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The term medical tourism can also be called medical travel, health tourism or global healthcare.
it was initially developed by travel agencies and the mass media to describe the rapidly-growing practice of travelling across international borders to obtain health care.mainly it is for curing people and a lot of countries believe on this.
Cost savings
To get an idea of the potential cost savings from medical tourism, in Denver, Colorado, USA, a person without health insurance who needs a hip replacement will pay about US $60,000 (EUR 44751).
In comparison, in Cuba, going through medical tourism firm Choice Medical Services, the same procedure costs about US $8000 (EUR 5967) or about an 80 percent savings.
"Canadian Firms Offer Cuban Healthcare to US, Canadian Patients", Miami Herald, Oct. 7, 2007
The burrowing parakeet (Cyanoliseus patagonus), also known as the burrowing parakeet or Patagonian conure, is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.
It is found in Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and Uruguay.
It lives in subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, and pastureland.
It is also known as the burrowing parrot.
Birds of Chile postage stamps
Parakeets
An aquifer is an underground  layer where the material contains water.
That can be less solid material like sand, gravel, clay or silt, but it can be rock as well,  as long as the rock allows water to get in (that means that it is water-bearing).
From such layers or groundwater can be usefully extracted using a well.
The study of water flow in aquifers and the characterization of aquifers is called hydrogeology.
Groundwater in rock formations
Groundwater may exist in underground rivers (e.g., caves where water flows freely underground).
This may occur in eroded limestone areas known as karst topography, which make up only a small percentage of Earth's area.
More usual is that the pore spaces of rocks in the subsurface are simply saturated with water — like a kitchen sponge — which can be pumped out for agricultural, industrial, or municipal uses.
If a rock unit of low porosity is highly fractured, it can make a good aquifer (via fissure flow), if the water can get through it.
Porosity is important, but, alone, it does not make an aquifer.
The Deccan Traps (a flood basaltic lava) in west central India are good examples of rock with high porosity but low permeability, so they are poor aquifers.
The (Upper Cretaceous) Chalk of south east England has a reasonably high porosity, but low grain-to-grain permeability.
Much of its good water-yielding characteristics being due to micro-fracturing and fissuring.
The Great Artesian Basin in Australia is arguably the largest groundwater aquifer in the world. (
over 1.7 million km²).
It plays a large part in water supplies for Queensland and remote parts of South Australia.
The Guarani Aquifer with an area of 1.2 million km² is shared by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The Ogallala Aquifer of the central United States is one of the world's great aquifers.
It underlies portions of eight states, contains primarily fossil water from the time of the last glaciation.
Annual recharge, in the more arid parts of the aquifer, is estimated to total only about 10 percent of annual withdrawals.
The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) is the world’s largest known fossil water aquifer system.
Aquifers can occur at various depths.
Those closer to the surface are not only more likely to be exploited for water supply and irrigation, but are also more likely to be topped up by the local rainfall.
Many desert areas have limestone hills or mountains within them or close to them which can be exploited as groundwater resources.
If more water is taken out than get in again one speaks of over-harvesting.
Along the coastlines of certain countries, such as Libya and Israel, population growth has led to over-population which has caused the lowering of water table and the subsequent contamination of the groundwater with saltwater from the sea (saline intrusions).
In these cases the aquifer contains brackish water.
When water seeps (comes slowly) out of the ground, it is called a seep or "spring (water)".
It usually means there is an aquifer under the ground.
Voyager 2 is a space probe used by NASA to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
It is the only spacecraft that has come near to Uranus and Neptune.
Because of this, a majority of pictures we see of these two ice planets came from this spacecraft.
It was identical in form to its sister spacecraft, Voyager 1.
The probe is currently moving away from the solar system, and is heading out into interstellar space.
Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977.
NASA Voyager website
Voyager Spacecraft Lifetime
Voyager 2 Mission Profile  by NASA's Solar System Exploration
Spacecraft Escaping the Solar System  - current positions and diagrams
Mission state
VOYAGER RECENT 6-HOUR HISTORY
Voyager 2 Detects Odd Shape of Solar System's Edge  23 May 2006
How It Began
The idea of a coordinated synchronized worldwide party appeared as a work of fiction in the book Flight, A Quantum Fiction Novel, by American writer Vanna Bonta.
