. It joined NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, with other government agencies. NASA went on to do pioneering work in space applications, such as communications satellites, in the 1960s. The Echo, Telstar, Relay and Syncom satellites were built by NASA or by the private sector based on significant NASA advances. In the 1970s, NASA's Landsat program literally changed the way we look at our planet. The first three Landsat satellites were launched in 1972, 1975 and 1978. They transmitted complex data

If you surf the Internet, what do you do?

time management - What to do when tired instead of surfing the internet? - Personal Productivity Stack Exchange What to do when tired instead of surfing the internet? up vote 40 down vote favorite 27 After a full day, I am tired, and often end up mindlessly surfing the internet in the evening. It is the easiest thing to do when I've already made a lot of decisions during the day. Unfortunately, this practice bakes little bread, and I feel empty and hollow after doing it. I am not opposed to surfing the internet. When I am alert, it is incredibly fun to learn new and interesting things. But when I am tired, I hardly have the imagination to surf in a fun way. My question is what can I do when I am tired other than surfing the internet? (For others, you could substitute watching television with surfing the internet.) I either want it to be something more relaxing, or something more productive. Either would be better. In addition, how do I overcome the barrier of doing the easy thing instead of something more worthwhile? 1   Why do I have this irrestistable urge to say - have some children? –  HLGEM Aug 30 '12 at 20:57 6 How about sleep? –  Dave Newton Aug 30 '12 at 21:00      Sleep is good, but sometimes you are tired earlier in the evening, and you won't fall asleep anyways. If I could easily fall asleep early in the evening, I would. But I can't. –  pasta Aug 31 '12 at 14:23 5   @HLGEM The question was not about how to go from tired to fried and exhausted! :-) Although, yeah, pretty worthwhile overall. –  eflat Sep 4 '12 at 20:51 1   You do not seem to realize that surfing the internet (jumping from one topic to the other) makes you even more tired. –  Jan Doggen May 1 '14 at 8:18 I've started keeping a list of hobby-related things I want to do. I usually have ideas during my "alert" hours. Examples might be: Learn to play song ________ on the piano Write a Hello-World program in some new language Then in the evening, when tiredness starts to set in and I feel myself tempted to veg out in front of the TV, I look at my list and pick something from it. What's important about this method is that I'm leveraging the moments when I'm motivated and "saving" those ideas for later, when I lack the motivation to think of something valuable to do.      This is a good idea--there are many things I want to do during the day, but it is possible I do the easy things too early in the day when I have more energy. Thus I do not match my energy to tasks requiring the same amount of energy, which creates waste. –  pasta Aug 31 '12 at 14:25 Why not try reading a book? Fiction, or something related to an interest you have. Or how about learning a craft, cooking etc. The possibilities are endless. Just turn the internet off - seriously - just turn the computer off and stand up. Make a cup of cocoa, go outside and watch the sunset. 1   This in part isn't really helpful. Of course there are many possibilities, but part of the problem is realizing them, particularly when you are tired and you've developed habits. –  pasta Aug 31 '12 at 14:26 7   The thing to do is not have to realise them - just the simple act of turning off your computer lets you think. I do agree with @Avian though - making a list when you are able to concentrate and use this when tired is an excellent idea. –  Rory Alsop♦ Aug 31 '12 at 14:33 up vote 15 down vote This is what worked for me trying to break the same habit. Walk. Get out your house and just wander somewhere. Better still listen to an audiobook or a podcast or something at the same time, something that will captivate your attention so you don't feel bored and time starts to fly by (music works too but I find listening to something on a topic helps better). It's not much but you get some exercise and depending on what you choose to listen to you can absorb lots of interesting knowledge, all without really having to really focus. up vote 12 down vote Are you physically or mentally tired? If you are mentally tired but not physically tired, doing exercise may be the best option as it is good for health, reduces levels o

Which page of a Web site is called a Home Page?

Kentucky State Police: Home Page of the Kentucky State Police Trooper Teddy Bear Program   The Trooper Teddy Bear Project came to life in December of 1989 after Kentucky First Lady Martha Wilkinson hosted a gala fundraiser at Red Mile Racecourse earlier that summer. The black tie event raised the needed funds to purchase 2,000 Trooper Teddy Bears. The concept of the program was for Troopers to provide stuffed animals to children during traumatic experiences such as a car crash, child or sexual abuse cases and also distribute to terminally ill children. The first allotment of bears included a personal note on each stuffed animal from First Lady Wilkinson. KSP partnered with the Indiana State Police with this effort and they too passed out Trooper Bears. The program ran out of funding in early 2000 until recently when KSP was able to utilize asset forfeiture funds from criminal drug activity to purchase bears. The agency plans to sustain the program by offering the bears for sale to the public.

In addition to the computer, what else must a modem be plugged into?

Understanding Routers, Switches, and Network Hardware Understanding Routers, Switches, and Network Hardware Today we’re taking a look at the home networking hardware: what the individual pieces do, when you need them, and how best to deploy them. Read on to get a clearer picture of what you need to optimize your home network. When do you need a switch? A hub? What exactly does a router do? Do you need a router if you have a single computer? Network technology can be quite an arcane area of study but armed with the right terms and a general overview of how devices function on your home network you can deploy your network with confidence. Understanding Home Networking Through Network Diagrams Rather than start off with a glossary of networking terms—and in the process slam you with a technical terms with no easy point of reference—let’s dive right into looking at network diagrams. Here is the simplest network configuration available: a computer linked directly to a modem which is in turn linked through a phone line/cable/fiber optic uplink to the individual’s internet service provider. It doesn’t get less complicated than this arrangement but there is a price to pay for the ultra-simplicity of the setup. This user cannot access the internet with a Wi-Fi device (thus no access for smart phones, tablets, or other wireless devices) and they lose out on the benefits of having a router between their computer and the greater internet. Let’s introduce a router and highlight the benefits of using one.  In the diagram below we’ve introduced two elements to the network: a wireless router and a laptop connecting to the network via that wireless connection. When should you use a router? Given the low cost of home routers and the benefits gained from installing one on your network you should always use a router (which almost always includes a firewall feature). Home routers are actually a a combination of three networking components: a router, a firewall, and a switch. In a commercial setting the three pieces of hardware are kept separate but consumer routers are almost always a combination of both the routing and switching components with a firewall added in for good measure. First let’s look at what the router function does. At the most basic level a router links two networks together, the network within your home (however big or small) and the network outside your home (in this case, the Internet). The broadband modem provided to you by your ISP is only suited to linking a single computer to the internet and usually does not include any sort of routing or switch functionality. A router performs the following functions: IP sharing: Your ISP assigns you one IP address. If you have a desktop, a laptop, a media box on your TV, and an iPad, that one IP address clearly isn’t going to cut it. A router manages those multiple connections and ensures that the right packets of information go to the right places. Without this function there would be no way for a person on the desktop and a person on the laptop to both browse the web as there would be no distinguishing between which computer was requesting what. Network Address Translation (NAT): Related to the IP sharing function, NAT modifies the headers in packets of information coming into and out of your network so that they get routed to the proper device. Think of NAT like a very helpful receptionist inside your router that knows exactly where every incoming/outgoing package should go and stamps the department on them accordingly. Dynamic Host Configuration: Without DHCP you would have to manually configure and add all the hosts to your network. This means every time a new computer entered the network you would have to manually assign it an address on the network. DHCP does that for you automatically so that when you plug your XBOX into your router, your friend gets on your wireless network, or you add a new computer, an address is assigned with no human interaction required. Firewall: Routers act as basic firewalls in a variety of ways including automatically rejecting incoming data that

What does Q mean in FAQ?

What does FAQ mean? FAQ Definition. Meaning of FAQ. OnlineSlangDictionary.com noun acronym for "frequently asked question(s)". Used frequently in computing. As part of the documentation work for the next version, we need to update the FAQ list. See more words with the same meaning: Internet, texting, SMS, email, chat acronyms (list of) . See more words with the same meaning: computer slang . Last edited on Nov 08 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009 . a compiled list of frequently asked questions along with their answers. Prior to the existence of the world-wide web, these would often be posted periodically to discussion lists. As part of the documentation work for the next version, we need to update the FAQ.

What letter appears on the computer screen when you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer?

Cipher strength appears as 0-bit in Internet Explorer Cipher strength appears as 0-bit in Internet Explorer Symptoms In Microsoft Internet Explorer, you may experience the following behaviors: When you click About Internet Explorer on the Help menu, the Cipher Strength value is 0-bit. You cannot connect to and view Web pages on SSL-secured Web sites. Cause This behavior may occur if the Schannel.dll, Rsabase.dll, or Rsaenh.dll files are missing, damaged, or of the incorrect version. Resolution To resolve this behavior, use the method that is appropriate for your operating system. Method 1: Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition Step 1: Rename the Schannel.dll, Rsabase.dll, and Rsaenh.dll files Insert the Windows Millennium Edition Startup disk into the floppy drive, and then restart the computer. For additional information about how to create a Windows Millennium Edition Startup disk, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 267287 How to create a startup disk in Windows Millennium Edition When the Startup menu appears, use the ARROW keys to select Start computer with CD-ROM Support, and then press ENTER. Note the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive. At the command prompt, type the following lines, and then press ENTER after each line. Note C: is the drive where Windows is installed: C: cd windows\system Rename the Schannel.dll, Rsabase.dll, and Rsaenh.dll files (if they are present) by using the .old file name extension. To do this, type the following command lines, and then press ENTER after each line: ren schannel.dll schannel.old Step 4: Reregister the Schannel.dll, Rsabase.dll, Rsaenh.dll, Security.dll, and Secur32.dll files Note Follow these steps separately for each of the files that you reregister. Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type one of the following commands (for the file that you are re-registering), and then click OK. drive:\windows\system\regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system\schannel.dll drive:\windows\system\regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system\rsabase.dll drive:\windows\system\regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system\rsaenh.dll drive:\windows\system\regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system\security.dll drive:\windows\system\regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system\secur32.dll Note drive is the drive where Windows is installed Click OK when you receive the "DllRegisterServer in file name succeeded" message. Step 5: Verify the cipher strength in Internet Explorer Start Internet Explorer, and then click About Internet Explorer on the Help menu. Verify that the Cipher Strength value is 128-bit. Method 2: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition Click Start, point to Settings, click Folder Options, and then click the View tab. In the Advanced settings box, click Show all files, clear the Hide file extensions for known file types check box (if it is selected), and then click OK. Start Windows Explorer, and then locate the drive:\Windows\System folder. Note drive is the drive where Windows is installed. Rename the Schannel.dll, Rsabase.dll, and Rsaenh.dll files (if they exist) by using the .old file name extension. To do this, follow these steps: Right-click the Schannel.dll file, and then click Rename. Type schannel.old, and then press ENTER. Repeat steps 2a through 2b to rename the Rsabase.dll and Rsaenh.dll files to Rsabase.old and Rsaenh.old. Reinstall Internet Explorer. To do this, use the method that is appropriate for your version of Internet Explorer: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Download and install Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, or reinstall Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

Which name of something used by avid readers is the Netscape Navigator name for Favorites?

Online Study Guide Online Study Guide This activity contains 25 questions. Microsoft Internet Explorer is an example of a Web ____________.   popup site map Some Web sites have a(n) ____________ that serves as a table of contents for the Web site and helps users find links by category.   Home button address bar When a user types a Web address in the address bar and presses Enter, a message is received indicating the page cannot be displayed. The user should try all of the following to fix the potential problem EXCEPT:   review the Web address to make sure it was typed correctly. type in another address as the Web site might not be available. check the Internet connection. call the 1-800 number that displays on the screen. When visiting some Web pages, users will experience a small window that covers part of the page. This window is known as a ____________.   search window popup When visiting a site that displays weather information, if the page displays information about last week's weather, the user may click the ____________ button to try and update the page.   Forward Refresh If the user clicks a link that was previously visited and listed on the left of the page, he or she would be using the ____________ pane.   Folders History If while ordering airline tickets, you find a site that works really well and seems to be something you would use again, it would probably be a link you would add to your ____________ list.   Which steps would be used to add a link to Internet Explorer's Favorites list?   Tools, Internet Options, Favorites tab, Add, OK Favorites, Add to Favorites, OK Tools, Add to Favorites, OK File, Save As, Web Page, OK After selecting text on a Web page and copying it to the clipboard, a user can switch to a new location and then click ____________ to transfer the data into that document.   Some Web sites divide pages into individual ____________ or windows.   bookmarks site maps Which menu options would be selected in Internet Explorer to change the homepage that will display each time a browser is opened?   Tools, Internet Options, Privacy tab Tools, Internet Options, General tab To restrict a browser to NOT allow any cookies, what menu options would be selected to change the settings?   Tools, Internet Options, General tab, drag slider bar down, OK Tools, Internet Options, Privacy tab, drag slider bar up, OK Tools, Internet Options, Security tab, drag slider bar up, OK Tools, Internet Options, Privacy tab, drag slider bar down, OK Tools, Internet Options, General tab, drag slider bar up, OK Tools, Internet Options, Security tab, drag slider bar down, OK Which of the following would NOT be an example of a phrase with a Boolean operator?   snow OR rain snow OR (rain AND fog) Which one of these phrases would most likely have the most matches on a search engine?   rain AND fog AND snow rain What menu options would be selected to see the Back, Forward, and Print buttons on the Standard toolbar that has been turned off?   View, Toolbars, AOL View, Toolbars, Standard Buttons One of the most popular if not the most popular Web browser available is Microsoft's Internet Navigator.     False A Web browser has the option to keep track of pages recently visited in the history list.   Netscape Navigator offers Bookmarks while Internet Explorer offers a Favorites list for frequently visited sites.     False If a user opens a browser, types in a Web address, clicks Go and then clicks the Back button, the browser will return to the opening homepage.   With the highest privacy level setting in Internet Explorer, no cookies are blocked.   False Match each of the following buttons with its appropriate function or description. A matching question presents 4 answer choices and 4 items. The answer choices are lettered A through D. The items are numbered 21.1 through 21.4. Screen readers will read the answer choices first. Then each item will be presented along with a select menu for choosing an answer choice. Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column. go back to

A small a in a circle is pronounced how?

Czech Pronunciation Czech Pronunciation Czech spelling is amoung the most phonetic of all European languages. This means that you need not worry how to pronounce each new word because the letters or combination of letters consistantly represent the sound. The following are a few important points to remember about Czech spelling. Czech has two accents which HTML cannot accomodate: when a letter is followed by a ^ (for example c^) it means there is an upsidedown caret on top of the letter ( ). And u* means a u with a small circle above it. VOWELS: LETTER PRONUNCIATION a as in the 'u' in luck e as in the 'e' in bet i,y as in the 'i' in sit o as in the 'o' in cost u as in the 'oo' in look These same vowels can be also marked by a slash (or a little circle) above them and are pronounced a little bit longer: ACCENTED VOWELS: LETTER PRONUNCIATION á as in the 'a' in father é as in the 'ea' in bear í,ý as in the 'ee' in meet ó as in the 'a' in ball ú, u* as in the 'oo' in soon The following letters have a 'caret' above them and have the following english equivelents: LETTER

Where does a bounced email return to?

BlockSender Bounces Email Back to the Sender BlockSender Bounces Email Back to the Sender Go to permalink Chrome: Gmail does an excellent job of blocking spam, but sometimes you just want to go the extra mile and prevent some mail from ever reaching your account. BlockSender is a Chrome Extension for Gmail that can trick the sender into thinking your email address is incorrect. Advertisement Many spammers won't necessarily recognize the "bounced" email return message, but you do get the satisfaction of doing something to let them know the email isn't welcome. The best case scenario for BlockSender is when an individual is sending you email, and they aren't respecting your request for "do not contact." When they get the bounced message from BlockSender, they'll think they have the wrong email address for you. Hopefully after that, they'll stop pestering you. The individual plan only blocks a few emails a month and only on personal Gmail accounts, but is free. The Premium Plan for $4.99/month for $29/year has unlimited blocking and works with Google Apps as well personal Gmail accounts. Check out the video above for more. Advertisement

What name is given to the software program needed to access the Web?

5 Information Systems Software Processing programs or transactions in batches, without a user's interaction. Time Sharing Systems providing interactive processing by allocating a short time slice for the use of the server to each user in turn. Real-time Processing Systems that respond to an event within a fixed time interval; used for example, in manufacturing plants or to collect data from several pieces of equipment in a laboratory. With the move toward multiprocessors, in which several (or even many) processors are configured in a single computer system, multiprocessing operating systems have been designed to allocate the work to the multiple processors. These systems also support multiprogramming, which allows many programs to compete for the processors. Operating Systems for Personal Computers The operating systems of personal computers which are dedicated to a single user are vastly simpler than the operating systems running larger machines, to which hundreds or thousands of users may have simultaneous access. One important capability an operating system can offer in a personal computing environment is multitasking: the ability to run several tasks at once on behalf of a user. The most popular microcomputer operating systems are: Windows 95 - Windows 95 is an advanced operating system - graphical user interface 2. Menu drive 3. Graphical User Interface (GUI) The most popular graphical user interface is that provided by Windows 95. The Windows environment has become a standard platform for computers. The Goal of Open Systems A drive is to use open systems in organizational computing, so that the software and hardware of any vendor can operate with those of any other, calls for an operating system that would run on any hardware platform. The term Aopen system@ is used as the opposite of proprietary systems of a specific manufacturer. In open systems, organizations want portability, scalability, and interoperability of applications software. Portable application: can be moved from one computer system to another. Scalable application: is one that can be moved without significant reprogramming. Interoperability: means that machines of various vendors and capabilities can work together to produce needed information. 5.3 Personal Productivity Software Personal productivity software is the most common applications software. Run on personal computers, these programs assist the user in a certain range of tasks. Taken together with professional support systems and systems supporting groupwork, personal productivity software is a potent enabler of today's knowledge work. Functions of Personal Productivity Software [Figure 5.3][Slide 5-4] Personal productivity software enhances its user's performance on a specific range of common tasks. This software supports database management and analysis, authoring and presentation, and activity and notes tracking. All these are software applications. Data management is supported by database management systems, while spreadsheet software assists in data analysis. For the needs of authoring and presentation, users employ the applications software for word processing, desktop publishing, presentation, and multimedia authoring. Personal information management software is used to track activities and personal notes. Communications software enables the user to connect to a telecommunications network in order to exchange information with other users or systems. Web browsers are used to access the resources of the Internet's World Wide Web. Spreadsheets Electronic spreadsheet packages are programs that are used for analysis, planning, and modelling. They provide electronic replacement for more traditional tools such as paper worksheets, pencils, and calculators. In a worksheet of rows and columns are stored in the computer's memory and displayed on the video screen. Data and formulas are entered into the worksheet and the computer performs the calculations based on the formulas entered. A spreadsheet package can also be used as a decision support tool to perform what-if analysis. Database Manage

What goes after Netscape in the name of a popular Internet browser?

R.I.P. Netscape R.I.P. Netscape     Opinion: The first truly popular Web browser is finally buried years after "winning" its battle with Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape, the Web browser that opened up not only the Web, but the entire Internet to mass use, is dead. It died after a long decline caused by its murderer, Microsofts Internet Explorer. It was only 15 years ago that only a handful of nerds knew about the Internet and the Web. Even after CIX (Commercial Internet Exchange) opened up the Internet for business in 1991, only the kinds of people who now use Linux were using the Internet. Then, two graduate students at the NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, created the first easy-to-use Web browser, Mosaic, in early 1993. It wasnt that easy to install, though. In 1994, for example, I wrote a how-to feature on installing Mosaic . While I was writing that story, Andreessen was busy making it outdated. He got together with venture capitalist Jim Clark to create a company, briefly called Mosaic Communications, but which quickly changed its name, and the name of its browser, to one all early Internet users know: Netscape. In October 1994, Netscape released Mosaic Netscape 0.9 and the Internet would never be the same. Anyone could install this browser on almost any operating system. Within months, the Internet we now know and use every day was springing into existence. Thanks to Netscape innovations, the static Web site was quickly augmented by RSS feeds and dynamic JavaScript-powered Web pages. When Netscape entered the stock market in 1995, any idea that the Web was simply the newest technology toy was dispelled by eager stock buyers who pushed Netscapes stock up to near-record first-day highs. Fueled by endless hunger for Internet access, Netscape went from a startup to a billion dollar company at a rate that was unthinkable to the pre-Internet stock market. In the meantime, Microsoft, which had dismissed the Internet as a fad, was caught flat-footed. Now, Microsoft would like us to forget that it was never an Internet innovator, but has always been playing catch-up. If you doubt me, find a first edition of Bill Gates book "The Road Ahead." Of more than 300 pages on the future of computing, only about nine even touch on the Internet and the Web. Microsoft finally decided it had to get on the Internet or it would be as relevant as a buggy-whip manufacturer after Ford produced the Model T. Its response was to release Internet Explorer 1.0, which was based on the Spyglass variant of Mosaic. With Netscape owning 80 percent of the Web browser market, Microsoft decided it was time for drastic action. First, it would make IE free, and second it would start bundling it with its new operating system, Windows 95. At the same time, Microsoft would strong-arm PC vendors into putting the new operating system and its browser on all their PCs. Clearly, Microsoft hoped that by using its monopoly powers it would accomplish two things. The first was to destroy Netscape, and the other was to avoid to paying Spyglass for IE. You see, Spyglass had foolishly signed a contract guaranteeing the company revenue from IE sales. Microsoft claimed that since IE was both free and part of the operating system, it didnt owe Spyglass a dime of continuing revenue. Both Netscape and Spyglass sued Microsoft. Both won. Neither company exists today. To start with the lesser-known story, Spyglass won $8 million for its troubles in 1997. IE may have been worth a bit more than that, dont you think? As for Netscape, it also took Microsoft to court. A direct result of this action was the Department of Justice investigation of Microsoft on antitrust grounds. In the end, Netscape "won," but it was too late. In 1999, after Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft had acted as an illegal monopoly, then-California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said, "One of the tragedies of the last few years is that Netscape, arguably the most innovative company on the planet, was basically crushed

A newbie is a new what?

Newbie | Define Newbie at Dictionary.com newbie [noo-bee, nyoo‐] /ˈnu bi, ˈnyu‐/ Spell noun 1. a newcomer or novice, especially an inexperienced user of the Internet or of computers in general. Origin of newbie 1965-70, Americanism; perhaps newb(orn) + -ie Dictionary.com Unabridged Examples from the Web for newbie Expand Contemporary Examples Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie. British Dictionary definitions for newbie Expand (slang) a newcomer, esp in computing or on the internet Word Origin C20: origin unknown; possibly from new boy Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for newbie Expand n. "newcomer, new person to an existing situation," by 1969, from new with diminutive or derogatory suffix. Perhaps originally U.S. military slang. Cf. noob . Middle English had newing "a new thing" (early 15c.); new was used as a noun meaning "naval cadet during first training on a ship" (1909); and newie "new thing" is recorded from 1947. Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper Slang definitions & phrases for newbie Expand newbie noun A person new to computers and computer networks; computer neophyte: You'd copy it because you didn't want to seem like a newbie (read: clueless computer rookie)/ Newbies sometimes get flamed just because they are new (1990s+ Computer) The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D. Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.

