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Title: Magnum, P.I.
Content: In 1981, series creators and writers Glen A. Larson and Donald P. Bellisario received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV Series. Golden Globe Awards Primetime Emmy Awards Other Awards On September 16, 2017, a group of 45 men dressed as Thomas Magnum were ejected from a Detroit Tigers game for smoking and catcalling women in the park. The story quickly became one of international interest as the group, from nearby Allen Park, Michigan gave dozens of interviews to newspapers, magazines, radio stations, podcasts and more. Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released

Title: Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series)
Content: Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series) Magnum P.I. is an American crime drama television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim. It is a reboot of the series of the same name created by Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson, which aired from 1980 to 1988. It stars Jay Hernandez as the title character alongside Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Amy Hill, and Tim Kang. The pilot was directed by Justin Lin. It was ordered to series on May 11, 2018, and premiered September 24, 2018, on CBS. On October 19, 2018, it was announced that the

Title: Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series)
Content: 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews." Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series) Magnum P.I. is an American crime drama television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim. It is a reboot of the series of the same name created by Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson, which aired from 1980 to 1988. It stars Jay Hernandez as the title character alongside Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Amy Hill, and Tim Kang. The pilot was directed by Justin Lin. It was ordered to series on May 11, 2018, and premiered September 24, 2018, on CBS. On October

Title: Magnum P.I. (2018 TV series)
Content: series had received a full season order from CBS. On October 20, 2017, CBS announced a pilot commitment for a remake of the original series to be written by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim. The pilot would be co-produced by CBS Studios and Universal Television, the latter of which holds the rights to the original series. In February 2018, CBS announced that pilot production had been greenlit. Justin Lin was set to direct. On May 11, 2018, the network picked up the series. Co-creator and executive producer Peter M. Lenkov will serve as the showrunner. On May 16, 2018,

Title: Magnum, P.I.
Content: Magnum, which never made it to series. In October 2017, CBS announced they had issued a pilot commitment for a reboot of the series, to be developed by Peter M. Lenkov, who has helped reboot other series like "Hawaii Five-0" and "MacGyver" for the network. CBS officially ordered the pilot three months later, along with one for a reboot of another hit 1980s television series for the network, "Cagney & Lacey", as well as one for 1990s favorite "Murphy Brown". On February 20, 2018, actor Jay Hernandez was cast as Thomas Magnum. Magnum, P.I. Magnum, P.I. is an American crime

Question: Who was creator and executive producer of Magnum PI?
Answer: Donald P. Bellisario
Title: CBS
Content: in debt as a result of a failed takeover effort by Ted Turner, which CBS chairman Thomas Wyman successfully helped to fend off. The network sold its St. Louis owned-and-operated station KMOX-TV, and allowed the purchase of a large portion of its shares (under 25 percent) by Loew's Inc. chairman Laurence Tisch. Consequently, collaboration between Paley and Tisch led to the slow dismissal of Wyman, with Tisch taking over as chief operating officer, and Paley returning as chairman. By the end of the 1987–88 season, CBS had fallen to third place behind both ABC and NBC for the first time,

Title: CBS
Content: with the advent of talkies. The deal came to fruition in September 1929: Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time. The agreement specified that Paramount would buy that same stock back by March 1, 1932 for a flat $5 million, provided CBS had earned $2 million during 1931 and 1932. For a brief time there was talk that the network might be renamed "Paramount Radio", but it only lasted a month – the 1929 stock market crash sent all stock value tumbling. It galvanized Paley and his troops,

Title: CBS
Content: partly hindered any possibility of success in that field. In 1955, CBS purchased animation studio Terrytoons Inc. from its founder Paul Terry, not only acquiring Terry's 25-year backlog of cartoons for the network but continuing the studio's ongoing contract to provide theatrical cartoons for 20th Century Fox well into the 1960s. During the 1960s, CBS began an effort to diversify its portfolio, and looked for suitable investments. In 1965, it acquired electric guitar maker Fender from Leo Fender, who agreed to sell his company due to health problems. The purchase also included that of Rhodes electric pianos, which had already

Title: William S. Paley
Content: the Murrow Boys. In 1946, Paley promoted Frank Stanton to president of CBS. CBS expanded into TV and rode the post-World War II boom to surpass NBC, which had dominated radio. CBS has owned the Columbia Record Company and its associated CBS Laboratories since 1939. In 1948, Columbia Records introduced the 33-1/3-rpm long-playing vinyl disc to successfully compete with RCA Victor's 45-rpm vinyl disc. Also, CBS Laboratories and Peter Goldmark developed a method for color television. After lobbying by RCA President David Sarnoff and Paley in Washington, D.C., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the CBS system, but later reversed

