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Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン Hepburn: Shin Seiki Evangelion) is a Japanese anime series directed by Hideaki Anno, and produced by Gainax and Tatsunoko Production. It is set 15 years after a world-wide disaster. The main characters are teenagers that pilot giant robots called "Evangelions" to fight giant monsters called "angels". The imagery is inspired by Christianity and Judaism, depression, and philosophy. The show was liked by critics, but the ending made many fans angry. The film End of Evangelion was released in 1997, acts as a different version of the show's ending. Other related media, including several manga, soundtracks, and the Rebuild of Evangelion film series.

Related pages
 List of Neon Genesis Evangelion characters

References 

Anime
Václav Benda

Václav Benda (August 8, 1946 in Prague – June 2, 1999 in Prague) was Czech right-wing and anticommunist politician. During the communist dictatorship in Czechoslovakia he signed Charter 77. He was in prison from 1979 to 1983. After the Velvet Revolution, Benda co-founded the Christian-Democratic Party which later became part of the Civic Democratic Party. His son Marek Benda is also a Czech politician and member of the Civic Democratic Party.

1946 births
1999 deaths
Czech politicians
County borough

A county borough  was a type of local government district in England until abolished in 1974.

Local government powers were divided between county councils and urban or rural districts.

For example: rural districts may not be able to maintain footpaths or street lighting because of their size.  Urban districts were based in a town and were able handle these jobs.  Schools were the responsibility of county councils because districts were too small to run all types of schools themselves.

A county borough was a town big enough to run all its own local government, so the local county council had no power inside the county borough.

Political systems
Local government in England
1974 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
20th-century disestablishments in England
Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell (born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell on April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina) is an American movie actress.

Personal life 
From 1986 until 1999 Andie was married to Paul Qualley. They have three children, son Justin Qualley (born 1986) and two daughters Rainey Qualley (born 1989) and Sarah Margaret Qualley (born 1995).

From 2001 until 2004 she was married to Rhett DeCamp Hartzog.

Movies

 Barnyard (2006)
 Tara Road (2005)
 Beauty Shop (2005)
 Dinner with Friends (2001)
 Crush (2001)
 Harrison's Flowers (2000)
 The End of Violence (1997)
 Muppets from Space (1999)
 Multiplicity (1996)
 Michael (1996)
 Unstrung Heroes (1995)
 Bad Girls (1994)
 Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
 Short Cuts (1993)
 Groundhog Day (1993)
 The Player (1992)
 The Object of Beauty (1991)
 Hudson Hawk (1991)
 Green Card (1990)
 sex, lies, and videotape (1989)
 St. Elmo's Fire (1985)
 Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

Other websites

 
 

1958 births
Living people
Actors from South Carolina
American movie actors
American television actors
Goths

Goth can also stand for a member of the Goth subculture

The Goths (Gothic: , Gutans) were an East Germanic tribe. They spoke the Gothic language. Jordanes was a scholar from the 6th century who wrote a summary of a twelve volume work by Cassiodorus about the Goths. Jordanes work is commonly called Getica. The original work by Cassiodorius was lost, Getica is the only surviving contemporary account about the Goths. According to this book they left Scandinavia via Gotland and settled close to the mouth of the Vistula river (in present day Poland). In the 3rd and 4th centuries they settled Scythia, Dacia and parts of Moesia and Asia Minor. In the 3rd and 4th centuries, they fought with the Roman Empire and later adopted Arianism (a form of Christianity). 

In the 4th and 5th centuries, they split into the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. With this move, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in Italy and on the Iberian peninsula (now Spain & Portugal).  Traces of Gothic blood can be found in many people </u>.

References 

Germanic tribes
Ancient Rome
Ripening

Ripening is when fruit becomes easier to eat. Some fruits, like the tomato or the mango, will continue to ripen after they have been picked. Other fruits, like the cherry or fig, stop ripening once they have been picked.

Fruits
HTTP cookie

An HTTP cookie (usually just called a cookie) is a simple computer file made of text.  The information stored by cookies can be used to personalise the experience when using a website.  A website can use (the information used by) cookies to find out if someone has visited a website before and record information (data) about what they did.

When someone is using a computer to browse a website, a personalised cookie file can be sent from the website’s server to the person’s computer.  The cookie is stored in the web browser on the person’s computer. At some time in the future, the person may browse that website again. The website can send a message to the person’s browser, asking if a cookie from the website is already stored in the browser.  If a cookie is found, then the data that was stored in the cookie before can be used by the website to tell the website about the person’s previous activity.  Some examples where cookies are used include shopping carts, automatic login and remembering which advertisements have already been shown.

Cookies have been a problem for Internet privacy. This is because they can be used to track browsing behavior. Because of this, laws have been made in some countries to protect people's privacy. There are many other options than cookies, but each option has its own problems.

Cookies have often been mistaken for computer programs. But cookies cannot do much on their own. They are simply a piece of data. They are often called spyware or viruses, but they are not either of these.

