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Mark Appleyard's profile at Grindtv.com
Pierre-Luc Gagnon, sometimes known as PLG for short (born May 2, 1980 in Boucherville, Montreal) is a Canadian professional skateboarder.
He is currently sponsored by Osiris, Darkstar, Electric, RDS, Skullcandy, Capix, Boost Mobile and Monster Energy Drink.
He has competed in five X Games where he won fifteen medals, four of them being gold.
At 32 years old, Pierre-Luc Gagnon is a successful skateboarder and well-known in his discipline.
He has won eight gold medals at the X-Games competition.
Gagnon found his passion at the age of nine years old.
He asked his father to buy his first skateboard.
When he got it, he started to visit the local planchodrome intensively.
But during the winter in Quebec, it is harder to find a place to practice this sport.
With a group, they decided to rent a localation where they put some ramps.
In 1992, his father, who is a physical education teacher, convinced the city of Boucherville to open an indoor skate park.
After this, he practiced his sport each day after school for six years and gained skills.
In 1996, he tries his luck during a competition (Vans Amateur series) which accompanies a musical tour everywhere in North America.
The winner of each city is allowed to go to Los Angeles for the big final.
Gagnon won the whole competition and had his first contract with Vans.
He started his professional career by doing demonstration with the team and competition.
But in 2000, He decided to move to California where the sport is more important and he could do it all year long.
There is also more competition in California.
Since he moved there, he has competed in Brazil, China and Switzerland.
For him, skateboarding is not just a sport; it is a kind of art.
It is a way of expressing himself, being original and unique.
It is not a traditional sport where everybody executes the same tricks.
A skateboarder needs to develop a unique style almost like an artist.
Pierre-Luc Gagnon said that skateboarding helps kids to use their imagination for trying new things.
He fell in love with skateboarding when he started and he never stops.
He started to go to the skate park each day after school at the age of nine, and now he practices it six days a week three hours by day.
Pierre-Luc Gagnon's Official website
Roller Skating vs Skateboarding at theathlima
Jeffrey "Jeff" Demarco Teague (born June 10, 1988 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American basketball player that currently plays for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA.
He went to Wake Forest University for college where he played for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons basketball team.
He was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks with the 19th pick in the 2009 NBA Draft.
Teague is probably best known for his known for his ability to drive to the basket and his shooting ability.
Jeff Teague's NBA player profile
Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004), better known by his stage name Ol’ Dirty Bastard was an American rapper and music producer.
He is probably best known for being one of the founding members of the rap group Wu-Tang Clan.
He also had a solo career and released two studio albums during that time.
Jones was African American.
He had 3 children.
He had problems with drug addiction, meaning he could not stop taking them.
He also broke the law a lot; his convictions included attempted assault and using cocaine.
He was shot by robbers in 1998.
Ol' Dirty Bastard's Myspace profile
Gibsons is a Canadian city in British Columbia, Canada.
Gibsons is on the Sunshine Coast.
The Canadian television series, The Beachcombers, was set and shot in Gibsons.
The movies Charlie St. Cloud and Needful Things were filmed in Gibsons.
The town also won the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting contest which made them the first in the world.
The town was first called Gibson's Landing in 1929 but was changed to Gibsons in 1947.
Town of Gibsons' Official website
Devin Star Tailes (born July 2, 1989), best known by her stage name Dev, is an American singer.
Her associated acts include Far East Movement.
Her song "Booty Bounce" was sampled in the Far East Movement's "Like a G6".
Her most successful single was "In the Dark".
Dev was born in Tracy, California.
She later moved herself to Los Angeles.
Courtenay is a Canadian city in British Columbia, Canada.
Courtenay is on the east coast of Vancouver Island.
The current mayor of Courtenay is Greg Phelps.
Courtenay has a population of 21,940 people as of 2006.
In 1946, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the west of Courtenay.
A lot of chimney's were destroyed- there was also damage to the local post office and elementary school.
It was the largest earthquake to hit Vancouver Island.
City of Courtenay's Official website
The December 2010 North American blizzard was a historic blizzard that hit the northeaster part of North America in late December 2010.
The blizzard produced heavy snow and strong winds.
Over  of snow on parts of New York City.
An area south of Elizabeth City, New Jersey had the most snow fall.
It had  of snow.
Elizabeth City itself got  of snow.
The storm that caused the snowfall started as drizzle in California.
It grew into a rainstorm.
As it moved northeast, it turned into a blizzard.
On 26 December 2010, the blizzard reached New York City.
The blizzard caused a large amount of snow and strong winds.
It also caused thundersnow, where thunder and lightning happen while snow is falling.
It moved away from the city on December 27th.
On December 28th, the blizzard moved out over the Atlantic Ocean.
New Jersey got a large amount of snow.
There was also rain in the area of Cape May.
Elizabeth City got  of snow.
An area south of Elizabeth City had the most snow fall.
The blizzard produced heavy snow and strong winds there.
That was a historic blizzard for the area.
New York City received a large amount of snow and had high winds.
About  of snow fell on the city.
Places east of the city, for example eastern Long Island, saw some rain from the storm.
The blizzard did not affect far north of New York City.
Albany got less than  of snow from the blizzard.
