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Mercedes McCambridge (March 16, 1916 – March 2, 2004) was an American actress. She was born to an Irish-American Roman Catholic family. She received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She got that award for her performance in "All the King's Men" in 1949. Her other movies included "Johnny Guitar" and "Giant". She began her career in the 1940s performing on radio. McCambridge was born in Joliet, Illinois. She died of natural causes in San Diego.
Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model and pornographic actor. Page was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She became famous in the 1950s for her pin-up photos. She was known for her erotic dance moves and adult movies. She was Playboy Playmate of the Month in January 1955. She retired when she converted to Christianity in 1959. She moved to Southern California in 1979. She spent several years in psychiatric institutions there after she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She died from a heart attack at age eighty-five in Los Angeles. She is one of the highest paid dead celebrities.
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress. She appeared in many movies. She starred in the 1946 movie "The Razor's Edge", and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for that performance. She also acted in "The Ten Commandments" in 1956 and the Broadway play "Applause". Her grandfather was architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The actress was born in Michigan City, Indiana. She died from an aneurysm in New York City at sixty-two.
The Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery is a cemetery in Jerusalem. It is the oldest Jewish cemetery in the world. It is also the biggest cemetery for Jews. The cemetery is on the Mount of Olives. It faces the Old City of Jerusalem. The cemetery has over 150,000 graves. Kidron Valley necropolis. The southwestern part of the cemetery is Kidron Valley necropolis continuing the cemetery from southwest in the Kidron Valley. a part of the Arab village of Silwan was built over this part of the cemetery. Arab neighborhoods. Some Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem were built on the grounds of the cemetery after the Jordanian conquest in 1948 including: Al-Bustan, Ras al-Amud, Al-Sheikh, A-Tur,
This is a list of characters for the British television and radio sketch show "Little Britain" (and its American spin-off, "Little Britain USA"). A. Anne. Played By: David Walliams ("Anne"), Matt Lucas ("Dr. Lawrence") and Steve Furst ("Dr. Beegree")  Appearances: Season 1-3  Quotes: "Eh-eh-ehhh!" Anne is a patient at the "Steven-Spielberg-Hospitals" and the client of Dr. Lawrence. Sometimes, he takes her to his home. She looks like a mental patient, but in some episodes, he does like a normale person and speaks also normal. You can see in an episode, that he is a men. C. Kenny Craig. Played By: Matt Lucas  Appearances: Season 1 and 2  Quotes: Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around the eyes, look into my eyes (snaps fingers) you're under." (After dialogue relating to situation), "3, 2, 1... (snaps fingers) you're back in the room" Kenny Craig is a hypnotist. He hypnotized other people and says to them, what they should do. D. Marjorie Dawes. Played By: Matt Lucas  Appearances: Season 1-3  Quotes: "Hello Fatties!", "Dust?", "Oh man I love the cake!", "It's not easy is it?"  Marjories victims: Paul Putner ("Paul"), Joann Condon ("Pat"), Charu Bala Chokshi ("Meera"), Leelo Ross ("Tanya") Marjorie is the leader of the self-help group "Fat Fighters". She is overweight, but nevertheless she insults the weight of the participants. The Indian woman Meera speaks perfect English, and Marjorie annoys them, by saying: "Say it again?". Another member is Pat, the fattest person of the group. Marjorie always gives her advice to eat dust, because it doesn't have calories and you wouldn't to be thick.
