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Hercule Poirot | 1000-0 | Hercule Poirot (, ) is a fictional Belgian detective created by British writer Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-running characters, appearing in 33 novels, two plays (Black Coffee and Alibi), and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.
Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh, and John Malkovich.
Overview
Influences
Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans' Monsieur Poiret, a retired French police officer living in London. Evans' Jules Poiret "was small and rather heavyset, hardly more than five feet, but moved with his head held high. The most remarkable features of his head were the stiff military moustache. His apparel was neat to perfection, a little quaint and frankly dandified." He was accompanied by Captain Harry Haven, who had returned to London from a Colombian business venture ended by a civil war. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-1 | Christie's Poirot was clearly the result of her early development of the detective in her first book, written in 1916 and published in 1920. The large number of refugees in the country who had fled the German invasion of Belgium in August to November 1914 served as a plausible explanation of why such a skilled detective would be available to solve mysteries at an English country house. At the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy towards the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasised the "Rape of Belgium".
Popularity
Poirot first appeared in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920, and exited in Curtain, published in 1975. Following the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to receive an obituary on the front page of The New York Times. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-2 | Appearance and proclivities
Captain Arthur Hastings's first description of Poirot:
Agatha Christie's initial description of Poirot in Murder on the Orient Express:
In the later books, his limp is not mentioned, suggesting it may have been a temporary wartime injury. (In Curtain, Poirot admits he was wounded when he first came to England.) Poirot has green eyes that are repeatedly described as shining "like a cat's" when he is struck by a clever idea, and dark hair, which he dyes later in life. In Curtain, he admits to Hastings that he has taken to wearing a wig and a false moustache. However, in many of his screen incarnations, he is bald or balding.
Frequent mention is made of his patent leather shoes, damage to which is frequently a source of misery for him, but comical for the reader. Poirot's appearance, regarded as fastidious during his early career, later falls hopelessly out of fashion.
Among Poirot's most significant personal attributes is the sensitivity of his stomach:
He suffers from sea sickness, and, in Death in the Clouds, he states that his air sickness prevents him from being more alert at the time of the murder. Later in his life, we are told: |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-3 | As mentioned in Curtain and The Clocks, he is fond of classical music, particularly Mozart and Bach.
Methods
In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based and logical detective; reflected in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of "the little grey cells" and "order and method". Hastings is irritated by the fact that Poirot sometimes conceals important details of his plans, as in The Big Four. In this novel, Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax. This aspect of Poirot is less evident in the later novels, partly because there is rarely a narrator to mislead.
In Murder on the Links, still largely dependent on clues himself, Poirot mocks a rival "bloodhound" detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues established in detective fiction (e.g., Sherlock Holmes depending on footprints, fingerprints, and cigar ash). From this point on, Poirot establishes his psychological bona fides. Rather than painstakingly examining crime scenes, he enquires into the nature of the victim or the psychology of the murderer. He predicates his actions in the later novels on his underlying assumption that particular crimes are committed by particular types of people. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-4 | "If I remember rightly – though my memory isn't what it was – you also had a brother called Achille, did you not?" Poirot's mind raced back over the details of Achille Poirot's career. Had all that really happened? "Only for a short space of time," he replied.
Poirot is also willing to appear more foreign or vain in an effort to make people underestimate him. He admits as much:
It is true that I can speak the exact, the idiomatic English. But, my friend, to speak the broken English is an enormous asset. It leads people to despise you. They say – a foreigner – he can't even speak English properly. ... Also I boast! An Englishman he says often, "A fellow who thinks as much of himself as that cannot be worth much." ... And so, you see, I put people off their guard.
He also has a tendency to refer to himself in the third person. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-5 | Poirot's investigating techniques assist him solving cases; "For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away..." At the end, Poirot usually reveals his description of the sequence of events and his deductions to a room of suspects, often leading to the culprit's apprehension.
Life
Origins
Christie was purposely vague about Poirot's origins, as he is thought to be an elderly man even in the early novels. In An Autobiography, she admitted that she already imagined him to be an old man in 1920. At the time, however, she did not know that she would write works featuring him for decades to come.
A brief passage in The Big Four provides original information about Poirot's birth or at least childhood in or near the town of Spa, Belgium: "But we did not go into Spa itself. We left the main road and wound into the leafy fastnesses of the hills, till we reached a little hamlet and an isolated white villa high on the hillside." Christie strongly implies that this "quiet retreat in the Ardennes" near Spa is the location of the Poirot family home. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-6 | Christie wrote that Poirot is a Catholic by birth, but not much is described about his later religious convictions, except sporadic references to his "going to church" and occasional invocations of "le bon Dieu". Christie provides little information regarding Poirot's childhood, only mentioning in Three Act Tragedy that he comes from a large family with little wealth, and has at least one younger sister. Apart from French and English, Poirot is also fluent in German.
Policeman
Gustave ... was not a policeman. I have dealt with policemen all my life and I know. He could pass as a detective to an outsider but not to a man who was a policeman himself.
— Hercule Poirot, The Erymanthian Boar
Hercule Poirot was active in the Brussels police force by 1893. Very little mention is made about this part of his life, but in "The Nemean Lion" (1939) Poirot refers to a Belgian case of his in which "a wealthy soap manufacturer ... poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary". As Poirot was often misleading about his past to gain information, the truthfulness of that statement is unknown; it does, however, scare off a would-be wife-killer. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-7 | I have been called in too late. Very often another, working towards the same goal, has arrived there first. Twice I have been struck down with illness just as I was on the point of success.
Nevertheless, he regards the 1893 case in "The Chocolate Box",
Inspector Japp offers some insight into Poirot's career with the Belgian police when introducing him to a colleague:
You've heard me speak of Mr Poirot? It was in 1904 he and I worked together – the Abercrombie forgery case – you remember he was run down in Brussels. Ah, those were the days Moosier. Then, do you remember "Baron" Altara? There was a pretty rogue for you! He eluded the clutches of half the police in Europe. But we nailed him in Antwerp – thanks to Mr. Poirot here.
In The Double Clue, Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until "the Great War" (World War I) forced him to leave for England. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-8 | Private detective During World War I, Poirot left Belgium for England as a refugee, although he returned a few times. On 16 July 1916 he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. It is clear that Hastings and Poirot are already friends when they meet in Chapter 2 of the novel, as Hastings tells Cynthia that he has not seen him for "some years". Agatha Christie's Poirot has Hastings reveal that they met on a shooting case where Hastings was a suspect.
Particulars such as the date of 1916 for the case and that Hastings had met Poirot in Belgium, are given in Curtain, Chapter 1. After that case, Poirot apparently came to the attention of the British secret service and undertook cases for the British government, including foiling the attempted abduction of the Prime Minister. Readers were told that the British authorities had learned of Poirot's keen investigative ability from certain members of Belgium's royal family. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-9 | According to Hastings, it was chosen by Poirot "entirely on account of its strict geometrical appearance and proportion" and described as the "newest type of service flat". His first case in this period was "The Affair at the Victory Ball", which allowed Poirot to enter high society and begin his career as a private detective.
Between the world wars, Poirot travelled all over Europe and the Middle East investigating crimes and solving murders. Most of his cases occurred during this time, and he was at the height of his powers at this point in his life. In The Murder on the Links, the Belgian pits his grey cells against a French murderer. In the Middle East, he solved the cases Death on the Nile and Murder in Mesopotamia with ease, and even survived An Appointment with Death. As he passed through Eastern Europe on his return trip, he solved The Murder on the Orient Express. He did not travel to Africa or Asia, probably to avoid seasickness.
It is this villainous sea that troubles me! The mal de mer – it is horrible suffering! |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-10 | It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women. Poirot had never been able to rid himself of the fatal fascination that the countess held for him.
Although letting the countess escape was morally questionable, it was not uncommon. In The Nemean Lion, Poirot sided with the criminal, Miss Amy Carnaby, allowing her to evade prosecution by blackmailing his client Sir Joseph Hoggins, who, Poirot discovered, had plans to commit murder. Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff prior to the conclusion of her dog kidnapping campaign. In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Poirot allowed the murderer to escape justice through suicide and then withheld the truth to spare the feelings of the murderer's relatives. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-11 | Considering it poetic justice that twelve jurors had acquitted him and twelve people had stabbed him, Poirot produced an alternative sequence of events to explain the death involving an unknown additional passenger on the train, with the medical examiner agreeing to doctor his own report to support this theory.
After his cases in the Middle East, Poirot returned to Britain. Apart from some of the so-called Labours of Hercules (see next section) he very rarely went abroad during his later career. He moved into Styles Court towards the end of his life.
While Poirot was usually paid handsomely by clients, he was also known to take on cases that piqued his curiosity, although they did not pay well.
Poirot shows a love of steam trains, which Christie contrasts with Hastings' love of autos: this is shown in The Plymouth Express, The Mystery of the Blue Train, Murder on the Orient Express, and The ABC Murders. In the TV series, steam trains are seen in nearly all of the episodes.