Connecticut did have snowfall, but it was not an unusual amount for that state.
Between from  of snow fell in Connecticut.
Hartford had only  of snow.
New Haven, the closest area in Connecticut to New York City, saw about  of snow.
Massachusetts saw between  of snow.
This is not an unusual amount for the area.
Thomas Michael Zbikowski (born May 22, 1985 in Park Ridge, Illinois, often known as just "Zibi") is a Professional boxer and American football safety for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League.
Zbikowski was drafted out of the University of Notre Dame by the Baltimore Ravens with the 86th pick in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
He also played for the Baltimore Ravens from 2008 to 2011.
Zbikowski is also a boxer and holds a 4-0 boxing record.
Most of his boxing was during the 2011 NFL Lockout.
Many Ravens fans enjoyed watching him play as they waited for the lockout to end.
Zbikowski made his college debut (start) as a sophomore in 2005, appearing in all 12 games and finished fourth best of the roster with 70 total tackles (37 solo, 33 assisted) with two forced fumbles.
He was named Walter Camp Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 19 following his performance at Michigan State as he had a team-high nine tackles, forced a fumble and returned it for a 75-yard TD and recorded his first career interception.
He was 2006 team captain with Brady Quinn and Travis Thomas and was selected (picked, chosen) to the second-team All-America squad by the Walter Camp Football Foundation after helping the Irish earn a bid in the Sugar Bowl.
Zbikowski was also named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press and was a semi-finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award, presented annually (annually meaning once a year) to the nation's best defensive back.
Zibikowski finished with 79 tackles, recovered a fumble for a touchdown against Penn State, and recorded his third career punt return for a touchdown with 52-yarder against North Carolina.
Zbikowski accounted for four TDs (two interception returns and two punt returns) in 12 games played in 2006.
He finished fourth on the team with 71 total tackles and led the defense with five interceptions while leading the Irish to the Fiesta Bowl.
Following the seasons, Zbikowski earned Third-Team Associated Press All-America honors.
Zbikowski returned to Notre Dame for his fifth year in 2007 with a career high 80 total tackles with a pair of interceptions and fumble recoveries.
He continued to shine as a return man, racking up 234 return yards on punts.
Graduated in May with degrees in sociology and computer applications.
Zbikowski played as a returner and defensive back during four fairly solid years with Baltimore.
He also intercepted two passes in 2009 while filling in for Ed Reed.
Tom Zbikowski's Official website
Tom Zbikowski at NFL.com
George Kimball (March 24, 2011). "
NFL lockout lets players follow the dream".
Dan Rafael (March 27, 2011). "
Tom Zbikowski decisions Grummet".
George Willis (March 27, 2011). "
NFL star gets Raven reviews heading into tonight's Atlantic City bout boxing tournement".
New York Post.
Josh Katzowitz, Sports Illustrated, "Zbikowski's side career continues to succeed "
Lem Satterfield. "
Report: Zbikowski's Boxing Suspension Overturned ".
Parksville Overlea Patch.
"Zbikowski signs with Colts"
James W. Hardy, III (December 24, 1985 – June 7, 2017) was an American football wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens.
Hardy also played for the Buffalo Bills from 2008 to 2010.
Hardy was drafted out of Indiana University by the Buffalo Bills with the 41st pick in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft.
On June 7, 2017, a body was found in the Maumee River in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The next day, the Allen County Coroner determined the body to be that of Hardy.
The cause of his death has yet to be determined.
He was 31 years old.
James Hardy's NFL player profile
Edward James Dickson (born July 25, 1987 in Inglewood, California) is an American football Tight End for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL).
Dickson was drafted out of the University of Oregon by the Baltimore Ravens with the 70th pick in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft.
Ed Dickson's NFL player profile
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war movie directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.
Set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, the movie is known for its graphic portrayal of war and for the intensity of its second scene of 24 minutes, a depiction of the Omaha Beach assault during the Normandy landings.
The movie follows United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) and his squad (Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon), the last surviving brother of a family of four, with his three other brothers having been killed in action.
In 1996, producer Mark Gordon pitched Rodat's idea, which was inspired by the Niland brothers, to Paramount, which eventually began development on the project.
Spielberg, who at the time was forming DreamWorks, came on board to direct the project, and Hanks joined the cast.
After the cast went through training supervised by Marine veteran Dale Dye, the movie's photography started in June 1997 and lasted two months.
The movie's D-Day scenes were shot in Ballinesker Beach, Curracloe Strand, Ballinesker, just east of Curracloe, County Wexford, Ireland and used members of the Irish Army as infantry for the D-Day landing.
Released on July 24, 1998, Saving Private Ryan received acclaim from critics and audiences for its performances (particularly from Hanks), realism, cinematography, score, screenplay, and Spielberg's direction, and was placed on many movie critics' 1998 top ten lists.
It was also a box office success, becoming the highest-grossing movie of 1998 in the United States with $216.8 million domestically and the second-highest-grossing movie of 1998 worldwide with $481.8 million worldwide.
Additionally, it grossed $44 million from its release on home video in May 1999.
The movie won several accolades, including Best Picture and Best Director at the Golden Globes, Producers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, and Critics' Choice Awards.