In an e mail address, how is a symbol like a period said out loud?

7 Secret Gmail Features You Didn't Know Existed | The Huffington Post 7 Secret Gmail Features You Didn't Know Existed 02/19/2014 01:08 pm ET | Updated Feb 19, 2014 4.7k Alexis Kleinman Deputy Managing Editor Of Impact & Innovation, The Huffington Post Let's be real: Most of us are pretty dependent on our email. I mean, don't you guys often wake up to an inbox that looks like this? No?? Remember: No matter how full your inbox is, somebody else always has a crazier one than you do. And even if you think you know everything there is to know about Gmail, the email service near and dear to our hearts, there's always a trick or two you may not have heard of. We've compiled the seven best Gmail secrets below. From deleting your entire inbox in one click (we clearly could use this one) to tracking which sites are giving out your contact info, check out these handy tips: 1. The dots in your Gmail address don't matter You can email JohnDoe@Gmail.com, John.Doe@Gmail.com or J.o.h.n.D.o.e.@Gmail.com and they would all go to the same place . The periods in your email address are actually totally meaningless. 2. You can hit the snooze button on your Gmail Using the free Gmail app Boomerang , you can open an email and set it to return to your inbox in a set amount of time. 3. Find out if your Gmail address has been spread and by whom If you add a "+" sign and then any words into your Gmail address , it still works. For example, if you were to subscribe to a shopping site and your email address is JohnDoe@Gmail.com, you could use the email address JohnDoe+Shopping@Gmail.com to sign up. You'll still get your emails and you'll be able to filter them more easily by which address emails are sent to. Plus, if you get any emails from another site to JohnDoe+Shopping@Gmail.com, you'll know who gave your email address out. 4. You can get desktop notifications for emails If you're an obsessive email checker, Gmail can pop up with little notifications on your desktop when you get an email. You can set it to notify you when you get any email, or just when you get emails that are labeled "important." Just click the gear icon in your inbox, go to Settings, and scroll down to Desktop Notifications. 5. You can delete the entire contents of your inbox Ready for some spring cleaning? It's pretty easy to erase all of your emails. In your inbox, you'll see the number of emails you're viewing. For me, it says "1-25 of 19,752." Click on that to "show more messages." From there, click the little checkbox on the top left and select "All." From there, Gmail will ask if you really mean to select all of the messages in your inbox. After you've chosen literally every single message in your inbox, just click the trashcan to delete the messages. 6. You can un-send emails There's nothing worse than sending an email and immediately realizing that it had a typo in it or you sent it to the wrong person. Thankfully, there's a way to avoid that shame. Gmail has a "lab" that gives you a few seconds between the moment you hit the send button and the moment it actually sends and allows you to stop an email from sending. All you have to do is click on the gear in your inbox, then hit "settings." Once you're there, go to "labs." If you scroll down, you'll find the lab called "undo send." Click "enable," then scroll down and hit "save changes." 7. You can use all different kinds of stars and symbols to keep your email organized There's more than just a yellow star at your disposal. If you click the gear symbol and then go to "general," you can scroll down and see "stars." There you'll see 6 different colored stars and 6 other symbols. You can choose to use 1, 4 or all of the different symbols to categorize your emails. Make sure to "save changes" when you're finished. You can also move the stars around and reorder them. If, say, blue is your favorite color, you can just use blue stars. If you put multiple stars in your arsenal, you just have to click on the star in your inbox repeatedly to make it change colors.

What name is given to a program designed to cause damage by attaching itself to other programs?

What are malware, viruses, Spyware, and cookies, and what differentiates them ? | Symantec Connect What are malware, viruses, Spyware, and cookies, and what differentiates them ? Created: 25 Jun 2009 • Updated: 02 Jul 2009 | 22 comments Language Translations Tweet What are malware, viruses, Spyware, and cookies, and what differentiates them ? "Malware" is short for malicious software and used as a single term to refer to virus, spy ware, worm etc. Malware is designed to cause damage to a stand alone computer or a networked pc. So wherever a malware term is used it means a program which is designed to damage your computer it may be a virus, worm or Trojan. Worms:- Worms are malicious programs that make copies of themselves again and again on the local drive, network shares, etc. The only purpose of the worm is to reproduce itself again and again. It doesn’t harm any data/file on the computer. Unlike a virus, it does not need to attach itself to an existing program. Worms spread by exploiting vulnerabilities in operating systems Examples of worm are: - W32.SillyFDC.BBY Packed.Generic.236 W32.Troresba Due to its replication nature it takes a lot of space in the hard drive and consumes more cpu uses which in turn makes the pc too slow also consumes more network bandwidth. Virus:- Virus is a program written to enter to your computer and damage/alter your files/data. A virus might corrupt or delete data on your computer. Viruses can also replicate themselves. A computer Virus is more dangerous than a computer worm as it makes changes or deletes your files while worms only replicates itself with out making changes to your files/data. Examples of virus are: - W32.Sfc!mod ABAP.Rivpas.A Accept.3773 Viruses can enter to your computer as an attachment of images, greeting, or audio / video files. Viruses also enters through downloads on the Internet. They can be hidden in a free/trial softwares or other files that you download. So before you download anything from internet be sure about it first. Almost all viruses are attached to an executable file, which means the virus may exist on your computer but it actually cannot infect your computer unless you run or open the malicious program. It is important to note that a virus cannot be spread without a human action, such as running an infected program to keep it going. Virus is of different types which are as follows. 1) File viruses 3) Master boot record viruses 4) Boot sector viruses 6) Polymorphic viruses 7) Stealth viruses File Virus:-This type of virus normally infects program files such as .exe, .com, .bat. Once this virus stays in memory it tries to infect all programs that load on to memory. Macro Virus: - These type of virus infects word, excel, PowerPoint, access and other data files. Once infected repairing of these files is very much difficult. Master boot record files: - MBR viruses are memory-resident viruses and copy itself to the first sector of a storage device which is used for partition tables or OS loading programs .A MBR virus will infect this particular area of Storage device instead of normal files. The easiest way to remove a MBR virus is to clean the MBR area, Boot sector virus: - Boot sector virus infects the boot sector of a HDD or FDD. These are also memory resident in nature. As soon as the computer starts it gets infected from the boot sector. Cleaning this type of virus is very difficult. Multipartite virus: - A hybrid of Boot and Program/file viruses. They infect program files and when the infected program is executed, these viruses infect the boot record. When you boot the computer next time the virus from the boot record loads in memory and then start infecting other program files on disk Polymorphic viruses: - A virus that can encrypt its code in different ways so that it appears differently in each infection. These viruses are more difficult to detect. Stealth viruses: - These types of viruses use different kind of techniques to avoid detection. They either redirect the disk head to read another sector instead of the one in which they reside or they m

Which cartoons are associated with Kim Casalli?

Love Is... | Love is... Commercial Home ...originally a private love story It all started with shy little love notes from Kim Casali to her future husband, Roberto. Each of these little notes involved a small drawing and a personal sentiment that perfectly captured Kim's thoughts for the man she loved. She would hide these little drawings where he would least expect, sometimes tucked in a pocket or popped under his pillow, and also send them to him whenever they were apart. The official Love Is... website! Welcome to the official Love Is... website! This website is intended for those who are either interested in doing business with the Love Is... brand or are already aboard the Love Is... boat! If you would like to be part of the syndication or licensing (merchandise) programs, please refer to the Contact & Agents section. For those already aboard, they will find behind this site a complete and continually updated style guide for the Property. A website for the fans will be made available in the future. Love Is... goes Mobile! The "Love Is... Mobile" app is a free application that brings the charm and magic of the classic cartoons to your mobile and tablet devices. > Privacy Policy © 2009 Minikim Holland B.V. All intellectual property rights in "Love Is�" and its associated characters, logos, sayings and artwork are owned by Minikim Holland B.V. and may not be used without prior, authorised permission.

Where was William Kellogg working when he decided to sell cornflakes?

Inventor Will Keith Kellogg Biography Inventor: Will Keith Kellogg Criteria; First to invent. First practical. Entrepreneur. Birth: April 7, 1860 in Battle Creek, Michigan Death: October 6, 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan Nationality: American Invention: Kellogg's Corn Flakes� Function: noun / breakfast cereal Definition: A crisp, flaky, commercially prepared cold cereal made from coarse cornmeal. To be used as a breakfast food. Trademark: #73586717 (US) first used in commerce 12/22/1925 Milestones: 1860 Born in Battle Creek, Michigan 1894 Invented cereal flakes as a  healthy food 1990 started mail-order business called the Sanitas Food Company 1906 founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flakes Co., the world�s first ready-to-eat cereal co. 1930 founded the W. K. Kellogg Foundation 1951 Died in Battle Creek, Michigan CAPS: Kellogg, Kellogg's, Will Keith Kellogg, John Harvey Kellogg, Battle Creek Michigan, Sanitas Food Company, Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flakes Co., Kellogg Company, ARY, invention, cereal, corn flakes, Kellogg's' corn flakes, cornflakes, SIP, history, biography, inventor. The Story: Will Keith Kellogg, creator of the cereal company and the foundation that bears his name, led three professional "lives" while making his mark on Battle Creek, Michigan and the world. Born April 7, 1860, Will Keith Kellogg lacked a formal education beyond the sixth grade. When he died Oct. 6, 1951, at the age of 91, he had amassed a fortune and enriched the lives of people in his hometown, and millions of people around the world. The world-renowned benefactor and cereal industry leader began as a clerk at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, also known as the San. It was there, searching for a vegetarian diet for patients, that he discovered cereal flakes. His first job was as a stock-boy, followed by the life of a traveling broom salesman in his late teens. He finally went to work as a young man in the San, where his older brother, John Harvey Kellogg, was physician-in-chief. Will Kellogg was bookkeeper and manager of the world-famous hospital, which put virtually any task outside of medicine under his purview. For years he assisted his brother in research aimed at improving the vegetarian diet of the San's patients, especially the search for a digestible bread-substitute by the process of boiling wheat. They never achieved their basic purpose, but stumbled on a major dividend. In 1894, Will Kellogg accidentally left a pot of boiled wheat to stand and become tempered. When it was put through the usual rolling process, each grain of wheat emerged as a large, thin flake. Will persuaded his brother to serve the food in flake form, and it was an immediate favorite among the patients. Soon it was being packaged to meet hundreds of mail order requests from persons after they left the San. Because John Kellogg had little interest in such matters, his brother added another task to his long list of responsibilities: that of managing the burgeoning packaged food enterprise. Using his sense of economics, an understanding of marketing techniques and hard work Kellogg constantly increased production, advertising budgets and sales. He expanded his business to Australia in 1924, guided the cereal company through the Depression (he increased advertising while others cut back), and brought Kellogg's cereal into England in 1938. W. K.. Kellogg, who at 46 founded the Kellogg Company, was never comfortable with his riches. In the 1920s, when many captains of industry were building castle-sized summer "cottages" with 40-car garages, Kellogg lived a comparatively modest life. Even as a millionaire, he resided for years in a two-story stucco house on 256 West Van Buren Street in Battle Creek Michigan. As a father, he feared the pitfalls of unearned wealth. None of his children would ever become rich through inherited money

What is Dionne Warwick's real first name?

Dionne Warwick - Biography - IMDb Dionne Warwick Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trivia  (32) | Personal Quotes  (2) Overview (4) 5' 7" (1.7 m) Mini Bio (1) Dionne Warwick was born on December 12, 1940 in East Orange, New Jersey, USA as Marie Dionne Warrick. She was previously married to William Elliott . Spouse (2) First cousin of Whitney Houston . On the advice of her numerologist, she added an "e" to her last name and spelled it that way professionally before reverting back to her original spelling. Mother of David Elliott , and Damon Elliott . Arrested on misdemeanor charge 12 May, 2002 at Miami International Airport for carrying 11 marijuana cigarettes, found in empty lipstick container, less than 5 grams of marijuana. A friend told reporters Warwick uses marijuana to fight effects of glaucoma. On 5 June 2002, AP reports that charges against Warwick were dropped after Miami-Dade County judge agreed to plea bargain deal, which included Warwick's completion of drug treatment program. She did not appear in court, but in a statement said, "To this day, I am puzzled about exactly what happened at the Miami International Airport. But through the grace of God, I can now put this unpleasant chapter behind me." Her plea also included her donation of $250 to a group which supports children born with HIV. Warwick also agreed to make an anti-drug public service announcement directed at youth. Celebrity spokesperson for the Psychic Friends Network and hostess for its infomercials in the 1990s. Ranked #42 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll Honorary Member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Although Warwick had a handful of Top Ten hits during the 1960s, many of her songs were not given the chance to shine. Such songs include "Any Old Time of the Day," "Here Where There Is Love," "The Wine Is Young," "Check Out Time," "Wives and Lovers," "Only Love Can Break a Heart," "Knowing When to Leave," "(They Long to Be) Close to You," "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," "Let Me Be Lonely," "Forever My Love," "In the Land of Make Believe," "What the World Needs Now Is Love," "The Look of Love," and "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head". As a teenager, she formed The Gospelaires , with sister Dee Dee Warwick and aunt Cissy Houston . Graduated from East Orange High School in East Orange, New Jersey in 1959. Was named the U.S. Ambassador of Health in 1987. In the 1960s, she worked with Burt Bacharach and Hal David who wrote most of her songs. Began singing at age 6 at a Baptist church. Attended Karen Carpenter 's funeral on Tuesday, February 8, 1983. The services were held at United Methodist Church in Downey, California. Although her real last name is Warrick, on her first hit record, "Don't Make Me Over", her record company misspelled her name "Warwick" on the label, and she's used it ever since. Had a 12-year relationship with actor Gianni Russo best known for appearing as Carlo Rizzi, Connie Corleone's husband, in The Godfather (1972). Dionne's younger sister, Dee Dee Warwick , died Saturday October 19, 2008 at a New Jersey nursing home, with her elder sister by her side, after having been in poor health for several months, according to a family spokesman. She was 63. She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. She was raised on Sterling Street in East Orange, New Jersey. She attended the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. She met Burt Bacharach there, when she was 18 years old. She sang at St. Mark's Methodist Church in East Orange at 6 years old and later at New Hope Baptist Church on Sussex Avenue in Newark, New Jersey. She was awarded five Grammy Awards. She has earned 18 top-20 US hits, including 12 songs written by Burt Bacharach . Her childhood (Lincoln) elementary school was renamed Dionne Warwick Institute of Economics and Entrepreneusrhip (Kindergarten to 5th grade) in East Orange, New Jersey. She has six grandchildren. Originally a mezzo-soprano at the height of her career, but since her voice has deepened due to life long

What's the first word of Richard Marx's Right Here Waiting For You?

RICHARD MARX - RIGHT HERE WAITING FOR YOU LYRICS Right Here Waiting For You Lyrics Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting For You Lyrics Oceans apart, day after day And I slowly go insane I hear your voice on the line But it doesn't stop the pain If I see you next to never But how can we say forever Wherever you go, whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you I took for granted, all the times That I thought would last somehow I hear the laughter, I taste the tears But I can't get near you now Oh, can't you see it, baby You've got me goin' crazy Wherever you go, whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you I wonder how we can survive This romance But in the end if I'm with you I'll take the chance Oh, can't you see it, baby You've got me goin' crazy Wherever you go, whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you Waiting for you cannot get any better when it comes to expressing true love..... ;o) Miscellaneous Tracklist Embed Get the embed code <table class="songlyrics" style="width: 100%; table-layout: fixed;"><col width="40" /><col /><tbody><tr><th colspan="2">Richard Marx - Miscellaneous Album Lyrics</th></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">1.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/hold-on-to-the-night-lyrics/" title="Hold On To The Night Lyrics Richard Marx">Hold On To The Night</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">2.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/miami-2017-lyrics/" title="Miami 2017 Lyrics Richard Marx">Miami 2017</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">3.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/surrender-to-me-lyrics/" title="Surrender To Me Lyrics Richard Marx">Surrender To Me</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">4.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/thanks-to-you-lyrics/" title="Thanks To You Lyrics Richard Marx">Thanks To You</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">5.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/days-in-avalon-lyrics/" title="Days In Avalon Lyrics Richard Marx">Days In Avalon</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">6.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/shine-lyrics/" title="Shine Lyrics Richard Marx">Shine</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">7.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/someone-special-lyrics/" title="Someone Special Lyrics Richard Marx">Someone Special</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">8.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/power-of-you-and-me-lyrics/" title="Power Of You And Me Lyrics Richard Marx">Power Of You And Me</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">9.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/one-more-time-lyrics/" title="One More Time Lyrics Richard Marx">One More Time</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">10.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/waiting-on-your-love-lyrics/" title="Waiting On Your Love Lyrics Richard Marx">Waiting On Your Love</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">11.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/more-than-a-mystery-lyrics/" title="More Than A Mystery Lyrics Richard Marx">More Than A Mystery</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">12.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/boy-next-door-lyrics/" title="Boy Next Door Lyrics Richard Marx">Boy Next Door</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">13.</td><td class="sl-td-right"><a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/richard-marx/too-early-to-be-over-lyrics/" title="Too Early To Be Over Lyrics Richard Marx">Too Early To Be Over</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sl-td-left">14.</td><td class="sl-td-right

"Who described a Hollywood studio set as, ""The biggest train set a boy ever had?"""

Orson Welles - Biography - IMDb Orson Welles Biography Showing all 184 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (3) | Trade Mark  (4) | Trivia  (82) | Personal Quotes  (73) | Salary  (17) Overview (4) 6' 1½" (1.87 m) Mini Bio (1) His father was a well-to-do inventor, his mother a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died (he was seven) he traveled the world with his father. When his father died (he was fifteen) he became the ward of Chicago's Dr. Maurice Bernstein. In 1931, he graduated from the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois; he turned down college offers for a sketching tour of Ireland. He tried unsuccessfully to enter the London and Broadway stages, traveling some more in Morocco and Spain (where he fought in the bullring). Recommendations by Thornton Wilder and Alexander Woollcott got him into Katherine Cornell's road company, with which he made his New York debut as Tybalt in 1934. The same year, he married, directed his first short, and appeared on radio for the first time. He began working with John Houseman and formed the Mercury Theatre with him in 1937. In 1938, they produced "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", famous for its broadcast version of "The War of the Worlds" (intended as a Halloween prank). His first film to be seen by the public was Citizen Kane (1941), a commercial failure losing RKO $150,000, but regarded by many as the best film ever made. Many of his next films were commercial failures and he exiled himself to Europe in 1948. In 1956, he directed Touch of Evil (1958); it failed in the United States but won a prize at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. In 1975, in spite of all his box-office failures, he received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1984, the Directors Guild of America awarded him its highest honor, the D.W. Griffith Award. His reputation as a filmmaker has climbed steadily ever since. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan < stephan@cc.wwu.edu> Spouse (3) Frequently cast Joseph Cotten , Everett Sloane and Oja Kodar Frequently wrote, directed and starred in films that feature the rise and fall of main characters (Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941), Gregory Arkadin in _Confidential Report (1955)_, Detective Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil (1958)) who, in classic Shakespearean style, are unmade by their own vices. Known for his use of low camera angles, tracking shots, deep focus and elaborate crane shots in his films. Trivia (82) Once ate 18 hot dogs in one sitting at Pink's, a Los Angeles hot dog stand. Welles' Oscar statuette sold for $861,542, when it was auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Memorabilia on December 20, 2011. H.G. Wells was driving through San Antonio, Texas, and stopped to ask the way. The person he happened to ask was none other than Welles', who had recently broadcast "The War of the Worlds" on the radio. They got on well and spent the day together. ABC-TV wanted him to play Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island (1977), but the series' producer, Aaron Spelling , insisted on Ricardo Montalban . He died on the same day as his The Battle on the River Neretva (1969) co-star Yul Brynner : October 10, 1985. Ashes are buried inside an old well covered by flowers, within the rural property of the now-deceased, then-retired bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez , Ronda, Malaga, Spain. One of only six actors to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his first screen appearance. The other five actors are: Paul Muni , Lawrence Tibbett , Alan Arkin , James Dean and Montgomery Clift . On October 30, 1938, he directed "The Mercury Theatre On the Air" in a dramatization of "The War of the Worlds", based on H.G. Wells ' novel. Setting the events in then-contemporary locations (The "landing spot" for the Martian invasion, Grover's Mill, New Jersey, was chosen at random with a New Jersey road map) and dramatizing it in the style of a musical program interrupted by news bulletins, complete with eyewitness accounts, it caused a nationwide panic, with many listeners f

On which special day did Charlie Chaplin die in 1977?

Charlie Chaplin Dead at 88; Made the Film an Art Form Charlie Chaplin Dead at 88; Made the Film an Art Form By BOSLEY CROWTHER harlie Chaplin, the poignant little tramp with the cane and comic walk who almost single-handedly elevated the novelty entertainment medium of motion pictures into art, died peacefully yesterday at his home in Switzerland. He was 88 years old. Sir Charles -- he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1975 -- died at 4 A.M., a few hours before his family's traditional Christmas celebration was to begin. His wife, Oona, daughter of the playwright Eugene O'Neill, and seven of their children were at the bedside when the comedian died. A daughter, the actress Geraldine Chaplin, was in Madrid making a film, but left immediately to join her family at the Chaplin home at Corsiersur-Vevey, a village near the eastern tip of the Lake of Geneva. "All the presents were under the tree," Lady Chaplin told a caller, adding, "Charlie gave so much happiness and, although he had been ill for a long time, it is so sad that he should have passed away on Christmas day." "He died of old age," said Dr. Henri Perrier, the Chaplin family physician. "His death was peaceful and calm." A source close to the family said Sir Charles had been given oxygen because of breathing trouble in recent days. In a statement, Lady Chaplin said the funeral would be private and restricted to the immediate family. A family spokesman said the funeral might be held in England but that burial would probably be in Switzerland, Sir Charles's home since his self-imposed exile from the United States in 1952. Sir Charles had been in failing health for many years. He was confined to a wheelchair and his speech, hearing and sight were impaired. During the last year, he left his secluded 20-room villa only for an occasional drive into Vevey with his wife. Local people caught an occasional glimpse of the famous actor waiting in his blue-and-silver Rolls- Royce while his wife, 35 year his junior, purchased English newspapers and magazines, which she read to him later. His last public appearance took place last fall when he attended a circus performance in Vevey. He wore a soft hat pulled down over his forehead and thick-lensed glasses that hid most of his face. He shook hands with one of the clowns at the end of the performance. No motion picture actor so captured and enthralled the world as did Charles Spencer Chaplin, a London ragamuffin who became an immortal artist for his deft and effective humanization of man's tragicomic conflicts with fate. In more than 80 movies from 1914 to 1967, he either portrayed or elaborated (he was a writer and director as well as an actor) the theme of the little fellow capriciously knocked about by life, but not so utterly battered that he did not pick himself up in the hope that the next encounter would turn out better. His harassed but gallant Everyman was the Little Tramp, part clown, part social outcast, part philosopher. He was "forever seeking romance, but his feet won't let him," Chaplin once explained, indicating that romance connoted not so much courtship as the fulfillment of fancy. Stumble Chaplin's Everyman might, but he always managed to maintain his dignity and self-respect. Moreover, he sometimes felled a Goliath through superb agility, a little bit of luck and a touch of pluck. There was pathos to the Little Tramp, yet he really did not want to be pitied. The essence of Chaplin's humor was satire, sometimes subtle as in "The Kid" and "The Gold Rush," sometimes acerbic as in "The Great Dictator" and "Monsieur Verdoux." "The human race I prefer to think of as the underworld of the gods," he said. "When the gods go slumming they visit the earth." And what they saw mostly was uncelestial folly. In ridiculing that folly Chaplin displayed a basic affection for the human race. He was serious and funny at the same time, and it was this blend of attitudes that elevated his comedy beyond film slapstick into the realm of artistry. Rebounding From Adversity A serious theme in "

In Mork and Mindy, what was the Orkan phrase for 'Goodbye'?