Shinichi Hoshi ( "Hoshi Shin'ichi", 6 September 1926 – 30 December 1997) was a Japanese writer　(The kanji for his real name were 親一). He is best known for his science fiction stories, the so-called "short-short" ones, often no more than three or four pages in length. He wrote over 1000 of these in his 26-year career. He also wrote mystery stories, and won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mōsō Ginkō (Delusion Bank) in 1968. Life. Shinichi was raised in Tokyo by his grandparents. His grandfather was a anatomist and anthropologist. His grandmother was a sister of a Japanese novelist, Ogai Mori. Hajime Hoshi, his father, was a president of Hoshi Pharmacy and founder of Hoshi University. He died on 30 December 1997. Books. Shinchosha
Clones ( ; ) is a small town in western County Monaghan, Ireland. The area is part of the Border Region with Northern Ireland. Historically "Clones" was also spelt "Clonis", "Clonish" and "Clownish". These are English language versions of the Irish "Cluain Eois", meaning "Eos's meadow". History. An abbey was built at Clones by Tigernach (also known as "Tierney" in English). It was built in the early 6th century. It was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. The ruins of a 12th-century abbey building can still be found in the town. There is also a sarcophagus. They say it was built for Saint Tighearnach after he died. Clones also has a 9th-century round tower and high cross. Ulster Canal restoration. The national inland waterways agency, Waterways Ireland, is planning to restore the Ulster Canal from the Newtownbutler area of Lough Erne to Clones. Sport. Clones has a GAA stadium, St Tiernach's Park. This stadium is regularly used for inter-county matches during the Ulster provincial championship in Gaelic football, and traditionally hosts the final.
The chondrophores or porpitids are a small and unusual group of hydrozoans. They are the family Porpitidae. They all live at the surface of the open ocean, and are colonies of carnivorous, free-floating hydroids. Their life-style in the plankton is similar to that of pelagic jellyfish. The chondrophores look like a single organism but are cooperatives of polyps. The most familiar members of the family Porpitidae are the blue button ("Porpita porpita") and the by-the-wind sailor ("Velella velella"). Structure. Chondrophores may look like a jellyfish, but they really are not. Like the siphonophores they are not a single animal. They are a colony of clones, genetically identical zooids. These zooids are small, highly modified individual polyps. Though structurally similar to other cnidarians, the zooids do not live by themselves: they are attached to each other. Each type of zooid depends for survival on the others doing what it cannot do by itself. This kind of set-up is also found in the siphonophores: the Portuguese man o' war. They evolved independently, and are classified in different orders. Fossil record. A rare soft-bodied fossil was got from Mississippian strata in northeastern Kentucky. It was interpreted as a chondrophorine float. The origin of the group was probably in the Neoproterozoic era, some 650540 million years ago.
Margaret Yvonne Middleton (or Yvonne De Carlo; September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian and American actress. She originally appeared in B movies. She played Lily Munster in the CBS television program "The Munsters" in the mid-1960s. She played Sephora in the 1956 movie "The Ten Commandments". She also performed in a lot of musical stage plays. De Carlo was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. She died in Los Angeles at eighty-four of natural causes.
Betty Hutton (February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007) was an American actress and comedian. She became very famous in the 1940s. She starred in many movies, including "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" in 1944 and "Incendiary Blonde" a year later. Her biggest screen role was "Annie Get Your Gun" in 1950. She stopped acting in 2000. Hutton was born as Elizabeth June Thornburg in Battle Creek, Michigan. She died from colon cancer at eighty-six in Palm Springs, California.
Noah Bryant Munck (born May 3, 1996 in Orange County, California) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as "Gibby Gibson" on the Nickelodeon television series "iCarly". Early life and career. Noah Munck was born in Orange County, California. He began his career in advertising spots. These included Volkswagen and "Got Milk?" In spring 2007, he went in hip-hop courses with his sister. Munck acted in "iCarly" from 2007 to 2012. From the season 4, he played a main role. In 2011, he was in the movie "Bad Teacher" as Tristan.
Zelda Rubinstein (28 May 1933 – 27 January 2010) was an American actress and activist for human rights and AIDS. She appeared on television programs, including "Caroline in the City", "Tales from the Crypt" and "Martin". She was also in many movies, though with minor playing roles. She was best known for her role in the movie "Poltergeist". Rubinstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She died from kidney and lung problems at seventy-six in Los Angeles.