Most web browsers allow users to choose whether to accept cookies. If the user does not allow cookies, some websites will become unusable. For example, shopping baskets which use cookies do not work if the user does not allow cookies.

Internet
Chinese calendar

The Chinese calendar, also known as the "agriculture calendar" (農曆/农历), is a lunisolar calendar (yinyangli). It was used until 1912 when the Gregorian calendar was adopted. This is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes.  It was developed in part from a lunar calendar (陰曆 yinli) and in part from a solar calendar (陽曆 yangli).

History
The current version of the Chinese calendar was developed for the Chongzhen Emperor in the 17th century.  It has

Today in China the Gregorian calendar is used for most activities. At the same time, the Chinese calendar is still used for traditional Chinese holidays like Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year.

Related pages
 Sexagenary calendar

References

Other websites
  Gregorian-Lunar Calendar Conversion Table

Chinese culture
Calendars
Music for the Royal Fireworks

Music for the Royal Fireworks is a group of five pieces for orchestra composed by George Frideric Handel in 1749. He was asked by King George II to write the music because the king wanted some music and fireworks to celebrate the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. This was an agreement between a lot of European countries to end the war they had been fighting.

The king wanted the celebrations to take place in Green Park in London. He wanted the orchestra to have lots of military instruments such as trumpets and drums and “hoped there would be no violins”! He wanted the orchestra to have a rehearsal in Vauxhall Gardens to which the public would be able to go. Handel was not very happy with these arrangements, but in the end he agreed.

The rehearsal in Vauxhall Gardens took place on 21 April. This was just for the music, there were no fireworks. There were 12,000 people in the audience. The huge crowds caused a three hour traffic jam on London Bridge. The tickets for entrance cost 2s 6d (two shillings and six pence, worth 12 ½p in modern money).

Six days later the real performance took place in Green Park. The orchestra played in a building which had been specially made. The music was played while the fireworks went off. Unfortunately there was a disaster. The building caught fire when a huge bas relief of the king fell down. However, no one was hurt.

The music has five movements: an overture, a Bourrée, a movement called La paix (The Peace), La réjouissance (The Rejoicing), and two minuets.

Handel wrote the music for a large orchestra with 24 oboes, 12 bassoons (including a contrabassoon), nine trumpets, nine horns, three pairs of kettledrums, and a number of side drums. On 27 May Handel conducted the music again at a special concert for the Foundling Hospital. This time he used a normal orchestra with string instruments and wind instruments. This is the way it is usually played today.

Compositions by George Frideric Handel
Thora Birch

Thora Birch (born March 11, 1982) is an American actress. She was one of the most popular child actors of the 1990s in movies, such as Patriot Games (1992), Hocus Pocus (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Now and Then (1995) and Alaska (1996). Since the 1990s she has had more serious roles, with good acting in movies, such as American Beauty (1999) and Ghost World (2001).

Other websites
 
 
 Official Thora Birch Site
 Thora Birch on Tom Green Live 
 Thora Birch interviewed by Todd Solondz Interview magazine

1982 births
Living people
Actors from Los Angeles
American child actors
American movie actors
American television actors
Sophia Loren

Sophia Loren (born 20 September 1934) is an Italian actress, one of the best known and most popular of Italian actresses.

Life and career

Born Sofia Scicolone in Rome, Italy, out of wedlock. She grew up in Puzzuoli, near Naples, raised by her single mother in poverty.

In 1950, she entered a beauty contest and was noticed by film producer Carlo Ponti (1912-2007) who took her under his wing. With his help and guidance, she began appearing in bit parts in film, and got her first major role in director Vittorio De Sica's The Gold of Naples in 1954.

Ponti made her learn English and took her to Hollywood. Her first film there was The Pride and the Passion in 1957, opposite Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra. This was followed by Desire under the Elms (1958) with Anthony Perkins, Houseboat (1958) with Cary Grant, Black Orchid (1958) with Anthony Quinn, It Happened in Naples (1960) with Clark Gable, Heller in Pink Tights (1960) with Anthony Quinn, A Breath of Scandal (1960) with John Gavin.

Back in Italy, she was reunited with Vittorio De Sica in La Ciocara (Two Women) in 1961, which won her the Academy Award and the BAFTA for best actress.

Thereafter, she pursued her career both in Italy and the United States, appearing in films such as El Cid (1962), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964), Marriage Italian Style (1964), Arabesque (1966), The Countess from Hong Kong (1967), The Man from La Mancha (1972), The Cassandra Crossing (1976), etc.

Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti were first married on 17 September 1957, but Ponti being Catholic his divorce from his first wife was not recognized in Italy and the marriage was declared invalid. Ponti took French citizenship and after being legally divorced, he and Loren were remarried on 9 April 1966, and had two sons; Carlo (b. 1968) and Eduardo (b. 1973). The Italian former model and politician Alessandra Mussolini is her niece.