TV ACRES: Quotations > Languages & Phrases > Science Fiction > Orkan Language (Mork & Mindy)   Sci-Fi Languages & Phrases Orkan Language - Robin Williams played Mork , a zany alien from the planet Ork, who visited Earth on the sci-fi comedy MORK AND MINDY/ABC/1978-82. Mindy McConnell and Mork from Ork The following is a list of a few Orkan words with translations: Bleem  - Distance of a billion light years or 2000 earth years on the planet Ork Brandels or Grebbels - Orkan money Frizbat - Capital of Planet Ork Gleek Recharging Device - Shaped like a small egg used by Mork to recharge his life force every 2000 years Kayo - Okay Krell  - a period of time-5000 Earth years Nimnul - Dummy or Idiot

Amilcar Cabral international airport is in which country?

A-Z World Airports Online - Cape Verde airports - Amilcar Cabral International Airport (SID/GVAC) Amilcar Cabral International Airport (SID/GVAC) Sal Airport, Cape Verde, PO Box 58, Espargos, Sal Island, Cape Verde Sal Airport, Cape Verde, Airport Administration, Espargos, Sal Island, Cape Verde Tel: +238 241 1394, +238 241 1468, +238 241 1135, +238 241 1309 Tel: (Operations) +238 241 1372 Fax: (Pres Board Directors) +238 241 1570 Fax: (Finance and Planning) +238 241 1323 email: Managing Director: Americo Medina +238 00 238 991 9363 Operations Director: Paulino Brito Cargo Manager: Nidia Spencer Lima Air Traffic Controller: Jose Cabral Security Manager: João Monteiro +238 00 238 991 2804 Operator: ASA S.A Airport Data: International, Espargos 2km (1mile), Position 16°44´29"N, 022°56´58"W, Elevation 54m (177ft), 24 hours, 1 Passenger Terminal, 1 Cargo Terminal, 5 Aircraft Stands Customs Tel: +238 241 1222 Fax: +238 241 1222 Espargos Customs Director: Joao Teixeira Traffic Airfield Data: 2 Runways, Fire Category 9 Emergency Services: SOSS Noise Restrictions: None Aircraft Maintenance: Minor Repairs Runway 1: Heading 01/19, 3 272m (10 734ft), PCN 58/F/A/W/T, ICAO Cat. E, Aircraft size max: B747, Lighting: Approach CAT II, PAPI Runway 2: Heading 07/25, 1 500m (4 921ft), PCN 58/F/A/W/T, ICAO Cat. C, Aircraft size max: B747, No Lighting Cargo Facilities: Capacity 4 020tonnes (8 862,000lbs), Bonded Warehouse, Transit Zone, Domestic Cargo Only, Free Port/Foreign Trade Zone, Mechanical Handling, Refrigerated Storage, Deep Freeze Storage, Fresh Meat Inspection, Health Officials, X-Ray Equipment, Express/Courier Centre, Handling Equipment: 7 loaders, 8 goods-lifts Passenger Facilities: 9 check-in desks, 4 gates, 1 baggage claim belt, short term parking spaces, long term parking spaces, Min. Connection Times Intl-Intl: 60mins, Dom-Intl: 60mins, Dom-Dom: 30mins, Post Office, Bank, Auto Exchange Machine, Restaurants, Cafeterias, Bars, VIP Lounge, Duty Free Shop, Newsagent/Tobacconist, Gift Shop, Travel Agent, Tourist Help Desk, Car Rental, Taxi Service/Rank, First Aid Branch Offices -

In 1993, Michael Jackson give his first TV interview in 14 years with which talk show presenter?

From The 'Oprah Show' Archives: Michael Jackson Shares His Life Purpose In 1993 (VIDEO) | The Huffington Post From The 'Oprah Show' Archives: Michael Jackson Shares His Life Purpose In 1993 (VIDEO) 06/25/2014 10:49 am ET | Updated Jun 25, 2014 220 OWN Wednesday marks the fifth anniversary of Michael Jackson's tragic sudden death in his home at age 50. As Jackson family members and fans around the world pay tribute the late pop star, his legacy lives on through his children , music and rare candid interviews about his complicated life, like the one he gave Oprah in 1993. Back then, Jackson had invited Oprah to his California home, Neverland Ranch, for his first interview in more than 14 years. During the conversation, the King of Pop revealed his deepest desire and life's purpose. In the above video from "The Oprah Show" archives, Oprah asked Jackson what it feels like to have legions of loyal fans screaming for him and cheering wildly when he performs. "[It feels like] love," Jackson told her. "I feel lots of love. I feel blessed and honored to be able to be an instrument of nature that was chosen to give them that." Giving the world music, he added, was why he was put on this earth. "My purpose, I think, [is] to give in the best way I can -- through song, through dance, through music," Jackson said. "I am committed to my art." Jackson explained that art in any form acts as a union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. "I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art, and I feel I was chosen as an instrument to give music and love and harmony to the world," he told Oprah. "What do you want the world to know about you most?" Oprah asked. Jackson answered that he wanted to be known for being a great artist. "I love when I do and I love people to love what I do," he said. "I just simply want to be loved, wherever I go." More on Michael Jackson:

Where is the University of Delaware located?

Location | English Language Institute Request an Appointment (for students only) Location The University of Delaware is located in Newark, Delaware, a quiet, safe, and friendly college town of 30,000 people. Newark is two hours by car or train from Washington, DC and New York City (170 km) and one hour from Philadelphia and Baltimore (80 km). Nearby recreational areas on the Atlantic Ocean and in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania offer students a variety of summer and winter activities.

Which composer was born on exactly the same day as TV evangelist Pat Robertson?

Landmark Birthdays | Who2 Frank Sinatra ‘Gave Men License to Cry’ December 12, 2015 | By Fritz Holznagel Frank Sinatra is 100 years old today, and Stephen Holden has a terrific notebook that captures so many truths about the man. Holden runs through a recap of all the ….. Joe Biden is 70! Where Will He Be When He’s 82? November 20, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel The cheerful vice president was born in Scranton on November 20th of 1942. Will he become the oldest first-time president in 2017? The Chuck Jones Centennial: Here It Comes, Doc! September 17, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel Chuck Jones, the celebrated director of Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote and the Grinch, was born on this week in 1912. July 23, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel An daring life, seen in nine good photos. A Blast From Paul McCartney’s Past: Rare Photos and Go-Kart Love June 18, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel For Sir Paul’s 70th birthday, The Guardian goes to its archives and a Manhattan gallery shows some grand old photos. May 15, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel The man who filmed President Kennedy’s shooting would be 107 this year; his camera turns 50. Packy the Elephant is Now 50 April 23, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel The Oregon Zoo’s star elephant was born the same year as Tom Cruise and King Abdullah of Jordan. And he gets more cake than either one. February 7, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel What do they have in common? Crazy old Camden Town. The Big Big Birthdays of 2012 January 1, 2012 | By Fritz Holznagel Which creepy Roman celebrates his 2000th birthday this year? Which author turns 200? Which action star hits 50? Answers after the jump. The Bush Twins are 30 Years Old November 25, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Gee, they were only 18 when their dad was elected president. Now the Bush Twins have turned 30.  Tempus fugits itself once again. November 9, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel The smiling, singing ‘Mary’ of Peter, Paul and Mary was born 75 years ago on this day. October 31, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Peter Jackson is hugging stuffed dogs, directing The Hobbit, and turning 50.   Hard Hats and Hisahito: This Week in Biographies September 5, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel It’s not clear who to thank for Labor Day, but we give it a shot. Also: a Japanese prince turns 5, a Pretenders princess turns 60, and it’s quite clear who’s responsible for the only presidential baby ever born in the White House.Read it all >> How Many Other Presidents Turned 50 in Office? August 4, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Barack Obama turns 50 years old on this very day.  Question: How many other U.S. presidents have turned 50 while in office?  Take a guess, and we’ll give you the answer after this roll call. Barack Obama: A Birthday Timeline August 4, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Ever think to yourself as a kid, “Gee, I wonder where I’ll be when I’m 50?”If you’re Barack Obama, the answer to that question turned out to be: “In the White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, as the duly-elected President of the United States.” Peter O’Toole Still Hasn’t Hit 80 August 2, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Distinguished actor Peter O’Toole turns 79 years old today. He was born in 1932, which practically seems like yesterday. Beatrix Potter Sesquicentennial -5 July 28, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Happy 145th birthday, Beatrix Potter.  Love you, babe!You were born the same year as Butch Cassidy and H.G. Wells. Koko’s Winning Gorilla Haiku July 5, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Yesterday we mentioned the haiku contest being held to celebrate the 40th birthday of Koko, the sign-language gorilla.The Gorilla Foundation has now announced the winning haiku:Get your stinking pawsOff me, you damned dirty ape July 1, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Amazing: Princess Diana would be turning just 50 today. June 2, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel It happens today! May 27, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Hubert H. Humphrey was born 100 years ago today. Bob Dylan Turns 70: Three Photos May 24, 2011 | By Fritz Holznagel Bob Dylan turns 70 today.  Is it wrong to say that he seems older than that?Here’s how he looked in the acoustic 1960s…… electrified on his 1978 “Street Legal” w

Who was the last undisputed boxing world heavyweight champion before Mike Tyson?

Mike Tyson and 5 Other Heavyweights Who Carried on for Too Long | Bleacher Report Mike Tyson and 5 Other Heavyweights Who Carried on for Too Long By Rob Lancaster , Featured Columnist Jun 11, 2015 Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse the slideshow SUSAN WALSH/Associated Press Comments Mike Tyson was given the nickname "The Baddest Man on the Planet" for a reason. In his prime, he was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. He won his first 37 professional fights, the vast majority of them inside the distance. He was a fearsome puncher, but the one opponent Iron Mike couldn't beat was Father Time. Financial problems (Tyson had to file for bankruptcy ) forced him to carry on his career when he was well past his peak, leading to defeats that tarnished both his record and reputation. On June 11, 2005, the American quit on his stool against Kevin McBride. It was the end of the line—he retired after his 58th fight, a shadow of the man who had once dominated the division. However, Tyson is not the only heavyweight who opted to keep extending their careers beyond their expiry date.  Here we look at five big men who, like Tyson, carried on boxing when their best years were behind them. (Warning: The above video contains profanity). Evander Holyfield was an undisputed champion at cruiserweight before making the move up. As a heavyweight he was just as dominant, at one stage holding the IBF, WBA and WBC titles. He registered two wins over Mike Tyson, albeit the second of them came about due to a disqualification after he had been bitten by his rival. However, an ageing Holyfield was well over the hill by the time he was beaten by former middleweight world champion James Toney (more on him to come) in 2003. The problem was, though, that the Real Deal needed to keep going for financial reasons. He lost nearly all of his earnings, telling Martha Kelner of the Daily Mail: "You make a lot of money but you don’t know how money works, you don’t know how to calculate. I gave more than I should have. I gave, gave, gave. People talk you into doing things that you’re not accustomed to doing." Carrying on to cover maintenance payments for his 11 children, Holyfield fought until he was 48 years old. He actually finished with a win, beating Brian Nielsen in Denmark, meaning his final record stood at 44-10-2 with one no-contest. Tweet James Toney started out at middleweight but worked his way all the way up to the top division. Lights Out had appeared to follow in the footsteps of Bob Fitzsimmons and long-time rival Roy Jones Jr. in moving through the ranks to win a world title at heavyweight. However, his victory over John Ruiz for the WBA title was later changed to a no-contest by the New York State Athletic Commission after Toney tested positive for a banned substance. He returned after a 90-day ban but defeats began to pile up. There were two in a row to Samuel Peter, while a trip to Russia to take on Denis Lebedev saw him shut out on the scorecards. Toney carried on fighting until 2013, his last appearance coming as a contestant in the Prizefighter series in England. At the age of 45, the American came through a quarter-final against Matt Legg before losing to compatriot Jason Gavern on points. It was a sorry sight to see him as the shell of the man who had been so dominant in the early years, albeit at a lighter weight.  Larry Holmes Holly Stein/Getty Images Larry Holmes was 42 when he lost to Evander Holyfield in 1992. It would be another decade before the Easton Assassin would finally hang up his gloves. A victory over Eric "Butterbean" Esch was the final chapter in Holmes' never-ending story, meaning the man with the meanest left jab, per T homas Gerbasi of boxingscene.com, finished with a 69-6 (44 KO) record. He had won his first 48 professional fights, only falling short of equalling Rocky Marciano's 49-0 mark when he lost to Michael Spinks in 1985. A rematch saw Holmes fail to regain the IBF title after an extremely close fight, and he decided to call it quits. Holmes said after the second loss to Spinks, per the LA Times :

Which country's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 forced Haile Selassie to flee?

1935-1980s: The reign of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia Home 1935-1980s: The reign of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia A critical look at the rule of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, regarded by many as progressive, and by some as God incarnate! Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (full title "His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of Kings and Elect of God") has almost universally been remembered as a kindly benefactor, yet the evidence suggesting otherwise is overwhelming. It is argued that he implemented many reforms in his country and Rastafarians believe him to be God incarnate - as prophesied by Marcus Garvey - but how justified are these suggestions? If we take as starting point Fascist Italy's invasion of Ethiopia we find Selassie fleeing to Britain in a brave attempt to rally support for his country. Garvey pointed out that he "ran away from his country to England, leaving his people to be massacred by the Italians" (Marcus Garvey, The Failure of Haile Selassie as Emperor, Black Man - London, March/April 1937). He remained in Bath for the duration of the war, but on returning to take his place on the throne he became paranoid about the partisans who had stayed and fought the Italians, fearing their bravery and preferring obsequiousness. Thus, they were gradually removed from positions of authority and replaced with those who had collaborated with the Italians as he knew they could be easily kept in line and would be open to the methods Selassie used to control his dignitaries. Selassie's methods of asserting and achieving and maintaining power involved breeding an atmosphere of distrust and corruption, where government officials would inform on each other in a constant vying for power, each wanting to be noticed and promoted by the Emperor, as the financial rewards could be great. Ethiopia had much in common with any other capitalist society. For instance, starving peasants felt themselves privileged to even see a rich person in the flesh (shades of the homeless in Britain grieving over a recently deceased Princess). To achieve this state of affairs, Selassie would throw crumbs to the poor and bribe the rich. An example of this was his practice of throwing coppers to the poor to celebrate his birthday each year. That is why it is preferable for the Abyssinian Negroes and the Negroes of the world to work for the restoration and freedom of the country without the assistance of Haile Selassie, because at best he is but a slave master. The Negroes of the Western World whose forefathers suffered for three hundred years under the terrors of slavery ought to be able to appreciate what freedom means. Surely they cannot feel justified in supporting any system that would hold their brothers in slavery in another country whilst they are enjoying the benefits of freedom elsewhere. The Africans who are free can also appreciate the position of slaves in Abyssinia. What right has the Emperor to keep slaves when all the democratic sections of the world were free, when men had the right to live, to develop, to expand, to enjoy all the benefits of human liberty[?] (Garvey, 1937) Always Selassie had to exercise absolute control, punishing those who undermined his authority, two examples being Prince Imru and Tekele Wolda Hawariat. Prince Imru gave some of his lands to the peasantry without the Emperors permission and as a result he was exiled form Ethiopia for twenty years for "disloyalty". Tekele Hawariat, a celebrated war hero, refused bribes and special privileges and so was imprisoned and finally executed by decapitation. If Selassie couldn't have someone in the palm of his hand then he would get rid of them. Progressive The image Selassie liked to project to the West was always one of being somehow progressive. To this end many youngsters were sent abroad to be educated, though when they returned Selassie's megalomania and greed meant that this education could never be employed to initiate any reforms in the country. Yet, as we have said, Selassie is remembered by many as a great reforme

Who directed the 1951 classic movie The Day The Earth Stood Still?

‎The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) directed by Robert Wise • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd 2 A message movie that really works. The message being - that our first response to the unknown is often fear and prejudice, not reason or understanding. To the visiting spaceman Klaatu played by the great stony faced Michael Rennie - his mission is to warn us of this potentially dangerous emotional flaw before it results in the destruction of all people, then Earth. It's simplistically told. All scenes are free of script fat: making their points quickly, serving the overall narrative efficiently before deftly moving on to the next. It's a masterclass of focused storytelling. What's surprising to me on this re-watch though, is that the only element that really dates the movie (other than Gort's flexible 'metal' pants) is… Gort! Klaatu barada nikto! -Helen Robert Wise might have been criticized during his career for never challenging the studios and perhaps being a bit too much of a "team player" but as Hollywood directors go you'd be hard-pressed to find another studio director that could dabble in ALL genres while turning out not only successful films, but films that have stood the test of time. Here Wise and screenwriter Edmund H. North turnout not just a memorable movie, but a landmark film in science-fiction. In an age of goofy-ass flying saucer films The Day the Earth Stood Still stands out because despite it's simplistic nature actually works on different levels. On purpose no less. That's actually something a lot of… 3 There have been some high moments in early science fiction since Georges Méliès released Le Voyage dans la Lune, and through the close of the 1950’s, notably Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and William Cameron Menzies’ 1936 adaptation of H.G. Well’s The Shape of Things to Come; both social criticism guised in the clothing of a futuristic world, the tenant of true hard sci-fi. The majority of films classified loosely in the genre were nothing much more than monster, war, or westerns set in outer space; the staple of the drive-in, the Saturday Double Feature, and later, 60’s Saturday afternoon TV fodder; which is exactly where I first encountered the form. Sci-Fi seemed to explode in the late 40’s and 50’s with… Review by Sally Jane Black 3 Gort is beautiful. That chrome shine and faceless visage, that fluid and human movement, that cold white dome. He's sometimes menacing, sometimes distant, sometimes unnerving, but he's always beautiful to behold. This absurd belief that these beings need to look "realistic" is what leads us to this unending parade of bad animation and CGI, these lifeless, soulless creations that suck all of the creativity and grace out of our aliens, robots, and monsters. You demand perfection, and you get ill-gotten computers trying to replicate human artistry. Fuck that. Gort is fucking beautiful. Yeah, it's a man in a suit. Yeah, you can tell especially when he walks. It just makes it better. It's jarring to see those legs bend like… 11 With "The Day the Earth Stood Still," director, Robert Wise, offers a stately, controlled science fiction vision with zero hint of the B-movie sensibilities often associated with genre offerings of the era. Serious and weighty, the film is both a document to the fears of the past and piece of work with still timely importance. Its premise is simple: a man from space comes to Earth with a dire warning regarding its future. Humankind must find peace or face its eventual destruction. Of course, humankind mucks everything up by, literally, shooting the messenger, forcing him to live among Washington D.C.'s humans and spreading his message. The story provides an outsider's view of humanity along with that outsider's necessary message. Wise's… 2 Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still plays like an interesting sci-fi and a cautionary tale about world peace. The story written by Harry Bates and adapted to the screen by Edmund H. North shows us how visitors from another planet might see our selfish ways. How someone from the outside looking in might see our plan

Who wrote the novel The Left Hand Of Darkness?

Left Hand of Darkness - Study Guide :: THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS: ITS PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION :: Male dominance. The first science fiction novel, it is largely agreed, was written by a woman, Mary Shelley, the daughter of the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the wife of the English romantic poet Shelley. She wrote Frankenstein in 1818 when she was only nineteen. However, the field has since been dominated by male writers who have made the domain of science fiction almost exclusively male. Indeed, in his book Billion Year Spree - The True History of Science Fiction, Brian Aldiss describes the genre as an "all-male escapist power fantasy" and calls its writers "Philistine-male-chauvinist pigs" who work in the "Ghetto of Retarded Boyhood." Immature heroes. The heroes that these male writers created were generally immature men seeking to remain forever young and powerful, playing with imaginative and powerful toys, hoping to escape from girls or women, mothers or wives, as well as to avoid the responsibilities of a demanding reality, enclosing themselves in their exclusive men's club. Female heroine followers. Needless to say, all these heroes were virile males served by their followers, the female characters. With all their invention and often daring imagination, these writers failed to explore alternative roles for women in a future society. Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, the lions in the genre, had hardly any place for women in their fantasies. Other writers who did employ female characters pictured the relationships between the heroes and their women largely along the same lines as did the existing society: women as assistants to men, women in the role of entertaining dolls. A classic example is the story "Helen O'Loy" by Lester del Rey (1938) which features a man who builds a robot programmed to be a perfect wife. These writers, naturally, aimed their stories mainly at male readers, mostly young boys who often stopped reading science fiction novels once they grew up. No women writers. In her fine introduction to Women of Wonder, Pamela Sargent, herself a prolific science-fiction writer, calls traditional science fiction "an escapist literature for men and boys." She claims that women have traditionally been discouraged from entering scientific and technological fields, based on two assumptions: first, that women lack the aptitude, and second, that they are essentially intuitive rather than rational, and are "hostile to any kind of intellectual exploration." Few women dared to invade the field and even when they did, they imitated their male colleagues. Catherine Moore, for example, wrote from the male point of view, "a necessity," Pamela Sargent explains, "for anyone who wished to publish in the pulp magazines which had dominated American sf since the 1920s." Change. A change began to take place after World War II, when some women science-fiction writers joined the field. However, they too, like their male colleagues, usually presented housewife heroines, passive, naive, ignorant child-raisers, who solve problems not through their intelligence and daring but through ineptitude or accident. Only in the 1960s, a decade that gave birth to much questioning of conventions as well as to many social revolutions (including feminism), women science-fiction writers began to question the very nature of science fiction, and as a result, took it in a completely new direction: software replaced hardware, human relationships replaced technology, social science took the place of the physical sciences. Substance and emotional content introduced depth and meaning into what had often been flat, boy scouts' literature. Women writers. In 1973 Brian Aldiss said that much of the best writing in science fiction of that time was done by women who brought the genre closer to mainstream fiction. Although there was still much "Sword-and-Sorcery" writing in the market, the best of science fiction is more reality-oriented, reflected in better and more careful writing, better characterization, and more diversity of subjects. Although muc

What is Neil Simon's real first name?