In the ending of the book, published in 1995, all people in the world celebrated at the same time.
Worldwide Celebration
The internet, media and communication has accelerated one of the biggest social transformations in human history, facilitating the organization of global movements.
Research has begun documenting the emerging social transformation of people around the world uniting for a positive, joyful future for humanity, through a common task.
Many cities and regions in the United States, France, England, Africa, Italy, China, Korea, Vietnam, India, and Thailand have notable celebrations of World Party Day (P-Day).
Radio stations and internet communities spread the event with podcasts of "World Party I."
Simultaneous (at the same time) celebration of World Party Day occurs in every continent of the world, including the Middle East  and Africa.
The celebration has no religious or political connections.
The theme of World Party Day celebrations is a "universal human right to fun, peace and life."
The only requirement is to celebrate and party from any place, whether a formal event or private party, large or small, or alone.
Events have been organized as dance parties, concerts, and meditations, however, the only mandatory observance is a synchronized mass awareness of the human right to enjoy life, and displaying hospitality.
Some public celebrations organize multicultural food and music events.
Since 2000, synchronized global events have escalated, such as The Quadrille Dance Parade, at which in 2007, its 7th year, 24,000 people danced at once.
In 2006, 23,600 danced simultaneously in a total of 36 cities.
World Party Day  Fusion music, release April 3, 2001
World Party Day participating site
Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz; June 3, 1925 – September 29, 2010) was an American movie actor.
He was most popular during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He is famous for his light comic roles, especially his musician escaping from gangsters in Some Like It Hot (1959).
He has also acted in more serious and dramatic movies, like The Defiant Ones (1958), for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
He has appeared in over 100 movies since 1949, and made frequent television appearances.
He was the father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis.
Curtis was born in The Bronx, New York.
His birth name is Bernard Schwatz.
He is one of three sons of Helen (née Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz.
His parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary.
Hungarian was Curtis's only language until he was five or six, postponing his schooling.
His father was a tailor and the family lived in the back of the shop—his parents in one corner and Curtis and his brothers Julius and Robert in another.
His mother once made an appearance as a participant on the television show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx.
Curtis said, "When I was a child, Mom beat me up and was very aggressive and antagonistic."
His mother was later diagnosed with schizophrenia.
His brother Robert was also institutionalized with the same mental illness.
Criss Cross (1949)
Bedrock Across the River (1949)
The Lady Gambles (1949)
Take One False Step (1949) (scenes deleted)
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
How to Smuggle a Hernia Across the Border (1949) (short subject)
Woman in Hiding (1950)
Francis (1950)
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
Sierra (1950)
Kansas Raiders (1950)
The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)
Meet Danny Wilson (1952) (cameo)
Flesh and Fury (1952)
No Room for the Groom (1952)
Son of Ali Baba (1952)
Houdini (1953)
The All-American (1953)
Forbidden (1953)
Beachhead (1954)
Johnny Dark (1954)
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
So This Is Paris (1955)
The Purple Mask (1955)
The Rawhide Years (1955)
The Square Jungle (1955)
Trapeze (1956)
Mister Cory (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Midnight Story (1957)
The Vikings (1958)
Kings Go Forth (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
The Perfect Furlough (1958)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
Who Was That Lady? (
The Rat Race (1960)
Pepe (1960) (cameo)
The Great Impostor (1961)
The Outsider (1961)
Taras Bulba (1962)
40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) (cameo)
Wild and Wonderful (1964)
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
The Great Race (1965)
Boeing Boeing (1965)
Chamber of Horrors (1966) (cameo)
Not with My Wife, You Don't! (
Arrivederci, Baby! (
Don't Make Waves (1967)
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968) (voice)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (1969)
You Can't Win 'Em All (1970)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? (
Mission: Monte Carlo (1974)
Lepke (1975)
London Conspiracy (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976)
Casanova & Co. (1977)
Sextette (1978)
The Manitou (1978)
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978)
Double Take (1979)
Title Shot (1979)
It Rained All Night the Day I Left (1980)
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980)
Othello, the Black Commando (1982)
Where Is Parsifal? (
BrainWaves (1983)
The Fantasy movie Worlds of George Pal (1985) (documentary)
Club Life (1985)
Insignificance (1985)
The Last of Philip Banter (1986)
Balboa (1986)
The Passenger - Welcome to Germany (1988)
Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
Midnight (1989)
Walter & Carlo In America (1989)
Prime Target (1991)
Center of the Web (1992)
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (1992) (documentary)
Naked in New York (1993)
The Mummy Lives (1993)
The Immortals (1995)
The Celluloid Closet (1995) (documentary)
Hardball (1997)
Brittle Glory (1997)
Alien X Factor (1997)
Stargames (1998)
Louis & Frank (1998)
Play It to the Bone (1999) (cameo)
Reflections of Evil (2002) (narrator)
Where's Marty? (
Funny Money (2007)
The Blacksmith and the Carpenter (2007) (voice)
David & Fatima (2008)
Oceans 14 (2009)
Biography  and naval service  from the California Center for Military History website
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001), was an American actor and director who received many awards in his long career.