The King and I is a two-act musical. It is based on the novel, Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon. Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the musical's book and lyrics. Richard Rodgers wrote the music. The musical received the 1952 Tony Award for Best Musical. "The King and I" opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on 29 March 1951, and closed on 20 March 1954 after 1246 performances. The original production starred Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner. It was directed by John Van Druten, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Scenery and lighting were designed by Jo Mielziner.  "The King and I" opened on the West End at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 8 October 1953, and closed after 926 performances. In 1956, the musical was released as a Twentieth Century Fox movie starring Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr.  in a deleted scene tuptim married Prince Chulalongkorn In 1999, Warner Bros. made an Animated movie called The King and I based on the play.
The Sheba Medical Center is a hospital in Israel. It is located in Tel Hashomer, part of Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv. The medical center was established by the US Army in 1941. It operated until 1943. In 1944 the hospital was opened again by the British Army. In 1948 it was made the Israeli army medical center until 1953. It grew to become one of the biggest hospitals in Israel. It does surgery and treatments for patients from other countries.
An impact event is a collision between objects in space. They happen regularly in planetary systems, such as our Solar System. They most often involve small objects, such as asteroids, comets or meteors. These have relatively little impact. When a large object collides with a planet like the Earth, it can have serious effects on the planet. We try to find out when one is going to hit Earth using impact prediction. Depending on the size of the object, much of the impact is reduced by the planet's atmosphere. Smaller objects explode or break apart as they enter the atmosphere. These are seen as bolides. Impact craters, which are caused by impact events, can be seen on many of the planets and other objects in the Solar System. Some of the largest are on Mars and the Moon. These are said to be evidence of major impact events. The first time an impact event was recorded was in July 1994. A comet, Shoemaker–Levy 9, broke apart and collided with Jupiter. The collision was recorded by telescopes and satellites. Impact events appear to have had a major effect on the how the Solar System has changed since it was formed. Major impact events have also shaped the history of the Earth, including the evolution of life. It is thought that the Chicxulub impact, which happened 66 million years ago, caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. There is debate over whether impacts caused any of the other extinction events throughout history. A giant impact event is thought to have produced the Moon. Hundreds of impacts have been reported on Earth. Many happen without being seen by anyone on the ground. On average, asteroids with a diameter of impact Earth about once per year. These usually explode in the upper atmosphere, and most or all of the solids are vaporised. Asteroids with a diameter of collide with Earth every 500,000 years. Large collisions, of , happen once every twenty million years. Some much smaller asteroids have caused damage and injuries, but no human is known to have been killed directly by an impact.
A tripod is a three-legged tool for balancing cameras. Without a tripod, it can be hard to keep a camera steady. A tripod is very useful when taking pictures in low light.
The Ten Days of Repentance (, "aseret yemay teshuva)" is a time of year when Jews focus on prayer and repentance. The ten days begin with the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and end with the fast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Because of the importance of repentance, the two holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are often called the High Holy Days or High Holidays (ימים נוראים, "yamim nora'im," "Days of Awe").
Melville Louis Kossuth (Melvil) Dewey (December 10, 1851 – December 26, 1931) was an American librarian and educator. He invented the Dewey Decimal library classification system.  Early life. Dewey was born on December 10, 1851, in Adams Center, New York.  He attended Alfred University in 1870 and then Amherst College. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1874 and a master's in 1877. Career. While still a student, he founded the Library Bureau, a company that sold index-cards and filing-cabinets used in libraries and businesses. He developed his book classification system based on a decimal numbering system while working in the Amherst library. He published a first edition in 1876. He was one of the founders of the American Library Association in 1876 and served for many years as editor of the Journal of the American Library Association. In the 1880's he took a position as librarian at Columbia University Libraries, where he developed one of the first training schools for librarians. Lake Placid Club. Dewey founded the Lake Placid Club in Lake Placid, New York in 1895 as a health club and retreat. The Winter Olympics were held there, mostly led by his son Godfrey Reforms. He advocated for spelling reform for the English language. At one point he changed the spelling of his name from "Melvile" to "Melvil," removing redundant letters. He also for a brief time wrote his surname as "Dui." He also founded The Metric Bureau in 1876 to advocate for the United States to move to metric measurement. Personal life. Dewey married twice, first to Annie R. Godfrey, and then to Emily McKay Beal. He and his first wife had one child, Godfrey.  He moved to Florida and founded Lake Placid, Florida. He died of a stroke there in 1931.