Neil Simon - Biography - IMDb Neil Simon Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (5) | Trivia  (23) | Personal Quotes  (7) Overview (4) 6' 1½" (1.87 m) Mini Bio (1) Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA as Marvin Neil Simon. He is a writer and producer, known for The Odd Couple (1968), Your Show of Shows (1950) and The Odd Couple (1970). He has been married to Elaine Joyce since September 11, 1999. He was previously married to Diane Lander , Marsha Mason and Joan Baim. Spouse (5) ( 10 September  1953 - 17 July  1973) (her death) (2 children) Trivia (23) Almost every one of his 30-plus plays, mostly Broadway comedies, has also been adapted into a motion picture-- the greatest such achievement of any playwright/author, even surpassing William Shakespeare As a result, Simon has received more Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer in the history of show business. Received newly established 'Apple Award' from The Nederlander Company and Wayne State University. Named in honor of Sarah Applebaum Nederlander, who was known affectionately as 'Apple', the Apple Award will be presented annually to a nationally recognized theatre professional who has made significant contributions in his or her field. The Nederlander's and WSU established the award this year in celebration of the Fisher Theatre's 40th anniversary. [November 2001] Children: daughters Ellen, Nancy by Joan Baim; Bryn (adopted) with Diane Lander . He loves playing tennis. He has became so successful financially that he backs his own plays. His brother, Danny Simon , actually started writing the "The Odd Couple" but was not able to finish it. He asked Neil to take it over, and Neil did in exchange for sole author credit. However, he continued to pay Danny 10% of everything the property generated. The Alvin Theater at 250 W. 52nd Street on Broadway was renamed the Neil Simon Theater on June 23, 1983. 2004: Received kidney transplant donated by Bill Eveans, his publicist. His play, "Laughter on the 23rd Floor", was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best New Comedy of 1996. He won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize for "Lost In Yonkers" in 1991. Has won two Tony Awards as author of Best Play winners: in 1985 for "Biloxi Blues" and in 1991 for "Lost in Yonkers." Additionally, he has been Tony-nominated an impressive 15 times: in 1963, as Best Author (Musical) and book for Best Musical nominee "Little Me," in 1964, as author of Best Play nominee "Barefoot in the Park;" in 1965, as Best Author (Dramatic) and author of Best Play nominee "The Odd Couple;" in 1966, for book of Best Musical nominee "Sweet Charity;" in 1968, as author of Best Play nominee "Plaza Suite;" in 1969, for book for Best Musical nominee "Promises, Promises;" in 1970, as author of Best Play nominee "Last of the Red Hot Lovers;" in 1972, as author of Best Play nominee "The Prisoner of Second Avenue;" in 1973, as author of Best Play nominee "The Sunshine Boys;" in 1974, as Best Score, his lyrics with Peter Link 's music, for "The Good Doctor;" in 1978, as author of Best Play nominee "Chapter Two;" in 1979, as Best Book (Musical) for "They're Playing Our Song;" and in 1987, as author of Best Play nominee "Broadway Bound." Received the 2006 Mark Twain prize on October 15, 2006 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Neil Simon was nominated for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Broadway Bound" and the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play "Lost in Yonkers". Practiced Shaolin Qi Gong with Shaolin Warrior Monk Shi Yan Fan in Sherman Oaks before he moved to New York. Based his play 'The Odd Couple' on his brother Danny's divorce. He actually wrote two versions of it. The more famous version features Oscar Madison and Felix Ungar, and is written primarily for a male cast. The other one changes the leads to two women - Olive Madison and Florence Ungar. In 1966 Simon had four shows playing in Broadway theaters at the same time: 'Sweet Charity', 'The Star-Spangled Girl', 'The Odd Couple', and 'Barefoot

Augusto C Sandino international airport is in which country?

Augusto C. Sandino (Managua) International - Nicaragua gigi brenes January 27, 2015 at 10:13 pm AMAZING airport. I was very pleased; everything was very professional and this is by far the BEST airport I’ve been to, and trust me I’ve been to many; it left me thrilled and I suggest people go there. I love that place and I WILL go there as much as I possibly can. The place is the best and it totally deserves a 10000000000000000 or higher rate :-) International Managua Jay Coleman December 20, 2008 at 1:23 pm Great airport for the size of the country and the number of airlines that operate in Nicaragua, I do travel around the world and landed in several airports before and am pleased with two airports: Dubai and Managua. But what makes Managua one my favorite is the way they welcome you if you are using VIP services; it is amazing, not delay and they expedite the process so we can get meet with you family and friends, great reception after several trips all I can say: job well done, keep up the good work. Sandino International Richard Becton July 19, 2008 at 4:40 am For a private pilot flying in, the hurdles are daunting. They have a different system in place in Nicaragua than most other countries. There are services available, and fuel available, as well as all ground handling services. The parking fee for small airplanes is $5 US per day, and it will be collected. Filing a flight plan can be done, but patience is a virtue and a necessity to navigate the security issues. MGA Sergio Diaz October 23, 2007 at 10:02 pm This mornings departure from Managua was the worst airport experience ever. I understand airport security and their procedures, but they searched me, my wife and drop off and carry-on luggages repeatedly over (4 times) every stop/ every check point for no necessary and inexcusable reason. Even the spirit ticket rep was unprofessional and rude. I’ve traveled all over the world, Caribbean and Europe by boat and plane but this is by far the worst experience/service ever and believe me, I would spread this terrible experience to everyone that’s going to this airport. Managua International Airport

What was the second Oscar Hammerstein show to win the Pulitzer Prize?

Oscar Hammerstein II — Listen for free on Spotify Oscar Hammerstein II Play on Spotify During the '40s and '50s, lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II and composer Richard Rodgers were the most successful composing team on Broadway, writing several long-running shows that were eventually made into movie musicals. Hammerstein was also the second most prolific lyricist of the 20th century, second only to Irving Berlin . Born into a show business family in N.Y.C. on July 12, 1895, as Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein, he later dropped his middle names and adopted the "II." The grandfather he was named after was a theater builder and opera company director, and the lyricist's father worked as the manager of a historic vaudeville theater in New York. As a young man, Hammerstein attended Columbia University and law school and took part in school plays. He later became stage manager in his uncle Arthur's theater and tried his hand -- unsuccessfully -- at writing screenplays. Hammerstein co-wrote songs for Broadway during the '20s with lyricist Otto Harbach, including Showboat (1928) and Sweet Adeline (1929). He also collaborated with many composers over the years, including George Gershwin and Jerome Kern , but his most prolific and successful period was with composer Richard Rodgers . They teamed up after Rodgers' songwriting partner, Lorenz Hart, became ill and died in 1943. From this time until a year before Hammerstein's passing in 1960, Rodgers & Hammerstein were unmatched creators of smash hit Broadway musicals. Their first big hit was 1943's Oklahoma!, for which they received a Pulitzer Prize. The duo received another Pulitzer for 1949's South Pacific. Rodgers & Hammerstein were also responsible for such wildly successful musicals as The King & I (1951) and The Sound of Music (1959). Some of Hammerstein's best-known songs include "Ol' Man River," "Lover, Come Back to Me" (1928), "Why Was I Born?" (1929), "All the Things You Are" (1939), "People Will Say We're in Love" (1943), "Some Enchanted Evening" (1949), "Getting to Know You," and "My Favorite Things." Hammerstein produced many of the shows that he scored, and on some he didn't, including Annie Get Your Gun. He is also author of the book Lyrics. ~ Joslyn Layne, Rovi Read More Show less

Lionel Hampton played on which band until forming his own in1941?

Lionel Hampton/Oscar Peterson: The Complete Lionel Hampton Quartets and Quintets with Oscar Peterson on Verve - JazzTimes    By Jack Sohmer Lionel Hampton/Oscar Peterson: The Complete Lionel Hampton Quartets and Quintets with Oscar Peterson on Verve When Lionel Hampton left Benny Goodman in 1940 to form his own big band, he was only following in a line recently established by Goodman’s other star soloists, Gene Krupa, Harry James, and Teddy Wilson. But despite the presence of Ben Webster and some excellent arrangements, Teddy’s band failed within a year; Gene’s did not begin to take off until he nabbed Roy Eldridge and Anita O’Day in 1941; and Harry’s only began to see really big numbers when he shifted his emphasis to saccharine sweet ballads. By contrast, Hamp hit his public hard and heavy. Among the hip young jazzmen populating his first big band were Joe Newman, Fred Beckett, Dexter Gordon, and Illinois Jacquet, and in “Flying Home” and “Hamp’s Boogie Woogie” he nailed two hits which were to remain in his book forever after. At the time of the first session in this set, September 2, 1953, Hamp had just concluded a European tour with a band including Clifford Brown, Art Farmer, Jimmy Cleveland, Gigi Gryce, George Wallington, and other young boppers, so he was far from being unaware of recent trends in jazz when he confronted Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich in Verve’s New York studio. As a matter of fact, he is the consummate jazz improviser on all of the performances in this set, and, just as importantly, he retains his own sound and personality throughout, never once alluding to any of the other modern vibists, such as Red Norvo, Milt Jackson, and Terry Gibbs. Yet, in his use of straight rather than syncopated eighth-notes and certain boppish trademark phrasings, such as sixteenth-note triplets, he is clearly not the same musician he was in the ’30s. The play list of the 50 tracks, from the first session to the last (on September 15, 1954), consists almost entirely of Swing Era standards and the occasional “original” blues theme. However, the most striking performances occur on Disc 3, where clarinetist Buddy De Franco’s eight tracks remind us not so much of Hamp’s days with Benny as to how much his other recordings would have benefited from similar unions with stellar hornmen, most particularly Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, and Benny Carter, all of whom were available to Norman Granz’ Verve. Starting with the surprising way-up “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” upon which Hamp lays out, and the equally surprising down-tempo shift on the normally fast “The Way You Look Tonight,” DeFranco’s April 1954 session then goes on to an initially medium-paced and incrementally rushed 17-minute version of “Flying Home,” with the clarinetist’s tone taking on a raw but exciting harshness. “These Foolish Things,” by way of contrast, exemplifies both the best and worst of Buddy’s playing at this time: while he was the most adept of all modern jazz clarinetists in capturing the stylistic and technical nuances of Dizzy and Bird, what he sacrificed in tonal purity lost him the respect of many lovers of the instrument. On “Don’t Be That Way,” for example, he plays his lines as though he were playing alto or trumpet rather than clarinet, but, to his ongoing credit, Buddy ultimately overcame this problem. Today, 45 years later, he can still waste most of his juniors at playing incendiary bop clarinet. Other tunes on this disc are the heated “Dinah,” “On the Sunny Side of the Street,” and Hamp’s “Je Ne Sais Pas,” a medium-tempoed boppish swinger. Also deserving of praise, considering their reputations as widely popular soloists in their own right, are Peterson, Brown, Rich, and, on the final session, guitarist Herb Ellis, all of whom function in their roles as accompanists as the complete musicians they have always been. While Peterson is the most prominent soloist among the rhythm men, special commendation has to go to Rich for keeping his notorious ego in check and just doing his

In what year was indoor handball introduced as an Olympic event for men?

Handball - Summer Olympic Sport Handball Victoire surprenante des Françaises - London 2012 - Handball 01 Jan 0001 Handball is a fast-paced team game that was first played in Scandinavia and Germany at the end of the 19th century. European origins The modern game of handball was first played towards the end of the 19th century in Scandinavia and Germany. Field handball was first recognised at the turn of the century and G. Wallström introduced the sport of "handball" to Sweden in 1910. First competition The International Amateur Handball Federation (IAHF) was set up in 1928 on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, leading to the first Field Handball World Championships being played in Germany in 1938, following its appearance at the 1936 Berlin Games. Rival codes Between 1938 and 1966 both forms of handball were played at separate World Championships: an outdoor, 11-a-side game played on a football pitch and a new 7-a-side indoor version preferred by the Scandinavians. Olympic history After 1936, field handball was no longer played at the Games, except as a demonstration sport in 1952 in Helsinki. Indoor handball was presented for the first time at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Yugoslavia was victorious and won the first gold medal after a competition between 16 men’s teams. The introduction of women’s handball to the Games took place in 1976 in Montreal. The Soviet Union won this first women’s Olympic competition, taking home two gold medals after the 11-team men’s competition and the six-team women’s one.

Which country does the airline Air Littoral come from?

Air Littoral .... Game Over - Airliners.net Airliners.net Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:21 am Even if it is not a surprise, now it is official: Air Littoral , the first airline I worked for, is dead. Their airline license has been revoked by the Transport minister, and they ceased operations Friday at midnight. I hope all the good profesionals of this airline will get jobs quickly. For those who read French, here is a link.(and if you have time, read the all story by clicking on the "infos" link.) Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:32 am Why do so many non-AF affiliated airlines fail? #3 Sun Feb 15, 2004 4:38 am Here, it has nothing to do with AF . It is the incompetence of the boss, and politics. (he is candidate for the next regional elections) Here is the link to the web site of a union that will provide a lot of analysis and links to various newspapers. (one again, only in French) Wed Feb 18, 2004 6:50 am and the reason why I'm today a airline enthusiastic is dead   well I'm still a airline enthusiastic but I'll never forget my first flight with Air Littoral   and due to all other reasons I won't write anything there are too many circumstances why they failed .... Good Bye Air Littoral, but you have a (virtual and plastic) place (the same model was shown on euronews when the announced that FU is dead) on my working place forever .... Wed Feb 18, 2004 7:33 am Why so many ex-Qualilfyer airlines fail ? Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:01 pm Konrad, there is a very simple explanation to that: SR strategy was to buy as many troubled airlines as they could, and managed them very poorly so that they become more and more troubled. For instance, in France, they tried to merge AOM, Airliberte and Air Littoral. But those 3 airlines had very little in common. As a result, losses increased, instead of decreasing. And they increased to the point that SR had to be grounded, the later SN , then AirLib, and now Air Littoral. After Friday's grounding by the Civil Aviation, the tribunal has pronounced the liquidation yesterday. And only 50 to 60 employees (working for Air littoral school) have saved their job . They were over 1000 last summer... Teva #7 Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:08 pm Shame about FU - I did their PNR migration from Atraxis to Amadeus, about 2 years ago. It was a good little airline, and they provided good connections from NCE to lots of secondary cities round Europe and in North Africa - those will be hard to replace. Maybe Easyjet will accept the inevitable and open a proper base in NCE (they have enough flights to/from NCE already to justify it) - the could add flights straight away to FCO, NAP, SXB, LIL, NTE, MAD, BCN, MUC, VCE. Lets just hope the Cote D'Azur Chamber of Commerce doesn't get desperate and make a deal with FR (shudders). [Edited 2004-02-18 15:12:52] Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:18 pm What's their fleet and what will happen to it? Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:43 pm They operated 17 Fokker 100s in the end. Swiss aviation news junkie living all over the place Wed Feb 18, 2004 11:47 pm 17 Fokker 100's ? Er, no. 17 CRJ Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:06 am Their website is not current. They had only the CRJs. The F70 and ATR have been removed from the fleet last yeart (Oct or Nov) Just for those who didn't know them, they have been the first airline in the world to operate the ATR42 Teva Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:10 am 4 of theirs ATR 42-500 were bought by EuroLOT in 2002. #13 Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:27 am I flew with these guys from Nice NCE to Calvi CLY in Corsica, wonderful short hop across some of the med. Great service, loved the "provencal" motifs. Wonder now how to get to CLY without going through Air France, that airline is the anti-christ of airtravel. You breathe to do good and have fun. #14 Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:45 am I think it's a little too easy to blame SR for FU 's closure and other qualiflyer group airlines' demise..... - FU was nice, but certainly poorly run by its French management. I don't think the airline ever posted a profit. -AOM/Air Lib were hopeless in the first place. SR or not! You just can't turn pigs into swans. These airlines never made a significant profit either,

In which country was Emilio Estevez born?

Emilio Estevez - IMDb IMDb Official Photos » Emilio Estevez was born on May 12, 1962, in New York City. He is the eldest son of actor Martin Sheen , who at the time was just breaking into the business. His mother, Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former New York art student who had met Emilio's father right after he had moved to Manhattan. Martin and Janet had three other children, Charlie ... See full bio » Born: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 36 people created 25 Apr 2012 a list of 30 people created 16 Aug 2013 a list of 42 people created 10 Jun 2014 a list of 29 people created 31 May 2015 a list of 43 people created 9 months ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Emilio Estevez's work have you seen? User Polls 4 wins & 10 nominations. See more awards  » Known For Men at Work James St. James (1990)  2012 Abominable Christmas (TV Movie) Mr. Winterbottom (voice)  1982 Making the Grade (TV Series) Dwayne  2010/I The Way (written for the screen by)  2006 Bobby (written by)  1990 Men at Work (written by)  1987 Wisdom (written by)  1995 The Jerky Boys (executive producer) Hide   2010/I The Way (additional photography) Hide   1996 The War at Home (performer: "Fuer Elise") Hide   2010 King's Man (additional thanks) Hide   2010-2011 The Hour (TV Series) Himself - Guest  2011 CBS News Sunday Morning (TV Series documentary) Himself - Guest  2011 Chelsea Lately (TV Series) Himself - Guest  2011 Tavis Smiley (TV Series) Himself - Guest  2011 Made in Hollywood (TV Series) Himself  2006-2011 Live! with Kelly (TV Series) Himself - Guest  2011 Sidewalks Entertainment (TV Series) Himself  2011 The One Show (TV Series) Himself  2010 Días de cine (TV Series) Himself  2010 El hormiguero (TV Series) Himself - Guest  2007 Film 2016 (TV Series) Himself  2006 Larry King Live (TV Series) Himself - Guest  2006 History in Focus (TV Series documentary) Himself - Episode #3.46 (2006) ... Himself - Guest  2006 Shootout (TV Series)  2006 Corazón de... (TV Series) Himself  2006 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) Himself  2005 Dude Room (TV Series) Himself  2003 E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series documentary) Himself  1996 The Single Guy (TV Series) Himself  1994 Saturday Night Live (TV Series) Himself - Host / Various - Emilio Estevez/Pearl Jam (1994) ... Himself - Host / Various  1994 Later (TV Series)  1989-1991 Good Morning America (TV Series) Himself - Guest  1990 America This Morning (TV Series) Himself  2015 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) Himself  2010 E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series documentary) Himself  2007 Biography (TV Series documentary) Himself Personal Details Other Works: Appeared in Bon Jovi 's music video, "Say It Isn't So", along with Matt LeBlanc , Claudia Schiffer and Arnold Schwarzenegger (2000). See more » Publicity Listings: 2 Print Biographies | 7 Interviews | 1 Article | 2 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Alternate Names: Did You Know? Personal Quote: What's the level of compromise for making that kind of money? How far do I have to sell my soul? What's the price of that? And I don't know if I want to make those kind of compromises any more. I think I'm a different person. I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot... See more » Trivia: Uncle of Sam Sheen , Lola Rose Sheen and Cassandra Sheen. See more » Trademark: As a film director, he often puts the most focus on the characters rather than the plot itself. See more » Star Sign:

Which brand had to apologize for a logo said to be like the Arabic for Allah?

MUSLIMS WANT NIKE TO APOLOGIZE : COUNCIL SAYS LOGO RESEMBLES ALLAH IN ARABIC SCRIPT. - Free Online Library MUSLIMS WANT NIKE TO APOLOGIZE : COUNCIL SAYS LOGO RESEMBLES ALLAH IN ARABIC SCRIPT. <a href="https://www.thefreelibrary.com/MUSLIMS+WANT+NIKE+TO+APOLOGIZE+%3a+COUNCIL+SAYS+LOGO+RESEMBLES+ALLAH+IN...-a083863678</a> Citations: Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. MUSLIMS WANT NIKE TO APOLOGIZE : COUNCIL SAYS LOGO RESEMBLES ALLAH IN ARABIC SCRIPT.." Retrieved Jan 02 2017 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/MUSLIMS+WANT+NIKE+TO+APOLOGIZE+%3a+COUNCIL+SAYS+LOGO+RESEMBLES+ALLAH+IN...-a083863678 APA style: MUSLIMS WANT NIKE TO APOLOGIZE : COUNCIL SAYS LOGO RESEMBLES ALLAH IN ARABIC SCRIPT.. (n.d.) >The Free Library. (2014). Retrieved Jan 02 2017 from https://www.thefreelibrary.com/MUSLIMS+WANT+NIKE+TO+APOLOGIZE+%3a+COUNCIL+SAYS+LOGO+RESEMBLES+ALLAH+IN...-a083863678 Byline: Donna Abu-Nasr Associated Press The Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded Wednesday that Nike Inc. apologize for using a logo on athletic shoes that resembles the word ``Allah'' in the Arabic script. Nike said the logo was meant to look like flames for a line of shoes to be sold this summer with the names Air Bakin', Air Melt, Air Grill and Air B-Que. The company said it caught the problem six months ago, long before the shoes went into production. A new logo separates the A in ``Air'' from the IR, Nike spokeswoman Vizhier Corpuz said. ``We absolutely regret any misunderstanding, and we regret that this appeared in retail stores,'' Corpuz said at Nike headquarters near Portland, Ore. ``We have changed the design to ensure that there's no confusion between the word `air' and any other word.'' ``Allah'' is Arabic for God, used by Muslims and Christian Arabs to refer to the deity. The Islamic council's executive director, Nihad Awad, insisted at a Washington news conference that the shoes have been seen at stores across the country, one pair in New Jersey as recently as Tuesday. Holding up a pair of black-and-white Nikes with the logo, which he said were bought recently in the Boston area, Awad demanded that the company investigate to determine whether ``there are people at the company who want to insult Muslims.'' In 1995, Nike removed a billboard near the University of Southern California that depicted a basketball player with the headline, ``They called him Allah.'' The Council on American-Islamic Relations had told Nike officials the billboard offended Muslims. Another leading athletic supplies manufacturer, Reebok International Ltd., was embarrassed in February to learn that the designation of its women's running shoe, ``Incubus,'' is the word for a mythical demon that preyed on sleeping women. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, calls on Nike to apologize. Associated Press COPYRIGHT 1997 Daily News No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder. Copyright 1997, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company. Article Details

What was the Blue Swede's only No 1 hit?

Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling (Guardians of the Galaxy - Music Trailer) - YouTube Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling (Guardians of the Galaxy - Music Trailer) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Feb 19, 2014 Blue Swede's, Hooked On A Feeling is the song that's been used on the trailer for the latest addition to Marvel cinematic universe in the Guardians of the Galaxy film. I DO NOT OWN ANY RIGHTS... ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTFUL OWNERS. Category

New York-born Sir Jacob Epstein worked in which branch of the arts?