Retirement
That's the way of it. Just a case or two, just one case more – the Prima Donna's farewell performance won't be in it with yours, Poirot. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-12 | There is specific mention in "The Capture of Cerberus" of the twenty-year gap between Poirot's previous meeting with Countess Rossakoff and this one. If the Labours precede the events in Roger Ackroyd, then the Ackroyd case must have taken place around twenty years later than it was published, and so must any of the cases that refer to it. One alternative would be that having failed to grow marrows once, Poirot is determined to have another go, but this is specifically denied by Poirot himself.
In "The Erymanthian Boar", a character is said to have been turned out of Austria by the Nazis, implying that the events of The Labours of Hercules took place after 1937. Another alternative would be to suggest that the Preface to the Labours takes place at one date but that the labours are completed over a matter of twenty years. None of the explanations is especially attractive. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-13 | He continues to employ his secretary, Miss Lemon, at the time of the cases retold in Hickory Dickory Dock and Dead Man's Folly, which take place in the mid-1950s. It is, therefore, better to assume that Christie provided no authoritative chronology for Poirot's retirement but assumed that he could either be an active detective, a consulting detective, or a retired detective as the needs of the immediate case required.
One consistent element about Poirot's retirement is that his fame declines during it, so that in the later novels he is often disappointed when characters, especially younger characters, recognise neither him nor his name:
"I should, perhaps, Madame, tell you a little more about myself. I am Hercule Poirot."
The revelation left Mrs Summerhayes unmoved.
"What a lovely name," she said kindly. "Greek, isn't it?" |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-14 | Post–World War II Towards the end of his career, it becomes clear that Poirot's retirement is no longer a convenient fiction. He assumes a genuinely inactive lifestyle during which he concerns himself with studying famous unsolved cases of the past and reading detective novels. He even writes a book about mystery fiction in which he deals sternly with Edgar Allan Poe and Wilkie Collins. In the absence of a more appropriate puzzle, he solves such inconsequential domestic riddles as the presence of three pieces of orange peel in his umbrella stand.
Poirot, and, it is reasonable to suppose, his creator becomes increasingly bemused by the vulgarism of the up-and-coming generation's young people. In Hickory Dickory Dock, he investigates the strange goings-on in a student hostel, while in Third Girl (1966) he is forced into contact with the smart set of Chelsea youths. In the growing drug and pop culture of the sixties, he proves himself once again but has become heavily reliant on other investigators, especially the private investigator, Mr. Goby, who provide him with the clues that he can no longer gather for himself. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-15 | Death
On the ITV television series, Poirot died in October 1949 from complications of a heart condition at the end of Curtain. This took place at Styles Court, the scene of his first English case in 1916. In Christie's novels, he lived into the early 1970s, perhaps even until 1975 when Curtain was published.
In Curtain, Poirot himself became a murderer, in order to prevent further murders instigated by a man who manipulated others to kill for him, subtly and psychologically manipulating the moments where others desire to commit murder so that they carry out the crime when they might otherwise dismiss their thoughts as nothing more than a momentary passion. Poirot executed the man, as otherwise he would have continued his actions and never been convicted.
Poirot himself died shortly after having committed murder. He had moved his amyl nitrite pills out of his own reach, possibly because of guilt. Poirot himself noted that he wanted to kill his victim shortly before his own death so that he could avoid succumbing to the arrogance of the murderer, concerned that he might come to view himself as entitled to kill those whom he deemed necessary to eliminate. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-16 | Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in Curtain, years after his retirement from the active investigation, but it was not the first time that Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend. In The Big Four (1927), Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.
Recurring characters
Captain Arthur Hastings
Hastings, a former British Army officer, meets Poirot during Poirot's years as a police officer in Belgium and almost immediately after they both arrive in England. He becomes Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many cases. Poirot regards Hastings as a poor private detective, not particularly intelligent, yet helpful in his way of being fooled by the criminal or seeing things the way the average man would see them and for his tendency to unknowingly "stumble" onto the truth. Hastings marries and has four children – two sons and two daughters. As a loyal, albeit somewhat naïve companion, Hastings is to Poirot what Watson is to Sherlock Holmes. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-17 | The two are an airtight team until Hastings meets and marries Dulcie Duveen, a beautiful music hall performer half his age, after investigating the Murder on the Links. They later emigrated to Argentina, leaving Poirot behind as a "very unhappy old man". Poirot and Hastings reunite during the novels The Big Four, Peril at End House, The ABC Murders, Lord Edgware Dies, and Dumb Witness, when Hastings arrives in England for business, with Poirot noting in ABC Murders that he enjoys having Hastings over because he feels that he always has his most interesting cases with Hastings.
The two collaborate for the final time in Curtain when the seemingly-crippled Poirot asks Hastings to assist him in his final case. When the killer they are tracking nearly manipulates Hastings into committing murder, Poirot describes this in his final farewell letter to Hastings as the catalyst that prompted him to eliminate the man himself, as Poirot knew that his friend was not a murderer and refused to let a man capable of manipulating Hastings in such a manner go on. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-18 | Mrs Ariadne Oliver She has authored more than 56 novels and greatly dislikes people modifying her characters. She is the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that "It's not natural for five or six people to be on the spot when B is murdered and all have a motive for killing B." She first met Poirot in the story Cards on the Table and has bothered him ever since.
Miss Felicity Lemon
Poirot's secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon, has few human weaknesses. The only mistakes she makes within the series are a typing error during the events of Hickory Dickory Dock and the mis-mailing of an electricity bill, although she was worried about strange events surrounding her sister who worked at a student hostel at the time. Poirot described her as being "Unbelievably ugly and incredibly efficient. Anything that she mentioned as worth consideration usually was worth consideration." She is an expert on nearly everything and plans to create the perfect filing system. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-19 | Chief Inspector James Harold Japp
Japp is a Scotland Yard Inspector and appears in many of the stories trying to solve cases that Poirot is working on. Japp is outgoing, loud, and sometimes inconsiderate by nature, and his relationship with the refined Belgian is one of the stranger aspects of Poirot's world. He first met Poirot in Belgium in 1904, during the Abercrombie Forgery. Later that year they joined forces again to hunt down a criminal known as Baron Altara. They also meet in England where Poirot often helps Japp and lets him take credit in return for special favours. These favours usually entail Poirot being supplied with other interesting cases.
In Agatha Christie's Poirot, Japp was portrayed by Philip Jackson. In the film, Thirteen at Dinner (1985), adapted from Lord Edgware Dies, the role of Japp was taken by the actor David Suchet, who would later star as Poirot in the ITV adaptations. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-20 | Major novels Hercule Poirot became famous in 1926 with the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, whose surprising solution proved controversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, "Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including Murder on the Orient Express (1934); The ABC Murders (1935); Cards on the Table (1936); and Death on the Nile (1937), a tale of multiple murders upon a Nile steamer. Death on the Nile was judged by the famed detective novelist John Dickson Carr to be among the ten greatest mystery novels of all time.
The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs (a.k.a. Murder in Retrospect), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, has been called "the best Christie of all" by critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-21 | Portrayals
Stage
The first actor to portray Poirot was Charles Laughton. He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been adapted by Michael Morton from the novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. In 1932, the play was performed as The Fatal Alibi on Broadway. Another Poirot play, Black Coffee opened in London at the Embassy Theatre on 8 December 1930 and starred Francis L. Sullivan as Poirot.
Another production of Black Coffee ran in Dublin, Ireland from 23 to 28 June 1931, starring Robert Powell. American playwright Ken Ludwig adapted Murder on the Orient Express into a play, which premiered at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey on 14 March 2017. It starred Allan Corduner in the role of Hercule Poirot.
Film |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-22 | Austin Trevor Tony Randall
Tony Randall portrayed Poirot in The Alphabet Murders, a 1965 film also known as The ABC Murders. This was more a satire of Poirot than a straightforward adaptation and was greatly changed from the original. Much of the story, set in modern times, was played for comedy, with Poirot investigating the murders while evading the attempts by Hastings (Robert Morley) and the police to get him out of England and back to Belgium.
Albert Finney
Albert Finney played Poirot in 1974 in the cinematic version of Murder on the Orient Express. As of now, Finney is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for playing Poirot, though he did not win.
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov played Poirot six times, starting with Death on the Nile (1978). He reprised the role in Evil Under the Sun (1982) and Appointment with Death (1988). |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-23 | He appeared again as Poirot in three television films: Thirteen at Dinner (1985), Dead Man's Folly (1986), and Murder in Three Acts (1986). Earlier adaptations were set during the time in which the novels were written, but these television films were set in the contemporary era. The first of these was based on Lord Edgware Dies and was made by Warner Bros. It also starred Faye Dunaway, with David Suchet as Inspector Japp, just before Suchet began to play Poirot. David Suchet considers his performance as Japp to be "possibly the worst performance of [his] career".
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh played Poirot in film adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express in 2017, Death on the Nile in 2022, and A Haunting in Venice, based on the novel Hallowe'en Party, in 2023. Branagh directed all three and co-produced them alongside Ridley Scott. They were all written by Michael Green.