Other websites 

 
 
 Official website 
 All Movie Guide biography of Loren 
 

Academy Award Honorary Award winners
Academy Award winning actors
Actors from Campania
Actors from Rome
BAFTA Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
1934 births
Living people
Helen Hunt

Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born June 15, 1963) is an American actress. She has won the Emmy, Golden Globe and Academy Awards. She is best known for her role in the television sitcom Mad About You.

Awards 
Hunt has been given many awards in her career. In 1998 she became one of only two actresses (the other is Helen Mirren) to win a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year. She is the only actress to win four consecutive Emmys and to win four Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.

Academy Award
 1998 Best Actress in As Good as It Gets

Emmy Award
 1996 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You
 1997 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You
 1998 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You
 1999 Outstanding Lead Actress in Mad About You

Golden Globe Award
 1994 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You
 1995 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You
 1997 Best Performance by an Actress in Mad About You
 1998 Best Performance by an Actress in As Good as It Gets

Screen Actors Guild Award
 1995 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Mad About You
 1998 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in As Good as It Gets

Television series 
 Amy Prentiss (1974)
 The Swiss Family Robinson (1975)
 It Takes Two (1982)
 The Fitzpatricks
 My Life and Times (1991)
 Mad About You (1992)
 Empire Falls (2005)

Filmography

References

Other websites 
 

Actors from Culver City, California
Academy Award winning actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
Emmy Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Screen Actors Guild Award winners
1963 births
Living people
Jane Seymour (actress)

Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg on 15 February 1951) is an English actress. Her father was a Jew from England whose family was from Poland. Her mother was a Dutch Protestant. Seymour is known as the co-star of the James Bond movie Live and Let Die and star of the TV series and movie Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Famous movies
 Live and Let Die (1973)
 Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
 Battlestar Galactica (1978)
 Somewhere in Time (1980)
 The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982)
 Lassiter (1983)
 Head Office (1985)
 War and Remembrance (1988)
 Wedding Crashers (2005)

Other websites 
 
 
 
 
 Official website
 Jane Seymour cast bio on The WB
 Jane Seymour: Actress, Artist, and Heart-Health Activist
 Official Somewhere In Time website
 Official fan website (FriendsOfJane.com)

1951 births
Living people
Actors from Middlesex
Actresses who played Bond girls
Emmy Award winning actors
English movie actors
English television actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Goldie Hawn

Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, director and producer. Her mother was an American Jew of Hungarian immigrant parents. One of her early roles was as a cast member of Laugh-In, a comedy series on NBC television. She won the Academy Award and the Golden Globe Award in 1969 for her work in Cactus Flower. She then left Laugh-In to continue her movie career.

Hawn is famous for her acting in many movie comedies during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Her son, Oliver Hudson, is a television and movie actor. Her daughter is Kate Hudson, who is an actress and has been nominated for an Oscar. Hawn has another son, Wyatt Russell, whose father is actor Kurt Russell, Hawn's longtime partner.

References

Other websites 
 
 
 

Academy Award winning actors
Actors from Washington, D.C.
American Buddhists
American movie actors
American television actors
Jewish American actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
1945 births
Living people
Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress. She has starred in several romantic comedies, but has also worked in other movie genres, including drama and mystery.

Movies

Television work 
 One of the Boys (1982) (canceled after 13 episodes)
 As the World Turns (cast member from 1982-1984)
 Wildside (1985) (canceled after 6 episodes)
 Captain Planet and the Planeteers (member from 1990-1991) (voice)
 The Simpsons (Voice of Stacy Swanson)

References

Other websites 
 
 Meg Ryan Info
 Parkinson interview part 1
 Parkinson interview part 2
 

Actors from Fairfield, Connecticut
American movie actors
American movie producers
American television actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
1961 births
Living people
Dennis Quaid

Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954 in Houston, Texas) is an American actor.

Movies 
 Crazy Mama (1975)
 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
 September 30, 1955 (1977)
 Are You in the House Alone?,  (1978)
 Our Winning Season (1978)
 The Seniors (1978)
 Breaking Away (1979)
 The Long Riders (1980)
 Gorp (1980)
 All Night Long (1981)
 Caveman (1981)
 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (1981)
 Stripes (1981)
 Tough Enough (1983)
 Jaws 3-D (1983)
 The Right Stuff (1983)
 Dreamscape (1984)
 Enemy Mine (985)
 The Big Easy (1987)
 Innerspace (1987)
 Supsect (1987)
 D.O.A. (1988)
 Everybody's All-American (1988)
 Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
 Come See the Paradise (1990)
 Postcards from the Edge (1990)
 Wilder Napalm (1993)
 Undercover Blues (1993)
 Flesh and Bone (1993)
 A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
 Wyatt Earp (1994)
 Something to Talk About (1995)
 Dragonheart (1996)
 Gang Related (1997)
 Switchback (1997)
 Savior (1998)
 The Parent Trap (1998)
 Playing by Heart (1998)
 Any Given Sunday (1999)
 Frequency (2000)
 Traffic (2000)
 Dinner With Friends (2000)
 The Rookie (2002)
 Far from Heaven (2002)
 Cold Creek Manor (2003)
 The Alamo (2004)
 The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
 In Good Company (2004)
 Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
 Yours, Mine and Ours (2005)
 American Dreamz (2006)
 Vantage Point (2007)
 Smart People (2007)
 The Horsemen (2007)
 Battle of Terra (2008) (voice)
 Shame on You (2008)
 Vantage Point (2008)
 The Express (2009)
 Pandorum (2009)
 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
 Legion (2009)
 Horsemen (2009)
 Soul Surfer (2011)
 Footloose (2011)
 Beneath the Darkness (2011)
 The Words  (2012)
 Reagan (2021)