Title: Laurence Tisch
Content: Tisch's death, the corporation had revenues of more than $17 billion and assets of more than $70 billion. In 1986, CBS Inc. was the target of several hostile takeover attempts by the likes of Ted Turner, Marvin Davis, and Ivan Boesky. Tisch was invited by CBS to invest in the company so as to help stop the hostile advances. Tisch spent $750 million for a 24.9% stake in CBS and a seat on the board. Later, with the support of company patriarch William S. Paley, he was named the company's president and CEO. The Tisch era at CBS was marked

Question: Who bought CBS in 1929 and remained on the board until 1983?
Answer: William S. Paley
Title: Dick Van Dyke
Content: Dick Van Dyke Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer, whose entertainment career has spanned seven decades. He first gained recognition on radio and Broadway, then he became known for his role as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show", which ran from 1961 to 1966. He also gained significant popularity for roles in the musical films "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963), "Mary Poppins" (1964), "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968), and "Mary Poppins Returns" (2018). His other prominent film appearances include roles in "The Comic" (1969), "Dick

Title: Dick Van Dyke filmography
Content: Dick Van Dyke filmography Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer, and producer. He first gained recognition on radio and Broadway, then he became known for his role as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show", which ran from 1961 to 1966. He also gained significant popularity for roles in the musical films "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963), "Mary Poppins" (1964), and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968). On television, he is known for his roles in "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" (1971–74), "" (1993-2001), and "Murder

Title: The Dick Van Dyke Show
Content: The Dick Van Dyke Show The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961 to June 1, 1966, with a total of 158 half-hour episodes spanning five seasons. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews, and Mary Tyler Moore. It centered on the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (Van Dyke). The show was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff. The music for the show's theme song was written by Earle Hagen.

Title: Dick Van Dyke
Content: was the anchorman for the CBS morning show during this period with Walter Cronkite as his newsman. From 1961 to 1966, Van Dyke starred in the CBS sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show", in which he portrayed a comedy writer named Rob Petrie. Originally the show was supposed to have Carl Reiner as the lead but CBS insisted on recasting and Reiner chose Van Dyke to replace him in the role. Complementing Van Dyke was a veteran cast of comic actors including Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Jerry Paris, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Richard Deacon, and Carl Reiner (as Alan Brady), as

Title: Dick Van Dyke filmography
Content: 101" (2006–08). †Although he is not seen in the regular release of "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian", Van Dyke's work can be seen in the "Deleted Scenes" section of the film's DVD, along with Bill Cobbs and Mickey Rooney. Dick Van Dyke filmography Richard Wayne Van Dyke (born December 13, 1925) is an American actor, comedian, singer, dancer, writer, and producer. He first gained recognition on radio and Broadway, then he became known for his role as Rob Petrie on the CBS television sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show", which ran from 1961 to 1966. He also

Question: Who did Dick Van Dyke play in The Dick Van Dyke Show?
Answer: Rob Petrie
Title: Sitcom
Content: ran from 1951 to 1957 on CBS, was the most watched show in the United States in four of its six seasons, and was the first to end its run at the top of the Nielsen ratings (an accomplishment later matched only by "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1968 and "Seinfeld" in 1998) . The show is still syndicated in dozens of languages across the world, and remains popular, with an American audience of 40 million each year. Colorized edits of episodes from the original series have aired semi-annually on the network since 2013, six decades after the series aired.

Title: Sitcom
Content: airing from 1984 until 1992, spent five consecutive seasons as the number one rated show on television. "The Cosby Show" and "All in the Family" are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings, to be the number one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the Top 20. According to "TV Guide", the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes." "TV Guide" also ranked it 28th on their list of "50 Greatest Shows". In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named

Title: Rhoda
Content: Minneapolis in the early years of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". The first episode of Season 1, entitled "Joe", aired on CBS on Monday, September 9, 1974 at 9:30 PM. and immediately set a record by being the first and only television series ever to achieve a number-one Nielsen rating for its premiere pilot episode, defeating the ABC ratings juggernaut, "Monday Night Football" in the process. This record continues to stand after over 40 years. Rhoda and Brenda soon realize that the small studio apartment can't hold them both, so Rhoda moves in with their parents Ida (Nancy Walker) and

Title: NBC
Content: NBC's biggest television show after the 1998 "Seinfeld" final broadcast. It dominated the ratings, never leaving the top five watched shows of the year from its second through tenth seasons and landing on the number-one spot during season eight in the 2001–02 season as the latest sitcom in the U.S. to lead the annual Nielsen primetime television ratings. "Cheers" spinoff "Frasier" became a critical and commercial success, usually landing in the Nielsen Top 20 – although its ratings were overshadowed to a minor extent by "Friends" – and went on to win numerous Emmy Awards (eventually setting a record for