Other
Anatoly Ravikovich, Zagadka Endkhauza (End House Mystery) (1989; based on "Peril at End House")
Pál Mácsai, A titokzatos stylesi eset (The Mysterious Affair at Styles) (2023)
Television |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-24 | David Suchet The writers of the "Binge!" article of Entertainment Weekly December 2014/January 2015) picked Suchet as "Best Poirot" in the "Hercule Poirot & Miss Marple" timeline.
The episodes were shot in various locations in the UK and abroad (for example "Triangle at Rhodes" and "Problem at Sea"), whilst other scenes were shot at Twickenham Studios.
Other
Heini Göbel, (1955; an adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express for the West German television series Die Galerie der großen Detektive)
José Ferrer, Hercule Poirot (1961; Unaired TV Pilot, MGM; adaptation of "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim")
Martin Gabel, General Electric Theater (4/1/1962; adaptation of "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim")
Horst Bollmann, Black Coffee 1973
Ian Holm, Murder by the Book, 1986
Arnolds Liniņš, Slepkavība Stailzā (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), 1990
Hugh Laurie, Spice World, 1997
Alfred Molina, Murder on the Orient Express, 2001
Konstantin Raikin, Neudacha Puaro (Poirot's Failure) (2002; based on "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd")
Anthony O'Donnell, Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, 2004
Shirō Itō (Takashi Akafuji), Meitantei Akafuji Takashi (The Detective Takashi Akafuji), 2005 |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-25 | John Malkovich was Poirot in the 2018 BBC adaptation of The ABC Murders.
Anime
In 2004, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK produced a 39-episode anime series titled Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple, as well as a manga series under the same title released in 2005. The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan. Poirot was voiced by Kōtarō Satomi and Miss Marple was voiced by Kaoru Yachigusa.
Radio
From 1985 to 2007, BBC Radio 4 produced a series of twenty-seven adaptations of Poirot novels and short stories, adapted by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams. Twenty five starred John Moffatt as Poirot; Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis played Poirot on BBC Radio 4 in the first two adaptations, The Mystery of the Blue Train and in Hercule Poirot's Christmas respectively.
In 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Players dramatised Roger Ackroyd on CBS's Campbell Playhouse.
On 6 October 1942, the Mutual radio series Murder Clinic broadcast "The Tragedy at Marsden Manor" starring Maurice Tarplin as Poirot. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-26 | An adaptation of Murder in the Mews was broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1955 starring Richard Bebb as Poirot; this program was thought lost, but was discovered in the BBC archives in 2015.
Other audio
In 2017, Audible released an original audio adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express starring Tom Conti as Poirot. The cast included Jane Asher as Mrs. Hubbard, Jay Benedict as Monsieur Bouc, Ruta Gedmintas as Countess Andrenyi, Sophie Okonedo as Mary Debenham, Eddie Marsan as Ratchett, Walles Hamonde as Hector MacQueen, Paterson Joseph as Colonel Arbuthnot, Rula Lenska as Princess Dragimiroff and Art Malik as the Narrator. According to the Publisher's Summary on Audible.com, "sound effects [were] recorded on the Orient Express itself."
In 2021, L.A. Theatre Works produced an adaptation of The Murder on the Links, dramatised by Kate McAll. Alfred Molina starred as Poirot, with Simon Helberg as Hastings.
Video games
In the video games Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The First Cases and Agatha Christie - Hercule Poirot: The London Case, Poirot is voiced by Will De Renzy-Martin. |
Hercule Poirot | 1000-27 | Parodies and references In the book series Geronimo Stilton, the character Hercule Poirat is inspired by Hercule Poirot.
The Belgian brewery Brasserie Ellezelloise makes a stout called Hercule with a moustachioed caricature of Hercule Poirot on the label.
In season 2, episode 4 of TVFPlay's Indian web series Permanent Roommates, one of the characters refers to Hercule Poirot as her inspiration while she attempts to solve the mystery of the cheating spouse. Throughout the episode, she is mocked as Hercule Poirot and Agatha Christie by the suspects. TVFPlay also telecasted a spoof of Indian TV suspense drama CID as "Qissa Missing Dimaag Ka: C.I.D Qtiyapa". In the first episode, when Ujjwal is shown to browse for the best detectives of the world, David Suchet appears as Poirot in his search.
See also Poirot InvestigatesTropes in Agatha Christie's novels
Works
Goddard, John (2018), Agatha Christie’s Golden Age: An Analysis of Poirot’s Golden Age Puzzles'', Stylish Eye Press, |
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North Park University, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
No toquen a la nena | 10000012-0 | No toquen a la nena (Don't touch the girl) is a 1976 Argentinian film. It is a comedy of manners directed by Juan José Jusid. The film stars Luis Politti, María Vaner, Norma Aleandro, Lautaro Murúa, Pepe Soriano and Julio de Grazia, among others. Among the roster of extras, the film featured Cecilia Roth in her debut performance, 2 years before she would flee Argentina. When it was released in Argentina, many of its actors had had to go into exile for reasons of political persecution.
The script, written by Oscar Viale and Jorge Goldemberg, received initial approval from the Argentine censors, but was banned before it could be screened. The plot of the film centering on a middle class family dealing with a teen pregnancy, was found to be objectionable by the censors. |
No toquen a la nena | 10000012-1 | Plot
Patricia (Patricia Calderón) is a beautiful 17-year-old teenager who has become pregnant and, in desperation, befriended a friend of her hippie brother, Willy (Julio Chávez), in whom she finds support and understanding. When her father (Luis Politti), an Argentine classic of Italian descent, found out, first she hit Willy hard, believing her to be the father, and then she sought to marry her to her daughter to "save face"
Cast
Luis Politti as Augusto
María Vaner as Haydée
Norma Aleandro as Andrea
Lautaro Murúa as Horacio
Pepe Soriano as Severino Di Filippi "El Nono"
Julio De Grazia as Bambi
Pierina Dealessi as La Mamma
Gustavo Rey debuted as Javier
Julio Chávez as Willy
Cecilia Roth debuted as Cecilia
Patricia Calderón as Patricia
Alberto Busaid as Nacho
Lidia Catalano as Dorita
Claudio Lucero as Capataz
Patricio Contreras as Peón
Juan Manuel Tenuta as Funes
Aldo Marinelli as El Médico
Chunchuna Villafañe as La Mercedes
Nora Renzi as Flequillo
Oscar Viale as Porta
Atilio Polverini
Divina Gloria |
Paul Davids | 1000002-0 | Paul Davids is an American independent filmmaker and writer, especially in the area of science fiction. Often collaborating with his wife Hollace, Davids has written and directed several films. He has also written episodes for the television series Transformers as well as a spin-off of the Star Wars series with his wife informally known as the Jedi Prince series.
Screenwriting
Television
The Transformers (1985–1986)
Defenders of the Earth (1986)
Bionic Six (1987)
Spiral Zone (1987)
Garbage Pail Kids (1988)
COPS (1988)
Transformers: Generation 2 (1993)
Films
Roswell (1994), a documentary about the Roswell UFO incident
Timothy Leary's Dead (1997)
Starry Night (1999), a film about Van Gogh
The Sci-Fi Boys (2006) documentary called featuring interviews with Forry Ackerman, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, and many more sci-fi notables.
Jesus in India The Movie (2008) – a documentary on "American adventurer" Edward T. Martin's quest for the supposed unknown years of Jesus and Russian Nicolas Notovitch's claimed lost Life of Issa. |
Rosie Beaton | 1000003-0 | Rosie Beaton is an Australian radio announcer, best known for her work at Australian youth radio station Triple J.
Radio career
In 2001, Beaton was appointed host of Triple J's evening music program Super Request which aired weekdays at 6pm. Earlier, Beaton co-hosted the Net 50 program with Justin Wilcomes on its debut in 1999.
Rosie also hosts Billboard on Qantas' Q Radio program Billboard, this can be heard while flying on Qantas. Beaton replaced Mike Hammond.
In December 2011, Beaton resigned from Super Request to look for new opportunities. Rosie presented her last Super Request show on 9 December live from the University of Sydney's Manning Bar in Sydney, though will be returning to Triple J in a new capacity in 2012. |
Rosie Beaton | 1000003-1 | Rosie Beaton occasionally fills in as Evenings radio presenter with Sydney ABC radio station 702 ABC Sydney.
In December 2014 Rosie left the ABC, but often presents shows for Double J on a casual basis. Rosie is a licensed marriage celebrant in demand for couples all over Australia.
TV career
Beaton has also occasionally appeared on Fly TV and other ABC TV shows.
From 2006 she also hosts triple j tv Saturday on the ABC, which broadcasts the music videos to the 20 most requested songs from Super Request during the prior week.
Rosie occasionally appears on various shows on Foxtel - `The Playlist and Mars Venus'
As of February 2012, Rosie is a regular guest on Network Ten's Breakfast. Following Breakfast's axing in November 2012, Rosie is now a regular on The Project.
Music Programmer & Media Trainer
Rosie often works with young bands for record companies to help artists polish their interview skills. Rosie was Senior Music Curator for Amazon Music ANZ from August 2018 to Mid 2019. |
Men Only Think of That | 10000030-0 | Men Only Think of That () is a 1976 Argentine film directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry.