Y by Mark Wallinger > View an interview with Mark Wallinger discussing Y   Further Information The University of Oxford and its constituent colleges have a long and distinguished history of commissioning the leading architects and artists of their day, from Sir Christopher Wren’s Sheldonian Theatre , which was erected to provide an appropriate secular venue for the principal meetings and public ceremonies of the University, to Sir Jacob Epstein’s haunting Lazarus in New College Chapel . There have been few opportunities for the finest artists in the 21st century, but this has now changed with Magdalen College’s 550th anniversary commission to Mark Wallinger. Wallinger’s Y is a two-faced sculpture formed in square section steel and has a silvery, metallic finish. It is positioned in the small clearing at the east end of Bat Willow Meadow among a mature stand of trees and faces westwards, towards the main College buildings, to reflect the setting sun of midsummer. Y alludes to the history of Magdalen College, its architecture and its deer, and the abundant vegetation in its grounds. "The bifurcating forks or tines," the artist explains, "are like the branches of the College’s ancestral tree or the antlers of the College deer. The repeated figure references divining rods, typically cut from the trees found in Bat Willow Meadow, and the structure echoes the Gothic tracery, which is present within the architecture of the College. The forks represent the life force - the encoded mathematics of creation, the order of things - pushing out to the future, while the divining fork takes us back to our source, the earth. This reaching out and drawing back is implied in the map of a family tree, when we place ourselves as the trunk, when we surely know we are the furthest tiniest branch. In the sculpture each branch of the tree represents a progenitor going back seventeen generations to the year 1458, when the College was established." The artist has used the golden ratio to generate the linear form of his sculpture. The golden ratio is the name given to an irrational proportion, known at least since the time of the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid, which has often been thought to possess aesthetic virtue, some hidden harmonic proportion in tune with the universe. In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio between the sum of those quantities and the larger one is the same as the ratio between the larger one and the smaller. In practice, this works out at about 8:13. A whole host of other contexts are also referenced in Wallinger’s work. In mathematics, for example, the y-axis is the vertical axis in a plane coordinate system and one of the three axes of a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system. In biology, Y-chromosome DNA is a type of DNA that is only carried by men and it is only inherited from their fathers. Men who share a common paternal ancestor will have virtually the same Y-DNA, even if that male ancestor lived many generations ago. Significantly, in the system of Greek numerals the letter upsilon, whose upper case form closely resembles the letter Y in the Latin alphabet, has a value of 400. In the system of medieval Roman numerals, however, the letter Y has a value of 150. By adding these two values together we arrive at the number 550, which is the very anniversary for which the work has been commissioned. Included in the artworks on display to the public in Magdalen College is the best surviving copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper by a close Milanese follower, where it is displayed in a late 15th-century setting high on the wall of the Chapel. In Chaplain’s Quadrangle there is a bronze sculpture of Christ and Mary Magdalen presented to the College by David Wynne in 1964. To these exceptional pieces can now be added Mark Wallinger’s Y, a bold and uncompromising sculpture by one of today’s supreme artists. Education notes Magdalen College has asked freelance educator Miranda Millward to create a set of education notes to provide some initial guidance for group visits to see

How old was Dodi Fayed at the time of his death in 1997?

CNN - Princess Diana killed in Paris car crash - August 31, 1997 Princess Diana killed in Paris car crash Prince Charles to accompany body to Britain August 31, 1997 Web posted at: 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 GMT) PARIS (CNN) -- Britain's Princess Diana died early Sunday after suffering massive internal injuries in a high-speed car crash, reportedly after being chased by photographers who were trying to snap photographs of the princess. Her companion and rumored lover, Dodi Fayed , and their chauffeur also died when the Mercedes crashed shortly after midnight in a tunnel along the Seine River at the Pont de l'Alma bridge, less than a half mile north of the Eiffel Tower. A fourth person in the car, a bodyguard of the princess, was also seriously injured. The 36-year-old princess died from internal bleeding stemming from major chest, lung and head injuries, doctors said at a 6 a.m. news conference. "Diana's body arrived at the hospital in a condition of serious hemorrhage and shock. Shortly thereafter, she went into cardiac arrest," said Dr. Bruno Riou, an anesthesiologist at Paris Hospital de la Petie Salpetriere. "An urgent surgery showed a severe wound to the left pulmonary vein. Despite the closure of this wound and the two-hour external and internal cardiac massage, no official respiratory circulation could be established and she died at 4 a.m. Paris time," he said. Prince Charles heads to France Diana's body was to arrive in London around 7 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT) Sunday, French police said. Prince Charles left Scotland early Sunday afternoon for Paris. From there he will accompany the body of his former wife on its return to Britain. Charles will also visit the hospital where Diana died to thank doctors for having tried to save her life. Fayed's body was to return to Britain Sunday according to a Harrods spokesman. No further details are available. The Prince of Wales woke their children, Princes William, 15, and Harry, 12, and informed them of their mother's death at Balmoral Castle, Scotland, where they were spending the summer. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles said in statements early Sunday that they were "deeply shocked and distressed by this terrible news." British Prime Minister Tony Blair said, "I feel like everyone else in this country: utterly devastated. ... She was a wonderful, warm human being." 7 photographers detained Diana's car was traveling at 80 to 85 mph (128 to 136 kph) when the car slammed into a concrete abutment in the narrow tunnel , careened into a wall and was crushed like an accordion, police said. According to witnesses, Paparazzi -- the commercial photographers who constantly followed Diana -- were pursuing the car on motorcycles. Authorities said seven photographers -- six reported to be French and one Macedonian -- were in custody, and a criminal investigation was under way. Police seized two motorcycles and a motor scooter believed used in the chase. France Info radio said at least some of the photographers took pictures before help arrived -- and that one of the photographers was beaten at the scene by horrified witnesses. Harrods spokesperson Michael Cole relates Dodi's feelings for Diana 264 K/24 sec. AIFF or WAV sound "Serious questions will need to be asked as to whether the aggressive intrusion into her privacy has contributed to this tragedy," said British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook. Mourners gather at Kensington Palace In London, people began gathering outside Diana's Kensington Palace residence before dawn. Some sat with their heads in their hands and wept. Flowers from mourners adorned the palace gate . One man lit two candles at Kensington Palace. "I just feel disbelief more than shock," said student Fiona von Schank, 24, who brought two roses. "It's amazing that this woman who finally seemed to have just about found some happiness has now died so tragically." Diana and Fayed, the 42-year-old son of the billionaire Egyptian owner of London's prestigious Harrods department store, had arrived in Paris on Saturday afternoon on a private visit

In which country is the Angostura bridge?

Angostura Bridge | bridge, Venezuela | Britannica.com Angostura Bridge THIS IS A DIRECTORY PAGE. Britannica does not currently have an article on this topic. Learn about this topic in these articles:   in Ciudad Guayana The Angostura Bridge (completed 1967) across the Orinoco at Ciudad Bolívar (67 miles west of Ciudad Guayana) is an important link between the Guiana region and the rest of the country. Ciudad Guayana also has forestry, diamond mining, refractory brick, and paper and pulp enterprises and has attracted numerous small industries. Pop. (2001) 619,784; (2011) 672,651. in Orinoco River: Transportation Considerable road construction has been undertaken in the Venezuelan Llanos since World War II. The Llanos and the Guiana region were connected in 1967 with the completion of a mile-long bridge across the Orinoco at Ciudad Bolívar. Earlier, in 1961, the mouth of the Caroní was bridged to connect the new industrial town of Puerto Ordaz with the old Orinoco port of San Félix,...

What is Elle Macpherson's real name?

Elle Macpherson - IMDb IMDb Actress | Producer Elle Macpherson was born on March 29, 1964 in Cronulla, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as Eleanor Nancy Gow. She is an actress and producer, known for Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model (2005), Miss Universe 2001 (2001) and 42nd Annual TV Week Logie Awards (2000). She has been married to Jeffrey Soffer since July 2013. She was previously ... See full bio » Born:

Which instrument is associated with Lester 'Prez' Young?

Mississippi Jazz Musician Lester (Prez) Young Prez At His Very Best Lester Young: A Biography by Hashim Welch (SHS) Hashim Welch, SHS Researcher Lester Willis Young, nicknamed Prez, was born in Woodville, Mississippi, on August 27, 1909. Lester was taught how to play music by his father, Willis Handy Young, who was a very good musician in his own right.  Lester was first taught to play the violin, the trumpet, and the drums.(Early years). He later decided to stick to the alto saxophone, despite the fact that the drums were his favorite instrument to play. When he was eleven years of age, Lester and his father moved to Minneapolis where they formed a family band and Lester played alto saxophone with them at age 13.(Bennett). He had a long history of disagreements with his father, and this caused him to leave the band when he was 19 (Early Years). After leaving his family’s band, Lester went on to play with Art Bronson in Phoenix, Arizona.  He played with Bronson until 1930, when he moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota and played with various bands.  He also took a brief trip back home to play with his family.  In 1932, while playing at a club with Frank Hines, Young was signed as a member of “The Thirteen Original Blue Devils.”  He and the other band members moved to Kansas City to join Bennie Moten near the end of 1933. During the years following 1933, Lester Young played in bands with Bennie Moten, George Lee, King Oliver, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Andy Kirk, and many others. In 1936, when Young rejoined Count Basie, he rose to national fame for the first time. Lester’s rising fame was significant in making Kansas City a major jazz city at this time.  Of all the places he played, Lester will probably always be remembered as a Kansas City jazz man. For the next several years he and Basie toured, and recorded.  He recorded on recordings featuring Billie Holiday who gave him the nickname, “The Prez.”  (She nicknamed him for president of the tenor saxophone, while he bestowed on her the name ‘Lady Day’.) In the early 1940’s, Young played in small bands in the Los Angeles area alongside his brother, Lee Young, and musicians such as Red Callender, Nat ‘King’ Cole and Al Sears. During this period he returned briefly to the Basie band, making some excellent recordings, and also worked with Dizzy Gillespie.  Late in 1944 he was conscripted into the US Army but was discharged in mid-summer the following year, having spent part of his military service in hospital and part in an army prison. In the mid 40’s he was filmed by Gjon Mili in the classic jazz short, Jammin’ The Blues, a venture which was co-produced by Norman Granz. At this time he also joined Granz’s “Jazz At The Philharmonic,” package, remaining with the organization for a number of years.  He also led small groups for club and record dates, toured the USA and visited Europe. Young’s style was the traditional swing style that will always be linked with Basie’s bands. Several famous musicians including Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, and Al Cohn were greatly influenced by Young.  A majority of the songs Young played while in the Basie band where 32 bar blues with an AABA structure. When he began recording on his own, he mixed together ballads, blues, and moderate and fast tempo AABA structured tunes. He gradually moved toward his famous soft tone that inspired, most notably, Stan Getz. In the late 1950’s, Lester began to have health problems.  While he was on tour, he continued to record and make concert and festival appearances and was featured on television’s The Sound Of Jazz in 1957. In these final years his health was slowly deteriorating; and his band broke up.  Lester went on tour with Miles Davis, but was very disheartened to receive bad ratings.  Despite this recent downfall, the Encyclopedia Yearbook of Jazz named Lester Young the greatest tenor saxophone ever in 1956 (Late Years).  Young had taken to drinking excessively and wasn’t eating well.  It is likely that the disrespect he was beginning to receive led him to drink even more.  Young had other complica

Which criminal was set up by the Lady In Red?

THE BIOGRAPH THEATER THE BIOGRAPH THEATER THE LIFE & MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF JOHN DILLINGER The scene outside of Chicago's Biograph Theater less than one hour after Dillinger. was allegedly killed by the FBI. On the evening of July 22, 1934 a dapper-looking man wearing a straw hat and a pin-striped suit stepped out of the Biograph Theater in downtown Chicago where he and two girlfriends had watched a film called Manhattan Melodrama starring Clark Gable. No sooner had they reached the sidewalk when a man appeared and identified himself as Melvin Purvis of the FBI. He ordered the man in the straw hat to surrender.  Experience the Ghosts, Local Legends & Best Kept Secrets of the Windy City! Weird Chicago Tours! Several shots rang out and the fleeing man in the straw hat fell dead to the pavement, his left eye shredded by one of the shots fired by the other agents who lay in wait. So ended the life of John Herbert Dillinger, the most prolific bank robber in modern American history and the general public's favorite Public Enemy No. 1...... or did it? One of the most famous haunted theaters in the history of Chicago is the Biograph Theater, located on North Lincoln Avenue in downtown Chicago. It was here, in 1934, that John Dillinger supposedly met his end.... The theater has gained a reputation for being haunted, but the story of the ghost seen here actually revolves around the alleyway outside. But the theater, and the surrounding businesses, have banked on the criminal's name for many years. On the day after the fatal shots were fired, the bar next door placed a sign in the window that read "Dillinger had his last drink here". Theater patrons can examine a window in the box office that describes the set-up of Dillinger by the FBI. They can sit in the same seat where Dillinger sat nearly 65 years ago and after the film, they can emerge into "Dillinger's Alley.... it is here where the ghost is said to appear. But what really happened in the final moments of Dillinger's life? To answer the strange and perplexing questions surrounding his possible death, we have to first look at his bloody and violent life. On the evening that he was killed, Dillinger left the theater in the company of Anna Sage (the famed "Lady in Red") and with another girlfriend, Polly Hamilton. He had been hiding out in her North Halstead Street apartment but for months he had been pursued diligently by Melvin Purvis, the head of the Chicago branch of the FBI. Purvis had lived and breathed Dillinger (and would, after the robber's death, commit suicide) and had narrowly missed him several times at a State Street and Austin Cafe; at Dillinger's north woods hideout in Sault St. Marie; and at Wisconsin's Little Bohemia, where FBI agents recklessly killed a civilian and injured two others. It was finally at the Biograph where Purvis caught up with Dillinger and put an end to his career. The criminal life of John Dillinger started in 1925 when he held up a grocery store in his hometown of Mooresville, Indiana. Pleading guilty, he was sentenced to serve 10-20 years in prison while his accomplice, who claimed not guilty, only received a sentence of 2 years. Dillinger spent the next 8 years in jail but when he was released in May of 1933, he robbed three banks in three months and netted more than $40,000. Thus began Dillinger's wild spree of crime. Dillinger was captured in September 1933 and imprisoned in Lima, Ohio. In three weeks, his gang sprung him in a dangerous escape and again were back to bank robbing. In January 1934, Dillinger shot and killed a police officer in East Chicago, for which he was arrested in Arizona and jailed in Crown Point, Indiana to await trial. He escaped a month later, using a fake gun that he had carved from a bar of soap and blackened with shoe polish. He eluded the police for another month, shooting his way out of an ambush in St. Paul and dodging the FBI near Mercer, Wisconsin.  Dillinger arrived in Chicago in late June and proc

Who penned Kenny Rogers' No 1 hit Lady?

Top 10 Kenny Rogers Songs Top 10 Kenny Rogers Songs REDDIT Theo Wargo, Getty Images Kenny Rogers ‘ songs are iconic, but truth be told, the singer has seen success in just about every form of entertainment. In honor of one of the longest and most varied careers in showbiz history, we’d like to take a moment to honor some of his most memorable recordings. As one can imagine, this Top 10 Kenny Rogers songs list was extremely challenging to narrow down. However, we’ve tried to select songs that represent several chapters of his career. From the obvious “Coward of the County” and “Ruby” to classic American love songs like “Lady” and “Through the Years,” these are the cream of Rogers’ crop. 10 From ‘They Don’t Make Them Like They Used To ‘ (1986)     Kenny Rogers has become known as one of the great storytellers in country music. The gravelly voice has been the narrator for such story songs as “The Greatest,” “Tomb of the Unknown Love” and “The Factory.” In addition to the story songs that appear on this list of the Top Kenny Rogers songs, we’ve included “Twenty Years Ago,” a sentimental journey back in time. Regardless of age, the chorus seems to resonate the feelings of everyone — that “life was so much easier twenty years ago.”       We could have easily compiled a list of just top Kenny Rogers love songs. Throughout his career, power ballads like “I Don’t Need You,” “She Believes in Me” and “Crazy” were best-sellers. In addition to the duets and the love songs that have made this list, we’ve selected “You Decorated My Life” as one of Rogers’ overall best. From easy listening AM stations, hot country FM stations, and wedding receptions, this song has meant a lot to a lot of people.   “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town” (with the First Edition) From ‘Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town’ (1969)     As the lead singer of the First Edition, Kenny Rogers’ voice was at the forefront of some of their biggest hits — like this one. Penned by Mel Tillis, “Ruby” was Rogers’ first country chart entry. Although the song peaked at a modest No. 39, it’s since become a staple of his catalog of hits and live shows. The tragic love story, set to a catchy beat, is a must-have on our list of Top 10 Kenny Rogers Songs.   “Buy Me a Rose” (with Alison Krauss and Billy Dean) From ‘She Rides Wild Horses’ (1999)     In the ‘80s, Rogers was the biggest act in country music, selling out arenas night after night. However, when the ‘90s rolled along, the trends changed and the consistent hitmaker fell off the charts. Rogers kept touring to big crowds and working on other entertainment projects, and in 1999 “Buy Me a Rose” brought the legend back to radio with a No. 1 hit. At the age of 61, the Gambler made history as the oldest singer to ever have a No. 1 solo it on the Billboard Country charts.       After years of success with the Commodores, with songs like “Brick House,” “Easy” and “Three Times a Lady,” Lionel Richie began a career transition by writing a monster hit for Rogers in 1980. It’s no surprise that there would be a mega hit in combining these successful hitmakers. “Lady” topped the Country, Hot 100, and Adult Contemporary charts. The song’s overwhelming success set the stage for Richie to release his first solo album in 1982.   “Islands in the Stream” (with Dolly Parton) From ‘Eyes That See in the Dark’ (1983)     Penned by the Bee Gees, “Islands in the Stream” was one of the biggest multi-format hits in American music following its release. Played around the world (in every format), everyone just fell in love with the chemistry between Kenny and Dolly. The duet launched other successful projects, including a 1984 Christmas TV special, holiday album and 1985’s No. 1 hit “Real Love,” which was also accompanied by a TV special. This all-time favorite country duet is a must-include on our Top 10 Kenny Rogers songs compilation.

Who had a 50s No 1 with Heartaches By The Number?

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In which country was power seized in the 70s by the Gang of Four?

China Celebrates Victory Over “Gang of Four” China Celebrates Victory Over “Gang of Four” First Published: The Call, Vol. 6, No. 30, August 1, 1977. Transcription, Editing and Markup: Paul Saba Copyright: This work is in the Public Domain under the Creative Commons Common Deed . You can freely copy, distribute and display this work; as well as make derivative and commercial works. Please credit the Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line as your source, include the url to this work, and note any of the transcribers, editors & proofreaders above. A great victory has been won. A great wrong has been set right. The visit of our delegation to the People’s Republic of China left us with these positive conclusions. On our last day in China, we joined together with the millions of people in every corner of the country in massive demonstrations and celebrations of support for the important decisions, made at last week’s plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. We were in Canton when the news of the decisions was announced. Hua Kuo-feng was confirmed as chairman of the Party and head of the Military Commission of the Party’s Central Committee. Secondly, Teng Hsiao-ping, the target of an attack by the “gang of four,” was returned to all of his former positions, including vice-chairman of the Party, vice-premier of the State Council, vice-chairman of the Military Commission and chief of the general staff of the People’s Liberation Army. The “gang of four” (Wang Hung-wen, Chang Chun-chiao, Chiang Ching, and Yao Wen-yuan) were removed from the Party. And finally, the plans were laid for the holding of the 11th National Congress of the CPC. In the eyes of the 800 million people of China, justice had been carried out. On the afternoon of July 21, in anticipation of the announcement of the Central Committee decisions, wall posters had gone up all over the country supporting Chairman Hua and welcoming the return of Teng Hsiao-ping to his posts. By afternoon, the wine stores had already been emptied of Mao Tai and other wines. Every firecracker had been grabbed up. In Canton, despite a request that fireworks not be set off for fear of fires in this 2,000-year-old city, the explosions began with the public announcement of the Party communique. The air was filled with a massive bursting of fireworks as the celebrations began, first in the local units and then pouring out into the streets. From every corner of the city, the marchers came, carrying brightly painted banners and pictures of Chairman Mao and his successor Chairman Hua. Gongs and drums beat loudly well into the morning hours. The pictures of our delegation’s meeting with Chairman Hua had appeared earlier on the front page of the newspapers, and many people stopped on the streets to shake our hands and congratulate us on the founding of our Party. The following day, in every city and locality in China, mass meetings of millions of people were held as speakers explained the decisions of the plenary session and summed up the 11th two-line struggle in the history of this 56-year-old party. These meetings and festivals consolidated the victory. The people who had poured out their tears many times in the past year–with the passing of their beloved leaders, Chairman Mao, Premier Chou, and Chu Teh, with the terrible toll of human lives in the massive earthquakes last July–were now delirious with joy. To understand why, it is important to see the real nature of the attacks on Teng Hsiao-ping and what his return means, as well as to understand the crimes of the “gang of four” and what their victory would have meant for the future of China. It was in the course of the campaign against “the right-deviationist wind” last year that the “gang of four” prepared for their attempted seizure of power after Chairman Mao’s death. While it was, in the main, a correct campaign, aimed at consolidating the “socialist new things” that emerged from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the sixties, the “gang of four” departed from the orientation of the Party’s Cent

At which sport did Jonah Barrington win international success?

Profile: The big noise of squash: Jonah Barrington - Owen Slot studies the qualities of a sporting legend who is keen to put officialdom in its place | The Independent Profile: The big noise of squash: Jonah Barrington - Owen Slot studies the qualities of a sporting legend who is keen to put officialdom in its place Saturday 13 August 1994 23:02 BST Click to follow The Independent Online TWENTY-ONE years after his last great triumph, Jonah Barrington, the most successful British squash player ever, can be found, for hours every day, still stalking the courts. He is now 53 and shackled by a limp, but though the body weakens, no punishment that time can mete out will ever shake his resolve, the element which won him six British Open titles. For, as he says himself, there were far more talented players around. Barrington's career was a victory for the man of limited means. He was the inspiration for many then, as he still is now for the proteges who are graced with his presence on court. But you would have to go to Holland to see him in action, for there is no place for Barrington in the British game. There was until last December, when his five-year role as the director of excellence with the Squash Rackets Association was deemed further to requirements. What the suits who dismissed him hardly expected was his nomination, last week, to join their company as the Association's head. Barringtonwas furious when his contract was not renewed but his ambition to become SRA president is born neither of revenge, nor of an ego in need of a massage. It is pure affection for the sport that has thrown him into the fight; squash in Britain is sick and he sees it as his duty to nurse it back to health. It was he, after all, who helped it come of age. Much of Barrington's good work is still there. As a director of excellence he has taken Britain to the verge of greatness: there are at present 23 British professionals in the world's Top 50, most of them young and with the potential to improve. What infuriated Barrington about the SRA's decision was that here was the class of the future, nurtured to excellence, scaling the heights of the world game, and just as they approach its peak, they were robbed of the mentor who had talked them through every step of the climb and left to go the distance unguided. This is no exaggeration. Barrington has worked with some of these boys since 1979 when he started running national junior squads. When funding from the SRA ceased temporarily, the squads started to live not only off his knowledge, but out of his own pocket too. Knocking around in his under-10 classes in those early days were both Peter Marshall and Simon Parke, now the top two in Britain, but both missing his influence. 'I'd like to see him now,' Parke said. 'If only to have a feeding session before the season begins. Even then his electrifying enthusiasm comes right through.' So much for the healthier side of the game. The debit lies in the bank balance: a deficit in the last tax year of nearly pounds 100,000 thanks in part to a reduction in the Sports Council's grant, but also to the sport's credibility which has dipped so low that its national league cannot find a sponsor. Barrington was one of four SRA employees squeezed out in the resultant belt-tightening; he argues that the image crisis would best be solved by a champion or two, which is the area in which he can be most helpful. Among Barrington's less well- known achievements is a book, Murder on the Squash Court, which is not an account of his recent treatment at the hands of the SRA, but a flashback to his greatest matches. 'Murder' refers to the way he would win, not through superior skill, but through what he calls 'boxing with rackets', through stamina, relentlessly keeping the ball in play, grinding away at his opponents, waiting for their physical and mental defences to break and then going in for the kill. As a coach, he loathes his players 'going cheap' - losing a point through going for a winner because they do not have the mental strength to extend the rally and go for the

What was the nationality of composer Aaron Copland?