The movie was nominated for eleven Academy Awards at the 71st Academy Awards, where it won five: Best Director (Spielberg's second), Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects Editing, though it lost the Academy Award for Best Picture to Shakespeare in Love in a controversial Oscars upset.
Since its release, Saving Private Ryan has been considered one of the greatest war movies of all time and has been lauded as influential on the war movie genre.
It is credited for renewing interest in World War II media.
In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Saving Private Ryan as the 71st-greatest American movie in AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) and in 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.
1990s drama movies
Movies set in France
Oladele Brendon Ayanbadejo (born September 6, 1976 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football Linebacker and Special teamer for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL).
He has played for 8 NFL teams as well as 3 CFL teams.
He played college football at UCLA.
Brendon Ayanbadejo at NFL.com
Brandon Jones (born October 6, 1982 in Texarkana, Texas) is an American football wide receiver in the National Football League who is currently a free agent.
He was drafted out of the University of Oklahoma by the Tennessee Titans with the 96th pick in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft.
He also played for the Tennessee Titans from 2005 to 2008, San Francisco 49ers in 2009 and the Seattle Seahawks in 2010.
He was also drafted by the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball but he didn't sign a contract with them.
In 2011, the Baltimore Ravens signed Jones.
Jones caught the game-winning touchdown from Tyrod Taylor in a preseason game against the Washington Redskins, but was released by the Ravens.
Brendon Jones' NFL player profile
Andre Alexander Ramsey (born July 24, 1987 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American football Offensive tackle that is currently a free agent.
Ramsey played college football at Ball State University.
He also played for the Buffalo Bills in 2009.
Andre Ramsey's NFL player profile
Ramsey, Andre
A punter (P) is a position in American and Canadian football.
Punters are members of the special teams.
Punts punt the ball away to the opposite team during a fourth (American) or Third (Canadian) down.
The punter will sometimes do a fake punt and run or throw the ball.
They can also fill in for a placekicker.
John Matthew "Matt" Stover (born January 27, 1968) is a former American Football placekicker.
He played college football for Louisiana Tech.
As of the start of the 2009 NFL season, he was the third most accurate kicker in the history of the National Football League.
He is of Greek origin and is Christian.
He has spent time with the New York Giants, the Cleveland Browns, and the Baltimore Ravens, where he played for 13 seasons.
He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts in October 2009 to replace injured kicker Adam Vinatieri.
His signature celebration had his thumbs and pointer fingers pointed outward with his arms halfway or all the way in the air.
Stover attended Lake Highlands High School in Dallas, Texas (Class of 1986), the alma mater of fellow NFL placekicker Phil Dawson (Cleveland Browns).
Stover won All-District honors as both a wide receiver and kicker.
During the 1985-86 LHHS season he kicked a 53-yard field goal.
Stover attended Louisiana Tech University.
He graduated with a degree in marketing.
During his college career, Stover made 64 of 88 field goal attempts.
As a sophomore, facing Texas A&M, he kicked a 57-yard field goal, then a school record.
He also punted as a senior, punting 36 times for 1,277 yards (34.1 yards per punt avg).
He left Louisiana Tech with 262 career total points and seven field goals of 50 yards or more.
Stover would sometimes kick the ball through the goal posts on the first kick-off of the game.
Stover was drafted by the New York Giants with the 329th selection (12th round) in the 1990 NFL Draft.
He was on the injured reserve list the entire season as the Giants won Super Bowl XXV.
In 1996 the Browns moved to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens.
In 2000, the Ravens failed to score an offensive touchdown in five straight games, in which Stover, who was selected as a Pro Bowler, scored all the team's points.
Stover received a Super Bowl ring that year when the Ravens defeated his former team, the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV.
In 2003, an overtime field goal of just over 40 yards from Stover beat the Seattle Seahawks in a 44-41 shootout.
In 2007, a 43-yard kick from Stover beat the Arizona Cardinals in overtime.
In 2008, Stover booted a 43-yard field goal to win against the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Divisional Round.
That was Stover's last field goal as a Raven.
The Ravens decided not to re-sign Stover following the 2008 season.
As a free agent Stover signed with the Indianapolis Colts during the 2009 NFL season to replace the injured Adam Vinatieri.
In Indianapolis, Stover played in two wins against the Ravens, and helped the Colts to an appearance in Super Bowl XLIV, at age 42, an NFL record.
He missed an important 52-yard kick in the game against the New Orleans Saints and was not re-signed.
Stover announced his retirement from football on May 25, 2011 with the Baltimore Ravens.
At the time of his retirement, he was the last remaining member of the original Cleveland Browns still active in the NFL, and was also the last Raven to have played for the franchise before the move.
He retired as the NFL's fourth all-time leading scorer.
NFL records
NFL's fifth all-time leading scorer
Most consecutive PATs: 422
Most consecutive games with a field goal: 38
Oldest player to participate in a Super Bowl: 42 years, 11 days old
Oldest player to score in a Super Bowl: 42 years, 11 days old
The Matt Stover Foundation Website
NFL Profile
NFL Kicking Records
NFL Career Statistics
Matt Stover's NFL player profile
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor, musician and singer.
