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[DOC] [TLE] The Delta Connection by Hammond Innes - Fantastic FictionThe Delta Connection by Hammond Innes [PAR] A novel by Hammond Innes [PAR]   [PAR] The first killing occurs in Constantza, the Romanian seaport on the Black Sea, but the next death happens a world away. At the heart of this thriller is the search for a missing woman - Vikki, the beautiful, adopted daughter of a dissident journalist. [PAR]   [PAR] Used availability for Hammond Innes's The Delta Connection [PAR] See all available used copies of this book at Abebooks UK or Abebooks US [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] The delta connection (Book, 1997) [WorldCat.org]The delta connection (Book, 1997) [WorldCat.org] [PAR] Find more libraries Librarian? Claim your library to [PAR] The delta connection [PAR]  Print book : Fiction : English View all editions and formats [PAR] Database: [PAR] WorldCat [PAR] Summary: [PAR] A desperate escape from Romania after the fall of the Ceausescus... a violent introduction to the new rules of warfare on the borders of Afghanistan... then an icy struggle for survival among the world's highest mountains... Death follows those who seek beyond the 'Delta Connection' - searching for something closely guarded in the most dangerous region on earth [PAR] Rating: [PAR] You are connected to the University of Washington Libraries network [PAR] Hide local services for this item [PAR] OCLC FirstSearch [PAR] Add library to Favorites [PAR] Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. [PAR] Allow this favorite library to be seen by others [PAR] Keep this favorite library private [PAR] Find a copy in the library [PAR] Finding libraries that hold this item... [PAR] Details [PAR] Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1996. [PAR] Description: [PAR] Hammond Innes. [PAR] Abstract: [PAR] The first killing occurs in Constantza, the Romanian seaport on the Black Sea, but the next death happens a world away. At the heart of this thriller is the search for a missing woman - Vikki, the beautiful, adopted daughter of a dissident journalist.  Read more... [PAR] Reviews [PAR] Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. [PAR] Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. [PAR] Tags [PAR] Add tags  for "The delta connection". Be the first. [PAR] Similar Items

Who wrote the novel Delta Connection?

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[DOC] [TLE] The other 10th anniversary: Ansett's demise - Traveller.com.auThe other 10th anniversary: Ansett's demise [PAR] The other 10th anniversary: Ansett's demise [PAR] Sep 12 2011 [PAR] It has been 10 years since Ansett collapsed.  [PAR] Photo: Dallas Kilponen [PAR] Share on Google Plus [PAR] If you want the exact date, this Wednesday, September 14, will be the 10th anniversary of the greatest crisis the Australian travel industry has ever faced, which was masked by the other great disaster America is commemorating today. [PAR] Nine eleven, as it has come to be known, collapsed the American domestic air travel business into a hole from which it did not re-emerge for years. [PAR] See Also [PAR] Australia travel guide [PAR] On the other side of the world, the bankruptcy of Ansett – mismanaged in the 1990s by its lazy Australian management, then taken over by greedy New Zealand raiders in 2000 – not only collapsed the Australian domestic market, but initially gifted more than 90 per cent of what was left to Qantas, whose domestic division in the 1990s had more often than not been the straggler to Ansett’s market leader. [PAR] SHARE [PAR] The end ... a tearful Ansett employee during the final days of the airline.  [PAR] Photo: Craig Abraham [PAR] Qantas eventually drew “a line in the sand” at 65 per cent of the domestic market as the little backpackers’ budget airline, Virgin Blue, grew to become its only viable opposition. [PAR] The fact that the renamed Virgin Australia did not even have a business-class product until three months ago gave Qantas a 10-year free ride as the airline of choice for corporate Australia, a goldmine that still subsidises the disaster that Qantas International has become. [PAR] Ansett was not quite a carbon copy, but similar to what became of some of travel’s greatest names in America, when the US deregulated the airline industry in 1978. [PAR] Ansett had had more than a decade to get its sky-high operating costs under control after the Australian industry was deregulated in 1989. It cost Ansett and Australian Airlines (the government-owned domestic carrier taken over by Qantas in 1993) hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to outlast Australia’s first generation of budget carriers, Compass Mark I and II between 1990 and 1993. [PAR] After the first raiders were seen off, Qantas and Ansett continued to behave like the born-to-rule: the cheapest fare between Melbourne and Sydney was $239 return and if you didn’t like it, you could walk. [PAR] It cost the incumbents around $120 to fly a Melbourne-Sydney seat compared with around half that for today’s low-cost carriers like Tiger and Jetstar, even with the astronomical airport fees they are forced to pay. [PAR] When the aggressive Brierley Investments had control of Ansett in the last days, there was massive cost-cutting as a New Zealand razor gang went through Ansett headquarters in Franklin Street, Melbourne. [PAR] Ansett’s 16,000 staff were demoralised and fearful of the future. The cost-cutting is thought to have caused defective book-keeping in the maintenance records department, which led to the grounding of Ansett’s Boeing 767 fleet in April 2001, barely a day before the busy Easter holidays. [PAR] Ansett lost public confidence and never regained it. It was a coincidence that air travel on the other side of the world would also be decimated by unrelated events in September 2001. [PAR] What are you memories of Ansett? Do you remember them as the bad old days when flying was much more expensive, or something more benign? Were you one of many who caught the bus or train instead of the plane?[DOC] [TLE] The 5 Best Airlines in Africa - Lee AbbamonteThe 5 Best Airlines in Africa [PAR] The 5 Best Airlines in Africa [PAR] April 23, 2013 by Lee Abbamonte 82 Comments [PAR] The 5 best airlines in Africa can be as contentious a topic as airlines in Africa in general. Some people are afraid to fly airlines in Africa period. That is obviously because of their own ignorance and fear but not all the fears are self conjured. Many African airlines do not have good safety records and many are not sanctioned to fly anywhere outside of Africa or

Which country does the airline Ansett come from?

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[DOC] [TLE] First Stewardess from Howard County | Howard CountyFirst Stewardess from Howard County | Howard County [PAR] Offices [PAR] First Stewardess from Howard County [PAR] The Times reported in July of 1929 that steps finally had been taken to provide an airport in Cresco, Iowa. A 22 acre plot of ground was leased from Robert Thomson. This area was northwest of the fairgrounds and marked according to regulations for such fields. A circle 100 feet in diameter and about four feet in wideth was to be marked on the ground in the center of the field with some white materials. Such markings would be immediately recognized by a pilot or any aircraft as a safe and proper landing place. No lights for landing at night were to be provided at that time. Purchase of ground for a permanent field was postponed until a later date. The landing field was completed in the month of July 1929 and was found to be easily recognized by air pliots. The word " Cresco" was painted in large letters on the roof of the grandstand at the fairground to serve the same purpose to air travelers as the town name on the passenger station did to the railroad travelers. Cresco was then listed in the Rand & McNally Atlas as a regulation airport. [PAR] A year later, 1930, a local girl, Ellen Church, was instrumental in organizing a Stewardess Service with the Boeing Company. Miss Church felt that institutional training should be combined with aviation. The Boeing Company was the first in the history of aviation to employ women as members of their flying force, and it was also the first to engage institutionally trained women as a third member of their crew. [PAR] According to Miss Church, the duties of the stewardesses were to look after the interests and comforts of air passengers and to take complete charge of such to the passengers' destinations. While enroute the stewardesses pointed out places of interest in cities, towns, rivers, mountains, passes, altitudes, etc. She was a licensed pilot and approached the Boeing Company with the idea that she could serve as a nurse and substitute pilot on their planes. Early specifications for flight attendants were that they be no taller than 5 foot 4 inches and must weigh less than 115 pounds. With these specificaitons they would be able to manuever around the plane with the lowe celings and narrow aisles. Attendants other duties were to take tickets, load luggage, gas the plane and help push the machine into the hanger. Ellen Church was instrumental in hiring the first team of attendants. Through her work and calming presence, she helped convince the public of the safety in flying. [PAR] Cresco constructed a new air landing strip in 1959. This landing strip was located west and south of Cresco. The airport today is on this same site and is named "Ellen Church Field" after the first stewardess. [PAR] The winter 1997-1998 issue of the Iowan Magazine features Ellen Church[DOC] [TLE] Ellen Church Archives - This Day in AviationEllen Church Archives - This Day in Aviation [PAR] This Day in Aviation [PAR] Aviation Boeing Air Transport , Ellen Church , Flight Attendant , Nurse , Sky Girls , Stewardess , United Air Lines , Women in Aviation Bryan Swopes [PAR] Ellen Church [PAR] 15 May 1930: Ellen Church (1904–1965) became the first airline stewardess, now more commonly titled Flight Attendant, on a Boeing Air Transport flight from Oakland to Chicago. A registered nurse and licensed pilot, Miss Church had approached Steve Sampson at Boeing Air Transport (later, United Air Lines) to inquire about being hired as a pilot. [PAR] When her request was denied, she suggested that the airline put registered nurses aboard BAT’s airplanes to care for the passengers. She was hired to recruit and train seven additional women as stewardesses. Because of the cabin size and weight-carrying limitations of those early airliners, they were limited to a height of 5’4″ and 115 pounds. They were to be registered nurses, but not to be more than 25 years old. The salary was $125.00 per month. [PAR] Captain Ellen Church, NC, USAAF. [PAR] Miss Church worked for BAT for about 18 months until she was injured in a car accident. She then returned to her career in nursing. [PAR]

Ellen Church is recognized as being the first female what?

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[DOC] [TLE] Steven Spielberg - Futurepedia - WikiaSteven Spielberg | Futurepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia [PAR]    [Source] [PAR] Steven Allan Spielberg (born on December 18 , 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) is an American film director, screenwriter, film producer and studio executive. He was the executive producer of all three installments of the Back to the Future trilogy , and has been given credit by producer Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis for helping them realize their dream of bringing Back to the Future to the screen. [PAR] Other work [PAR] Steven Spielberg had his first major success as the director of Jaws (for which homage is paid in Back to the Future Part II ), which became, at the time of its release in 1975 , the highest grossing film in history. Spielberg then had success with Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 . Spielberg was also the director for the blockbusters Raiders of the Lost Ark , E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom . [PAR] Though Spielberg was very impressed with Zemeckis and Gale, his first three productions of their work were box office failures. Spielberg was executive producer for I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director for 1941 ( 1979 ), and executive producer for Used Cars ( 1980 ). Although he was interested when Zemeckis and Gale approached him in 1982 for Back to the Future, the two writers did not want to take the risk of delivering another money-losing venture to Spielberg, and the stigma that it would cause for them. During the next several years, Zemeckis and Gale received more than 40 rejections while trying to get Back to the Future filmed. [PAR] Steven Spielberg (in the middle) on the set of Back to the Future. [PAR] When Robert Zemeckis successfully directed Romancing the Stone to box-office success in 1984 , he recounts, people who had rejected Back to the Future were eager to back the film. Zemeckis and Gale went back to the one person who had believed in them, and Spielberg's Amblin Productions was their choice when the film began production in 1984 for Universal Studios. [PAR] Zemeckis and Gale give credit to Spielberg for protecting the film from a change in title that had been insisted upon by Universal's Sid Sheinberg . Sheinberg was adamant that he wanted the film to be called Spaceman From Pluto, on the grounds that no film with word "future" in its title had ever been successful. The Bobs give full credit to Spielberg, who responded to Sheinberg with thanks for his "humorous memo", for saving the film. Zemeckis commented that Spielberg earned every penny he got from the trilogy. Spielberg was executive producer on Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III [PAR] Spielberg is the father of six children, including Max Spielberg , who was born on June 13, 1985 , three weeks before the premiere of Back to the Future , and who was made part of the story for Back to the Future Part II as director of Jaws 19 in the year 2015. [PAR] Spielberg also was an executive producer for several Warner Bros cartoons, including Tiny Toon Adventures which included several voice actors from Back to the Future: The Animated Series , including:[DOC] [TLE] Back to the Future - Futurepedia - WikiaBack to the Future | Futurepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia [PAR] Back to the Future [PAR] "He was never in time for his classes... He wasn't in time for his dinner... Then one day... he wasn't in his time at all." [PAR] —Tagline for the film [PAR] "17-year-old Marty McFly got home early last night. 30 years early." [PAR] —Unused tagline for the film [PAR] Back to the Future [PAR] Back to the Future is an American science fiction/comedy movie directed by Robert Zemeckis and released in 1985 . It is about a young man named Marty McFly who accidentally travels into the past and jeopardizes his own future existence. The film was followed by two sequels, Back to the Future Part II ( 1989 ), and Back to the Future Part III ( 1990 ), forming a trilogy . [PAR] Back to the Future was written by Bob Gale and Zemeckis,

Who directed Back To The Future?

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[DOC] [TLE] RIP Walter Cronkite - The Watcher - TV Listings, News ...RIP Walter Cronkite - The Watcher [PAR] RIP Walter Cronkite [PAR] Share | [PAR] News emerged late Friday that Walter Cronkite died. [PAR] In an era when the role of the news media changes every day, it's worth remembering the example Cronkite set. The word "legend" is thrown around a lot, but Cronkite deserved it. [PAR] “Walter’s early lessons would be well kept in mind by all of us who have followed him. And that is to keep it on the news. Tell people what happened that day, keep it short, keep it direct, and keep it accurate,” "ABC World News" anchor Charlie Gibson said in a CBS press release issued late Friday.  [PAR] President Barack Obama said this in the CBS release: "He brought us all those stories large and small which would come to define the 20th Century. That's why we love Walter, because in an era before blogs and e/mail cell phones and cable, he was the news. Walter invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down.” [PAR] CBS will air "That's the Way It Was: Remembering Walter Cronkite," a tribute to the man who for many years defined CBS' newsgathering operation, 6 p.m. Central Sunday. [PAR] Below are links to some Cronkite obituaries and appreciations: [PAR] Legendary Chicago reporter Robert Feder, one of my journalism heroes, reflects on Cronkite's legacy .  [PAR] Robert Lloyd in the Los Angeles Times [PAR] Roger Ebert on the end of what Cronkite stood for : "When he left the air, something else was already leaving the air: A sense of probity, of caution, of fact-checking, of restraint and decency. What did he make of these latter years of breathless nonstop around-the-clock cable news, with its shouters, its opinions, its fake teases, its blizzards of computer graphics, its obsession with trashy lives led in public?" [PAR] Writer/director Ken Levine : "Name me one person, anybody, who could be called the most trusted man in America now. I can’t think of one either." [PAR] TVGuide.com [PAR] A CBS obituary is at the end of this post [PAR] Media Decoder has a group of Cronkite's most famous reports. The one below comes from the day of John F. Kennedy's death. Reports are coming in from all over, chaos reins and yet Cronkite is as calm as can be. His voice becomes thick as the awful truth emerges, but Cronkite never stops doing his job. [PAR] CBS' full press release on Cronkite's death, which includes quotes from President Barack Obama, former president Bill Clinton, CBS anchor Katie Couric and others, is below. [PAR] CBS NEWS PAYS TRIBUTE TO WALTER CRONKITE IN THE PRIMETIME SPECIAL “THAT’S THE WAY IT WAS: REMEMBERING WALTER CRONKITE,” [PAR] ON SUNDAY, JULY 19 AT 7:00PM ET ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK [PAR]   [PAR] “WALTER INVITED US TO BELIEVE IN HIM, AND HE NEVER LET US DOWN,” SAYS PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [PAR]   [PAR] Legendary Newsman Is Also Honored With Remembrances From Such Luminaries As, Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Katie Couric, [PAR] Ted Koppel, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, George Clooney, Robin Williams, Spike Lee and Many More [PAR]   [PAR] CBS News will honor the legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite who passed away on Friday, July 17, 2009 at the age of 92 with the primetime special THAT’S THE WAY IT WAS: REMEMBERING WALTER CRONKITE to be broadcast on Sunday, July 19 at 7:00PM ET on the CBS Television Network. [PAR]   [PAR] Considered by so many in this country to be the “most trusted man in America,” Cronkite was the biggest name in television news through whom generations of Americans witnessed history. This sentiment is echoed by some of the biggest names in politics, news and entertainment – including President Barack Obama, CBS News colleagues Mike Wallace, Morley Safer and Don Hewitt, Katie Couric, George Clooney, Robin Williams and Spike Lee - who each share their own memories of the industry’s elder statesman as part of

The word anchorman was credited by Sig Michelson about which CBS News Legend?

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[DOC] [TLE] Nelson Mandela's Spear of the Nation: the ANC's armed ...Nelson Mandela's Spear of the Nation: the ANC's armed resistance - Telegraph [PAR] South Africa [PAR] Nelson Mandela's Spear of the Nation: the ANC's armed resistance [PAR] Nelson Mandela set up the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), in 1961 when he lost hope that passive and non-violent resistance to the apartheid government would bear fruit. [PAR] Nelson Mandela outside Westminster Abbey in 1962 Photo: REX [PAR] Follow [PAR] It was launched on December 16, the same day as the Afrikaners defeated the Zulus at the Battle of the Blood River 100 years earlier, not long after the massacre in Sharpeville of 69 unarmed protesters by the security police. [PAR] With no military training himself, and in hiding from the government, Mr Mandela travelled abroad where he was offered financial and practical help by countries including Ethiopia and Algeria. [PAR] Mr Mandela was adamant that MK, as the armed unit was called, would not kill people but its tactics would be aimed at sabotage. In his own words, the aim was to "hit back by all means within our power in defence of our people, our future and our freedom". [PAR] On his return to South Africa, Mr Mandela and his colleagues set up regional command units and set about training their army in bomb making and clandestine operations. [PAR] MK carried out numerous bombings during the next 20 years and the pledge not to kill became redundant – in the whole campaign, at least 63 people died and 483 people were injured. [PAR] Related Articles[DOC] [TLE] Armed Resistance Movement - Nelson MandelaArmed Resistance Movement -  Nelson Mandela [PAR] Armed Resistance Movement [PAR] Process Paper [PAR] In 1961, Nelson Mandela co-founded and became the first leader of Umkhonto  we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation"), also known as MK, a new armed wing of the ANC. Under Mandela's leadership, MK launched a sabotage campaign against the government, which had recently declared South Africa a republic and withdrawn from the British Commonwealth. In January 1962, Mandela traveled aboard illegally to attend a conference of African nationalist leaders in Ethiopia, visit the exiled Oliver Tambo in London and undergo guerilla training in Algeria. On August 5, shortly after his return, he was arrested and subsequently sentenced to five years in prison for leaving the country and inciting a 1961 workers strike. The following July, police raided an ANC hideout in Rivonia, a suburb on the outskirts of Johannesburg, and arrested a racially diverse  group of MK leaders who had gathered to debate the merits of a guerilla insurgency. Evidence eas found implicating Mandela and other activists, who were brought to stand trial for sabotage, treason and violent conspiracy alongside their associates.Mandela and other seven defendants narrowly escaped the gallows and were instead sentenced to life imprisonment during the so-call Rivonia Trial, which lasted eight months and attracted substantial international attention. In a stirring opening statement that sealed his iconic status around the world, Mandela admitted to some of the charges against him while defending the ANC's actions and denouncing the injustices of apartheid.   [PAR] Create a free website[DOC] [TLE] Project MUSE - Spear of the NationProject MUSE - Spear of the Nation [PAR] Spear of the Nation [PAR] Janet Cherry [PAR] Publication Year: 2012 [PAR] Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century—but it never got to “march triumphant into Pretoria.” MK—as it was known—was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa’s liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government. A small group of revolutionaries committed to the seizure of power, MK discovered its principal members engaged in negotiated settlement with the enemy and was disbanded soon after. [PAR] The history of MK is one of paradox and contradiction, of successes and failures. In this short study, which draws widely on the personal experiences of—and commentary by—MK soldiers, Janet Cherry offers a new and nuanced account of the Spear of the Nation. She presents in broad outline the various stages of MK’s thirty-year history, considers

Spear of the Nation was an armed wing of which group?

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[DOC] [TLE] Axl Rose Bio | Axl Rose Career | MTVAxl Rose Bio | Axl Rose Career | MTV [PAR] Get the MTV ArtistsApp and discover music wherever you are. [PAR] About Axl Rose [PAR] Rock [PAR] Depending who you ask, Guns N' Roses vocalist Axl Rose is either considered a rock music icon who is worshipped by millions as an almost Christ-like figure, or hated as a homophobic, misogynistic, and woefully self-indulgent "rock star" (in his defense, Rose has denied that he's a homophobe or a misogynist), as well as thought of as a tyrant by his ex-bandmates. William Bruce Rose was born on February 6, 1962, in Lafayette, IN, and suffered sexual abuse from his biological father and physical abuse from his eventual stepfather at an early age (Rose changed his name to William Bailey after his mother remarried). Rose was also an outcast in school, where he was picked on for being "different," but found solace in singing with his school and church vocal choir and eventually rock music. His rough teenage years were eased a bit when he befriended a Keith Richards-worshipping chap by the name of Jeff Isbell, who shared Rose's interest in music. Isbell left Indiana for the streets of Los Angeles in the early '80s with hopes of forming a rock band, and Rose followed shortly thereafter, changing his name to W. Axl Rose (while Isbell soon adopted the name Izzy Stradlin). [PAR] The L.A. rock music scene at the time was split down the center between rough-and-ready punk rock and hair spray-soaked glam rock/heavy metal, and Rose wanted to form an outfit that borrowed equally from each genre. Stradlin and Rose plowed through several outfits that went nowhere (Hollywood Rose being one) before hooking up with fellow streetwise rockers Slash (guitar, real name Saul Hudson), Duff McKagan (bass), and Steven Adler (drums). After slugging it out on the Sunset Strip and honing their act, the newly christened Guns N' Roses signed a recording contract with Geffen Records after issuing an independent live EP (1986's Live Like a Suicide). Their full-length debut, Appetite for Destruction, was released a year later, and at first the public didn't know what to make of the album or the band. Slowly but surely, rock's fickle audience came around, and by summer 1988, Guns N' Roses was fast becoming one of the world's top rock bands (on the strength of such hit singles/MTV-saturated videos as "Welcome to the Jungle," "Sweet Child O' Mine," and "Paradise City"). [PAR] But with fame came death-defying drug and alcohol abuse among all five bandmembers (as well as last-minute tour/concert cancellations) -- it appeared as though the more successful they became, the more problems arose. To fill the void for a new GNR album, Geffen put out the eight-track stopgap EP G N' R Lies in late 1988, amid widespread rumors of an impending band breakup. The album was another big seller (on the strength of the hit acoustic ballad "Patience"), but Axl Rose came under immense fire and criticism for the song "One in a Million," in which Rose had derogatory comments for gays, blacks, and immigrants. Undeterred, Rose and co. regrouped and worked on their much-anticipated follow-up to Appetite, which seemed to always miss its numerous projected release dates. Adler was sacked during the recording, while 1991 finally saw the release of the two-part sophomore effort Use Your Illusion. Both discs were massive hits, but the band appeared to have reinvented itself as a bombastic and indulgent rock act, often recalling the music that their punk rock idols attempted to destroy in the mid-'70s. A mammoth two-year tour followed (with Stradlin leaving the band mid-tour) in which GNR found themselves losing their validity as a streetwise rock act in the face of the stripped-down grunge movement (which included such acts as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, et

What is Axl Rose's real name?

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[DOC] [TLE] Santander Airport Guide - Spanish Airports Guide to ...Santander Airport Guide - Spanish Airports Guide to Santander Airport [PAR] Santander Airport [PAR] Santander Airport Guide [PAR] If you have decided to fly into Santander Airport, you will be pleased to know that the City Centre is just 5 km away and is easily accessible from bus companies that serve the airport. The airport has recently been reformed and modernised with numerous extension works and in 2011 it served well over 1 million visitors. [PAR] The airport is a small airport with only a handful of gates and airlines flying out from here, however it has everything you need from an airport; connections to the City Centre, car rentals desks, shops, places to sit down and eat and now offers all the up to date WIFI technology and also access points in numerous areas, so if you are someone that can´t switch off, you can still keep in contact with the outside world. [PAR] Santander Airport is in the North of Spain and is the only airport in the Cantabria Region. Great for travelling to Bilbao, Gijon, Oviedo, Burgos etc. Should you decide to travel around this wonderful region of Spain, well know for its gastronomy, Im sure you will not be disappointed. Santander is located on the northern coast of Spain between beautiful Asturias and the Basque Country which overlooks the Cantabrian Sea. This part of Spain is beautiful and there is so many historical sites that you must go and see along with wonderful beaches too. So a great place for a weekend away or main holiday. [PAR] Santander Airport's main air traffic is made up mostly of scheduled domestic and international flights. In 2015 the airport handled 875.920 passengers with 10.795 flight operations. [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] Europe Airports - Santander (SDR)Santander (Seve Ballesteros) Airport, Spain (SDR) - Guide & Flights [PAR] Santander Airport Arrivals/Departures [PAR] Santander Airport, otherwise known as Seve Ballesteros Airport, is located 5Km South of Santander on the Costa verde, in the Cantabria region, northern Spain. [PAR] Santander airport has undergone exapansion and improvement work due to the incresed passenger numbers in the last few years. A new departures and catering area is in use. [PAR] A bus runs from the airport to Santander bus station every half hour for most of the day for 2 Euros (journey time 15 minutes). [PAR] Other bus services connect the airport with Bilbao, Gij�n, Oviedo, and Laredo. [PAR] Taxi to Santander costs around 20 Euros. [PAR] Facilities include 2 cafe/restaurant, a shop, 2 ATM's, and WiFi Internet access. [PAR] Passenger numbers totalled 876,000 in 2016, an increase of 7% from the previous year. [PAR] Flights to Santander Seve Ballesteros Airport from UK or Ireland airports[DOC] [TLE] Santander - Corporate websiteCorporate website [PAR] Grupo Santander's intranet ranked in top 10 worldwide according to Nielsen Norman Group [PAR] 10/01/2017 [PAR] Corporate Centre's intranet has been ranked in the top 10 published by Nielsen Norman Group, which recognises the best intranets worldwide, and includes those of major companies such as Bank of America and IBM. The aspects evaluated include design and usability, the unification of various content under the same portal, the possibility to personalise the site, its responsive design (the screen adapts to the type of device used) and, above all, its ease of use and user satisfaction. [PAR] Apple Pay now available to Banco Santander customers in Spain [PAR] 01/12/2016 [PAR] Banco Santander today brings its customers Apple Pay, an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient. Santander is the first Spanish financial institution to offer Apple Pay to its customers. Redsys and Mastercard collaborated in the initiative. “Apple Pay shows we are committed to collaborate and to bring innovation and new technology to our customers to make their payments easier, faster and more secure,” said Rami Aboukhair, country head of Santander Spain. "We are convinced our customers will love it.”[DOC] [TLE] Santander, SpainThe port city of Santander (,; ) is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao

Santander international airport is in which country?

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[DOC] [TLE] Hairstory - Hair the Musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado ...Hair the Musical by Gerome Ragni, James Rado, and music by Galt Macdermot [PAR] Hairstory [PAR] The Story Behind The Story [PAR] James Rado is at the heart and root of the origin.  In his early teens he knew what he wanted to do, his dream, to write a Broadway musical.  He had become a fan of the genre, and he made first stabs at writing one.  In college he majored in Speech & Drama and became a songwriter.  He co-authored 2 musical shows at the University of Maryland: "INTERLUDE" and, a year later, "INTERLUDE 2."  After graduation, followed by two years in the U.S.Navy, he returned to school in Washington, D.C. for graduate work at Catholic University, where he co-authored a musical revue called "CROSS YOUR FINGERS."  He wrote the lyrics and music for all his songs.  He moved to New York City, but it would be another 10 years before he would write a fourth musical for the stage.  (During that intervening decade, besides holding down a "make-a-living" job, he wrote pop songs and recorded his own band, known as "James Alexander and the Argyles," and he began to study acting in earnest.)  Upon meeting Gerome Ragni, he saw some of Jerry's poetic writings and asked him to collaborate on a new show.  They began a voluminous creation.  One day they were in the Whitney Museum of Art on Madison Avenue, going from painting to painting, when they came upon a rather unique one by an American artist, Jim Dine.  Looking to see the name of it,  Jim Rado said to Jerry Ragni, "What an odd title for a painting...Hair."  Several months later they found that title most apropos for the show they were writing about hippiedom and the troubles of America.    [PAR] HAIR's world debut was in New York City in October 1967, off-Broadway, on the heels of the Summer of Love. Jerry and I had written HAIR for the uptown big theatre audiences. It was designed to invade Broadway territory, but we couldn't get a tumble from any of the Broadway producers. "Not our cup of tea," they would say. We retreated from our firm intention, in response to an offer of a 6-week run for HAIR as the opening attraction at a new theater. The old Astor Library, gutted and under fresh construction, became The New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, and the producer Joseph Papp chose HAIR to be the premiere presentation in his experimental space, the Anspacher Theater. (Papp had produced free Shakespeare in Central Park for years, but was now branching out, to embrace the excitement of the avant garde theater movement.) Quite a wonderful opportunity, we thought; if we couldn't get HAIR on-Broadway, at least we could jump-start it downtown in the Joseph Papp spotlight of a new New York theater, in the East Village at that, where the play itself was set. As directed by Gerald Freedman, with choreography by Anna Sokolow, the "Public" proved to be a perfect "out-of-town tryout." [PAR] A Guy, a Kid and a Cat [PAR] A guy from Washington, D.C. (James Rado) and a kid from Pittsburgh. Pa. (Gerome Ragni) met in New York City when they were cast together in a new off-Broadway endeavor, HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND DIE, a musical revue whose theme was Capital Punishment. Following the shortest run in show biz (one night), the two young men continued their friendship and soon set out to write their own show, a musical they entitled HAIR. The two became three when they joined up with a cat from Montreal, Canada (Galt MacDermot) who had settled into the New York area to live and who set their songs to music. [PAR] HAIR was

Who founded the off-Broadway theater where Hair had its premier?

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[DOC] [TLE] SPORTS PEOPLE - AUTO RACING - Mansell Is Switching To Indy ...SPORTS PEOPLE - AUTO RACING - Mansell Is Switching To Indy Cars Next Year - NYTimes.com [PAR] SPORTS PEOPLE: AUTO RACING; Mansell Is Switching To Indy Cars Next Year [PAR] Published: September 19, 1992 [PAR] NIGEL MANSELL, the Formula One champion, will drive for Newman-Haas Racing in the Indy-car series next year, the team announced yesterday. [PAR] The Briton takes the spot vacated by MICHAEL ANDRETTI, who announced last week that he was switching from Indy cars to Formula One and will drive for Team McLaren. [PAR] The 39-year-old Mansell, who won the Formula One title this season by taking 8 of the first 11 races, will team with MARIO ANDRETTI, Michael's father, who was his Formula One teammate at Lotus in 1980. [PAR] "His presence will give Indy-car racing a whole new following in Europe," CARL HAAS, the team's co-owner, said of his newest driver. [PAR] Mansell has driven with the Williams-Renault team the last two seasons, but did not reach an agreement with the owner, FRANK WILLIAMS, on a new contract for 1993. (AP) [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] Nigel Mansell profile on SnapLapNigel Mansell profile on SnapLap [PAR] Gallery [PAR] Nigel Mansell is the 1992 Formula One world champion. He is one of the ten British Formula One champions but the only one who was at the same time Formula One and Indy champion. A year after winning the Formula One title, he debuted in the CART Indy Car World Series and took another big title, becoming the first debutant Indy champion and the only driver who simultaneously held both titles. [PAR] There is one more interesting fact which makes Mansell special among the living F1 legends. In 2015, the Mexican Grand Prix returned to Formula One after 23 years. Back in 1992, Mansell was the winner of the last Mexican Grand Prix race, so in 2015, he was presented as a special guest on the new track, where even one corner was named after him, which is an honor rarely seen among the living drivers. [PAR] Nigel Mansell at the 2015 Mexican Grand Prix [PAR] Complete F1 results: 31 wins in 187 Grand Prix races [PAR] Mansell's F1 career spanned over 15 seasons; he registered 187 Grand Prix races and scored 31 wins and 59 podiums. He was seventh overall in the Formula One race winners list. He drove for four big F1 teams – Lotus, Williams, Ferrari and McLaren. Before the 1992 title, he was second placed three times (1986, 1987 and 1991). [PAR] Racing career started in 1976 [PAR] Nigel Ernest James Mansell was born on 8 August 1953 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire. After a considerable success in kart racing, he moved on to single-seaters in 1976. He drove various machines but was most successful in the Formula Ford, in which he won the 1977 British championship. The next step was Formula 3. Although he started the 1978 season with a pole position and 2nd place finish, he was not competitive for most of the season, because his Unipart team used Triumph engines, which were inferior to Toyota engines of other teams. In 1979, he scored one victory at Silverstone and finished 8th in the championship. [PAR] Nigel Mansell in Unipart’s Formula 3 car [PAR] Formula One championship debut with Colin Chapman [PAR] Mansell's driving caught the eye of  Colin Chapman , the owner of Lotus, who invited him to test the Formula One car. That year, Lotus was searching for a second driver alongside  Mario Andretti . Elio de Angelis got the seat in 1980, while Mansell was selected to become a test driver. He spent a year driving Formula 3 and Formula Two races. In 1980, Mansell debuted with Chapman's team at the F1 Austrian Grand Prix. He recorded one more start at the Dutch Grand Prix and the qualifying failure at Monza. [PAR] First full F1 season for Mansell in 1981 [PAR] His first full season followed in 1981, as a second driver alongside Elio de Angelis. Mansell scored 3rd place at the Belgian Grand Prix and finished 14th in the championship.

In which year was Nigel Mansell Indy Car Champion?

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[DOC] [TLE] Hearing Aid History - Hearing Aid Basics | HowStuffWorksHearing Aid History - Hearing Aid Basics | HowStuffWorks [PAR] Hearing Aid History [PAR] John Franklin/AFP/ ­Getty Images [PAR] The first hearing aids were enormous, horn-shaped trumpets with a large, open piece at one end that collected sound. The trumpet gradually tapered into a thin tube that funneled the sound into the ear. [PAR] The development of the modern hearing aid might not have been possible had it not been for the contributions of two of the greatest inventors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Alexander Graham Bell electronically amplified sound in his telephone using a carbon microphone and battery -- a concept that was adopted by hearing aid manufacturers. In 1886, Thomas Edison invented the carbon transmitter, which changed sounds into electrical signals that could travel through wires and be converted back into sounds. This technology was used in the first hearing aids. [PAR] Up Next [PAR] Will nanobots perform surgery in the future? [PAR] The Industrial Revolution allowed for the mass production of hearing aids and created a new middle class that could afford the technology. In the 1800s, several companies, including George P. Pilling and Sons of Philadelphia , and Kirchner and Wilhelm of Stuttgart, Germany, produced their own versions of hearing aids. In 1898, the Dictograph Company introduced the first commercial carbon-type hearing aid. A year later, Miller Reese Hutchison, of the Akouphone company in Alabama, patented the first practical electrical hearing aid, which used a carbon transmitter and battery. It was so large that it had to sit on a table, and it sold for $400. [PAR] In the 1920s, vacuum tubes were introduced to hearing aids, which made sound amplification more efficient, but enormous batteries still made them cumbersome. [PAR] 1952 ushered in the age of the transistor hearing aids. The addition of these simple on/off switches finally enabled the advent of a smaller hearing aid. Early transistor hearing aids were designed to fit within the frames of eyeglasses . Later, they were adapted to fit behind the ear. The first transistor hearing aid to hit the market in late 1952 was sold by Sonotone for $229.50. [PAR] In the 1990s, hearing aids went digital. Sound quality improved and became more adjustable. Also during this time, programmable hearing aids were introduced. [PAR] At the turn of the 21st century, computer technology made hearing aids smaller and even more precise, with settings to accommodate virtually every type of listening environment. The newest generation of hearing aids can continually adjust themselves to improve sound quality and reduce background noise. [PAR] For more information on hearing aids and related topics, check out the links on the following page.[DOC] [TLE] Miller Reese HutchisonMiller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He developed some of the first portable electric devices, such as a vehicle horn and a hearing aid. [PAR] Early life [PAR] Hutchison was born August 6, 1876 in Montrose, Alabama. His father was William Hutchison and mother born Tracie Elizabeth Magruder. He attended Marion Military Institute from 1889 through 1891, Spring Hill College 1891 through 1892, the University of Mobile Military Institute from 1892 through 1895, and graduated from Auburn University (then called Alabama Polytechnical Institute) in 1897. While still in school he invented and patented a lightning arrester for telegraph lines in 1895. [PAR] At the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898, he volunteered and was appointed engineer for the United States Lighthouse Board, laying cables and mines to protect harbors in the Gulf of Mexico. [PAR] Hearing aids [PAR] Hutchison was the inventor of the first electrical hearing aid, called the Akoulathon when it was first developed around 1895. It was also known as the microtelephone since it was essentially a self-contained version of the early telephone as invented by Alexander Graham Bell in the 1870s. His hearing aid was an electrical analog of the ear trumpet: a large carbon microphone called the "transmitter" [PAR] captured the sound and delivered it to a small carbon "receiver", which in turn delivered its output to the ear through headphones. [PAR] Hutchison's interest in the invention stemmed from a childhood friend, Lyman Gould, who was deaf from

What type of aid was developed my Miller Hutchinson in the early years of the 20th century?

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[DOC] [TLE] Charles M. Schulz Biography - life, family, childhood ...Charles M. Schulz Biography - life, family, childhood, children, story, school, mother, young, son [PAR] Charles M. Schulz Biography [PAR] Santa Rosa, California [PAR] American cartoonist [PAR] Cartoonist and creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz was the winner of two Reuben, two Peabody, and five Emmy awards and a member of the Cartoonist Hall of Fame. [PAR] Early life [PAR] Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, the son of Carl and Dena Halverson Schulz. His father was a barber. Charles loved to read the comics section of the newspaper with his father and was given the nickname "Sparky" after Sparkplug, the horse in the Barney Google comic strip. He began to draw pictures of his favorite cartoon characters at age six. At school in St. Paul, Minnesota, he was bright and allowed to skip two grades, which made him often the smallest in his class. Noting his interest in drawing, his mother encouraged him to take a correspondence course (in which lessons and exercises are mailed to students and then returned when completed) from Art Instruction, Inc., in Minneapolis after he graduated from high school. [PAR] During World War II (1939–45; a war fought between the Axis: Italy, Japan, and Germany—and the Allies: France, England, the Soviet Union, and the United States), Schulz was drafted into the army and sent to Europe, rising to the rank of sergeant. After the war he returned to Minnesota as a young man with strong Christian beliefs. For a while he worked part-time for a Catholic magazine and taught for Art Instruction, Inc. Some of [PAR] Charles M. Schulz. [PAR] AP/Wide World Photos [PAR] . [PAR] his work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, and eventually he created a cartoon entitled Li'l Folks for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. [PAR] Creates "Peanuts" [PAR] In 1950 the United Feature Syndicate of New York decided to publish Schulz's new comic strip, which he had wanted to call Li'l Folks but which was named Peanuts by the company. In 1950 the cartoon began appearing in seven newspapers with the characters Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, and Snoopy. Within a year the strip appeared in thirty-five papers, and by 1956 it was in over a hundred. The Peanuts cartoons were centered on the simple and touching figures of a boy, Charlie Brown, and his dog, Snoopy and their family and school friends. Adults were never seen, only hinted at, and the action involved ordinary, everyday happenings. [PAR] Charlie Brown had a round head with half-circles for ears and nose, dots for eyes, and a line for a mouth. Things always seemed to go wrong for him, and he was often puzzled by the problems that life and his peers dealt out to him: the crabbiness of Lucy; the unanswerable questions of Linus, a young intellectual with a security blanket; the self-absorption of Schroeder the musician; the teasing of his schoolmates; and the behavior of Snoopy, the floppy-eared dog with the wild imagination, who sees himself as a fighter pilot trying to shoot down the Red Baron (based on a famous German pilot during World War I) when he is not running a "Beagle Scout" troop consisting of the bird, Woodstock, and his friends. [PAR] Charlie Brown's inability to cope with the constant disappointments in life, the failure and renewal of trust (such as Lucy's tricking him every time he tries to kick the football), and his touching efforts to accept what happens as deserved were traits shared to a lesser degree by the other characters. Even crabby Lucy cannot interest Schroeder or understand baseball; Linus is puzzled by life's mysteries and the refusal of the "Great Pumpkin" to show up on Halloween. The odd elements and defects of humanity in general

In which state was Charles Schulz born?