Other websites 

 
 D.Q. and the sharks Dennis Quaid's Band

1954 births
Living people
Actors from Houston, Texas
American movie actors
British Academy of Film and Television Arts

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a British organisation that gives awards at a special show every year, for movies, television, children's movies and television, and media.  The award for movies is called the British Academy Film Awards.

BAFTA was created in 1947 as The British Film Academy. In 1958, the Academy joined with The Guild of Television Producers and Directors and together they formed The Society of Film and Television.  This later became The British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1976.

BAFTA's main office is on Piccadilly in London, but it also has smaller offices in Northern England, Scotland, Wales, New York City and Los Angeles.

The Academy's awards are in the form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, which was ordered by the Guild of Television Producers in 1955.

Other websites
 BAFTA official site
 BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards site 
 BAFTA Cymru site 
 BAFTA Scotland site 
 Museum of Broadcast Communications: BAFTA 
 IMDB: BAFTA 
 The most-honored films nominated for BAFTA Best Film
 Up to date news and reviews of BAFTA Films 

BAFTA Awards
Essay

An essay is a written text. It is usually about the personal point of view of the author who wrote it. The definition of an essay is vague.  Articles and short stories can be quite similar.  Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been called essays (e.g. Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). People that write essays are called essayists.

Most essays are short. This does not have to be the case. John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus's An Essay on the Principle of Population are long essays.

Essays can have all sorts of purposes. For example, an essay can be very argumentative, it can talk about points for and against the essay question to give a balanced argument or opinion. Essay must be essential and give some new points about topics. Its must be useful to readers.

Types
argument led approach. An argumentative essay is a critical piece of writing, aimed at presenting objective view of a subject matter. It is narrowed down to a single topic. 
thesis led approach. A thesis statement based essay follows a thesis which supports a particular case.
cause and effect, 
problem and solution, 
comparison and contrast, 
description, 
classification, 
analysis, 
argument and evidence, 
procedural sequence, 
chronological ordering.

Argumentative Essay 
The argumentative essay is a genre of writing that requires the student to investigate a topic; collect, generate, and evaluate evidence; and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner. The structure of the argumentative essay is held together by coherence, logical arguments, evidential support, and a conclusion.   Some examples of argument essay topics are 'Is polygamy evil or not?', 'Are US elections always fair?'

Thesis Essay 
This is a genre of essay where a stance is presented in an essay using a thesis statement. A thesis statement is one or more sentence that expresses the main idea of a research paper or essay, such as an expository essay or argumentative essay. It makes a claim, directly answering a question. The thesis statement serves as a guide for the readers throughout the whole entire essay.

References
Black Beauty

Black Beauty is the name given to a children's book by Anna Sewell. 

A horse named Black Beauty is the main character in the book. In this book, the horse tells a story about his own life and experiences. 

The story begins with Black Beauty being a comfortable and free young horse living with his mother. When he is old enough, he is sold from farm to farm and is owned by different people. Through his adventures, Black Beauty meets many people, the kind and the cruel. He also makes new friends and experiences many difficulties. The book was published in 1877.

It was banned in South Africa during the Apartheid era because of the title, even though it was about a horse.

References

Other websites

Children's books
1877 books
Hayden Christensen

Hayden Christensen (born April 19, 1981) is a Canadian actor. He was in Canadian television programs when he was young, then he went to act into American television in the late 1990s. He did minor acting roles before being praised for his role of Sam in Life as a House. He became very famous worldwide by playing the young adult Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars movies.

Personal life
Christensen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and raised in Thornhill, Ontario. In 2007, he began dating actress Rachel Bilson. They met while making Jumper. They became engaged on December 25, 2008. In mid-2010, the couple split up, but were dating again a few months later. 

Christensen performed a public service announcement for Do Something's Teens for Jeans Campaign in 2008. He was a model in Louis Vuitton's advertising. He is in RED’s new Lazarus Effect Campaign, which is to increase awareness for its efforts to fight AIDS in Africa.