Gordon-Levitt made his big screen debut in the 1992 movie Beethoven.
Beethoven as Student #1 (1992)
A River Runs Through It as Young Norman (1992)
Holy Matrimony as Zeke (1994)
Roadflower as Rich Lerolland (1994)
Angels in the Outfield as Roger Bomman (1994)
The Juror as Oliver Laird (1996)
Sweet Jane as Tony (1998)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later as Jimmy Howell (1998)
10 Things I Hate About You as Cameron James (1999)
Picking Up the Pieces as Flaco (2000)
Manic as Lyle Jensen (2001)
Treasure Planet as Jim Hawkins (2002)
Latter Days as Elder Paul Ryder (2003)
Mysterious Skin as Neil McCormick (2004)
Brick as Brendan Frye (2005)
Havoc as Sam (2005)
Shadowboxer as Dr. Don (2007)
The Lookout as Chris Pratt (2008)
Stop-Loss as Tommy Burgess (2008)
Miracle at St. Anna as Tim Boyle (2008)
The Brothers Bloom as Bar Patron (2008) (Uncredited)
Killshot as Richie Nix (2008)
Big Breaks as Todd Sterling (2009)
(500) Days of Summer as Tom Hansen (2009)
Uncertainty as Bobby (2009)
Women in Trouble as Bert Rodriguez (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as Cobra Commander (2009)
Hesher as Hesher (2010)
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny as Morgan M. Morgansen/Narrator (2010)
Elektra Luxx as Bert Rodriguez (2010)
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo as Morgan M. Morgansen/Narrator (2010)
Inception as Arthur (2010)
50/50 as Adam (2011)
Premium Rush as Wilee (2012)
The Dark Knight Rises as Officer Robin John Blake (2012)
Looper as Joseph Simmons (age 25) (2012)
Lincoln as Robert Todd Lincoln (2012)
Don Jon as Jon (2013)
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as Johnny (2014)
The Walk as Philippe Petit (2015)
First person,  a grammatical person (e.g., "I", "we", "me", "us")
First-person narrative, telling a story from the narrator's perspective
First-person perspective, a technique used in media (mainly video games) where all action is seen as if through the eyes of the character in the story
Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, director and activist.
Glover made his big screen debut in the 1979 movie Escape from Alcatraz.
Glover won an MTV Movie Award in 1993 for Best On-Screen Duo in the movie Lethal Weapon 3 which he shared with Mel Gibson.
Christian art is an art form related to Christianity.
There are a lot different definitions of it.
Christian art is mainly defined by pieces that try to show or express the ideas of Christianity.
Most Christian denominations or groups either use or have used art to some extent.
Other groups, however, have do not like the idea of religious images, and there have been major periods of iconoclasm within Christianity.
Images of Jesus and events from the Life of Christ are the most common subjects, and scenes from the Old Testament play a part in the art of most Christian groups.
Images of the Virgin Mary and saints are less common in Protestant art than in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox art.
Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza; April 21, 1950 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, producer and boxer.
His mother was an immigrant from Sicily; his father was a sanitation worker.
Danza made his big screen debut in the 1981 movie Going Ape!.
Danza was also the host of the ESPY Awards in 1996 and Miss America in 2002.
Going Ape!
as Foster (1981)
Cannonball Run II as Terry (1984)
Mr. Thompson and His Bananas as Geraldo Thompson (1988)
She's Out of Control as Doug Simpson (1989)
I'm From Hollywood (1992) (Cameo)
Angels in the Outfield as Mel Clark (1994)
Illtown as D'Avalon (1996)
Dear God as Himself (1996)
Glam as Sid (1997)
The Girl Gets Moe as Moe (1997)
A Brooklyn State of Mind as Louie Crisci (1997)
Meet Wally Sparks as New York Cab Driver (1997)
The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon as Barney Gorman (1998)
The Whisper as Simon (2004)
Crash as Fred (2005)
The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone as Chickie (2009)
Aftermath as King (2009)
Firedog as Rocky (2010)
The word  has several uses:
Saitama, Saitama, the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan in the Kantō region
Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, a museum inside of Sakitama Kofun Park in Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Kitasaitama District, Saitama and Minamisaitama District, Saitama are two districts in eastern Saitama prefecture
Kokusai Gakuin Saitama Junior College, a private junior college in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Gakuen University, a private university in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Institute of Technology, a private university in Fukaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Junior College, a junior college in Kazo, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Junshin Junior College, a private junior college in Hanyu, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Medical School, a private university at Moroyama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Prefectural University, a public university in Sengendai, Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Prefectural Urawa Nishi High School, a public high school in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama University, a Japanese national university in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Women's Junior College, a private women's junior college in Hidaka Saitama Prefecture, Japan
The Saitama Shimbun, a paid daily newspaper headquartered in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
NHK Saitama FM (85.1 MHz, Chichibu relay 83.5 MHz), a local and relay station of NHK in Tokyo, Japan
Television Saitama (or "Teletama), a free-to-air commercial station in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Broncos, a professional basketball club
Saitama City Cup, an International Friendly Tournament held since 2003 at Saitama Stadium
Saitama Seibu Lions, a professional baseball club in Japan's Pacific League
Saitama Stadium, a football (soccer) stadium in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama Super Arena, a multi-purpose indoor arena in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama-Shintoshin Station is a railway station on the Keihin-Tōhoku Line, Takasaki Line, and Tōhoku Main Line in Ōmiya-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Saitama New Urban Transit, operator of the New Shuttle operated in the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan
Saitama Rapid Railway Line, the continuation of the Namboku Line, starting at Akabane-Iwabuchi station in Tokyo and ending at Urawa Misono Station in Saitama
5618 Saitama, a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on 4 March 1990 by A. Sugie at Dynic Astronomical Observatory
Roman Catholic Diocese of Saitama, a diocese in Saitama, Japan
Television Saitama, a Japanese fee-free terrestrial commercial television broadcasting company headquartered in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Eggar was born in London.