Aaron Copland | About the Composer | American Masters | PBS About the Composer Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait About the Composer Comments Aaron Copland. Photo: The Library of Congress Aaron Copland was one of the most respected American classical composers of the twentieth century. By incorporating popular forms of American music such as jazz and folk into his compositions, he created pieces both exceptional and innovative. As a spokesman for the advancement of indigenous American music, Copland made great strides in liberating it from European influence. Today, ten years after his death, Copland’s life and work continue to inspire many of America’s young composers. Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900. The child of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, he first learned to play the piano from his older sister. At the age of sixteen he went to Manhattan to study with Rubin Goldmark, a respected private music instructor who taught Copland the fundamentals of counterpoint and composition. During these early years he immersed himself in contemporary classical music by attending performances at the New York Symphony and Brooklyn Academy of Music. He found, however, that like many other young musicians, he was attracted to the classical history and musicians of Europe. So, at the age of twenty, he left New York for the Summer School of Music for American Students at Fountainebleau, France. In France, Copland found a musical community unlike any he had known. It was at this time that he sold his first composition to Durand and Sons, the most respected music publisher in France. While in Europe Copeland met many of the important artists of the time, including the famous composer Serge Koussevitsky. Koussevitsky requested that Copland write a piece for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The piece, “Symphony for Organ and Orchestra” (1925) was Copland’s entry into the life of professional American music. He followed this with “Music for the Theater” (1925) and “Piano Concerto” (1926), both of which relied heavily on the jazz idioms of the time. For Copland, jazz was the first genuinely American major musical movement. From jazz he hoped to draw the inspiration for a new type of symphonic music, one that could distinguish itself from the music of Europe. In the late 1920s Copland’s attention turned to popular music of other countries. He had moved away from his interest in jazz and began to concern himself with expanding the audience for American classical music. He believed that classical music could eventually be as popular as jazz in America or folk music in Mexico. He worked toward this goal with both his music and a firm commitment to organizing and producing. He was an active member of many organizations, including both the American Composers’ Alliance and the League of Composers. Along with his friend Roger Sessions, he began the Copland-Sessions concerts, dedicated to presenting the works of young composers. It was around this same time that his plans for an American music festival (similar to ones in Europe) materialized as the Yaddo Festival of American Music (1932). By the mid-’30s Copland had become not only one of the most popular composers in the country, but a leader of the community of American classical musicians. It was in 1935 with “El Salón México” that Copland began his most productive and popular years. The piece presented a new sound that had its roots in Mexican folk music. Copland believed that through this music, he could find his way to a more popular symphonic music. In his search for the widest audience, Copland began composing for the movies and ballet. Among his most popular compositions for film are those for “Of Mice and Men” (1939), “Our Town ” (1940), and “The Heiress” (1949), which won him an Academy Award for best score. He composed scores for a number of ballets, including two of the most popular of the time: “Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo” (1942) and Martha Graham ‘s “Appalachian Spring” (1944), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Both ballets presented views of American country life

What was the occupation of Edith Cavell who was shot by the Germans in WWI?

Edith Cavell, shot by Germans during WWI, celebrated 100 years on | World news | The Guardian First world war Edith Cavell, shot by Germans during WWI, celebrated 100 years on Centenary of death of British nurse executed for treason in 1915 marked as evidence emerges of possible links to British intelligence Edith Cavell was hailed as a Christian martyr and dubbed ‘our Joan of Arc’ by the British press. Photograph: UniversalImagesGroup/Getty Images Monday 12 October 2015 02.00 EDT Last modified on Tuesday 13 October 2015 14.12 EDT Close This article is 1 year old On 12 October 1915, British nurse Edith Cavell was shot at dawn by a German firing squad in Brussels for helping hundreds of allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium. From the archive, 22 October 1915: The execution of Miss Cavell Read more A century later, she is being celebrated in exhibitions and concerts in Norwich Cathedral and in public buildings in the city, and in the nearby village of Swardeston where her father was vicar and where she grew up. Cavell was hailed as a Christian martyr concerned only with saving the lives of allied soldiers. Her execution provoked outrage in Britain. Egged on by the government, she was dubbed “our Joan of Arc” by the press. Pinterest The wording on the monument to Edith Cavell near Trafalgar Square in London remains controversial. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian “Everybody must feel disgusted at the barbarous actions of the German soldiery in murdering this great and glorious specimen of womanhood,” wrote Arthur Conan Doyle. A headline in the Manchester Guardian on 22 October 1915 read: “Merciless Execution of Nurse Cavell,” while an editorial dwelled on the “callousness” and “brutality” of the German occupiers in Belgium, and the way Cavell’s execution was carried out quickly and secretly. Pinterest Edith Cavell’s grave in France. Photograph: Tim Ockenden/PA Her death, at a time when the war was going badly for the allies, led to a huge increase in the number of volunteers signing up to join the British army. Cavell is remembered in Norwich above all as a pioneering nurse. One of her lasting legacies is the Cavell Nurses’ Trust , which provides financial support for nurses in need. She had returned to Belgium, where she had set up the first secular training hospital for nurses, after the outbreak of war in 1914, saying: “At a time like this, I am needed more than ever”. Nick Miller, the chair of the Norfolk Cavell 2015 Partnership said: “To me she seems to embody the Good Samaritan. Edith risked her own life over nine months to help men who came to her with no way home.” Edith Cavell: nurse, martyr, and spy? | Vanessa Heggie Read more But other, more uncomfortable, sides to her story are emerging amid renewed controversy over her legacy, and even the wording on her statue outside St Martin-in-the-Fields near Trafalgar Square in London. Cavell’s biographer, Diana Souhami, records that following her execution, MI5 was anxious to suppress anything that would implicate Cavell in spying. Stella Rimington, a former head of the intelligence agency, said recently after researching Belgian archives: “Her main objective was to get hidden allied soldiers back to Britain but, contrary to the common perception of her, we have uncovered clear evidence that her organisation was involved in sending back secret intelligence to the allies.” The intelligence included information about a German trench system, the location of munitions dumps and aircraft. Details were written in ink on strips of fabric and sewn into clothes, or hidden in shoes and boots. Yet it remained unclear, Rimington told BBC Radio 4’s programme, The Untold Story of Edith Cavell, last month, what Cavell precisely knew about the spying network. Richard Maguire of the University of East Anglia (UEA), goes further. He told the Guardian: “Cavell was not merely acting as a nurse and treating the wounded – she could have done this without helping those soldiers to then escape”. He added: “I think we now have to accept that the likelihood is that Cavell was w

How did Satyajit Ray achieve fame?

Why is the trio Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Mrinal Sen considered as the greatest film directors from India? - Quora Quora Written Nov 25, 2014 If there is any discussion even remotely associated with parallel cinema or Indian cinema in general, it finds a root in the thriving rivalry of perhaps three of the greatest filmmakers the country has nurtured. The dawn of "parallel" cinema in India is often attributed to Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak, who began working in the Bengali film industry in the early '50s. Parallel cinema was considered an adversary to conventional cinema, a brand of cinema that churned out economical films and focused mainly on social realism, humanitarianism, expressionism and societal issues like caste. In 1955, with some financial help from the West Bengal government and after a rather lengthy production, Ray's Pather Panchali debuted internationally to broad critical acclaim and was one of the first films to provide a glimpse into the traditions of this country to the global audiences. Pather Panchali, an outstanding cinematic achievement as it stands presently, is understandably considered to be a landmark film for the very reason that it was one of the early films to rival mainstream films so dauntlessly in India, and was also a fillip to the emerging new type of cinema. Prior to this, only Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar was an Indian film that had made any kind of substantial impact globally when it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The films of V. Shantaram were also occasionally screened abroad, wresting praise from none other than Charlie Chaplin himself for his film, Manoos, but this particular titbit wasn't momentous. Mrinal Sen also made his debut with Raat Bhore the same year, but the outset of his career wasn't as distinguished as Ray's. Ghatak's Nagarik, finished in 1952, was perhaps one of the earliest attempts to create an independent art film tackling neo-realism as a subject, but even his directorial debut was suppressed by Pather Panchali because Nagarik was mysteriously released in 1977. However, Nagarik is still recognized as a film that perhaps gave a helping hand to the teetering Indian independent film movement back then. Though Ray continued to dominate the international film scene with two succeeding installments in his Apu Trilogy, and followed it up with Mahanagar and Charulata in the early '60s, fame came fairly late for his two eminent rivals. Though the works of the three remained heavily praised in their birth country, only Ray's works made international headlines. In 1969 and with a little monetary aid from the Indian government, Sen's Bhuvan Shome, a film I personally consider to be among the finest Hindi films I have seen, finally fetched him international acclaim. By then, Ray was already an established legend in the world of film while Ghatak's films remained in the realms of his homeland. The three continued their meritorious rivalry to the end of their careers, but remained ardent admirers of each other's oeuvre. What elevates the work of these auteurs is that not only have they taken the cinema of this country to the foreign audiences, but also they had given it an  - albeit temporary - identity. Their films were steeped in socio-realism, a rarity in modern films that routinely illustrate distorted portraits of the Indian society, and represented a level of artistry in Indian cinema that hasn't been matched ever since. After the initiation of the independent film movement in the Bengali film industry, other Indian filmmakers from different film industries, most notably Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shyam Benegal, took it up enthusiastically as well. After consideration, I can only say that the work of these three auteurs had been epoch-making, and it set a standard as far as Indian films were concerned. Written May 8, 2015 Not sure, if you want to mean "from India" or "from Bengal" only... But yes these 3 were considered greatest from their time. Some few more names from Bengal who were equally talented and had great fans/follo

Who had a 1980s No 1 hit with Don't You (Forget About Me)?

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) - YouTube Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Dec 3, 2010 Acoustic – 12 songs reimagined acoustically - out now on CD/Vinyl/Stream/Download – featuring Don’t You (Forget About Me), Promised You A Miracle FT KT Tunstall, American and many more. https://SimpleMindsInl.lnk.to/AcousticID Listen to the complete playlist on Spotify here: https://SimpleMindsInl.lnk.to/ListenID Sign up for news http://po.st/SMNewsLetter Follow Simple Minds online:

Which Japanese company bought CBS records in 1988?

Sony purchased CBS records in 1988 then set its - AMERICAN I - American I View Full Document Sony purchased CBS records in 1988, then set its sight on a motion picture company. Other cash-rich Japanese companies had put up money to make some movies in the past, but Morita wanted Sony to be the first Japanese company to own a Hollywood studio lock, stock, and barrel. Not all of Sony’s top executives were convinced purchasing a studio would be beneficial for the company. To some, Morita’s argument for a “software-hardware synergy” sounded less than totally convincing, especially after Sony’s chairman decided to purchase the Columbia Picture group for $3.4 billion for the studio, which some people in Hollywood estimated was $1 billion more than Columbia was worth. A struggling studio like Columbia, which had less than a 10 percent share of the domestic market in the 1980’s, hardly had the power to drive the sale of Sony’s hardware. Many people in Japan speculated that at least in part, Morita’s acquisition of an American film studio was motivated by his “bruised ego and an overwhelming desire to awe his opponents into submission” (Klein, Hollywood ). Sony’s top executives were not the only ones with reservations about the acquisition. Business associates also warned Akio Morita that the management styles in Japan and America were not compatible calling the decision to purchase the troubled studio a “mistake.” Keiji Shima, then the chairman of NHK, the Japanese public broadcasting company reportedly told Morita, “’you don’t understand Hollywood. It won’t work. You’re asking for trouble. You’re getting into a business that you won’t be able to control. Don’t do it! ’” (Klein, Hollywood ). Despite the concerns, Sony’s board 6 This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version. View Full Document of directors approved Morita’s plan to purchase Columbia Pictures in 1989. Morita was reportedly proud of the fact that this acquisition would rank as the most expensive foreign takeover of an American company. To head Sony’s new motion picture division, Akio Morita turned to veteran producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters, a producing team riding high on the international success of Batman and Rain Man , two of the biggest blockbusters of the 1980’s. Despite the team’s limited high-level executive experience, the partners managed to dazzle the Sony chairman, who decided to buy out Guber-Peters Entertainment Company for $200 million, and hired the two producers to run Sony Pictures Entertainment. Many entertainment industry insiders believed Sony’s decision to hire the two producers was a recipe for disaster, and guaranteed the failure of their venture into Hollywood. Frank Price, former head of Columbia who worked briefly with Sony in the late 1980’s said, “What the Japanese got with Guber and Peters was two hustlers” (Klein, Tycoon ). After Guber and Peters were brought onboard, Sony learned that the two producers were legally bound by an exclusive production contract to Warner Brothers. Warner Brothers refused to release Guber and Peters from their contract until Sony paid This is the end of the preview. Sign up to access the rest of the document. TERM AMERICAN I American I - Spring 2012 B1. (Choosing financial targets) Bixton Companys new chief financial officer is evalu bixton

How many of Mark Spitz's Olympic golds were for solo events?

Mark Spitz | Olympics Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Edit Spitz was born in Modesto, California, the first of three children [3] of Arnold and Lenore (Smith) Spitz. His family is Jewish. [4] When he was two years old, Spitz's family moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he swam at Waikiki Beach every day. "You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." Lenore Spitz told a reporter for Time (April 12, 1968). [3] At age six his family returned to Sacramento, California, and he began to compete at his local swim club. At age nine, he was training at Arden Hills Swim Club in Sacramento with swimming coach Sherm Chavoor, who mentored seven Olympic medal winners including Spitz. Before he was 10, Spitz held 17 national age-group records, and one world record. At 14 his family moved to Santa Clara so Spitz could train with George F. Haines of the Santa Clara Swim Club. From 1964 to 1968 Mark trained with Haines at SCSC and Santa Clara High School. During his four years there, Mark held national high school records in every stroke and in every distance. It was a remarkable and unprecedented achievement. In 1966 at age 16 he won the 100 meter butterfly at the National AAU Championships, the first of his 24 AAU titles. The following year Mark set his first world record at a small California meet in the 400 meter freestyle with a time of 4:10.60, and emerged on the world swimming stage. [5] Swimming career Edit The 1965 Maccabiah Games was his first international competition. At age 15 in Tel Aviv, Spitz, won four gold medals and was named the most outstanding athlete. [3] He returned to Israel in 1969 following the Mexico Olympics to again compete in the Maccabiah Games. This time he won six gold medals. [6] He was again named outstanding athlete of the Games. [7] In 1985 Spitz lit a torch to open the Maccabiah Games. [8] In 2005 he was a member of the U.S. delegation at the 17th Maccabiah Games. He spoke at the JCC Maccabiah Games Opening Ceremonies, which was held in Richmond, Virginia. The Weinstein JCC in Richmond was one of the Host JCC's for the 2005 games with over 1,000 teenagers participating in various sports, including swimming. Pan American Games In 1967 he won five gold medals at the Pan American Games, thereby setting a record that lasted until 2007 when Brazilian swimmer, Thiago Pereira, won six golds at the XV Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro. 1968 Olympics Edit Holder of ten world records already, Spitz predicted brashly he would win six golds at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. However, he won only two team golds: the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay in 3:31:70, and the 4 × 200 meter freestyle relay in 7:52:33. In addition, Spitz finished second in the 100m butterfly in 00:56:40. In this event he was beaten by fellow American Doug Russell by a half second, despite holding the world record and having beaten Russell the previous ten times they had swum against each other that year. [9] Russell did briefly match Spitz's world record in late August 1967, holding the world record equally with Spitz for five days before Spitz regained it solely on October 2, 1967. As a result of being beaten by Russell, Spitz did not get to swim in the 4 × 100 meter medley relay, which gave Russell his second gold medal and the USA team another World Record swim. College training Edit Disappointed in his 1968 Olympic performance, Spitz decided in January 1969 to swim for the Indiana University Hoosiers [2] to train with legendary coach, Doc Counsilman, [10] who was also his coach in Mexico City. He called choosing Indiana and Counsilman "the biggest decision of my life (and) the best." While at Indiana, Spitz won eight individual NCAA titles. In 1971 he won the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Spitz also set a number of world records during the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials held in Chicago's Portage Park in 1972. He was nicknamed "Mark the Shark" by his teammates. 1972 Olympics Edit At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich (West Germany), Spi

Who made the album Honky Tonk Angels with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette?

Honky Tonk Angels by Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn & Tammy Wynette on Apple Music 12 Songs Album Review Legend is a hefty title to carry, especially if you're still kicking. The standards are high, the expectations immense. Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, and Tammy Wynette are, nevertheless, legends of country music with decades of albums and awards to prove it. And they are very much still kicking on Honky Tonk Angels — just in case anyone needs a little reminder. You can even hear how much fun they had singing together, setting aside any historic competition and letting their love of country music shine through, each gracefully moving between lead and harmony vocals. As for the song selection, it covers a wide swath of country history from tunes made famous by early pioneers like Ferlin Husky, the Davis Sisters, and Hank Locklin to their own more contemporary compositions. If that weren't enough credibility, Kitty Wells lends her amazing voice to the opening anthem "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." Pure goodness. In another twist, Patsy Cline sings on "Lovesick Blues" with Parton, Lynn, and Wynette backing her. The closing track sums up the humorous reverence that permeates much of country music. "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven" was a hit for Tex Ritter in 1961 and is a surprising choice that seems a bit out of place, but somehow works well enough. For fans of traditional country or great singers, this is a fun listen because it nicely captures three of the best voices around. Customer Reviews Great traditional country music - period       by Buzzmike This outstanding traditional country music album by three legends blending their voices and talents makes this album a must have. I love "It Wasn't God Who Made...." a lot. It's Great : )       by AddieBelle I really like this cd! It has three of my favorite singers: Dolly, Tammy, and Loretta! Patsy Cline and Kitty Wells gest star on it too.Their cover of Linda Ronstadts' "Silver Threads and Golde Needles" is amazing. Some of my favorite songs on it include "Sittin on the Front Porch Swing" and "Let Her Fly". The song "I Dreamed of a Hillbilly Heaven" is another one of my favorites but by now is a little out of date. Dolly seems to sing the most songs on the album and also produces it with Steve Buckingham. A must have for any classic country music fan! Alan It just does not get much better then these three amazing ladies... Biography Born: January 19, 1946 in Locust Ridge, TN Genre: Country Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s It's difficult to find a country performer who has moved from her country roots to international fame more successfully than Dolly Parton. Her autobiographical single "Coat of Many Colors" shows the poverty of growing up one of 12 children on a rundown farm in Locust Ridge, Tennessee. At 12 years old, she was appearing on Knoxville television; at 13 she was recording on a small label and appearing on the Grand Ole Opry. Her 1967 hit "Dumb Blonde" (which she's not) caught Porter Wagoner's ear, and... Top Albums and Songs by Dolly Parton 1.

How many Nobel prizes did Marie curie win?

Marie Curie - Questions and Answers Marie Curie The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911 Marie Curie Marie Curie - Questions and Answers Question: When was Marie Curie born? Answer: Marie Curie was born on 7 November 1867. Question: When did she die? Answer: Marie Curie died on 4 July 1934, in Savoy, France. She died of aplastic anaemia, a blood disease that often results from exposure to large amounts of radiation. Question: Where was she born? Answer: She was born in Warsaw, now the capital of Poland, but at that time the city belonged to the Russian Empire. Question: What was her maiden name? Answer: Her maiden name was Maria Sklodowska. She was also called 'Manya' by her family and friends. She later changed her name to 'Marie' when she moved to Paris, France in later years. Question: What was her family background? Answer: Marie had four brothers and sisters. Both her parents were teachers. Her father was a patriot whose views about an independent Poland often made it difficult for him to keep his job. When Marie was 11 years old, her oldest sister died of typhus and her mother of tuberculosis. Question: What was her educational background? Answer: Marie finished high school at 15, with the highest honours. She worked as a private tutor for children in Poland before moving to Paris, France at the age of 24 to study mathematics and physics at the Sorbonne. Her goal was to get a teacher's diploma and return to Poland. Question: Why did she not return to Poland? Answer: Marie stayed in France after she met a French scientist, Pierre Curie, in the spring of 1894. Pierre was the head of a laboratory at the School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry. She later married Pierre and they had two daughters, Irène , born in 1897, and Eve, born in 1904. Marie and Pierre worked together in the laboratory, which later resulted in a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, making Marie Curie the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize. Question: What was the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for? Answer: Henri Becquerel was awarded half of the prize for his discovery of spontaneous radioactivity. Marie and Pierre Curie were awarded half the prize for their research on the radiation phenomena discovered by Becquerel. Question: What did Marie Curie discover? Answer: Marie Curie studied the radiation of all compounds containing the known radioactive elements, including uranium and thorium, which she later discovered was also radioactive. She also found out that: - you can exactly measure the strength of the radiation from uranium; - the intensity of the radiation is proportional to the amount of uranium or thorium in the compound - no matter what compound it is; - the ability to emit radiation does not depend on the arrangement of the atoms in a molecule; it must be linked to the interior of the atom itself - a revolutionary discovery! When she realized that some uranium and/or thorium compounds had stronger radiation than uranium, she made the following hypothesis: there must be an unknown element in the compound which had a stronger radiation than uranium or thorium. Her work aroused the interest of her husband, Pierre Curie, who stopped his own research on crystals and joined the "detective work" with his wife. And Marie was proven right: in 1898 the Curies discovered two new radioactive elements: radium (named after the Latin word for ray) and polonium (named after Marie's home country, Poland).  Question: Was she awarded another Nobel Prize? Answer: Yes, Marie Curie was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discoveries and studies of the elements radium and polonium. She is the only woman so far, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize twice. Question: Were there other members of Marie Curie's family who were awarded the Nobel Prize? Answer: Yes, Marie and Pierre's (who died in an accident in 1906) daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , sharing it with her husband, Frédéric Joliot, for their synthesis of new radioactive elements. Sources:

In which country is the deepwater port of Belem?

Brazil Country Code 55 Country Code BR About Brazil Hide CountryCode.org is your complete guide to make a call from anywhere in the world, to anywhere in the world. This page details Brazil phone code. The Brazil country code 55 will allow you to call Brazil from another country. Brazil telephone code 55 is dialed after the IDD. Brazil international dialing 55 is followed by an area code. The Brazil area code table below shows the various city codes for Brazil. Brazil country codes are followed by these area codes. With the complete Brazil dialing code, you can make your international call.

In which country was Danny De Vito born?