Filmography

References

Other websites
 
 
 Hayden Christensen profile at NNDB.
 Hayden Christensen Interview, Hayden Christensen talks about his role as Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 Hayden Christensen doing Gumball 2007

1981 births
Actors from Toronto
Actors from Vancouver
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Living people
Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a style of comedy where the comedian speaks directly to the audience. A person who performs stand-up comedy is known as a stand-up comic, stand-up comedian, or simply stand-up. It is usually done by a single comedian, and with the help of a microphone. The comedian normally speaks quickly many funny stories and short jokes (called bits). This is called a monologue, routine or act. Some stand-up comedians use music or magic tricks in their acts. Stand-up comedy is usually done in comedy clubs, bars, colleges, and theaters. However, there is no restriction on where it can be done. Many smaller clubs, bars, and restaurants do "open microphone" events where amateur comedians can perform comedy before a live audience, offering a way for the performers to become better and possibly become professional comedians.

Related pages
 List of stand-up comedians
 Rakugo – Japanese verbal entertainment
 Manzai – style of stand-up comedy in Japan
 Open mike – live show where audience members may perform at the microphone

Comedy
Theatrical forms
Car wash

A car wash is a place to clean the outside, and sometimes the inside, of automobiles. 

There are many different types of car washes. These are the three main groups:  
self-service that are usually coin-operated,
In-Bay Automatics are machines that roll back and forth over an automobile while washing it,
"tunnel washes" push or pull the automobile through a line of cleaning machines that do not move.

In a modern car wash soaps and other chemicals used are based on milder acids and alkalies. Early car washes often used hydrofluoric acid, a hazardous chemical. Many car washes are now required by law to treat and reuse their water.

There are two types of foam: polish and wax. Polish is cheaper and may be harder to rinse, sometimes becoming solid  in its holding tank. Wax is more expensive, but rinses well and covers the vehicle with a lighter and puffier foam.

Other websites

Car Washes at howstuffworks
International Carwash Association
Car Wash Environmental Reports
Information on Car Wash Investing
Self Service Car Wash  

Automobiles
Midbrain

The mesencephalon or midbrain is a part of the brain stem. It is associated with vision, hearing, motor control, sleep/wake, arousal (alertness), and temperature regulation. 

In the anatomy of developing animals, the brain forms from the neural tube, which turns into three vesicles. The mesencephalon (midbrain) is the middle vesicle, and becomes part of the brain stem. 

The mesencephalon is ancient in origin, meaning its general architecture is shared with the most ancient of vertebrates. Dopamine produced in the substantia nigra plays a role in motivation and habituation of species from humans to insects.

References 

Anatomy of the brain
Dakota Fanning

Hannah Dakota Fanning (born February 23, 1994) is an American actress and model. She is best known for her starring roles in the movies Dreamer, Hounddog, and Fragments (also known as Winged Creatures).

Early life
Fanning was born in Conyers, Georgia. Her mother, Heather Joy (née Arrington), played tennis professionally and her father, Steven J. Fanning, played minor league baseball and now works as an electronics salesman in Los Angeles, California. Her maternal grandfather is former American football player Rick Arrington, and her aunt is former ESPN reporter Jill Arrington. Dakota is the elder sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress.

Fanning is of English, French, Irish and German ancestry. She and her family are Southern Baptist.

Child actress 
Dakota was famous for her performance at age seven in the 2001 film I Am Sam. This earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award at age eight in 2002, as the youngest nominee in history.

Later, she appeared in high-profile films such as Man on Fire (2004), War of the Worlds (2005) and Charlotte's Web (2006). Fanning then began the transition to more adult roles with Hounddog (2007) and The Secret Life of Bees (2008). Her recent film roles have included the named character in Coraline (2009), Cherie Currie in The Runaways (2010), Annie James in "The Motel Life" (2013), and Jane in The Twilight Saga (2009–12).

References

Other websites
 

Actors from Georgia (U.S. state)
American Baptists
American child actors
American movie actors
American television actors
American voice actors
1994 births
Living people
Hindbrain

The rhombencephalon (or hindbrain) is a name for parts of the central nervous system in vertebrates.

Additional images

Anatomy of the brain

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Spanish broom

Spanish broom (Spartium junceum, syn. Genista juncea), also known as weaver's broom, is a perennial, leguminous shrub that grows in the Mediterranean region in southern Europe, southwest Asia and northwest Africa, where it is found in sunny sites, usually on dry, sandy soils. It is the sole species in the genus Spartium, but is closely related to the other brooms in the genera Cytisus and Genista.

Spanish broom typically grows to 2-4 m tall, rarely 5 m, with main stems up to 5 cm thick, rarely 10 cm.

References
Germplasm Resources Information Network: Spartium junceum 

Broom, Spanish
Salvia

Salvia is a genus in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is one of three genera commonly referred to as Sage. Sage generally means common sage (Salvia officinalis). This genus includes shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals. Different species of sage are grown as herbs and as ornamental plants. The ornamental species are commonly referred to by their scientific name Salvia.