Cast |
Mid Antrim (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) | 10000032-0 | Mid Antrim was a constituency of the Northern Ireland House of Commons.
The House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland), 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections for 48 single-member constituencies (including Antrim Mid).
It was a single-member division of County Antrim represented in the Parliament of Northern Ireland. Before 1929, it was part of the seven-member Antrim constituency. The constituency sent one MP to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland from 1929 until the Parliament was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.
In terms of the then local government areas the constituency in 1929 comprised parts of the rural districts of Ballymena, Ballymoney and Larne. The division also included the whole of the urban district of Ballymena.
Members of Parliament
Election results
Parliament prorogued 30 March 1972 and abolished 18 July 1973 |
William Corless Mills | 10000034-0 | William Corless Mills (January 2, 1860 - January 17, 1928) was an American museum curator.
Mills was born in Pyrmont, Ohio.
Mills specialized in Native American remains, leading excavations in Adena Mound, Ohio (1901)
Mills was the fourth curator and librarian of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (1898–1928), following Lucy Allen Smart. He also was
member of the American Ornithological Union
member and librarian of the Ohio Academy of Science
member and president of the Wheaton Ornithological Society
member and treasurer of the Columbus Horticultural Society
charter member of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums)
member of the Columbus Iris Society
member of the National Research Council of Archaeology
fellow of the American Ethnological Society
fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
fellow of the American Anthropological Society
assistant editor of the Ohio Naturalist
lecturer in Sociology in the College of Commerce and Administration of the Ohio State University
Mills died in Columbus, Ohio.
Works
Excavation of the Adena Mound (1902) |
El grito de Celina | 10000038-0 | El grito de Celina (Celina's Cry) is a 1983 Argentine romantic drama film directed by Mario David, who also wrote the script, which is based on a short story by Bernardo Kordon. It stars María Rosa Gallo, Selva Alemán, Miguel Ángel Solá and María Vaner. Víctor Proncet composed the soundtrack.
The film was shot in 1975, but it didn't premiere until May 1983 due to military government disapproval and censorship at the time.
Plot
A mother confronts the young woman who is going to marry her youngest son.
Cast
María Rosa Gallo as Juliana
Selva Alemán as Celina
Miguel Ángel Solá as Antonio
María Vaner as Roberta
Pablo Alarcón as Pedro
Aldo Barbero as El hombre
Alba Mujica as Rosalía
David Llewellyn as Carancho
Edith Gaute
Juan Carlos de Seta as the drunkard
Roberto Pieri as old man
María Bufano as Hermana de Celina
Sara Suter
Ramón Perello as man in bar
Jorge Ochoa
Raúl Manso
Tatiana Robi
Roberto Doménico
Eduardo Thau
Patricia Luján
Sergio Birnadussi
Gabriel D. Lentini
S. M. Birnadussi |
El grito de Celina | 10000038-1 | Production Reception
The film was shot in 1975 but because the content and actors were not to the liking of the military government at the time, the film was censored and blocked from release. It didn't reach cinemas in Buenos Aires until 26 May 1983. The film was critically acclaimed upon release, with Daniel López in La Voz del Interior labelling it "Kordon and David's remarkable speech on despotism". Hugo Paredero in Humor described the actors as "very talented, all deserving", surmising that they must have had "inner drama" to be so convincing to the camera. Jorge Miguel Couselo in Clarín described it as a "compelling movie" and stated that there are "no decorations". In their 2001 book Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995), Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela were less favorable, writing: "Rural matriarchy, rustic beings and critical intention against authoritarianism, in a rather static and outdated realization". |
Alexandre Rousselet | 10000040-0 | Alexandre Rousselet (born 29 January 1977) is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 1998. His best individual finish at the Winter Olympics was 19th in the 15 km event at Turin in 2006.
Rousselet's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fifth in the 4 × 10 km relay at Sapporo in 2007 while his best individual finish was 25th in the 15 km event in 2005.
His best individual career finish was fourth in a 15 km + 15 km double pursuit FIS race in France in 2006 while his best individual World Cup finish was eighth in a 30 km event in Italy, also in 2006.
Rousselet was born in Pontarlier, Doubs.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Cup
Season standings
Team podiums
1 victory – (1 )
4 podiums – (4 ) |
Glucono delta-lactone | 1000005-0 | Glucono-delta-lactone (GDL), also known as gluconolactone, is an organic compound with the formula . A colorless solid, it is an oxidized derivative of glucose.
It is typically produced by the aerobic oxidation of glucose in the presence of the enzyme glucose oxidase. The conversion cogenerates hydrogen peroxide, which is often the key product of the enzyme: |
Glucono delta-lactone | 1000005-1 | Applications
Gluconolactone is a food additive with the E-number E575 used as a sequestrant, an acidifier, or a curing, pickling, or leavening agent. It is a lactone of D-gluconic acid. Pure GDL is a white odorless crystalline powder.
GDL has been marketed for use in feta cheese. GDL is pH-neutral, but hydrolyses in water to gluconic acid which is acidic, adding a tangy taste to foods, though it has roughly a third of the sourness of citric acid. It is metabolized to 6-phospho-D-gluconate; one gram of GDL yields roughly the same amount of metabolic energy as one gram of sugar.
Upon addition to water, GDL is partially hydrolysed to gluconic acid, with the balance between the lactone form and the acid form established as a chemical equilibrium. The rate of hydrolysis of GDL is increased by heat and high pH.
The yeast Maudiozyma bulderi can be used to ferment gluconolactone to ethanol and carbon dioxide. The pH value greatly affects culture growth. Gluconolactone at 1 or 2% in a mineral media solution causes the pH to drop below 3.
It is also a complete inhibitor of the enzyme amygdalin beta-glucosidase at concentrations of 1 mM. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-0 | The Trap is a 1966 British-Canadian adventure western film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. Shot in the wilderness of the Canadian province of British Columbia, the film is an unusual love story about a rough trapper and a mute orphan girl.
Plot
French-Canadian fur trapper Jean La Bête paddles his canoe through wild water towards the settlement in order to sell a load of furs. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-1 | Two Native Americans, Yellow Dog and No Name, have told the Trader that La Bête is dead. The Trader, heavily in debt, has spent money he owes La Bête so that when La Bête calls to collect his dues, the trader has to use his own savings, to the fury of his wife. Next day, the trader's wife, to compensate for the loss of her savings, seizes the opportunity to offer her foster-child for a thousand dollars to the simple-minded, rough-cut trapper. She praises the qualities of the shy girl and explains, that her inability to speak is caused from the shock she suffered when she had to witness how her parents were barbarously murdered several years ago. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-2 | One day, on checking his traps for caught animals, La Bête is threatened by a cougar. He shoots the cat but inadvertently gets his foot into his own bear trap. Badly injured, he tries to drag himself back to his hut, hunted by famished wolves. Eve is waiting at the cabin and hears the distant howling of the wolves approaching the hut. She takes a gun and sets out in search for La Bête; together they get rid of the wolf pack. La Bête's lower left leg is broken, so he asks Eve to bring the medicine man from the next Indian village, a two days trip away. The Canadian winter has already come, so Eve puts on her snowshoes and starts a long, arduous walk over snow-covered hilltops. She finally reaches the village only to find it deserted. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-3 | The morning after, Eve seems to regret her decision and leaves the cabin, holding a rifle against La Bête who follows her to the river, angry and perplexed. Eve flees in his canoe, leaving La Bête floundering in the shallows. Her journey is fraught and she is thrown from the canoe in white-water rapids. The empty canoe is found by native Americans and Eve is rescued, and taken back to the settlement where she was taken from. Although welcome, she remains an outsider. The viewer is told that she remained in bed for two months and lost the child she was carrying. The family have arranged a marriage for her to a man who flirted with her early on in the film. Eve does not appear happy, however. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-4 | Cast
Rita Tushingham as Eve
Oliver Reed as La Bete
Rex Sevenoaks as The Trader
Barbara Chilcott as trader's wife
Linda Goranson as trader's daughter
Blaine Fairman as clerk
Walter Marsh as preacher
Joseph Golland as Baptiste (as Jo Golland)
Jon Granik as No Name
Merv Campone as Yellow Dog
Reg McReynolds as Captain (as Reginald McReynolds)
Production
Filming took place in autumn 1965 in Panorama Studios in West Vancouver. It resumed in 1966 in Scotland.
The soundtrack was composed by Ron Goodwin and the main theme ("Main Titles to The Trap") is used as the theme tune for the BBC's live coverage of the London Marathon, performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
Release
The film opened at the Odeon in Kensington, London on 15 September 1966 paired with The Pad (and How to Use It) (1966). It had its official world premiere later in the evening at the Leicester Square Theatre. |
The Trap (1966 film) | 10000053-5 | Critical reception Leslie Halliwell said: "Primitive open air melodrama with good action sequences; well made but hardly endearing."