Danny DeVito - Biography - IMDb Danny DeVito Biography Showing all 61 items Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (4) | Trivia  (44) | Personal Quotes  (7) | Salary  (1) Overview (3) 4' 10" (1.47 m) Mini Bio (1) Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film. Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. His father, Daniel, Sr., was a small business owner whose ventures included a dry cleaning shop, a dairy outlet, a diner, and a pool hall. While growing up in Asbury Park, his parents sent him to private schools. He attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel grammar school and Oratory Prep School. Following graduation in 1962, he took a job as a cosmetician at his sister's beauty salon. A year later, he enrolled at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts so he could learn more about cosmetology. While at the academy, he fell in love with acting and decided to further pursue an acting career. During this time, he met another aspiring actor Michael Douglas at the National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut. The two would later go on to collaborate on numerous projects. Soon after he also met an actress named Rhea Perlman . The two fell in love and moved in together. They were married in 1982 and had three children together. In 1968, Danny landed his first part in a movie when he appeared as a thug in the obscure Dreams of Glass (1970). Despite this minor triumph, Danny became discouraged with the film industry and decided to focus on stage productions. He made his Off-Broadway debut in 1969 in "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth." He followed this up with stage roles in "The Shrinking Bride," and "Lady Liberty." In 1975, he was approached by director Milos Forman and Michael Douglas about appearing in the film version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which would star Jack Nicholson in the leading role. With box office success almost guaranteed and a chance for national exposure, Danny agreed to the role. The movie became a huge hit, both critically and financially, and still ranks today as one the greatest movies of all time. Unfortunately, the movie did very little to help Danny's career. In the years following, he was relegated to small movie roles and guest appearances on television shows. His big break came in 1978 when he auditioned for a role on an ABC sitcom pilot called Taxi (1978), which centered around taxi cab drivers at a New York City garage. Danny auditioned for the role of dispatcher Louie DePalma. At the audition, the producers told Danny that he needed to show more attitude in order to get the part. He then slammed down the script and yelled, "Who wrote this sh**?" The producers, realizing he was perfect for the part, brought him on board. The show was a huge success, running from 1978 to 1983. Louie DePalma, played flawlessly by Danny, became one of the most memorable (and reviled) characters in television history. While he was universally hated by TV viewers, he was well-praised by critics, winning an Emmy award and being nominated three other times. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Danny maintained his status as a great character actor with memorable roles in movies like Romancing the Stone (1984), Ruthless People (1986), Throw Momma from the Train (1987) and Twins (1988). He also had a great deal of success behind the camera, directing movies like The War of the Roses (1989) and Hoffa (1992). In 1992, Danny was introduced to a new generation of moviegoers when he was given the role of The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot in Tim Burton 's highly successful Batman Returns (1992). This earned him a nomination for Best Villain at the MTV Movie Awards. That same year, along with his then-wife Rhea Perlman , Danny co-founded Jersey Films, which has produced many popular films and TV shows, including Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty (1995), Man on the Moon (1999) and

The Chinook blows down which mountains?

Chinook - The Canadian Encyclopedia Science & Medicine Chinook In Canada, the chinook belt lies almost exclusively within southern and central Alberta. The wind occurs in every season, but it is more distinctive and numerous in the winter, when the unseasonable warming it brings differentiates it from the normal cold winter weather. Chinook    Chinook, warm, dry, gusty, westerly WIND that blows down the Rocky Mountains into the mountains' eastern slopes and the western prairies. The chinook, a native word meaning &QUOT;snow eater,&QUOT; belongs to a family of winds experienced in many parts of the world where long mountain chains lie more or less at right angles to the prevailing wind. Examples include the foehn in Europe, the zonda in Argentina and the berg in South Africa. In Canada, the chinook belt lies almost exclusively within southern and central Alberta. The wind occurs in every season, but it is more distinctive and numerous in the winter, when the unseasonable warming it brings differentiates it from the normal cold winter weather. In southwestern Alberta, one in 3 winter days is a chinook day; its frequency drops to one in 5 in the northeast. The maximum daily temperature anomaly associated with the wind ranges from +13°C in the northwest to +25°C in the southeast. The temperature rise at the onset of the event is abrupt and steep; an increase of 27°C in 2 minutes has been observed. The warmth of the chinook is derived primarily from 2 nonmutually exclusive sources. Firstly, the replacement of arctic air (the mean temperature at Calgary's elevation is -24°C) by maritime air (-2°C) improves surface temperatures. Secondly, if the downslope flow occurs following a loss of moisture through precipitation on the windward side of the mountain, the heat used to change the water into vapour (latent heat) is returned to the air parcel and warms it. The downslope flow leeward of the mountain warms the wind further, reducing its relative humidity sometimes down to 25% or less. Wind speed ranges from 16 km/h to 60 km/h, gusting to 100 km/h. The chinook melts snow, dries soil, desiccates vegetation and is a factor in soil erosion. Most people appreciate the chinook because it is a pleasant break from the frigid winter temperatures characteristic of the region. However, a significant minority complain of discomforts ranging from headaches and earaches to depression and attempted suicide. recommended

In which country was Michael J. Fox born?

The Biography of Michael J. Fox: On a Quest to Cure Parkinson's Disease | Parkinson's Disease MICHAEL'S STORY Childhood Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox in 1961 to parents William and Phyllis in Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta. (He later adopted the "J" as an homage to legendary character actor Michael J. Pollard.) Fox, a self-described "Army brat," moved several times during his childhood along with his parents, brother, and three sisters. The Foxes finally planted roots in Burnaby, British Columbia (a suburb of Vancouver), when William Fox retired from the Canadian Armed Forces in 1971. Career Like most Canadian kids, Fox loved hockey and dreamed of a career in the National Hockey League. In his teens, his interests expanded. He began experimenting with creative writing and art and played guitar in a succession of rock-and-roll garage bands before ultimately realizing his affinity for acting. Fox debuted as a professional actor at 15, co-starring in the sitcom Leo and Me on Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) with future Tony Award-winner Brent Carver. Over the next three years, he juggled local theater and TV work, and landed a few roles in American TV movies shooting in Canada. When he was 18, Fox moved to Los Angeles. He had a series of bit parts, including one in CBS' short-lived (yet critically acclaimed) Alex Haley/Norman Lear series "Palmerstown USA" before winning the role of lovable conservative Alex P. Keaton on NBC's enormously popular "Family Ties" (1982-89). During Fox's seven years on "Ties," he earned three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe, making him one of the country's most prominent young actors. "Spin City" reunited Fox with Family Ties creator/executive producer Gary David Goldberg. Together with Bill Lawrence, Goldberg created the series expressly for Fox, establishing it as a joint venture of Dreamworks SKG, Goldberg's UBU Productions, and Lottery Hill Entertainment (run by Fox and partner Nelle Fortenberry, now a member of the Board of Directors of The Michael J. Fox Foundation). Goldberg served as co-executive producer with Fox for Spin City's first and second seasons, and Lawrence stepped in during the third. For the fourth seasons, Rosenthal and Cadiff shared duties with Fox. In other television work, Fox starred in Woody Allen's "Don't Drink the Water" in 1994. He directed Teri Garr and Bruno Kirby in an episode of "Tales From the Crypt" and later directed an installment of the series "Brooklyn Bridge." Fox also had time during his busy TV work to become an international film star, appearing in over a dozen features showcasing his keen ability to shift between comedy and drama. These include the Back to the Future trilogy, The Hard Way , Doc Hollywood , The Secret of My Success , Bright Lights , Big City , Light of Day , Teen Wolf , Casualties of War , Life With Mikey , For Love or Money , The American President , Greedy , The Frighteners , and Mars Attacks! Fox married his "Family Ties" co-star, actress Tracy Pollan, in 1988. Together they have four children. Inspired to find projects that his kids would enjoy, Fox has lent his voice to a variety of hit children's films since the early 1990s. He began as Chance the dog in Disney's Homeward Bound movies. In December 1999, he provided the voice of Stuart Little for the Sony feature of the same name, and in the summer of 2001 Fox's voice was heard as that of the lead in Atlantis The Lost Empire , his first animated feature for The Walt Disney Co. Living and working with Parkinson's disease Though he would not share the news with the public for another seven years, Fox was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's disease in 1991. Upon disclosing his condition in 1998, he committed himself to the campaign for increased Parkinson's research. Fox announced his retirement from "Spin City" in January 2000, effective upon the completion of his fourth season and 100th episode. Expressing pride in the show, its talented cast, writers, and creative team, he explained that new priorities made this the right time to step away

To the nearest million, how mjch did Heavan's Gate lose for United Artists?

Was “Heaven’s Gate” the Worst Movie Ever Filmed in a National Park? | National Parks Traveler Was “Heaven’s Gate” the Worst Movie Ever Filmed in a National Park? By Bob Janiskee on September 1st, 2009 Heaven's Gate set in Glacier National Park. Jim Burnett photo. The 1980 movie Heaven’s Gate, a mega-flop filmed in Glacier National Park , was so wretched that it destroyed the director’s reputation, helped extinct United Artists, and sent Hollywood westerns to the doghouse. As the saying goes, it seemed like a pretty good idea at the time. Back in 1978, director Michael Cimino talked United Artists studio into producing a major western film based on the Johnson County War, a late frontier era (1892) range war in which struggling immigrant ranchers fought an uphill battle against powerful cattle barons and their hired killers in Wyoming’s Powder River Country. It was David vs. Goliath with rustling, lynching, a sheriff’s posse, the Sixth U.S. Cavalry Regiment, and scenic grandeur thrown in for good measure. Cimino would direct this big-budget epic, and boy, did he ever look like a sure thing. Everything was breaking right for him. His 1978 movie The Deer Hunter, now a classic, would walk away with the 1979 Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director. He was a man with the Midas Touch. With a big story, a big director, and a big budget, it wasn’t hard to sign up actors who could carry the weight. The leading roles went to Kris Kristofferson, Isabelle Huppert, and Christopher Walken. The large supporting cast included such notables as Jeff Bridges, Joseph Cotten, Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Mickey Rourke, and Willem Dafoe. Shooting got underway in April 1979 at Glacier National Park, a location that Cimino chose for scenic values, and despite terrible logistical problems (such as the lack of nearby housing for the cast and film crew). Things did not go well from the very outset. Early misgivings gave way to growing despair as the production assumed the tell-tale appearance of a slow-motion train wreck. “Slow” is the key concept. The production fell seriously behind schedule almost immediately and never achieved a comfortable stride. Cimino’s overbearing style angered and frustrated the cast members, yielding an atmosphere in which finely-tuned teamwork became impossible. The filming was much more than routinely difficult, and production costs skyrocketed to around $200,000 a day. This led United Artists bigwigs to rue the fact that they had given Cimino what amounted to a blank check. When the last of the film was finally in the can, a production that was originally budgeted for $11.6 million cost nearly $30 million to shoot and racked up another $10 million or so in other expenses. The final production cost amounted to over $120 million in today’s money. Cimino seemed to lose his sense of “enough” while making this film. He shot an astonishing 220 hours of film to create a movie he first whittled to a hideously long 5 ½ hours and then to a studio-ordered 3 hours and 39 minutes. United Artists released Heaven’s Gate in November 1980, but the studio might as well not have bothered. Getting theater audiences to sit through a very long film is one thing, but getting them to fork over their hard-earned money to sit through a very long and very bad film is quite another. Well before the long-overdue film premiered, word had gotten around that it was a stinker. Film critics savaged it, and the only buzz the movie ever got was bad. The box office in the U.S. was less than $3.5 million, making Heaven’s Gate one of the worst flops in moviemaking history. The aftermath was not pretty. Michael Cimino’s reputation was ruined; Heaven’s Gate even earned the poor guy a Golden Raspberry Award (Razzie) for Worst Director (1982). United Artists, though not financially ruined, ended up being sold off and obliterated for reasons that included being responsible for the Heaven’s Gate fiasco. The western movie genre, which Hollywood had been resurrecting in the 1970s, was dealt a blow from which it has not yet fully recovered. Studios, appalled

From which show does Love Changes Everything come from?

Love Changes Everything Lyrics - Aspects of Love musical Love Changes Everything lyrics Can make the summer fly, Or a night Will turn your world around, And that world Why did I go back to see her...? WOMAN (GIULIETTA) Alex, it's all in the past... ALEX Into the world we go, Planning futures, Waitress Follow us on   Musical: Aspects of Love. Song: Love Changes Everything. Broadway musical soundtrack lyrics. Song lyrics from theatre show/film are property & copyright of their owners, provided for educational purposes ©2017 AllMusicals.com

Under which name did Leonard Slye ride across the silver screen?

Leonard Slye Leonard Slye - Dick Weston - Roy Rogers (Dick Weston photo from the Karl E. Farr Collection)       One of Roy's favorite songs was Bob Nolan's Sky Ball Paint, the humorous story of a bucking horse. Roy often sang it at rodeo appearances but here he sings in on the evening of September 24, 1976, at the KLAC-sponsored tribute paid to The Sons of the Pioneers at the Hollywood Palladium. The  song behind the page is here courtesy of John Fullerton.     The films in which Roy appeared with the Sons of the Pioneers are listed in the Filmography section, complete with photographs from each movie.     Photos and posters are from The Calin Coburn Collection , The Karl E. Farr Collection , Ed Phillips , Michelle Sundin , Kathy Kirchner, Les Adams, Fred Sopher and Elizabeth Drake McDonald.      See also the huge Bruce Hickey Collection of posters, lobby cards, production and publicity stills from the Republic films.     The story of Roy Rogers has been told and retold countless times. For a fuller insight into Roy's life, see the Books and the Bibliography sections for lists of titles. Roy and Dale wrote full biographies twice, Dale wrote several books based on their lives and both Roy's son and daughter wrote the story from their perspective. The following is an outline based on Robert W. Phillips' book, "Roy Rogers", McFarland, 1995, and covers only the years in which Bob Nolan was associated with Roy professionally.                     On November 5, 1911, in a Cincinnati tenement, was born an ordinary boy named Leonard Franklin Slye who grew up to become that extraordinary American icon, Roy Rogers. Today, nearly one hundred years later, Roy's friendly smile still flashes from the old movie channels on TV and he has countless faithful fans all over the world. (To keep it simple, on this page we will refer to Len as "Roy".)         His father, Andrew, was a factory worker and his mother had been crippled by polio. The family was poor in money but rich in affection, laughter and music. The year after Roy was born, the little family moved from Cincinnati into a houseboat where they lived for almost seven years. From the houseboat they moved to a small acreage. Andy could not support his family on the little acreage and was forced to return to factory work in Portsmouth, leaving his wife and the small children to run the farm. Because Roy was the only boy, most of the heavier chores fell on him and he learned quickly how to stretch a penny and to use what was at hand. Because he was needed on the farm, his school attendance suffered. Andy managed to buy his son a black mare named Babe and the youngster did his best to imitate his favorite movie cowboy, Hoot Gibson.         On his twelfth birthday, Roy was given his first rifle, a .22 Winchester, and he was soon adding rabbits to the family fare. About this time, he began playing his parents' guitar for local dances and discovered that he loved to make people happy with his singing and square dance calling. He was a natural entertainer.         In 1928, Roy bought his first guitar in a Cincinnati pawn shop for twenty dollars. He also left school that year and joined his father working in the shoe factory, a job that irked them both. Two years later, the family drove to California for a four-month visit to Roy's older sister and husband. Andy and 19-year-old Roy picked up temporary jobs as truck drivers with no difficulty while they were in California. After Andy and family returned to Ohio, Roy went back to California almost immediately, convinced that his future was on the West Coast.         By 1931 the Depression had settled in and jobs were scarce, even in California. Roy's family sold the Ohio farm and moved out to California, too, along with thousands of other migrant families. None of the jobs Roy picked up lasted long and he finally traveled down to Los Angeles to try to make a living at what he loved most - music. Starting with his cousin, Stanley Slye (whose stage name was Russ Scott), he played every venue op

Who directed The Deer Hunter?

The Deer Hunter (1978) - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC Robert De Niro Writes Meryl Streep a Letter in Support of Her Golden Globes Speech 11 January 2017 12:06 PM, -08:00 | Indiewire a list of 31 titles created 30 Nov 2011 a list of 35 titles created 12 Jun 2013 a list of 25 titles created 30 Nov 2014 a list of 23 titles created 10 Jan 2016 a list of 29 titles created 3 months ago Title: The Deer Hunter (1978) 8.2/10 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Won 5 Oscars. Another 17 wins & 26 nominations. See more awards  » Videos A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. Director: Oliver Stone During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. Director: Francis Ford Coppola An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it. Director: Martin Scorsese Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends, a mafia underboss and a casino owner, for a trophy wife over a gambling empire. Director: Martin Scorsese Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man. Director: Clint Eastwood A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. Director: Stanley Kubrick A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process. Director: Martin Scorsese A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. Director: Michael Mann In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed. Director: Brian De Palma After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. Director: David Lean A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. Director: Milos Forman Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. Director: John G. Avildsen Edit Storyline Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela, and their wedding party also serves as the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors, the three friends fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again. Written by Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl> Best Picture 1978 See more  » Genres: 23 February 1979 (USA) See more  » Also Known As: The Man Who Came to Play See more  » Filming Locations: 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| Dolby Stereo (35 mm prints) Color: Did You Kn

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10 Colorful Facts About 'Teletubbies' | Mental Floss 10 Colorful Facts About 'Teletubbies' YouTube Like us on Facebook It was the show that every baby loved and every parent found annoying, but somehow the Teletubbies took over the world in the late 1990s, much like the way The Beatles did in the 1960s. Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po—the four colorful characters with televisions in their stomachs—demanded hugs, loved to repeat themselves, and became icons of educational television, though many still question just what was to be learned from their antics. Fifteen years after the final episode aired, we're looking behind the scenes of the weird show that somehow just worked. 1. THEY WERE RACIALLY DIVERSE, INSIDE AND OUT. When the Teletubbies sat down with Today to reveal their true identities, fans learned that the actors inside the costumes were as diverse as the characters themselves, and each one added a bit of his or her own culture to the character they portrayed. John Simmit blended reggae into Dipsy’s babytalk, while Pui Fan Lee incorporated Cantonese into Po’s gibberish. In a short film called “ Understanding Teletubbies ,” Tina Wagner from Ragdoll Productions and educational consultant Faith Rogow revealed that body color and height are not the only differences between the four characters. “They also have different skin tones in their faces,” Rogow said. “All of that is very purposeful.” 2. THEY LOOK LIKE ALIENS BUT WERE INSPIRED BY ASTRONAUTS. Teletubbies co-creator Andrew Davenport told The Guardian that when writing the show, he was inspired by the moon landings and the physical appearance of the astronauts. “It struck me as funny that, at this pinnacle of human achievement, the figures that emerged in bulky spacesuits from landing capsules are like toddlers, with oversized heads and foreshortened legs,” he said, “and they respond to the excitement of their new world by bouncing about. So I devised characters based on spacemen, with limited language just like the emergent speech of young children.” 3. THEY’RE A LOT TALLER THAN THEY LOOK. Because the Teletubbies only appear on the show in their fake world, there is nothing to compare them to besides each other. Wagner revealed in the short film that in costume, Tinky-Winky is almost nine feet tall. 4. THE RABBITS IN TELETUBBYLAND WERE ALSO MASSIVE. Teletubbies co-creator Anne Wood revealed in an interview with The Guardian that those cute and fluffy rabbits that appear in the show are not your average pet bunnies. “They needed to be big to fit in with the scale,” Wood said. There was also a problem with their health. “The only suitable ones we could find had been bred on the continent to be eaten,” Wood revealed. “We gave them perfect conditions, running free over the Teletubby grasslands, but their breeding had given them enlarged hearts, and almost weekly the animal trainer would greet me in distress and tell me another had died.” 5. IT WAS THE BBC’S BIGGEST BRAND. According to the BBC'S annual report for 1998/1999, Teletubbies was its leading brand with over $46 million in revenue. At the time, they were seen by children in 120 countries and territories and aired in 20 languages. 6. THEY SUED WAL-MART. Because the Teletubbies brand was so big, it had to be protected. In 1999, they sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for selling blatant knockoffs called Bubbly Chubbies. “It's not flattery. It's just illegal," Kenn Viselman, the chief executive of the company that marketed the Teletubbies in the United States, told the Los Angeles Times . A spokesperson said that Wal-Mart would “never knowingly infringe on copyright or trademark law,” but the company later agreed to stop selling the toys and destroyed the rest of the inventory. 7. SOME PEDIATRICIANS PROTESTED. In 1999, the German Association of Pediatricians argued that Teletubbies was bad for children because it (and other shows like it) caused “uncontrollable television consumption in later years.” The doctors also questioned the educational value of the show. 8. TAYLOR SWIFT WAS A FAN. A photo posted by Taylor Sw

Who was the most recent Democrat before Clinton to be reelected for a second term as US President?

American History: Bill Clinton’s Second Term American History: Bill Clinton’s Second Term Last Updated: March 01, 2012 A poster advertises a book about President Clinton at a Beijing bookstore in May 1998, shortly before he visited China. The poster declares his troubles as the "number one sex scandal in the world." Share STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. This week in our series, we look back at Bill Clinton's second term as president. BILL CLINTON: “For four years now, to realize our vision, we have pursued a simple but profound strategy – opportunity for all, responsibility from all, a strong united American community.” Americans elected Clinton as their forty-second president in nineteen-ninety-two and re-elected him four years later. (MUSIC) President Clinton speaks to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 1997 In the summer of nineteen ninety-six, President Clinton's first term was coming to an end. He had established a mixed record of successes and failures in his dealings with Congress. He had greater difficulty in those dealings after opposition Republicans won control of Congress in nineteen ninety-four. All presidents face political battles. But in President Clinton's case there was more to it. He and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, were being investigated over their personal financial dealings in Arkansas during the nineteen eighties. There were also accusations of womanizing from his years as governor of that state. But in the summer of ninety-six President Clinton's public approval ratings stayed above fifty percent and went as high as sixty percent. The economy had improved during his first term. Americans were getting jobs and spending more money. More people, and not just the wealthy, were investing in the stock market. In August of nineteen ninety-six the Democratic Party met in Chicago and nominated President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore for a second term. BILL CLINTON: “My fellow Democrats and my fellow Americans, thank you for your nomination. I don’t know if I can find a fancy way to say this, but I accept.” (MUSIC) The Republican Party held its nominating convention that summer in San Diego, California. The party chose former Kansas senator Bob Dole as its presidential candidate. He had resigned from the United States Senate to seek the nomination. He chose former congressman and cabinet secretary Jack Kemp of New York as his vice presidential running mate. Dole was a World War Two hero who suffered a permanent injury to his right arm. He later served four terms in the House of Representatives. He was elected to the Senate in nineteen sixty-eight and re-elected four times. Another candidate in the presidential race was businessman Ross Perot. He won the nomination of the Reform Party which he started a year earlier. He had also run for president in nineteen ninety-two, and received nineteen percent of the popular vote. During the ninety-six campaign, President Clinton pointed to the stronger economy. He also campaigned on his legislative record, including new gun-control measures and a higher minimum wage for the lowest paid workers. Bob Dole, in his campaign, accused President Clinton of spending too much. Clinton's answer was that he had stopped Congress from cutting too much from programs like health insurance for retirees. Bill Clinton and Al Gore easily won the election, defeating Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. Ross Perot received just eight percent of the popular vote this time. Clinton became the first Democrat to win a second term since Franklin Roosevelt in nineteen thirty-six. (MUSIC) William Jefferson Clinton began his second term as president of the United States on January twentieth, nineteen ninety-seven. His inaugural speech would be the last by an American president in the twentieth century. BILL CLINTON: “Let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great good fortune that time and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century, in a new mille

For what did Georgie O'Keefe become famous?