References and other websites 
 A Book of Salvias: Sages for Every Garden by Betsy Clebsch, Timber Press, 1997, . An excellent reference on salvias. Also, an updated (2004 edition) is available.
   ITIS 32680 2002-09-06
 Akhondzadeh S, Noroozian M, Mohammadi M. R. 2003, Salvia Officinalis extract in the treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease: A double blind and placebo-controlled  trial. British Journal of Pharmacology, Vol. 140, p22P-22P, 1/2p

Herbs
Common sage

Common sage (Salvia officinalis) is a small evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to  purplish flowers that grows in southern Europe and the Mediterranean region. 

It is much cultivated as a kitchen and medicinal herb, and is also called Garden sage, Kitchen sage, and Dalmatian sage. In southern Europe similar species are sometimes cultivated for the same purpose, and may be confused with the common sage. 

It likes warm, quite dry soil with some shade but it will grow in almost any garden soil. It can live through winter but after three to five years the plant is past its best and should be replaced.

Related pages
 Salvia

References
 The Herb Society of America New Encyclopedia of Herbs & Their Uses,i like herbs Deni Bown (New York: DK, 2001)
 A Modern Herbal Mrs M Grieves (Surrey, UK: Merchant, 1973)

Other websites 

Medicinal use: from appliedhealth.com 
Medicinal use, modern and historical: from botanical.com

Herbs
Lamiaceae
Subshrub

A subshrub (Latin suffrutex) is a woody perennial plant. Gardeners use the word to distinguish plants from a shrub that have lower height, typically less than 10–20 cm tall, or that are only weakly woody and/or persist only for a few years. Small, low shrubs such as lavender, periwinkle, and thyme, and many members of the family Ericaceae, such as cranberries, are often classed as subshrubs.

Shrubs
Vinca

Vinca (from Latin  vincire "to bind, fetter") is a genus of five species in the family Apocynaceae, that grows in Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. The common name, shared with the related genus Catharanthus, is Periwinkle.

They are subshrubs or herbaceous, and have slender stems 1–2 m (3–6 feet) long but not growing more than 20–70 cm (8-30 inches) above ground; the stems frequently take root where they touch the ground, so the plant can spread widely

References

Blamey, M., & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. Hodder & Stoughton.
Huxley, A., ed. (1992). New RHS Dictionary of Gardening 4: 664-665. Macmillan.

Other websites 

Flora Europaea: Vinca
Virtual Flowers Vinca 

Apocynaceae
Shikoku (dog)

The Shikoku is a Japanese breed of dog. Other names for it is Tosa-ken. It is different from Tosa-touken. It looks like Japanese Wolf. It has a life span of ten to twelve years.

Dog breeds
Eddie Murphy

Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, comedian, producer, singer and writer. He won the Golden Globe Award in 2006 and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002.

He has received Golden Globe Award nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Beverly Hills Cop III, Trading Places, and The Nutty Professor. In 2007, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James "Thunder" Early  in Dreamgirls, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role.

His work as a voice actor includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in the Shrek series and the dragon Mushu in Disney's Mulan. In some of his films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in Dr. Strangelove and elsewhere. Murphy has played multiple roles in Coming to America, Wes Craven's Vampire In Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films (where he played the title role in two incarnations, plus his father, brother, mother and grandmother), Bowfinger and 2007's Norbit.

His brother was comedian and screenwriter Charlie Murphy, who wrote the screenplay for Norbit and Vampire in Brooklyn. 

He was a usual member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has worked a little as a singer too, having a number 87 on the uk singles chart and number 2 on the billboard hot 100 with Party All The Time  and a uk singles chart number 64 with I Was A King.

Career
In 1992 Murphy acted in the music video for Michael Jackson's single "Remember the Time". In 1993 Murphy released a song with Michael Jackson called "Whatzupwitu".  It was voted by MTV viewers in 1999 as the third worst music video of all time.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

Other websites 

 
 
 Eddie Murphy on Discogs
 Eddie Murphy Media Site 
 Maxim Rated Top SNL performer
 Eddie Murphy.co.uk 

1961 births
Living people
Actors from New York City
African American comedians
African-American movie actors
African American movie producers
African-American screenwriters
African-American television actors
African-American voice actors
American stand-up comedians
American television producers
American television writers
Comedians from New York City
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Movie producers from New York City
Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Screenwriters from New York City
Jennifer Connelly

Jennifer Lynn Connelly (born December 12, 1970) is an American movie actress. She also worked as child model. Although she has been working in the movie industry since she was a teenager and became famous for her roles in movies like Labyrinth and Career Opportunities, she did not become a big movie star until the 2000 drama Requiem for a Dream, and the 2001 biopic film A Beautiful Mind, for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Movies
 