The Radio Times Guide to Films gave the film 4/5 stars, writing: "Made at the height of the Swinging Sixties, this surprisingly moving drama was a distinct change of pace for stars Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham. Set in Canada in the 1880s, it traces the relationship of fur trapper Reed and the waif-like Tushingham, a mute he purchases at a wife auction. Acting almost solely with her enormous eyes, Tushingham gives a genuinely affecting performance and, as impatience turns to understanding and ultimately affection, Reed also demonstrates a mellow side that he too rarely allows us to see. Director Sidney Hayers makes their adventures believable." |
Römer (crater) | 1000006-0 | The rim of Römer has relatively high walls with a terraced inner surface. There is a small craterlet on the north part of the floor, and a large central peak at the midpoint. Römer has a ray system, and due to these rays, it is mapped as part of the Copernican System.
To the northwest of the crater is a prominent system of rilles named the Rimae Römer. These follow a course to the north from the western rim of the crater, and have a combined length of about 110 kilometres.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Römer.
The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.
Römer K — See Franck (crater).
Römer L — See Brewster (crater). |
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic | 10000061-0 | Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic () is a 1976 Argentine black comedy crime film directed by José A. Martínez Suárez. The film was selected as the Argentine entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Cast
Mecha Ortiz as Mara Ordaz
Arturo García Buhr as Pedro
Narciso Ibáñez Menta as Norberto
Mario Soffici as Martín |
Brigada en acción | 10000067-0 | Brigada en acción is a 1977 Argentine comedy film directed by and starring Palito Ortega and written by Juan Carlos Mesa. The film premiered in Argentina on 21 July 1977.
Cast
Palito Ortega
Juan Carlos Altavista
Christian Bach
Carlos Balá
Alberto Bello
Marcelo Chimento
Nora Cullen
Alfredo Duarte
Golde Flami
Coco Fossati
Alberto Martín
Evangelina Massoni
Daniel Miglioranza
Ricardo Morán
Blanca del Prado
Andrés Redondo |
El Casamiento de Laucha | 10000072-0 | El Casamiento de Laucha (translated as Laucha's marriage) is a 1977 Argentine film directed by Enrique Dawi.
Cast
Marta Albertini
Max Berliner
Amalia Bernabé
Pablo Cumo Jr.
Ulises Dumont
Coco Fossati
Alberto Irizar
Luis Landriscina
Noemí Laserre
Malvina Pastorino
Pedro Quartucci
Romualdo Quiroga
Luis Sandrini
Mario Sapag |
David Littmann | 10000074-0 | David Littmann (July 28, 1906 – January 1, 1981) was an American cardiologist and Harvard Medical School professor and researcher. The name Littmann is well known in the medical field for the patented Littmann Stethoscope reputed for its acoustic performances for auscultation.
Littman was born on July 28, 1906 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His parents, Isaac Litman and Sadie Zewat Litman, were Ukrainian immigrants from Novgorod.
With Gustev Machlup, Dr. David Littmann founded Cardiosonics, Inc. to sell his stethoscopes. At that time the stethoscope line consisted of two key models, the doctor's stethoscope and the nurse's stethoscope.
3M acquired the stethoscope company on April 1, 1967, and hired Dr. Littmann as a consultant. 3M currently produces the range of Littmann brand stethoscopes.
The 1960s-era Littman Cardiology 3 stethoscope, which is out of patent, became the basis of a 3D-printed stethoscope developed by Dr. Tarek Loubani and a team of medical and technology specialists as part of the open source Glia project.
Dr. Littmann's son was jazz drummer Peter Littman (1935-1985). |
El Gordo catástrofe | 10000084-0 | El Gordo catástrofe is a 1977 Argentine film.
Cast
Jorge Porcel as Catrasca
Moria Casán as Dr. Linda Winters
Graciela Alfano as Graciela
Osvaldo Terranova as Dr. Galindez
Adolfo García Grau as Don Carlos
Beto Gianola as Igor
Perla Caron as Tamara
Nathán Pinzón
Juan Carlos Galván
Jacques Arndt
Max Berliner
John O'Connell
Tony Middleton
Horacio Nicolai
Juan Vitali
Fernando Iglesias
María Bufano
Délfor Medina
Anita Bobasso la viejita
Inés Murray as Anciana
Jesús Pampín
Cayetano Biondo
Abel Sáenz Buhr
Alicia Muñiz |
Whispermoon | 10000088-0 | Whispermoon is the debut studio album by Listener. It was released on Mush Records on July 29, 2003. It peaked at number 163 on the CMJ Radio 200 chart and at number 4 on CMJ's Hip-Hop chart.
Critical reception
Jason MacNeil of AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, saying, "Not as polished or glossy as bigger rap stars, this record has a certain independent aura around it." Rollie Pemberton of Pitchfork gave the album a 6.6 out of 10 and said, "The saving grace of Whispermoon is its varied production." |
Pharmadule | 10000093-0 | Pharmadule Emtunga AB
In July 2001, Pharmadule AB officially merged with Emtunga International AB. The merger completed the two companies long-term relationship. Emtunga had been Pharmadule's exclusive manufacturer of modular pharmaceutical plants and the companies had operated extremely close during a period of fifteen years. In 2001 Flexenclosure is made a separate division of Pharmadule Emtunga and is now a stand-alone company with its headquarters in Stockholm and corporate hub in Vara.
In December 2003, 3i acquired Pharmadule Emtunga from IDI. Pharmadule Emtunga has 600 employees and conducts operations in Emtunga, Vara, Gothenburg and Stockholm.
Pharmadule Morimatsu AB
Pharmadule Morimatsu is a Swedish company owned by Morimatsu Group since 2011. Pharmadule offers complete modular facilities including process design and engineering, facility design and engineering, fabrication, process installation, project management, commissioning and qualification, validation and regulatory services and process equipment for the pharma, biotech and consumer goods industry.
Pharmadule OÜ
Pharmadule OÜ was established in 2005 as a manufacturing unit for Pharmadule. Pharmadule OÜ delivers modular solutions, skids, equipment and orbital welding services. |
National Cycle Route 43 | 10000096-0 | The route
The existing developed part of the route uses existing cycleways and canal Paths and follows the River Tawe.
Swansea
The route begins in the Maritime Quarter near the Swansea Bay barrage. It runs alongside the Tawe west bank past the Sainsbury's store where cyclists have to cross via a pedestrian crossing at the Quay Parade bridge. Once across the road, the route turns right over the Quay Parade bridge. Once over the bridge, there is an immediate left turn into a dedicated path which follows the west bank of the River Tawe as far as the Pentre-Chwyth traffic junction, in the White Rock area. To the left of this path the Hafod copper works are visible.
Signage for the route is poor at the White Rock area and there are a number of alternate routes northwards that can be taken there. The most traffic free route from the Pentre-Chwyth junction continues left into the Morfa Retail Park, over the Liberty Stadium foot bridge, then right again following the east bank of the River Tawe past the Liberty Stadium, then under the Landore viaduct. |
National Cycle Route 43 | 10000096-1 | Clydach Trebanos
The path continues from Pontardawe Leisure centre and the Trebanos stretch begins behind the Colliers Arms / post office in Trebanos and follows the canal down towards Clydach. It comes out in Coedgwilym Park.
Pontardawe
In Pontardawe the splits into two sections at the rear of Pontardawe leisure centre. One cycle path goes to the east of the leisure centre alongside the River Tawe. The other path keeps following the canal tow path to Ystradgynlais. The cycle path continues through the Pontardawe recreation ground alongside the river.
Ystalyfera & Ystradgynlais
Takes a little detour on to the public road, but reconnects at "Starving Hill" and has a tarmacked section all the way to the "Heads of the Valleys" road.
Brecon Beacons
The route soon connects with Route 46 at the Heads of the Valleys road, and travels over the Fforest Fawr mountain range to Trecastle at the northern boundary of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Builth Wells
The route continues on minor roads across the west flank of Mynydd Epynt, to Tirabad and Llangammarch Wells, then on to Builth Wells where it joins Route 8 (Lon Las Cymru). |
Breydon Water | 100001-0 | It is a large stretch of sheltered estuary. It is at the gateway to The Broads river system on the eastern edge of Halvergate Marshes. It is the UK's largest protected wetland. It is long and more than wide in places.
Breydon Water is overlooked at the southern end by the remains of the Roman Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle. Centuries ago, Breydon Water would have been one large estuary facing the sea. At the western end the water may be considered to start at the confluence of the River Yare and River Waveney; smaller sources including The Fleet flow in from the surrounding marshland. Safe passage for boats is indicated by red and green marker posts. Unlike most of the navigable waterways in the Norfolk Broads, Breydon Water is not subject to a speed limit.
At the east end of Breydon Water the river returns to a narrow channel, passing under Breydon Bridge after which it is joined by the River Bure then under Haven Bridge from where it is through the harbour into the North Sea. |
Breydon Water | 100001-1 | Features In the winter, large numbers of wading birds and wildfowl use it to overwinter, including 12,000 golden plovers, 12,000 wigeons, 32,000 lapwings and tens of thousands of Bewick's swans. Other species that have been noted there include dunlin, sanderling, Eurasian whimbrel, several (escaped) flamingos, pied avocets and on one occasion a glossy ibis.