Title: Norman Lear
Content: for a sitcom about a blue-collar American family to ABC. They rejected the show after two pilots were taped. After a third pilot was taped, CBS picked up the show, known as "All in the Family". It premiered January 12, 1971, to disappointing ratings, but it took home several Emmy Awards that year, including Outstanding Comedy Series. The show did very well in summer reruns, and it flourished in the 1971–72 season, becoming the top-rated show on TV for the next five years. After falling from the #1 spot, "All in the Family" still remained in the top ten, well

Question: What was the first sitcom to reach No 1 in the Nielsen ratings?
Answer: I Love Lucy
Title: The Golden Girls
Content: of the "101 Best Written TV Series of All Time". The show had an ensemble cast. It revolves around four older single women (three widows and one divorcée) sharing a house in Miami, Florida. The owner of the house is a widow named Blanche Devereaux (McClanahan), who was joined by fellow widow Rose Nylund (White) and divorcée Dorothy Zbornak (Arthur), after they both responded to an ad on the bulletin board of a local grocery store a year before the start of the series. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothy's 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo (Getty), after

Title: The Golden Girls
Content: regular character. After six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and the seventh season at number 30, "The Golden Girls" came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanche's uncle Lucas (Leslie Nielsen) and moves to Hollingsworth Manor in Atlanta, Georgia. Sophia was to join her, but in the end, she stays behind with the other women in Miami. This led into the spin-off series, "The Golden Palace". The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers. As of 2016, it was

Title: Sophia Petrillo
Content: was prohibited by another arcane custom), and on Stan Zbornak. In the final season, Sophia spent two episodes doing odd tasks in order to save Dorothy from an ancient curse from a Sicilian strega, or witch. In the series finale of "The Golden Girls", Sophia, after initially deciding to follow the now-married Dorothy out of the house, turns back and decides to stay with Rose and Blanche, which sets up the transition to "The Golden Palace". When Rose, Blanche and Sophia invest in a hotel, Sophia is installed as one of the two chefs, specializing in Italian cuisine while the

Title: The Golden Girls (season 1)
Content: apprehensive because of McClanahan's approach, as she did not "want to play (their "Maude" characters) Maude and Vivian meet Sue Ann Nivens." Arthur was further convinced when hearing that White would be playing Rose and McClanahan would be playing Blanche. The role of Sophia Petrillo, Dorothy's mother, was played by Estelle Getty, who was discovered by Tony Thomas while performing in the Broadway play "Torch Song Trilogy" as the mother character. Getty, being younger than Arthur and White, wore heavy make-up, thick glasses, and a white wig to age her. The character of Sophia was thought by the creators to

Title: The Golden Girls
Content: make-up, thick glasses, and a white wig to look the part. The character of Sophia was thought by the creators to enhance the idea that three retirement-aged women could be young. Disney's Michael Eisner explains, "Estelle Getty made our three women into girls. And that was, to me, what made it seem like it could be a contemporary, young show." As surprising as it may sound, Estelle Getty continuously battled her stage fright. During an interview in 1988, Getty commented on her phobia and expressed how working with major stars, such as Arthur and White, made her even more nervous.

Question: Dorothy, Rose, Sophia and who else formed the Golden Girls?
Answer: Blanch
Title: Gomez Addams
Content: Gomez Addams Gomez Addams is the patriarch of The Addams Family, created by cartoonist Charles Addams for "The New Yorker" magazine in the 1930s, and subsequently portrayed in television, film and stage. In Charles Addams's original cartoons, Gomez was the nameless patriarch of the Family. He had a somewhat grotesque appearance, with a tubby body, a snub-nose, a crooked tooth and a receding chin. He was often depicted reading in the den or lounging on the windowsill. In the Charles Addams cartoons, Gomez—as with all of the members of the family—had no given name. When "The Addams Family" 1964 television

Title: The Addams Family (video game)
Content: who have been kidnapped. They have been stowed away in various locations in the mansion and are protected by a boss of some sort. The manservant Lurch and the severed hand Thing are the only characters not to be kidnapped. Thing will provide hints on gameplay whenever Gomez finds one of his red boxes marked with an 'A' for 'Addams'. Gomez starts outside the front door of the mansion. Inside the house, Gomez can move from level to level in basically any order. The player will soon discover that the mansion is full of secrets, hidden passageways and side levels