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Dario Argento's World of Horror (1985) (documentary)
Phenomena (1985)
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985)
Labyrinth (1986)
Some Girls (1988)
Ballet (1989)
The Hot Spot (1990)
Career Opportunities (1991)
The Rocketeer (1991)
Of Love and Shadows (1994)
Higher Learning (1995)
Mulholland Falls (1996)
Far Harbor (1996)
Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
Dark City (1998)
Waking the Dead (2000)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Pollock (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Hulk (2003)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
Dark Water (2005)
Little Children (2006)
Blood Diamond (2006)
Reservation Road (2007)
Born (2008)
9 (2009)
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Creation (2009)
Alita: Battle Angel (2018)

Other websites

Jennifer Connelly interview 

1970 births
Living people
American movie actors
Academy Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
BAFTA Award winning actors
Actors from New York
Judy Garland

Judy Garland (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. She got international fame as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. She got a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award. She also won Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. She was nominated for the Academy Award for "Best Actress" for her role in the remake of A Star is Born. She also got a nomination for "Best Supporting Actress" for her performance in the 1961 movie, Judgment at Nuremberg. She was the youngest person to be given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in the movie industry.

Garland was in vaudeville with her two older sisters. She was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She made more than two dozen MGM movies. Nine of these movies co-starred Mickey Rooney. Her most famous MGM movie was The Wizard of Oz of 1939. She worked with MGM for 15 years. She went on to make record-breaking concert appearances.

Garland had personal problems throughout her life. She did not like the way she looked. Her feelings were made worse by movie executives who told her she did not look good. They changed the way she looked physically in movies. She also had financial problems. She often owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes. She married five times. Her first four marriages ended in divorce. She had a long struggle with alcohol and drug use during most of her career. She died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 47. She had three children. They are Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft, and Joey Luft.

In 1997, Garland was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award years after her death. Several of her recordings have been sent to the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 1999, the American Film Institute placed her among the ten greatest female stars in the history of American movies.

Related pages
Judy Garland as gay icon

Other websites

Judy Garland Page On The Oldies Music Guide
Judy Garland On The Oldies Radio Station
Judy Garland at HighBeam
The Judy Garland Database
The Judy Room
The Judy Garland Online Discography
The Judy Garland Birthplace and Museum in Grand Rapids, MN
The Judy Garland Club: established 1963; official international Club supported by Judy during her lifetime
 Judy Garland - The Live Performances
 Judy Garland: By Myself - American Masters special
 

1922 births
1969 deaths
Actors from Minnesota
American movie actors
American stage actors
Drug-related accidental deaths in the United Kingdom
Episcopalians
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Grammy Award winners
Singers from Minnesota
Stage names
Tony Award winning actors
Vaudeville performers
Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 ) is an American actress and singer, who has won the Oscar and the Tony Award, and also many others. 

She was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, She is the daughter of famous actress and singer Judy Garland and her second husband, movie director Vincente Minnelli. She acted and sang in many famous movies, including Cabaret. Her half sister is actress and singer Lorna Luft.

Movies

 In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
 The Long, Long Trailer (1954) (scenes deleted)
 Charlie Bubbles (1967)
 The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)
 Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
 Cabaret (1972)
 Just One More Time (1974) (short subject)
 That's Entertainment! (1974) (narrator)
 Journey Back to Oz (1974) (voice)
 Lucky Lady (1975)
 Silent Movie (1976)
 A Matter of Time (1976)
 New York, New York (1977)
 Arthur (1981)
 The King of Comedy (1983)
 The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
 That's Dancing! (1985)
 Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) (voice)
 Rent-A-Cop (1987)
 Arthur 2: On the Rocks (1988)
 Stepping Out (1991)
 A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
 Unzipped (1995) (documentary)
 The OH in Ohio (2006)

References

Other websites

 
 The Liza Minnelli Rules Website
 Genealogy 
 Liza Online  (UK fan site)
 Liza Minnelli  (Official site)
 Liza May Minnelli  (European fanclub)
 The Muppet Show - Liza Minnelli episode

1946 births
Living people
Academy Award winning actors
Actors from Hollywood
American movie actors
American musical theatre actors
American stage actors
BAFTA Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Tony Award winning actors
Yul Brynner

Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985) was a Broadway and Hollywood actor. He was born in Russia. He moved to the United States and became an American citizen. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is famous for his role as the Siamese king in the musical The King and I on theater and in the movie, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille movie The Ten Commandments and as Chris Adams in The Magnificent Seven.  He played a killer robot in the 1976 science fiction film Westworld.

He was known for his shaved head which he kept as a personal sign since his role in The King and I.

He is mentioned in the song "One Night in Bangkok".

Other websites 

 
 
 
 

1920 births
1985 deaths
Academy Award winning actors
American movie actors
American stage actors
American television actors
American television directors
Cancer deaths in New York City
Deaths from lung cancer
Naturalized citizens of the United States
Russian movie actors
Russian television actors
Tony Award winning actors
Vladivostok
Robert Redford

Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18, 1937), is a retired  American movie actor, director, producer, businessman, and model. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford has kept his appeal as the decades pass.