Her father was a British Army officer.
Her mother hadPortuguese and Dutch acestors.
Eggar has theater training, in companies doing works of Shakespeare.
She began making movie appearances.
The Wild and the Willing (1962), Doctor in Distress (1963), Dr. Crippen (1964).
Being very young Samantha Eggar became famous for playing the role of Miranda Grey in The Collector (1965), Miranda is a student who is kidnapped by a maniac Freddie Clegg, played by Terence Stamp.
Her outstanding performance won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar.
The Wild and the Willing Josie (1962)
Doctor in Distress (1963)
Dr. Crippen (1964)
Psyche 59 (1964)
Return from the Ashes (1964)
The Collector (1965)
Walk Don't Run (1966)
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
The Walking Stick (1970)
The Lady in the Car (1970)
The Light at the Edge of the World (1971)
The Dead Are Alive (1971)
A Name for Evil (1973)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Uncanny (1977)
Welcome to Blood City (1977)
Why Shoot the Teacher? (
Columbo: (1977) (TV series)
The Biggest Battle (1978)
The Brood (1979)
The Exterminator (1980)
The Hot Touch (1981)
Demonoid Messenger of Death (1981)
Curtains (1983)
Ragin' Cajun (1991)
Dark Horse (1992)
Round Numbers Anne
Inevitable (1994)
The Phantom (1996)
Hercules (1997) (voice)
Commander in Chief (2005-2006) (TV series)
Mental (2009) (TV series)
John McDouall Stuart (7 September 18155 June 1866) is regarded as one of Australia's greatest explorers.
He went on seven major exploring trips into the centre and north of Australia.
He was leader of six of these expeditions.
He spent more time out in the Australian bush exploring the land than any other explorer.
On each trip, he was able to go further north and found water sources that helped him with his final long journey.
In 1862, he crossed Australia from Adelaide, South Australia, to Van Diemen Gulf in the Northern Territory.
He was the first European to cross the continent from north to south and then return again.
Exploring Australia caused Stuart to become very sick from diseases such as scurvy and beriberi.
He pushed himself to the very limits of human endurance.
Each trip left him weaker and at the end of his last trip he was unable to walk or ride and had to be carried back.
Stuart's discoveries opened up the country for the growth of farming sheep and cattle.
His route was used to build the Australian Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin which joined an undersea line from Java.
This meant that for the first time, Australians could communicate quickly with the rest of the world.
But his personal rewards were small.
He was given some land by the government and a small salary from his employers.
Stuart died poor in England at the age of 50.
Stuart was born on 7 September 1815, at Dysart, Fife, Scotland.
His father, William Stuart, had been a captain in the British Army.
His mother was Mary McDouall.
They had nine children, John McDouall was the sixth.
His parents died when he was ten years old.
The children were separated and sent to live with different relatives.
Stuart was educated at the Scottish Naval and Military Academy in Edinburgh.
He studied to be an engineer and surveyor.
In 1839, Stuart moved to Adelaide, South Australia, and began work as a surveyor.
Adelaide had only been settled for two years and was mainly still a tent city.
The government needed to have maps so that land could be sold or leased.
Stuart worked for three years on the edges of the settled areas, measuring the land and dividing it into farm blocks.
He learned skills to live and travel in the Australian bush.
He was known as a heavy drinker, often spending days at a time drunk.
When a recession hit the South Australian economy, Stuart found himself without a job.
Stuart joined Charles Sturt's Central Australian Expedition to search for an inland sea in August 1844.
Sturt was so sure that there was an inland sea in the centre of Australia, that he took a large boat as part of his equipment.
Stuart joined the group as a draftsman, who would draw up the maps.
He was paid one pound a week, and provided with food.
Stuart and James Poole, the second in command, were sent out ahead of the main group to find water.
The main group could only travel as fast as their flock of sheep could walk.
Stuart and Poole found water at Depot Glen, near the current site of Milparinka.
In the hot dry climate of summer, the group remained trapped at the waterhole for seven months.
Stuart took a small group to find water to the north, west, and east, but found none.
Stuart was left behind in charge of the main group at Depot Glen.
It was very hot so they dug an underground room to keep cool.
All the men became sick from scurvy because of the lack of fresh fruit and vegetables.
This caused their gums to become soft and their teeth to fall out.
They had headaches, their noses bled, and their skin began to turn black.
When Poole died, Stuart was made second in command.