Title: Gomez Addams
Content: Fester is Gomez's brother (in the television show, he was Morticia's uncle). "The Addams Family" notes that Gomez's parents were murdered by an angry mob, though in one scene in the sequel, when Gomez catches Fester with a pornographic magazine, they both look at the centerfold (unseen by the viewer) and fondly say "Mom". In "Addams Family Values", Gomez and Morticia have a third child named Pubert, a seemingly indestructible baby with a thin, black moustache like his father. Gomez Addams Gomez Addams is the patriarch of The Addams Family, created by cartoonist Charles Addams for "The New Yorker" magazine

Title: Pugsley Addams
Content: clue that others might find these accounts unusual. In most incarnations of the character, Pugsley had an unusual hobby of stealing road signs, which he used to adorn the walls and door of his bedroom. This may have evolved from an original Addams cartoon in which, rather than road signs, he would steal and decorate his room with cautionary signs, such as high voltage and shallow water signs, thus leading others into danger. He also has a pet octopus named Aristotle. In the episode "Gomez, The Reluctant Lover" it is revealed that he has scented paper, (liquorice is his favorite).

Title: The Addams Family
Content: training to be a witch doctor. The family's home has been bugged by a gang of crooks who intend to steal the family fortune. Lafferty, the boss, sends a gang member named Mikey into the house to investigate. Mikey panics and flees after treading on the tail of Kitty Kat the lion. The crooks employ a fake Gomez and Morticia to help in their plans, along with two strong-arm goons, Hercules and Atlas. Gomez returns home for the Halloween party and trimming of the scarecrow. Lafferty poses as Quincy Addams (from Boston) to gain entrance to the house during the

Question: In the Addams Family, what is Gomez's octopus called?
Answer: Aristotle
Title: Betty White
Content: Betty White Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), known professionally as Betty White, is an American actress and comedian, with the longest television career of any entertainer. Regarded as a pioneer of television, she was one of the first women to have control both in front of and behind the camera and is recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom ("Life with Elizabeth"), which contributed to her receiving the honorary title Mayor of Hollywood in 1955. She is known for her award-winning roles as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1973–77) and Rose

Title: Betty White
Content: of the book. Betty White Betty Marion White Ludden (born January 17, 1922), known professionally as Betty White, is an American actress and comedian, with the longest television career of any entertainer. Regarded as a pioneer of television, she was one of the first women to have control both in front of and behind the camera and is recognized as the first woman to produce a sitcom ("Life with Elizabeth"), which contributed to her receiving the honorary title Mayor of Hollywood in 1955. She is known for her award-winning roles as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"

Title: Betty White
Content: at a first-run scripted comedy (the channel has rerun other sitcoms since its debut). White was only meant to appear in the pilot of the show but was asked to stay on for the entire series. In 2011, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Elka, but lost to Julie Bowen for "Modern Family". The series ran for six seasons, a total of 128 episodes, with the hour-long final episode airing on June 3, 2015. White also starred in the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation of "The

Title: Betty White
Content: Jackson on the series "Mama's Family", along with future "Golden Girls" co-star Rue McClanahan. White had originated this character in a series of sketches on "The Carol Burnett Show" in the 1970s. When "Mama's Family" was picked up in syndication after being canceled by NBC in 1984, White left the show (with the exception of one final appearance in the show's syndicated version in 1986). In 1985, White scored her second signature role and the biggest hit of her career as the St. Olaf, Minnesota-native Rose Nylund on "The Golden Girls". The series chronicled the lives of four widowed or

Title: Betty White
Content: in just such a way. A running gag was that Sue Ann's hard-edged private personality was the complete opposite of how she presented herself on her show. "We need somebody who can play sickeningly sweet, like Betty White," Moore herself suggested at a production meeting, which resulted in casting White herself. White won two Emmy Awards back-to-back for her role in the hugely popular series. In 1975, NBC replaced her as hostess and commentator on the Tournament of Roses Parade broadcast feeling she was too identified with rival network CBS due to her new found success on "The Mary Tyler

Question: Which character did Betty White play in The Betty White Show?
Answer: Joyce Whitman
Title: John Rambo
Content: dense forests against a large number of enemies due to his experiences in the Vietnam War. He is also an expert in guerrilla tactics, weapons, and hand-to-hand combat. Rambo has black hair and brown eyes. His height is 5'10". In the DVD commentary for "First Blood" Morell remarks that the inspiration for Rambo was World War II hero Audie Murphy. According to the first film "First Blood", Rambo's full name is John Rambo. He was born on July 6, 1947 in Bowie, Arizona, to an Italian father (whose name according to the last film was probably R. Rambo) and a