There is a bird observation hide at the east end of Breydon Water, on the north shore, looking out towards a breeding platform used mainly by common terns. Other breeding species include common shelducks, northern shovelers, Eurasian oystercatchers and yellow wagtails.
Naturalist Arthur Henry Patterson (1857–1935), who published under the pseudonym "John Knowlittle", extensively documented the wildlife of Breydon and the disappearing lifestyles of the boatmen, wildfowlers and fishermen who made a living from the estuary.
Short sections of the Wherryman's Way and Weavers' Way long-distance paths follow the northern bank of the estuary from Yarmouth to Berney Arms, a distance of about 5 miles. Breydon Water is the site of events in Arthur Ransome's popular Swallows and Amazons series book, Coot Club. |
El Macho | 10000110-0 | El Macho (also known as Macho Killers) is a 1977 Italian-Argentine Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Marcello Andrei and starring Carlos Monzón, George Hilton, Malisa Longo and Susana Giménez.
Synopsis
Kid El Macho, an adventurer who is very skilled with cards and his revolver, is instructed by a sheriff to recover a large sum of money, which was stolen after an attack on a stagecoach by the outlaw Hidalgo, a.k.a. "the Duke", and his gang. The Kid starts posing as The Vulture, another outlaw who is actually dead, but with whom Kid bears a strong resemblance, and seeks to infiltrate Hidalgo's gang under his assumed identity. El Macho succeeds in his enterprise by unmasking an unsuspecting banker who was the mastermind responsible for the robbery. The Kid hopes to share the bounty with his lover, the beautiful Kelly, but his adventures are not over yet.
Cast
Carlos Monzón as El Macho/Kid El Macho/The Kid/The Vulture
George Hilton as Hidalgo, the Duke
Malisa Longo as Helen/Kelly
Susana Giménez as Susana/Soledad
Giuseppe Castellano as Ross
Benito Stefanelli as Sheriff
Bruno Di Luia as Gunner |
Crazy Women (film) | 10000114-0 | Crazy Women () is a 1977 Argentine drama film written by José P. Dominiani and directed by Enrique Carreras. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival where Mercedes Carreras won the award for Best Actress.
Cast
Marta Albertini
Virginia Amestoy
Trissi Bauer
Leonor Benedetto
Olinda Bozán
Alicia Bruzzo
Juan Jos Camero
Mercedes Carreras
Marta Cipriano
Luis Corradi
Mara Danelli
Aurora del Mar
Hctor Fuentes
Carlos Luzzieti
Leonor Manso
Nora Massi
Carlos Muoz |
La obertura | 10000130-0 | La obertura is a 1977 Argentine comedy film directed by Julio Saraceni.
Cast
Silvia Balán
Edda Bustamante
Beto Gianola
Antonio Grimau
Katia Iaros
Morena Jara
Nelly Lainez
Ricardo Lavié
Don Pelele
Ethel Rojo
Mario Sapag
Raimundo Soto
Amelia Vargas
Enzo Viena |
William Arbuckle Reid | 10000148-0 | Born in Gloucestershire, Reid obtained his BA degree in languages from Cambridge University, after which he taught in English high schools. He went on to conduct curriculum research at the University of Birmingham, where he obtained his PhD and subsequently taught MEd students. He took early retirement from the University of Birmingham in 1988 and was appointed as a visiting professor at the London Institute of Education, and subsequently the University of Texas, Austin. He also undertook collaborative projects with colleagues at the University of Oslo and taught summer schools at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Some of his reminiscences were published in 2009 in "Leaders in Curriculum Studies", edited by E.C. Short and Leonard J. Waks (Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2009). In retirement he self-published pamphlets and books concerning archaeology and other local history in his native Cotswold landscape, as well as memoirs, articles on chess, books of poems and a novel. A series of articles published in "Glevensis", a journal of the Gloucestershire Archaeological Society were formed into a self-published book (Chantry Press; Windmill Print and Graphics) entitled "From Roman to Saxon in a Cotswold Landscape" (2006). |
William Arbuckle Reid | 10000148-1 | In 2014 Reid moved to Nottingham to be close to his family and he died there in September 2015.
Works
Selection of Articles
"Curriculum as Institutionalized Learning: Implications for Theory and Research", Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, Fall 2003, Volume 19, Number 1, Pages 29-43
"Curriculum, Community, and Liberal Education: A Response to the Practical 4", Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1984), pp. 103–111
Books
Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative Tradition (1999)
(reprint IAP, 2006, )
(With J. L. Filby) "The Sixth: an Essay in Democracy and Education", Lewes, Falmer Press, 1982
Thinking about the Curriculum: The Nature and Treatment of Curriculum Problems (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978); reprinted 2013.
(with P. H. Taylor, B. J. Holley and G. Exon ) "Purpose, Power and Constraint in the Primary School Curriculum", Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1974
Reviews
In Curriculum as Institution and Practice: Essays in the Deliberative Tradition, William Reid acknowledges curriculum studies' debt to this Deweyan model of deliberation. He asserts that science's ascendancy in curriculum planning at the turn of the century relegated philosophical deliberation to an inferior position but that Dewey's works "kept the tradition alive" |
La Aventura de los paraguas asesinos | 10000153-0 | La Aventura de los paraguas asesinos ( Adventure of the Umbrella Murderers) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Carlos Galettini.
Cast
Ricardo Bauleo as Tiburón
Víctor Bó as Delfín
Julio De Grazia as Mojarrita
Graciela Alfano as Agente Serena |
A Intrusa | 10000156-0 | A Intrusa is a 1979 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen, based on the short story "La intrusa" by Jorge Luis Borges. The film is about the parallel lives of two gaucho brothers with Danish ancestry. It was shot in Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul.
Cast
José de Abreu as Christian
Arlindo Barreto as Eduardo
Maria Zilda Bethlem as Juliana
Palmira Barbosa as Efigênia
Fernando de Almeida as João Iberra
Ricardo Marnick
Mauricio Loyola
Heloísa Gadel
Nelson Pinto Bastos
Hermes Lago
Reception
At the 1980 Gramado Film Festival the film won four Golden Kikito awards, including Best Director, Best Actor (José de Abreu), Best Cinematography (Antônio Gonçalves) and Best Music (Astor Piazzolla), and was also nominated for Best Film. |
The Drug Addicts | 10000161-0 | The Drug Addicts (Los Drogadictos) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film drama directed by Enrique Carreras.
Cast
Graciela Alfano
Luis Aranda
Giancarlo Arena
Héctor Armendáriz
Jacques Arndt
Vicente Buono
Juan José Camero
Mercedes Carreras
Rudy Carrié
Luis Corradi
Hector Doldi
Carlos Estrada
Raúl Florido
Ricardo Greco
Ricardo Jordán
Juan Carlos Lamas
Norma López Monet
Mario Lozano
Carlos Luzzieti
Constanza Maral
Adrián Martel
Aldo Mayo
Héctor Méndez
Rodolfo Onetto
Adriana Parets
Mario Pasik
Oscar Pedemonti
Joaquín Piñón
Oscar Roy
Abel Sáenz Buhr
Jorge Salcedo
Jorge Sassi
Ricardo Suñe
Nino Udine
Myriam de Urquijo
Gonzalo Urtizberéa
Carlos Vanoni
Orlando Zumpano |
Cantaniño cuenta un cuento | 10000166-0 | Cantaniño cuenta un cuento is a 1979 musical comedy film directed by Mario David and starring Berugo Carámbula, Mario Pasik, and Mónica Vehil.
Cast
Berugo Carámbula
Gachi Ferrari as Llí
Mario Pasik as Alfredo
Mónica Vehil as Lucrecia
Javier Portales as Don Roberto Sacote
Juan Carlos de Seta as Inspector
Pablo Cumo
Rina Morán
Coro Sapito de Oro
La Mona Margarita
Virginia Faiad as Maestro
Mario Luciani
Rodolfo Onetto
Sergio Corona
Carlos Romero
Juan Carlos Fontana (II)
Alfredo Pérez
Adriana Salgueiro as Azafata
Alfredo Quesada
Ricardo Suñé
Claudio España
Adolfo Castelo
Nicolás Scarpino |
Regina High School (Iowa) | 10000169-0 | Regina Catholic Education Center is a PK–12 private, Roman Catholic co-educational school in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport. |
Regina High School (Iowa) | 10000169-1 | Athletics The Regals won a state football championship in 2005, and more recently have won a state record six titles in a row from 2010 to 2015, a string that included a record 56 game winning streak from 2010 to 2013. Since 2007, the team has been coached by former NFL tight end Marv Cook, who attended high school at Regina's conference rival West Branch High School.
The Regals have won eight state titles in boys' cross-country since 1993. The girls' softball team took the state title in 2011.