He also became the surveyor and did all the mapping as Sturt could not see properly.
When it finally rained the group tried to keep going north but were blocked by the sand dunes of the Simpson Desert.
They turned south and went back to the Darling River.
Stuart took over as leader when Sturt became blind and too ill to lead the group.
They arrived back in Adelaide after six weeks hard travelling.
Sturt had to be carried in a cart, and Stuart, crippled with scurvy and beriberi, looked like a skeleton.
It took Stuart nearly a year to recover from the expedition.
He wrote in a letter: "I lost the power of my limbs for ... six months, and was quite unable to do anything for myself for ... twelve months."
For the next few years he was unable to work.
The money he had made was spent on doctors and living expenses.
In 1849 he moved to near Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula and worked on a farm.
He soon found work surveying in the area, and met William Finke and James Chambers.
Finke and Chambers were rich men and they paid Stuart to explore for them.
They wanted him to find them new farm lands and water, as well as minerals like gold and copper.
1858 expedition
Stuart learned from his trip with Sturt that large groups were not able to move quickly through the dry Australian lands.
He believed that a small group would have more success.
Finke paid him to find out if the land north of Lake Torrens would be suitable for sheep.
On this first trip he went with two men, Forster and an unnamed Aboriginal youth.
They took six horses, enough food for six weeks, a watch and a compass.
In May 1858 they went through settled areas until they reached Oratunga Station, one of the most remote farms in South Australia.
It is near the present day town of Blinman, in the north of the Flinders Ranges.
From here they went northwest and found a permanent water hole, Andamooka Waterhole, on a creek Stuart named Chambers Creek.
It has since been renamed Stuart Creek.
The country was very dry, and they could only find water in Aboriginal wells.
The stony ground hurt the horses feet.
At the end of July they reached the site of the present day town of Coober Pedy.
Their horses were in poor condition and they were running out of food.
Stuart decided to change direction to the south west and try and reach the coast near Fowlers Bay.
The Aboriginal youth would not go any further and went back.
He was scared of other Aborigines in the area they were going into.
Stuart said the land was "...dreary, dismal, dreadful desert."
Stuart and Forster reached the coast at Denial Bay in August 1858, and were back in settled farm lands by 11 September.
They had completed a journey of  in four months.
He gave his diary and maps to the South Australian government.
As a reward, Stuart was given the lease to 1,000 square miles of land at Chambers Creek.
Stuart's second expedition 1859
The official South Australian government explorer Benjamin Herschel Babbage followed Stuart's maps and went to Chambers Creek.
He reported that the map showed the creek was marked  too far to the north.
Stuart went back to Chambers Creek to survey the area again.
This expedition was paid for by James Chambers and William Finke who realized the value of reliable water supplies on the other side of the salt lakes.
Stuart left Oratunga Station on 2 April 1859, with a small group, three men and 14 horses.
The men he took with him included a Bavarian naturalist and artist, David Herrgott, and Louis Müller, a stockman and botanist.
Both Herrgott and Müller had been gold miners in Victoria, and would know how to look for gold in the country around Chambers Creek.
They did not carry much equipment, only a blanket to sleep with, but no tents.
The only food they took was flour, dried beef (jerky), tea, sugar and tobacco.
He took more equipment than just his watch and compass on this trip; a sextant, a copy of the Astronomical Almanac and a telescope.
Stuart went a different way to Chambers Creek, going through a gap in between the salt lakes that had been explored by Major Peter Warburton earlier in the year.
Herrgott found a group of 12 artesian springs, which Stuart named after him.
This name later became the settlement of Herggott Springs.
The name was changed again during World War One because of strong anti-German feelings in Australia.
The town is now called Marree after the Aboriginal word for possum.
These springs were mound springs; over thousands of years the salt in the water had formed small hills, and the water came out of them like water out of a volcano.
Some of the mounds were over  high.
They were valuable because they provided reliable water for people and animals moving north to Chambers Creek.
After surveying Chambers Creek again, Stuart explored the area to the north west of Chambers Creek.
They found more mound springs which Stuart named Elizabeth Springs after one of Chamber's daughters.
They continued north west and searched for gold in the Davenport Range.
They found more springs which they named the Spring of Hope.
They were able to continue and found more springs, which Stuart named Freeling Springs, after Major Freeling, a South Australian politician.
By the time they had passed the current site of Oodnadatta, both the men and the horses were suffering from the lack of water and proper food.
The horses' shoes had worn out in the rocks around the Davenport Range.
On 12 June 1859, Stuart turned around and went back.
They rode south back to Port Augusta and then took a boat back to Adelaide.
Third expedition 1859
The South Australian government offered a prize of £2,000 to the first person to cross Australia from the south to the north.
They hoped this would be a route for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line that would connect Australia to the line that came from Europe.
Stuart and Chambers plans for the trip were not accepted by the government.
The government sent Alexander Tolmer to lead the trip.
His expedition did not make it out of the settled areas.
In August 1859, one month after his last trip, Stuart went back to do more surveying for Chambers at Chambers Creek.
With William Darton Kekwick and two other men, they took 12 horses and explored the west side of Lake Eyre.
Chambers and Stuart believed that the lake might hold water.