Title: John Rambo
Content: John Rambo John James Rambo (born July 6, 1947) is a fictional character in the "Rambo" saga. He first appeared in the 1972 novel "First Blood" by David Morrell, but later became more famous as the protagonist of the film series, in which he was played by Sylvester Stallone. The portrayal of the character earned Stallone widespread acclaim and recognition. The character was nominated for American Film Institute's list "100 Years…100 Heroes and Villains". The term "Rambo" is used commonly to describe a person who is reckless, disregards orders, uses violence to solve problems, enters dangerous situations alone, and is

Title: Peter Gunnarsson Rambo
Content: with but is not closely related to the french Summer Rambo. Because of the confusion, the Rambo has also been called the Winter Rambo. The novelist David Morrell says that he chose the name John Rambo for his "First Blood" action hero because he was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name of Rambo, after encountering the apples in Pennsylvania. Peter Gunnarsson Rambo Peter Gunnarsson Rambo (born 10 June 1611 in Hisingen, Gothenburg, Sweden, dead 21 January 1698 in Wicaco, Pennsylvania, United States) was a Swedish immigrant to New Sweden who lived as a farmer and served as

Title: John Rambo
Content: exceptionally tough, callous, raw and aggressive. Morrell says that in choosing the name Rambo he was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name of Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania. These apples, in turn, were named for Peter Gunnarsson Rambo who sailed from Sweden to America (SE Pennsylvania/Southern NJ/Northern Delaware) in the 1640s, and soon the name would flourish in New Sweden. The name Rambo was likely derived from a shortened form of Ramberget (a hill on the Hisingen island in Gothenburg, where Peter Gunnarsson was born) plus "bo" (meaning "resident of"). Today, many of his descendants

Title: John Rambo
Content: for the second "Rambo" film along with Sylvester Stallone. In 2013, a Cheetos commercial features a little boy (played by child actor Indiana Wilson), who is dressed up like Rambo, as he goes around blowing darts through a blowgun just by taking deep cleansing breaths and aim at targets throughout all over town. Mark Bavaro, New York Giants tight end, was nicknamed Rambo during his career. John Rambo John James Rambo (born July 6, 1947) is a fictional character in the "Rambo" saga. He first appeared in the 1972 novel "First Blood" by David Morrell, but later became more famous

Question: What was Rambo's first name?
Answer: John
Title: Mother Teresa
Content: flower" in Albanian) on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia), Ottoman Empire. She was baptized in Skopje, the day after her birth. She later considered 27 August, the day she was baptised, her "true birthday". She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). Her father, who was involved in Albanian-community politics in Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old. He may have been from Prizren, Kosovo, and her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova. According to a biography by

Title: Mother Teresa
Content: Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, ; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. In 1950 Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation which had over 4,500 sisters and was active in

Title: Mother Teresa
Content: of Loreto in India. She never saw her mother or her sister again. Her family lived in Skopje until 1934, when they moved to Tirana. She arrived in India in 1929 and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, in the lower Himalayas, where she learnt Bengali and taught at St. Teresa's School near her convent. Teresa took her first religious vows on 24 May 1931. She chose to be named after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries; because a nun in the convent had already chosen that name, Agnes opted for its Spanish spelling (Teresa). Teresa took her solemn

Title: Mother Teresa
Content: the first Roman Catholic cathedral named in Teresa's honor, was consecrated in Kosovo. The Cathedral is also Kosovo's first Roman Catholic cathedral as well. Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, known in the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, ; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje (now the capital of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for eighteen years she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of

Title: Nikollë Bojaxhiu
Content: and Agnes Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa). Nikollë was born in 1874 in Prizren to Lazër and Çilja Bojaxhiu. Bojaxhiu moved to Skopje in the Kosovo Vilayet (present-day Macedonia) after 1900, where he first worked as a pharmacist and later became a partner in a construction company. He was a polyglot; as well as Albanian he also spoke French, Italian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croat and Turkish. In the early 1900s, he married Dranafile Bernai with whom he had three children: Aga (b. 1905), Lazar (b. 1908) and Agnes (b. 1910), with the latter becoming later better known as Mother Teresa. Nikollë Bojaxhiu's company constructed

Question: What nationality were Mother Teresa's parents?
Answer: Albanian
Title: East of Eden (film)
Content: East of Eden (film) East of Eden is a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the second half of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel. The film stars Julie Harris, James Dean (in his first major screen role), and Raymond Massey. It also features Burl Ives, Richard Davalos, and Jo Van Fleet, and was adapted by Paul Osborn.

Title: East of Eden (film)
Content: Dean and Massey was characterized by Turan as "the paradigmatic generational conflict in all of American film." Wins Nominations East of Eden (film) East of Eden is a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the second half of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brother, thus retelling the story of Cain and Abel. The film stars Julie Harris, James Dean (in his first major screen role), and

Title: East of Eden (miniseries)
Content: East of Eden (miniseries) East of Eden is a 1981 American television miniseries based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name. It aired in three parts on ABC from February 8–11, 1981. It was directed by Harvey Hart from a teleplay by Richard Shapiro, and starred Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour (the actress who plays Cathy Ames as a preteen girl wasn't given screen credit and she's still a mystery), Bruce Boxleitner, Soon Tek-Oh, Sam Bottoms, Hart Bochner, Karen Allen and Lloyd Bridges. It runs roughly 382 minutes. Following the Civil War, Union veteran Cyrus Trask has two sons: Adam,

Title: East of Eden (miniseries)
Content: of Eden", in its original 1981 broadcast running time, was released on DVD on March 3, 2009. Previous VHS versions were severely truncated with several hours cut out. East of Eden (miniseries) East of Eden is a 1981 American television miniseries based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name. It aired in three parts on ABC from February 8–11, 1981. It was directed by Harvey Hart from a teleplay by Richard Shapiro, and starred Timothy Bottoms, Jane Seymour (the actress who plays Cathy Ames as a preteen girl wasn't given screen credit and she's still a mystery), Bruce Boxleitner,

Title: East of Eden (film)
Content: he was lucky to have a good working relationship with longtime Warner Brothers cinematographer Ted D. McCord. The studio camera department gave him instructions up front to keep the camera at least six feet from the actors, which rankled Kazan. So he and McCord made some tests to see how close they could push in. It caused the side edges of the screen to appear a bit curved, but Kazan decided to use that distortion for dramatic expression. McCord suggested that, as long as they were distorting anyway, they should tip the camera angle in certain shots. This technique was

Question: Who directed the movie East of Eden?
Answer: Elia Kazan
Title: Count Basie
Content: in the new neighborhood of Addisleigh Park in 1946 on Adelaide Road and 175th Street, St. Albans, Queens. On April 11, 1983, Catherine Basie died of heart disease at the couple's home in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. She was 67 years old. Count Basie died of pancreatic cancer in Hollywood, Florida on April 26, 1984 at the age of 79. Basie hitched his star to some of the most famous vocalists of the 1950s and 1960s, which helped keep the Big Band sound alive and added greatly to his recording catalog. Jimmy Rushing sang with Basie in the late 1930s.

Title: Count Basie
Content: Count Basie William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, and others. Many musicians came to prominence under his direction, including the tenor saxophonists Lester Young and Herschel

Title: Count Basie
Content: of Congress National Recording Registry. The board selects songs in an annual basis that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Count Basie William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, Basie formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two "split" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden

Title: Count Basie
Content: significance." On May 23, 1985, William "Count" Basie was presented, posthumously, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. The award was received by his son, Aaron Woodward. On September 11, 1996 the U.S. Post Office issued a Count Basie 32 cents postage stamp. Basie is a part of the Big Band Leaders issue, which, is in turn, part of the Legends of American Music series. In 2009, Basie was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In 2005, Count Basie's song "One O'Clock Jump" (1937) was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the Library

Title: Wild Bill Davis
Content: was originally supposed to record "April in Paris" with Count Basie's Orchestra in 1955 but when he could not make the session, Basie used his arrangement for the full band and had a major hit. In addition to working with his own groups in the 1960s, Davis made several albums with his friend Johnny Hodges, leading to tours during 1969–1971 with Duke Ellington. In the 1970s he recorded for the Black & Blue Records label with a variety of swing all-stars, and he also played with Lionel Hampton, appearing at festivals through the early 1990s. Davis died in Moorestown, New

Question: In which year did Count Basie die?
Answer: 1984
Title: Hart Crane
Content: his welcome at the Opffers', Crane left for Paris in early 1929, but failed to leave his personal problems behind. It was during the late 1920s, while he was finishing "The Bridge", that his drinking, always a problem, became notably worse. In Paris in February 1929, Harry Crosby, who with his wife Caresse Crosby owned the fine arts press Black Sun Press, offered Crane the use of their country retreat, Le Moulin du Soleil in Ermenonville. They hoped he could use the time to concentrate on completing "The Bridge". Crane spent several weeks at their estate where he roughed out

Title: Hart Crane
Content: Hart Crane Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet. Finding both inspiration and provocation in the poetry of T. S. Eliot, Crane wrote modernist poetry that was difficult, highly stylized, and ambitious in its scope. In his most ambitious work, "The Bridge", Crane sought to write an epic poem, in the vein of "The Waste Land", that expressed a more optimistic view of modern, urban culture than the one that he found in Eliot's work. In the years following his suicide at the age of 32, Crane has been hailed by playwrights, poets,