Georgia O'Keeffe's Biography Georgia O'Keeffe's Biography Beginning Years: Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. Georgia knew from an early age that she was going to be an artist. She and her sister were taught early on to draw by a grammar school teacher and were taught to paint by a local watercolor artist. In 1905, Georgia graduated and continued her art studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she was the recipient of top honors during her first year. In September of 1907, she resumed her studies at New York's Art Student League, earning a scholarship. In 1912, Georgia took a teaching job at the Chatham Episcopal Institute. A year later, she applied for and was hired for a teaching position as a drawing supervisor in Texas. But after years of teaching and having almost no time for herself, she decided it was time to paint again. What resulted was a series of charcoal drawings she says were based on images she had in her head. She sent these drawings to her friend in New York, Anita Pollitzer. Against Georgia's wishes, she showed them to Alfred Stieglitz, famous photographer and owner of Gallery 291 . His reaction to her drawings was overwhelming stating "At last, a woman on paper!" He decided to show her drawings without her permission. When she found out, she traveled to New York to confront him but he convinced her to keep them on display, gaining a fair amount of buzz. Her Life with Alfred and After his Death: In 1923, Stieglitz held a major exhibit of O'Keeffe's work at the Anderson Galleries, the first of many of her showings. The following year, Stieglitz and his wife of 31 years divorced and he quickly asked Georgia to marry him. That same year marked the first time O'Keeffe painted a large, magnified flower which she would become famous for. Stieglitz and O'Keeffe moved to the Shelton Hotel in New York and lived there for the next 12 years where Georgia would be inspired to paint the magnificent views from their 30th floor apartment. But three years later, she felt the need to travel and took a trip to New Mexico which would change her life for good. Georgia returned to New Mexico every summer until 1946, when her husband died. Only then did she decide to move from New York and permanently reside in New Mexico, calling it "her land". And though her husband had passed away, she continued to exhibit her work. In 1951, O'Keeffe made her first trip to Mexico where she met the artists Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo, and Miguel Covarrubias. She spent the next decade traveling throughout the world and her fame continued through the 1950's and 60's. Over the years, her eyesight began to deteriorate and painting became difficult. She could no longer paint without some assistance. She hired the help of Juan Hamilton who helped her as much as possible. She did her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. In between this time, she received numerous awards and honors. In 1984 O'Keeffe moved to Santa Fe to live with Juan Hamilton and his family. Her only regret at the continuing loss of her eyesight was "that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore... unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone." One year later, she died, March 6, 1986 at the age of 98. Her body was cremated and Hamilton scattered her ashes over her beloved 'faraway'. Biographies: On these pages, you will find information that sheds light on the life of the gre

A-Ha sang the title song for which Bond film?

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Which Russian writer wrote Cancer Ward?

Cancer Ward | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Macmillan Powells The Russian Nobelist's semiautobiographical novel set in a Soviet cancer ward shortly after Stalin's death One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study of people facing terminal illness and a brilliant dissection of the cancerous Soviet police state. Cancer Ward, which has been compared to the masterpiece of another Nobel Prize winner, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. While the experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own—Solzhenitsyn became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered—the patients, as a group, represent a remarkable cross section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes, both under normal circumstances and then reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. A seminal work from one of the most powerful voices in twentieth century literature, Cancer Ward offers an extraordinary portrait of life in the Soviet Union. CONNECT WITH

Which summer month is the title of an album by Eric Clapton?

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In the Simpsons, which Hollywood superstar provided Maggie's first word?

Maggie Simpson | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] Personality Despite being the only member of the Simpson Family who can't speak, Maggie is in no way one-dimensional and has many different layers of personality. She appears to be somewhat detached from the rest of the Simpson Family and is described as "the forgotten Simpson" by Homer . When she, Bart and Lisa were shipped to a foster home (the Flanders) Maggie was the quickest to adapt and almost joined them until she noticed Marge . Perhaps Maggie's most strained relationship was with her father, Homer but due to his incredible laziness he neglected Maggie and when they do try to bond, Maggie sees her father as a kind of monster and actually tries to run away, she also developed a father-daughter relationship with Moe the bartender but the two still love each other and Maggie has more than once saved Homer's life. Not to mention she said her first word, "Daddy" after Homer tucked her in and kissed her goodnight meaning it's clear that she loves him as much as he does her. Maggie's strongest relationship was with Marge after being transported to a foster family. Maggie almost joined the Flanders until she saw Marge once again "and became a Simpson again." At the beginning Maggie seemed to rely on Marge and the likewise but eventually she became fiercely independent as she was able to plan a Great Escape-style breakout from a daycare center to get her pacifier back, she was able to save her father from drowning and rescue Homer from a mad tow truck driver. Despite being a baby, Maggie is likely to be the most mature member of the Simpson family . However, she keeps her intelligence a secret in order to be babied. This is first revealed when Marge gives her a new pacifier, and when Marge isn't looking she smokes it like a cigarette. Even for a child her age, showed extremely violent mannerisms and a surprising amount of physical strength. She was able to lift up a mallet and bludgeon her father with it and accidentally shot Mr. Burns after he blocked out the sun. Maggie showed to be incredibly strong, able to drag a fully-grown man back to the shore and able lift up a shotgun. Biography When Marge became pregnant with Lisa, she and Homer bought their first home. Seven years later, Homer felt financially secure enough to quit his job at the power plant and take his dream job at Barney's Bowlarama . Soon after, Marge became pregnant with Maggie, and unable to support his new family member, Homer reapplied for his job at the power plant. Homer fell into a deep depression as a result, but when he held Maggie for the first time after she was born he loved her at first sight. He keeps all of Maggie's baby photos in his office to cheer him up at his work place. Like average toddlers, Maggie is impressionable and easily influenced by what she sees around her. She once hit Homer on the head with a mallet, (Born 2010) shot a suction dart at his picture and brandished a pencil in imitation of Itchy and Scratchy . Despite her age, Maggie is a formidable sniper [10] and she shot the firearms off a group of mobsters in rapid succession with a rifle. [11] She was behind the attempted murder of Mr. Burns [12] and she fought Gerald during the St. Patrick’s Day riot, participating the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. [13] When the family's house was being raided by an angry mob, she was able to smash her baby bottle and use it as a makeshift weapon, and she knocked out Russ Cargill , the head of the EPA with a rock when he was about to shoot Homer with a shotgun. [14] Maggie is often frightened of her father's attempts to bond with her, even though she does love him. Instead, Maggie shows a much stronger devotion to her mother instead, possibly because Marge is always at home with her while Homer is mostly at work or at Moe's . She is keenly aware of her surroundings, and can usually be seen imitating the flow of action around her. Like Bart , Lisa and Homer , she is not fond of spending time with her aunts Patty and Selma . It is also known that she dislikes Baby

Which writer came up with Catch 22 in the 60s?

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition: Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley: 9781451626650: Amazon.com: Books By David B. on June 25, 2015 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase While Catch-22 can put people off due to being hard to follow or absurd, once you get accustomed to the writing style you come to love this book and really get caught up in the characters. Heller manages to discuss many of the darker aspects of war through Yossarian's experiences, but he is able to do so using irony and humor to make points more effectively than would be possible through a book that was entirely dark and bleak. Rare is a book such as this that can make you think so much about real issues while keeping you not just entertained but thoroughly enjoying the story and even laughing at the humorous and frequently absurd turns in events throughout the tale. By vijaynara on April 8, 2015 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase It's a hard read but well worth it. The book's background is about second world war and how the rationale behind lots of decisions could be self interest of individuals, stupidity and profiteering. I think the same thing applies to pretty much any realm of life -- a lot of corporate decision making definitely falls into this.. Even in individual homes, head of households can frequently make wrong decisions for him/herself or on behalf of family members, more due to lack of knowledge and empathy... The book ends with the message that each individual is responsible for his own life and can't just blindly let someone else make decisions for them or let things just happen.. Take charge of your own life.. By George J Caspar on October 11, 2016 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase This book is too clever by half. I imagine when it was first written the clever, sarcastic style seemed novel. To me, however, it became tiring. I got the joke or point of the book that the military bureaucracy and bureaucracies in general become absurd environments in which to operate. However, this joke and point could have been more effectively demonstrated in 100 pages rather than 500. The fact that the story never built up to a any sort of payoff convinces me that this would have been much more satisfying as a short story. In summary the book was well written, clever and even funny at points but far too long to justify spending the time to read it in my opinion. By Laszlo Hopp on January 11, 2014 Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase It is a bizarre story staged in a small island of WWII Italy. We meet Yossarian, the veteran bombardier protagonist in a hospital where his imaginary liver pain causes an uncrackable puzzle to a bunch of incompetent army physicians. We also learn that, along with other officers, Yossarian is charged to censor the letters of the enlisted soldiers' to their loved ones. Yossarian first shows his rebellious nature by censoring the letters with the utmost irresponsibility. This act of his left me puzzled through the whole story - what was I missing? - To hide his mischief, he usually signs his reviews with the assumed name of Irwin Washington--except for one letter that he signs as his good friend, Chaplain Tappman. Toward the end of the book, the poor chaplain with his gentle soul gets into a whole lot of trouble because of this faked signature. From these humble beginnings, the plot takes on as the literary equivalent of "Family Guy;" an irreverent US animated sitcom series. The main conflict builds between Yossarian and his bombardment squadron leader, Col. Cathcart, because of increasing numbers of required missions. Although the colonel has the choice of requesting fresh crews, he wants to distinguish himself by the highest number of missions per crew in the entire Air Corps. It quickly becomes evident that Col. Cathcart doesn't have much more to impress his superiors with. Most chapters are methodically built around various characters who interact with Yossarian. Although this structure gives a sense of monotony and choppiness to the chapters, Heller manages to hold the story coherent with the help of the vibrant Yossaria

Bourgas international airport is in which country?

Bourgas (Burgas) International (Sarafovo) Airport, Bulgaria (BOJ) - Guide & Flights Bourgas (Burgas) International Airport, otherwise known as Sarafovo Airport, is located 6Km North of Bourgas on the Black Sea coast, eastern Bulgaria. Bourgas airport has separate arrivals and departures terminal buildings, located within 50m of each other. A new passenger terminal (Terminal 2) was opened in late 2013 when Terminal 1 closed. The airport has immediate access to the E87 coastal road to Burgas and the Black Sea resorts of Slunchev Bryag, Nessebur, Elenite and Dyuni are nearby. A bus service runs between the airport and Bourgas approximately every half hour during the day. A free shuttle bus runs between Bourgas and Varna airports upto 4 times per day. Facilities include 3 cafes/bars, a duty free shop, VIP lounge, money exchange, and FREE WiFi internet access. Approximately 2.4 million passengers passed through Bourgas airport in 2015, a decrease of 7% compared to the previous year. Flights to Bourgas (Burgas) International Sarafovo Airport from UK or Ireland airports

Who did Pope John Paul II succeed as Pope?

The Secret of Pope John Paul II’s Success | None | Catholic Family News The Secret of Pope John Paul II’s Success 26/04/14 08:38 The Secret of Pope John Paul II’s Success by John Vennari   Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen said in 1974, “We live in a sensate age. We are no longer governed by Faith, we are no longer governed by reason. We are governed by feelings.” The outpouring of naked emotion at the death of Pope John Paul II proves these words true. It is expected that Catholics worldwide would grieve and pray for the departed Pontiff, as it is a fitting expression of filial piety. But the effusion over John Paul II was a good bit more. Cardinals, bishops, priests, religious and laity vied with each other to canonize him as “John Paul the Great”. Politicians and non-Catholic religious leaders praised him for his humanity and for his outreach to other religions. He was praised for his leadership, praised for his popularity with youth, praised for his travels, his poetry, his writings. He was praised for his trail-blazing style, his being a man of the people. his “theology of the body”, his media savvy, his evangelizing, his charisma, his humor. The pop-star Bono lauded John Paul as the “funky Pontiff”, calling him “the best front-man the Church ever had.” Yet nowhere in this tsunami of sentiment did I see anyone praise him for achieving the primary purpose of the papacy: unswervingly fidelity to the teachings and traditions of the Catholic Church as taught and practiced throughout the centuries. Nowhere did I see him praised for preserving the purity of doctrine and the maintenance of discipline in the Church worldwide. Pope John Paul II was not praised for this because he did not achieve it. And for a Pope to fail in this area is to fail mightily. True, Pope John Paul II held the line on the Church’s teaching against women priests, married priests, and spoke consistently against divorce, abortion and euthanasia. He is hated by liberals for maintaining these teachings, and this is to his credit. But for the most part, amidst the seemingly endless adulation over Pope John Paul II after his death, no one seemed to judge his papacy by the only measuring rod that counts: the infallible and immutable Catholic Faith of all time. All was sentiment, all was emotion, all was feelings. There are many reasons why Pope John Paul II was so loved by the modern world. The core reason, in my opinion, is because of a central aspect of his New Evangelization — a new approach that cut him loose from the one hard truth that made all pre-Vatican II popes unpopular. Unburdened by this fundamental truth, he could easily mix with men of all religions, and of no religion, with little fear of invoking their displeasure. The New Approach On the day of Pope John Paul II’s death, I received a phone call from a young lady in New Zealand, a friend of the family. She presently works in a situation where she interacts with Muslims and Hindus. When she tells these non-Catholics, with gentleness and charity, they must convert to the one true Catholic Church to save their souls, the Muslims and Hindus laugh at her. “Your Pope doesn’t believe that”, they cackle, referring to John Paul II, “Your Pope doesn’t teach that. Your Pope’s interfaith actions don’t convey that. Your Pope prays with the Dalai Lama and with Hindus. Your Pope visits mosques and kisses the Koran. You are out-of-step with your own Pope. Why should we listen to you?” Two Catholic young men of my acquaintance, debating with a Protestant Minister, were likewise laughed to scorn when they in-formed the Protestant he must become Catholic to be saved. “What?”, said the Protestant, “You obviously don’t read the writings of your own Pope. He prays with Protestants. He praises Martin Luther as a man of ‘deep religiousness’. He calls Protestants ‘disciples of Christ’. He never says it is necessary to become Catholic for salvation.” Brother Roger of the ecumenical Taize Community, a place that was dear to Pope John Paul’s heart, said that during the Papal visit to Taize on October 5, 1986, John Paul II

"Who described his paintings as ""hand-painted dream photographs?"""

MoMA | Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931 See this work in MoMA’s Online Collection Salvador Dalí frequently described his paintings as “hand painted dream photographs.” He based this seaside landscape on the cliffs in his home region of Catalonia, Spain. The ants and melting clocks are recognizable images that Dalí placed in an unfamiliar context or rendered in an unfamiliar way. The large central creature comprised of a deformed nose and eye was drawn from Dalí’s imagination, although it has frequently been interpreted as a self-portrait . Its long eyelashes seem insect-like; what may or may not be a tongue oozes from its nose like a fat snail from its shell. Time is the theme here, from the melting watches to the decay implied by the swarming ants. Mastering what he called “the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,” Dalí painted this work with “the most imperialist fury of precision,” but only, he said, “to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality.” There is, however, a nod to the real: the distant golden cliffs are those on the coast of Catalonia, Dalí’s home. A work of art made from paint applied to canvas, wood, paper, or another support (noun). Glossary What’s Freud Got to Do with It? Salvador Dalí was very interested in Sigmund Freud’s writings on psychology. An Austrian psychologist writing in the late-19th and early-20th century, Freud revolutionized the way people think about the mind with his theory of the subconscious. The subconscious is the part of the psyche that thinks and feels without the person being aware of those thoughts and feelings. According to Freud, dreams are coded messages from the subconscious, and Surrealist artists like Dalí were interested in what could be revealed by their dreams. Madness to His Method? Dalí self-induced hallucinations in order to access his subconscious while creating art, a process he called the paranoiac-critical method . On the results of this process, he wrote, “I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images I see appear upon my canvas. I register without choice and with all possible exactitude the dictates of my subconscious, my dreams….” Although he claimed to be surprised by the images, Dalí rendered them with meticulous precision, creating the illusion that these places could exist in the real world. Dalí, in his typically ironic way, once proclaimed, “The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad.”

What was the full first name of the President who gave his name to Teddy Bears?

Teddy bear history Your Site for Teddy Bear and Stuffed Animal Information and Fun ... Fun And Games Teddy Bear History Teddy Bears got their name from Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. In 1902, the president went bear hunting in Mississippi without success, so members of his party caught a bear cub, tied it to a tree, and offered it to the president as an easy trophy. The president refused. The event was drawn by a cartoonist for the Washington Post the next day. The cartoon emphasized the helplessness of the bear and conveyed the message that Roosevelt would not make decisions for the wrong reasons. Roosevelt's popularity soared as a result of his actions and the cartoon. Morris and Rose Michtom made a stuffed bear in honor of the president's actions. Teddy Bears name is based on one of two stories. One story is that the president gave the Michtom's permission to christen the new stuffed toy bear "Teddy Bear". The other story is that at President Roosevelt's daughter's wedding, bears decorated the tables. When a guest asked what breed of bear they were, a guest said, "Why, they're Teddy Bears, of course". By 1908, over 20 companies were making stuffed teddy bears in the United States alone and teddy bears were on their way to a love affair with all of us that continues today.

Donald Woods escaped from where in 1979, later the subject of the film Cry Freedom?

George Fenton, Jonas Gwangwa, Jonas Gwangwa - Cry Freedom: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Amazon.com Music By Judy K. Polhemus on July 29, 2008 Format: DVD When I was a high school English teacher and read and discussed "Cry, the Beloved Country" with my seniors, I always showed "Cry Freedom" in conjunction. Students were mesmerized. While the novel was set in South Africa with apartheid partly responsible for the crime that takes place, apartheid is as much a major character as Stephen Biko or Donald Woods in the movie. In case you are confused, "Cry, the Beloved Country" is the lyrical novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948 and set in South Africa, Paton's homeland. Three racial groups, lived together, not in harmony, there: the Dutch, who later called themselves Afrikaaners, who settled there three hundred years earlier and believed they sere sent by God to take control; the English who settled everywhere; and the native groups, of which Bantu was one. This novel is a moving testament to the forgiving nature of men and how two men from totally different worlds can come together in grace and acceptance. In "Cry Freedom," the film based on the nonfiction book by the same name, is a story of Stephen Biko, a black South African political activist who understood the inherent dangers in being an activist but lived by the creed that a man has to do what a man has to do. He is befriended in respect and admiration by a white American journalist, Donald Woods. Their two stories are equally important because of the consequences of their actions. Denzel Washinton performs the role of Biko as if he was Biko--I was that convinced. His South African accent is perfect. I personally believe this is the best acting role of his distinguished career. Kevin Kline is also excellent and performs one of my favorite roles he has ever played. Biko brashly challenges the Afrikanner government and is banned from ever speaking again. Read more ›

Which Austrian wrote The Psychopathology of Everyday Life?

The Psychopathology of Everyday Life | IndieBound A Community of Independent Local Bookstores The Psychopathology of Everyday Life The Psychopathology of Everyday Life W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393006117, 432pp. Publication Date: September 17, 1990 List Price: $19.95* * Individual store prices may vary. Buy at Local Store Enter your zip code below to purchase from an indie close to you. or Buy Here Description It is filled with anecdotes, many of them quite amusing, and virtually bereft of technical terminology. And Freud put himself on the line: numerous acts of willful forgetting or "inexplicable" mistakes are recounted from his personal experience. none of such actions can be called truly accidental, or uncaused: that is the real lesson of the Psychopathology.

"Who said, ""Some women get excited about nothing-- and then they marry him?"

The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing, and then they marry him... - Quote Conversation A bit about Cher ... Cher, born Cheryl Sarkisian LaPiere on May 20, 1946, is an American pop/rock singer, songwriter, actress, director, author and all-around entertainer. Through her achievements in music, television and film, she has won an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy and 3 Golden Globe Awards, among others. She first rose to prominence in the mid 1960s as one half of the pop/rock duo Sonny & Cher. She also established herself as a solo artist, releasing 26 albums, numerous compilations and achieving 22 Top 40 hits, (including 12 Top 10 and 4 #1 hits) over her career. She became a successful television star in the 1970s and a serious film actress in the 1980s. In 1988, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck. In a career that has now surpassed 40 years, Cher has emerged a pop-culture icon and one of the most enduring and respected entertainers of her time. These people bookmarked this quote:

Who is the famous mother of Elijah Blue?

Cher's son Elijah Blue reveals rift with mother in explosive new interview | Daily Mail Online Cher's son Elijah Blue reveals rift with famous mother after he eloped to marry girl and his recovery from heroin addiction in explosive new interview Cher has so far not congratulated them on their engagement or marriage The singer did not invite them to the family Christmas He nearly died after contracting Lyme disease but his mother questioned whether it was ‘imaginary’ Cher ‘haunted’ by Elijah’s troubled childhood and it’s a ‘real regret’ for her He’s a recovering heroin addict and has been to rehab ‘several times’

What was the occupation of Roger Moore's father?

Roger Moore Roger Moore Executive summary: James Bond after Sean Connery Military service: Military Intelligence (required National Service, 2nd Lt.) Roger Moore grew up in London, and lived through the blitz during WWII. As a young man, he worked as a model and, briefly, as a draftsman, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his film debut with a tiny role as a soldier in two 1945 films, Caesar and Cleopatra with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh and Perfect Strangers with Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr . But Moore was mostly seen as a TV actor, after starring as Ivanhoe in a 1958-59 series, and The Alaskans the following season. When James Garner refused to play Bret on Maverick in 1961, Moore was brought in to star as his cousin Beauregarde. Moore and Tony Curtis were The Persuaders in the early 1970s. Moore is best remembered on the small screen as Simon Templar, the lead spy in The Saint, which prefigured his role as James Bond. Moore made dozens of movies, but none were particularly memorable until Sean Connery refused to reprise his role as James Bond, and Moore became 007 in Live and Let Die (1973). Moore was three years older than Connery, and in Moore's final Bond film, A View To A Kill in 1985, he was 58, making him the oldest actor to play Bond. Moore's Bond was seen as somewhat silly, with wisecracks always at the ready, many of which were improvised by Moore. Father: George Moore (London policeman) Mother: Lillian Pope (housewife) Wife: Doorn Van Steyn (ice skater, m. 9-Dec-1946, div. 1953) Wife: Dorothy Squires (singer, m. 6-Jul-1953, div. 1968, d. 1995 cancer) Wife: Luisa Mattioli (actress, m. 11-Apr-1969, div. 1996, one daughter, two sons) Son: Geoffrey Robert Moore (restaurateur, b. 28-Jul-1966) Daughter: Deborah Moore (actress, b. 27-Oct-1963) Son: Christian Moore (b. 1973) Wife: Kristina Tholstrup ("Kiki", Danish stewardess, dated 1996-2002, m. 10-Mar-2002)     Golden Globe 1980 for World Film Favorite, Male