Instead Stuart found mud after he walked several kilometres into the dry salt lake.
He found another artesian mound spring, more than  in height, which he named William Springs, after one of Chamber's sons.
He then set off for the Spring of Hope.
He saw grasslands and eventually made a base at Freeling Springs.
He explored much of the surrounding area hoping to find gold.
On 6 January 1860, with his food supplies getting low, and two of the men refusing to go any further, Stuart once again returned home.
Fourth expedition September 1860
There was a lot of support for an expedition to cross Australia.
In Melbourne, the biggest exploring expedition in Australian history, the Victorian Exploring Expedition, was being organized for the crossing.
This became known as the Burke and Wills expedition, named after its two leaders, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills.
Stuart knew that he would be able to travel further and faster by only going with a small group.
In March 1860, with Kekwick, Benjamin Head and 13 horses, Stuart left Chambers Creek and headed north.
They were the first Europeans to enter central Australia.
They reached the Finke River, the MacDonnell Ranges, and the strange rock formation Stuart called Chambers Pillar.
On 23 April, Stuart worked out that they were at the very centre of Australia.
He named a small hill near the spot Mount Sturt, after Charles Sturt.
Stuart and Kekwick climbed the hill and raised the British flag.
Stuart wrote that the flag would be a sign to the Aborigines "...that the dawn of liberty, civilization, and Christianity is about to break upon them."
The name was later changed to Central Mount Stuart.
From here Stuart tried to go northwest to reach the Victoria River.
This took them into the Tanami Desert, but they could not find water and were forced to go back.
They continued to travel north, beyond the site of the town of Tennant Creek.
On 26 June they reached a creek, now called Attack Creek, about  north of Adelaide.
A large group of Aborigines from a group called the Warramunga, attacked the explorers.
The Warrumunga threw boomerangs at the explorers, and then set fire to the grass.
Stuart and his men fired their guns at the Warrumunga, but Stuart does not say in his diary if any were killed or injured.
The men quickly left the creek and went south.
Stuart decided they could not get any further north because they were running out of food, water was scarce and the horses were in poor condition.
He wrote "...I think it would be madness and folly to attempt more."
The return journey was very difficult.
Stuart could only ride for a few hours a day; on one day he just dug a hole in the sand and curled up in it.
Head was so hungry he stole food, which left them with even less.
Their clothes were only torn rags and their bodies were covered in bruises caused by scurvy.
Stuart wrote in his diary that "My men have now lost all their former energy...and move about as if they were a hundred years old.
It is sad to see them..." Stuart wrote in his diary that sores on his hands had made them to painful to be used and he could only just sit in the saddle.
He gums had become so sore and his teeth so loose that he could only eat flour boiled in water.
He wrote on 16 May that "...I almost wished that death would come and relieve me from my fearful torture..."  The medicines he had with him did not help.
The explorers made their way back to Adelaide as Burke and Wills were starting their journey north from Melbourne.
Stuart was treated as a hero when he arrived in Adelaide.
In 1859 the Royal Geographical Society in London presented him with gold watch.
This was given to the explorer Count Paul Strzelecki to take back to Australia.
The cost of Stuart's exploring had been paid for by Chambers.
Because of this, Stuart would not make his journals and maps available to the public.
This led to claims that Stuart had not really travelled that far north and that he was lying about his discoveries.
In Victoria it was even said that Stuart had not really gone north, but had been hiding in a cellar in Adelaide.
Fifth expedition 1861
The public and the newspapers began to talk about a race across the continent of Australia.
Could Stuart, experienced and used to moving quickly, beat the better equipped, but very slow moving Burke and Wills expedition.
After their failures with Babbage and Tolmer's expeditions, the South Australian government now believed that Stuart would succeed if he had enough support.
They gave £2,500 to set up another expedition and provided ten armed men to protect Stuart from any more attacks by the Aborigines.
Chambers agreed to supply more horses and to pay Stuart and Kekwick's wages.
In Victoria, a policeman was sent off to tell Burke to get going to the Gulf of Carpentaria as fast as possible, but Burke had already heard about Stuart's planned trip.
Burke divided his group in two, and leaving most of his supplies behind at Menindee on the Darling River, he headed north to Cooper Creek.
On 1 January 1861, Stuart with a group of 12 men and 49 horses set off from Chambers Creek.
The hot weather made it hard to find water and many waterholes from his earlier trips were dry.
In February Stuart sent back two men with five horses.
They reached the northern border of South Australia at about the same time that Burke and Wills reached the Gulf of Carpentaria.
He was able to travel 240 km north of Attack Creek, where he found a large waterhole he called Glandfield Lagoon, after the mayor of Adelaide.
Chambers later changed the name on Stuart's maps to Newcastle Waters, after the Duke of Newcastle, a British politician.
From here Stuart again looked for a way to go north west to the Victoria River, but he was unable to find water.
With the food running out, the men becoming sick, and horses in poor condition, Stuart again decided to return to Adelaide.
Burke and Wills had not returned to Cooper Creek and were missing.
Sixth expedition 1861–62
Stuart set out on his third attempt to cross Australia on 25 October 1861.
This expedition was called the Great Northern Exploring Expedition.