Title: The Bridge (long poem)
Content: The Bridge (long poem) The Bridge, first published in 1930 by the Black Sun Press, is Hart Crane's first, and only, attempt at a long poem. (Its primary status as either an epic or a series of lyrical poems remains contested; recent criticism tends to read it as a hybrid, perhaps indicative of a new genre, the "modernist epic.") "The Bridge" was inspired by New York City's "poetry landmark", the Brooklyn Bridge. Crane lived for some time at 110 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, where he had an excellent view of the bridge; only after "The Bridge" was finished did Crane

Title: Hart Crane
Content: before you on the river! It's really a magnificent place to live. This section of Brooklyn is very old, but all the houses are in splendid condition and have not been invaded by foreigners... His ambition to synthesize America was expressed in "The Bridge" (1930), intended to be an uplifting counter to Eliot's "The Waste Land". The Brooklyn Bridge is both the poem's central symbol and its poetic starting point. Crane found what a place to start his synthesis in Brooklyn. Arts patron Otto H. Kahn gave him $2,000 to begin work on the epic poem. When he wore out

Title: The Bridge (long poem)
Content: American modernism. For instance, Gregory Woods writes that "Hart Crane’s place in the Modernist pantheon is established by "The Bridge"," and when the literary critic Harold Bloom placed Crane in his pantheon of the best Modernist American poets of the 20th century, Bloom focused on "The Bridge" as Crane's most significant achievement, putting it on the same level as T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", though Bloom regarded Crane as the superior poet, as evidenced in this section from his introduction to his complete poems: "But after a lifetime of disliking Eliot's literary and "cultural" criticism, I have to yield

Question: Which bridge is the subject of Hart Crane's The bridge?
Answer: Brooklyn Bridge
Title: Yodeling
Content: character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, starting with "Tarzan the Ape Man" (1932). The yell was a creation of the movies, based on what Burroughs described in his books as "the victory cry of the bull ape." Carol Burnett has been associated with the Tarzan yell ever since doing it on her TV show that started in 1967 and ran for 11 years. This link from the Larry King Now show describes how she came to do it. Other than the National Barn Dance, broadcast out of Chicago starting in 1924, and the Grand Ole Opry in 1925, American Country

Title: Yodeling
Content: In 1961, it became a number one hit in the U.S. as adapted by the doo-wop group The Tokens and in 1982 as a number one hit in the UK for Tight Fit. It went on to earn at least 15 million US dollars in royalties from covers and film licensing. Then, in the mid-nineties, it became a pop "supernova" when it was used in the film "The Lion King", its spin-off TV series and live musical. The Tarzan yell is the yodel-like call of the character Tarzan, as portrayed by actor Johnny Weissmuller in the films based on the

Title: Tarzan yell
Content: howl of a hyena recorded backward." According to Bill Moyers, it was created by combining the recordings of three men: one baritone, one tenor, and one hog caller from Arkansas. Another widely published notion concerns the use of an Austrian yodel played backwards at abnormally fast speed. But Weissmuller claimed that the yell was actually his own voice. His version is supported by his son and by his Tarzan co-star, Maureen O'Sullivan. This sound effect is often used for comic effect in later, unrelated movies, particularly when a character is swinging on vines or doing other "Tarzanesque" things. The sound

Title: Johnny Weissmuller
Content: Buster Crabbe. In a total of 12 Tarzan films, Weissmuller earned an estimated $2,000,000 and established himself as what many movie historians consider the definitive Tarzan. Although not the first Tarzan in movies (that was Elmo Lincoln), he was the first to be associated with the now traditional ululating, yodeling Tarzan yell. During an appearance on television's "The Mike Douglas Show" in the 1970s, Weissmuller explained how the famous yell was created. Recordings of three vocalists were spliced together to get the effecta soprano, an alto and a hog caller. Edgar Rice Burroughs himself paid oblique tribute to Weissmuller's powerful

Title: Yodeling
Content: (1902–1979) has been credited as one of the world's greatest yodelers. He used the stage name Harry Torrani and was billed as the "Yodeling Cowboy from Chesterfield". Frank Ifield, an Australian-English singer, released a double A-sided single record, "Lovesick Blues" and "She Taught Me How to Yodel" in the UK in 1962. It reached number 1 in the UK charts, and also reached number 44 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In England, Edith Sitwell featured a "Jodelling Song" as part of her series of poems "Façade", set to music by William Walton. One of the earliest songs to portray