State championships
Boys' Cross Country - 8-time State Champions (1993, 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2022)
Boys' Soccer - 8-time Class 1A State Champions (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Football - 8-time State Champions (2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020)
Boys' Basketball -3 time Class 1A State Champions (1976, 1978, 1979)
Softball - 4-time Class 2A State Champions (2011, 2015, 2017, 2023)
Girls' Golf - 2009 Class 2A State Champions
Girls' Track and Field - 1995 Class 1A State Champions
Notable alumni
Jim Miller, offensive guard for the Atlanta Falcons |
Contragolpe | 10000171-0 | Contragolpe is a 1979 Argentine drama film directed by Alejandro Doria.
Cast
Marcelo Alfaro ... Gigolo 1
Enrique Alonso
Alberto Argibay
Raúl Aubel
Aldo Barbero
Sergio Bellotti
Héctor Bidonde
Luisina Brando
Rodolfo Brindisi
Cecilia Cenci
Marta Cerain
Martín Coria ... Detenido
Lito Cruz ... Juan de Dios Tolosa / Carmelo Di Prisco
Felice D'Amore
Héctor da Rosa
Ricardo Fassan
Ana María Giunta
Adela Gleijer
Jorge Marrale
Daniel Miglioranza
Gloria Necon
Julio Pelieri
Ignacio Quirós
Gigi Rua
Tina Serrano
Juan Manuel Tenuta
Osvaldo Terranova |
Custodio de señoras | 10000174-0 | Custodio de señoras ( Custodian of ladies) is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Hugo Sofovich.
Cast
Jorge Porcel ... Jorge
Graciela Alfano
Javier Portales
Supporting
Anita Almada
Raquel María Alvarez
Cacho Bustamante
Osvaldo Castro
Remedios Climent
Roberto Dairiens
Horacio Dener
Coco Fossati
Hellen Grant
Lalo Hartich
Alberto Irizar
Miguel Jordán
Maurice Jouvet
Mónica Lander
Augusto Larreta
Alberto Olmedo
Raúl Ricutti
Carlos Rotundo
Gloria Ugarte |
Cuatro pícaros bomberos | 10000179-0 | Cuatro pícaros bomberos is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Carlos Galettini.
Cast
Ismael Echevarría
Alberto Anchart
Gianni Lunadei
María Noel
Charlie Díez Gómez
Nelly Prono
Juan Manuel Tenuta
Jorge Villalba
Beatriz Spelzini
Marcelo José
Raúl Ricutti
Juan Carlos Lamas
Pedro Martínez
Mercedes Yardín |
Donde duermen dos... duermen tres | 10000183-0 | Donde duermen dos... duermen tres is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Enrique Cahen Salaberry. This film was distributed by an Argentine distributor named "Paris Video Home", a company that distributes comedy films.
Cast
Juan Carlos Calabró
Juan Buryúa Rey
Alberto Busaid
Berugo Carambula
Elina Colomer
Luis Corradi
Juan Carlos Dual
Cacho Espíndola
Susana Gimenez
Adela Gleijer
Zulma Grey
Norma López Monet
Susana Monetti
Tatave Moulin
Edelma Rosso
Renee Roxana
Vicente Rubino
Tristán
Isidro Fernán Valdez |
Grandma (1979 film) | 10000192-0 | Grandma () is a 1979 Argentine comedy drama film directed by Héctor Olivera and starring Pepe Soriano, Juan Carlos Altavista and Osvaldo Terranova.
Synopsis
A poor Argentine family of Italian origin lives with their grandmother Carmen, known by all as "La Nona" (grandma in Italian). Despite her advanced age, La Nona eats nonstop, while the family struggles with the bills and feeding at the same time. La Nona brings the family to the edge of ruin, whose members begin to look for the most diverse ways to earn money and eventually get rid of the old woman.
Cast
Pepe Soriano as Carmen Racazzi, la Nona
Juan Carlos Altavista as Chicho Spadone
Osvaldo Terranova as Carmelo Spadone
Eva Franco as Anyula Spadone
Nya Quesada as María Spadone
Graciela Alfano as Marta "Martita" Spadone |
Grandma (1979 film) | 10000192-1 | Nelly Tesolín as Severe Nun
Oscar Nuñez as Luque
Pedro Martínez as Vicente
Vicente La Russa as Poroto
Amanda Beitia as Friendly Nun
Aldo Bigatti as Candy store owner
Tacholas as Old man in asylum
Horacio O'Connor as Anthropologist
Coco Fossati as Street vendor
Marta Roldán as Mother Superior
Max Berliner as Old man 2º
Cayetano Biondo as Old man 3º
Roberto Dairiens as Grocer
Emilio Vidal as Baker
Tony Middleton as Doctor
Alfredo Quesada as Radiologist
Gustavo Segal as Fishmonger
Anita Bobazo as Old lady 1º
Remedios Climent as Old lady 2º
Pablo Nápoli as Police officer
Héctor Ugazio as Old man 4º
Horacio Guisado as Ophthalmologist
Walter Korwell as Doorman at the Museum
Raquel Oquendo as Old lady 3º
Aurora Peris as Old lady 4º
Miguel Angel Martinez as Cook at the asylum
Mario Kohut as Old man 5º
Fernando Ayala as Justice of the peace
Eduardo Santibanez as Fishmonger 2º
Roberto Tarsitani as Pimp
BBC Version
A made for TV version was produced in 1991 for the BBC Network, starring comic Les Dawson, as part of the Performance series.
BBC Cast
Les Dawson
Liz Smith
Jim Broadbent
Timothy Spall
Sue Brown
Jane Horrocks |
Rödlöga | 10000195-0 | Rödlöga is a cluster of islets outside in the Stockholm archipelago. The main island had been permanently inhabited since the 18th century into the 1970s when its last permanent resident, George Nordström, died. Rödlöga is today a spot for boating vacation. Location shooting took place for the 1938 film Storm Over the Skerries. |
Hotel de señoritas | 10000197-0 | Hotel de señoritas is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Enrique Dawi.
Cast
Jorge Martínez
Juan Carlos Dual
Elena Sedova
Patricia Dal
Gogó Andreu
Rudy Chernicoff
Vicente Rubino
Nené Malbrán
Toto Rey
Alberto Irizar
Adriana Quevedo
Marta Albertini
Carmen Barbieri
Marcos Zucker |
Hormiga negra | 10000199-0 | Hormiga negra is a 1979 Argentine film directed by Ricardo Defilippi.
Cast
Miguel Bianco
Víctor Bó
Osvaldo María Cabrera
Mario Casado
Víctor Catalano
Rolando Chávez
Rafael Chumbito
Luis Dávila
Roberto Escalada
Coco Fossati
Héctor Fuentes
Beto Gianola
Oscar Llompart
Aldo Mayo
Delia Montero
Arturo Noal
Pablo Palitos
Miguel Paparelli
Joaquín Piñón |
Berney Arms | 100002-0 | History
Berney Arms takes its name from the Berney Arms public house, which is situated by the staithe on the north bank of the River Yare and served walkers and boaters who pass through the area. It was closed in 2015 and the owner proposed to turn the pub into a private house, but planning permission was refused.
The public house was named after the landowner Thomas Trench Berney who owned the Reedham Cement Works centred on the Berney Arms Windmill. The mill was built in 1865 and is the tallest windmill in Norfolk at tall. It was used to grind cement clinker and was later converted into a drainage mill. It closed in 1948 and is now a Scheduled Monument in the care of English Heritage. At one point the mill supported a small settlement of 11 domestic dwellings and a chapel. Berney sold the land on which the railway was built, on the condition that a stopping place was built to serve the settlement in perpetuity. |
Berney Arms | 100002-1 | Geography The area is also a Ramsar Site and part of the Broadland Special Protection Area. Ashtree Farm is used by the RSPB as a series of dwellings and as its base for the marshes.
Transport
Berney Arms can be reached only by train, by boat or on foot; it has no public road access, with only a private track running to it.
Berney Arms railway station is a request stop on the Wherry Lines between and , via . Greater Anglia operate a limited number of services each day, with more frequent trains on Sundays. In 2019, it was the least used station in Britain.
The settlement is on both the Weavers' Way and Wherryman's Way footpaths.
In popular culture
Berney Arms was mentioned in Arthur Ransome's children's book Coot Club, which is in the Swallows and Amazon series.
In 1960, BBC reporter Fyfe Robertson made a short black and white documentary covering Berney Arms station and interviewed two residents. |
La Rabona | 10000202-0 | La Rabona ("The Truant") is a 1979 Argentine comedy film directed by Mario David. It stars Alberto Closas, Claudia Cárpena, and Perla Santalla. The screenplay was written by the director Mario David, working in collaboration with Isaac Aisemberg. Atilio Stampone composed the soundtrack.
Plot
A man and his daughter, tired of family feuding and their routines, skip work and school the same day.
Cast
Production
La Rabona was produced by Horacio Parisotto and Mario Fasola under the Fotograma SRL Producciones Cinematográficas production company. The screenplay was written by the director Mario David, working in collaboration with Isaac Aisemberg. Cinematographer José Santiso was hired to shoot the film. Atilio Stampone composed the soundtrack.