The group was: John McDouall Stuart, William Darton Kekwick, Francis William Thring, William Patrick Auld, Stephen King Jnr.,
John William Billiatt, James Frew Jnr.,
Heath Nash, John Woodforde, John McGorrery and Frederick George Waterhouse.
McGorrey was a blacksmith who would be able to fix the shoes on the group's 78 horses.
Waterhouse was a naturalist who would be able to keep a scientific notes of their discoveries.
Stuart was injured when a horse stood on his right hand, and remained behind for a month to recover.
He learned about the deaths of Burke and Wills at Cooper Creek.
The group left Chambers Creek on 8 January 1862 moving fast, covering between 30 and 50 kilometres a day.
The fast pace meant that in the first three weeks eight horses died and Woodforde left and went back.
Stuart left some of the supplies behind and cut the amount each man was allowed to eat.
At Mount Hay in central Australia, they were again attacked by Aboriginal warriors, but they were no match for the group's guns and several may have been killed.
They reached Newcastle Waters in three months, and then took a week to rest.
Stuart spent the next five weeks searching for water.
He finally found a series of waterholes, creeks and rivers which meant the whole group were able to continue to the north.
He gave up trying to reach the Victoria River.
When they got to the Roper River, which had been explored by Ludwig Leichhardt in 1845, he knew he could easily go west to the Gulf of Carpentaria, but instead chose to continue north.
Auld later said that "...the mosquitos and flies were terrible.
Our hands, feet and necks were blistered with their bites."
They crossed Arnhem Land, and made the way along the edge of what is now Kakadu National Park.
He followed the Adelaide River, but when the ground became too soft and muddy, they went further north to the Mary River and eventually reached the sea.
They arrived at Van Diemen's Gulf on 24 July 1862.
On a tall tree branch they raised a Union Jack flag with Stuart's name embroided on it which had been made by Chamber's daughter, Elizabeth.
Wood from the tree, which has since been destroyed, is in the collection of the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia's collection.
The group then had to travel  back to Adelaide.
Food was becoming scarce, and the hot weather meant there was little water.
Many horses died, and Stuart was again forced to leave behind equipment.
Waterhouse had to leave all his carefully collected plants and animals.
The men were very hungry and even shot and ate dingos.
Stuart was in poor health and became blind.
He was unable to speak for several days and the men thought he was going to die.
He was unable to ride his horse, and they made a bed with long poles and blankets that could be carried between two horses.
Stuart was carried  by this method.
after crossing the MacDonnell Ranges, they discovered that rain had fallen and there was lots of grass.
On reaching the settled areas, Stuart learned that his friend and partner, James Chambers had died.
He left Kekwick in charge of the group, and went ahead with Auld.
They got on the train at Kapunda and arrived in Adelaide on 17 December 1862.
Stuart and his group were given a special welcome in Adelaide on 16 January 1863.
They dressed in their old clothes and rode into the city as heroes.
This was also the day that Burke and Wills were buried in Melbourne after the failure of their expedition.
Stuart was in poor health, almost blind, and had a crippled right hand after the sixth trip.
With Chambers dead, he no longer had a job.
The government tried not to pay him the £2,000 reward, saying that they had paid for the cost of the expedition.
After public pressure, they gave in, but invested the money and only gave Stuart a small amount each year.
He was drinking a lot of alcohol and none of his friends would give him any help.
The government then wanted £500 for the lease of the land they had given him at Chambers Creek.
Stuart sold it to James Chambers' brother, John Chambers, for only £200, losing money on the deal.
He decided to return to Great Britain in April 1864.
He lived with his sister Mary in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Royal Geographical Society asked the South Australian government for a pension for Stuart, but they said he had been rewarded enough with grants of land.
During the debate over the pension it was said that it was not the exploring that had ruined his health, but his drinking habits.
He suffered from dementia, and it is possible he also had tuberculosis.
He died in London on 5 June 1866 from a stroke and was buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery.
Only seven people went to the funeral, four relatives, two members of the Royal Geographical Society, and Alexander Hay, a South Australian farmer who was in London at the time.
The grave was damaged in World War II, but was repaired in 2011 by the Stuart Society and the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia.
The Australian Overland Telegraph Line was built along the route taken by Stuart.
Using his notes they were easily able to find water supplies and trees to make the poles.
The accuracy of his maps made building the line much easier.
His journey is remembered in the Stuart Highway, one of Australia's major roads which joins Port Augusta to Darwin.
It follows much of the same route discovered by Stuart.
In June 1904, a statue of Stuart was put up in Adelaide.
The Royal Geographical Society of South Australia has a wooden chair and table made by Stuart in 1854.
Stuart and A.C. Gregory were arguably Australia’s greatest inland explorers.
The latter was certainly financed and equipped much better than Stuart who had to rely on Chambers and Finke’s support rather than the State Government.
It may very well have been possible for Stuart to reach the north coast earlier if he had the Government support that Gregory, Babbage and Tolmer were granted.
That said, he didn’t and was totally driven to reach the north coast despite illness and afflictions that arguably he had since arriving in South Australia and were to see him die at such an early age in England in 1866.
The key attributes that made Stuart one, if not the best inland explorer, include: