Johnny Doughboy is a 1942 American musical comedy movie directed by John H. Auer and starring Jane Withers, Henry Wilcoxon, William Demarest, Ruth Donnelly, Etta McDaniel, Bobby Breen. It was distributed by Republic Pictures and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1943.
Stock character
A stock character is a stereotype fictional character. In a theatre, novel, play or film, the audience immediately knows about him or her without further explanation. All types of fiction use this device, especially comedy.
They have been used in all forms of theatre, right back to the Ancient Greek theatre. The Star Wars movie franchise offers many examples. They are archetypal characters, simplified and "flat". As a result, they may be easy targets for parody, and criticized as clichés. Stock characters help to identify a genre or subgenre. For example, a fairy tale or fantasy is likely to have a knight-errant as hero and a witch as opposition.
One stock character often used is the low-class character(s) who warn the hero of danger to come. Examples:
It seems their function is to introduce the idea of fatalism, the idea that we are not masters of our fate. Human fame and glory is temporary. Even Achilles has his weakness.
As the hero falls, he is usually allowed a final comment. Caesar's was "Et tu, Brute?" meaning "Not you as well, Brutus?" That's known as a valediction (means a farewell comment). Shakespeare has many examples: Another famous example is Richard III's last cry of "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"
Mount Semeru
Mount Semeru is a active volcano in the island of Java, Indonesia.
Mount Semeru has a elevation of 3.676 m above sea level. The mountain is in Eastern Java, between the Lumajang and Malang regency. Its geographical position is between 8°06' SL and 120°55' EL.
The Lost Weekend
The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American drama movie directed by Billy Wilder and was based on the 1944 novel of the same by Charles R. Jackson. It stars Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Doris Dowling, Howard Da Silva, Frank Faylen, Lilian Fontaine, Frank Orth and was distributed by Paramount Pictures. It won 4 Academy Awards in 1946 and was nominated for 3 others.
Gabriele Patriarca (painter)
Gabriele Patriarca (10 July 1916 – 2 September 1988) was an Italian informalist painter and member of the art movement Scuola Romana.
Objective, Burma!
Objective, Burma! is a 1945 American World War II action movie directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull, Warner Anderson. It was distributed by Warner Bros. and was nominated for three Academy Awards in 1946.
Dative case
In grammar, the dative case is the grammatical case used to show the object of an action (the thing the verb is acts on).
For example, "Maria gave Jacob a drink". In this example, Jacob is the dative as he is being given the drink, he is what the verb ("gave") is acting upon.
Manimuthar River
Manimuthar is the name of four different rivers in Tamil Nadu, India:
USS Somerset
USS "Somerset" may mean:
Puducherry
Puducherry or Pondicherry may mean:
Mire language
Mire, or Mulgi, is an East Chadic language spoken by around 5,000 people in southwestern Chad. It is mainly spoken in Tandjile Prefecture and Lai Prefecture. Most speakers speak Ndam or Kimré as a second language.
Mulgi
Mulgi may be:
Ndam language
Ndam, also known as Dam or Ndamm, is an East Chadic language spoken by around 6,500 people in southwestern Chad. It is spoken mainly in the Tandjilé and Lai Prefectures. There are two dialects of the language: Ndam Dik (northern), and Ndam-Ndam (southern).
Tumak language
Tumak (also known as Toumak, Tumag, Tummok, Sara Toumak, Tumac, and Dije) is an East Chadic language spoken by around 25,000 people in southwestern Chad. The language is similar to the Motun and Mawer languages. Some think they are different dialects of the same language. Blench says they are different languages.
Taare Zameen Par
Taare Zameen Par (titled Like Stars on Earth internationally) is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language family drama movie. Amir Khan produced and directed it. The film stars Darsheel Safary and Aamir Khan. It is about a child with dyslexia.
The film is about a 8-year-old dyslexic child named Ishaan Awasthi. He does well in art class but not in his other classes. His teachers and principal gives him a report card showing his low grades, so his parents send him to boarding school. The teachers there are unkind to him. He becomes very sad. However, Ishaan's new art teacher is not abusive at all. He is nice and expresses concern about Ishaan. The new art teacher figures out that he is dyslexic and helps him to overcome his disability.
The film stars Darsheel Safary as 8-year-old Ishaan, Vipin Sharma and Tisca Chopra as Ishaan's parents, Sachet Engineer as Ishaan's brother, and Aamir Khan plays his art teacher.
Creative director and writer Amole Gupte developed the idea with his wife Deepa Bhatia, who served as the film's editor. Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy composed the film's score, and Prasoon Joshi wrote the lyrics for many of the songs. Principal photography took place in Mumbai and in Panchgani's New Era High School. Some of the school's students make appearances.
The film was released on December 21, 2007 and won awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Film for 2008 and the 2008 National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare. It was India's official entry for the 2009 Academy Awards Best Foreign Film but did not go further to the short-list.
Grant Jackson (baseball)
Grant Dwight Jackson (September 28, 1942 – February 2, 2021) was an American professional baseball pitcher and coach.
Jackson played in Major League baseball (MLB) from to for the Philadelphia Phillies, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos, and Kansas City Royals.
After Jackson’s playing career, he was a coach for the Pirates and Cincinnati Reds.
Jackson died on February 2, 2021 from problems caused by COVID-19, aged 78.
Chad Colley
Ralph "Chad" Colley Jr (May 13, 1944 – January 30, 2021) was an American para-alpine skier, army officer and activist for disabled Americans. He won a gold medal at the 1992 Paralympic Games. Colley was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Colley died on January 30, 2021 at the age of 76.
Airborne transmission
An airborne transmission is transmission of diseases through small particulates that can be passed through the air over time and distance.
Diseases that can be infected through airborne transmission may be viruses, bacteria, or fungi, and they may be spread through breathing, talking, coughing, sneezing, raising of dust, spraying of liquids or even flushing toilets.
Maureen Colquhoun
Maureen Morfydd Colquhoun ( ; (12 August 1928 – 2 February 2021) was a British economist and Labour Party politician. She was born in London. She was a Member of parliament from 1974 to 1979. Colquhoun was Britain's first openly lesbian MP.
Colquhoun died on 2 February 2021, aged 92.
Jacqueline Shumiatcher
Jacqueline Clay Shumiatcher, (April 29, 1923 – February 1, 2021) was a French-born Canadian philanthropist, arts patron, and art collector. She and her husband Morris C. Shumiatcher began supporting the arts community in Regina, Saskatchewan.
In 2014 she donated 1,310 Inuit sculptures and paintings by the Regina Five, worth C$3 million, to the University of Regina. She was honored the Saskatchewan Order of Merit in 2001 and the Order of Canada in 2017. She was born in Vendin-le-Vieil, Pas de Calais.
Shumiatcher died on February 1, 2021 at the age of 97.
Joshua Hamidu
Lieutenant General Joshua Mahamadu Hamidu (1936 – 2 February 2021) was a Ghanaian soldier, politician and diplomat. He was the Chief of Defence Staff from 1978 to 1979. He was the Ghanaian High Commissioner to Zambia in 1978 for a short time. He was also High Commissioner to Zambia from 2003 to 2005.
Hamidu died on 2 February 2021 at an Accra hospital.