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[DOC] [TLE] Behind the Name: User Comments for the name BusterBehind the Name: User Comments for the name Buster [PAR] -- welovejamesarness  5/25/2008 [PAR] Sounds like a good name for a dog or a rabbit (the latter probably due to Buster Bunny), but it sounds ridiculous on a person. It makes me think of thugs. [PAR] -- bananarama  10/9/2009 [PAR] Buster Bluth was the youngest, developmentally delayed child of George and Lucille Bluth in the popular American television programme 'Arrested Development.' [PAR] -- vomiting  12/27/2010 [PAR] Let it be noted that the character of Buster Bluth's actual first name is Byron, with Buster as a nickname. [PAR] -- FlakyMatt  6/5/2011 [PAR] Buster is the name of the crash-test dummy on Mythbusters. The reason for the name is obvious. [PAR] -- Dawson  6/11/2011 [PAR] Though silent film comedian Buster Keaton was a famous bearer, his real name was Joseph Frank Keaton. Supposedly, he got his nickname and later stage name from Harry Houdini when he was a child. This name isn't good for an actual name, and sounds more like the name of dog.[DOC] [TLE] The Origin of Buster Keaton's NameThe Origin of Buster Keaton's Name [PAR] The Origin of Buster Keaton's Name [PAR] Sunday, February 7, 2016 [PAR] 1,001 apologies to everyone who participated in the Buster Keaton blogathon 2016.  [PAR] Around the time I planned to begin work on Part Two, professional complications in my daily life---which remain ongoing as I write this--prevented me from giving this the effort and attention it needs. Very little has been accomplished so far, as "real life" takes priority. Fingers crossed that I'll have the next entry ready for the 2017 event. It's amazing how fast a year can fly by. [PAR] In the meantime, I'm leaving Part One available for those of you who have not yet read it.  [PAR] Thanks, [PAR] Part One: Busters Before Buster [PAR] A multi-part series of articles exploring the meanings and myths behind the name “Buster.” [PAR] ( Note: This article is posted to participant in the First Annual Buster Keaton Blogathon, hosted by Silentology ( https://silentology.wordpress.com/ ) It has been posted to meet the event’s February 8, 2015 deadline without benefit of a second pair of eyes properly copy editing it for grammatical errors, misplaced punctuation, etc. I welcome comments that point out copy editing oversights)  [PAR] Part One: Busters Before Buster [PAR] Was the stone faced comedian really the first person named Buster? [PAR] By Marty Jones [PAR] To know the story of Buster Keaton’s life is to know the story of how the man got his name. A year or two after his October 1895 birth, young Joseph Frank Keaton Jr. toddled at the top of a boarding house staircase and tumbled down it’s full length. A group of horrified grown-ups are relieved to discover that the child not only survived uninjured but, apparently, enjoyed the ride.  [PAR] “My, that was some buster your boy took!” says a man to the father. A “buster,” it has since been explained, was 19th century slang for a particularly lively fall. There is some debate whether or not the man who made this observation was the young, yet-to-be-famous escape artist Harry Houdini. Regardless, dad is inspired to make a word meaning “fall” his son’s nickname and from that point forward little Joe Keaton Jr. would forever be known as Buster. [PAR] Through out his life Buster Keaton provided this Houdini-gave-me-my-nickname anecdote to anyone who asked. It was left for the historical record in his 1960 autobiography My Wonderful World of Slapstick.  [PAR] Furthermore, Buster informed his readers that he was given the name before that other contemporaneous well-known Buster, Buster Brown of newspaper comics fame. And his claim didn’t end there. “As far as I have been able to learn,” he wrote, “I was the first person given that nickname.” He backed this up four years later when he told a Canadian interviewer that up until he became famous as a child star in

What was Buster Keaton's actual first name?

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[DOC] [TLE] The Beach Boys on Apple MusicThe Beach Boys on Apple Music [PAR] To preview a song, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to buy and download music. [PAR] Biography [PAR] Beginning their career as the most popular surf band in the nation, the Beach Boys finally emerged by 1966 as America's preeminent pop group, the only act able to challenge (for a brief time) the overarching success of the Beatles with both mainstream listeners and the critical community. From their 1961 debut with the regional hit "Surfin'," the three Wilson brothers -- Brian, Dennis, and Carl -- plus cousin Mike Love and friend Al Jardine constructed the most intricate, gorgeous harmonies ever heard from a pop band. With Brian's studio proficiency growing by leaps and bounds during the mid-'60s, the Beach Boys also proved one of the best-produced groups of the '60s, exemplified by their 1966 peak with the Pet Sounds LP and the number one single "Good Vibrations." Though Brian's escalating drug use and obsessive desire to trump the Beatles (by recording the perfect LP statement) eventually led to a nervous breakdown after he heard Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the group soldiered on long into the '70s and '80s, with Brian only an inconsistent participant. The band's post-1966 material is often maligned (if it's recognized at all), but the truth is the Beach Boys continued to make great music well into the '70s. Displayed best on 1970's Sunflower, each member revealed individual talents never fully developed during the mid-'60s -- Carl became a solid, distinctive producer and Brian's replacement as nominal bandleader, Mike continued to provide a visual focus as the frontman for live shows, and Dennis developed his own notable songwriting talents. Though legal wranglings and marginal oldies tours during the '90s often obscured what made the Beach Boys great, the band's unerring ability to surf the waves of commercial success and artistic development during the '60s made them America's first, best rock band. The origins of the group lie in Hawthorne, California, a southern suburb of Los Angeles situated close to the Pacific coast. The three sons of a part-time song plugger and occasionally abusive father, Brian, Dennis, and Carl grew up a just few miles from the ocean -- though only Dennis had any interest in surfing itself. The three often harmonized together as youths, spurred on by Brian's fascination with '50s vocal acts like the Four Freshmen and the Hi-Lo's. Their cousin Mike Love often joined in on the impromptu sessions, and the group gained a fifth with the addition of Brian's high-school football teammate Al Jardine. His parents helped rent instruments (with Brian on bass, Carl on guitar, and Dennis on drums) and studio time to record "Surfin'," a novelty number written by Brian and Mike. The single, initially released in 1961 on Candix and billed to "the Pendletones" (a musical paraphrase of the popular Pendleton shirt), prompted a little national chart action and gained the renamed Beach Boys a contract with Capitol. The group's negotiator with the label, the Wilsons' father, Murray, also took over as manager for the band. Before the release of any material for Capitol, however, Jardine left the band to attend college in the Midwest. A friend of the Wilsons, David Marks, replaced him. Finally, in mid-1962 the Beach Boys released their major-label debut, Surfin' Safari. The title track, a more accomplished novelty single than its predecessor, hit the Top 20 and helped launch the surf rock craze just beginning to blossom around Southern California (thanks to artists like Dick Dale, Jan & Dean, the Chantays, and dozens more). A similarly themed follow-up, Surfin' U.S.A., hit the Top Ten in early 1963 before Jardine returned from school and resumed his place in the group. By that time, the Beach Boys had recorded their first two albums, a pair of 12-track collections that added a few novelty songs to the hits they were packaged around. Though Capitol policy required the group to

On which label did the Beach boys record most of their 60s hits?

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[DOC] [TLE] The ten youngest tennis players in the WTA top 100 - Steve ...The ten youngest tennis players in the WTA top 100 | STEVE G TENNIS [PAR] The ten youngest tennis players in the WTA top 100 [PAR] Tweet [PAR] Not so long ago, women’s tennis was chock-full of teenage champions. A 16-year-old Tracy Austin threatened the Evert-Navratilova duopoly in the late 1970s. Monica Seles won the French Open at the same age in 1990. Martina Hingis broke countless “youngest ever” records and won five Grand Slam titles before she turned 19. [PAR] Recently, however, the average age on the WTA Tour has been creeping up. This has a lot to do with the age restrictions introduced after Jennifer Capriati – a top ten player at the age of 14 – suffered burnout and personal problems in the mid-nineties. But the demanding physical nature of the modern game also makes it harder for young players to challenge for the biggest prizes. In days gone by, teens lacking in muscle were able to finesse their way to the top; in the 21st century, they are simply blown off the court. [PAR] So which of today’s teenage cohort will prevail at tomorrow’s Grand Slams? Here is a look at where the ten youngest players in the WTA top 100 (as of April 20th, 2015). [PAR] Youngest players in the WTA Top 100: [PAR] 1. Ana Konjuh – Age 17 (27 Dec 1997) [PAR] 2. Belinda Bencic – Age 18 (10 Mar 1997) [PAR] 3. Katerina Siniakova – Age 18 (10 May 1996) [PAR] 4. Carina Witthoeft – Age 20 (16 Feb 1995) [PAR] 5. Madison Keys – Age 20 (17 Feb 1995) [PAR] 6. Tereza Smitkova – Age 20 (10 Oct 1994) [PAR] 7. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova – Age 20 (13 Sep 1994) [PAR] 8. Elina Svitolina – Age 20 (12 Sep 1994) [PAR] 9. Alison van Uytvanck – Age 21 (26 Mar 1994) [PAR] 10. Daria Gavrilova – Age 21 (05 Mar 1994) [PAR] Outside the top 100, there are a few more very gifted players who will sooner or later make their move up the rankings. One to watch out for is Catherine Bellis, who at the age of 16 ( 08 Apr 1999) has already shown some great talent and skills. She is our top contender for the future No.1 ranking spot. [PAR]   [PAR] Join the Stevegtennis.com tennis club for free. Just enter your email below for... [PAR] Tennis news updates once a week. [PAR] Special offers on tennis gear. [PAR] Unsubscribe at any time. [PAR] We will never share your email. [PAR] Email

Who is the youngest female tennis player to win the US Open?

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[DOC] [TLE] Top 10 Hotels Near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL ...Top 10 Hotels Near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) in San Salvador, El Salvador | Hotels.com [PAR] Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotels - San Salvador [PAR] Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) is situated in the San Salvador area, El Salvador [PAR] Whether it's a cheap Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel, a 5 star Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel or a family friendly Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel, Hotels.com has the best accommodation for your stay. [PAR] If visiting Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) is a must, then be sure to check out our detailed location mapping to find the best hotel closest to Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL), El Salvador. [PAR] Our map based hotel search can be accessed from the above map image on this page (or via standard search results) and with the locations of each hotel shown clearly around Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) you're able to refine your search within San Salvador or El Salvador based upon other nearby landmarks and neighbourhoods as well as transport options to help you get around. If you're driving be sure to also check the hotels for onsite parking. [PAR] To get the best hotel deals near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) you can also filter by price/ average nightly rate and if you're concerned with quality, you can also filter by star rating and our own guest review rating. [PAR] As well as our Hotels.com guest reviews, we also display reviews from Expedia for Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotels and the TripAdvisor Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotels review score on each of our San Salvador hotel information pages. [PAR] If you're visiting Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL), San Salvador with the family or in a group, be sure to check out the room options and facilities we list for each hotel to ensure we help find the perfect hotel for you. [PAR] When you've made your booking for your hotel near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL), in our confirmation email we'll also send you information on all nearby attractions as well as directions on how to get to your chosen hotel and the weather forecast, helping you to plan your trip. [PAR] To get yourself an even better deal on hotels near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL), San Salvador why not sign up to our Welcome Rewards program? It's free and when you stay 10 nights at any eligible hotel you receive 1 night free* [PAR] We have Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel deals, even Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) last minute deals and offers to get you the cheap est Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel with our lowest price gaurantee.[DOC] [TLE] Top 10 Hotels Near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL ...Top 10 Hotels Near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) in San Salvador, El Salvador | Hotels.com [PAR] Hotels in San Salvador near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) [PAR] Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) in the San Salvador area, El Salvador [PAR] Are you looking for a cheap Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel, a 5 star Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel or a family friendly Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) hotel? You just landed in the best site to find the best deals and offers on the most amazing accommodations for your stay. [PAR] When you search for hotels near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) with Hotels.com, you need to first check our online map and see the distance you will be from Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL), El Salvador. [PAR] Our maps are based on hotel search and display areas and neighborhoods of each hotel so you can see how close you are from Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL) and refine your search within San Salvador or El Salvador based on closest public transportation, restaurants and entertainment so you can easily get around the city. All the hotels details page show an option for free or paid onsite parking. [PAR] If you wish to see the hotels with the highest featuring discounts and deals near Cuscatlan International Airport (SAL), simply filter by price/ average nightly rate. We recommend you filter by star rating and read our genuine guest reviews so you can get the best quality hotel with

Cuscatlan international airport is in which country?

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[DOC] [TLE] Popes of the 20th Century - About.com Religion & SpiritualityPopes of the 20th Century [PAR] Popes of the 20th Century [PAR] Popes of the 20th Century [PAR] History of the Roman Catholic Papacy and Church [PAR] Fox Photos / Stringer/Hulton Archive/Getty Images [PAR] By Austin Cline [PAR] Updated September 11, 2016. [PAR] Below is a list of all of the popes who reigned during the twentieth century. The first number is which pope they were. This is followed by their chosen name, the starting and ending dates of their reigns, and finally the number of years they were pope. Follow the links to read short biographies of each pope and learn about what they did, what they believed, and what impact they had on the course of the Roman Catholic Church . [PAR]   [PAR] 257. Pope Leo XIII : February 20, 1878 - July 20, 1903 (25 years) [PAR] Pope Leo XIII not only ushered the Church into the 20th century, he also tried to help improve the Church's transition into a modern world and modern cultures. He supported some democratic reforms and the rights of workers. [PAR] 258. Pope Pius X : August 4, 1903 - August 20, 1914 (11 years) [PAR] Pope Pius X is known as a thoroughly anti - modernist pope, using Church power in order to maintain the line of tradition against the forces of modernity and liberalism. He opposed democratic institutions and created a secret network of informers to report on the suspicious activities of priests and others. [PAR] 259. Pope Benedict XV: September 1, 1914 - January 22, 1922 (7 years) [PAR] Not only inconsequential during World War I because of his attempt to provide a voice of neutrality, Benedict XV was viewed with suspicion by all governments because of his efforts to reunite displaced families. [PAR] 260. Pope Pius XI : February 6, 1922 - February 10, 1939 (17 years) [PAR] For Pope Pius XI, communism was a greater evil than Nazism - and as a result, he signed a concordat with Hitler in the hopes that this relationship might help stem the rising tide of communism which was threatening from the East. [PAR] 261. Pope Pius XII : March 2, 1939 - October 9, 1958 (19 years, 7 months) [PAR] The papacy of Eugenio Pacelli occurred during the difficult era of World War II, and it is likely that even the best of popes would have had a troubling reign. Pope Pius XII may have exacerbated his problems, however, by failing to do enough to help the Jews who were suffering persecution. [PAR] 262. John XXIII : October 28, 1958 - June 3, 1963 (4 years, 7 months) [PAR] Not to be confused with the 15th-century antipope Baldassarre Cossa , this John XXIII continues to be one of the most beloved popes in recent Church history. John was the one who convened the Second Vatican Council, a meeting which inaugurated many changes in the Roman Catholic Church - not as many as some hoped for and more than some feared. [PAR] 263. Pope Paul VI : June 21, 1963 - August 6, 1978 (15 years) [PAR] Although Paul VI was not responsible for calling the Second Vatican Council, he was responsible to ending it and for beginning the process of carrying out its decisions. He is perhaps most remembered, however for his encyclical Humanae Vitae. [PAR] 264. Pope John Paul I : August 26, 1978 - September 28, 1978 (33 days) [PAR] Pope John Paul I had one of the shortest reigns in the history of the papacy - and his death is a matter of some speculation among conspiracy theorists. Many believe that he was murdered in order to prevent him from learning or revealing embarrassing facts about the Church. [PAR] 265. Pope John Paul II : October 16, 1978 - April 2, 2005 [PAR] The currently reigning pope, Pope John Paul II is also one of the longest reigning popes in the history of the Church. John Paul as tried to steera course between reform and tradition, often siding more strongly with the forces of tradition, much to the dismay of progressive Catholics. [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] Popes of the 21st Century: History

Who was Pope for the shortest length of time in the 20th century?

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[DOC] [TLE] Al Hibbler - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles TimesAl Hibbler - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times [PAR] Hollywood Star Walk [PAR] Died April 24, 2001 in Chicago, Ill. [PAR] Al Hibbler, a singer with an idiosyncratic baritone style, was known for his work with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 1940s and early '50s. [PAR] A versatile singer who could handle ballads, standards and, at times, an earthy blues number, Hibbler also used a style that Ellington called "tonal pantomime." In this style, Hibbler affected a Cockney accent, which he would often punctuate with odd tonal distortions and growls. [PAR] And while tonal pantomime was popular with audiences, Leonard Feather expressed the view of many jazz critics that the affectation did little to enhance Hibbler's ability to sing a first-rate blues song or a vibrant unmannered ballad. [PAR] Born in Little Rock, Ark., and blind from birth, Hibbler attended the Conservatory for the Blind in his hometown and sang in the school's choir. [PAR] After winning an amateur talent contest in Memphis, Hibbler started his own band in San Antonio before joining Jay McShann's big band in 1942. A year later, Hibbler started an eight-year association with Ellington. During the Ellington years, he won the Downbeat magazine award as best band vocalist and the New Star Award from Esquire magazine. [PAR] Appearing on several Ellington recordings, he was known for his renditions of songs such as "Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me" and "I'm Just a Lucky So and So." [PAR] Hibbler left the Ellington organization in 1951 in an apparent dispute over his desire to freelance. He went on to record with Ellington's son, Mercer, as well as with Billy Taylor, Count Basie, Gerald Wilson and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. [PAR] His versions of "The Very Thought of You," "Stardust" and "Unchained Melody" became popular favorites, with "Unchained Melody" hitting No. 3 on the record charts. [PAR] In the early 1960s, Hibbler was one of the first artists signed by Frank Sinatra to record on his new label, Reprise. [PAR] Active in the civil rights movement, Hibbler led demonstrators in desegregation marches in 1963 in downtown Birmingham, Ala. But while others in the protest march were jailed by the city's public safety commissioner, Eugene "Bull" Conner, Hibbler was detained briefly and released because he was blind. [PAR] Hibbler was disappointed at the police response, saying: "I went downtown simply to be arrested, but they even segregated me. . . . That is segregation at its highest level." [PAR] In 1971, Hibbler performed "When the Saints Go Marching In" at the funeral of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong. [PAR] — Jon Thurber in the Los Angeles Times April 28, 2001 [PAR] Related[DOC] [TLE] List of blind peopleThe following is a list of notable blind people. [PAR] Activists and organizers of the blind [PAR] *Tilly Aston - Founder of the Victorian Association of Braille Writers. [PAR] *Louis Braille - Known for Braille. [PAR] *Francis Joseph Campbell - Anti-slavery campaigner and co-founder of the Royal National College for the Blind [PAR] *Kenneth Jernigan - Long-time leader of the National Federation of the Blind. [PAR] *Helen Keller - American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and activist. [PAR] *Tiffany Brar-Social activist,who founded [http://www.jyothirgamayaindia.org/ Jyothirgamaya Foundation] which empowers the blind in all spheres of life [PAR] *Juan Carlos González Leiva - Cuban lawyer, who founded the Fraternity of the Independent Blind of Cuba and the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights. He has been harassed, imprisoned and tortured by the communist regime. [PAR] *Sabriye Tenberken - Braille Without Borders co-founder. [PAR] Adventurers [PAR] *Miles Hilton-Barber - British traveler and climber. [PAR] *James Holman - British man known as the "Blind Traveler." [PAR] *Tofiri Kibuuka - Ugandan-Norwegian athlete. One of the first three blind people to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro (along with John Opio and Lawrence Sserwambala). First African competitor at the Winter Paralympic

What disability did singer Al Hibbler have?

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[DOC] [TLE] ‎A Passage to India (1984) directed by David Lean ...‎A Passage to India (1984) directed by David Lean • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd [PAR] 1 [PAR] For one, Judy Davis is a towering force beyond words while acting in this film. I can't come close to saying the same for any of the actors, but Davis is absolutely brilliant. God, I love that woman... [PAR] The film itself feels bland and unimaginative until about an hour and a half in when it jumps off the rails and becomes a poignant social justice drama, along with a gripping mystery. Of course, everything switches gears in the ending and becomes un-compelling, bland and pointless, but throughout the rest of the film, A Passage to India was very good. It's a shame Lean ended it as he did. [PAR] Review by Varghese Eapen ★★½ [PAR] David Lean's swansong is a crushing disappointment. Is this the same director who made Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on The River Kwai? Visually gorgeous but it never amounts to anything memorable plus it drags around a lot. The casting of Alec Guinness falls flat on it's face. Even the courtroom finale is a joke. [PAR] Review by lobsta ★★★ [PAR] Passage to India has all the makings of a great epic of Leans but something just didn't connect with me like the other films he's made. The opening and the scale of the cave scenes really ticked the Lean grandeur box with such immense scale and choreography no CGI manages to do justice. Perhaps it's the melodrama playing off against the colonial history that just didn't seem right to me, although it was pleasing to see the racism/colonialism dealt with such equal balance. The way the film showed the hypocrisy in so many forms large or small was pretty interesting but the 'incident' scene irked me more than intrigued me. Perhaps it's the recent watching of Satyajit Ray films but his depiction of India or little colonial Britain didn't grab me as strongly as I would have hoped for the 3 hour length. [PAR] Review by oscarcl ★★★ [PAR] Slow-moving drama about 2 women in RAJ India. Not always satisfying plot turns bizarre and the quiet, passive journey builds toward and ends in underwhelming manner. Hopefully, the historical accuracy is good enough to appreciate the cruel treatment of the Indians by the British rulers. [PAR] Review by ralch ★★★★ [PAR] Alec Guinness' role (physically and symbolically) notwithstanding, this is a remarkable portrait of codes of conduct and conflicting (to put it mildly) relations between colonizer and colonized. David Lean's decision to make the central narrative incident less ambiguous than in the novel (reportedly) doesn't bother me at all. Instead, it gives the Adela character a richly contradictory identity in the context of the themes explored. Judy Davis is quite good as her, too. And Dr. Aziz reminds me of several people I know. Simultaneously grand and understated storytelling, beautiful to see and with a pointed acidic tone.[DOC] [TLE] A Passage to India (Blu-ray, Collector's Edition) (1984 ...A Passage to India (Blu-ray, Collector's Edition) (1984) Directed by David Lean; Starring Judy Davis & Peggy Ashcroft; Sony Pictures | OLDIES.com [PAR] David Lean [PAR] Memorable Quotes and Dialog: [PAR] "I want to state what I believe to be a universal truth. The darker races are attracted to the fairer, but not vice versa." [PAR] "Even when the lady is less attractive than the gentleman'" [PAR]   - [PAR] Courtroom exchange between prosecuting attorney McBryde (Michael Culver) and defense attorney Amritrao (Roshan Seth) during the trial of Dr. Aziz for the attempted rape of Adela Quested. [PAR] Major Awards: [PAR] Academy Awards 1984 - Best Original Score: Maurice Jarre [PAR] Academy Awards 1984 - Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft [PAR] Entertainment Reviews: [PAR] "...Affecting scenes which Lean accomplishes with all his old panache..." [PAR] New York Times - 12/14/1984 [PAR] "...Very much a full theatrical meal....Remarkably faithful to the novel..." [PAR] Variety - 12/12/1984 [PAR] "...Impeccably

Who directed A Passage To India?

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[DOC] [TLE] PLUNAPLUNA Líneas Aéreas Uruguayas S.A. was the flag carrier of Uruguay. It was headquartered in Carrasco, Montevideo and operated scheduled services within South America, as well as scheduled cargo and charter services from its hub at Carrasco International Airport. [PAR] On , only two days after the carrier's employees went on strike amid mounting financial difficulties, the Uruguayan government decided to close the airline down and to liquidate it. The carrier was wholly owned by the government at the time of its closure. [PAR] History [PAR] Foundation [PAR] The airline was established in September 1936 and started operations the following month, on . It was set up by Jorge and Alberto Márquez Vaesa, two brothers who had obtained the necessary financial and technical support through the ambassador of the United Kingdom to Uruguay at the time, Sir Eugen Millington-Drake. He writes in his memoirs that he suggested the airline be named using a memorable acronym, taking SABENA as an example. It was then decided on "PLUNA", an acronym for Primeras Líneas Uruguayas de Navegación Aérea (). Millington-Drake knew De Havilland's representative in Buenos Aires at the time, which helped in the acquisition of the airline's first aircraft. The airline flew two five-seater de Havilland Dragonflys from Montevideo to Salto and Paysandú. The two planes were christened Churrinche and San Alberto, the latter in honor of the brothers' father. PLUNA flew 2,600 passengers in their first fiscal year, a huge success for that era. It also flew 20,000 pieces of mail and 70,000 newspapers. [PAR] The carrier saw the incorporation of both the Potez 62 and the Douglas DC-2 into its fleet in the early 1940s, the latter acquired from the U.S. government. Following the outbreak of World War II, PLUNA was forced to suspend operations between 1942 and 1944 due to the lack of spare parts. The delicate position PLUNA was in at this time led the Uruguayan Government to aid the company by boosting its stake to 85% on . The first Douglas DC-3 entered PLUNA's fleet in February 1946. The airline launched regular services to Porto Alegre, Brazil, in May 1948. The carrier later added the cities of Santa Cruz in Bolivia and Buenos Aires, Rosario and Córdoba in Argentina to its network. [PAR] Nationalisation [PAR] The airline became a wholly government-owned company on . After World War II, PLUNA's fleet included two Douglas DC-2s which were operated on the Montevideo–Paysandú–Salto route until they were retired by 1951. In the same year, a Douglas DC-3 and four de Havilland Herons were added to the fleet. The Herons only stayed in PLUNA's fleet for a short time and by 1957 they had been sold. The DC-3s remained in service much longer, and in 1971 the last four of them were sold to the Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya. [PAR] São Paulo was added to the route network in January 1954. On the carrier entered the turbine era with the delivery of its first of three Vickers Viscounts four-engined turboprops purchased new from Vickers; it later acquired two Viscount 700s from Alitalia and three Viscount 800s from VASP. [PAR] PLUNA's growth slowed considerably for the next three decades, but it entered the jet age soon after jets were introduced to the world, and added John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York, and Miami to its destinations, using Boeing 707 and Boeing 737 aircraft. [PAR] In the 1980s PLUNA began flying to Madrid, Asunción, Rio de Janeiro and Santiago de Chile, but services to JFK and Miami were suspended. In the meantime, as the city of Punta del Este flourished as a major tourist destination, PLUNA benefited from that. During this time, an office was also opened in Tel Aviv, Israel. [PAR] Privatisation [PAR] The 1990s saw financial trouble loom for PLUNA. In 1995, the company was transformed into a public–private partnership and the government sold 51% of the shares to a holding formed by an Argentine consortium named Tevycom and Uruguayan businessmen; the holding later sold half of its participation in PLUNA to Varig. [PAR] At , the airline had employees. At this time the fleet consisted of Boeing

Which country does the airline Pluna come form?

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[DOC] [TLE] Thomas Marshall: Vice-President of the United StatesThomas Marshall: Vice-President of the United States [PAR] Vice - President under Woodrow Wilson [PAR] Thomas Marshall is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana. The cemetery is great for president and vice-president gravehunters. [PAR] Served from 1913 - 1921 [PAR] GPS: N 39.81946, W 086.17137 [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] Thomas R. Marshall | vice president of United States ...Thomas R. Marshall | vice president of United States | Britannica.com [PAR] vice president of United States [PAR] Written By: [PAR] Alternative Title: Thomas Riley Marshall [PAR] Thomas R. Marshall [PAR] Vice president of United States [PAR] Also known as [PAR] Woodrow Wilson [PAR] Thomas R. Marshall, (born March 14, 1854, North Manchester, Ind., U.S.—died June 1, 1925, Washington, D.C.), 28th vice president of the United States (1913–21) in the Democratic administration of President Woodrow Wilson . He was the first vice president in almost a century to serve two terms in office. A popular public official, he was heard to make the oft-quoted remark: “What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.” [PAR] Thomas Marshall. [PAR] Culver Pictures [PAR] Marshall was the son of Daniel M. Marshall, a physician, and Martha Patterson. Graduating from Wabash College in 1873, he was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1875 and practiced law for almost 35 years in Columbia City (1875–1909). A forceful and entertaining speaker, he was elected governor of Indiana in 1908 and during the next four years sponsored an extensive program of progressive social legislation. Largely because of his record in office, his name was presented as a favourite-son candidate for president at the Democratic National Convention of 1912. After Wilson won the nomination on the 46th ballot, his advisers—who had secretly promised Marshall the vice presidency in return for supporting Wilson—suggested Marshall as vice president. Despite Wilson’s opinion of Marshall as a “very small calibre man,” electoral calculations eventually swayed him to support Marshall’s nomination. [PAR] Marshall’s personal influence on legislation was a powerful aid to the Wilson administration, although some opponents viewed him as a dangerous radical. He advocated strict neutrality prior to World War I —a stand he later regretted—supported American membership in the League of Nations , and opposed woman suffrage . When Wilson suffered a stroke that partially paralyzed him in 1919, Marshall steadfastly refused to assume the powers of the presidency without written requests from first lady Edith Wilson and the president’s doctor and a congressional resolution, fearing that he would be accused of “longing for [Wilson’s] place.” While Wilson was incapacitated, Marshall presided over cabinet meetings but made no major decisions. Although he was discussed as a potential presidential candidate in both 1920 and 1924, Marshall never actively sought the nomination. His homespun philosophy and humour are recorded in Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President and Hoosier Philosopher: A Hoosier Salad (1925). [PAR] Learn More in these related articles:[DOC] [TLE] Thomas R. Marshall - U.S. Vice President, Governor, Lawyer ...Thomas R. Marshall - U.S. Vice President, Governor, Lawyer - Biography.com [PAR] “What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.” [PAR] —Thomas R. Marshall [PAR] Synopsis [PAR] Born on March 14, 1854, in North Manchester, Indiana, Thomas R. Marshall worked as a lawyer for more than three decades before being elected as his home state’s governor in 1908. He then served as vice president under the Woodrow Wilson administration from 1913 to 1921 for two terms, though the two didn’t have a close rapport. Marshall later returned to law. He died on June 1, 1925. [PAR] Fact Check [PAR] We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us ! [PAR] Citation Information[DOC] [TLE] U.S. Senate: Marshall, Thomas R.U.S. Senate: Marshall, Thomas R. [PAR] Marshall, Thomas R. [PAR]   [PAR] Born in Lithuania in 1884, Moses Dykaar studied at the Académie Julian in Paris before arriving in the United States in 1916. He moved almost immediately to Washington, D.C., where he began a

Thomas Marshal was Vice President to which US President?

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[DOC] [TLE] RAF Gliding & Soaring Association - George Lee ArticleRAF Gliding & Soaring Association - George Lee Article [PAR] RAF Gliding & Soaring Association [PAR] GSA Articles George Lee Article [PAR] George Lee Article [PAR] George Lee MBE on Gliding [PAR] Three times World Gliding Champion and ex GSA member George Lee MBE talks to www.rafgsa.org about his exploits in gliding, competition flying and his love for silent flight. [PAR] I was born in Ireland, just south of Dublin, and I had no connection to aviation with either family or friends. I did a lot of sea fishing in my younger years and I remember being fascinated by the sea birds soaring the local pier wall. I frequently dreamt that I was skimming along the waves in the manner of the albatross. A friend of mine told me one day that he was joining the RAF as an Aircraft Apprentice. I read the material that he had and saw that it was possible to be commissioned at the end of the three year training, so I decided to join up the same way. I discovered when I got to Halton that only two or three apprentices would be selected for commissioning out of an entry of some 160. As I was not gifted technically, I was not going to be one of that small group! [PAR] Just over a year into the training, I heard about the RAFGSA Centre at Bicester and I decided to try gliding to show motivation towards becoming a pilot. My first flight in a glider was in March 1963; a three minute circuit in light rain off a winch launch in a T21. I was enthralled by the experience, completely hooked; whatever happened in my professional life, I would continue gliding! I did continue gliding for the remainder of my apprenticeship and during my years working as an electrical fitter on the Hastings aircraft at RAF Colerne, during the course of which I became an instructor. [PAR] Against the odds, I was selected for pilot and officer training in 1967 and I did very little gliding over the next two years. When I completed my basic flying training there was a backlog in the system and I was faced with the prospect of spending a year away from flying training before commencing advanced training. I contacted Andy Gough, CFI of the RAFGSA Centre, and he arranged for me to spend that year on the staff at Bicester. Apart from running courses and building a lot of tugging hours, I flew a KA6CR in my first competition in 1970, the Inter-Services. I won the competition and, as with my first flight in a glider, I was hooked. Competition gliding is exciting! [PAR] Gliding again took a back seat from when I commenced advanced flying training until I was established on a Phantom squadron at RAF Coningsby. I flew a KA6E in my first Nationals at Dunstable in 1972, coming second. I then flew in various competitions over the next three years, winning the Open Class Nationals in 1974. I was selected to the British Team for the World Championships in Finland in 1976, winning in an ASW17. I was successful in retaining my title during the following two World Championships, becoming the first pilot to ever win three consecutive world titles. [PAR] I left the RAF in 1983 and joined Cathay Pacific Airways to fly 747s out of Hong Kong for the next fifteen years. They were rewarding years professionally but my gliding really suffered and I just managed to stay in touch with the sport that I loved. I retired in 1999 to Australia with the first glider that I had ever owned, a Nimbus 4DM. The pipedream was to conduct advanced coaching courses for junior pilots of different nationalities who had shown talent and motivation. The vision was fully realised and I have now coached more than fifty pilots from the UK, Australia, USA, Austria and South Africa. The coaching courses will finish this year (2010) and I hope to do more of my own flying. [PAR] Gliding, particularly competition flying, has meant a great deal to me over the last forty seven years. Gliding was my first flying love and it is now my last flying love. I have always had a competitive nature and, for me, World Championships flying was the ultimate challenge. To fly

In the 70s George Lee was a world champion in which sport?

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[DOC] [TLE] John Singer Sargent Watercolors | Museum of Fine Arts, BostonJohn Singer Sargent Watercolors | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [PAR] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [PAR] October 13, 2013 – January 20, 2014 [PAR] Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31) [PAR] A triumphant show combines the two best collections of John Singer Sargent’s dazzling watercolors [PAR] Prepare for bedazzlement—The New York Times [PAR] “To live with Sargent’s water-colours is to live with sunshine captured and held,” according to the painter’s first biographer. Presenting more than 90 of Sargent’s dazzling works, this exhibition, co-organized with the Brooklyn Museum, combines for the first time the two most significant collections of watercolor paintings by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), images created by a consummate artist with daring compositional strategies and a complex technique. “John Singer Sargent Watercolors” also celebrates a century of Sargent watercolors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. [PAR] “John Singer Sargent Watercolors” offers visitors an unprecedented opportunity to view the magnificent works Sargent produced between 1902 and 1911, when he was at the height of his artistic powers and internationally recognized as the greatest American painter of his age. His bold and experimental approach to the medium caused a sensation in Britain and great excitement in America. The Brooklyn and Boston holdings (never before explored in a focused exhibition) were purchased by the two museums straight from Sargent’s only two American watercolor exhibitions, held at Knoedler Gallery in New York. (Brooklyn acquired its collection in 1909, and the MFA in 1912.) These daringly conceived compositions (along with a select group of oils), made in Spain and Portugal, Greece, Switzerland and the Alps, regions of Italy, Syria and Palestine, demonstrate the unity of Sargent’s artistic vision after the turn of the 20th century, when he sought to liberate himself from the burden of portrait commissions and to devote himself instead to painting scenes of landscape, labor, and leisure. [PAR] The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue exploring Sargent’s engagement with watercolor painting and examining the technical mastery that led to such brilliant work. [PAR] Above: John Singer Sargent, Simplon Pass: Reading, 1911. Watercolor and wax resist over graphite on paper. The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund.[DOC] [TLE] How John Singer Sargent made a scene | Art and design ...How John Singer Sargent made a scene | Art and design | The Guardian [PAR] Art and design [PAR] How John Singer Sargent made a scene [PAR] Often derided as staidly traditional, John Singer Sargent in fact provided a glimpse of the modern world. Ahead of a major new exhibition, Sarah Chuchwell surveys the sensational portraits that caught the imagination of painters and authors alike [PAR] Rich and dark spaces … a detail from Le Verre de Porto by John Singer Sargent (1884). Photograph: Image Courtesy of The Fine Arts [PAR] Sarah Churchwell [PAR] Friday 30 January 2015 09.30 EST [PAR] Last modified on Tuesday 20 September 2016 06.13 EDT [PAR] Share on Messenger [PAR] Close [PAR] In 1893, Henry James wrote an essay praising his friend, the painter John Singer Sargent, in which he declared: “There is no greater work of art than a great portrait,” because of the empathetic vision it required. Sargent was remarkable, said James, for the “extraordinarily immediate” translation of his perception into a picture, “as if painting were pure tact of vision, a simple manner of feeling”. In particular, he admired Sargent’s “faculty of taking a fresh, direct, independent, unborrowed impression”. This admiration was widely shared: after seeing The Misses Hunter in 1902, Rodin called Sargent “the Van Dyck of our times”. But after Sargent’s death, his realism was viewed increasingly as anachronistic and facile, the work of a society painter, a careerist happy to pander to aristocratic privilege. One of the most successful and esteemed painters of his day was rapidly dismissed as virtuosic but lightweight, a slick craftsman rather than an innovative creator, superseded by Matisse and Picasso. He was a Gilded Age flatterer, “not an enthusiast,” sniffed Pissarro, “

John Singer Sargent worked in which branch of the arts?

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[DOC] [TLE] Hosni Mubarak Biography (President of Egypt) - InfopleaseHosni Mubarak Biography (President of Egypt) [PAR] Birthplace: Kafr Moselha, Egypt [PAR] Best known as: President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 1981- 2011 [PAR] Muhammad Hosni Mubarak was the president of the Arab Republic of Egypt for 30 years, from 1981 until he was forced to resign by mass protests on 11 February 2011. Hosni Mubarak was trained as a pilot and rose in the ranks of Egypt's air force during the 1960s and '70s. President Anwar Sadat named Mubarak to be his vice president in 1975, and in 1978 Mubarak became the vice chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP), the governing political party in Egypt. When Anwar Sadat was assassinated on 14 October 1981, Mubarak succeeded him and became the chairman of the NDP as well. Mubarak quickly became an old-style strongman with full control of the government. Running uncontested, Mubarak won the presidency in national referenda in 1987, 1993 and 1999; after a change in laws, he won running against token opposition in 2005. He focused on economic growth and inched toward political reform, but any economic gains in the 1990s were offset by criticisms that Egypt was a near-dictatorship; indeed, Mubarak never lifted the state of emergency imposed after Sadat's assassination. In February of 2005, Hosni Mubarak announced plans for a September 2005 election that would be Egypt's first-ever multi-candidate contest for the presidency. On 7 September 2005 he handily won his fifth consecutive term in those elections, but the victory was clouded by low voter turnout, reports of fraud and the imprisonment of his political rival, Ayman Nour. The next years were dominated by pressures for political reform and by Mubarak's love/hate relationship with the United States, a steady provider of military aid. Mubarak was rebuked for his lack of commitment to democracy by American leaders, including President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice , but he remained an important U.S. ally in the region, especially during the U.S. war in Iraq. Egyptians took to the streets in January of 2011 to protest his rule; more than 900 protesters were killed in February of that year by Mubarak forces, and he was forced to resign. He was detained in April and held on charges of corruption and complicity in the killing of the protesters. Acquitted on the corruption charges, Mubarak was found guilty for his role in the protesters' deaths and sentenced to life in prison. [PAR] Extra credit: [PAR] Hosni Mubarak’s wife is Suzanne Thabet Mubarak… Their son, Gamal Mubarak, was considered to be Hosni’s likely successor until the revolts of 2011 ended Mubarak’s reign. [PAR] Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved.[DOC] [TLE] Hosni MubarakMuhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (,, '; born 4 May 1928) is a former Egyptian military and political leader who served as the fourth President of Egypt from 1981 to 2011. [PAR] Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force. He served as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rose to the rank of air chief marshal in 1973. Some time in the 1950s, he returned to the Air Force Academy as an instructor, remaining there until early 1959. He was appointed Vice President of Egypt by President Anwar Sadat in 1975 and assumed the presidency on 14 October 1981, eight days after Sadat's assassination. Mubarak's presidency lasted almost thirty years, making him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha, who ruled the country from 1805 to 1848, a reign of 43 years. Mubarak stepped down after 18 days of demonstrations during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. On 11 February 2011, Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak had resigned as president and transferred authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. [PAR] On 13 April 2011, a prosecutor ordered Mubarak and both of his sons (Alaa and Gamal) to be detained for 15 days of questioning about allegations of corruption and abuse of power. Mubarak was then ordered to stand trial on charges of negligence for failing to halt the killing of peaceful protesters during the

Who preceded Hosni Mubarak as President of Egypt?

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[DOC] [TLE] Pablo Casals - tititudorancea.netPablo Casals [PAR] P [PAR] Pablo Casals [PAR] Pau Casals i Defilló (December 29, 1876–October 22, 1973), best known during his professional career as Pablo Casals, was a Spanish Catalan cellist and later conductor. He made many recordings throughout his career, of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, also as conductor, but Casals is perhaps best remembered for the recording of the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939. [PAR] Casals was an ardent supporter of the Spanish Republican government. After its defeat in 1939, Casals vowed not to return to Spain until democracy had been restored, although he did not live to see the end of the Franco dictatorial regime. [PAR] Biography [PAR] Childhood and early years [PAR] Casals was born in El Vendrell, Catalonia , Spain. His father, Carles Casals i Ribes (1852-1908), was a parish organist and choirmaster . He gave Casals instruction in piano, violin, and organ. He was also a very strict disciplinarian. When Casals was young his father would pull the piano out from the wall and have him and his brother, Enrique, stand behind it and name the notes and the scales that his father was playing. At age four Casals could play the violin, piano and flute. When Casals was eleven, he first heard the cello performed by a group of traveling musicians, and decided to dedicate himself to the instrument. [PAR] In 1888 his mother, Pilar Defilló de Casals, who was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico of Catalonian ancestry, took him to Barcelona , where he enrolled in the Escola Municipal de Música. There he studied cello, theory, and piano. He made prodigious progress as a cellist; on February 23, 1891 he gave a solo recital in Barcelona at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Escola with honours two years later. [PAR] Youth and studies [PAR] In 1893, the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz heard him playing in a trio in a café and gave him a letter of introduction to the private secretary to María Cristina, the Queen Regent, in Madrid , Spain. Casals was asked to play at informal concerts in the palace, and was granted a royal stipend to study composition at the Conservatorio de Música y Declamación in Madrid with Víctor Mirecki. He also played in the newly organized Quartet Society. [PAR] In 1895 he went to Paris, where, having lost his stipend from Catalonia, he earned a living by playing second cello in the theater orchestra of the Folies Marigny. In 1896, he returned to Catalonia and received an appointment to the faculty of the Escola Municipal de Música in Barcelona. He was also appointed principal cellist in the orchestra of Barcelona's opera house, the Liceu. In 1897 he appeared as soloist with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, and was awarded the Order of Carlos III from the Queen. [PAR] International career [PAR] In 1899, Casals played at The Crystal Palace in London , and later for Queen Victoria at Osborne House, her summer residence, accompanied by Ernest Walker. On November 12 and December 17, 1899, he appeared as a soloist at Lamoureux Concerts in Paris, to great public and critical acclaim. He toured Spain and the Netherlands with the pianist Harold Bauer in 1900-1901; in 1901-1902 he made his first tour of the United States ; and in 1903 toured South America . [PAR] On January 15, 1904, Casals was invited to play at the White House for President Theodore Roosevelt . On March 9 of that year he made his debut at Carnegie Hall in New York, playing Richard Strauss 's Don Quixote under the baton of the composer. In 1906 he became associated with the talented young Portuguese cellist Guilhermina Suggia, who studied with him and began to appear in concerts as Mme. P. Casals-Suggia, although they were not legally married. Their relationship ended in 1912. [PAR] The New York Times of April 9, 1911 announced that Pablo Casals would perform at the London Musical Festival to be held at the Queen's Hall on the second day of the Festival (May 23). The piece chosen was Haydn 's Cello Concerto in D and Casals would later

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[DOC] [TLE] Oliver Stone Biography - life, childhood, parents, story ...Oliver Stone Biography - life, childhood, parents, story, school, young, information, born, college, movie, time [PAR] Oliver Stone Biography [PAR] New York, New York [PAR] American director and writer [PAR] Oliver Stone is a writer-director of films with a flashy style that often deal with issues of the 1960s, such as America's involvement with the Vietnam War (1955–75; a war in which the United States aided South Vietnam in its fight against a takeover by Communist North Vietnam). He has won several Academy Awards as a writer and as a director. [PAR] Conservative background [PAR] Oliver William Stone was born on September 15, 1946, in New York City, the only child of Louis and Jacqueline Goddet Stone. His father was a successful stockbroker. Stone's childhood was marked by all the privileges of wealth—private schooling, summer vacations in France, and most importantly, a sense of patriotism. Stone's father was strongly conservative (one who believes in maintaining social and political traditions and who opposes change). When Stone was a junior at the Hill School, a Pennsylvania college prep academy, his parents decided to divorce. He discovered that his father was actually deeply in debt, which led him to question the values he had been taught. Stone entered Yale University in 1965, but he quit after only one year. [PAR] Late in 1965 Stone took a job teaching English at a school in Saigon, South Vietnam. He arrived there at the same time as did the first major commitment of U.S. troops, which were sent to help fight in Vietnam's civil war. Stone left after six months and returned home. While on his way back, he began to work on a novel, which he continued to work on during a brief stay in Mexico and another failed attempt at college. He was unable to find a publisher for it, and he then decided to join the army. Stone continued to work on the novel, which grew to eleven hundred pages. A Child's Night Dream was finally released in 1997. [PAR] Shaped by Vietnam experience [PAR] Stone could have avoided the Vietnam War by staying in college, but he joined the service and insisted on combat duty in an attempt to prove to his father that he was a man. He soon discovered that real combat was much different than he expected. "Vietnam completely deadened me and sickened me," he told the Washington Post. Stone was involved in several deadly battles. He was shot once and wounded by shrapnel (bomb fragments) another time, and he often witnessed the brutal treatment of Vietnamese citizens by U.S. soldiers. [PAR] After Stone was discharged and returned to the United States, he enrolled at New York University, where he began to study filmmaking with director Martin Scorsese (1942–). Stone decided he wanted to write screenplays and make movies. Stone graduated from the university in 1971 and within two years had sold his first project to a small Canadian film company. His first writing and directing effort was Seizure (1974), a horror story about a writer whose creations come to life. [PAR] Seizure did not make money or receive great reviews, and Stone entered a period marked by heavy drug and alcohol use. He finally pulled himself together in 1976 and decided to write a screenplay about his Vietnam experiences. Between 1976 and 1978 Stone wrote two stories on the war: Platoon, which was based on himself and other soldiers he had known in Vietnam; and Born on the Fourth of July, which was based on the autobiography (the written story of one's own life) of crippled war veteran Ron Kovic. No studio would touch either property; the scripts were considered too violent and too depressing. Stone's writing talents were recognized, however, and he was invited to work on other projects. [PAR] Oscars and controversy [PAR] In 1977 Stone was hired to write the screenplay

In what year was Oliver Stone born?

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[DOC] [TLE] Jazz Singer Movie - The First Talkie - About.com EducationJazz Singer Movie - The First Talkie [PAR] By Jennifer Rosenberg [PAR] Updated November 22, 2015. [PAR] When The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released as a feature-length movie on October 6, 1927, it was the first movie that included dialogue and music on the filmstrip itself. [PAR] Adding Sounds to Film [PAR] Before The Jazz Singer, there were silent films. Despite their name, these films were not silent for they were accompanied by music. Often, these films were accompanied by a live orchestra in the theater and from as early as 1900, films were often synchronized with musical scores that were played on amplified record players. [PAR] The technology advanced in the 1920s, when Bell Laboratories developed a way to allow an audio track to be placed on the film itself. This technology, called Vitaphone, was first used as a musical track in a film titled Don Juan in 1926. Although Don Juan had music and sound effects, there were no spoken words in the film. [PAR] Actors Talking on Film [PAR] When Sam Warner of the Warner Brothers planned The Jazz Singer, he anticipated that the film would use silent periods to tell the story and the Vitaphone technology would be used for the singing of music, just as the new technology had been used in Don Juan. [PAR] continue reading below our video [PAR] 4 Tips for Improving Test Performance [PAR] However, during the filming of The Jazz Singer, superstar of the time Al Jolson ad-libbed dialogue in two different scenes and Warner liked the end result. [PAR] Thus, when The Jazz Singer was released on October 6, 1927 it became the first feature-length film (89 minutes long) to include dialogue on the filmstrip itself. The Jazz Singer made way for the future of "talkies," which is what movies with audio soundtracks were called. [PAR] So What Did Al Jolson Actually Say? [PAR] The first words Jolson recites are: “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” Jolson spoke 60 words in one scene and 294 words in another. [PAR] The rest of the film is silent, with words written on black, title cards just like in silent movies. The only sound (besides the few words by Jolson) are the songs. [PAR] The Storyline of the Jazz Singer [PAR] The Jazz Singer is a movie about Jakie Rabinowitz, the son of a Jewish cantor who wants to be a jazz singer but is pressured by his father to use his God-given voice to sing as a cantor. With five generations of Rabinowitz men as cantors, Jakie's father (played by Warner Oland) is adamant that Jakie has no choice in the matter. [PAR] Jakie, however, has other plans. After being caught singing "raggy time songs" at a beer garden, Cantor Rabinowitz gives Jakie a belt whipping. That's the last straw for Jakie; he runs away from home. [PAR] After setting off on his own, adult Jakie (played by Al Jolson) works hard to become a success in the field of jazz. He meets a girl, Mary Dale (played by May McAvoy), and she helps him improve his act. [PAR] As Jakie, now known as Jack Robin, becomes increasingly successful, he continues to crave the support and love of his family. His mother (played by Eugenie Besserer) supports him, but his father is disgusted that his son wants to be a jazz singer. [PAR] The climax of the movie revolves around a dilemma. Jakie must choose between starring in a Broadway show or returning to his deathly ill father and singing Kol Nidre at the synagogue. Both occur on the very same night. As Jakie says in the film (on a title card), "It's a choice between giving up the biggest chance of my life -- and breaking my mother's heart." [PAR] This dilemma resonated with audiences for the 1920s were full of such decisions. With the older generation holding tight to tradition, the newer generation were rebelling, becoming flappers , listening to jazz , and dancing the Charleston . [PAR] Ultimately, Jakie couldn't

In which year was the talkie The Jazz Singer released?

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[DOC] [TLE] Anjelica Huston - IMDbAnjelica Huston - IMDb [PAR] IMDb [PAR] Actress | Director | Producer [PAR] Anjelica Huston was born on July 8, 1951 in Santa Monica, California, to prima ballerina Enrica "Ricki" (Soma) and director and actor John Huston . Her mother, who was from New York, was of Italian descent, and her father had English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Huston spent most of her childhood overseas, in Ireland and England, and in ... See full bio » [PAR] Born:[DOC] [TLE] Anjelica Huston - Photo 1 - Pictures - CBS NewsAnjelica Huston - Photo 1 - Pictures - CBS News [PAR] Anjelica Huston [PAR] Next [PAR] Anjelica Huston poses backstage during the 8th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, February 25, 2006 in Beverly Hills. [PAR] Acting is in her blood. In more than 50 movies, Anjelica Huston played some pretty imposing characters, like her Oscar-nominated role as a con artist in "The Grifters," the ghoulish Morticia in "The Addams Family," and the girlfriend of a mob hit man in "Prizzi's Honor," for which she won an Academy Award. [PAR] By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan [PAR] Credit: Mark Mainz/Getty Images [PAR] Left: Director John Huston, with his daughter Anjelica, at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival. [PAR] Anjelica Huston was born heir to a Hollywood dynasty. Her grandfather, actor Walter Huston, won an Oscar for "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." It was directed by her father, John Huston, who took home an Oscar, too. Anjelica's older brother, Tony, became an actor and screenwriter, while her younger brother, Danny, also became an actor. Anjelica's nephew, Jack Huston, also took up acting ("Boardwalk Empire"). [PAR] Correspondent Lee Cowan asked Anjelica, "Did you feel it was a burden, a family burden?" [PAR] "I always liked being a Huston," she replied. "And I always felt like it was my right, and it was my birthright and it was who I was." [PAR] Credit: Courtesy of Scribers Books [PAR] Anjelica Huston kissed by her older brother, Tony. [PAR] She was born in Santa Monica, Calif., but grew up on a country estate in Ireland. [PAR] Credit: Courtesy of Scribers Books [PAR] Anjelica Huston with her mother, Enrica, a former ballerina who was John Huston's fourth wife; her older brother Tony; and her father John Huston, December 1956 in Tobago. [PAR] Credit: Courtesy of Anjelica Huston [PAR] Anjelica Huston in the summer of 1958. [PAR] Credit: Courtesy of Anjelica Huston [PAR] Anjelica Huston climbing a tree at age 7. [PAR] Credit: Stephen Dane/Courtesy of Scribers Books [PAR] A Huston family portrait in Ireland, 1962. [PAR] Credit: Courtesy of Scribers Books [PAR] Anjelika Huston on Victoria, in Rome, 1963. [PAR] Credit: Courtesy of Anjelica Huston [PAR] An undated portrait of Anjelica Huston, at the Peggy Carty School in Ireland. [PAR] Credit: Courtesy of Anjelica Huston [PAR] When Anjelica was 16, John Huston cast her in her first movie, a medieval romance titled, "A Walk With Love and Death." [PAR] In a 1987 interview with CBS News, John Huston said it was "a big mistake" casting his daughter: "I put her into a picture at the wrong moment. She wasn't all that good in it." [PAR] Anjelica Huston agreed, telling correspondent Lee Cowan, "I wasn't ready to work with him. And he was too tough on me, and it was all too personal." [PAR] The critics tore her apart, but the harsh reviews were suddenly replaced by another harsh reality: the death of her mother in a car accident. [PAR] Credit: 20th Century Fox [PAR] Left: Anjelica Huston applying makeup backstage at Zandra Rhodes' charity fashion show for the Newsvendor's Benevolent Fund at the Savoy in London, June 13, 1973. [PAR] Following the death of her mother, Anjelica moved to New York, where she was soon modeling for the likes of Vogue. She also took up with well

In which country was Anjelica Huston born?

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[DOC] [TLE] Seagram Building New York - e-architectSeagram Building New York - e-architect [PAR] Home > New York > Seagram Building New York [PAR] Seagram Building New York [PAR] Published by Adrian Welch updated on July 6, 2016 [PAR] Seagram Building, New York Tower, Architect, Date, Address, Wells Fargo Manhattan Skyscraper, Design [PAR] Seagram Building New York [PAR] Wells Fargo Manhattan Tower, USA : Key 20th Century Skyscraper in the United States [PAR] 6 + 5 Jul 2016 [PAR] Seagram Building New York City [PAR] Seagram Building in New York City [PAR] Wells Fargo office building on Park Avenue images from 24 Jun – 2 Jul 2016 © Adrian Welch: [PAR] Seagram building at night: [PAR] Location: 375 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA [PAR] Date: 1954-58 [PAR] Design: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect; Philip Johnson [PAR] Classic International Style design – this building exhibits clean Modernist lines. [PAR] The Seagram Building faces the podium and tower of Lever House by architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill across Park Avenue. Both buildings feature in most histories of 20th Century architecture. [PAR] This well-respected skyscraper located between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan. It was the world’s most expensive skyscraper upon completion. [PAR] The tower is 515 feet (157 m) high. It has 38 stories. [PAR] The building is made from a steel structure with non-structural glass walls hung off it. Cladding and interior materials include bronze, marble and travertine. To preserve a semblance of order externally the window blinds were designed to operate in only three positions: open, halfway open, or closed. [PAR] Philip Johnson became an associate for architect Mies van der Rohe on the Seagram Building in 1955: he worked on interiors such as the Four Seasons Restaurant.[DOC] [TLE] Seagram Building, New York City - A View On CitiesSeagram Building, New York City [PAR] New York City [PAR] 5 [PAR] 34 votes [PAR] Built as the corporate headquarters for Canadian distillers Joseph E. Seagram and Sons, the innovative Seagram Building set the stage for the design of New York skyscrapers for many years to come. [PAR] Situated on New York's famed Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Street, the Seagram [PAR] Building was a pioneer in its time. Designed by well-known German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in collaboration with American Philip Johnson, this building was to become a model for the next forty years of NYC skyscrapers. [PAR] Architecture [PAR] Most skyscrapers in the 1950s and prior had a decorated facade built around a structural frame. However, van der Rohe was hoping for a different look. He wanted the building's structural elements to be visible. Unfortunately, building codes forbid that, demanding that all structural steel be covered with some sort of fireproofing material, usually concrete. [PAR] So, instead, the architect used non-structural, bronze-toned I-beams to suggest structure to those viewing the 38-story, 516-foot (157m) skyscraper from the outside. These beams are visible from the outside of the building, and run vertically like mullions in the large glass windows. [PAR] Mies van der Rohe was also quite concerned that the building look uniform to those viewing it from the outside. Because of that, he only installed window [PAR] blinds that sat at three levels: fully open, half open, and fully closed - allowing for a more consistent look. [PAR] Masterpiece [PAR] The Seagram building fulfilled Mies van der Rohe's functional architecture philosophy of 'less is more'. It is considered by many, including van der Rohe himself, as his masterpiece. [PAR] An Expensive Building [PAR] Seagram spared no expense in the building of this particular skyscraper. It is said that 3.2 million pounds of bronze was used in its construction and the liberal use of materials like marble and travertine also caused building costs to escalate. It was the most expensive skyscraper of its time, costing a total of $41 million including the $5 million cost of the building parcel. [PAR] The Plaza [PAR] One of the innovations of the Seagram building was the addition of its open granite plaza in front of the skyscraper which was a different way of tackling the zoning regulations of 1916. The plaza became a popular

Which architect designed the Seagram Building, New York City?

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[DOC] [TLE] John Lewis (pianist)John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. [PAR] Early life [PAR] John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began learning classical music and piano at the age of seven. His family was musical and had a family band that allowed him to play frequently and he also played in a Boy Scout music group.Lyons, p. 77. Even though he learned piano by playing the classics, he was exposed to jazz from an early age because his aunt loved to dance and he would listen to the music she played. He attended the University of New Mexico, where he led a small dance band that he formedGiddins, p. 378. and double majored in Anthropology and Music. Eventually, he decided not to pursue Anthropology because he was advised that careers from degrees in Anthropology did not pay well. In 1942, Lewis entered the army and played piano alongside Kenny Clarke, who influenced him to move to New York once their service was over.Lyons, p. 76. Lewis moved to New York in 1945 to pursue his musical studies at the Manhattan School of Music and eventually graduated with a master's degree in music in 1953. Although his move to New York turned his musical attention more towards jazz, he still frequently played and listened to classical works and composers such as Chopin, Bach and Beethoven. [PAR] Jazz career [PAR] Once Lewis moved to New York, he and Clarke tried out for Dizzy Gillespie's bop-style big band by playing a song called "Bright Lights" that Lewis had written for the band they played for in the army. They both were asked to join Gillespie's band, and the tune they originally played for Gillespie, renamed "Two Bass Hit", became an instant success. Lewis composed, arranged and played piano for the band from 1945 until 1948 after the band made a concert tour of Europe. When Lewis returned from the tour with Gillespie's band, he left it to work individually. Lewis was an accompanist for Charlie Parker and played on some of Parker's famous recordings, such as "Parker's Mood" (1948) and "Blues for Alice" (1951), but also collaborated with other prominent jazz artists such as Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald and Illinois Jacquet. [PAR] In an article about Dexter Gordon for WorldPress.com, reviewer Ted Panken suggests that ". . . Higgins’s buoyant ride cymbal and subtle touch propels the soloists through the master take of "Milestones," a John Lewis line for which Miles Davis took credit on his 1947 Savoy debut with Charlie Parker on tenor." Panken seems certain of his claim but does not offer corroboration to a charge that Davis took credit for music that was not his own. [PAR] Lewis also was part of Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool sessions. While in Europe, Lewis received letters from Davis urging him to come back to the United States and collaborate with the trumpeter, Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan and others on the second session of Birth of the Cool.Lyons, p. 78. From when he returned to the U.S. in 1948 through 1949, Lewis joined Davis's nonet and is considered "one of the more prolific arrangers with the 1949 Miles Davis Nonet".Davis, p. 228. For the Birth of the Cool sessions, Lewis arranged "S'il Vous Plait", "Rouge", "Move" and "Budo". [PAR] Lewis, vibraphonist Milt Jackson, drummer Clarke and bassist Ray Brown had been the small group within the Gillespie big band, and they frequently played their own short sets when the brass and reeds needed a break or even when Gillespie's band was not playing. The small band received a lot of positive recognition and it led to the foursome forming a full-time working group, which they initially called the Milt Jackson Quartet in 1951 but in 1952 renamed the Modern Jazz Quartet. [PAR] Modern Jazz Quartet [PAR] The Modern Jazz Quartet was formed out of the foursome's need for more

What instrument is associated with Illinois-born John Lewis?

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[DOC] [TLE] Queen Mary ocean liner launched - Famous DailyQueen Mary ocean liner launched [PAR] Queen Mary ocean liner launched [PAR] by gary_satanovsky [PAR] Airplanes were still a novelty in the early decades of the 1900s, and the future of transatlantic travel, at least for a little longer, was thought to belong to the ship. International shipbuilding competition was in full swing, as Germany had made two ocean liners, Bremen and Europa, and in response Britain’s White Star Line laid down the keel for a 60,000 ton ship to rival the German two, while Cunard planned an even larger one — a 75,000 ton craft that would be called the Queen Mary. [PAR] On this day, September 26, in 1934, the RMS Queen Mary, one of the largest ships of its time, was launched. In attendance at the official ceremony were His Majesty, King George V, and his consort, Queen Mary, who allowed her name to be used for the ship. [PAR] A couple more years would pass for the finishing touches on the ship, and finally by summer of 1936 The Queen Mary was ready for her maiden voyage to New York May. With every space on it booked long in advance, the passenger list was a who’s who of European society: knights, ladies, dignitaries, entertainments stars, and even a couple of stowaways who were quickly remanded to Southampton to face justice. [PAR] Today’s History[DOC] [TLE] PHOTOS: Queen Mary ocean liner - 80th anniversary of ...PHOTOS: Queen Mary ocean liner - 80th anniversary of maiden voyage - Pasadena Star-News Media Center [PAR] Share [PAR] Search [PAR] 27th May 1936: The Cunard White Star liner, 'Queen Mary' leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) [PAR] RMS Queen Mary ship being swung round by tugs on leaving the ocean dock at Southampton, England on May 27, 1936 for her maiden voyage. Vast crowds cheered the RMS Queen Mary on to her maiden voyage. Bands played and sirens shrieked as she made her way down Southampton water under her own power. It took 15 minutes for her to leave her berth. (AP Photo/Staff/Putnam) [PAR] The new Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary pulls away from Southampton at the start of her maiden voyage across the Atlantic to New York. (Photo by Hudson/Getty Images) [PAR] RMS Queen Mary ship after being freed from tugs on leaving the ocean dock at Southampton, England on May 27, 1936 for her maiden voyage. Vast crowds cheered the RMS Queen Mary on to her maiden voyage. Bands played and sirens shrieked as she made her way down Southampton water under her own power. It took 15 minutes for her to leave her berth. (AP Photo/Staff/Putnam) [PAR] 27th May 1936: The maiden voyage of the Queen Mary from Southampton. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) [PAR] 27th May 1936: Crowds wave goodbye to the Cunard White Star liner 'Queen Mary' as she leaves Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage to New York. (Photo by W. G. Phillips/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) [PAR] The new Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary pulls away from Southampton at the start of her maiden voyage across the Atlantic to New York. (Photo by Barker/Getty Images) [PAR] The ocean liner Queen Mary passes the Statue of Liberty as she enters New York Harbor after completing her first voyage to the United States on June 1, 1936. (AP Photo) [PAR] Large crowds watched the Queen Mary being maneuvered by large tugs in the Clyde River shortly after launch Sept. 26, 1934 The ship was launched from the Yard of John Brown & Son. Ltd. in Clydebank, Scotland. [PAR] The launch of the new Cunard White Star liner Queen Mary from the John Brown & Co shipyard, Clydebank. A large crowd huddle under their umbrellas whilst watching the spectacle. (Photo by Lock/Getty Images) [PAR] Her Majesty Queen Mary of England in London, England on May 11, 1932. The namesake of the RMS Queen Mary. (AP Photo) [PAR] New Cunard liner, the Queen

Which liner launched in 1934 was the largest of her time?

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[DOC] [TLE] Bobby Jones Facts & Biography | Famous GolfersBobby Jones Facts & Biography | Famous Golfers [PAR] Famous For: Being the most successful amateur golfer in history [PAR] Awards: AAU Sullivan Award [PAR] Golfing legend Bobby Jones was born to Robert Purmedus Jones and Clara Thomas in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 17th, 1903. Bobby Jones was named after his grandfather, a popular businessman from Canton. In 1907, his father joined Atlanta Athletic Club, which also owned the East Lake Country Club, where the family spent each summer. It was at East Lake Country Club that Jones learned how to play golf, mainly by imitating the swing of the club’s professional Stewart Maiden. [PAR] Achievements [PAR] Bobby played against adults at age 9 and won his very first major men’s tournament. He became the only golfer to win the United States Open champion at 21. Bobby Jones’ crowning glory was The Grand Slam of the year 1930, at age 28, in which he became the first golfer to win the US Open, United States Amateur, British Amateur championships as well as British Open in a single year. At that point, Jones retired from tournament golf. [PAR] Jones in Retirement [PAR] While Bobby Jones retired from tournament golf in 1930, he did not leave the public spotlight or the golf world. Freed from monetary restraints of the formal amateurism, he quickly capitalized on his golf achievements. In 1931 and 1933, Jones filmed golf instructional videos. Throughout his life, Jones wrote several books on golf, including the autobiographical works Golf Is My Game and Down the Fairway. His exceptional project was the establishment of Augusta National Golf Club as well as the annual Masters tournament which is held at the club. It became one of the most popular tournaments in the game. [PAR] Social Life [PAR] Jones was said to be a good friend and gentleman. He had a sense of humor. He drank bourbon and smoked cigarettes. Jones was overwhelmed by the people who wanted to play golf with him. [PAR] Jones appeared every spring at the Masters tournament, playing in the event until 1948, when he suffered a spinal injury. He had to give up the game of golf and was forced into a wheelchair. Jones continued to run his business interests from his Atlanta home. He took his last tour to the Masters in the year 1968. Ultimately succumbing to his sickness, Bobby Jones died in 1971, at the age 69. More than any golfer in history, Jones is a model of the complete golfer. Extremely gifted, he was also an intelligent man, and he merged all these forces to become not just a singular champion, but also a hero to many. [PAR] Famous Golfers[DOC] [TLE] Bobby Jones is born - Mar 17, 1902 - HISTORY.comBobby Jones is born - Mar 17, 1902 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Bobby Jones is born [PAR] Publisher [PAR] A+E Networks [PAR] On March 17, 1902, Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia. Jones, the first great American golfer, was a hero of the so-called “Golden Age of Sports” in America along with baseball player Babe Ruth, boxer Jack Dempsey, tennis player Bill Tilden and football player Red Grange. [PAR] Bobby Jones had the picture-perfect swing of every golfer’s dreams, despite never having taken a lesson. He modeled his swing after that of Stewart Maiden, a Scottish golfer who was the golf professional at the Atlanta Club. Jones would watch Maiden play, then run home and copy his swing to the best of his ability. It worked: Jones was said to have shot a 70 for 18 holes by the age of 12. At 14, he won his first of five U.S. Amateur Championships at the Merion Cricket Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, where, 14 years later, he would win the Grand Slam, his greatest triumph. [PAR] Jones’ 1930 Grand Slam–winning the U.S. Open, British Open, U.S. Amateur and British Amateur in the same year–was the first in golf history. The four events took place over a five-month period, with the U.S. Amateur coming last. In the U.S. Amateur final, Jones defeated Gene Homans in head-to-head

Golfer Bobby Jones was born in which state?

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[DOC] [TLE] Headliners - Ambling Along - NYTimes.comHeadliners - Ambling Along - NYTimes.com [PAR] Headliners; Ambling Along [PAR] Published: July 8, 1990 [PAR] Imelda Marcos had the shoes; now she has walked. In a case that began four years ago, Mrs. Marcos, the widow of former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was acquitted by a Federal court jury in Manhattan last week of helping her husband loot $200 million from the Philippine treasury and then investing the proceeds in art, jewelry and prime New York City real estate. Though the charges against her included defrauding American banks, jurors said afterward that they questioned whether Federal prosecutors had the right to charge her with other offenses that she and her husband were said to have committed in the Philippines. When the Marcoses fled to Hawaii in 1986, she was seen as the free-spending wife - thousands of pairs of shoes were found in her Manila palace closets - of a corrupt despot. But after Mr. Marcos died last year, there seemed much less interest in punishing his spouse. Said one juror, ''Just because she was married to him doesn't make her guilty.'' [PAR] Photo: Imelda Marcos (Reuters)

Which politician's wife was acquitted in 1990 of defrauding US banks?

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[DOC] [TLE] Mysteries and More: This Day in History – August 6Mysteries and More: This Day in History � August 6 [PAR] This Day in History � August 6 [PAR] Posted by HoneyBee on 8/6/2016, 2:22 am [PAR] 205.200.150.144 [PAR] Born this Day [PAR] 1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson � British poet laureate (The Charge of the Light Brigade, In Memoriam, The Lady of Shallot, Ulysses, Morte D'Arthur) Tennyson was born into a chaotic and disrupted home. His father, the eldest son of a wealthy landowner, was disinherited in favour of his younger brother. Forced to enter the Church to support himself, the Rev. Dr. George Tennyson became a bitter alcoholic. However, he educated his sons in the classics, and Alfred Tennyson, the fourth of 12 children, went to Trinity College at Cambridge in 1827. At Cambridge, Tennyson befriended a circle of intellectual undergraduates who strongly encouraged his poetry. In 1830, Tennyson published Poems, Chiefly Lyrical. The following year, his father died, and he was forced to leave Cambridge for financial reasons. Besieged by critical attacks and struggling with poverty, Tennyson remained dedicated to his work and published several more volumes. In 1850 Queen Victoria named him poet laureate. At long last, Tennyson achieved financial stability and finally married his fianc�e Emily Sellwood, whom he had loved since 1836. He continued writing and publishing poems until his death in 1892 [PAR] 1881 Leo Carrillo - Actor (The Cisco Kid, Pancho Villa Returns, Phantom of the Opera) [PAR] 1881 Sir Alexander Fleming - Scottish bacteriologist who discovered penicillin in 1928 at St. Mary�s Hospital, Paddington, London, when green mould appeared on a culture dish. Scientists usually discarded these, but Fleming decided to make a close examination [PAR] 1881 Louella Parsons - Gossip columnist who competed in print and on radio with her nemesis, Hedda Hopper [PAR] 1892 Hoot (Edmund) Gibson - Actor (Death Valley Rangers, Frontier Justice, The Marshal's Daughter, The Prairie King) [PAR] 1910 Charles Crichton � British film director (The Lavender Hill Mob, A Fish Called Wanda) [PAR] 1911 Lucille Ball � Comedienne and actress (I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Yours Mine and Ours, Mame, Stage Door) She starred as a ditzy wife in the radio show My Favourite Husband. When CBS decided to launch the popular series on the relatively new medium of TV, Lucy insisted her husband Desi Arnaz be cast as her husband in the TV version. The network executives argued that no one would believe the couple were married, but Desi and Lucy performed before live audiences and filmed a pilot, which convinced network executives that audiences would respond well to their act [PAR] 1917 Robert Mitchum - Actor (The Sundowners, Cape Fear, Scrooged, The Winds of War, The Big Sleep, The Friends of Eddie Coyle) [PAR] 1922 Sir Freddie Laker � British entrepreneur who pioneered cheap air-flights. His Laker Airlines went bust in 1982 [PAR] 1926 Frank Finlay � Scottish actor (Casanova, The Molly Mcguires, Longitude) He played Inspector Lestrade in the Sherlock Holmes movie, Murder by Decree, and he also played Professor Coram in the Sherlock Holmes episode The Golden Pince-Nez [PAR] 1928 Andy Warhol � US pop artist who became a cultural icon. He coined the phrase, "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes" [PAR] 1930 Abbey Lincoln - Actress (For Love of Ivy, Mo' Better Blues) [PAR] 1937 Barbara Windsor � British actress (EastEnders, Alice in Wonderland, Carry On films) [PAR] 1938 Peter Bonerz - Actor (The Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5, Catch -22) He has also directed many TV episodes (ALF, Murphy Brown, Home Improvement, Friends, The Bob Newhart Show) [PAR] 1947 Oliver Tobias � Swiss-born British actor (The Brylcreem Boys, Sharpe's Waterloo, The Paper Man, The Wicked Lady, Smuggler) He played Captain Croker in the Sherlock Holmes episode, The Abbey Grange [PAR] 1950 Dorian Harewood � Actor (Full Metal Jacket, The Jesse Owens Story, Pacific Heights, Amerika, The Falcon and the Snowman, Glitter, Strike Force, Looker, Beulah Land, Roots: The Next Generations, Gray Lady Down, Panic

Which gossip columnist was born in the same day as Sir Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin?

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[DOC] [TLE] Uma Karuna Thurman - Genealogy - geni family treeUma Karuna Thurman - Genealogy [PAR] Genealogy [PAR] Join the world's largest family tree [PAR] Gender [PAR] Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love [PAR] Build your family tree online [PAR] Share photos and videos [PAR] Kings County, New York, United States [PAR] Birthdate: [PAR] Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States [PAR] Immediate Family: [PAR] Mother of <private> Thurman-Hawke; <private> Thurman-Hawke and Minor Child [PAR] Sister of <private> Thurman; <private> Thurman and <private> Thurman [PAR] Half sister of Taya Thurman [PAR] Occupation: [PAR] Oldman Uma, Thurman V Uma [PAR] Possible relatives: [PAR] Gary Fiorentino, Donya Marlette Fiorentino, Gary Oldman, Robert A Thurman, Sr, Dechen Karl Thurman, Mipam K Thurman [PAR] Residences: [PAR] Apr 29 1970 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA [PAR] Parents: [PAR] Apr 29 1970 - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. [PAR] Parents: [PAR] <Private> Thurman, <Private> Thurman (o.s. Von Schlebrügge) [PAR] Siblings: [PAR] <Private> Thurman, <Private> Thurman, <Private> Thurman, <Private> Thurman [PAR] Ex-husband: [PAR] Apr 29 1970 - Boston, MA [PAR] Parents: [PAR] Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman, Nena Birgitte Caroline Von Schlebrugge [PAR] Husband: [PAR] Robert Thurman, Nena Von Schlebrügge [PAR] Siblings: [PAR] Ganden Thurman, Dechen Thurman, Taya Thurman, Mipam Thurman [PAR] Husband: [PAR] Gary Oldman, Ethan Hawke, Arpad Busson [PAR] Children: [PAR] Maya Thurman-Hawke, Levon Roan Thurman-Hawke, Luna Thurman-Busson [PAR] Residences: [PAR] Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman, <Private> Thurman [PAR] Siblings: [PAR] Ganden Thurman, Dechen Thurman, Mipam Thurman, <Private> Thurman [PAR] Ex-partner: [PAR] Apr 29 1970 - Boston, USA [PAR] Parents: [PAR] Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman, Brigitte Caroline Thurman (geb. Von Schlebrügge) [PAR] Siblings: [PAR] Ganden Thurman, Dechen Thurman, Mipam Thurman [PAR] Ex-husband: [PAR] ex-husband's child [PAR] About Uma Thurman [PAR] She is an American actress. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action thrillers. She is best known for her work under the direction of Quentin Tarantino. Her most popular films include Dangerous Liaisons (1988), Pulp Fiction (1994), Gattaca (1997) and Kill Bill (2003–2004). [PAR] Thurman's mother, Nena Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge, was a fashion model born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1941, to German-born Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge, and Swedish-born Birgit Holmquist, from Trelleborg. In 1930, Birgit Holmquist, Thurman's grandmother, modelled for a nude statue that stands overlooking the harbor of Smygehuk. Thurman's father, Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman (b. August 3, 1941), was born in New York City to Elizabeth Dean Farrar, a stage actress, and Beverly Reid Thurman, Jr., an Associated Press editor and U.N. translator. Thurman's mother was introduced to LSD guru Timothy Leary by Salvador Dalí and became Leary's third wife in 1964; she later wed Thurman's father in 1967. [PAR] Thurman's father, Robert, a scholar and professor at Columbia University of Tibetan Buddhist studies, was the first westerner to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk.[4] He gave his children a Buddhist upbringing: Uma is named after an Dbuma Chenpo (in Tibetan, the "db" is silent; from Mahamadhyamaka in Sanskrit, meaning "Great Middle Way"). She has three brothers, Ganden (b. 1971), Dechen (b. 1973) and Mipam (b. 1978), and a half-sister named Taya (b. 1960) from her father's previous marriage. She and her siblings spent time in Almora, India, during childhood, and the Dalai Lama sometimes visited their home. [PAR] Thurman grew up mostly in Amherst, Massachusetts and Woodstock, New York. She is described as having been an awkward and introverted girl who was teased for her tall frame, angular bone structure, and unusual name (sometimes using the name

What is Uma Thurman's middle name?

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[DOC] [TLE] Sam Neill - IMDbSam Neill - IMDb [PAR] IMDb [PAR] Actor | Director | Writer [PAR] Sam Neill was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to army parents, an English-born mother, Priscilla Beatrice (Ingham), and a New Zealand-born father, Dermot Neill. His family moved to the South Island of New Zealand in 1954. He went to boarding schools and then attended the universities at Canterbury and Victoria. He has a BA in English ... See full bio » [PAR] Born:[DOC] [TLE] Sam Neill biography and filmography | Sam Neill moviesSam Neill biography and filmography | Sam Neill movies [PAR] Sam Neill [PAR] Date of Birth: September 14, 1947 [PAR] Born in Northern Ireland, Neill was raised in the country he still calls home—New Zealand. And being far away from the Hollywood spotlight is just the way he likes it. "The one thing I find sad when I come to Los Angeles," he says, "is that the world here is populated by millions of people who want to be actors and never will be. And it's a particularly American thing, I think, to advise people to follow their dreams. You ought to be very careful about advising such things, because people have all kinds of entirely unrealistic dreams. As a result, so many people here think of themselves as losers, which is the worst thing you can be called in America." [PAR] But "loser" is certainly not the category Neill fell into with a film career that has netted him three Golden Globe nominations. Since his wonderful performance in My Brilliant Career (1979) he's worked non-stop. "I'm a useful actor," he says. "I don't come to the audience with any particular baggage. When I turn up on the screen, you don't necessarily know whether I'm going to solve everything as the good guy or whether I will turn out to be something else entirely." [PAR] Neill has managed to carve out a successful career as an actor. Many will remember him from the series of Jurassic Park films. He's also starred in several television shows, including The Tudors, Crusoe, Happy Town and Alcatraz. [PAR] The veteran actor's most recent films include The Vow (2012), with Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams , The Hunter (2012) alongside Willem Dafoe and Frances O'Connor , Escape Plan (2013) opposite Sylvester Stallone , Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), and The Daughter (2016). [PAR] Neill married Noriko Watanabe, a makeup artist, in September 1989. They have a daughter, Elena. He also has a son, Tim, from a previous relationship with a New Zealand actress. Neil was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1993 for his service to acting. He and his family divide their time between homes in Los Angeles, Australia and New Zealand. [PAR] Filmography:[DOC] [TLE] SAM NEILL at THESPIAN NETSAM NEILL at THESPIAN NET [PAR] September 14, 1947 [PAR] Omagh, Northern Ireland [PAR] Three countries claim actor Sam Neill as their own: Ireland, where he was born to Army parents; New Zealand, where he grew up and started his prolific film career; and Australia, where he and his family spend much of their time in between movies shot on locations around the world. [PAR]       In reality he travels on a New Zealand passport and has no qualms about his agent describing him as "a man of the world" ... his career has taken him to scores of countries around the globe. [PAR]       Nigel Neill was seven when his New Zealand parents returned home from their Ireland postings, and like most Army siblings, spent much of his boyhood in boarding schools before graduating from Canterbury University with a BA in literature. (The nickname Sam started when he was a youngster in Ireland). [PAR]       He had been involved for years with the New Zealand Players Group in theatre presentations before embarking on a career as a writer, editor then director for the Government-operated NZ Film Unit. But he soon realised he enjoyed more being in front of the cameras. [PAR]       He

In which country was Sam Neill born?

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[DOC] [TLE] Minolta Photography - William Eugene Smith 1918-1978William Eugene Smith [PAR] 1971 or 1972 - Minamata, Japan [PAR]     In the early 1970s, William Eugene Smith lived with Aileen Mioko Sprauge Smith, his wife, in Minamata, Japan. [PAR]     William Eugene Smith took this photo, and together with the help of Aileen Mioko Sprauge Smith and Ishikawa Takeshi, a local photographer, many other photos were taken of the effects of long term environmental industrial mercury poisoning on the local population. [PAR]     Here, on the Japanese Island of Kyushu, we see an image of an outwardly healthy mother bathing her fetal-poisoned 16 year old daughter, Tomoko Uemura, grotesquely deformed, physically crippled and blind since birth due to environmental industrial mercury poisoning in the local Minamata, Japan, water supply. [PAR]     This may well be the first environmental pollution photojournalism.  Note also the invariable comparison to Michelangelo Buonarroti 's Pieta . [PAR]     The photograph is from a series on industrial pollution by William Eugene Smith and Aileen Mioko Sprauge Smith for which they jointly received the World Understanding Award-U.S.A. [PAR]     William Eugene Smith, who was severely beaten by goons hired by the offending chemical company, also received the Robert Capa Gold Modal-U.S.A. for "photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise." [PAR] Minolta 16mm f/2.8 Lens [PAR] William Eugene Smith [PAR] 1972 - Minamata, Japan [PAR]     Pouring its wastes into the air as well as the waters, the Chisso chemical complex dominates the city of Minamata. [PAR]      Waste chemicals, dumped into the bay, worked their way up the food chain to the people of the city and caused what has come to be known as Minamata Disease. [PAR] 500x337 57kb [PAR] William Eugene Smith [PAR] 1972 - Minamata, Japan [PAR]     Plaintiffs demonstrate with photos of their dead on the last day of the trial in October 1972. [PAR]      The court victory could only offer money in return for life and normalcy. [PAR] 500x346 53kb [PAR] William Eugene Smith [PAR] 1972 - Minamata, Japan [PAR]     An aide mops the brow of Chisso's President Shimada during one of the grueling negotiating sessions for compensation. [PAR]     This image is a stark comparison to the photo of Tomoko Uemura being bathed by her mother above . [PAR]     Visit The National Institute for Minamata Disease at http://www.nimd.go.jp/English for more information. [PAR] 322x500 60kb [PAR] Loosely from The Encyclopedia of Photography, by Michael Busselle, 1983, Octopus Books Limited, and Let Truth Be the Prejudice, W. Eugene Smith: His Life and Photographs, by Ben Maddow and the staff at Aperture, 1985, Aperture: [PAR]     William Eugene Smith was born in Witchita, Kansas, in 1918.  He was raised Catholic by Nettie Smith, his mother, who was a photographer who had a darkroom at home.  William Eugene Smith wanted to fly, and ordered pictures of airplanes through the mail - his mother refused to pay, suggesting that he take her camera to the airfield and get his own pictures.  A photographer was born!  William Eugene Smith became a local Witchita, Kansas, news photographer at the age of 15.  [PAR]      He won a scholarship to learn photography at Notre Dame University , Notre Dame, Indiana US.  Unsatisfied, he went to New York Institute of Photography in New York City, New York US, and invited his mother to join him as his assistant - she agreed.  He become a photographer for Newsweek magazine.  During World War II he was a correspondent photographer and covered numerous invasions and combat missions.  He was badly wounded taking photographs of US soldiers during a Japanese mortar attack in which he refused to protect himself, hoping to get authentic images of war and spent a year recuperating, although his left hand was severely crippled the rest of his life, making it difficult for him to handle his cameras.  He joined Life magazine in 1947, but after a series of differences over the way his many successful pictures were used,

What was the profession of William Eugene Smith?

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[DOC] [TLE] E-monthly | Notorious - Inside the Music BusinessE-monthly | Notorious | NETWORK. LEARN. BE DISCOVERED. InsideTheMusicBusiness.com [PAR] Legal Corner  |  Music Videos  |  Release Reviews  |  Blogs  |  IMB Products/Services  |  Advertise/Contact Us  |  InsideTheMusicBusiness.com [PAR] On the night of March 9th 1997, Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in Los Angeles. To date his murder remains a mystery. His life was not. NOTORIOUS, the film and soundtrack is his story. Through determination and raw talent, Wallace transformed himself from a Brooklyn hustler to become one of the greatest rappers of all time; The Notorious B.I.G. As it was ingrained in his head �Mo� Money begets �Mo� Problems.� At the height of his short career, Wallace found himself (along with his mentor and Executive Producer) Sean �Diddy� Combs, in the middle of an �east coast-west coast� hip hop feud. This feud ultimately triggered a series of events over a six month period that brought down two of the legends of the game: First (Death Row recording artist) Tupac Shakur was shot on the Las Vegas strip (September 13, 1996), and then The Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in Los Angeles six months later (March 9, 1997). [PAR] The NOTORIOUS soundtrack (Executive Produced by Diddy) mixes some of the B.I.G.G.E.S.T tracks of Wallace�s career including �One More Chance,� �Hypnotize�and �Warning� along with heart felt contributions from some of his friends in the game including Jay-Z with �Brooklyn (Go Hard)�, Jadakiss featuring (Biggie�s wife) Faith Evan�s with �Letter to B.I.G.,� and a tribute from his son CJ doing a �legacy remix of �One More Chance,� with Faith Evans. Christopher Wallace�s legacy now lives not only in song and in the hearts of millions of fans around the globe, but on film for future generations to experience the NOTORIOUS B.I.G. [PAR] - Eric Kline[DOC] [TLE] Featured Articles about Notorious B I G - Page 5 - latimesFeatured Articles about Notorious B I G - Page 5 - latimes [PAR] FEATURED ARTICLES ABOUT NOTORIOUS B I G - PAGE 5 [PAR] NEWS [PAR] He's making it Biggie again [PAR] March 15, 2007 | Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer [PAR] THE Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down a decade ago this month in Los Angeles, but Biggie Smalls is living large again on the U.S. album charts as his "Greatest Hits" career survey takes over this week at No. 1, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD of music from the man born Christopher Wallace sold 99,000 copies to claim the top spot on the U.S. album chart and features familiar hits as well as two previously unreleased tracks: "Want That Old Thing Back" and "Running Your Mouth." [PAR] Advertisement [PAR] ENTERTAINMENT [PAR] A Memorable 'Life' on Its Own Merits : THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.: "Life After Death" Bad Boy / Arista **** [PAR] March 26, 1997 | CHEO HODARI COKER, TIMES STAFF WRITER [PAR] The cover of "Life After Death," the posthumous double album from the Notorious B.I.G., is enough to send chills up the spine of even the most cynical hip-hop critic. The 24-year-old rapper, who was fatally shot March 9 in Los Angeles, is shown leaning on an old-fashioned hearse, not unlike the one that carried his body in a funeral procession through his old Brooklyn neighborhood. [PAR] CALIFORNIA | LOCAL [PAR] Taking a New Look at Killing of Rapper [PAR] March 17, 2006 | Richard Winton and Patrick McGreevy, Times Staff Writers [PAR] A new team of Los Angeles Police Department detectives is investigating the 1997 murder of rap artist Notorious B.I.G., a top city attorney told City Council members Thursday. In answer to questions about how a lawsuit alleging department involvement in the killing led to a costly court defeat, Assistant City Atty. Don Vincent told the council's public safety committee that a new group of Robbery-Homicide Division detectives had been assigned to the case. [PAR] NATIONAL [PAR] Rapper's Family Offers Alibi in Shakur Slaying [PAR] September 11, 2002 | CHUCK PHILIPS, TIMES STAFF WRITER [PAR] The family of Notorious B.I.G. released documents

In which month in 1997 was The Notorious B.I.G. gunned down?

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[DOC] [TLE] Michael Keaton - Biography.comMichael Keaton - Film Actor, Television Actor, Director - Biography.com [PAR] Famous People Born in Coraopolis [PAR] Synopsis [PAR] Michael Keaton was born on September 5, 1951 in McKees Rocks, Penn. He attended Kent State, but dropped out to pursue acting. After some false starts in television, Keaton had his first hit with Mr. Mom. He later worked with directors Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Batman), Kenneth Branagh and Quentin Tarantino , and in the new millennium won great acclaim for his Oscar-nominated lead role in the drama Birdman, for which he's also won a Golden Globe. Keaton was married to Caroline McWilliams from 1982-1990. The couple has one son together. [PAR] Early Life [PAR] Born Michael John Douglas on September 5, 1951, in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania at Ohio Valley Hospital, Keaton grew up in the Forest Grove area of the township of Robinson as the youngest of seven children. His father worked as a civil engineer, while his mother stayed home to take care of the kids. At school, Keaton displayed his interest in acting by performing humorous skits. [PAR] After attending Kent State University for two years, Keaton dropped out to pursue an acting career. He found work as a cab driver and an ice cream truck driver in his hometown for a while, as he tried his hand at stand-up comedy. In 1975, Keaton made his television debut on the children's series Mister Roger's Neighborhood, which was filmed in Pittsburgh. He later moved to Los Angeles, where he started to land some television work. Keaton changed his last name in order to prevent confusion between he and famous actor Michael Douglas . In an interview in 2012, Keaton admitted he chose his famous surname quite randomly, despite the rumors that he was inspired by actress Diane Keaton. [PAR] Big Break [PAR] In 1977, Keaton joined the cast of the sitcom All's Fair. He played a presidential aide in the short-lived series, which starred Richard Crenna and Bernadette Peters . After appearances on such shows as Mary, Maude, and Family, Keaton landed a lead role in the comedy Working Stiffs. He and Jim Belushi played brothers who worked as janitors. The show only lasted a month. In 1982, Keaton tried again for television success with Report to Murphy, a sitcom in which he played a parole officer. The program aired for a month and a half before being canceled. [PAR] While he couldn't find fame on television, Keaton was starting to experience success in films. He starred with Henry Winkler and Shelley Long in Night Shift (1982), a comedy directed by Ron Howard . The film told the story of two morgue workers who start using their workplace as a brothel. The film was met with critical success; co-star Winkler earned a Golden Globe for his performance, and Keaton was recognized with a Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. Box office attendance, however, was low. [PAR] The following year, Keaton had a career breakthrough with the domestic comedy Mr. Mom, a film about a man who becomes a stay-at-home dad after losing his job. The film became his first big hit, grossing more than $64 million domestically. [PAR] Hollywood Star [PAR] Keaton then starred in Johnny Dangerously (1984), a send-up of old gangster films. Unfortunately, the film received the cold shoulder from both critics and audiences alike. In 1986, Keaton again floundered with Gung Ho, which found humor in an American automotive plant after a takeover by a Japanese automaker. In 1988, however, Keaton proved his range as a performer with two very different films. He starred as a mischievous demon who helps a pair of ghosts ( Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis ) get rid of a family that moved into their old house in Beetlejuice. Directed by Tim Burton, the supernatural film that also starred Winona Ryder became a popular hit. "Tim and I both have the same sensibility.

What was Michael Keaton's first movie?

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[DOC] [TLE] 1967 in the Vietnam WarJanuary [PAR] ;January 6, 1967 [PAR] Operation Deckhouse Five was conducted by the United States Marine Corps and South Vietnamese Marine Corps forces along the Mekong River Delta, as part of the Vietnam War. The operation was notable in that it was a sizable, combined U.S. Marine and Vietnamese Marine amphibious operation and it was the last Special Landing Force (SLF) amphibious landing to take place beyond the boundaries of I Corps. The operation occurred January 6–15, 1967. [PAR] ;January 8, 1967 [PAR] Operation Cedar Falls was a military operation conducted primarily by US forces. The aim of this massive search and destroy operation was to eradicate the so-called "Iron Triangle", an area located in close proximity to Saigon which had become a major stronghold of the communist National Liberation Front (NLF) or Viet Cong. The operation began on January 8, 1967 and ended on January 28, 1967. [PAR] File:Deckhouse V photograph - 1.jpg|Two U.S. Marine Corps amphibious tractors are moving along the beach in the foreground, with a UH-1 helicopter approaching at right. is in the background during Operation Deckhouse Five. [PAR] February [PAR] ;February 14, 1967 [PAR] The Battle of Tra Binh Dong was probably the most famous battle fought by the South Korean Marines. It was fought in the Tra Binh Dong village near the border of Cambodia. [PAR] ;February 17, 1967 [PAR] Operation Bribie, or the Battle of Ap My An, was fought during the Vietnam War in Phuoc Tuy province between Australian forces from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) and the Viet Cong, reinforced by North Vietnamese regulars. [PAR] ;February 22, 1967 [PAR] Operation Junction City was an 82-day military operation conducted by United States and Republic of Vietnam (RVN or South Vietnam) forces begun on February 22, 1967 lasting until May 14, 1967. It was the largest U.S. airborne operation since Operation Market Garden during World War II, the only major airborne operation of the Vietnam War, and one of the largest U.S. operations of the Southeast Asian conflict. [PAR] April [PAR] ;April 21 [PAR] Operation Union was a military operation conducted by the United States Marine Corps. It was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Regiment. The object of the operation was the 2nd Division of the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN, often in US sources "North Vietnamese Army" or NVA). Launched on April 21, 1967 the operation ended May 16. [PAR] From April to May 1967 The Hill Fights was a battle between the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN or NVA) and United States Marines on Hills 881 North, 881 South, and 861 north of Khe Sanh Combat Base in the I Corps Tactical Zone. [PAR] May [PAR] ;May 11, 1967 [PAR] Running from May 11 to 1 July 1967 Operation Malheur I and Operation Malheur II were a series of military actions conducted by the United States army subduing increased activity by National Liberation Front (NLF) forces in the northern part of South Vietnam. [PAR] ;May 25, 1967 [PAR] Operation Union II was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 5th Marine Regiment. Launched on May 25, 1967 the operation ended June 5. [PAR] July [PAR] ;July 2, 1967 [PAR] Running from July 2 to July 14, 1967 Operation Buffalo was a major operation that took place in the southern half of the DMZ, northeast of Con Thien. [PAR] ;July 2, 1967 [PAR] The Battle of July Two was a short engagement that took place along Route 561 between Gia Binh and An Kha, during Operation Buffalo. The North Vietnamese 90th Regiment was engaged with the American Marines. [PAR] ;July 9, 1967 [PAR] Operation Hong Kil Dong was the largest South Korean operation of the Vietnam War to halt infiltration into friendly areas. [PAR] September [PAR] ;September 19 [PAR] The Royal Thai Army Regiment starts its deployment in South Vietnam. [PAR] ;September 4, 1967 [PAR] Operation Swift was a search and destroy mission in the Que Son Valley carried out by the 1st Marine Division. Launched on September 4,

What was the USA's biggest attack of the Vietnam War when it took place in February 1967?

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[DOC] [TLE] Oscar Wilde - Irish ParisOscar Wilde - Irish Paris [PAR] Irish Paris [PAR] The Goncourt residence, avenue de Montmoréncy [PAR]   [PAR] The Hôtel du Quai Voltaire [PAR] Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854 - Paris, 1900) first visited Paris in the summer of 1874,in the company of his mother, Speranza. They stayed at the Hôtel Voltaire on the Quai Voltaire (7th arrondissement), an establishment whose other famous clients down through the years have included Charles Baudelaire, Richard Wagner and Jean Sibelius. Wilde returned to Paris in late January 1883, staying first for a few weeks at the Hôtel Continental before moving to the Hôtel Voltaire again in early April, where he remained until May. During this stay, he met Edmond de Goncourt on a number of occasions at the latter’s residence at 53 (now 67) Avenue de Montmoréncy (16th arrondissement). In his diary, Goncourt writes that Wilde was “an individual of doubtful sex who talks like a third-rate actor and tells tall stories”. Wilde also met the actress Sarah Bernhardt on several occasions and later told a reporter that “it is not easy to exhaust the message of Paris, especially when Sarah Bernhardt is playing.” Wilde was back in Paris at the beginning of June 1884, this time on a honeymoon trip with Constance Lloyd, staying in three rooms at the Hôtel Wagram at 208, Rue de Rivoli (1st arrondissement), just a couple of doors down from the Hôtel Brighton, where Charles Stewart Parnell had stayed three years earlier. [PAR] Wilde did not return to the French capital again until February 1891, when he stayed at the Hôtel de l’Athénée at 15, rue Scribe (9th arrondissement), and again in November and December 1891, when he had an address at 9 (or 29) Boulevard des Capucines (2nd arrondissement). During his late-1891 stay, Wilde met a number of personalities at the Café d’Harcourt on the Place de Sorbonne, where J.M. Synge was to be attacked by rabid policemen six years later and James Joyce was to become ill 30 years later. During this time, Wilde worked on Salomé, a play he wrote first in French. The play was eventually staged for the first time on Feb. 11, 1896 at the Théâtre de l’Oeuvre at 55, rue de Clichy (9th arrondissement), by which time Wilde was in Reading jail. [PAR] L’Echo de Paris described Wilde's 1891 stay as “le ‘grand event’ des salons littéraires parisiens”. But his next visit, on his way down to Italy in September 1897, was undertaken under much less auspicious circumstances, a couple of months after his release from Reading jail. During this 1897 visit, Wilde met a writer-acquaintance called Vincent O’Sullivan. Wilde was broke and broken but O’Sullivan took pity for him. After lunch one day, O’Sullivan writes, “we drove to the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas in the rue d’Antin where I had an account. He stayed in the cab and I brought him out the sum he wanted.” [PAR]   [PAR] The Hôtel d’Alsace [PAR] Wilde returned to Paris from Naples in February 1898 and was to remain  in the French capital until December of the same year. He first stayed at the Hôtel de Nice in the rue des Beaux-Arts (6th arrondissement) and then at the Hôtel d’Alsace in the same street, probably because it was cheaper. Wilde’s money problems remained acute: in a letter to his friend Robert Ross he writes: “My dear Robbie, something must be done. Friday and Saturday I had not a penny and had to stay in my room, and as they give only breakfast at the hotel, not dinner, I was dinnerless.“ [PAR] In December 1898, Wilde travelled down to the French Riviera and then through various parts of France, Italy and Switzerland. In June 1899 he was back in Paris, staying first at the Hôtel de Neva on the rue de Monsigny (2nd arrondissement, hotel no longer exists), then at the Hôtel Marsollier just a 100 metres further on in the rue Marsollier. Failing to pay his bill, Wilde was kicked out of the latter hotel

Who took the assumed name Sebastian Melmoth when living in Paris?

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[DOC] [TLE] Jahangir KhanJahangir Khan, HI, ()born 10 December 1963 in Karachi, Pakistan (sometimes spelled "Jehangir Khan") is a former World No. 1 professional squash player from Pakistan, who is considered to be the greatest player in the history of squash. Jahangir Khan is originally from Neway Kelay Payan, Peshawar. During his career he won the World Open six times and the British Open a record ten times. From 1981 to 1986, he was unbeaten in competitive play. During that time he won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records. He retired as a player in 1993, and has served as President of the World Squash Federation from 2002 to 2008, when he became Emeritus President. [PAR] Playing career [PAR] Jahangir was coached initially by his father, Roshan, the 1957 British Open champion, then by his late brother Torsam. After his brother's sudden death he was coached by his cousin Rehmat Khan, who guided Jahangir through most of his career. Jahangir was physically very weak as a child. Though the doctors had advised him not to take part in any sort of physical activity, after undergoing a couple of hernia operations his father let him play and try out their family game. [PAR] In 1979, the Pakistan selectors decided not to select Jahangir to play in the world championships in Australia, judging him too weak from a recent illness. Jahangir decided instead to enter the World Amateur Individual Championship and, at the age of 15, became the youngest-ever winner of that event. [PAR] In November 1979, Jahangir's older brother Torsam, who had been one of the leading international squash players in the 1970s, died suddenly of a heart attack during a tournament match in Australia. Torsam's death profoundly affected Jahangir. He considered quitting the game, but decided to pursue a career in the sport as a tribute to his brother. [PAR] Notable achievements [PAR] * Won World Amateur Championships at age 15 [PAR] * Youngest ever World Open Champion (aged 17) [PAR] * Unbeaten in 555 consecutive matches over 5 years and 8 months [PAR] * Won the British Open Championship 10 times in succession (1982-1993) [PAR] * Six-times World Open Champion [PAR] * First player to win World Open Championships without dropping a game [PAR] * Played the second longest match in the squash history 2.46 h [PAR] Five-year unbeaten run [PAR] In 1981, when he was 17, Jahangir became the youngest winner of the World Open, beating Australia's Geoff Hunt (the game's dominant player in the late-1970s) in the final. That tournament marked the start of an unbeaten run which lasted for five years and 555 matches. The hallmark of his play was his incredible fitness and stamina, which Rehmat Khan helped him build up through a punishing training and conditioning regime. Jahangir was quite simply the fittest player in the game, and would wear his opponents down through long rallies played at a furious pace. [PAR] In 1982, Jahangir astonished everyone by winning the International Squash Players Association Championship without losing a single point. [PAR] The unbeaten run finally came to end in the final of the World Open in 1986 in Toulouse, France, when Jahangir lost to New Zealand's Ross Norman. Norman had been in pursuit of Jahangir's unbeaten streak, being beaten time and time again. "One day Jahangir will be slightly off his game and I will get him", he vowed for five years. [PAR] Speaking about his unbeaten streak, Jahangir said: "It wasn't my plan to create such a record. All I did was put in the effort to win every match I played and it went on for weeks, months and years until my defeat to Ross Norman in Toulouse in 1986." [PAR] "The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten. In that World Open final, Ross got me. It was exactly five years and eight months. I was unbeaten for another nine months after that defeat." [PAR] Success in the hardball game [PAR] With his

Who brought to an end Jahangir Khan's long unbeaten run of success in squash in the 80s?

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[DOC] [TLE] US envoy admits role in Aldo Moro killing - TelegraphUS envoy admits role in Aldo Moro killing - Telegraph [PAR] World News [PAR] US envoy admits role in Aldo Moro killing [PAR] Aldo Moro, the former Italian prime minister, who was seized at gunpoint by the Red Brigades in 1978  [PAR] By Malcolm Moore in Rome [PAR] 12:01AM GMT 11 Mar 2008 [PAR] An American envoy has claimed that he played a critical role in the fate of Aldo Moro, the former Italian prime minister who was murdered by terrorists in 1978. [PAR] Steve Pieczenik, an international crisis manager and hostage negotiator in the State Department, said that Moro had been "sacrificed" for the "stability" of Italy. [PAR] In a new book called We Killed Aldo Moro, Mr Pieczenik said he was sent to Italy by President Jimmy Carter on the day that Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, a far-Left terrorist group. [PAR] Moro, who had been prime minister for a total of more than five years between 1963 and 1976, was snatched at gunpoint from his car in Rome. [PAR] Related Articles [PAR] Sting nets Moro kidnapper [PAR] 18 Jan 2004 [PAR] He had been heading to parliament for a crucial vote on a ground-breaking alliance he had proposed between the Christian Democrat Party and the Italian Communist Party. [PAR] The alliance enraged both sides of the political spectrum in Italy, and also upset both Moscow and Washington. [PAR] Moro's widow, Eleonora, later said Henry Kissinger had warned her husband against his strategy. "You will pay dearly for it," he is alleged to have said. [PAR] Mr Pieczenik said he was part of a "crisis committee" headed by Francesco Cossiga, the interior minister. [PAR] Moro was held for 54 days. Mr Pieczenik said the committee was jolted into action by the fear that Moro would reveal state secrets in an attempt to free himself. [PAR] A false statement, attributed to the Red Brigades, was leaked saying that Moro was dead. [PAR] Mr Pieczenick said that this had a dual purpose; to prepare the Italian public for the worst, and to let the Red Brigades know that the state would not negotiate for Moro, and considered him already dead. [PAR] The following month, Moro was shot and placed in the back of a car in central Rome, midway between the headquarters of the Communist Party and the Christian Democrats. [PAR] In a documentary on French television last weekend, Mr Cossiga admitted the committee had taken the decision to release the false statement. [PAR]  [DOC] [TLE] On This Day: Aldo Moro Kidnapped by the Italian Red BrigadesOn This Day: Aldo Moro Kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades [PAR] Aldo Moro in a photo released by the Red [PAR] Brigades to the media on April 20, 1978. [PAR] On This Day: Aldo Moro Kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades [PAR] March 16, 2012 06:00 AM [PAR] by findingDulcinea Staff [PAR] On March 16, 1978, former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped by a left-wing extremist group; he was killed 55 days later when the terrorists’ demands were not met. Many in Italy believe that domestic or international government forces were complicit in the murder of Moro, who was due to sign a controversial agreement with the Communist Party on the day of his kidnapping. [PAR] Moro Kidnapped Before Compromise [PAR] Two-time former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, had negotiated an agreement to form a coalition government with the Italian Communist Party (PCI) . Known as the Historic Compromise, it alarmed both right wing parties and the extreme left, including the Red Brigades, a Marxist-Leninist paramilitary group. [PAR] “The Red Brigades completely opposed this idea, as it interfered with the declared aim of spearheading an armed Marxist revolution in Italy, led by a ‘revolutionary proletariat,’” explains The Florentine. [PAR] On the morning on March 16, as Moro was en route to the House of Representatives to enact the compromise, a dozen members of Red Brigades launched an assault on his car. The extremists shot and killed five of Moro’s bodyguards and abducted him, taking him to a safe house. [PAR] The Red Brigades demanded the release of 13

Which terrorist group murdered Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro?

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[DOC] [TLE] An Architecture for the Electronic Church: Oral Roberts ...Project MUSE - An Architecture for the Electronic Church: Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma [PAR] An Architecture for the Electronic Church [PAR] Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma [PAR] Margaret M. Grubiak (bio) [PAR] ABSTRACT [PAR] More than a university, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was also the headquarters for evangelist Oral Roberts’s electronic church. The electronic church in America, dominated by Christian evangelicals, used technology to spread the Gospel over radio airways and television signals to a dispersed audience. Yet evangelicals like Roberts also constructed ambitious campuses in real space and time. The architecture of Oral Roberts University visualized a modern and “populuxe” image for the electronic church in the 1960s and 1970s. The university’s Prayer Tower purposely alluded to the Seattle Space Needle, aligning religion and the Space Age, and the campus’s white, gold, and black color palette on late modern buildings created an image of aspirational luxury, conveying Roberts’s health and wealth gospel. Oral Roberts University served as a sound stage for Roberts’s radio and television shows, a pilgrimage point for his audience, and a university dedicated to training evangelicals in the electronic church. [PAR] For the opening of a 1969 religious television special broadcast live from the campus of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the camera panned to the Prayer Tower as a voiceover proclaimed it to be “a beacon of a focusing of faith” ( fig. 1 ). After lingering on the eternal flame representing the Holy Spirit at the top of the tower and announcing “a bold and imaginative hour of words and music to live by,” the program cut to an indoor studio located on the campus. There, the announcer introduced the World Action Singers, composed of university students; soloist Richard Roberts, son of Oral; special guest, singer and actress Dale Evans, wife of cowboy entertainer Roy Rogers; and then preacher, healer, and university president Oral Roberts himself as students and faculty applauded in the [End Page 380] audience. 1 Roberts’s Contact television specials including this 1969 broadcast aired on prime-time national television four times a year. These specials intertwined the word of God with celebrities like Johnny Cash and Jerry Lewis to capture an audience numbering more than 37 million by 1973. 2 Roberts also filmed his weekly Sunday morning television programs on campus. The Oral Roberts University campus, valued at over $150 million in the late 1970s, was, in the words of Roberts’s Hollywood producer, “the world’s most expensive [television] set.” 3 Oral Roberts University served multiple and reinforcing purposes that went well beyond the traditional conception of a university. Its campus was simultaneously a sound stage for Roberts’s radio and television programs, a pilgrimage point for the believers he garnered over the airways, and a place to educate future evangelists in using technological communication to spread God’s word to the world. [PAR] Click for larger view [PAR] View full resolution [PAR] Fig 1. [PAR] Prayer Tower (center) and John D. Messick Learning Resources Center (left), Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma, ca. 1960s. (Source: Beryl Ford Collection/Rotary Club of Tulsa, Tulsa City-County Library and Tulsa Historical Society, Tulsa, Oklahoma.) [PAR] The architecture of Oral Roberts University reified the so-called electronic church in America—the collection of religious radio, television, and now online ministries dominated by Christian evangelicals. While the electronic church ostensibly existed in radio waves and satellite transmissions, radio evangelists and televangelists in the 1960s through the 1980s realized [End Page 381] ambitious architectural programs—including Robert Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral in California, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Heritage USA theme park in South Carolina, and Pat Robertson’s Regent University in Virginia—that located the electronic church in real space. 4 Oral Roberts University was a particularly successful realization of the electronic church in two principal ways. First, the campus was the site of the very production of Roberts’s electronic ministries, providing interior studio space and exterior stage sets. Second, the architecture of the campus itself symbolized the technological production and transmission of Roberts

In which decade was the Oral Roberts University founded at Tulsa?

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[DOC] [TLE] Inside Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD ...Inside Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) - Budapest Airport - Ferihegy Airport - YouTube [PAR] Inside Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) - Budapest Airport - Ferihegy Airport [PAR] Want to watch this again later? [PAR] Sign in to add this video to a playlist. [PAR] Need to report the video? [PAR] Sign in to report inappropriate content. [PAR] Rating is available when the video has been rented. [PAR] This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. [PAR] Published on Oct 19, 2014 [PAR] Budapest Airport international departures. We are at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) or formerly called Budapest Ferihegy International Airport or just Ferihegy, located in Budapest Hungary. We are on our way home back to Copenhagen after a long weekend stay in Budapest the capital of Hungary. [PAR] Our video footage begins at the main international departures terminal where we have just arrived from the city by taxi. Inside the terminal we arrive at a "smallish" check in area where there are both human Check-In personal and Check-In machines. Our flight to Copenhagen was with SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) and there was unfortunately not an option for Self Check-In of SAS flights on the Self Service Check In Machine. We therefore had to wait for a check-in counter to open for SAS which was in one hour after our arrival. We therefore opted to move to a coffee shop in the Check-In area and have a coffee whilst we waited for the Scandinavian Airlines Check In Desk to open. It was very noteworthy and nostalgic to see that Budapest Airport is still using the very old Flight information boards, which took you back to the nostalgic 70´s and 80´s airport atmosphere. Following our Check-In we passed through customs and immediately found ourselves walking in the Tax Free Shopping area. The products available for sale included the normal perfumes, alcohol, chocolates & candies normally available at Tax Free shops in airports and also included a large section of Hungarian specialties! After the tax free area you walk into the huge main international terminal full of light thanks to it´s huge windows offering a view of the sky and the aircraft gate area and runways! This area is two levels, the bottom area is the waiting area with shops and the second level is where the airports Food Court lies! It is in this main international departures area passengers wait until information is given on which gate their flight will be departing from. From this area we walked to our gate. The Gate areas still offer a limited selection of shopping opportunities (before your flight) and also a limited selection of cafe´s/restaurants or fast food store! [PAR] Wiki writes about Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport , " Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (Hungarian: Budapest Liszt Ferenc Nemzetközi Repülőtér) (IATA: BUD, ICAO: LHBP), formerly known as Budapest Ferihegy International Airport and still commonly called just Ferihegy, is the international airport serving the Hungarian capital city of Budapest, and by far the largest of the country's four commercial airports. The airport is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) east-southeast of the centre of Budapest and was renamed in honor of Ferenc Liszt on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth..." [PAR] This airport was officially renamed Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, in honour of the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt (Modern Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc.)- [PAR] Wiki writes about Franz Liszt, "Franz Liszt, was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, teacher and Franciscan tertiary... Liszt gained renown in Europe during the early nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age, and in the 1840s he was considered to be the greatest pianist of all time. Liszt was also a well-known and influential composer, piano teacher and conductor. He was a benefactor to other composers, including Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg and Alexander Borodin..." [PAR] Wiki writes about Budapest, "Budapest /ˈbuːdəpɛst/ (Hungarian: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt] ( listen);

Ferihegy international airport is in which country?

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[DOC] [TLE] MAN IN THE NEWS - Boris V. Gromov - Afghanistan - Last Man ...MAN IN THE NEWS - Boris V. Gromov - Afghanistan - Last Man Out - NYTimes.com [PAR] MAN IN THE NEWS: Boris V. Gromov; Afghanistan: Last Man Out [PAR] By BILL KELLER, Special to the New York Times [PAR] Published: February 16, 1989 [PAR] MOSCOW, Feb. 15— Soviet officials had repeatedly vowed that their men would not leave Afghanistan in disarray, like the last Americans clambering onto helicopters from the roof of their embassy as Saigon fell around them. [PAR] This morning, at least, Lieut. Gen. Boris V. Gromov did not disappoint them. The trim 45-year-old commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan hopped off his armored personnel carrier and strode calmly across the bridge to Soviet territory, where he was met by a Soviet television crew. [PAR] General Gromov has probably enhanced an already meteoric career by neatly executing one of the most difficult, though not the most satisfying, of military maneuvers: retreat. [PAR] He extricated more than 100,000 soldiers from a costly and unsuccessful nine-year venture in Afghanistan with the kind of self-confident flare much admired in the Kremlin of Mikhail S. Gorbachev. To Head Military District [PAR] Backtracking gracefully is a skill likely to be much in demand in a military that has entered a period of retrenchment. [PAR] The official press agency Tass reported today that after more than five years in Afghanistan General Gromov would assume command of the Kiev military district, one of 16 regional subdivisions of the Soviet armed forces. [PAR] In the face of growing domestic criticism of the war, General Gromov has steadfastly maintained that the military fulfilled its duty completely, while acknowledging that Afghanistan exposed major inadequacies in the Soviet Army, especially training in countering guerrilla tactics. [PAR] At a news conference in Kabul last May, as the first stage of the withdrawal was beginning, the general bristled at a suggestion that the return home meant failure. Withdrawal 'Not a Defeat' [PAR] ''The troop withdrawal is not a defeat; it is the completion of an internationalist mission and the fulfillment of the Geneva accords,'' he said. ''None of our units, even the smallest one, have ever retreated. That is why there is no talk of a military defeat.'' [PAR] He has never publicly judged the political decision to send the troops into Afghanistan in December 1979. [PAR] ''He seemed to be a no-nonsense guy with a good head for the political significance of his command,'' said a Bush Administration official who follows Afghan affairs closely. [PAR] While Soviet diplomats tried to create suspense about the Soviets' intentions, hoping this would put pressure on the guerrillas to settle, this official observed, General Gromov was never coy about plans to meet the withdrawal deadlines. Father Killed in World War II [PAR] Recently the general vowed that the Soviet Union would not send bombers from Soviet air bases to help the Afghan Army after the withdrawal, and although other officials have since obscured the issue, American officials are inclined to believe General Gromov. [PAR] Boris Vsevelodovich Gromov was born on Nov. 7, 1943, to a working-class family in the city of Saratov, on the Volga River. His father was killed a few months later fighting Nazi invaders on the Dnieper River. [PAR] He entered the Suvorov Military Academy in 1962 and was a company commander by the age of 24. After attending the Frunze Military Academy, he went on to a variety of command and staff appointments, including a tour as a colonel in Afghanistan in 1980. [PAR] A rapid series of promotions made him a major general at the age of 39. Back to Afghanistan [PAR] After studying at the Voroshilov General Staff Academy, he returned to Afghanistan in 1984 as the commander of forces there, Tass reported. [PAR] He was awarded the highest military honor, Hero of the Soviet Union, for commanding an operation to end the siege of the eastern garrison town of Khost in January 1988. He is credited with developing tactics for use against guerrillas. [PAR] General Gromov told Tass that his wife died in a 1985 air crash in the Carpathian Mountains. He has two sons, one of

General Boris Gromov was the last Soviet soldier to leave where in 1989?

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[DOC] [TLE] Aaron Copland's <i>Rodeo</i> at American Ballet TheatreAaron Copland's <i>Rodeo</i> at American Ballet Theatre [PAR] Aaron Copland's Rodeo at American Ballet Theatre [PAR] Now Playing: High Quality 16:9 (480x270, 820Kbps) [PAR] Play Medium Quality 16:9 (320x180, 400kbps) [PAR] Views: 4353 [PAR] On October 16, 1942, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo premiered Agnes de Mille's Rodeo at the Metropolitan Opera House. Frederic Franklin was cast as the Champion Roper in the original production opposite Agnes de Mille as the Cowgirl. [PAR] This Fall, American Ballet Theatre celebrates the 70th Anniversary of de Mille's famous Western love story with a special anniversary performance of Rodeo on October 16 at New York City Center - 70 years to the day of Rodeo's World Premiere. Here, Frederic Franklin recounts that first performance and discusses a notable turning point in Rodeo's creation. [PAR] Rodeo will be performed on October 16, 18 and 20 as part of ABT's 2012 Fall Season at New York City Center. [PAR] Featured Clips[DOC] [TLE] Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin - Copland ...Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin - Copland Rodeo, Dance Panels, El salón México, Danzón c by HIGHRESAUDIO - issuu [PAR] RODEO • DANCE PANELS • EL SALÓN MÉXICO • DANZÓN CUBANO [PAR] –4– [PAR] orchestra be a small one, and Copland obliged by utilizing what is essentially a chamber ensemble with only six woodwinds and five brass. Then, a curious thing happened. Copland played the score on the piano for Robbins who went into rehearsal right away, but when he began working with the company he could not remember the music – only the rhythmic counts – and became captivated by what the dancers were doing without the music. So it was that he continued in this vein and did not use Copland’s score at all. As Robbins later recalled, “I was sorry I wasn’t able to do Dance Panels, but in a very real way, Aaron’s music was the accidental genesis of my ballet without music, Moves.” Nothing more happened until 1962, when the Bavarian State Opera in Munich asked Copland if they could mount the work as part of the celebrations surrounding the opening of their new house that November. [PAR] AARON COPLAND: [PAR] RODEO • DANCE PANELS • EL SALÓN MÉXICO • DANZÓN CUBANO [PAR] Copland was asked to conduct the performance, and although he and the Opera’s management tried to get Robbins to do the choreography, he declined to do so. Two other choreographers were approached, including Eugene Loring (who had done the original production of Billy the Kid), but nothing worked out. Finally, Heinz Rosen, the music director of the Opera, decided to stage it himself, and brought in two principals outside the company, one from the New York City Ballet and the other from the Paris Opera. Unfortunately, a whole string of problems ensued which undermined the performance, which was not a success, and as Copland sadly wrote in his diary, “Somebody, some day will make a good ballet out of the piece – it’s so very danceable, but I’m afraid it’s a lost cause here.” In 1965 the New York City Ballet mounted a version of the ballet with a bizarre story line under the title Shadow’d Ground, but it found no favor with audience or critics. Because of the fact there was no plot to the original, and because it is marvelously wellconstructed, Dance Panels works beautifully as a concert work, and with the original title was given its first performance in this way as part of the Ojai Festival in California in –5– [PAR] May of 1966 conducted by Ingolf Dahl. The work consists of seven contrasting sections, each one of which has its own individual character, and the first and last sections which mirror each other are slow, quiet waltzes. [PAR] El Salón México (1932, rev. 1936) During a visit to Germany in 1927, Copland wrote to a friend, “It seems a long time since anyone has written an España or a Boléro – the kind of brilliant piece that everyone loves.” It was almost 10 years before he produced El Salón México, but it quickly became one

In what year was the first performance of Copland's ballet Rodeo?

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[DOC] [TLE] Gene Kelly Biography - life, family, childhood, children ...Gene Kelly Biography - life, family, childhood, children, school, mother, son, information, born, college [PAR] Gene Kelly Biography [PAR] Beverly Hills, California [PAR] American dancer, actor, and choreographer [PAR] Although Gene Kelly established his reputation as an actor and a dancer, his contribution to the Hollywood, California, musical also includes choreography (creating dances) and movie direction. [PAR] Athletic childhood [PAR] Eugene Curran Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 23, 1912, the middle son of five children. His father was Canadian-born and loved sports, especially hockey. Every winter Kelly Sr. would flood the family backyard and make an ice rink for hockey. [PAR] Kelly Jr. later credited hockey for some of his dance steps, which he described as "wide open and close to the ground." At fifteen Kelly played with a semiprofessional ice hockey team. He also played football, baseball, and participated in gymnastics. [PAR] Turns to dancing [PAR] Kelly's other major influence was his mother, who loved the theater. She was the one who sent him to dancing lessons. At first Kelly did not want to continue with his dance lessons because the other students made fun of him. But then he discovered that the girls liked a boy who could dance, so he decided to stick with the lessons. [PAR] In 1929 Kelly left for Pennsylvania State College, but because of the Great Depression, his family lost their money. The Great Depression (1929–39) was a time of worldwide economic trouble that led to global unemployment and poverty. Kelly had to move back home and attend the University of Pittsburgh in order to save the cost of room and board. While at the university, Kelly worked at a variety of odd jobs to pay his tuition: he dug ditches, worked at a soda fountain, and pumped gas. Kelly's mother began to work as a receptionist at a local dance school. She came up with the idea of the family running its own dance studio. They did and the studio was a big success. [PAR] After Kelly graduated from the University of Pittsburgh he taught dance for another six years. In 1937 he left for New York City. He believed that he was talented enough to find work and he was right. He got a job in theater his first week in New York. Kelly's big break came in 1940, when he was cast as the lead in the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey. [PAR] Goes to Hollywood [PAR] Producers from Hollywood saw the show in New York and offered Kelly a contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). He worked for MGM for the next sixteen years. His first Hollywood film was For Me and My Gal (1942), in which he starred opposite Judy Garland (1922–1969). Garland was only twenty, but already a major star. She had seen Kelly's work and insisted that Kelly have the role. She tutored (taught) him how to act for the movies. [PAR] Kelly made a breakthrough with Cover Girl (1944). At one point in the film, his character dances with a mirror image of himself. It caught all the critics' attention. Kelly told Interview magazine, "[That is] when I began to see that you could make dances for cinema that weren't just photographed stage dancing. That was my big insight into Hollywood, and Hollywood's big insight into me." [PAR] Gene Kelly.[DOC] [TLE] Climbing up Gene Kelly’s Family Tree | What's Past is PrologueClimbing up Gene Kelly’s Family Tree | What's Past is Prologue [PAR] What's Past is Prologue [PAR] September 3, 2010 by Donna Pointkouski [PAR] This month’s COG (for which I am late…the dog ate my homework, Teacher Jasia!) asked us to Research From Scratch by starting a search on someone else’s family tree.   When I began my own family research about 21 years

What was Gene Kelly's middle name?

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[DOC] [TLE] Articles about Terry Waite by Date - Page 5 ...Articles about Terry Waite by Date - Page 5 - tribunedigital-chicagotribune [PAR] Gentle Giant Takes On Terrorists [PAR] By Ray Moseley, Chicago Tribune | November 24, 1985 [PAR] The British press sometimes refers to Terry Waite as the Henry Kissinger of the Church of England. Like the former U.S. secretary of state, Waite seems forever to be hopping aboard planes and flying to distant countries to perform miracles of diplomacy. Waite, 46, personal assistant to Dr. Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Church of England, has two "missions impossible" to his credit in four years--getting Britons freed from jails in Iran and Libya. [PAR] Advertisement [PAR] Back In Beirut, Church Envoy Uses Summit As Bargaining Tool [PAR] By Liz Sly, Special to The Tribune | November 20, 1985 [PAR] Church of England envoy Terry Waite returned to Beirut Tuesday evening, saying he had "important things to say" to the kidnapers of four American hostages in Lebanon. Shortly after his arrival, the representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury issued an impassioned plea for the release of all hostages in Lebanon--Italian, British, American, French and Lebanese--to coincide with the summit meeting in Geneva between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. This would "show Islam and this country in their true glory," he said. [PAR] NEWS [PAR] Envoy Tells `Hope` For 6 Hostages [PAR] By Liz Sly, Special to The Tribune | November 18, 1985 [PAR] Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite left Beirut abruptly Sunday, saying he was going to meet with members of the Reagan administration to pursue his efforts to rescue six Americans held hostage in Lebanon. During a stopover in Rome on his way to London and possibly the United States, Waite said his assessment of the situation was both "hopeful and dangerous." "I`d like to say to families of the hostages that I am hopeful, I haven`t lost hope at all. I`d like to ask them to continue to maintain hope and be as cheerful as possible under these circumstances." [PAR] NEWS [PAR] Contact With Beirut Kidnapers Reported [PAR] By Liz Sly, Special to The Tribune | November 17, 1985 [PAR] Hopes were raised Saturday for a breakthrough in the U.S. hostage affair in Lebanon with the announcement by Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite that he has established contact with the kidnapers of the four Americans and is to hold a "face-to-face meeting" with them. In a brief statement, the lay representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury said he had refrained from arranging a meeting until he was sure he was dealing with the right group. He put certain questions to his intermediary that could only be answered by one of the hostages. [PAR] NEWS [PAR] Envoy Tells Progress In Hostage Mission [PAR] By Liz Sly, Special to The Tribune | November 15, 1985 [PAR] Terry Waite, the envoy of the archbishop of Canterbury, said Thursday that he had made contact with the kidnapers of four American hostages in Beirut and that the next stage is a "face-to-face" meeting. Waite spoke at an impromptu press conference aimed at persuading journalists and cameramen to leave him alone. "I`d like to make a particular plea that I`m not to be followed by anybody because if that happens, it will jeopardize my own safety and that of other people," he told foreign newsmen at the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut.[DOC] [TLE] BRITON TO MEET WITH BEIRUT CAPTORS OF AMERICANSBRITON TO MEET WITH BEIRUT CAPTORS OF AMERICANS - NYTimes.com [PAR] BRITON TO MEET WITH BEIRUT CAPTORS OF AMERICANS [PAR] By IHSAN A. HIJAZI, Special to the New York Times [PAR] Published: November 17, 1985 [PAR] BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov. 16— Terry Waite, a special representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury, said today that he had made arrangements to talk directly with the captors of four Americans held in Lebanon. [PAR] The British mediator said in a statement distributed here to news organizations that he had decided to take the step after he became ''reasonably certain'' that he ''was dealing with the right people.'' [PAR] Reporters and television crews had gathered

In 1985 Terry Waite returned to Beirut after securing the release of four British hostages where?

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[DOC] [TLE] Bosnia Civil War 1992-1995 - OnWar.comBosnia Civil War 1992-1995 [PAR] The Bosnian Civil War 1992-1995 [PAR] [ 1992 - 1995 ] [PAR] Beginning several months later than fighting in the republics of Slovenia and Croatia, the Bosnian civil war was the most brutal chapter in the breakup of Yugoslavia. On February 29, 1992, the multi-ethnic republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs, and Muslim Slavs lived side by side, passed a referendum for independence -- but not all Bosnian Serbs agreed. Under the guise of protecting the Serb minority in Bosnia, Serbian leaders like Slobodan Milosevic (1941-) channeled arms and military support to them. In spring 1992, for example, the federal army, dominated by Serbs, shelled Croats and Muslims in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. Foreign governments responded with sanctions (not always tightly enforced) to keep fuel and weapons from Serbia, which had (in April 1992) joined the republic of Montenegro in a newer, smaller Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serb guerrillas carried out deadly campaigns of "ethnic cleansing," massacring members of other ethnic groups or expelling them from their homes to create exclusively Serb areas. Attacks on civilians and international relief workers disrupted supplies of food and other necessities just when such aid was most crucial: in what became the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II, millions of Bosnians (and Croatians) had been driven from their homes by July 1992. Alarmed by ethnic cleansing and other human rights abuses (which Croats and Muslims also engaged in, though to a lesser extent than did the Serbs), the United Nations resolved to punish such war crimes. In early 1994 the fierce three-way fighting became a war between two sides. In February and March the Muslims and Croats in Bosnia called a truce and formed a confederation, which in August agreed to a plan (developed by the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Germany) for a 51-49 split of Bosnia, with the Serbs getting the lesser percentage. Despite the Muslim-Croat alliance, the peace proposal, and an ongoing arms embargo against all combatants (an embargo criticized abroad for maintaining Bosnian Serb dominance in weaponry), the fighting did not stop. In 1994 and 1995 Bosnian Serbs massacred residents in Sarajevo, Srebenica, and other cities that the United Nations had in May 1993 deemed "safe havens" for Muslim civilians. Neither NATO air strikes (beginning in April 1994) nor the cutoff of supplies from Serbia (as of August 1994) nor the cutoff of supplies from Serbia (as of August 1994) deterred the Bosnian Serbs, who blocked convoys of humanitarian aid and detained some of the 24,000 UN troops intended to stop hostilities. Like their allies in Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs wanted to unite all Serb-held lands of the former Yugoslavia. By September 1995, however, the Muslim-Croat alliance's conquests had reduced Serb-held territory in Bosnia from over two-thirds to just under one-half -- the percentage allocated in the peace plan for the Serb autonomous region. On December 14, 1995, the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia signed the Dayton peace accords, officially ending the wars in Bosnia and Croatia after about 250,000 people had died and more than 3 million others became refugees. NATO troops numbering 60,000 entered Bosnia to enforce the accords. In early 1998 about 30,000 NATO peacekeepers were still in Bosnia, which remained scarred by war and divided between the Muslim-Croat confederation and the Bosnian Serb region. Dozens of suspected war criminals had been indicted by the UN tribunal, including Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (1945-) (who had resigned in June 1996), although many had not been arrested or tried.[DOC] [TLE] The Bosnian War - Mount Holyoke CollegeUntitled Document [PAR] Bosnia's Official Webpage Bosnian War Center for Balkan Development Timeline of the Bosnian War Dayton Accords (US State Dept) Bosnian Genocide Case [PAR] Major Causes of the War [PAR] Essentially, the Bosnian war was fought because Serbs and Croats living in Bosnia wanted to annex Bosnian territory for Serbia and Croatia respectively. There were several mitigating factors in addition to ethnic tensions. The Nationalist leader of Serbia,

Who became leader of the Bosnian Serbs in 1992?

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[DOC] [TLE] Anthony Blunt | Bletchley ParkAnthony Blunt | Bletchley Park [PAR] Bletchley Park [PAR] Anthony Blunt [PAR] October 5, 2009 by bletchleyadmin [PAR] Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire – 26 March 1983, Westminster, London), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO between 1956 and 1979, was a British spy, art historian, Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (1947-74), and Surveyor of the King’s Pictures (1945-72). [PAR] Blunt was an acclaimed art critic and the “Fourth Man” of the Cambridge Five, a group of traitors and spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s. [PAR] Blunt was born in Bournemouth, the third and youngest son of a vicar, the Revd (Arthur) Stanley Vaughan Blunt (1870–1929) and his wife, Hilda Violet (1880–1969), daughter of Henry Master of the Madras civil service.  He was the brother of writer Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt and of numismatist Christopher Evelyn Blunt, and the grandnephew of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt. [PAR] Blunt is frequently spoken of as a distant relative of Queen Mary (Mary of Teck) – generally Prince Michael of Hesse is given as their common cousin – however, the exact lineage is never produced.  He was, however, demonstrably a cousin of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the late Queen Mother, through his mother, Hilda V. Master, daughter of John Henry Master, son of Frances Mary Smith, sister of Oswald Smith, father of Frances Dora Smith, mother of Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon, making Blunt and the Queen Mother third cousins, by common descent from George Smith and his wife Frances Mary Mosley. [PAR] He was educated at Marlborough College, where he joined the College’s secret ‘Society of Amici’, in which he was a contemporary of Louis MacNeice (whose unfinished autobiography The Strings are False contains numerous references to Blunt), John Betjeman and Graham Shepard.  He later read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and earned his first degree in that subject.  But he switched to Modern Languages, eventually graduating in 1930, to become a teacher of French.  He became a Fellow of the college in 1932, and was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society which at that time was largely Marxist, formed from members (students, alumni, and professors) of Cambridge University. [PAR] After visiting the Soviet Union in 1933, Blunt was recruited in 1934 by the NKVD.  A committed Communist, Blunt was recruited by his student Guy Burgess at Cambridge although there is reason to believe that Blunt, the older, was control.  He joined the British Army in 1939 and in 1940 was recruited to MI5, the military intelligence department.  He passed on ULTRA intelligence from decrypted Enigma intercepts to the Soviet Union.  He reached the rank of major. [PAR] As World War II was ending, Blunt successfully undertook a special mission to the defeated Germany on behalf of the British Royal Family, to recover incriminating letters written by the Duke of Windsor to Adolf Hitler.  The mission may have also recovered the so-called ‘Vicky Letters’, between Queen Victoria and some of her German relatives. [PAR] Following the defection in May 1951 of fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Duart Maclean to the Soviet Union, Blunt came under suspicion as well.  He had been a close, longtime friend of Burgess, from their time at Cambridge. Maclean was in imminent danger of being unmasked as a spy by decryptions from VENONA.  Blunt was interrogated by MI5 in 1952, but gave little, if anything, away.  Blunt was knighted in 1956 by the British Government for his work for MI5. [PAR] In January 1964, Arthur Martin from MI5 interviewed Michael Straight (later owner and editor of The New Republic and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts), an American who had studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and who had become friends there with Blunt

What was the official occupation of Sir Anthony Blunt who was unmasked as a Soviet spy in 1979?

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[DOC] [TLE] Former Supermodel Rachel Hunter looking less than super ...Former Supermodel Rachel Hunter looking less than super   - NY Daily News [PAR] Former Supermodel Rachel Hunter looking less than super... but much better than ex-Rod Stewart! [PAR] Former Supermodel Rachel Hunter looking less than super   [PAR] NEW YORK DAILY NEWS [PAR] Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 5:00 PM [PAR] Rachel Hunter looks like she’s heading to the beach — let’s hope she doesn’t run into former flame Rod Stewart . [PAR] The one-time supermodel was recently snapped in a skimpy bandeau top and flowy trousers — a far cry from the string bikinis she once wore in the pages of Sports Illustrated magazine — but a modest choice. [PAR] Hunter, 42, appeared less than polished in the photos, as she clutched a canvas tote to her chest and ran a hand through her hair, but at least she was dressed — which is more than one can say for Stewart. [PAR] RAF/ZOJ/Mandatory Credit: WENN.com [PAR] Paparazzi recently caught the 67-year-old British rocker letting it all hang out in a tiny blue Speedo, on vacation with his family in Miami. [PAR] Hunter and Stewart married in 1990. While they announced their split in 1999, they weren’t officially divorced until 2006. [PAR] rmurray@nydailynews.com [PAR] MiamiPIXX/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES/MiamiPIXX/FAMEFLYNET PICTURES [PAR] Singer Rod Stewart enjoys the beach of Miami, Florida with his current wife Penny Lancaster and son Alastair on Aug. 7.[DOC] [TLE] Not-So-Hot Rod : People.comNot-So-Hot Rod [PAR] Not-So-Hot Rod [PAR] Email [PAR] Not long before Christmas, Rod Stewart was in his usual corner in the Theydon Oak, a pub near his home in Epping, outside of London. But the normally easygoing British rocker, who’s not averse to enjoying a pint with the lads, seemed lonely enough to sing the blues. “He looked pretty unhappy,” says James Lange, 23, a local resident who frequents the pub. Says another patron: “I got the impression he was on his own in the mansion. That must have been pretty depressing.” [PAR] By last week, Stewart was hunkered down in a second estate, this one in Beverly Hills, but his winter remained bleak. On Jan. 7 the 54-year-old rock star and his second wife, New Zealand-born model Rachel Hunter, 29, announced that they were separating after eight years. Stewart, denying to the British press that the marriage had unraveled because of any infidelity, said it was Hunter’s decision to move out and “find herself” as a person. “I was so sure she was the woman I was going to spend the rest of my life with,” he added. “I hope and pray with all my heart that she will eventually come back.” [PAR] He may have reason to believe she will. Hunter and their two children—Renee, 6, and Liam, 4—are staying near Stewart in L.A., and the couple meet daily to discuss their differences, which surfaced before the holidays. Celebrating their eighth wedding anniversary Dec. 15 in a London restaurant, says one witness, the two seemed “very cheerful.” But by the time they left, to the scrutiny of waiting paparazzi, they were publicly rowing. And the next evening, Hunter caught Stewart flirting with her friend Andrea Trevor at the Dorchester Hotel, where the couple were staying. Stewart’s brother Don, 68, a retired accountant, had noticed Hunter’s absence from Rod’s recent U.K. concerts. “I only saw her once out of 12 shows,” he says. [PAR] Stewart’s ex-fiancée Dee Harrington is not surprised. “Rachel,” says Harrington, who was engaged to Stewart between 1971 and ’75, “got bored with Rod,” whom Harrington characterizes as a perennial “lad” with a penchant for drinking with his mates and pursuing women. These have included Swedish actress Britt Ekland, now 56, who ended up suing him for $15 million in palimony in 1978 (her case was dismissed); first wife Alana Stewart, 53, with whom he had Kimberly, 19, and Sean

Which supermodel was married to Rod Stewart?

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[DOC] [TLE] WINNIE'S FAMOUS SPEECH "A CALL FOR ... - justice.gov.zaSAPA - 28 Nov 97 - WINNIE'S FAMOUS SPEECH "A CALL FOR KILLIING COLLABORATORS" [PAR] JOHANNESBURG Nov 28 - SAPA-AP [PAR] WINNIE'S FAMOUS SPEECH "A CALL FOR KILLIING COLLABORATORS" [PAR] Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's most famous speech, in which she said anti-apartheid activists would use the gruesome "necklace" method of killing to liberate South Africa, was in effect a call to kill police collaborators in black townships, one of her former colleagues said Friday. [PAR] Murphy Morobe, a top black activist in the 1980s, said under questioning before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the 1986 call by President Nelson Mandela's ex-wife was likely interpreted by township activists to use violence against perceived informers. [PAR] "In a sense, in that environment, that interpretation is one of the most probable ones," Morobe said. [PAR] In her speech, Madikizela-Mandela said "with our boxes of matches and our necklaces we will liberate this country." She referred to the method of killing in which victims had a tire placed around their neck, were doused with gasoline and set on fire. [PAR] Stompie Seipei, a 14-year-old activist accused of being an informer, was killed after being abducted by Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards and beaten at her house in late 1988. [PAR] The chief bodyguard, Jerry Richardson, was convicted of killing Seipei and is serving a life prison sentence. Tony Richard, a lawyer representing Richardson before the Truth Commission, asked Morobe about the 1986 speech in an effort to show that killing informers was sanctioned by Madikizela-Mandela. [PAR] A series of witnesses have detailed killings, beatings, torture and other atrocities allegedly committed by Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards, known as the Mandela United Football Club, in the late 1980s in the Soweto black township. [PAR] The commission is investigating 18 human rights abuses allegedly linked to the bodyguards and Madikizela-Mandela, 63, who was divorced last year and took back her maiden name, Madikizela, with her married name. [PAR] While the commission lacks the power to press criminal charges, it can pass on evidence to police for an investigation. [PAR] Madikizela-Mandela has always denied any guilt for the longstanding accusations against her. Dressed in a black-and-white outfit with three strands of pearls and gold jewelry, she showed little emotion on Friday, the fifth day of the hearing, as lawyers cross-examined Morobe and another longtime activist, Azar Cachalia. [PAR] Cachalia, now a top official in the Safety and Security Ministry, on Thursday made the strongest statement to date by any former colleague of Madikizela-Mandela, accusing her of sanctioning and even participating human rights abuses. [PAR] He was a member of an anti-apartheid movement that publicly distanced itself from Madikizela-Mandela in 1989, after Seipei's death and other crimes blamed on the bodyguard unit. [PAR] Cachalia received a loud ovation Thursday when he called for anyone convicted of gross human rights abuses to be barred from public office. Madikizela-Mandela was convicted of kidnapping and being an accessory to assault in 1991 in the case involving Seipei and three other young men. Initially sentenced to six years in jail, she eventually paid a dlrs 3,200 fine on appeal. [PAR] On Friday, Cachalia said he wasn't referring specifically to Madikizela-Mandela in his call the day before. He also agreed the South African Constitution, which bans people who have been sentenced to prison for 12 months or more for a human rights abuse from holding public office, covered the matter. [PAR] Madikizela-Mandela is running for deputy president of the governing African National Congress next month and if successful, could become deputy president of the country after the next national election in 1999. Because her prison sentence was wiped out on appeal, she would avoid the constitutional ban. [PAR] The testimony of Cachalia and Morobe showed the split that developed in the anti-apartheid movement over Madikizela-Mandela and her bodyguards. The mainstream ANC leadership, including Mandela, opposes her bid for the party leadership post. [PAR] Mandela was in prison when the Seipei murder and other crimes occurred. He was released in 1990

Which famous name was accused f the abduction of Stompie Seipei?

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[DOC] [TLE] The Straight Dope: Who invented the term "rock 'n' roll"?The Straight Dope: Who invented the term "rock 'n' roll"? [PAR] A Straight Dope Classic from Cecil's Storehouse of Human Knowledge [PAR] Who invented the term "rock 'n' roll"? [PAR] February 28, 1986 [PAR] Dear Cecil: [PAR] With all the recent furor over the location of the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, we all need to know: when, where, and by whom was the term "rock 'n' roll music" invented? [PAR] — DMc, Alexandria, Virginia [PAR] Cecil replies: [PAR] Depends what you mean by "invent." The term was first used to describe a particular kind of music by Alan Freed, the legendary Cleveland disc jockey who was among the first to introduce black rhythm-and-blues music to a white audience. But the roots of the term go back much earlier. [PAR] In the 1920s the words "rock" and "roll," used separately or together, were employed by black people to mean partying, carrying on, and/or having sex. According to rock historian Nick Tosches, blues singer Trixie Smith recorded a tune in 1922 called "My Daddy Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)" for Black Swan Records. "Daddy," suffice it to say, wasn't trying to rock little Trixie to sleep. This song inspired such variations as "Rock That Thing" by Lil Johnson and "Rock Me Mama" by Ikey Robinson. [PAR] By the 1930s the term had begun to be associated with the idea of music with a good beat to it. In 1931 Duke Ellington did "Rockin' in Rhythm" for Victor. The Boswell Sisters did a song called "Rock and Roll" in the 1934 United Artists flick Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round. In 1939 Buddy Jones recorded "Rockin' Rollin' Mama" (String), in which he soulfully shouted, "I love the way you rock and roll!" But rockin' and rollin' didn't really catch on until 1948, when Wynonie Harris released "Good Rockin' Tonight" (King). An earlier version by Roy Brown (Deluxe, 1947) had bombed, but Wynonie's cover became a number one hit. That was the beginning of a flood of tunes that worked "rock" into the title, such as Bill Haley's "Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie" (1952), which contained the deathless words "Rock, rock, rock, everybody/Roll, roll, roll, everybody." [PAR] In 1952 Alan Freed visited a Cleveland record store and learned that R&B records were being snapped up by white teenagers. Sensing the makings of something big, he changed the name of his popular music show on radio station WJW from "Record Rendezvous" to "Moon Dog's Rock 'n' Roll House Party" and began playing R&B tunes. Freed apparently used the term "rock 'n' roll" to describe the music because he thought the racial connotation of "rhythm and blues" might turn off the white audience. In any case, the term stuck. [PAR] Freed was the original high-energy, shout-along-with-the-record AM screamer, and his show, along with rock 'n' roll music, attracted a huge following. A rock 'n' roll show Freed promoted at Cleveland Stadium had to be canceled when the place was mobbed by thousands of fans. By 1954 Freed had moved to a late-night show on WINS in New York City, where he duplicated his earlier success. [PAR] On April 12, 1954, Bill Haley and the Comets recorded "Rock Around the Clock," a teen anthem generally credited with making rock 'n' roll a worldwide phenomenon. Initially the tune did poorly, but when it was chosen as the theme for the film Blackboard Jungle, it became a monster smash in just about every country where the movie played, selling 22 million copies in all. Meanwhile, down in Memphis, a redneck by the name of Elvis Aron Presley … but the rest you know

Who was credited with popularizing the term rock 'n' roll?

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[DOC] [TLE] Ivana Trump Biography - FandangoIvana Trump Biography | Fandango [PAR] Ivana Trump Biography [PAR] Filmography [PAR] Biography [PAR] Socialite Ivana Trump initially gained national recognition as the first wife of billionaire Donald Trump , to whom she was wed from 1977 to 1992. Born Ivana Marie Zelnickova in 1949, she grew up in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, just south of Prague, and established herself as a champion skier at an early age. After earning her masters in the dual arenas of physical education and languages, Ivana spent a number of years professionally coaching ski racers with then-paramour George Syrovatka in Montréal, Canada, then shifted gears and moved into modeling for the Audrey Morris agency during the 1970s -- a line of work that inadvertently brought her to New York City and introduced her to Donald Trump in 1976. The two married within a year and had three children: Ivanka Trump , Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump. [PAR] As Mrs. Trump, Ivana worked for many years as vice president of interior design for the Trump Organization. Following their much-publicized and ballyhooed divorce (an event that occupied an inordinate number of tabloid pages and headlines), she established two of her own companies, Ivana, Inc. and Ivana Haute Couture; graced numerous print advertisements for a plethora of brands; and significantly (like her ex-husband) moved into work as on-camera talent, as the subject of her own Lifetime network biography special, Intimate Portrait: Ivana Trump (2001) and the host of her own reality television special, Ivana Young Man on the Oxygen Channel. The program traveled behind the scenes to witness Trump guiding an affluent young socialite into marriage with the proper suitor. [PAR] — Nathan Southern, Rovi[DOC] [TLE] Ivana Trump Biography | Movies.comIvana Trump Biography | Movies.com [PAR] <img src=http://images.fandango.com/mdcsite/images/global/shim.gif class="spriteIcons arrowGreen" /> <a href=http://www.movies.com/dvd-movies/first-wives-club-dvd/m35435>Watch at Home</a> [PAR] Ivana Trump Biography [PAR] Awards [PAR] Socialite Ivana Trump initially gained national recognition as the first wife of billionaire [[Performer~P71941~Donald Trump~donaldtrump]], to whom she was wed from 1977 to 1992. Born Ivana Marie Zelnickova in 1949, she grew up in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, just south of Prague, and established herself as a champion skier at an early age. After earning her masters in the dual arenas of physical education and languages, Ivana spent a number of years professionally coaching ski racers with then-paramour George Syrovatka in Montréal, Canada, then shifted gears and moved into modeling for the Audrey Morris agency during the 1970s -- a line of work that inadvertently brought her to New York City and introduced her to [[Performer~P71941~Donald Trump~donaldtrump]] in 1976. The two married within a year and had three children: [[Performer~P355841~Ivanka Trump~ivankatrump]], Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump. [PAR] As Mrs. Trump, Ivana worked for many years as vice president of interior design for the Trump Organization. Following their much-publicized and ballyhooed divorce (an event that occupied an inordinate number of tabloid pages and headlines), she established two of her own companies, Ivana, Inc. and Ivana Haute Couture; graced numerous print advertisements for a plethora of brands; and significantly (like her ex-husband) moved into work as on-camera talent, as the subject of her own Lifetime network biography special, [[Feature~V336448~Intimate Portrait: Ivana Trump~intimateportrait:ivanatrump]] (2001) and the host of her own reality television special, [[Feature~V350864~Ivana Young Man~ivanayoungman]] on the Oxygen Channel. The program traveled behind the scenes to witness Trump guiding an affluent young socialite into marriage with the proper suitor. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi [PAR] Advertisement[DOC] [TLE] Ivana Trump on how she advises Donald — and those hands ...Ivana Trump on how she advises Donald — and those hands | New York Post [PAR] Ivana Trump on how she advises Donald — and those hands [PAR] Modal Trigger [PAR] It’s Ivana Trump’s fault that Donald didn’t run for president sooner. [PAR] “Probably five years before our

In which country was Ivana Trump born and brought up?

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[DOC] [TLE] The Beverly Hillbillies - 必应 - bing.comThe Beverly Hillbillies - 必应 [PAR] The Beverly Hillbillies. Follow. CBS (ended 1971) USER EDITOR. MacDeacon . Overview; ... Cousin Pearl convinces Jed he should move his family to Beverly Hills. So Jed [PAR] www.tv.com/shows/the-beverly-hillbillies [PAR] The Beverly Hillbillies is one of the funniest and most inspired TV comedies of all time! The show was ranked #1 and attracted as many as 60 million viewers per week! [PAR] www.youtube.com/show/thebeverlyhillbillies[DOC] [TLE] Jed Clampett - The Beverly Hillbillies Characters - ShareTVJed Clampett - The Beverly Hillbillies Characters - ShareTV [PAR] Buddy Ebsen began his career as a dancer in the late 1920s in a Broadway chorus. He later formed a vaudeville ... [PAR] Character Bio [PAR] Although he had received little formal education, Jed Clampett had a good deal of common sense. A good-natured man, he is the apparent head of the family. Jed's wife (Elly May's mother) died, but is referred to in the episode "Duke Steals A Wife" as Rose Ellen. Jed was shown to be an expert marksman and was extremely loyal to his family and kinfolk. The huge oil pool in the swamp he owned was the beginning of his rags-to-riches journey to Beverly Hills. Although he longed for the old ways back in the hills, he made the best of being in Beverly Hills. Whenever he had anything on his mind, he would sit on the curbstone of his mansion and whittle until he came up with the answer. Jedediah, the version of Jed's name used in the 1993 Beverly Hillbillies theatrical movie, was never mentioned in the original television series (though coincidentally, on Ebsen's subsequent series, Barnaby Jones, Barnaby's nephew J.R. was also named Jedediah). In one episode Jed and Granny reminisce about seeing Buddy Ebsen and Vilma Ebsen—a joking reference to the Ebsens' song and dance act. Jed appears in all 274 episodes. [PAR] Episode Screenshots[DOC] [TLE] The Beverly Hillbillies - TV.comThe Beverly Hillbillies - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com [PAR] The Beverly Hillbillies [PAR] EDIT [PAR] Jed Clampett and kin, a poor Ozark Hillbilly family, were barely surviving until one lucky day. Jed while hunting for food in his swamp missed his target and struck the ground with his shot. Up through the ground came a bubblin' crude, Oil that is, Black Gold, Texas Tea. [PAR] After selling his swamp to the OK Oil Company for $25 Million, Cousin Pearl convinces Jed he should move his family to Beverly Hills. So Jed, along with his gorgeous daughter Elly May, feisty mother-in-law Granny, and half-witted nephew Jethro, all head to this new land inhabited by movie stars and the well-off. [PAR] Jed and his family get to Beverly Hills, and their money goes into the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills, with President Mr. Drysdale. For the nine years the clan is in Beverly Hills, all kinds of things happen. They try to get their beautiful daughter Elly May married. Their nephew Jethro gets a high education, highest in the family - he completes school through the sixth grade. Granny has her fights with Mrs. Drysdale and gets romanced by various men. And Jed takes hold of a movie studio. They travel to New York, Washington, and England. They make silent movies. And they make a few good friends.moreless[DOC] [TLE] Beverly Hillbilly Genealogy - Google GroupsBeverly Hillbilly Genealogy - Google Groups [PAR] Beverly Hillbilly Genealogy [PAR] [ This is a repost of the following article:                               ] [PAR] [ From: Paul Reiser < le...@mtolympus.ari.net >                              ] [PAR] I've been trying to figure out the relationships between the 5 [PAR] characters on the Beverly Hillbillies (Jed, Ellie May, Granny, [PAR] Jethro, and Pearl) with the following facts or assumptions: [PAR] 1. No incest - people who are closer than 2nd cousins don't have [PAR]    children (ok, no wise remarks about hillbillies) [PAR] 2. Granny is Ellie May's grandmother [PAR] 3. Jed Clampett is Ellie May's father, and granny is his mother-in-law [PAR] 4. Jethro is Granny's grand-nephew (This was

What was the name of Jed's nephew in The Beverly Hillbillies?

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[DOC] [TLE] 1000+ images about Cheryl Miller /Daktari on Pinterest ...1000+ images about Cheryl Miller /Daktari on Pinterest | The lion, Lion and Veterinarians [PAR] Daktari | Dr Marsh Tracy, Clarence & Paula Tracy | Marshall Thompson & Cheryl Miller | ©CBS. Première diffusion : à partir du 25 août 1969. [PAR] See More[DOC] [TLE] Daktari - CrazyAboutTV.comDaktari [PAR] Daktari [PAR] Series Description [PAR] The Daktari TV show was a 60 minute, adventure/ drama series on CBS about a veterinarian and conservationist (Dr. Tracy) who ran an animal study station in Africa along with his daughter (Paula), an American (Jack Dane), and a native African guy. Perhaps the two most beloved characters were Paula's pets, "Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion" and the mischievious "Judy the Chimpanzee". [PAR] Daktari Cast [PAR] Marshall Thompson ............. Dr. Marsh Tracy [PAR] Cheryl Miller ................. Paula Tracy [PAR] Yale Summers .................. Jack Dane (1966-1968) [PAR] Ross Hagen .................... Bart Jason (1968-1969) [PAR] Erin Moran .................... Jenny Jones (1968-1969) [PAR] Daktari Trivia [PAR]      [PAR] Daktari was inspired by the 1965 theatrical movie titled, "Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion" and also by the career of Dr. A.M. "Toni" Harthoorn who operated an animal orphanage located in Nairobi, Kenya. Dr. Harthoorn was a staunch animal rights advocate. He also invented the "capture gun" which shoots darts to sedate animals so they could be captured for medical attention with a minimum of harm. [PAR] While Erin Moran is best known for her roles on the series " Happy Days " and it's " spin-off " series, " Joanie Loves Chachi ", her first major role was as "Jenny Jones" on Daktari. She played a seven-year-old orphan (although Erin was actually only five-years-old at the time) who was given a home by Dr. Tracy! In 2005, Erin came in at #71 on VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars List"! [PAR] Daktari is generally credited as having been filmed at "Africa USA" in Acton, California and at Greenwich Studios in Miami, Florida. This leads one to believe that there were no scenes shot in Africa itself. Daktari's producer, "Leonard B. Kaufman", however, made notes in the show's theme song musical score about having shot Daktari on location in Mozambique so it's likely that some scenes were shot there also. [PAR] Daktari is the Swahili word for "Doctor". [PAR] The animal study station run by Dr. Tracy was a fictional place named the, "Wameru Study Center for Animal Behavior" located in East Africa. [PAR] Daktari's creator and executive producer, "Ivan Tors" also produced the series, " Flipper (1964) " and " Men Into Space ", among others. [PAR] Episodes List With Original Air Dates [PAR] Daktari - The First Season [PAR] Adventure of the Lion Cubs (2/1/1966) [PAR] Trail of the Cheetah (2/8/1966) [PAR] Leopard of Madla Gorge (2/15/1966) [PAR] The Diamond Smugglers (3/1/1966) [PAR] The Chimp Who Went Ape (3/8/1966) [PAR] The Killer Dog (3/15/1966) [PAR] Return of the Killer - Part 1 (3/22/1966) [PAR] Return of the Killer - Part 2 (3/29/1966) [PAR] The Maneater of Wameru (4/5/1966) [PAR] Crisis at the Compound (4/12/1966) [PAR] The Hostages (4/19/1966) [PAR] Judy and the Hyena (4/26/1966) [PAR] Wall of Flames - Part 1 (5/3/1966) [PAR] Wall of Flames - Part 2 (5/10/1966) [PAR] Judy and the Gunrunners (5/17/1966) [PAR] Daktari - The Second Season [PAR] Judy's Hour Of Peril (10/4/1966) [PAR] Cheetah At Large (10/11/1966) [PAR] Death In The African Sun (11/15/1966) [PAR] Revenge Of The Leopard (11/22/1966) [PAR] Shoot To Kill (11/29/1966) [PAR] The Chimp Who Cried Wolf (12/27/1966) [PAR] Little Miss Nightingale (1/3/1967) [PAR] Judy And The Gorilla (1/10/1967) [PAR] House Of Lions (1/17/1967) [PAR] Terror In The Bush (2/7/1967) [PAR] Judy And The Baby Elephant (2/14/1967) [PAR] A Bullet For Hedley (2/21/1967) [PAR] Judy The Poacher (2/28/1967) [PAR] Judy And The Vulture (4/4/1967

What was the name of the vet in Daktari?

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[DOC] [TLE] Dorothy Parker - New World EncyclopediaDorothy Parker - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Dorothy Parker [PAR] New York , New York [PAR] Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American writer, poet, critic, and influential feminist . Her reputation is legendary, and she is known today as one of the most brilliant writers in American history. Her thoughts and ideas, presented in her characteristic style of illustrating human nature with caustic wit, revolutionized the way many people thought, especially women. Her humor is sometimes cruel, sometimes truthful, but always sarcastic. [PAR] Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, [PAR] A medley of extemporanea; [PAR] And love is a thing that can never go wrong; [PAR] And I am Marie of Roumania. [PAR] Contents [PAR] 10 Credits [PAR] Dorothy Parker, known to many as Dot or Dottie, had one of the most successful writing careers of any woman of her time. She served as a writer and editor for both Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines, along with writing many successful screenplays and television programs. She also published several articles in The New Yorker and had her own newspaper column called Constant Reader. Even with this success she suffered from severe depression and self criticism. Dorothy Parker is perhaps most recognized as one of the founders of the famous Algonquin Round Table group. [PAR] Early life [PAR] Dorothy Rothschild, (Dot or 'Dottie), was the fourth and final child born to Jacob Henry and Annie Eliza (Marston) Rothschild. The family had an apartment in Manhattan and a summer house in the West End district of Long Branch, New Jersey . Dorothy spent her first few weeks of life in the summer home, but claimed that her parents brought her back to the city right after Labor Day , so she could claim to be a true New Yorker. [PAR] The Rothchild family was not part of the famous Rothschilds' banking dynasty. Her father worked as a garment manufacturer and the small family was happy and content for the next four years, living on the Upper West Side. On July 20, 1898, Annie died suddenly, leaving behind the four children and a single father to care for them. Jacob was remarried two years later to Eleanor Francis Lewis. However, tragedy struck again when Eleanor died just three short years later from a heart-attack. Although Dorothy never particularly warmed to her stepmother in the short three years, it still caused a deep sense of sadness to be motherless once again. The children all suffered from these losses, as well as Jacob, himself. [PAR] Dorothy was sent to Roman Catholic elementary school at the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament. Many see this as an odd choice considering that her father was Jewish and her stepmother was Protestant . The school was harsh and she claims she never learned anything and felt guilt about everything. Dorothy went on to attend Miss Dana's School, a finishing school in Morristown, New Jersey. During these years, Dorothy was not encouraged to share her feelings, thus keeping them bottled up inside. This is thought to be one of the causes for her later episodes of depression. Her graduation from finishing school at 13 ended her formal education. [PAR] To add to this sad childhood, Dorothy's brother was a passenger on the RMS Titanic and was killed when the ship sank in 1912. The tragedies continued when her father died on December 28, 1913. Dorothy suffered from the effects of all of these deaths, often finding it hard to form solid bonds with people. These events also played a role in her battle with alcoholism. [PAR] Writing Career [PAR] Dorothy Parker felt ill prepared for the world of Manhattan that awaited her upon the completion of her limited schooling. Thus, she began earning money by playing piano at a local dancing school, along with other sporadic music jobs. In 1914 she sold her first poem to Vanity Fair, but her big break came in 1916, when Parker started submitting various poems to the editor of another Condé Nast magazine, Vogue. The editor was so impressed with young Dorothy's writings that a job was immediately offered to her. Dorothy worked as an editorial assistant at Vogue for the next year

What was Dorothy Parker's maiden name?

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[DOC] [TLE] Bea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star | The Seattle TimesBea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star | The Seattle Times [PAR] Bea Arthur, “Maude” “Golden Girls” star [PAR] Originally published April 26, 2009 at 12:00 am [PAR] Updated May 3, 2009 at 3:37 am [PAR] The cast members of the television series “Golden Girls” were clockwise from left, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White and Estelle Getty. [PAR] Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear's sitcom "Maude" and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running "The Golden Girls," died Saturday. She was 86. [PAR] Share story [PAR] Claudia Luther [PAR] LOS ANGELES — Beatrice Arthur, best known as the acerbic Maude Findlay on Norman Lear’s sitcom “Maude” and as the strong-willed Dorothy Zbornak on the long-running “The Golden Girls,” died Saturday. She was 86. [PAR] Ms. Arthur, a stage-trained actress who was a success on Broadway long before television audiences got to know her, died of cancer at her Los Angeles home, family spokesman Dan Watt said. [PAR] In 1966, the tall and husky-voiced actress won a Tony Award for her performance as Angela Lansbury’s sharp-tongued sidekick, Vera Charles, in the original production of “Mame” on Broadway, which also was named best musical that year. [PAR] Time magazine said of her performance, she “delivers a line as if someone had put lye in her martinis.” [PAR] Most Read Stories [PAR] Unlimited Digital Access. $1 for 4 weeks. [PAR] She had little experience in either film or TV when Lear saw her singing a song called “Garbage” in an Off-Broadway show, “The Shoestring Revue.” In 1971, Lear brought her to Hollywood for a guest role on CBS’ “All in the Family.” She played Edith Bunker’s loudmouthed cousin, Maude, who tangled with Edith’s equally loudmouthed husband, Archie Bunker, from opposite sides of the political fence. [PAR] Within a year, Ms. Arthur had her own show, “Maude,” which ran for six years on CBS. [PAR] In the series, Maude is living in Tuckahoe, N.Y., with her fourth husband, Walter Findlay (Bill Macy), daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau), grandson Phillip (Brian Morrison), and a black maid named Florida (Esther Rolle), whose sassy repartee with her boss was one of the best parts of “Maude.” (Rolle’s character spun off into another series, “Good Times.”) [PAR] “Maude” came at the onset of the feminist movement and addressed serious issues, including infidelity, death, depression and abortion, but there were always laughs. Maude’s most famous line, delivered often and with withering drollery, was: “God will get you for that, Walter.” [PAR] Playing Maude earned Ms. Arthur five Emmy nominations and a statuette in 1977. But, despite the show’s enormous success, Ms. Arthur did not enjoy being the public face of feminism, a role she said was thrust upon her. [PAR] “It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me,” she told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2001. [PAR] After she left “Maude,” she returned to TV briefly in 1983 for ABCs failed takeoff of the British series “Fawlty Towers,” titled “Amanda’s.” [PAR] She returned to television in triumph in 1985 as Dorothy, the divorcée on “The Golden Girls,” the NBC hit that ran from 1985-92, twice won Emmys for best comedy and continues to enjoy a long afterlife in syndication. [PAR] “The Golden Girls” followed the lives of three older women sharing a household in Miami with Dorothy’s widowed mother, Sophia (Estelle Getty), who has suffered a small stroke that frees her from the constraints of tactfulness. [PAR] Much of what made the show work was the snappy mother-daughter dialogue, with Ms. Arthur as what executive producer Paul Witt called the “isle of sanity who could look at the

Which actress links Dorothy in The Golden Girls and Maude Findlay in Maude?

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[DOC] [TLE] BBC SPORT | Tennis | US Open | Golden memories for ConnorsBBC SPORT | Tennis | US Open | Golden memories for Connors [PAR] Tuesday, 11 February, 2003, 23:33 GMT [PAR] Golden memories for Connors [PAR] Connors thrived under New York's bright lights [PAR] By Sophie Brown [PAR] BBC Sport Online [PAR] It seems apt that tennis legend Jimmy Connors should celebrate the milestone of turning 50 during the US Open. [PAR] For the last Grand Slam of the season was the most successful of the four Majors for Connors during his 20-year career. [PAR] He took the title five times and is the only player to have won it on three different surfaces - grass, clay and hardcourt. [PAR] Jimmy Connors factfile [PAR] Born: 2 Sept, 1952 in Bellville, Illinois [PAR] Titles won: 109 [PAR] US Op 74, 76, 78, 82, 83 [PAR] Career earnings: $8.6m [PAR] In 1991, it was the scene of his inspired run to the semi-finals at the age of 39. [PAR] Furthermore, if you had to pick the Grand Slam event that most personifies Connors, it would have to be the US Open. [PAR] You would equate him neither with the laidback charm of the Australian Open nor the proud sophistication of Roland Garros. [PAR] You would certainly not think of him in terms of the quaint gentility of Wimbledon. [PAR] No, it would have to be the brash, electric and gladiatorial atmosphere of Flushing Meadows. [PAR] The noise of overhead aircraft and the heckling, restless crowds of the biggest tennis stadium in the world have daunted many players - but not Connors. [PAR] He was the master at playing the crowd, whipping up a frenzied atmosphere and then feeding off it to blow his opponent off court. [PAR] Connors was the ultimate scrapper, the man who never gave up, the player whose game involved a no-holds-barred onslaught on his opponent. [PAR] His desire to win - and hatred of losing - drove him on to claim a record 109 titles. [PAR] Connors always gave his all on court [PAR] Like John McEnroe, another great left-hander of his era, Connors was a rebel who had little on-court respect for officialdom. [PAR] But McEnroe's delicate touch and sublime shot-making won him admirers among purists. [PAR] There was little beauty about Connors' game, which involved outslugging his opponent, his double-fisted backhand being a particular trademark. [PAR] Yet it was effective and made him one of the most consistent players on the tour and as reliable as the pudding-bowl haircut, another "Jimbo" trait. [PAR] Two more of his trademarks were also abhorrent to tennis purists. [PAR] The first was his non-wooden racket, the second his grunt - both were almost his exclusive property when he joined the circuit but had been adopted by many rivals by the time he quit the game. [PAR] While most of his contemporaries came from privileged backgrounds, Connors was taught to play tennis by his mother on public courts near his home in Illinois. [PAR] Just as he began as an outsider, so he remained one throughout his career and beyond. [PAR] Some admired him for his refusal to court favour and his insistence on being his own man but sometimes his churlish stubbornness did him no favours. [PAR] He refused to take part in the parade of champions to celebrate 100 years of Wimbledon in 1977, instead practising on an outside court, and spurned a similar celebration in the Millennium year. [PAR] When he was elected to tennis' Hall of Fame, he sent his manager along to accept the award. [PAR] From metal racquets to metal clubs [PAR] While many of his contemporaries have made new careers for themselves in the commentary box, Connors - some fleeting appearances on the senior circuit aside - has turned his back on the sport. [PAR] These days he is more likely to be found playing golf near his home in California. [PAR] But although he is just a memory on the tennis circuit, 2001 US Open champion Lleyton Hewitt appears to be from the same mould. [PAR] The Australian baseliner relishes a scrap and has intense mental focus and an overwhelming fist-pumping desire to win - all straight from Connors' locker.

How many times did tennis legend Jimmy Connors win the US Open in the 1970s?

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[DOC] [TLE] Married men live longer than single men. But ... - BrainyQuoteMarried men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. - Johnny Carson - BrainyQuote [PAR] Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. [PAR] Find on Amazon: Johnny Carson [PAR] Cite this Page: Citation[DOC] [TLE] Married men live longer than single men. But married me ...Married men live longer than single men. But married me.. @Quotio [PAR]   [PAR] Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. [PAR] 223 [PAR] Comments [PAR] There are not yet any comments on this quote. Why not register / login and be the first? [PAR] This quote is just one of 17 total Johnny Carson quotes in our collection. Johnny Carson is known for saying 'Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.' as well as some of the following quotes.[DOC] [TLE] Married men live longer than single men. But married men ...Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. [PAR] Died: January 23, 2005 (aged 79) [PAR] Nationality: American [PAR] Occupation: Comedian [PAR] Bio: John William Johnny Carson was an American television host and comedian, known for thirty years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987.

"Who said, ""Married men live longer than single men, but married men are more willing to die""?"

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[DOC] [TLE] NS SavannahFor other ships with this name, see Savannah (disambiguation)#Ships. [PAR] NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. Built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core, funded by United States government agencies, Savannah was a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy. Launched on 21 July 1959 and named for , the first steamship to cross the Atlantic ocean, she was in service between 1962 and 1972 as one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built. (Soviet ice-breaker Lenin launched on 5 December 1957, was the first nuclear-powered civil ship.) Savannah has been moored at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland since 2008. [PAR] Creation [PAR] In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower proposed building a nuclear-powered merchant ship as a showcase for his "Atoms for Peace" initiative. The next year, Congress authorized Savannah as a joint project of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and the Department of Commerce. [PAR] She was designed by George G. Sharp, Incorporated, of New York City. Her keel was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey. Her nuclear reactor was manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox. She was christened by US First Lady Mamie Eisenhower at the ship's launching on 21 July 1959. [PAR] In 1969, Savannah became the first nuclear-powered ship to dock in New York City. She was a centerpiece for a city-wide information festival called Nuclear Week In New York. Thousands of persons toured Savannah and the other special events of Nuclear Week In New York. These events included demonstrations of advancements in peaceful uses of atomic energy—such as food products purified by radiation, new applications for technology and many information and education programs. The Johnny Carson "Tonight" TV show featured Nuclear Week In New York on two programs. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission was the featured speaker and President Eisenhower was honored for his introduction of the global Atoms for Peace program. The appearance of Savannah and the Nuclear Week In New York program was designed and implemented by Charles Yulish Associates and supported by contributions from leading energy companies. [PAR] Concept [PAR] Eisenhower desired a "peace ship" that would serve as an ambassador for the peaceful use of atomic power. According to an Eisenhower administration statement to Congress "The President seeks no return on this vessel except the goodwill of men everywhere ... Neither will the vessel be burdened by proving itself commercially feasible by carrying goods exclusively." and Although initial proposals used a copy of 's power plant, a conscious decision was made to design a propulsion system with no connection to military programs, to commercial design standards. [PAR] George G. Sharp, Inc. is a prominent naval architecture firm in New York City, founded in 1920. George G. Sharp was responsible for Savannahs design in all respects apart from the nuclear reactor, designed by Babcock & Wilcox. Savannah was the sixth large ship to have fin stabilizers, intended to enhance the safety of the reactor and to improve passenger comfort. Since the reactor occupied the center of the ship, and because the reactor required clear overhead access for a crane during refueling, the superstructure was set far back on the hull. The raked, teardrop-shaped structure was specifically designed by George G. Sharp's ship design consultant Jack Heaney and Associates of Wilton, Connecticut for a futuristic appearance, decorated with stylized atom graphics on either side. Heaney was responsible for the interiors, which featured sleek modern styling appropriate to the atomic age. [PAR] Description [PAR] Savannah measures in length and 78 ft in beam, with a loaded draft of , and a loaded displacement of 21,800 tons. Savannah was built with seven cargo holds, a reactor compartment and a machinery compartment, making nine water-tight compartments. There are three full decks. The reactor compartment is located near the center of the ship, with the superstructure just aft of the reactor top to allow the reactor to be refuelled. Holds 1 through 4 are forward of the superstructure, with cargo

What was the world's first atomic-powered ship called?

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[DOC] [TLE] Stella McCartney Facts, information, pictures ...Stella McCartney facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about Stella McCartney [PAR] September 13, 1971 • London, England [PAR] Fashion designer [PAR] While some may think that being the daughter of one of the world's most famous, respected, and wealthy rock stars would lead to plentiful advantages when building a career, British designer Stella McCartney might not completely agree. McCartney, daughter of Sir Paul—who happens to be a former member of the Beatles, perhaps the most popular and influential rock band ever—has talent and ambition to spare, but her fame-by-association has caused many to speculate that it is her family connections rather than her design collections that have propelled her career. Being a McCartney has its advantages—through family acquaintances, a teenaged Stella made important connections in the design world—but had she been lacking in talent and business sense, such connections would have been meaningless. Instead, McCartney proved that her combination of creativity, sense of style, and understanding of the fashion industry could make her a powerful force in fashion regardless of her parentage. [PAR] In 1997, less than two years after graduating from college, McCartney made headlines when she was hired as the creative director for Chloe, a respected design house in Paris , France . She spent four years at Chloe, helping to redefine the company's image and increasing the company's sales by appealing to young, hip consumers. In 2001 McCartney left Chloe to start her own company in partnership with the celebrated Gucci Group. She spent the following years issuing new collections, opening boutiques in New York , London, and Los Angeles , and, in 2003, launching a new fragrance line called Stella. [PAR] "I have a vision for the way I want a woman to dress, perhaps because I'm a woman and know what I like to wear.... It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters." [PAR] Down on the farm [PAR] McCartney was born in London in 1971, not long after the breakup of the Beatles. Her father, a musician of exceptional talent, went on to form the band Wings, in which her mother, Linda, played keyboards and sang backup. Linda McCartney also became known for her skilled photographic portraits of musicians and other subjects, and was an outspoken advocate for animal rights as well as an accomplished vegetarian cook and cookbook writer. While the McCartneys led an unconventional life, traveling around the world on tour with the band with their children in tow, they were determined that their home base would be a tranquil refuge from the rock-and-roll lifestyle. The family, including Stella, her half-sister Heather (from Linda McCartney's first marriage), sister Mary, and brother James, moved to a farm by the time Stella was ten years old. Living in a modest farmhouse, the family raised sheep, rode horses, and grew organic produce. Stella was heavily influenced by the family's back-to-nature lifestyle and her parents' values, becoming a vegetarian herself as well as a committed animal rights activist. [PAR] Next-Generation Jagger [PAR] Jade Jagger, jewelry designer and famous offspring, has encountered much of the same skepticism that Stella McCartney has faced. As the daughter of Mick Jagger (1943–), lead singer of the Rolling Stones, and Bianca Jagger, a symbol of high fashion, Jade has struggled to establish an identity separate from that of her world-famous parents. Even as she has forged a successful design career, she still has critics suggesting that her professional accomplishments are due to her fame as a Jagger rather than her own talent. [PAR] Born in 1972, Jagger certainly had an unconventional upbringing as the daughter of one of rock music's most notorious bad boys. Her father has provided material for tabloid newspapers for most of his adult life, with one high-profile and stormy relationship after another (Mick and Bianca divorced around 1980). As a teenager Jade acquired a reputation for being a bit wild herself. She made headlines in 1988 when

Which famous daughter was made chief designer at Chloe in 1997?

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[DOC] [TLE] Gregory Peck | About Gregory Peck | American Masters | PBSGregory Peck | About Gregory Peck | American Masters | PBS [PAR] About Gregory Peck [PAR] A Conversation with Gregory Peck [PAR] About Gregory Peck [PAR] Comments [PAR] Among the celebrated pantheon of Hollywood royalty, few are as well-respected and universally adored as Gregory Peck. For more than fifty years, he was a major presence in the theater, on television, and most importantly, on the big screen. For many, Peck was a symbol of the American man at his best – a pillar of moral courage and a constant defender of traditional values. As General MacArthur, Melville’s Captain Ahab, and Atticus Finch, he presented audiences with compelling stories of strength and masculinity. [PAR] Eldred Gregory Peck was born in 1916, and spent most of his early life in and around La Jolla, California. By the time he was six, his parents had divorced. His mother married a travelling salesman and was often away with her new husband, while his father, a local pharmacist, spent much of the time working the night-shift. For a number of years he lived with his maternal grandmother, but at the age of ten was sent to St. John’s Military Academy in Los Angeles. The four years he spent there were important in forming his sense of personal discipline. There he also began to acquire a sensitivity to the social importance of authority figures – a topic that remained important throughout his career. After the Academy, he returned to live with his father, and to attend public high school. [PAR] After graduating, Peck enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. Greatly influenced by his father’s desires for him to be a doctor, Peck began as a pre-med student. By the time he was a senior, however, he found his real interests to be in writing and acting. Initially drawn to the communal, almost familial, aspects of the theater, Peck soon realized that he had a natural gift as both an expressive actor and a storyteller. After graduating in 1939, he changed his name from Eldred to Gregory and moved to New York. There, his abilities were almost immediately recognized. Within a year he began to fill small roles in travelling shows and in 1942, made his debut on Broadway with “The Morning Star.” Though many of his early plays were doomed to short runs, it seemed clear that Peck was destined for something bigger. In 1944 that “something bigger” arrived in the form of his first two Hollywood roles, as Vladimir in DAYS OF GLORY and Father Francis Chisholm in THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM. [PAR] While DAYS OF GLORY was coolly received, his role as the taciturn Scottish missionary in THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM was a resounding triumph and brought him his first Oscar nominations for Best Actor. This early success provided him the rare opportunity of working with the best directors in Hollywood. Over the next three years he appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND (1945), King Vidor’s DUEL IN THE SUN (1946), and Elia Kazan’s GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT (1947). More than any other of his early roles, it was as Phil Green in the ground-breaking depiction of American anti-Semitism, GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT, that solidified his image as a man of great moral conviction. Despite concerns over public acceptance of the project, it surprised many by winning an Oscar for Best Picture and a nomination for Best Actor. This success seemed not only a validation of Peck’s abilities as an artist but of his moral convictions as well. [PAR] Though an amiable and fun-loving man at home, Peck’s stern presence made him one of the screen’s great patriarchs. Tough and caring, he was the quintessential mid-century American man – the good-looking romantic lead across from Audrey Hepburn as well as the rugged World War II bomber commander. For many, the actor and the characters he portrayed were inseparable; the authority of his passionate yet firm demeanor was attractive to post-war Americans who longed for a more stable time. [PAR] During the 1960s and 1970s, Peck continued to challenge himself as an actor,

What is Gregory Peck's real first name?

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[DOC] [TLE] The Debbie Reynolds ShowThe Debbie Reynolds Show is an American situation comedy which aired on the NBC television network during the 1969-70 television season. The series was produced by Filmways. [PAR] Synopsis [PAR] Debbie Reynolds portrayed Debbie Thompson, a housewife married to Jim, a successful sportswriter for the Los Angeles Sun. Jim was portrayed by actor Don Chastain, his boss by longtime television actor Tom Bosley. Reynolds' attempts to amuse herself were regarded as being reminiscent of those of Lucille Ball on Here's Lucy. [PAR] Creator/producer Jess Oppenheimer was the original producer and co-creator of I Love Lucy. The show also employed Bob Carroll, Jr., and Madelyn Davis, two longtime Lucy writers. [PAR] The series only lasted one season because NBC was selling ad-time to cigarette commercials against Reynolds' wishes. Because Reynolds signed a two-year contract with NBC and owned half of the program, she was unable to be fired so she walked away from the show instead. [PAR] In popular culture [PAR] Monty Python's Flying Circus spoofed the series in a sketch primarily written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman entitled "The Attila the Hun Show". It pokes fun at The Debbie Reynolds Show (the opening title sequence in particular), as well as American comedy in general.

Who did Debbie play in The Debbie Reynolds Show?

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[DOC] [TLE] Lisa Kudrow - Biography - IMDbLisa Kudrow - Biography - IMDb [PAR] Lisa Kudrow [PAR] Biography [PAR] Showing all 64 items [PAR] Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (1) | Trivia  (43) | Personal Quotes  (10) | Salary  (4) [PAR] Overview (4) [PAR] 5' 8" (1.73 m) [PAR] Mini Bio (1) [PAR] Hardly the dumb blonde of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), Lisa was born in Encino, California on July 30, 1963. Her mother, Nedra S. (Stern), was a travel agent, and her father, Lee N. Kudrow, was a physician. Her parents are both from Jewish immigrant families (from Belarus, Russia, and Hungary). Lisa was raised in Tarzana and played varsity-level tennis in high school and college, and is a pool shark who has mastered some of the more difficult trick shots (so beware). She graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychobiology. At first, she wanted to pursue a career in research, so she returned to Los Angeles to begin working with her father. However, Lisa got inspired to perform by one of her brother's friends, comedian Jon Lovitz , and so the tall (5' 8") blond-haired, green-eyed beauty entered show biz. Lisa auditioned for the improv theater group, The Groundlings, based in Los Angeles. Cynthia Szigeti , a well-known improv teacher, took Lisa under her wing. In that class, Lisa became a friend of Conan O'Brien . Graduating with honors in 1989, Lisa became a full-fledged member of The Groundlings. Breaking into TV, she got a recurring role as Ursula, the ditsy waitress on Mad About You (1992). This led to her starring role on Friends (1994). In the debut season (1994-95) of Friends (1994), Lisa earned an Emmy nomination as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series; in 1998, she won that award for her role as Phoebe, the ditsy but lovable folk singer. Lisa has also been nominated for Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and American Comedy Awards for her performances. Lisa made the transition to the big screen with a lot of success. In 1997, she starred opposite Oscar winner Mira Sorvino in the above-mentioned Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). Lisa garnered more praise for her film work when she got the New York Film Critics Award for her starring role in The Opposite of Sex (1998). Lisa married Michel Stern, an advertising executive, on May 27, 1995. On May 7, 1998, they were blessed with a son, Julian Murray; they live in Los Angeles. [PAR] - IMDb Mini Biography By: kdhaisch@aol.com [PAR] Spouse (1) [PAR] ( 27 May  1995 - present) (1 child) [PAR] Trade Mark (1) [PAR] Frequently plays funny, ditzy characters [PAR] Trivia (43) [PAR] Chosen by "People" magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1997] [PAR] Attended William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California. She graduated on June 18, 1981. [PAR] First played Ursula on Mad About You (1992), then played her twin sister, Phoebe, on Friends (1994), and has played both characters at once in a few episodes of Friends (1994). [PAR] Was originally cast as Roz Doyle on Frasier (1993), but the producers and writers decided they were changing the character too much to fit Kudrow's personality. Both parties decided it would be better to recast the role, and Peri Gilpin was chosen instead. [PAR] Graduated with a B.S. in Psychobiology from Vassar College. [1985] [PAR] Convinced to quit her job as a Medical Researcher to become a full-time actress by Jon Lovitz . [PAR] Her motion picture debut was set to be in the film

Which of the Friends cast has a son called Julian in real life?

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[DOC] [TLE] Did Western agents assassinate the UN Secretary General in ...Did Western agents assassinate the UN Secretary General in 1961?: Four theories - Telegraph [PAR] Africa and Indian Ocean [PAR] Did Western agents assassinate the UN Secretary General in 1961?: Four theories [PAR] As the UN reopens its investigation into the plane crash that killed Dag Hammarskjold, its second secretary general, some are pointing fingers at the United States and Europe [PAR] UN Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold is welcomed by Moïse Tshombe, leader of the Katanga province, at Elizabethville ( now Lubumbashi) Airport in Belgian Congo in 1960 Photo: AFP/GETTY [PAR] By Philip Sherwell , New York and David Lawler, Washington [PAR] 9:35PM GMT 17 Mar 2015 [PAR] Follow [PAR] The United Nations has ordered a new investigation into the mysterious 1961 African plane crash that claimed the life of its secretary general at a time of high international intrigue and intervention by outside powers as the post-colonial continent took shape. [PAR] The flight was carrying Dag Hammarskjold, the UN’s Swedish chief, on a high-stakes mission to negotiate with rebels in Katanga, a breakaway mineral-rich province of Congo that was backed by Belgian mercenaries and Western governments and business. [PAR] Pilot error was officially blamed after the DC6 plane carrying the UN’s second secretary general crashed into the bush, killing all 16 onboard, in the then British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia ). [PAR] But there were immediately competing theories that the plane had been shot down, possibly by American agents or European mercenaries, as Hammarskjold was believed to be about to broker a deal opposed by Western interests. [PAR] A commission of retired international judges in 2013 called for a new investigation after hearing "persuasive evidence" that the plane was shot down. [PAR] Dag Hammarskjold [PAR] The UN has now announced that it is ordering a new review by an independent panel led Mohamed Othman, a Tanzanian jurist, and assisted by Kerryn Macaulay, an Australian aviation specialist, and Henrik Larsen, a Danish ballistics expert. [PAR] The team of experts is expected to travel to the crash scene. But for their mission to succeed, they will also need access to intelligence held by the US, Britain and other European states who have been urged to hand over the material. [PAR] More than five decades later, the new panel may be the last chance to determine what really happened to Mr Hammarskjold’s plane that night. [PAR] Theory #1: Pilot error [PAR] Evidence: The aircraft was flying overnight in central Africa at a low altitude. As John Mussell, the former Royal Rhodesian officer who coordinated the search for the plane, told the New York Times: “It doesn’t matter how fatigued you are or how experienced you are. If you are in Africa and going into unfamiliar territory, it’s not difficult to make a serious mistake.” There were three major enquiries after the crash, two were inconclusive and a third, by the Rhodesian government, blamed pilot error. [PAR] Counterpoint: Even back in 1961, that conclusion sounded a bit too convenient given Hammarskjold's powerful foes. Former president Harry Truman's take? “He was on the point of getting something done when they killed him," said Truman. "Notice that I said ‘when they killed him’.” [PAR] UN troops arrive in Congo in 1960. Photo: AFP/Getty [PAR] Theory #2: The Americans shot it down [PAR] Possible motive: When turmoil over land and minerals engulfed Congo, Hammarskjold sent UN troops to support Patrice Lumumba, the prime minister. President John F Kennedy was known to regard Lumumba as a destabilising force and a possible Soviet ally. [PAR] Evidence: Two American intelligence officials at stationed at listening posts on the night of the crash claim to have heard the plane taken down. One of them says he heard radio transmissions in which a voice said: "The Americans shot down the UN plane." The other says he heard someone say: "It's the plane.... I've hit it. It's going down." [PAR] Photo: AP [PAR] Theory # 3: Mercenaries took down the plane on behalf of European industrialists (and perhaps with British help) [PAR] Motive

UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjold was killed over which country?

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[DOC] [TLE] Marcos dies in exile - Sep 28, 1989 - HISTORY.comMarcos dies in exile - Sep 28, 1989 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Marcos dies in exile [PAR] Publisher [PAR] A+E Networks [PAR] Former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos, whose corrupt regime spanned 20 years, dies in exile in Hawaii three years after being driven from his country by a popular front led by Corazon Aquino. [PAR] Elected in 1966, Marcos declared martial law in 1972 in response to leftist violence. In the next year, he assumed dictatorial powers. His anti-communist activity won him enthusiastic support from the U.S. government, but his regime was marked by misuse of foreign support, repression, and political murders. In 1986, Marcos defrauded the electorate in a presidential election, declaring himself the victor over Corazon Aquino, the wife of an assassinated rival. Aquino also declared herself the rightful winner, and the public rallied behind her. Deserted by his former supporters, Marcos and his wife, Imelda, fled to Hawaii in exile, where they faced investigation on embezzlement charges. Ferdinand Marcos died in 1989. Three years later, Imelda returned to the Philippines and ran for president and was defeated. In 1995 she won a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives. She made another unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1998. In 2001, Imelda was arrested on charges of corruption and extortion committed during her husband’s presidency, but was acquitted. [PAR] More on This Topic[DOC] [TLE] Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines - About.com EducationFerdinand Marcos of the Philippines [PAR] Updated August 09, 2016. [PAR] Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippines with an iron fist from 1966 to 1986. [PAR] Critics charged Marcos and his regime with crimes like corruption and nepotism. Marcos himself is said to have exaggerated his role in World War II. He also murdered a family political rival. [PAR] So, how did this man stay in power? [PAR] Marcos created an elaborate cult of personality. When that state-mandated adulation proved insufficient for him to maintain control, President Marcos declared martial law. [PAR] Early Life: [PAR] On September 11, 1917, Josefa Edralin gave birth to a son in the village of Sarrat, on the island of Luzon, the Philippines.  The boy was named Ferdinand Edralin Marcos. [PAR] Persistent rumors say that Ferdinand's biological father was a man named Ferdinand Chua, who served as his godfather. Officially, however, Josefa's husband, Mariano Marcos, was the child's father. [PAR] Young Ferdinand Marcos grew up in a privileged milieu. He excelled at school, and took an eager interest in martial skills such as boxing and shooting. [PAR] continue reading below our video [PAR] 10 Best Universities in the United States [PAR] Education: [PAR] Marcos attended school in Manila. His godfather, Ferdinand Chua, may have helped to pay for his educational expenses. [PAR] During the 1930s, the young man studied law at the University of the Philippines, outside of Manila. [PAR] This legal training would come in handy when Marcos was arrested and tried for a 1935 political murder. In fact, he continued his studies while in prison, and even passed the bar exam with flying colors from his cell. [PAR] Meanwhile, Mariano Marcos ran for a seat on the National Assembly in 1935, but was defeated for a second time by Julio Nalundasan. [PAR] Marcos Assassinates Nalundasan: [PAR] On September 20, 1935, as he was celebrating his victory over Marcos, Nalundasan was shot dead at his home. Mariano's 18-year-old son Ferdinand had used his shooting skills to kill Nalundasan with a .22-caliber rifle. [PAR] The young law student was indicted for the killing, and convicted by a district court in November of 1939. He appealed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1940. Representing himself, the young man managed to get his conviction overturned despite strong evidence of his guilt. [PAR] Mariano Marcos and (by now) Judge Chua likely used their political power to influence the outcome of the case. [PAR] World War II: [PAR] At the outbreak of World War II, Ferdinand Marcos was practicing law in Manila. He soon joined the Filipino Army, and fought against the Japanese invasion as a combat intelligence officer in the 21st Infantry Division. [PAR] Marcos saw

Where did Ferdinand Marcos live in exile?

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[DOC] [TLE] 'Chicken Soup' Is Canceled By ABC After 7 Shows - NYTimes.com'Chicken Soup' Is Canceled By ABC After 7 Shows - NYTimes.com [PAR] 'Chicken Soup' Is Canceled By ABC After 7 Shows [PAR] By BILL CARTER [PAR] Published: November 8, 1989 [PAR] ABC abruptly canceled ''Chicken Soup'' yesterday, the highest rated new program of the television season. The series, starring Jackie Mason, had its final telecast last night. [PAR] ABC announced that a comedy called ''Coach'' would move into the 9:30 P.M. slot starting Nov. 21. [PAR] Robert A. Iger, the president of the ABC entertainment division, attributed the cancellation of the Mason show to the network's need to ''maximize'' its ratings on Tuesday nights. ''Chicken Soup,'' broadcast at 9:30 P.M. on Tuesday nights, followed ''Roseanne,'' which has been the top-rated show in television so far this season. 'At Least Mildly Surprising' [PAR] Larry Hyams, the director of prime-time audience analysis for ABC, said ''Chicken Soup'' was also more expensive to produce than other comedies. But, he added, the move was ''at least mildly surprising because it was still a top show in household ratings.'' [PAR] Mr. Mason issued a statement yesterday in which he said he was relieved that he could stop playing the character of Jackie Fisher. ''I need to be Jackie Mason,'' he said. [PAR] ''Chicken Soup'' has been consistently losing about a third of the viewers tuned to ''Roseanne.'' Its ratings have also dropped sharply from early in the season. In its opening episode on Sept. 12, the series was the second most popular show of the week, with a 21.8 rating and 34 share. (A rating point represents 921,000 homes; the share is the percentage of viewers watching a given program.) ''Coach,'' which stars Craig T. Nelson, also lost viewers during the summer when it was broadcast after ''Roseanne,'' but the drop in audience was less severe. [PAR] By last week, ''Chicken Soup'' had fallen to 23d place, with a 15.9 rating and 26 share. In addition, in the most recent industry study of the popularity of television shows, ''Chicken Soup'' was the most negatively received program in television, an executive at another network said. [PAR] But for the seven episodes that were broadcast through yesterday, ''Chicken Soup'' averaged an 18.1 rating and 28 share, by far the best showing of any new series on television this fall. [PAR] The move was said to have caught the cast and crew of the program by surprise. They were in the midst of a rehearsal Monday night for a new episode when ABC called the show's producers, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, to tell them the show was being canceled. Carsey/Werner is among the most successful comedy production companies in television, with three top-rated series on the air: ''Roseanne'' on ABC ''The Cosby Show'' and ''A Different World'' on NBC. [PAR] Paul Schulman, who heads an agency that buys network time for advertisers, said ''Chicken Soup'' was reducing the audience for the show that follows it on Tuesdays, ''Thirtysomething.'' 'No Problem With Subject Matter' [PAR] ''If 'Chicken Soup' were commercial or funnier it could have survived,'' Mr. Schulman said. ''There was no problem with advertisers pulling out of show. There was no problem with subject matter. There was no problem with audience delivery. ABC just had to feel they could do more in that time period.'' [PAR] Some television critics had questioned whether a series that focused on a love affair between Mr. Mason, who played a retired Jewish pajama salesman, and Lynn Redgrave, who played an Irish Catholic social worker, would be able to sustain a mass audience. [PAR] Mr. Mason was criticized for remarks he made about the Democratic candidate David N. Dinkins during the New

Which comedian starred in the ABC sitcom Chicken Soup?

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[DOC] [TLE] Tarzan of the Apes - Titi TudoranceaTarzan of the Apes [PAR] T [PAR] Tarzan of the Apes [PAR] Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs , the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine in October, 1912; the first book edition was published in 1914. So popular was the character that Burroughs continued the series into the 1940s with two dozen sequels. [PAR] Plot summary [PAR] The novel tells the story of John Clayton, born in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa to a marooned couple from England , John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke. Adopted as an infant by the she-ape Kala after his parents died (his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak), Clayton is named "Tarzan" ("White Skin" in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage. [PAR] Feeling alienated from his peers due to their physical differences, he discovers his true parents' cabin, where he first learns of others like himself in their books, with which he eventually teaches himself to read. [PAR] On his return from one visit to the cabin, he is attacked by a huge gorilla which he manages to kill with his father's knife, although he is terribly wounded in the struggle. As he grows up, Tarzan becomes a skilled hunter, gradually arousing the jealousy of Kerchak, the ape leader. [PAR] Later, a tribe of black Africans settles in the area, and Kala is killed by one of its hunters. Avenging himself on the killer, Tarzan begins an antagonistic relationship with the tribe, raiding its village for weapons and practicing cruel pranks on them. They, in turn, regard him as an evil spirit and attempt to placate him. [PAR] The twelve short stories Burroughs wrote later and collected as Jungle Tales of Tarzan occur in the period immediately following the arrival of the natives, the killing of Kala, and Tarzan's vengeance. [PAR] Finally Tarzan has amassed so much credit among the apes of the tribe that the envious Kerchak at last attacks him. In the ensuing battle Tarzan kills Kerchak and takes his place as "king" of the apes. [PAR] Subsequently, a new party of whites is marooned on the coast, including Jane Porter, the first white woman Tarzan has ever seen. Tarzan's cousin, William Cecil Clayton, unwitting usurper of the ape man's ancestral English estate, is also among the party. Tarzan spies on the newcomers, aids them, and saves Jane from the perils of the jungle. Absent when they are rescued, he is introduced further into the mysteries of civilization by French Naval Officer Paul D'Arnot, whom he saves from the natives. D'Arnot teaches Tarzan French and how to behave among white men, as well as serving as his guide to the nearest colonial outposts. [PAR] Ultimately, Tarzan travels to Jane's native Baltimore, Maryland only to find that she is now in the woods of Wisconsin. Tarzan finally meets Jane in Wisconsin where they renew their acquaintance and he learns the bitter news that she has become engaged to William Clayton. Meanwhile, clues from his parents' cabin have enabled D'Arnot to prove Tarzan's true identity. Instead of claiming his inheritance, Tarzan chooses rather to conceal and renounce his heritage for the sake of Jane's happiness. [PAR] Film adaptations [PAR] Burroughs' novel has been the basis of several movies. The first two were the silent films Tarzan of the Apes (1918) and The Romance of Tarzan (1918), both starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan, based on the first and second parts of the novel, respectively. The next and most famous adaptation was Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), starring Johnny Weissmuller, who went on to star in eleven other Tarzan films. It was remade twice, as Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), featuring Denny Miller, and Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981), with Miles O'Keeffe as Tarzan and Bo Derek as Jane. Three more movie adaptations have been made to date; Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the

What was the name of the she-ape that rescued the infant Tarzan and raised him to be Lord of the Apes?

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[DOC] [TLE] General Colin Powell was the First African American ...General Colin Powell was the First African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the U.S. Army [PAR] Gen. Colin L. Powell [PAR] 1989: First black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff [PAR] Powell made history by becoming the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the highest military position in the Department of Defense, Oct. 1, 1989, to Sept. 30, 1993. At age 52, he became the youngest officer to serve in this position. Powell made history again when he became the first appointed black secretary of state, Jan. 20, 2001.[DOC] [TLE] September 21, 1989 : Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairmanSeptember 21, 1989 : Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman [PAR] Introduction [PAR] The Senate Armed Forces Committee unanimously confirms President George H. Bush’s nomination of Army General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell was the first African American to achieve the United States’ highest military post. [PAR] Powell was born in 1937 in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrant parents. Joining the U.S. Army after college, he served two tours in Vietnam before holding several high-level military posts during the 1970s and 1980s. From 1987 to 1989, he was national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan and in 1989 reached the pinnacle of his profession when he was appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President George Bush. As chairman, General Powell’s greatest achievement was planning the swift U.S. victory over Iraq in 1991’s Persian Gulf War. In 1993, he retired as chairman. [PAR] Two years later, he embarked on a national tour to promote his autobiography, My American Journey, fueling speculation that he was testing the waters for a possible presidential campaign. By the fall of 1995, public enthusiasm over the possibility of his running for president had reached a feverish pitch. Regarded as a moderate Republican, opinion polls showed Powell trailing close behind Republican favorite Bob Dole and favored over Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton. However, in November 1995, he announced that he would not run for president in the next election, citing concerns for his family’s well-being and a lack of passion for the rigors of political life. [PAR] From 1997, he served as chairman of “America’s Promise–The Alliance for Youth,” a national nonprofit organization dedicated to building the character and competence of young people. In December 2000, Powell was appointed the first African American U.S. secretary of state by President-elect George W. Bush. Unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he was sworn in on January 20, 2001 and held that position until January 26, 2005. He was succeeded by Condoleezza Rice. [PAR] Article Details: [PAR] September 21, 1989 : Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman [PAR] Author [PAR] September 21, 1989 : Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman [PAR] URL[DOC] [TLE] History: Sep 21, 1989: Powell Becomes Joint Chiefs' ChairmanPowell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman - Sep 21, 1989 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman [PAR] Share this: [PAR] Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman [PAR] Author [PAR] Powell becomes Joint Chiefs’ chairman [PAR] URL [PAR] Publisher [PAR] A+E Networks [PAR] The Senate Armed Forces Committee unanimously confirms President George H. Bush’s nomination of Army General Colin Powell as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Powell was the first African American to achieve the United States’ highest military post. [PAR] Powell was born in 1937 in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrant parents. Joining the U.S. Army after college, he served two tours in Vietnam before holding several high-level military posts during the 1970s and 1980s. From 1987 to 1989, he was national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan and in 1989 reached the pinnacle of his profession when he was appointed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President George Bush. As chairman, General Powell’s greatest achievement was planning the swift U.S. victory over Iraq in 1991’s Persian Gulf War. In 1993, he retired as chairman. [PAR] Two years later, he embarked on a national tour to promote his autobiography, My American Journey, fueling speculation that he was testing the waters for a possible presidential campaign.

Who became chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989?

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[DOC] [TLE] The Betty White ShowThe Betty White Show is an American sitcom which aired on CBS from September 12, 1977, to January 2, 1978. Fourteen episodes were broadcast. The series was produced by MTM Enterprises. Note: This program should not be confused with two earlier television programs that had the same title—a daytime talk show that ran on NBC February 8, 1954 – December 31, 1954, and a prime-time comedy variety show that ran on ABC February 5, 1958 – April 30, 1958. [PAR] Synopsis [PAR] Joyce Whitman (Betty White), a middle-aged actress, lands the lead in a fictitious police series, Undercover Woman (a parody of Angie Dickinson's Police Woman). Joyce is thrilled with the show, but less pleased to learn that the director is her ex-husband, John Elliot (John Hillerman), whom she unfondly refers to as "old pickle puss". He responds in kind, supplying his star with an oversized male double named Hugo (Charles Cyphers), a sexy, much younger onscreen sidekick (Caren Kaye), and dialogue not nearly as sharp as her tongue. Also on hand are Joyce's best friend, Mitzi Maloney (Georgia Engel), co-star actor Fletcher Huff (Barney Phillips) and network penny-pincher Doug Porterfield (Alex Henteloff). [PAR] Reception [PAR] The series was scheduled opposite ABC's Monday Night Football and The NBC Monday Movie and failed to generate viewers. The show was canceled after fourteen episodes. [PAR] Cast [PAR] Episodes [PAR] Syndication [PAR] The Betty White Show was briefly rerun on Nick at Nite and TV Land in the 1990s.

Which character did Betty White play in The Betty White Show?

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[DOC] [TLE] Donald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & NewsDonald Bellisario (Producer) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News [PAR] Donald Bellisario [PAR] Male [PAR] Born Aug 8, 1935 [PAR] Donald Paul Bellisario is an American television producer and screenwriter who created and sometimes wrote episodes for the TV series Magnum, P.I. , Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS. He has often included military veterans as characters. [PAR] related links [PAR] Veterans In Hollywood Time For A Gut Check [PAR] Huffington Post - Nov 11, 2015 [PAR] 'Veteran\'s Day is a good time to ask how it can be that while so many TV shows and movies find inspiration in the sacrifice of our servicemen and women -- and yet find so little opportunity to hire Veterans to tell these stories? Between The Last Ship and three shows in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) franchise- plus movies like American Sniper and Captain Phillips -- most Americans could be forgiven for assuming that any professional writers, producers and directors who ... [PAR] The Hollywood Reporter's Best Of The Week [PAR] Seattle Pi - Nov 21, 2012 [PAR] '\n The Hollywood Reporter\'s best of the week \n\n\n Los Angeles is a spinoff, <mark>Donald Bellisario</mark>\'s lawyers slam the network for seeking medical records to harass and embarrass him.\n\nLAWRENCE KASDAN, SIMON KIMBERG LOCK DEALS TO WRITE AND PRODUCE \'STAR WARS\' INSTALLMENTS\n\nThe pair will write either \"Episode VIII\" or \"Episode IX\" — their exact division of responsibilities is yet to be determined — and also will come aboard to produce the films.\n\nTHR\'S... [PAR] La Daybook Wsls [PAR] Google News - Sep 05, 2011 [PAR] '8:30 am NCIS LAWSUIT A case management conference is scheduled in &quot;NCIS&quot; creator <mark>Donald Bellisario</mark>&#39;s lawsuit against CBS Studios Inc. He alleges the studio breached a contract allowing him to take part in the development of the series spinoff &quot;NCIS:' [PAR] Producer's Lawsuit Seeks Compensation For Ncis Spinoff New York Law Journal [PAR] Google News - Aug 25, 2011 [PAR] '<mark>Donald Bellisario</mark> was creator and executive producer of JAG, NCIS, and other television series including Magnum PI, Airwolf, and Quantum Leap. A recent lawsuit 1 in Los Angeles brought against CBS by him and his personal services company illustrates' [PAR] Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Donald Bellisario. [PAR] CHILDHOOD [PAR] 1935 Birth Born on August 8, 1935. [PAR] TEENAGE [PAR] 1953 17 Years Old Notably, the last episode of Quantum Leap takes place on August 8, 1953, Sam Beckett's birthday, and the reverse of the last two digits of Bellisario's own birth year. … Read More [PAR] Another common theme in Bellisario's work is religious undertones and comparisons. Read Less [PAR] 1955 19 Years Old Bellisario was born in Charleroi or Cokeburg, Pennsylvania (sources differ) to an Italian father Albert and a Serbian mother Dana (née Lapčević) Bellisario who was born in Gamberale, Abruzzo, Italy. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1955 to 1959, attaining the rank of Sergeant and earning the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. [PAR] TWENTIES [PAR] 1961 25 Years Old Bellisario earned a bachelors degree in journalism at Pennsylvania State University in 1961. [PAR] 1965 29 Years Old Bellisario became an advertising copywriter in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1965, and three years later became creative director of the Bloom Agency in Dallas, Texas. … Read More [PAR] After rising to senior vice president after eight years, he then moved to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting and production.<br /><br /> After working under such television producers as Glen A. Larson, Bellisario adopted some of their production techniques, most notably utilizing a small pool of actors which he uses for his many productions.<br /><br /> He has created several successful TV series, including Magnum, P.I., Airwolf, Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS. Less-known creations include Tales of the Gold Monkey, Tequila & Bonetti, and First Monday. He was also a writer and producer on Black Sheep Squadron and the original Battlestar Galactica. Read Less [PAR] FIFTIES [PAR] Show Less [PAR] He wrote and directed the 1988 feature film Last Rites. … Read

Who was creator and executive producer of Magnum PI?

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[DOC] [TLE] Mother Teresa, the Saint of the Gutters - About.com EducationMother Teresa - The Saint of the Gutters [PAR] Mother Teresa [PAR] A Biography About Mother Teresa, the Saint of the Gutters [PAR] Keystone / Staff / Hulton Archive / Getty Images [PAR] Updated February 17, 2016. [PAR] Who Was Mother Teresa? [PAR] Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic order of nuns dedicated to helping the poor. Begun in Calcutta, India, the Missionaries of Charity grew to help the poor, the dying, orphans, lepers, and AIDS sufferers in over 100 countries. Mother Teresa's selfless effort to help those in need has caused many to regard her as a model humanitarian. [PAR] Dates: August 26, 1910 -- September 5, 1997 [PAR] Mother Teresa Also Known As: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (birth name), "the Saint of the Gutters" [PAR] Overview of Mother Teresa [PAR] Mother Teresa's task was overwhelming. She started out as just one woman, with no money and no supplies, trying to help the millions of poor, starving, and dying that lived on the streets of India. Despite others' misgivings, Mother Teresa was confident that God would provide. [PAR] Birth and Childhood [PAR] Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, now known as Mother Teresa, was the third and final child born to her Albanian Catholic parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, in the city of Skopje (a predominantly Muslim city in the Balkans). [PAR] continue reading below our video [PAR] Test Your General Science Knowledge [PAR] Nikola was a self-made, successful businessman and Dranafile stayed home to take care of the children. [PAR] When Mother Teresa was about eight years old, her father died unexpectedly. The Bojaxhiu family was devastated. After a period of intense grief, Dranafile, suddenly a single mother of three children, sold textiles and hand-made embroidery to bring in some income. [PAR] The Call [PAR] Both before Nikola's death and especially after it, the Bojaxhiu family held tightly to their religious beliefs. The family prayed daily and went on pilgrimages annually. [PAR] When Mother Teresa was 12 years old, she began to feel called to serve God as a nun. Deciding to become a nun was a very difficult decision. Becoming a nun not only meant giving up the chance to marry and have children, it also meant giving up all her worldly possessions and her family, perhaps forever. [PAR] For five years, Mother Teresa thought hard about whether or not to become a nun. During this time, she sang in the church choir, helped her mother organize church events, and went on walks with her mother to hand out food and supplies to the poor. [PAR] When Mother Teresa was 17, she made the difficult decision to become a nun. Having read many articles about the work Catholic missionaries were doing in India, Mother Teresa was determined to go there. Mother Teresa applied to the Loreto order of nuns, based in Ireland but with missions in India. [PAR] In September 1928, 18-year-old Mother Teresa said goodbye to her family to travel to Ireland and then on to India. She never saw her mother or sister again. [PAR] Becoming a Nun [PAR] It took more than two years to become a Loreto nun. After spending six weeks in Ireland learning the history of the Loreto order and to study English, Mother Teresa then traveled to India, where she arrived on January 6, 1929. [PAR] After two years as a novice, Mother Teresa took her first vows as a Loreto nun on May 24, 1931. [PAR] As a new Loreto nun, Mother Teresa (known then only as Sister Teresa, a name she chose after St. Teresa of Lisieux) settled in to the Loreto Entally convent in Kolkata (previously called Calcutta ) and began teaching history and geography at the convent schools. [PAR] Usually, Loreto nuns were not allowed to leave the convent; however, in 1935, 25-year-old Mother Teresa was given a special exemption to teach at a school outside of the convent, St. Teresa's. After two years at St. Teresa's, Mother Teresa took her final vows on May 24, 1937 and officially became "Mother Teresa." [PAR] Almost immediately

What was Mother Teresa's real first name?

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[DOC] [TLE] Comedy series losing viewers: A sad reality | cleveland.comComedy series losing viewers: A sad reality | cleveland.com [PAR] Comedy series losing viewers: A sad reality [PAR] comments [PAR] Associated Press file [PAR] If Ricky and Lucy Ricardo could see what's happened to sitcom ratings, they'd probably look like this. Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball in the 1956 "I Love Lucy" Christmas special. [PAR] A list of comedies that were No. 1 [PAR] So what are you laughing at? Well, according to the ratings supplied each week by Nielsen Media Research, you're not finding much of anything that tickles the old funny bone. [PAR] The 2008-09 season is about 2 months old, and only one comedy, "Desperate Housewives," is in the top 10. Although filmed on the same Universal Studios back-lot street that was home to "Leave It to Beaver" and "The Munsters," ABC's soapy and satirical series is far removed from the classic half-hour sitcom form that prospered in the prime-time neighborhood for so many years. [PAR] So what is America watching? That's easy. Three genres rule the ratings roost: procedural crime dramas (led by No. 1 in total viewers "C.S.I." and accounting for 10 of the top 25), reality shows (led by No. 2 "Dancing With the Stars" and accounting for six of the top 25) and medical dramas (with both "Grey's Anatomy" and "House" making the top 15). [PAR] Do the math. Take away these three genres, and 18 of America's 25 top-rated shows disappear. Where does that leave the sitcom? [PAR] CBS [PAR] This season's top-rated sitcom is "Two and Half Men," and it's 12th overall on the Nielsen list. From left, John Cryer, Charlie Sheen, Angus T. Jones. [PAR] There's just one half-hour comedy in the top 25, Charlie Sheen's "Two and a Half Men." It's the only ratings bright spot for a form that, up to six years ago, was a constant and substantial part of the nation's television diet. [PAR] Compare the current state of comedy to the 1988-89 season, when eight of the top 10 shows were half-hour comedies. Comedy was king, all right, placing a staggering 16 shows among the top 25 that season. [PAR] Twenty seasons later, comedy hasn't merely abdicated its prime-time crown. It has gone into exile. [PAR] You can't even make the excuse that the 1988-89 season was some kind of comedic aberration in the history of television. Seven of the top 10 shows for the 1962-63 season were sitcoms; nine of the top 10 for the 1978-79 season; and eight of the top 10 for the 1991-92 season. [PAR] The country's love affair with the sitcom blossomed during the 1952-53 season, when "I Love Lucy" claimed viewers' hearts and the No. 1 spot. It was the first sitcom -- filmed on a soundstage using three cameras and a live audience -- to accomplish this. "Friends," No. 1 for the 2001-02 season, was the last. [PAR] NBC [PAR] "Friends" was the last sitcom to be No. 1 for a season -- seven seasons ago. Clockwise from left, Matt Le Blanc, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox Arquette. [PAR] Those two victories span 50 television seasons, and a sitcom was the No. 1 show for 24 of them. But there's nothing funny about the numbers being posted by half-hour comedies during the last few seasons. [PAR] Is the sitcom dead? Or is it just comatose, waiting to snap back to consciousness and vitality? [PAR] A genre that needs [PAR] a shaking up? [PAR] "It's a tough form," said writer-comedian Larry Wilmore, an Emmy winner and a regular on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." "I think a lot of it could be generational. Some people, with

What was the first sitcom to reach No 1 in the Nielsen ratings?

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[DOC] [TLE] Laverne & Shirley - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos ...Laverne & Shirley - Show News, Reviews, Recaps and Photos - TV.com [PAR] Laverne & Shirley [PAR] EDIT [PAR] Laverne and Shirley debuted as a mid-season replacement in January of 1976 and was an instant hit ranking number three in the Nielsen ratings for the 1975-1976 season. [PAR] On Happy Days , Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney were two girls who were love interests for Richie Cunningham and Fonzie. Their occasional appearances led to their own series which takes place in the same city as Happy Days: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the 1950s and 1960s. [PAR] Laverne and Shirley are lower-society girls who share an apartment and work together at the Shotz Brewery as bottlecappers. Laverne and Shirley are very different people. Laverne is feisty, quick-tempered, and man-hungry while Shirley is more naive and trusting and quite inexperienced when it comes to romance. [PAR] Others in the cast includ Laverne's gruff father, Frank De Fazio, who runs the Pizza Bowl where Laverne and Shirley work on occasion. Edna Babish is the girls' landlady who later marries Frank. Carmine "The Bag Ragu" Ragusa is a singer/dancer who has an on-again, off-again romance with Shirley. The other two main characters of the series are the male counterparts of Laverne and Shirley. Lenny Kosnowski and Andrew "Squiggy" Squiggman live upstairs in the same apartment building as Laverne and Shirley and, also, work at the brewery. They constantly enter the girls' apartment with an annoying "hello." [PAR] In 1980, the series changed scenery. The girls want something new so they decide to move to California. Lenny and Squiggy follow them along with Frank, Edna, and Carmine. The girls want to get into movies while Frank and Edna open a restaurant, Cowboy Bill's. New characters included stuntman and apartment building manager Sonny St. Jacques and neighbor and model Rhonda Lee. [PAR] In 1982, Cindy Williams left the series with her character marrying Walter Meany, a military man who was assigned overseas. [PAR] Main Title Theme Song "Making Our Dreams Come True" - written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox; performed by Cyndi Grecco [PAR] ABC Broadcast History January 27, 1976 - July, 1979 ---- Tuesdays ---- 8:30 P.M. August, 1979 - December, 1979 ---- Thursdays ---- 8:00 P.M. December, 1979 - February, 1980 ---- Mondays ---- 8:00 P.M. February, 1980 - May, 1983 ---- Tuesdays ---- 8:30 P.M. [PAR] Nielsen Ratings - Top 30 Season 1 (1975-1976) #3 (27.5) Season 2 (1976-1977) #2 (30.9) Season 3 (1977-1978) #1 (31.6) Season 4 (1978-1979) #1 (30.5) Season 5 (1979-1980) Not In Top 30 Season 6 (1980-1981) #20 (tie) (20.6) Season 7 (1981-1982) #20 (19.9) Season 8 (1982-1983) #25 (17.8) [PAR] Emmy Awards Nominations Outstanding Costume Design for a Series 1979 - Alfred E. Lehman [PAR] (source: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) [PAR] Golden Globe Awards Nominations Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy 1977 1978 [PAR] Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy 1978 - Cindy Williams 1978 - Penny Marshall 1979 - Penny Marshall 1980 - Penny Marshall [PAR] First Telecast: January 27, 1976 Last Telecast: May 10, 1983 Episodes: 178 color episodes plus one reunion specialmoreless[DOC] [TLE] 'Laverne & Shirley' Reunion: 5 Fun Facts From the Cast ...'Laverne & Shirley' Reunion: 5 Fun Facts From the Cast - ABC News [PAR] ABC News [PAR] 'Laverne & Shirley' Reunion: 5 Fun Facts From the Cast [PAR] April 26, 2012 [PAR] via GOOD MORNING AMERICA [PAR] Credit: ABC Photo Archives [PAR] For seven years, Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney "did it their way" on the hit TV sitcom, "Laverne & Shirley."  From dating to working at Shotz Brewery together, the female odd couple with a knack for physical comedy took on 1950s Milwaukee and created

In Laverne & Shirley, what was Laverne's last name?

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[DOC] [TLE] Foreigner Shares Heartfelt Tribute Following Death Of ...Foreigner Shares Heartfelt Tribute Following Death Of Original Bassist, Ed Gagliardi « K-EARTH 101 [PAR] Promotional studio portrait of American rock group Foreigner, 1977. (L-R): Lou Gramm, Ian McDonald, Al Greenwood, Mick Jones, Dennis Elliot. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) [PAR] Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images (Gagliardi second from left) [PAR] Fans are mourning the loss of original bassist of Foreigner, Ed Gagliardi, who passed away Sunday, May 11th after eight years of battling cancer, reports Ultimate Classic Rock . He was 62. [PAR] Gagliardi’s daughter broke the news of his passing in a message to fans on the bassist’s Facebook fan page writing, “Now that information has circulated, I would like to prevent misinformation and be the one to let everyone know that my father, Ed Gagliardi, passed away tonight at 7:40, after 8 years of battling cancer. There are no words. We appreciate your prayers and well wishes. We are shocked and heartbroken, thank you for your loyal fandom of an amazing man. I love you Daddy.” [PAR] Gagliardi was part of Foreigner’s original lineup from 1976 to 1979 with founding members Lou Gramm, guitarist Mick Jones, keyboardist Al Greenwood, drummer Dennis Elliott and Ian McDonald. He was part of the group’s early success on its self-titled 1977 debut that spawned hit singles “Feels Like The First Time” and “Cold As Ice” as well as the 1978 follow up Double Vision featuring hit songs “Hot Blooded” and “Double Vision.” [PAR] Gagliardi left the band in 79 over creative differences with Jones just before recording 1979’s Head Games. He later formed a new group Spys with former band mate Greenwood and released two albums (1982′s Spys and 1983′s Behind Enemy Lines) before disbanding. [PAR] After word got out of his passing, Foreigner shared a touching photo in his memory on its official Twitter account Monday, adding that the photo was taken at the band’s very first show. [PAR] R.I.P. Ed Gagliardi, you will be missed pic.twitter.com/TDj7hAPptN[DOC] [TLE] Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62 [PAR] Original Foreigner Bassist Ed Gagliardi Dies at 62 [PAR] By Jeff Giles May 12, 2014 9:21 AM [PAR] Hulton Archive, Getty Images (Gagliardi second from left) [PAR] Ed Gagliardi, the original bassist for Foreigner , has reportedly passed away at the age of 62. [PAR] The news comes courtesy of Gagliardi’s former bandmate Lou Gramm , who posted a note to his Facebook fan club page on May 11 that reads, “It is a heavy heart that I let fans know that Foreigner’s original bassist Ed Gagliardi passed away last evening. I had spoken to Ed a few weeks ago & we were making plans to meet at my show in Orlando Florida on July 31. Rest in Peace Ed .. Always your Band mate, Lou” [PAR] Gagliardi rounded out Foreigner’s founding lineup, joining Gramm, guitarist Mick Jones, keyboard player Al Greenwood, drummer Dennis Elliott, and multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald. In Gramm’s recently published memoir, ‘Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ he described Gagliardi as “a young guy from Long Island” and described the ways in which the bassist’s youthful enthusiasm tended to put him at odds with Jones. [PAR] Saying Gagliardi could be “obstinate at times, playing the song the way he wanted rather than the way it was drawn up,” Gramm wrote, “He and Mick had some memorable arguments.” In fact, while Gagliardi’s three-year tenure included Foreigner’s hit self-titled debut and the even more successful ‘ Double Vision ‘ in 1978, by ’79 he found himself permanently on the outs. “It took awhile for Ed to accept his role and play the bass the way we needed it to be played,” explained Gramm in his book. “He wasn’t a bad guy, he just was a little headstrong and had his own ideas that weren’t always compatible with what we were trying to accomplish…Ed took the news really

Ed Gagliardi, Al Greenwood and Dennis Elliot have all been in which group?

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[DOC] [TLE] Rhode IslandRhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. Rhode Island is the smallest in area, the eighth least populous, and the second most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states, following New Jersey. Its official name is also the longest of any state in the Union. Rhode Island is bordered by Connecticut to the west, Massachusetts to the north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound. [PAR] On May 4, 1776, Rhode Island became the first of the Thirteen Colonies to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown, and was the fourth to ratify the Articles of Confederation on February 9, 1778 among the newly sovereign states. It boycotted the 1787 convention that drew up the United States Constitution, and initially refused to ratify it. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th and last state to ratify the Constitution. [PAR] Rhode Island's official nickname is "The Ocean State", a reference to the fact that the state has several large bays and inlets that amount to about 14% of its total area. Rhode Island covers 1241 sqmi, of which 1045 sqmi are land. [PAR] Origin of the name [PAR] Despite its name, most of Rhode Island is located on the mainland of the United States. The official name of the state is State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which is derived from the merger of two colonies. Rhode Island colony was founded on what is now commonly called Aquidneck Island, the largest of several islands in Narragansett Bay, and included the settlements of Newport and Portsmouth. Providence Plantations was the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the city of Providence. [PAR] It is unclear how Aquidneck Island came to be known as Rhode Island, although there are two popular theories. [PAR] * Explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano noted the presence of an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay in 1524, which he likened to the island of Rhodes (part of modern Greece). Subsequent European explorers were unable to precisely identify the island that Verrazzano had named. The Pilgrims who later colonized the area assumed that Verrazzano's "Rhodes" was Aquidneck. [PAR] * A second theory concerns the fact that Adriaen Block passed by Aquidneck during his expeditions in the 1610s, described in a 1625 account of his travels as "an island of reddish appearance" (in 17th-century Dutch, "een rodlich Eylande"). Historians have theorized that this "reddish appearance" resulted from either red autumn foliage or red clay on portions of the shore. [PAR] The earliest documented use of the name "Rhode Island" for Aquidneck was in 1637 by Roger Williams. The name was officially applied to the island in 1644 with these words: "Aquethneck shall be henceforth called the Isle of Rodes or Rhode-Island." The name "Isle of Rodes" is used in a legal document as late as 1646. Dutch maps as early as 1659 call the island "Red Island" (Roodt Eylant). [PAR] Williams was a theologian forced out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Seeking religious and political tolerance, he and others founded "Providence Plantations" as a free proprietary colony. "Providence" referred to the divine providence, and "plantations" was an English term for a colony. "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" is the longest official name of any state in the Union. [PAR] 2009 contestation of the name [PAR] In recent years, the presence of the word plantation in the state's name became a sufficiently contested issue that, on June 25, 2009, the General Assembly voted to hold a general referendum determining whether "and Providence Plantations" would be dropped from the official name. Advocates for excising plantation asserted that the word specifically referred to the British colonial practice of establishing settlements which disenfranchised native people. They argued that the word symbolized, for many Rhode Islanders, a legacy of violent native disenfranchisement, but also of the proliferation of slavery in the colonies and in the post-

Which has the highest population, Rode island or South Dakota?

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[DOC] [TLE] Who was the revolutionary who said, “It is better to die ...Who was the revolutionary who said, “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees”? A. Victoriano Huerta B. Pancho Villa C. Emiliano Zapata D. Venustiano Carranza [PAR] You have new items in your feed. Click to view. [PAR] Question and answer [PAR] Who was the revolutionary who said, “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees”? A. Victoriano Huerta B. Pancho Villa C. [PAR] Emiliano Zapata D. Venustiano Carranza [PAR] Who was the revolutionary who said, “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees”? The answer is C. Emiliano Zapata. [PAR] Expert answered| jerry06 |Points 570|[DOC] [TLE] It is better to die on your feet than to live on your ...It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata - BrainyQuote [PAR] It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. [PAR] Find on Amazon: Emiliano Zapata [PAR] Cite this Page: Citation[DOC] [TLE] Better to die on your feet than live on your knees • Axis ...Better to die on your feet than live on your knees - Axis History Forum [PAR] Axis History Forum [PAR] This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by Marcus Wendel's Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day . [PAR] Founded in 1999. [PAR] Joined: 17 Apr 2008, 22:49 [PAR] Location: Darwin, Australia. [PAR] Post by B5N2KATE » 26 Apr 2008, 14:17 [PAR] Ladies and Gentlemen......... [PAR] Recently, a couple of forum members have pulled me up for the slogan at the bottom of my posts. [PAR] They point out that it is the other way around to what I have at the bottom of my posts.....if you look down you will see. [PAR] They maintain that it is incorrect....Better to live on your feet than die on your knees.... [PAR] I wondered at this assertion.... [PAR] If I were a propagandist or speachmaker, I certainly would not be exhorting anybody to die on their knees.. [PAR] So........in the spirit of this forum, I did a little checking. [PAR] Here's what I found.......... [PAR] Wikipedia lists this quote....and in Spanish it reads...."Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!" [PAR] which translates thus.............."It's better to DIE on your feet than LIVE on your knees." [PAR] Other translations...................................."I would rather die standing than live on my knees" [PAR] ........................................................"I prefer to die standing than live on my knees." [PAR] ....................................................."Prefer death on your feet to living on your knees" [PAR] This is attributed to Mexican revolutionary EMILIANO ZAPATA SALAZAR, apparently a leading figure in the revolution against Porfirio Diaz, 1910. [PAR] He took it directly from Cuban hero of their independance movement....JOSE MARTI. [PAR] It is often attributed to "Che" Guevara Arabhi. [PAR] or, in it's most famous incarnation to DOLORES IBARRUI (1895- 1989), "La Pasionara", as she was known. Ibarrui popularized it for Nationalist forces in a series of radio broadcasts to the women of Spain, exhorting them to FIGHT. She is first said to have broadcast it September 3 1936, but "La Pasionara" says she first used it on July 18, 1936. [PAR] So, much for the facts....but think about it. [PAR] I most certainly would not tell ANYONE to "live on your knees" if I were trying to whip up fervor and passion in my oratory. [PAR] Who wants to live on their knees?....I most certainly don't....in the words of another song....... [PAR] "BRI-TAINS NEVER NEVER NEVER, [PAR] Post by The Edge » 11 Jan 2010, 12:48 [PAR] B5N2KATE wrote: [PAR] Recently, a couple of forum members have pulled me up for the slogan at the bottom of my posts. [PAR] They point out that it is the other way around to what I have at the bottom of my

"Who said, ""It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees?"""

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[DOC] [TLE] Family Affair - CrazyAboutTV.comFamily Affair [PAR] Family Affair [PAR] Series Description [PAR] Family Affair was a 30 minute family drama series on CBS about a rich bachelor living in a Fifth Avenue penthouse apartment in Manhattan. He had the classic British "Gentleman's Gentleman", Mr. French, to see after his every need! He had beautiful women seeking his attentions by the score! He had everything except responsibilities ... that is ... until his two Nieces and Nephew turned up at his door! Their parents were both killed in an accident and their future life was either an orphanage or "Uncle Bill's" penthouse. Of course, the carefree playboy was in no rush to give up that lifestyle, but after spending some time with the children, he found that there are other pleasures in life too! A truly heart-warming, family-oriented series. [PAR] Family Affair Cast [PAR] Brian Keith ............... "Uncle" Bill Davis [PAR] Sebastian Cabot ........... Mr. Giles French [PAR] Johnny Whitaker ........... Jonathan "Jody" Patterson-Davis [PAR] Anissa Jones .............. Elizabeth "Buffy" Patterson-Davis [PAR] Kathy Garver .............. Catherine "Cissy" Patterson-Davis [PAR] Heather Angel ............. Miss Faversham (1966-1971) [PAR] John Williams ............. Nigel "Niles" French (1967) [PAR] Nancy Walker .............. Emily Turner (1970-1971) [PAR] Family Affair Trivia [PAR]      [PAR] There was another attempt to capitalize on this successful TV formula in 2002 with another series also titled, " Family Affair ". Unfortunately, it only lasted 14 episodes. [PAR] Anissa Jones broke her leg in April of 1969 so to allow her to continue appearing on Family Affair, the writers wrote a script where Buffy broke her leg. That was episode #95 during the fourth season titled, "What's Funny About A Broken Leg?". [PAR] Sebastian Cabot didn't really care for the role as Giles French when he read the script for the pilot. He felt that the stiff upper-lipped English butler would be a boring part to play. He agreed to do the pilot only because the money was very good. After Family Affair was picked up as a series he actually did get bored with the role very early on and even once said that both he and Brian Keith were exhausted with their roles for the final two seasons. Both of them found it difficult to force themselves to go to the studio. [PAR] Anissa Jones played the cute little girl Buffy on Family Affair and audiences simply loved her! Although Buffy was six years old, Anissa was actually 8 1/2 years old when the series began and just one week short of 13 years old when the last episode aired. Family Affair's producer, "Don Fedderson" insisted that Buffy should never get older so Anissa was ordered to bind her chest tightly, dress like a six-year-old, and carry her famed Mrs. Beasley doll in as many scenes as possible. We can only guess what that did to the self-esteem of a girl entering her teenage years! [PAR] By the way, the Mrs. Beasley doll was such a huge hit with audiences that it was marketed to the public and was a huge sales success even two years after Family Affair left primetime TV! Many parents probably associated the perfect little girl on television with the doll and dreamed of duplicated that combination at home. [PAR] In addition to producing Family Affair, Don Fedderson also produced another series about a household with no mother figure titled, " My Three Sons ". [PAR] Sebastian Cabot fell ill during season one and actor John Williams took over for eight episodes as Butler in his role as Niles French, the brother of Giles French. Giles absence was accounted for by saying that he had been called to London for an audience with the Queen of England! [PAR] Family Affair was canceled when CBS decided to cancel all of their shows that featured small town settings and/or families. They felt that audiences didn't want that type of programming any longer, opting to go for more adult oriented sitcoms. Family Affair along with many other victims of that decision was still doing pretty well in the ratings when canceled. [PAR] ABC came very close to moving Family Affair to their network but decided against it

In Family Affair what was the butler called?

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[DOC] [TLE] Iman - Model - Biography.comIman - Model - Biography.com [PAR] Model [PAR] Iman is a retired supermodel from the country of Somalia. She was married to late rocker David Bowie. [PAR] IN THESE GROUPS [PAR] Famous People Born in Mogadishu [PAR] Synopsis [PAR] Iman was born on July 25, 1955, in Mogadishu, Somalia. A student at the University of Nairobi, she was discovered by photographer Peter Beard. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Iman was a favorite model in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent devoted the "African Queen" collection to her. Since retiring from modeling, Iman has done charity work in Somalia, started a cosmetics line and married rocker David Bowie. [PAR] Early Life in Somalia [PAR] Retired model and business executive Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid was born on July 25, 1955, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Iman is sometimes described as her native land's most famous export. [PAR] One of the most sought-after fashion models of the 1970s and 1980s, Iman became a successful business executive in the 1990s with her own line of cosmetics. Married to rock star David Bowie since 1992, she became a mother for the second time at the age of 44 in the summer of 2000, but it was just one of many boundaries the enigmatic entrepreneur and social activist has broken in her lifetime. "She broadened the definition of beauty," declared Washington Post writer Robin Givhan of Iman's stunning, exotic looks. "She made earthiness sensual. She helped to transform fashion into entertainment and models into personalities." [PAR] Iman's mother, a gynecologist, gave her daughter the name Iman (which translates from Arabic as "faith') when she arrived into the world with the hope that this would better prepare her for the challenges she would face as a female in Muslim East Africa. Her parents were decidedly progressive: Iman's father was a diplomat stationed in Tanzania, and under the law he could have had multiple wives, but chose to keep just one. The parents agreed that their daughter should be sent to a private Catholic school for girls, which was considered more progressive than the standard Islamic education available to young females in the 1960s. There, Iman thrived. "I was a very nerdy child," she told husband David Bowie when he interviewed her for Interview in 1994. "I never fit in, so I became laboriously studious." [PAR] Discovery [PAR] By 1973, Iman was 18 and a student of political science at the University of Nairobi. She also worked as a translator to help pay her tuition costs. Photographer Peter Beard, a well-known figure in the fashion world, saw her one day on a street in Nairobi and was captivated by her long neck, high forehead and gamine grace. He began following her, and finally approached her to ask if she had ever been photographed. "The first thing I thought was he wanted me for prostitution of naked pictures," Iman recalled laughingly about that day in an interview with Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service writer Roy H. Campbell. "I had never seen Vogue. I didn't read fashion magazines, I read Time and Newsweek. " But when Beard offered to pay her, she reconsidered, and asked for the amount due to the college for her tuition, $8,000; Beard agreed. [PAR] Beard shot rolls of film of Iman that day, and took them back to New York with him. He then spent four months trying to convince his "discovery" to move to New York and begin modeling professionally. He even leaked items to the press about her fantastical beauty, and exaggeratedly claimed that she was descended from African royalty and that he had "found" her in the jungle. Another story alleged that she was a goat herder in the desert. When Iman finally capitulated and flew to New York, dozens of photographers greeted her at the airport. A press conference that day initiated her into the vagaries of celebrity and fame

Which pop star did model Iman marry in 1992?

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[DOC] [TLE] What is the most common road name in the UK ... - ZooplaWhat is the most common road name in the UK? - General in Kettering - Zoopla [PAR] What is the most common road name in the UK? [PAR] HomeWhereT... [PAR] According to Zoopla...the most popular street name ending in 'Road' would be 'Station Road', but the most popular name of all is 'High Street'. Teehee.. I read this days ago and would have done well on the TV show 'The Million Pound Drop Live'.[DOC] [TLE] Most Common Street Names In The UK | The Fact SiteMost Common Street Names In The UK | The Fact Site [PAR] Most Common Street Names In The UK [PAR] Home » Travel & Tourism »Most Common Street Names In The UK [PAR] Most Common Street Names In The UK [PAR] So, I was on a one hour bus journey today, it was rather boring, so I decided to look for funny street names. Whilst looking, I saw three roads called Church Road, which made me wonder what the most common road name is. [PAR] So here goes! Here’s a list of the UK’s 50 most popular street names. [PAR] High Street [PAR] Chester Road [PAR] Mill Road [PAR] One street name I’d like to see would be one called ‘The Road’, I’m pretty sure there is one, but I’ve never seen one, if you live near ‘The Road’ please take a pic and let me know! [PAR] Luke Ward is the founder of The Fact Site. He's a professional blogger & researcher with over 6 years experience in fact finding, SEO, web design & other internet wizardry. He loves to write about celebs, gaming, film & TV. [PAR] Hernandez [PAR] I am really happy that i have been cured from (HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS) with the herbal medicine of Dr Ighodalo, i have been suffering from this disease for the past 2 years without solution until i came across the email of this doctor who have cure so many people with his herbal medicine, i also choose to give him a chance to help me, he told me what to do and i kindly did it, and he gave me his herbal medicine and direct me on how to use it, i also follow his instructions for use and he ask us to go for a check up after 1 week and 4days which i did, to my greatest surprise my result came out as negative, i am really happy that there is someone like doctor Ighodalo who is ready to help anytime any day. To all the readers and viewers that is doubting this testimony stop doubting it and contact this doctor if you really have one and see if he will not actually help you. i am not a stupid woman that i will come out to the public and start saying what someone have not done for me and i know that there are some people out there who are really suffering and hurting their family just because of these diseases here is his contact: [email protected] [PAR] he also told me that he has cure for these diseases listed below [PAR] . HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS [PAR] . GET YOUR EX BACK AND MAKE SHE/HIM LOVE YOU MORE [PAR] . CANCER [PAR] There are more funny/strange streets names in uk like Back Action Street in Manchester, Grope Lane, swan lane etc., [PAR] Anonymous [PAR] My fave street name is in York – Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate. You can’t make that up!!!! [PAR] Rich [PAR] Here’s one: Coldharbour Lane. [PAR] Anonymous[DOC] [TLE] BBC News - 7 questions on street namesBBC News - 7 questions on street names [PAR] 7 questions on street names [PAR] Continue reading the main story [PAR] 7 questions on street names [PAR] A local authority is reviewing its decision to ban apostrophes in new street signs. Test yourself on the sometimes thorny issue of road names. [PAR] 1.) Multiple Choice Question [PAR] More than 50 streets in the Moray town of Keith need new names, officials say. Why? [PAR] They are currently nameless [PAR] The names are too suggestive [PAR] The streets share just five different names, causing confusion

What is the most common street name in the UK?

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[DOC] [TLE] Hotel California Meaning - ShmoopHotel California Meaning [PAR] NEXT  [PAR] In the title track of their hit 1976 album, "Hotel California," the Eagles warn listeners of the two most dangerous things known to man – women and California. Or, to be more precise, California girls. They turn the Beach Boys' plea from 1965 ("I wish they all could be California girls") on its head. Apparently something drastic happened to girls from the Golden State between 1965 and 1976. By the time they wrote "Hotel California," the Eagles had come to the conclusion that the "cutest girls in the world" also came with a lot of baggage. [PAR] But before we dive a little deeper into this song, let's go over the basic sequence of events described in this ballad. As the story unfolds, the speaker is driving on a dark desert highway late at night. He feels the wind in his hair and smells some desert flowers. Before long, he starts to feel drowsy and stops at a hotel for the night. You guessed it: it's the Hotel California. A mysterious woman stands and greets him at the door like a Homeric siren, luring the weary traveler with her seductive song. This female figure plays a central role in the song, though we never learn all that much about her. All the while, the speaker isn't sure what to make of the place. He starts to hear voices singing about how lovely and pleasant it is to stay at the hotel. The woman is rich and fun loving, and her friends are beautiful. [PAR] So far, so good. [PAR] The speaker orders up some wine from the Wine Captain, who remarks that the speaker has brought the playful spirit of the 1960s along with him. The speaker passes out and hears the voices again singing about the Hotel California. This time, however, they mention something about having an alibi to prove their innocence. This tidbit is the first suggestion that all might not be well at our quaint hotel. [PAR] The speaker notices how swanky the place is, but then the woman tells him that everyone at the hotel is a prisoner of his or her own making. (We spit out our champagne: "Whaaa?"). Everyone shows up for a dinner in the room of the "master," and they stab at some animal or "beast" that won't die. Naturally, this sends our speaker running for the exit, but now he can't find the exit. The person who watches over the hotel tells him not to worry because he won't ever be able to escape from the hotel. [PAR] And such is the fate of our weary traveling narrator. [PAR] The very first few lines of the song take us to the long, straight highways of California and the American southwest, which serves as a powerful symbol of freedom, desolation, and recklessness in songs by The Eagles. The song title suggests a sunny, laid-back place where people drink lots of pomegranate juice and practice yoga, but it also hints that the state of California (or, more accurately, the idea of California) is not really home to anyone. It's a place for people who are between destinations: transients. One central theme in "Hotel California" is the disconnect between popular perceptions of California versus the reality. [PAR] Don Henley's masterful lyrics focus much of their attention on this theme of perceptions of California in the American collective imagination versus the reality of the Golden State. Don Henley's lyrics certainly have a flair for the dramatic, as he effortlessly transforms the mood and tone of the story. What once seemed like a small desert paradise quickly turns into a gothic horror. [PAR] In many ways, this is a story about California in general, and Los Angeles in particular. Don Felder, the guitarist for The Eagles who wrote the tune for "Hotel California," has talked about how the song was inspired by driving into Los Angeles filled with high expectations that were later disappointed: "If you drive into LA at night you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights and the

"Which song starts, ""On a dark desert highway?"""

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[DOC] [TLE] Sinai Peninsula - New World EncyclopediaSinai Peninsula - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Sinai Peninsula [PAR] Next (Sinan) [PAR] Satellite image showing the Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west) and Gulf of Aqaba (east) [PAR] The Sinai Peninsula is a triangle-shaped peninsula located in Egypt that has an area of about 60,000 square kilometers between the Mediterranean Sea (to the north) and Red Sea (to the south). Its land borders are the Suez Canal to the west and the Israeli -Egyptian border to the northeast. The Sinai Peninsula is in Southwest Asia (also called West Asia; the more geographically accurate term for the Middle East) while the rest of Egypt is in North Africa . For geopolitical purposes, the Sinai is often considered part of Africa . [PAR] Sinai is a land of contrasts. The desert interior comes to an abrupt end at the Red Sea , where coral reefs along the coastline are among the most beautiful in the world. The Red Sea has one of the highest amounts of marine life variety in all the tropical seas of the world. [PAR] The contrasts continue in the religious realm as well, with the theory that the name Sinai is derived from the lunar deity Sin. The land of small groups of polytheistic worshipers of the trinity : Sin ( Moon ), Shamash ( Sun ) and Ishtar ( Venus ) gave way to the three monotheistic religions that would dominate the world. [PAR] Contents [PAR] 6 Credits [PAR] And the land that prophets, saints, and pilgrims traversed was also trampled by warriors like Alexander the Great , Ramses II , Napoleon Bonaparte , and Salah el-Din. The Arab-Israeli conflicts of this century in the area contrast with the thousands of tourists seeking spiritual solace in its remoteness. [PAR] Geography [PAR] The geology of the Sinai Peninsula can be divided into three main areas. The northern part runs parallel with the Mediterranean coast and consists of dried up river beds, or wadis, leading to sand dunes and fossil beaches formed by the changing levels of the Mediterranean Sea during the glacial periods that some geologists claim occurred as far back as two million years ago. The landscape is flat and uniform, interrupted only by some vast sand and limestone hills in the region of Gebel Maghara. [PAR] The central part of the peninsula is mostly comprised of the scarcely inhabited el-Tih Plateau, a high area of limestone formed during the Tertiary Period. The highlands extend towards the south until it goes over into the third area consisting of granite and volcanic rock . Limestone and sandstone sediments are replaced by granite and basalt escarpments that slope into the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba . Both rocks are produced by volcanic activity on the bottom of the ocean from the Precambrian Age . [PAR] Some geologists believe that some twenty million years ago, Sinai was connected with Egypt and the Saudi Arabian Peninsula as part of the same land formation. They theorize that thermal currents in the earth’s mantle created huge cracks, which lifted and spread the land. [PAR] The eastern boundary of the peninsula is a geological fault zone known as the Great Rift Valley , which can be seen from the upper Jordan River valley, extending southward through the Red Sea into Africa. [PAR] Flora and Fauna [PAR] Although the general conditions of the Sinai Peninsula are dry and hot with sparse vegetation, it is not without life. Wildlife is specially adapted to the climate with many species of snakes and mammals camouflaged to the earthy tones of the desert. [PAR] Some of the mammal species that exist are leopard , ibex and the Golden Spiney Mouse. There are several species of snakes and most are very poisonous: the Carpet Viper, Black Cobra, and Horned Viper are common. Lizards like the blue-headed Agama stand out against the neutral shades of desert sand and rocks. There is also an abundance of bird life particularly near the coastlines where many migratory species pass. [PAR] The coral reefs along the Sinai coastline are rated among the best in the world for snorkeling and diving, and the Red Sea has an abundance and diversity of tropical marine wildlife. The Red Sea is named for the Red Sea Hills, a low range of mountains along the Red Sea Coast. [PAR] History [PAR] Archaeological investigations

What is the name of the volcanic valley that runs from the Sinai peninsula to central Mozambique?

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[DOC] [TLE] Now Dudley confronts his demons | Film | The GuardianNow Dudley confronts his demons | Film | The Guardian [PAR] Now Dudley confronts his demons [PAR] TV audience of millions watches as comic reveals fears of imminent death [PAR] Sunday 21 November 1999 06.24 EST [PAR] First published on Sunday 21 November 1999 06.24 EST [PAR] Close [PAR] This article is 17 years old [PAR] In his early years as an entertainer, Dudley Moore would amuse his audiences with a rendition of Beethoven's Pathétique - as played by a pianist losing his memory. Bursts of manic tinkling would be interspersed with lengthening bouts of puzzled hesitation and baffled confusion that eventually descended into musical anarchy. [PAR] It was an amiable, though not necessarily hilarious, routine that perfectly combined Moore's twin talents: as a comic actor blessed with impish charm, and as a pianist of considerable talent. [PAR] Today, that Pathétique performance has come to haunt the Dagenham-born star - as he revealed to American interviewer Barbara Walters on her 20-20 programme on ABC TV last week. 'I so loved playing and now I can listen but ...' Then he stopped, his hands open in front of him, staring at them in grief. [PAR] It was a deeply unsettling interview in which Moore disclosed for the first time, in a slurred and hesitant voice, that he fully understands his fate. 'I think I am going to die,' he mumbled, propping himself up with a walking stick, pausing and seeming frequently to lose the thread of his thoughts. 'Um... I don't know... I don't think it's going to be, umm... pleasant,' he told Walters. [PAR] Moore is suffering from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disorder related to Parkinson's Disease, which took doctors four years to diagnose. Early symptoms include slurred speech, confusion, falling over and difficulty in swallowing, which can cause victims to drown in their own saliva. 'Choking to death must be awful,' said Moore, now aged 64. 'I don't find anything comforting, although my mood is fine now, but...', and he again faltered into silence. [PAR] Moore's appearance on Walters' show is his first in public since his diagnosis. Wearing a baggy blue woolly cardigan, he said: 'I don't feel cheated or bitter. It was good that I had my career before this happened and I did 10 [his 1979 film hit with Bo Derek] and Arthur, and I hope people remember and love me in those roles.' [PAR] In Britain, Moore, the son of a typist and a railway electrician who won a music scholarship to Oxford, is best remembered as Peter Cook's cuddly sidekick on their TV series Not Only... But Also . In the USA, however, he is famed for his romantic comedy leads in films such as the 1981 Hollywood comedy Arthur in which he played a loveable millionaire lush, a role that earned him an Oscar nomination, and provided him with another performance that has come back to haunt him. The staggering, slurred antics of Arthur began to be replayed by Moore himself. The tabloids labelled him an alcoholic, and despite the assurances of his friends that they had never seen him drink to excess, they reported his falls, outbursts, domestic upsets and car crashes. [PAR] Moore said: 'It's amazing that Arthur has invaded my body to the point that I have [seemed] to become him. That's the way people looked at me. But I want people to know I am not intoxicated and... that I am going through this disease as well as I can. But I'm trapped in this body and there's nothing I can do about it.' [PAR] On the set of his last attempt at a film, The Mirror Has Two Faces directed by Barbara Streisand in 1996, he was sacked for forgetting his lines. But long-time friend Blake Edwards, the Hollywood director and husband of British singer-actress Julie Andrews, said Moore was always a professional. When he was fired, Moore knew his acting career was over; the trouble was he still did not know why his mental

Who interviewed Dudley Moore about his illness in November 1999?

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[DOC] [TLE] Bujumbura International Airport, Burundi (Code :: BJM ...Bujumbura International Airport, Burundi (Code :: BJM) | Bujumbura Airport Map, Bujumbura International Airport Code [PAR] Timezone : Africa/Bujumbura [PAR] Bujumbura International Airport Timezone : GMT +02:00 hours [PAR] Current time and date at Bujumbura International Airport is 12:38:47 PM (CAT) on Sunday, Dec 18, 2016 [PAR] Looking for information on Bujumbura International Airport, Bujumbura, Burundi? Know about Bujumbura International Airport in detail. Find out the location of Bujumbura International Airport on Burundi map and also find out airports near to Bujumbura. This airport locator is a very useful tool for travelers to know where is Bujumbura International Airport located and also provide information like hotels near Bujumbura International Airport, airlines operating to Bujumbura International Airport etc... IATA Code and ICAO Code of all airports in Burundi. Scroll down to know more about Bujumbura International Airport or Bujumbura Airport, Burundi. [PAR] Bujumbura International Airport Map - Location of Bujumbura International Airport [PAR] Load Map [PAR] This page provides all the information you need to know about Bujumbura International Airport, Burundi. This page is created with the aim of helping travelers and tourists visiting Burundi or traveling to Bujumbura Airport. [PAR] Details about Bujumbura Airport given here include [PAR] Bujumbura International Airport Code - IATA Code (3 letter airport codes) and ICAO Code (4 letter airport codes) [PAR] Coordinates of Bujumbura Airport - Latitude and Longitude (Lat and Long) of Bujumbura International Airport [PAR] Location of Bujumbura International Airport - City Name, Country, Country Codes etc... [PAR] Bujumbura International Airport Time Zone and Current time at Bujumbura International Airport [PAR] Address and contact details of Bujumbura International Airport along with website address of the airport [PAR] Clickable Location Map of Bujumbura International Airport on Google Map. [PAR] General information about Burundi where Bujumbura International Airport is located in the city of Bujumbura. General information include capital of Burundi, currency and conversion rate of Burundi currency, Telephone Country code, exchange rate against US Dollar and Euro in case of major world currencies etc... [PAR] BJM - Bujumbura International Airport IATA Code and HBBA - Bujumbura International Airport ICAO code[DOC] [TLE] Bujumbura International AirportBujumbura International Airport is an airport in Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi. It is Burundi's only international airport and the only one with a paved runway. [PAR] Airlines and destinations [PAR] , the following airlines maintain regular scheduled service to Bujumbura International Airport: [PAR] Passenger [PAR] Note: : Brussels Airlines' outbound flights stop in Kigali, while all inbound flights are nonstop. The airline does not have traffic rights to transport passengers solely between Bujumbura and Kigali. [PAR] Cargo[DOC] [TLE] Bujumbura International Airport - Air Miles CalculatorBujumbura International Airport [PAR] Search Airport: [PAR] Airport: Bujumbura International Airport City: Bujumbura Country: Burundi  [PAR] IATA Code: BJM ICAO Code: HBBA Coordinates: Latitude: 3°19′26″S, Longitude: 29°19′6″E Runways: Direction: 17/35, Length: 11811 x 148 ft, Elevation: 2582 ft [PAR] Direction: 2/20, Length: 0 x 0 ft, Elevation: 2582 ft [PAR] Current local time: 20:06 CAT (2017-01-11) Standard time zone: UTC/GMT +2.0 Daylight saving time: UTC/GMT +2.0 Sunrise: 06:01 Sunset: 18:19 Wikipedia link: Wikipedia - Bujumbura International Airport [PAR] Location and map [PAR] Bujumbura International Airport is located approximately 5,1 miles (8,2 km) northwest of Bujumbura and about 13,4 miles (21,6 km) east of Uvira.

Bujumbura international airport is in which country?

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[DOC] [TLE] Herman Hollerith - Herman Hollerith Invented Computer ...Herman Hollerith Invented Computer Punch Cards [PAR] By Mary Bellis [PAR] Updated August 17, 2016. [PAR] A punch card is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. The information might be data for data processing applications or, as in earlier times, used to directly control automated machinery. The terms IBM card, or Hollerith card, specifically refer to punch cards used in semiautomatic data processing. [PAR] Punch cards were widely used through much of the 20th century in what became known as the data processing industry, where specialized and increasingly complex unit record machines, organized into data processing systems, used punched cards for data input, output and storage. Many early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. [PAR] While punched cards are now obsolete as a recording medium, as of 2012, some voting machines still use punched cards to record votes. [PAR] Semen Korsakov was the first to use punch cards in informatics for information store and search. Korsakov announced his new method and machines in September 1832; rather than seeking patents, he offered the machines for public use. [PAR] Herman Hollerith [PAR] In 1881, Herman Hollerith began designing a machine to tabulate census data more efficiently than by traditional hand methods. The U.S. Census Bureau had taken eight years to complete the 1880 census, and it was feared that the 1890 census would take even longer. Hollerith invented and used a punched card device to help analyze the 1890 US census data. His great breakthrough was his use of electricity to read, count and sort punched cards whose holes represented data gathered by the census-takers. His machines were used for the 1890 census and accomplished in one year what would have taken nearly 10 years of hand tabulating. In 1896, Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company to sell his invention, the Company became part of  IBM  in 1924. [PAR] Hollerith first got his idea for the punch-card tabulation machine from watching a train conductor punch tickets. For his tabulation machine he used the punch card invented in the early 1800s, by a French silk weaver called  Joseph-Marie Jacquard . Jacquard invented a way of automatically controlling the warp and weft threads on a silk loom by recording patterns of holes in a string of cards. [PAR] Hollerith's punch cards and tabulating machines were a step toward automated computation. His device could automatically read information which had been punched onto card. He got the idea and then saw Jacquard's punchcard. Punch card technology was used in computers up until the late 1970s. Computer "punched cards" were read electronically, the cards moved between brass rods, and the holes in the cards, created an electric current where the rods would touch. [PAR] Chad [PAR] A chad is the small piece of paper or cardboard produced in punching paper tape or data cards; also can be called a piece of chad. The term originated in 1947 and is of unknown origin. In laymen's terms chad is the punched out parts of the card - the holes.[DOC] [TLE] IBM100 - The Punched Card Tabulator - IBM - United StatesIBM100 - The Punched Card Tabulator [PAR] IBM100 [PAR] Choose your Country and Language: [PAR]   [PAR]   [PAR]   [PAR] Herman Hollerith’s first tabulating machines opened the world’s eyes to the very idea of data processing. Along the way, the machines also laid the foundation for IBM. [PAR] Transforming the census process [PAR] Herman Hollerith’s punched card tabulator transformed the census process—and information processing in general—beginning with the 1890 US census. The machine was able to collect and count data more rapidly and accurately than manual processes had allowed in the past. [PAR] The punched card [PAR] The punched cards used in the 1890 census were 12 rows by 24 columns, and measured 3.25 by 7.375 inches, about the size of the dollar bill at the time. They were the first machine-readable media used for data collection. [PAR] Pantographic keyboard punch [PAR] Hollerith

Who invented the world's first data-processing machine?

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[DOC] [TLE] 15 Figures Who Made Watergate an American Epic | PBS NewsHour15 Figures Who Made Watergate an American Epic | PBS NewsHour [PAR] 15 Figures Who Made Watergate an American Epic [PAR] EMAIL [PAR] BY Meena Ganesan   May 16, 2013 at 4:56 PM EST [PAR] On May 17, 1973, Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., gavelled in the first public hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, better known as the Senate Watergate Committee. The impending result was almost unfathomable. [PAR] The months that followed would bring testimony from White House officials and questions from senators on whether “illegal, improper or unethical activities” had been committed in connection to President Richard Nixon’s 1972 campaign for re-election. What had started out as a story about a bungled break-in to Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate complex the previous summer eventually ended in the downfall and resignation of President Nixon on Aug. 9, 1974. [PAR] Four decades later, we look back at the process that engrossed the country and convulsed Washington with its unwavering characters and cliff-hanging moments. [PAR] Here are some of those figures and instances: [PAR] Sam Ervin [PAR] Unless otherwise noted, all photos taken from archival PBS video of the Senate Watergate hearings. [PAR] Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. was chairman of the Senate Watergate committee in 1973. [PAR] At the start of the television hearings in May of that year, Ervin noted: [PAR] If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States. And if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other precious property of American citizens, but something much more valuable — their most precious heritage: the right to vote in a free election. [PAR] Ervin joined the Senate in 1954. As a freshman, he served on a committee charged with studying whether Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., required censure for his anti-Communist investigations. In his 20 years in the Senate, the Harvard-trained statesman became well-known for his constitutional knowledge, according to the U.S. Senate Historical Office. Ervin retired from the Senate in December 1974. He died April 23, 1985. He was 88. [PAR] Howard Baker [PAR] Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., was vice chairman of the Senate Watergate committee in 1973. [PAR] During proceedings, Baker asked a question that would become very well-known in Washington: “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” [PAR] Baker served three terms in the U.S. Senate, from 1967 to 1985, and as majority leader for the last four years of his tenure. He was a presidential hopeful for the 1980 Republican nomination, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984, worked as President Ronald Reagan’s chief of staff from 1987 to 1988, served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2001 to 2005 and co-founded the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in 2007. Baker, now 87, is senior counsel to the law firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz. [PAR] Fred Thompson [PAR] Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., was the Senate Watergate Committee’s chief minority counsel in 1973 and 1974. [PAR] Thompson, the lawyer turned lobbyist turned actor turned politician, wrote a Watergate memoir called “At That Point in Time” in 1975, served as special counsel to then-Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander and to both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Intelligence Committee, ran for and won the special election for Vice President Al Gore’s Senate seat, and chaired the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee from 1997 to 2001. Thompson lives in Washington, D.C., and has appeared in television movies and series, as well as 18 feature films. [PAR] James McCord [PAR] A former officer in the CIA and FBI, James M. McCord was one of the five original men arrested for breaking into the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. He was later convicted of burglary, wiretapping and conspiracy. McCord had been hired by White

Who was chairman of the Watergate hearings?

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[DOC] [TLE] Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR ...Godzilla The Original Animated Series Vol 1 DVD (NR) +Movie Reviews [PAR] Hanna Barbera's 1970s Godzilla cartoon comes to DVD! [PAR] grundle2600 | Pittsburgh, PA | 04/12/2006 [PAR] (5 out of 5 stars) [PAR] "This DVD is called "Godzilla: The Original Animated Series Volume 1." [PAR] I was born in 1971. So when Hanna Barbera's "Godzilla" cartoon came out in the late 1970s, I was the perfect age for its intended audience. [PAR] This show featured the Calico, a research ship that traveled all over the world. The Calico carried all sorts of scientific research equipment with it, as well as a minicopter, a minisub, a bathosphere, a hovercraft, and a lifeboat. The Calico's crew consisted of Captain Carl Majors, Dr. Quinn Darian (a research scientist), Brock (Dr. Darian's assistant), Pete (Dr. Darian's nephew), and Godzooky. Godzooky was apparently a younger relative of Godzilla. He was also Pete's pet. [PAR] Although no episode of the show ever mentioned how the crew of the Calico became friends with Godzooky and Godzilla, it was mentioned in a press release when the show first aired: Godzooky was trapped in a coral reef, and he was rescued by the Calico's crew. [PAR] As the crew of the Calico traveled all over the world, they would encounter various monsters, creatures, bad guys, villains, enemies, etc. When they got in trouble, they could summon Godzilla by pressing a button on a small handheld signaler, which would emit a sonic frequency. Godzilla would then appear and save the day. When the signaler was unavailable, or broken, or when the sonic frequency was blocked, they could also call Godzilla by having Godzooky scream. Since Godzilla was a good guy, he would always do whatever he could to help them. [PAR] This show had lots of action, adventure, and heroism. In the 26 episodes of this series, there were monsters, dragons, dinosaurs, giant insects, volcanoes, time travel, aliens, spaceships, meteors, asteroids, missiles, tanks, and numerous references to classic science fiction and ancient mythology. The show had everything that a boy my age could ever ask for in a TV show. It was my favorite show at the time. [PAR] I still love the show today. It's not my #1 favorite any more, but it is still in my top 10. [PAR] Classic Media has issued a statement regarding the contents of this DVD. The episodes will be in chronological order, starting with the first episode of the series. [PAR] This DVD contains 4 episodes. They are: [PAR] The Fire Bird - A giant flying creature that lives inside a volcano is wreaking havoc for the people who live nearby. Godzilla has to stop the creature before it lays eggs. This is a good introduction to the series. [PAR] The Eartheater - San Francisco is being terrorized by a giant creature that lives underground and eats dirt. Buildings are collapsing all over the place. The entire city and its inhabitants are threatened. This is a very good early episode. Of the 4 episodes on this DVD, this one is my favorite. [PAR] Attack Of The Stone Creatures - A pair of giant ancient stone creatures have come to life in Egypt. Their breath creates blizzards in the middle of the desert. This is a pretty good episode. [PAR] The Megavolt Monster - While doing scientific research in the bathosphere, Dr. Darian and Brock become trapped by several giant creatures that live in a giant air bubble at the bottom of the ocean. Godzilla carries Captain Majors and Pete down there to help rescue them inside his hand, which Captain Majors says is "air tight and pressure proof." This is another good episode." [PAR] Fairly true to the Classic Godzilla movie series!!!! [PAR] Danny Jerry | md | 06/10/2006 [PAR] (5 out of 5 stars) [PAR] "This series is really one of Hanna-Barbera's best shows as the animation, writing and voice work is far superior to the other "cookie

In the animation series, what was Godzilla's nephew called?

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[DOC] [TLE] Janet Jackson - Biography.comJanet Jackson - Actress, Producer, Dancer, Singer - Biography.com [PAR] Janet Jackson [PAR] The younger sister of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson is one of the best-selling artists in contemporary history. Her roster of albums include 'Control,' 'Rhythym Nation,' 'The Velvet Rope' and 'Unbreakable.' [PAR] IN THESE GROUPS [PAR] » [PAR] quotes [PAR] “It sounds so selfish to say I, I, I. But it bothers me that some people think someone gave me an image or told me what songs to sing or what clothes to wear. I'm not a robot. I want people to know that I'm real.” [PAR] “With my friends, their older sisters and brothers would yell at them and tell them to get out and leave them alone and shut up, but my brothers and sisters never did that to me. They always wanted me around. I was a tomboy, actually, and they always told me I’d grow out of it but I told them that I never wanted to and I wouldn’t.” [PAR] “I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time. I wanted to allow people in... I want my fans to really know me. The ‘Janet’ album was sexual and I was beginning to really discover that side of me.” [PAR] “...sex isn't just fire and heat, it's natural beauty. Doing what comes naturally. It's letting go, giving and getting what you need. In the age of AIDS, it certainly requires being responsible. On a psychological level, though, good sex, satisfying sex, is also linked with losing yourself, releasing, using your body to get out of your body.” [PAR] “I come from a sheltered background. And then suddenly I'm off to Minneapolis, and these guys, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, are running around cursing like crazy. That made me so uncomfortable I wanted to go home—until I saw that they meant no harm or offense. They were merely talking the way they talk. They were being funny. They were being real. The problem was with my perception, not with their hearts.” [PAR] “[Michael] loved to laugh. The last time we were together, he'd laugh so hard, he would just start crying. Sometimes his humor would be corny, sometimes dry. He loved the Three Stooges, he loved slapstick, he loved Eddie Murphy in his silly comedies. He loved to have fun. He loved to play.” [PAR] —Janet Jackson [PAR] Janet Jackson - Mini Biography (TV-14; 5:19) A short biography of Janet Jackson, who, as a member of the Jackson Dynasty, started her career as a child actress. But she soon made a career for herself in music, and her videos turned her into a music icon. [PAR] Synopsis [PAR] Born on May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana, Janet Jackson is an award-winning recording artist and actress who's the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians. She is best known for hit singles like "Nasty," "Love Will Never Do (Without You)," "That's the Way Love Goes," "Together Again" and "All for You." Jackson is ranked as one of the bestselling artists in contemporary music, having released an array of multi-platinum albums like Control, Rhythm Nation 1814 and Janet in collaboration with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. In 2015 she reunited with the two producers for Unbreakable, which became her seventh No. 1 album.    [PAR] Famous Family [PAR] Singer, songwriter and actress Janet Jackson was born on May 16, 1966, in Gary, Indiana. The youngest of nine children born to Katherine Esther and Joseph Walter Jackson , she grew up in the affluence of a show business family. Her five brothers— Jackie , Tito , Marlon , Jermaine and Michael —signed a contract with Motown Records in 1968 and would go on to rule the charts as The Jackson Five , with such hits as "I Want You

Who in the singing Jackson family appeared in Different Strokes?

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[DOC] [TLE] History of Field Hockey | iSport.comHistory of Field Hockey | iSport.com [PAR] History of Field Hockey [PAR] History of Field Hockey [PAR] The sport of field hockey — or just “hockey,” as it’s known in most of the 112 countries it is played — is widely considered one of the top six sports in the world. Field Hockey’s origins are ancient. Proof can be found in the simplicity of the game: Teams use a stick to hit a ball into a goal. [PAR] Ancient Field Hockey [PAR] The exact origins of the sport are unknown. However, archeologists found 4,000-year-old drawings of men playing a simplistic version of the game in the Beni Hasan tombs in the Nile Valley, Egypt. Other historical records show that various versions of the sport were played in the Persian, Roman, Ethiopian, and Aztec civilizations. [PAR] The Middle Ages [PAR] A new era was defined in the Middle Ages, when variations of hockey-like games began popping up in various European countries. The game of “cambuca” was played in England, while “shinty” was played in Scotland, “jeu de mail” was played in France, and “het kolven” was played in the Netherlands. [PAR] English Royalty [PAR] The sport became popular among English Royalty in the 1300s. Yet, not all of the royals were fond of the game. In 1363, King Edward III of England issued the proclamation: “Moreover, we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing; handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.” This proclamation is proof that a semi-organized version of hockey was being played over 1,500 years ago. [PAR] Modern Hockey [PAR] In the mid – 19th century, English public schools adopted the modern game of field hockey. Playing a much rougher version of the game, the first hockey club, Blackheath, was formed in 1849. A few decades later, the Middlesex cricket clubs developed the modern game. A club called “Teddington” was especially known for its part in molding the game. The cricket players were looking for something to play during winter and began drawing up rules for their new game. This led to the first field hockey association: Hockey Association in London, established in 1886. [PAR] Olympic Field Hockey [PAR] The British Army had spread the game throughout the British Empire. In 1895, field hockey had its first international competition. The game was between Ireland and Wales. Ireland won, 3-0. Hockey first appeared in the 1908 Olympic Games in London with only three teams: England, Ireland, and Scotland. The sport was permanently adopted into the Olympics at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam. Women’s field hockey made its debut and became an Olympic fixture at the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, Russia. [PAR] International Body is Formed [PAR] International structuring for the sport in Europe began when England and Belgium agreed to play against each other. These countries would later join the French federation in 1924 to create the International Hockey Federation (or the FIH, standing for “Fédération International de Hockey” in French). To this day, the FIH is the sport’s international governing body. The original members were Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland. The FIH now consists of 112 member associations, spread across five continents. [PAR] Women in Field Hockey [PAR] Field hockey was originally considered too dangerous a sport for female participants. This notion later changed when women who enjoyed outdoor activities, such as croquette and lawn tennis, adopted field hockey as a socially acceptable outdoor activity. It was later considered as the only team sport proper for women. [PAR] Women’s field hockey was first introduced to British Universities and schools in the 1880s. The first field hockey club, Molesey Ladies Hockey Club, was founded in 1887. This club led to the formation of the International Federation of Women’s Hockey Associations (IFWHA) in 1927. Following the establishment of this association, women’s field hockey grew rapidly around the world. It spread in many continental European countries and later to the USA.

When did field hockey become an Olympic event for men?

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[DOC] [TLE] Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with ...Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with English letters [PAR] Business Times [PAR] Old “Sri “vehicles get new registration numbers with English letters [PAR] Sri Lanka’s old vehicles using the licence number plates with Sinhala auspicious letter 'Sri' are now being issued with new registration numbers with English letters. This was initiated by the Department of Motor Traffic with the approval of the cabinet, Commissioner General of Motor Traffic, B.D.L Dharmapriya said. He added that owners of 36 vehicles have changed their number plates from the 'Sri' numbers to English letters, so far. Old vehicles that bear 'Sri' numbers can obtain numbers with English letters after paying Rs. 20,000 to the Registrar of Motor Vehicles Department. The old vehicles will be issued numbers from AA 0001 to FZ 9999, he added. The issue of English numbers has commenced from GA 0001. [PAR] Sri Lanka shifted from 'Sri' numbers to two English letters smoothly in 2000 although the introduction of Sinhala 'Sri' letter in the 1950s roused Tamil protest and communal violence following it. The current series of car registrations in Sri Lanka was introduced in 2000 and is on yellow number plates with black characters and a black border. On the left hand side of the number plate is the country emblem, below which a two-letter region identifier is e.g. WP represents the Western Province. The format of the remainder of the registration is LL – DDDD, with L being a letter and D being a number. The previous series of registrations had been in effect since 1956 and was on brighter yellow plates with the format DD – DDDD. Also they didn’t have any national emblem or region identifier. Taxis have white number plates with red lettering, Mr. Dharmapriya said. [PAR] The department will begin issuing number plates with three English letters for the newly registered vehicles after the present series is completed. Production of number plates for three letter numbers have already begun and 1600 number plates a day are produced now, said a department official. [PAR] The year 1957 was marked by much friction over the issue of the 'Sri' letter in vehicle number plates. [PAR] The earlier system was to use English alphabet letters from the country's name CEYLON (CE, CL, CN, EY, EN etc. The then SWRD Bandaranaike government wanted it to begin with the Sinhala 'Sri.' Tamil politicians resented this as a form of Sinhala imposition. They protested and demanded that the Tamil 'Shree' also be substituted. Ironically there was no letter 'Shree' in the Tamil alphabet. The 'Shree' used was derived from Sanskrit. On January 19, 1957 the Federal Party began an anti-Sri campaign in the northeast. Vehicles began running with Tamil letters. The 'Sinhala' Sri was changed into the Sanskrit derived 'Tamil' Shree. [PAR]  |

What are the international registration letters of a vehicle from Sri Lanka?

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[DOC] [TLE] TELEVISION : The Dawning of 'Evening Shade' : How the ...TELEVISION : The Dawning of 'Evening Shade' : How the producing team of Harry and Linda Thomason lured Burt Reynolds and other movie heavyweights to a sitcom - Page 2 - latimes [PAR] YOU ARE HERE: LAT Home → Collections → Television Producers [PAR] (Page 2 of 4) [PAR] TELEVISION : The Dawning of 'Evening Shade' : How the producing team of Harry and Linda Thomason lured Burt Reynolds and other movie heavyweights to a sitcom [PAR] February 17, 1991 |DAVID WALLACE | David Wallace is a frequent contributor to Calendar. and [PAR] "I was so touched that she thought that was the kind of thing I could do. He is my favorite actor (and a guest on the first of Reynolds' new talk-show specials, 'Burt Reynolds' Conversations With. . . ,' to air on CBS this spring) and I was touched that she saw I had some kind of comic ability and that she put me in a category where I could play somebody that was Everyman and not some cocky. . . . [PAR] "She asked what I would have done if I hadn't been an actor," Reynolds continued, "and I said, 'probably a football coach.' I love kids and know I am very good at communicating with young people and I love sports. My brother was a high school football coach for 20 years and when my dad talks about the two of us, he considers my brother as having a little more success than I have. . . . Especially in the South, where I'm from, you have two sports: football and spring football." (Reynolds played football on a Florida State scholarship until a knee injury ended his athletic career.) [PAR] Ergo, Reynolds' character in "Evening Shade," was instantly transformed from the journalist that Thomason had been contemplating to Wood Newton, who, after a 15-year pro career with the Pittsburgh Steelers, returns to his hometown to coach the perennially last-place high school football team. [PAR] "So we're then going back and forth about the other characters," Reynolds said, "and Linda says, 'There should be a town eccentric,' and I say, 'like Elizabeth Ashley,' and she says 'doctor' and I say 'like Charles Durning.' So we penciled in our dream cast. Ossie Davis as Ponder Blue--he has a barbecue stand where everybody goes; Anne Wedgeworth as Durning's wife-- my first roommate in New York," he interjected, "was Rip Torn, when he was married to the 18-year-old Anne Wedgeworth. Hal Holbrook for Evan Evans, the owner of the town paper--his wife, Dixie Carter, is on 'Designing Women.' Michael Jeter (cast as Reynolds' assistant coach) came out of nowhere; Marilu (cast as his wife, Ava) I've known a long time. [PAR] "When it was time for Linda to go to the network and say 'this is what we want,' someone looked at the cast and said, 'Wonderful, but we won't be able to afford camera or film.' So I said 'Call them.' We started calling and the dream cast came together." [PAR] "This is probably the most expensive half-hour show to start up because of the cast," observed Harry Thomason. The budget hovers around $800,000 per episode--more than $100,000 over the sitcom average. "In order to do the show, CBS was willing to pay a premium license fee. Another thing we did to allow these people to make the money they wanted per show was to allow them to come and go. We said, 'Just do 10 or 17 shows a year.' The way Linda writes (she writes the script the weekend preceding filming of the episode), she can write with who's going to be there." [PAR] The start of another week, and the cast has gathered for a reading of the script in MTM's cavernous Stage 19, previously the site of CBS

Which character did Burt Reynolds play in Evening Shade?

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[DOC] [TLE] 'Trading Places' - More Than 7 Things You May Not Know ...‘Trading Places’: More Than 7 Things You May Not Know About The Film (But We Won’t Bet A Dollar On It) | IndieWire [PAR] Advertise with Indiewire [PAR] ‘Trading Places’: More Than 7 Things You May Not Know About The Film (But We Won’t Bet A Dollar On It) [PAR] 'Trading Places': More Than 7 Things You May Not Know About The Film (But We Won't Bet A Dollar On It) [PAR] Talk [PAR] Thirty years ago, “ Trading Places ,” John Landis‘ classic comedy, premiered to critical and commercial success. Not only was it the 4th highest grossing film of 1983 (making over $90 million, behind “Flashdance,” “Terms of Endearment,” and “Return of the Jedi“), but the film also received praise from the likes of Roger Ebert (“This is good comedy”) and Rex Reed (“Trading Places is an updated Frank Capra with four-letter words, and I can think of no higher praise than that”). The film is about two beyond-wealthy yet bored brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) who swap out a well-to-do finance guy in their employ ( Dan Aykroyd ) with a homeless conman (Eddie Murphy) just to watch the world burn, oh no, we mean to test the good old “nature vs. nurture” debate. Decades later, “Trading Places” is still hilarious, with its cutting commentary on class and race in America (regrettably still topical), legendary comedic performances by Murphy (way before “ Triplets ” talk and Murphy became the most overpaid actor in Hollywood ) and Aykroyd (way before “ Ghostbusters 3 ” talk and Aykroyd opened up about his belief in aliens ), and so much more (Jamie Lee Curtis plays a hooker with a heart of gold, the 1% lose out in the end, and more). [PAR] To mark the occasion, check out a few tidbits of trivia that you may not know about the film below and keep your eye on the frozen orange juice market. “Trading Places” is currently available on DVD and Blu-ray (we recommend the “Looking Good, Feeling Good” edition in either format), and can be seen on Netflix: what better time to watch than during this summer weekend (there’s only so much sunshine and fresh air you can soak up), especially with some freshly squeezed orange juice (take that, Duke brothers!)? [PAR] 1. It Was Originally Meant To Be A Richard Pryor-Gene Wilder Vehicle Called “Black And White” [PAR] After the uber-success of “Stir Crazy” (grossing over $100 million and ranking 3rd overall for 1980, although with mixed reviews), the team of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder was a hot ticket. With comedic and literal gold in mind, the story for “Trading Places” was born, though with the slightly more blunt title of “Black and White.” Too bad “ Ebony and Ivory ” was already taken. Remember, this was the early ’80s and a to-be-rated R comedy, so subtlety and racial sensitivity were not high on the checklist (for some context, check out this landmark ‘SNL’ sketch ). [PAR] Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on how you feel about “Norbit“), Pryor was unable to do the film and the studio replaced him with Murphy. Rather than taking Pryor’s reins, Murphy had Wilder re-cast and the rest is history. Being the 22-year-old comedian’s second film role (“48 Hours” being his screen debut), Billy Ray Valentine “ made him a phenomenon .” A few years later, Pryor and Wilder would get the chance to work together again for the third time (first was the moderately-received “Silver Streak“) in the critically panned and not-so-classic “See No Evil, Hear No Evil.” [PAR] 2. Other Casting Options Included Ray Milland, John Gielgud And More

Which executive producer of Dream On is well known for films such as Trading Places?

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[DOC] [TLE] CAMELOT (The Musical): "How to Handle a Woman" - YouTubeCAMELOT (The Musical): "How to Handle a Woman" - YouTube [PAR] CAMELOT (The Musical): "How to Handle a Woman" [PAR] Want to watch this again later? [PAR] Sign in to add this video to a playlist. [PAR] Need to report the video? [PAR] Sign in to report inappropriate content. [PAR] Rating is available when the video has been rented. [PAR] This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. [PAR] Uploaded on Jun 17, 2009 [PAR] Confounded by his wife's stubbornness, Arthur (Tom Hensen) tries to recall Merlin's advice on "How to Handle a Woman"... [PAR] (Book and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; Music by Frederick Loewe) [PAR] Category[DOC] [TLE] Richard Harris is King Arthur - Camelot - YouTubeRichard Harris is King Arthur - Camelot - YouTube [PAR] Richard Harris is King Arthur - Camelot [PAR] Want to watch this again later? [PAR] Sign in to add this video to a playlist. [PAR] Need to report the video? [PAR] Sign in to report inappropriate content. [PAR] Rating is available when the video has been rented. [PAR] This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. [PAR] Uploaded on Jan 21, 2012 [PAR] Merlin's advice on how to handle a woman [PAR] 1967 Warner Musical [PAR] Lerner & Loewe Screenplay and music [PAR] Category

Which musical featured the song How To Handle A Woman?

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[DOC] [TLE] The Scream recovered - May 07, 1994 - HISTORY.comThe Scream recovered - May 07, 1994 - HISTORY.com [PAR] The Scream recovered [PAR] Publisher [PAR] A+E Networks [PAR] On May 7, 1994, Norway’s most famous painting, “The Scream” by Edvard Munch, was recovered almost three months after it was stolen from a museum in Oslo. Thefragile painting was recovered undamaged at a hotel in Asgardstrand, about 40 miles south of Oslo, police said. [PAR] The iconic 1893 painting of a waiflike figure on a bridge was stolen in only 50 seconds during a break-in on February 12, the opening day of the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. Two thieves broke through a window of the National Gallery, cut a wire holding the painting to the wall and left a note reading “Thousand thanks for the bad security!” [PAR] A few days after the theft, a Norwegian anti-abortion group said it could have the painting returned if Norwegian television showed an anti-abortion film. The claim turned out to be false. The government also received a $1 million ransom demand on March 3, but refused to pay it due to a lack of proof that the demand was genuine. [PAR] Eventually, police found four pieces of the painting’s frame in Nittedal, a suburb north of Oslo, and what may have been a cryptic messages that the thieves wanted to discuss a ransom. Finally, in January 1996, four men were convicted and sentenced in connection with the theft. Theyincluded Paal Enger, who had been convicted in 1988 of stealing Munch’s “The Vampire” in Oslo. Enger was sentenced this time to six-and-a-half-years in prison. He escaped while on a field trip in 1999, andwas captured 12 days later in a blond wig and dark sunglasses trying to buy a train ticket to Copenhagen. [PAR] In August 2004, another version of “The Scream” was stolen along with Munch’s “The Madonna,” this time from the Munch Museum in Oslo. Three men were convicted in connection with that theft in May 2006. Police recovered both works in August with minor marks and tears. Yet another version of “The Scream” remained in private hands and sold on May 2, 2012, for $119.9 million, becoming the most expensive work of art to sell at auction. [PAR] Munch developed an emotionally charged style that served as an important forerunner of the 20th century Expressionist movement. He painted “The Scream” as part of his “Frieze of Life” series, in which sickness, death, fear, love and melancholy are central themes. He died in January 1944 at the age of 81. [PAR] Related Videos[DOC] [TLE] BBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1994: Art thieves snatch ScreamBBC ON THIS DAY | 12 | 1994: Art thieves snatch Scream [PAR] 1994: Art thieves snatch Scream [PAR] Thieves have stolen one of the world's best-known paintings from a gallery in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. [PAR] Two men took just 50 seconds to climb a ladder, smash through a window of the National Art Museum in Oslo and cut The Scream, by Edvard Munch, from the wall with wire cutters. [PAR] The cutters were left behind along with a short ladder as the men fled with the painting. The entire incident was filmed by security cameras. [PAR] The director of the museum, Knut Berg, said, "It is impossible to estimate the value of the painting. [PAR] "But it is Norway's most valuable, Munch's most renowned, and it would be impossible to sell." [PAR] Getaway vehicle [PAR] The museum's alarm went off at 0630 local time (0530 GMT) and a security guard immediately alerted police, who arrived within minutes. [PAR] Police officers are searching for a Mercedes car thought to have been used as a getaway vehicle. [PAR] The painting was in the gallery as the highlight of a Norwegian Culture Festival staged in connection with the Winter Olympics which start today in Lillehammer. [PAR] There is widespread speculation that the theft may have some connection with the Games, possibly as a publicity stunt by campaigners. Art experts believe the painting is so well-known that

The painting The Scream was stolen form which city in 1994?

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[DOC] [TLE] Dick Van Dyke - Biography - IMDbDick Van Dyke - Biography - IMDb [PAR] Dick Van Dyke [PAR] Biography [PAR] Showing all 156 items [PAR] Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (5) | Trivia  (122) | Personal Quotes  (23) [PAR] Overview (3) [PAR] 6' 1" (1.85 m) [PAR] Mini Bio (1) [PAR] Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother is entertainer Jerry Van Dyke . His ancestry includes English, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, and Dutch. Although he'd had small roles beforehand, Van Dyke was launched to stardom in the 1960 musical "Bye-Bye Birdie", for which he won a Tony Award, and, then, later in the movie based on that play, Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He has starred in a number of films throughout the years including Mary Poppins (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and Fitzwilly (1967), as well as a number of successful television series which won him no less than four Emmys and three made-for-CBS movies. After separating from his wife, Margie Willett, in the 1970s, Dick later became involved with Michelle Triola . Margie and Dick had four children born during the first ten years of their marriage: Barry Van Dyke ; Carrie Beth van Dyke ; Christian Van Dyke and Stacy Van Dyke , all of whom are now in their forties and married themselves. He has seven grandchildren, including Shane Van Dyke , Carey Van Dyke , Wes Van Dyke and Taryn Van Dyke (Barry's children) and family members often appear with him on Diagnosis Murder (1993). [PAR] - IMDb Mini Biography By: Taiyo [PAR] Spouse (2) [PAR] Often works with his son Barry Van Dyke [PAR] Performed his own unique style of dancing [PAR] Grey moustache [PAR] The role of Rob Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961). [PAR] Trivia (122) [PAR] Often hosted game shows when he was a struggling actor. He hosted Mother's Day (1958) and Laugh Line (1959) but turned down The Price Is Right (1956). [PAR] Lived with Michelle Triola from 1976 until her death in 2009. Van Dyke had become friendly with her before his marriage ended and in his autobiography he admits that the final cause of his divorce from his wife was when he gave Michelle Triola out of his own pocket the six-figure amount she had sued for unsuccessfully in her infamous "palimony" case against Lee Marvin. [PAR] Daughter Stacy Van Dyke guest starred on Diagnosis Murder (1993), in Diagnosis Murder: Murder in the Family (1996). Grandson Shane Van Dyke guest-starred in 14 episodes of Diagnosis Murder (1993). [PAR] According to his book "Those Funny Kids: A Treasury of Classroom Laughter", by age 11 he had grown to 6' 1". [PAR] Is ambidextrous but writes mainly left-handed. [PAR] Served in the United States Air Force. [PAR] He enlisted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II, but initially did not make the cut because he did not meet the weight requirement, as he was underweight. He tried three times to enlist, before barely making the cut. He actually served as a radio announcer during the war, and he did not leave the United States. [PAR] He and his wife Margie married on the radio show "Bride and Groom" because the show paid for the wedding rings, a honeymoon and household appliances. After their wedding, the Van Dykes were so poor that they had to live in their car for a while. [PAR] Beat out Johnny Carson for the role of Rob Petrie on what later became The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961) . [PAR] Won Broadway's 1961 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "Bye, Bye Birdie" and a Grammy

Who did Dick Van Dyke play in The Dick Van Dyke Show?

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[DOC] [TLE] ~The Siri Thesis - The Pope in Red - "Cardinal Siri ...~The Siri Thesis - The Pope in Red - "Cardinal Siri" Gregory XVII~ [PAR] Links [PAR] THE SIRI THESIS (FACT): [PAR] A Cardinal on the Move: picture of His Eminence, Giuseppe Cardinal Siri of Genoa, Italy, at the Ospedale Galliera [PAR] (a Hospital in Genoa of which he was the President) approximately one year before he was elected the Pope [PAR] of the Catholic Church on October 26, 1958 A.D., (and) chose the name Gregorius XVII [PAR] "Father, the Blessed Virgin is very sad because no one heeds her message; neither the good nor the bad. The good continue on with their life of virtue and apostolate, but they do not unite their lives to the message of Fatima. Sinners keep following the road of evil because they do not see the terrible chastisement about to befall them. Believe me, Father, God is going to punish the world [PAR] and very soon. The chastisement of heaven is imminent. In less than two years, 1960 will be here and the chastisement of heaven will come and it will be very great. Tell souls to fear not only the material punishment that will befall us if we do not pray and do penance but most of all the souls who will go to hell." (-Exact words of Sister Lucy (visionary at Fatima) in an interview with Father Augustin Fuentes on December 26, 1957 A.D., giving clear forewarning that the imminent chastisement of heaven [PAR] for man's sins, would unmistakably occur before 1960 A.D.) [PAR] Forward [PAR] The Siri "Thesis" (FACT) holds that actually Cardinal Giuseppe Siri was elected Pope, after the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, but the newly-elected Pope (Gregory XVII, formerly Cardinal Siri) was *put under grave duress, threatened- prevented from taking the Papal Chair (i.e. publically proclaiming His Pontificacy) and replaced by Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII). There is evidence that in 1958, during the Conclave, the enemies of the Church were threatening "Siri" with mass destruction if he took the Chair of Peter (i.e. as stated "Cardinal Siri" after being canonically elected, accepted the papacy and chose the name Gregory XVII - the 5th column enemies within the Conclave walls themselves, then used ferocious and vicious, real threats against Pope Gregory XVII, if he publically were to announce he was the True Pope.) Pursuant to this thesis, all of the apparent 'popes' after Pope Pius XII were/are imposters (Anti-popes), as "Siri" was the true Pope. [PAR] *"Resignation is invalid by law if it was made out of grave fear unjustly inflicted, fraud, substantial error, or simony" (1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 185). [PAR] "Siri" (a.k.a. Pope Gregory XVII) expired on May 2, 1989 A.D., and is said to have passed on the true pontificate to an as yet unknown successor, who will emerge in due time after the eclipse of the Church predicted at LaSalette has come to an end. It was a suppressed pontificate in the person of Cardinal Joseph Siri of Genoa, who was canonically elected in 1958, but immediately overthrown, and was intimidated into keeping silent about his status (as were his cardinals) for 31 years. [PAR] The Pious Shepherdess Melanie Calvat, Seer at La Salette, France (c. 1846 A.D.) [PAR] "The Church will be eclipsed. At first, we will not know which is the true pope." -Melanie Calvat [PAR] For, in commenting on this part of the secret, Melanie said to the French Abbot Combe, "The Church will be eclipsed. At first, we will not know which is the true pope. Then secondly, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will cease to be offered in churches and houses; it will be such that, for a time, there will not be public services any more. But I see that the Holy Sacrifice has not really ceased: it will be offered in barns, in alcoves, in caves

From 1903 to 1958, every Pope--bar one--took which name?

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[DOC] [TLE] First astronauts introduced - Apr 09, 1959 - HISTORY.comFirst astronauts introduced - Apr 09, 1959 - HISTORY.com [PAR] First astronauts introduced [PAR] Publisher [PAR] A+E Networks [PAR] On April 9, 1959, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) introduces America’s first astronauts to the press: Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr., Alan Shepard Jr., and Donald Slayton. The seven men, all military test pilots, were carefully selected from a group of 32 candidates to take part in Project Mercury, America’s first manned space program. NASA planned to begin manned orbital flights in 1961. [PAR] On October 4, 1957, the USSR scored the first victory of the “space race” when it successfully launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into Earth’s orbit. In response, the United States consolidated its various military and civilian space efforts into NASA, which dedicated itself to beating the Soviets to manned space flight. In January 1959, NASA began the astronaut selection procedure, screening the records of 508 military test pilots and choosing 110 candidates. This number was arbitrarily divided into three groups, and the first two groups reported to Washington. Because of the high rate of volunteering, the third group was eliminated. Of the 62 pilots who volunteered, six were found to have grown too tall since their last medical examination. An initial battery of written tests, interviews, and medical history reviews further reduced the number of candidates to 36. After learning of the extreme physical and mental tests planned for them, four of these men dropped out. [PAR] The final 32 candidates traveled to the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they underwent exhaustive medical and psychological examinations. The men proved so healthy, however, that only one candidate was eliminated. The remaining 31 candidates then traveled to the Wright Aeromedical Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, where they underwent the most grueling part of the selection process. For six days and three nights, the men were subjected to various tortures that tested their tolerance of physical and psychological stress. Among other tests, the candidates were forced to spend an hour in a pressure chamber that simulated an altitude of 65,000 feet, and two hours in a chamber that was heated to 130 degrees Fahrenheit. At the end of one week, 18 candidates remained. From among these men, the selection committee was to choose six based on interviews, but seven candidates were so strong they ended up settling on that number. [PAR] After they were announced, the “Mercury Seven” became overnight celebrities. The Mercury Project suffered some early setbacks, however, and on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in the world’s first manned space flight. Less than one month later, on May 5, astronaut Alan Shepard was successfully launched into space on a suborbital flight. On February 20, 1962, in a major step for the U.S. space program, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. NASA continued to trail the Soviets in space achievements until the late 1960s, when NASA’s Apollo program put the first men on the moon and safely returned them to Earth. [PAR] In 1998, 36 years after his first space flight, John Glenn traveled into space again. Glenn, then 77 years old, was part of the Space Shuttle Discovery crew, whose 9-day research mission launched on October 29, 1998. Among the crew’s investigations was a study of space flight and the aging process. [PAR] Related Videos[DOC] [TLE] NASA - Leaders Visionaries and DesignersNASA - Leaders Visionaries and Designers [PAR] Leaders, Visionaries and Designers [PAR] By Roger D. Launius [PAR] Due to its strong mission orientation, NASA has been uniquely favored with a plethora of superb leaders, visionaries and designers drawn to challenging projects. At critical moments in NASA’s development, these individuals made a huge difference. They helped establish the agency and managed its programs, formulated its long term goals and strategies, designed and engineered spacecraft and systems, and successfully focused NASA’s workforce on the agency’s goals. Presented here are brief tributes to some special individuals who made an indelible mark through

What was the name of NASA's manned space project whose astronauts were chosen in 1959?

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[DOC] [TLE] Bill CosbyWilliam Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, author and singer-songwriter. [PAR] Cosby's start in stand-up comedy began at the hungry i in San Francisco, and was followed by his landing a starring role in the 1960s television show I Spy. During the show's first two seasons, he was also a regular on the children's television series The Electric Company. [PAR] Using the Fat Albert character developed during his stand-up routines, Cosby created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, a show that ran from 1972 to 1985, centering on a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. Throughout the 1970s, Cosby starred in a number of films, occasionally returning to film later in his career. After attending Temple University in the 1960s, he received his bachelor's degree there in 1971. In 1973 he received a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and in 1976 he earned his Doctor of Education degree, also from UMass. His dissertation discussed the use of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as a teaching tool in elementary schools. [PAR] Beginning in the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in a television sitcom, The Cosby Show, which aired from 1984 to 1992 and was rated as the number one show in America for five years, 1984 through 1989. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an affluent African-American family. Cosby produced the Cosby Show spin-off sitcom A Different World, which aired from 1987 to 1993; starred in the sitcom Cosby from 1996 to 2000; and hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things for two seasons, from 1998 to 2000. [PAR] Cosby has been the subject of publicized sexual assault allegations since about 2000. Cosby has been accused by over 50 women of rape, drug facilitated sexual assault, sexual battery, child sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct, with the earliest alleged incidents taking place in the mid-1960s. He has denied the allegations. Most of the acts alleged by his accusers fall outside the statutes of limitations for legal proceedings. Numerous related lawsuits against Cosby are pending, and he faces one felony charge of aggravated indecent assault in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He surrendered to authorities on December 30, 2015, and was released on $1 million bail. [PAR] Early life [PAR] Cosby was born on July 12, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is one of four sons of Anna Pearl (née Hite), a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr., who served as a mess steward in the U.S. Navy. During much of Cosby's early childhood, his father was away in the U.S. armed forces, spending several years serving in the theater of war in World War II. As a student, he described himself as a class clown. Cosby was the captain of both the baseball team and the track and field team at Mary Channing Wister Public School in Philadelphia, as well as the class president. Early on, though, teachers noted his propensity for clowning around rather than studying. At FitzSimons Junior High School, Cosby began acting in plays as well as continuing his devotion to playing sports. [PAR] Cosby went on to Philadelphia's Central High School, a magnet and academically rigorous university prep school where he played football, basketball, baseball, and ran track. In addition, Cosby was working before and after school, selling produce, shining shoes, and stocking shelves at a supermarket to help out the family. He transferred to Germantown High School, but failed the tenth grade. Instead of repeating, he got a job as an apprentice at a shoe repair shop, which he liked, but could not see himself doing the rest of his life. [PAR] In 1956, Cosby enlisted in the Navy, serving at the Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Naval Station Argentia, Newfoundland and at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. During his four years in the Navy, Cosby served as a Hospital Corpsman working in physical therapy with Navy and Marine Corps personnel

Bill Cosby had a professional trial in which sport?

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