Olei Hagardom (, meaning "those hanged in the gallows") is the name of twelve Zionist activists who were sentenced to death between 1938 and 1947 in the British Mandate of Palestine. They were members of the militant groups Irgun and Lehi, who fought against Arabs and the British for an independent State of Israel. The Olei Hagardom included nine members of Irgun and three members of Lehi, who were executed by hanging. A national burial site of the Olei Hagardom is located in the national military and police cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. A museum for the Olei HaGardom is located in Jerusalem and the old city of Acre.
Ellen Evangeline Hovick (known as June Havoc; November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010) was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, author and a theater director. She acted in many stage plays and movies. She began on Broadway, appearing in plays including "Pal Joey". She later moved to Hollywood and began acting in movies. Her first movie was "Gentleman's Agreement". She last appeared on the television series "General Hospital" in 1990. Havoc was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her sister was Gypsy Rose Lee. Their father was Norwegian-American. She died in Stamford, Connecticut at 97.
Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke, GCMG, KCVO, KBE (; 20 October 1892 – 17 December 1978) became the third Governor-General of Ceylon (1954-1962). He was the first Ceylonese to hold the vice-regal post. Goonetilleke played an important role in the war of independence for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from Britain. Goonetilleke was Governor-General from July 17, 1954 to March 2, 1962. He served for 8 years. The monarch during his term as Governor-General was Queen Elizabeth II. Personal details. Goonetilleke was born on October 20, 1892 in Trincomalee, Ceylon. He died on December 17, 1978 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Goonetilleke had a wife named Esther Goonetilleke and had three children.
Machaeroides ("dagger-like") was a genus of sabre-toothed creodonts which lived during the Eocene (56 to 34 mya). Its fossils were found in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It is the earliest known sabre-toothed mammal.  It looked like a small, dog-sized saber-toothed cat. "Machaeroides" had a longer skull than a cat-family animal, and it walked plantigrade, with its palms and heels on the ground, instead of on its toes like a cat or dog. The long survival of these small animals shows that their killing method suited small cats as well as large cats.
Dorothea Sally Eilers (or just Sally Eilers; December 11, 1908 – January 5, 1978) was an American actress. She was very popular in Hollywood during the 1930s. She appeared mostly in melodramatic and comedy movies. Toward the end of the 1930s, she became less popular. Her last appearance in a movie was in 1950. In her final years, Eilers had poor health. She was born in New York City. She died after having a heart attack at age sixty-nine in Los Angeles.
Mary Margaret Wood (also known as Peggy Wood; February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress. She acted mostly in stage plays, but was also in some television series and movies. She played Mother Abbess in "The Sound of Music" in 1965. She also played Marta Hansen in the television series "Mama" between 1949 and 1957. Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York City. She died in Stamford, Connecticut following a stroke at eighty-six.
Maybelle Addington (or Maybelle Carter; 10 May 1909 – 23 October 1978) was an American country musician. She was a member of the Carter Family act. She released several albums of her own. Carter was the mother of June Carter Cash, wife of Johnny Cash. Addington was born in Nickelsville, Virginia. She died from poor health at age sixty-nine.
Stamford Bridge is a village on the River Derwent, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in Great Britain. It is about east of York and north of Selby.  History. The village sits on an old river crossing over the Derwent river. The Romans established a fort here about 70 AD. Later a settlement of the same name was here. The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought here on 25 September 1066. The battle marked the end of the Viking era in England.
Vivian Roberta Jones (or Vivian Vance; July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American actress and musician. She was in lots of notable television series and movies. She played Ethel Mertz in the American sitcom "I Love Lucy". She also played Vivian Bagley in "The Lucy Show". She also had many stage performances in her career. Vance was born in Cherryvale, Kansas. She died in Belvedere, California due to bone cancer at age seventy.