Reception
Néstor, writing in Esquiú wrote: "Well-intentioned and with a certain moralizing tendency... the liberality of modernist customs contrasts with the modesty and purity of the traditional family habits".
Rafael Granados opined: "Mario David constructs a sensitive film, whose images are spoken softly". In their 2001 book Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995), Raúl Manrupe and María Alejandra Portela describe the film as a "discreet effort to get away from an industry in crisis, in a difficult time not only for the cinema". |
HMS P38 | 10000209-0 | Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS P38.
, a P-class patrol boat launched in 1917. Renamed HMS Spey on 11 December 1925 and assigned to fishery protection, the vessel was sold in May 1938.
, a U-class submarine launched in July 1941 and sunk on 23 February 1942 by the Italian torpedo boat Circe north of Tripoli, Libya. |
Sami Jauhojärvi | 10000217-0 | Jauhojärvi won his first medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec with a bronze in the team sprint with Ville Nousiainen, and then added a second in the 4 × 10 km relay. Jauhojärvi has won one World Cup race; in Trondheim 2009 he won the 50 km classic mass start competition.
He was the 2001 Junior World Ski Champion in the 30 km freestyle at Karpacz.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
1 medal – (1 gold)
World Championships
3 medals – (3 bronze)
World Cup
Season standings
Individual podiums
1 victory – (1 )
9 podiums – (6 , 3 )
Team podiums
2 podiums – (1 , 1 )
Awards
Finnish Sports Personality of the Year: 2014 (shared with Iivo Niskanen) |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-0 | The Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver (KDS; ) is a Sikh gurdwara organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Founded in 1906, it is the oldest Sikh society in Greater Vancouver, and its original location was the largest gurdwara in North America. The current gurdwara is located at the intersection of Southwest Marine Drive and Ross Street, in South Vancouver.
History
The Khalsa Diwan Society was founded on July 22, 1906, and was registered on March 13, 1909. |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-1 | In the 1940s, the KDS served in a leadership role as Indo-Canadians demanded for voting rights, and it did so in a secular capacity. The gurdwara had a homeless shelter and a langar or kitchen. The KDS had a secular social role as a community centre and also served Hindus and Muslims among the Indo-Canadian community. Raj Hans Kumar stated that in political affairs the KDS represented all "Hindus", which at the time meant all people of East-Indian origin. |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-2 | Relocation
By the late 1950s, there were plans to establish Punjabi-language schools for Canadian-born children and to collect funds for a new community centre. In 1963, the Society began planning for a new gurdwara and community centre.
The Society purchased of city land in 1968 at the intersection of Southwest Marine Drive and Ross Street, in South Vancouver.
Construction began in winter 1969, and was completed in the first week of April 1970 for a price of $6,060. Sri Guru Granth Sahib was moved from the 2nd Avenue gurdwara to the Ross Street gurdwara on the day of Vasakhi 1970. The initial plans asked for a library and community centre, but these aspects were eliminated from the plans. The celebration for Guru Nanak's 500th birthday was held prior to the grand opening in 1970. The building was intended to look like a lotus rising from water. To get inspiration for the style, the architect, Arthur Erickson, traveled to Agra and Amritsar. |
Khalsa Diwan Society Vancouver | 10000218-3 | Khalsa Diwan Road
As part of an initiative by Vancouver City Council to commemorate prominent members of the community, Ross Street was alternatively named Khalsa Diwan Road in 2018. Additional street signs marking it as Khalsa Diwan Road were added at from the Gurdwara at SW Marine Drive to 57th Avenue in 2019.
Branches
In the 1960s, the main gurdwara was in Vancouver and the branch gurdwaras were in New Westminster, Abbotsford, Victoria, and Port Alberni.
By 1973, the cities with KDS temples were Abbotsford, Mesachie Lake, New Westminster, Paldi, Port Alberni, and Vancouver. However the New Westminster Khalsa Diwan became its own Sikh society the following year.
In 1975 the Khalsa Diwan Society of Abbotsford also separated, as the title of the Abbotsford gurdwara was transferred to the separated entity. The Abbotsford Sikhs wanted to have local control over their gurdwara, the Gur Sikh Temple.
Events
Every March, a celebration of the martyrdom of Mewa Singh Lopoke is held. Sikhs from California go to the KDS to celebrate the event.
First executive committee
The first executive committee of the Khalsa Diwan Society were members from 1907 to 1909. They included the following. |
Ebe Gilkes Quartet | 10000224-0 | The Ebe Gilkes Quartet was a Guyanese band that became very popular on Barbados in the 1950s, led by Trinidadian jazz pianist Edwin "Ebe" Gilkes.
Other members:
James Gilkes
Jesus Gilkes
Gilkes Gilkes
Arturo Tappin |
Ebe Gilkes Quartet | 10000224-1 | History By the 1960s, he played at the Bel Air Nightclub in Bridgetown, a venue that was a part of the middle-class nightlife, playing contemporary jazz and bossa nova. Through the 1960s and 1970s, support for jazz was mainly by foreign tourists, and he played in venues such as the Blue Water Beach Hotel and freelanced in other hotels, playing music for dance and floorshows.
Arturo Tappin, a Barbadian saxophonist who was a sideman in the Ebe Gilkes' Band in the early 1980s, went to the US to study jazz formally, and contributed to the jazz scene in Barbados taking a major role in the formation of the International Barbados/Caribbean Jazz Festival. Gilkes played with Bim in the late 1980s as well as other festivals.
In 1989, the After Dark Club was opened and featured nightly performances by the Ebe Gilkes Trio. Their style was considered "modern instrumental".
Legacy
Ebe Gilkes was honored in 2012 at the Naniki Caribbean Jazz Safari by two Barbadian chief justices; David Simmons and Marston Gibson. |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-0 | Julien R. Leparoux (born July 15, 1983 in Senlis, Oise, France) is a French Eclipse Award winning jockey currently racing in the United States. He has won seven Breeders' Cup races, including the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile with Champion Turf Mare Tepin and the 2016 Breeders' Cup Juvenile with Classic Empire. |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-1 | Background Leparoux is known as a finesse rider. "I just try not to fight so much with my horses," he said in a 2012 interview. "I try to be gentle around their mouths."
Family
In December 2012, Julien married Shea Mitchell who, like Julien, is the child of a racehorse trainer. During one of the races that Shea attended, Julien fell off and broke his hand. Later that week, Shea tweeted at Julien a simple "I hope you're ok". Not long after, they got married. Shea tweeted a picture of Julien and her father with the caption "2007, when Julien rode On the Acorn for dad. He probably never guessed he was looking @ his future son in law". On September 24, 2015, their first son, Mitchell Leparoux, was born. At only 4 days old, Mitchell was out at Keeneland watching his dad warm up horses in the early morning and racing during the day! |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-2 | Racing career For 2006, Julien Leparoux won 403 races to lead all jockeys in the United States. His total wins and earnings of $12,491,316 for the year were the most by an apprentice jockey in racing history. He was voted the 2006 Eclipse Award for Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. He was also the subject of the Eclipse Award-winning photograph, which showed him being unseated when the filly Sanibel Storm ducked into the rail in the stretch at Keeneland. Leparoux somersaulted over her head and landed in the infield: both he and the filly were unhurt.
Leparoux "lost the bug" in September 2006, referring to the five-pound weight allowance an apprentice (bug) jockey is given. Despite this, Leparoux continued winning riding titles, including Turfway's winter/spring meet, Keeneland's spring meet and Churchill Downs' spring/summer meet. On June 27, 2007, Leparoux became only the fifth jockey in the 133-year history of Churchill Downs to ride six winners on a single card.
On November 11, 2008 he rode seven winners on a single racecard at Churchill Downs, tying a twenty-four-year-old record set by Pat Day on June 20, 1984. |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-3 | In 2012, Leparoux decided to switch from the Kentucky circuit (Churchill Downs, Keeneland and Turfway Park) to New York, then moved to California to be closer to his then-fiancée's family. At the end of 2013, now married, he moved back to Kentucky. "I wanted to come back here for my career, the same routine I was used to," explained Leparoux. "I'm still young where I want to be at the top and ride a lot of races and try to win as much as I can... And we want to start a family, and I think Kentucky is a great place. It requires a lot of moving around for a family, but a lot of jockeys do it." |
Julien Leparoux | 10000228-4 | The highlights of 2016 included several notable wins on Tepin, including the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June. Leparoux was also invited to ride Sir Dudley Digges in Canada's most prestigious event, the Queen's Plate at Woodbine racetrack on July 3. He rode in 11 races at Churchill Downs the day before the race, then flew to Toronto with only a few hours of sleep and won at odds of 16-1. Leparoux rode Classic Empire to victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
Keeneland statistics
Leparoux is a regular rider at the Keeneland spring and fall race meetings and has achieved a number of milestones at the track. , he has:
Tied for fourth by stakes wins (52) and fifth by total wins (403).
Won the leading rider title 10 times.
Won the 2015 Breeders' Cup Mile (G1) on Tepin on Oct. 31.
Won six races on a 10-race card on April 20, 2012, tying Craig Perret and Randy Romero for the most wins on a single card. |