In August 2018, Redford officially announced his retirement from acting.

Movies

Actor 
 Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
 This Property Is Condemned (1966)
 The Chase (1966)
 Barefoot in the Park (1967)
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
 Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
 The Candidate (1972)
 The Hot Rock (1972)
 The Sting (1973)
 The Way We Were (1973)
 The Great Gatsby (1974)
 Three Days of the Condor (1975)
 The Great Waldo Pepper (1975)
 All the President's Men (1976)
 A Bridge Too Far (1977)
 The Electric Horseman (1979)
 Brubaker (1980)
 The Natural (1984)
 Out of Africa (1985)
 Legal Eagles (1986)
 Havana (1990)
 Sneakers (1992)
 Indecent Proposal (1993)
 Up Close & Personal (1996)
 Spy Game (2001)
 The Last Castle (2001)
 All Is Lost (2013)
 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
 Pete's Dragon (2016)
 The Discovery (2017)

Director 
 Ordinary People (1980)
 The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)
 A River Runs Through It (1992)
 Quiz Show (1994)
 The Horse Whisperer (1998)
 The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Producer 
 ''Chicagoland (2014)

References

Other websites 
 
 the Sundance Institute
 Sundance Resort
 

Kennedy Center honorees
Academy Award Honorary Award winners
Academy Award winning directors
Actors from Santa Monica, California
American movie actors
American television actors
BAFTA Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning directors
Movie directors from California
Movie producers from California
1937 births
Living people
Salvia pratensis

Salvia pratensis (Meadow Clary or Meadow Sage; syn Salvia virgata) is a perennial sage in the family Lamiaceae, that grows in Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. 

It is a herbaceous perennial plant and grows up to 1.5 m tall. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, the leaves on the lower part of the stem up to 15 cm long, higher up the stem they are smaller. The flowers are dark blue-purple, rarely pink or white. 

It is usually grows in unimproved soils, which is typical for grasslands, scrub edges, and woodland borders.

It is grown as an ornamental plant.

Other websites 
Salvia pratensis 

Salvia
Raymond Burr

Raymond William Stacey Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor and vintner, famous for his roles in the television dramas Perry Mason, for which he was awarded two Emmy Awards, and Ironside.

Burr's mother was of English and Scottish ancestry; his father was Irish.

Burr may have been a closeted homosexual.

References

Other websites
French biography of Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr Performing Arts Centre - New Westminster, BC
Raymond Burr Vineyards 

1917 births
1993 deaths
Actors from British Columbia
Canadian LGBT people
Canadian movie actors
Canadian television actors
Cancer deaths in the United States
Deaths from kidney cancer
Gay men
LGBT actors
Emmy Award winning actors
Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress who has been nominated for the Oscar three times. Pfeiffer has appeared in movie such as Scarface, The Witches of Eastwick, Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Batman Returns, Wolf and Hairspray.

Personal life 
Since 1981 until 1988 she was married to Peter Horton.

Since November 13, 1993 she is married to David E. Kelley. They have two children, Claudia Rose Kelley (born in May 1993, was adopted) and son John Henry Kelley (born on August 5, 1994).

Filmography

References

Other websites 

 
 
 

American movie actors
American television actors
BAFTA Award winning actors
Golden Globe Award winning actors
Actors from Santa Ana, California
1958 births
Living people
NNDB

NNDB, standing for Notable Names Database, produced by Soylent Communications, is an online database of biographical information of notable people. As of March 2007, NNDB contains more than 60,000 articles for over 22,000 important people. Readers may suggest additions or corrections which are later checked by a NNDB staff member.

References

Other websites 
 NNDB - Notable Names Database
 Village Voice article, October 7th, 2005 

Websites
Vascular plant

The vascular plants, or tracheophytes, are plants that have specialized tissues for conducting water, minerals, and photosynthetic products through the plant. They include the ferns, clubmosses, horsetails, flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms. They are often called the higher plants.

The vascular plants are set apart in two main ways:
 Vascular plants have vascular tissues, which circulate resources through the plant.  This feature allows vascular plants to grow to a larger size than non-vascular plants, which lack these specialized conducting tissues and are therefore restricted to relatively small sizes. 
 In vascular plants, the principal generation phase is the sporophyte, which is diploid with two sets of chromosomes per cell.

Water transport happens in either xylem or phloem: xylem carries water and inorganic solutes upward toward the leaves from the roots, while phloem carries organic solutes throughout the plant.

Members
Spore-bearing vascular plants
Equisetophyta ~ horsetails
Lycopodiophyta ~ clubmosses, spikemosses, quillworts
Pteridophyta ~ ferns

Seed-bearing vascular plants - Superdivision Spermatophyta
Pinophyta ~ conifers
Cycadophyta ~ cycads
Ginkgophyta ~ ginkgoes
Gnetophyta ~ gnetophytes
Magnoliophyta ~ flowering plants

Related pages
Non-vascular plant
Embryophyte

References