Aliyah Bet (, "Aliyah bet") is the name of the illegal immigration to by Jews to the British Mandate of Palestine between 1934 and 1948. It is also known as Ha'apala (, meaning ascension) in Hebrew. Over 100,000 people tried to illegally enter Palestine. There were 142 voyages by 120 ships. Over half were stopped by the British patrols. Over 1,600 drowned at sea. Only a few thousand actually entered Palestine. A national burial site for those Jews who drowned in the sea during the "Aliyah Bet" is in the National Civil Cemetery of the State of Israel in Mount Herzl. Other burials are in Carmel Beach cemetery in Haifa. A museum of the history of "Aliyah Bet" is in Atlit detainee camp. The central memorial for those who did the "Aliyah Bet" is in the London Garden in Tel Aviv.
Jacqueline Bisset (born 13 September 1944) is an English actress. She has appeared in a lot of notable movies. She played Jackie in "Two for the Road" in 1967 (which also starred Audrey Hepburn). Bisset also played Miss Goodthighs in "Casino Royale", another 1967 movie. She has also appeared on television. Early life. Bisset was born in Weybridge, Surrey, England. Her birth name is Winifred Jacqueline Fraser Bisset She is the daughter of Arlette Alexander, a lawyer-turned-housewife, and Max Fraser Bisset, a general practitioner. She was brought up in Reading, Berkshire, where she lived in the suburb of Tilehurst. Her father was Scottish and her mother was of French and English ancestry;
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer. He wrote many musicals with Oscar Hammerstein II, including "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", the television musical, "Cinderella", and "The Sound of Music". In 1962, Rodgers became the first person to win all four top show business awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He also won a Pulitzer Prize.  Life. Rodgers was born in New York City to Dr. William Rodgers and his wife, Mamie, who were of German Jewish descent. The family enjoyed musicals and opera. At 15, Rodgers chose music as his profession. He attended Columbia University and wrote for the school's "Varsity Show". Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University. At Columbia, Rodgers joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. In 1921, Rodgers changed his studies to the Institute of Musical Art (now Juilliard). Rodgers was influenced by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern. Late in life, Rodgers established scholarships and other awards for students of The Juilliard School of Music, the American Theater Wing and the American Academy of Dramatic Art. Lorenz Hart. In 1919 Rodgers met Lorenz Hart. The two wrote 26 musicals together, and song standards such as "I'll Take Manhattan", "My Funny Valentine", and "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered". Their first professional production was the 1920 "Poor Little Ritz Girl". In 1925 they became well known for the song "Manhattan". The duo then wrote several hit shows for both Broadway and London. Because of the Depression in the 1930s, they went to work in Hollywood. In 1935, they returned to Broadway. They wrote an almost unbroken string of hit shows. This ended with Hart's death in 1943. Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1942, Rodgers teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein II. They made the most successful partnership in American musical theatre history. Their
Cinderella is a musical. It is based on the fairy tale, "Cendrillon, ou La petite pantoufle de vere" by Charles Perrault. Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the musical's book and lyrics. Richard Rodgers wrote the music. Musical highlights include "In My Own Little Corner", "A Lovely Night", "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?" and "Impossible".  The musical was written for the CBS Network. It was televised on 31 March 1957. Julie Andrews starred as Cinderella. The musical opened on 18 December 1958 at the Coliseum in London. It was remade for television by the CBS Network, and aired on 22 February 1965 with Lesley Anne Warren as Cinderella, Stuart Damon as the Prince, Walter Pidgeon as the King, and Celeste Holm as the Godmother. "Cinderella" premiered on Broadway on 3 March 2013.
Sky Ferreira (born July 8, 1992) is an American musician and actress. She performs indie-pop, alternative pop and folk music.  She appeared on the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of "Vs" magazine.  Ferreira was born in Venice Beach in Los Angeles.  Ferreira released her first album, "Night Time, My Time" in the United States on October 29, 2013 by Capitol Records. It got good reviews from music critics. Pitchfork gave it 8.1 out of 10. On November 27 2013 "Night Time, My Time B-Sides: Part 1" was released. It has four songs. She will tour with Miley Cyrus.