Question: Who is credited with inventing the Tarzan yodel?
Answer: Johnny Weissmuller
Title: Bob Dole
Content: Bob Dole Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is a retired American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in U.S House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969 and as U.S. Senator from 1969 to 1996, serving as the Republican Leader of the United States Senate from 1985 until 1996. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election and the party's vice presidential nominee in the 1976 presidential election. Born in Russell, Kansas, Dole established a legal career in Russell after serving with distinction in the United States Army during World War II. After a stint as

Title: Bob Dole
Content: been working with veterans returning from war. Although during their first meeting Kelikian told Dole that he would never be able to recover fully, the encounter changed Dole's outlook on life, who years later wrote of Kelikian, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, "Kelikian inspired me to focus on what I had left and what I could do with it, rather than complaining what had been lost." Dr. K, as Dole later came to affectionately call him, operated on him seven times, free of charge, and had, in Dole's words, "an impact on my life second only to my family."

Title: Bob Dole
Content: and law degrees in 1952. In 1942, Dole joined the United States Army's Enlisted Reserve Corps to fight in World War II, becoming a second lieutenant in the Army's 10th Mountain Division. In April 1945, while engaged in combat near Castel d'Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy, Dole was badly wounded by German machine gun fire, being hit in his upper back and right arm. As Lee Sandlin describes, when fellow soldiers saw the extent of his injuries, all they thought they could do was to "give him the largest dose of morphine they dared and write

Title: Bob Dole
Content: Medical Center, according to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. On September 13, 2017, Dole was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for low blood pressure. He stayed for 24 hours before returning home. Bob Dole Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is a retired American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in U.S House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969 and as U.S. Senator from 1969 to 1996, serving as the Republican Leader of the United States Senate from 1985 until 1996. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election and the party's vice

Title: Bob Dole
Content: Dole recovered from his wounds at the Percy Jones Army Hospital. This complex of federal buildings, no longer a hospital, is now named Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in honor of three patients who became United States Senators: Dole, Philip Hart and Daniel Inouye. Dole was decorated three times, receiving two Purple Hearts for his injuries, and the Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor for his attempt to assist a downed radioman. The injuries left him with limited mobility in his right arm and numbness in his left arm. He minimizes the effect in public by keeping a pen in his

Question: Bob Dole trained for which profession although he didn't qualify?
Answer: Doctor
Title: Nyami Nyami
Content: power for the growing industry that colonialism had brought to the federation of countries that were known as Northern Rhodesia on one side of the river and Southern Rhodesia on the other, now Zambia and Zimbabwe. In 1956, construction on the Kariba Dam project was started. Heavy earth-moving equipment roared into the valley and tore out thousands of hundred-year-old trees to build roads and settlements to house the workers who poured into the area to build a dam that would harness the powerful river. The BaTonga’s peace and solitude was shattered and they were told to leave their homes and

Title: Kariba Dam
Content: the former self-governing British colonies of Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia and the former British protectorate of Nyasaland. Northern Rhodesia had decided earlier in 1953 (before the Federation was founded) to build a dam within its territory, on the Kafue River, a major tributary of the Zambezi. It would have been closer to Zambia's Copperbelt which was in need of more power. This would have been a cheaper and less grandiose project, with a smaller environmental impact. Southern Rhodesia, the richest of the three, objected to a Kafue dam and insisted that the dam be sited instead at Kariba. Also,

Title: Kariba Dam
Content: Kariba Dam The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The dam stands tall and long. The dam forms Lake Kariba which extends for and holds of water. The double curvature concrete arch dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy at a cost of $135,000,000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern. Final construction and the addition of the Kariba North Power cavern by Mitchell Construction was not completed until 1977

Title: Kariba Dam
Content: face water shortages. Kariba Dam The Kariba Dam is a double curvature concrete arch dam in the Kariba Gorge of the Zambezi river basin between Zambia and Zimbabwe. The dam stands tall and long. The dam forms Lake Kariba which extends for and holds of water. The double curvature concrete arch dam was designed by Coyne et Bellier and constructed between 1955 and 1959 by Impresit of Italy at a cost of $135,000,000 for the first stage with only the Kariba South power cavern. Final construction and the addition of the Kariba North Power cavern by Mitchell Construction was not

Title: Kariba Dam
Content: of US$533 million. Work started in 2014, and was completed in March 2018. The north station belonging to Zambia has been in operation since 1976, and has four generators of each for a total of ; work to expand this capacity by an additional to was completed in December 2013. Two additional 180 MW generators were added. The Kariba Dam project was planned by the government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, or Central African Federation (CAF). The CAF was a semi-independent state within the Commonwealth in southern Africa that existed from 1953 to the end of 1963, comprising

Question: On which river was the Kariba Dam built?
Answer: Zambezi