He got two Academy and five Golden Globe awards.
Lemmon acted in many movies, and was famous for being very good at comedy and drama.
Lemmon died of bladder and colon cancer.
The Lady Takes a Sailor (1949)
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Phffft! (
Three for the Show (1955)
Mister Roberts (1955)
My Sister Eileen (1955)
Hollywood Bronc Busters (1955)
You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Operation Mad Ball (1957)
Cowboy (1958)
Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
Stowaway in the Sky (1960)
Pepe (1960)
The Wackiest Ship In the Army (1960)
The Notorious Landlady (1962)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Irma la Douce (1963)
Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Luv (1967)
There Comes a Day (1968)
The April Fools (1969)
The Out-of-Towners (1970)
The War Between Men and Women (1972)
Avanti! (
Save the Tiger (1973)
The Police Can't Move (1974) (narrator)
Wednesday (1975)
The Gentleman Tramp (1975)  (narrator)
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Alex & the Gypsy (1976)
Airport '77 (1977)
The China Syndrome (1979)
Portrait of a 60% Perfect Man (1980)
Tribute (1980)
Missing (1982)
Mass Appeal (1984)
Macaroni (1985)
That's Life! (
Dad (1989)
Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy (1992)
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman In Carver County (1993)
Getting Away with Murder (1996)
My Fellow Americans (1996)
Hamlet (1996)
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
Puppies for Sale (1998)
Tuesdays with Morrie (1999)
Jack Lemmon's Gravesite
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian-American movie actor.
He is known for his swashbuckler roles in movies like Adventures of Don Juan and The Sea Hawk.
Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
His father Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer (1909) and later professor (1911) of biology at the University of Tasmania.
Flynn was born at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Battery Point.
His mother was born Lily Mary Young.
She dropped the first names Lily Mary shortly after she was married and changed her name to Marelle.
Flynn described his mother's family as "seafaring folk".
This may account for his lifelong love of the sea and boats.
First movies
He became a naturalized American citizen in 1942.
He is remembered for his successful on-screen partnership with Olivia de Havilland.
They appeared together in eight movies: Captain Blood (1935, his first great success), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Four's a Crowd (1938), Dodge City (1939), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), Santa Fe Trail (1940), and They Died with Their Boots On (1941).
This partnership started rumors of romance.
De Havilland denied these rumors.
She said her relationship with Flynn was one of friendship only.
WWII years
Flynn tried to enlist in every branch of the United States Armed Services during WWII.
He was classified 4F because of numerous health issues.
Hollywood executives kept his health issues a secret to protect his screen image.
He never served and was criticized for this.
As the years passed, Flynn's manly image diminished.
He became an alcoholic, gained weight, and had a seedy appearance.
Flynn wrote his autobiography My Wicked, Wicked Ways in 1959.
He died of a heart attack at age 50.
His last words were reportedly, "I've had a hell of a lot of fun and I've enjoyed every minute of it".
Flynn was married three times: first to actress Lili Damita from 1935 until 1942 (one son, Sean Flynn, 1941–70?);
to Nora Eddington from 1943 until 1949 (two daughters, Deirdre born 1945 and Rory born 1947); and to actress Patrice Wymore from 1950 until his death (one daughter, Arnella Roma, 1953–1998).
Flynn had a reputation for womanizing and freewheeling fun.
His hedonistic lifestyle caught up with him in 1942 when two under-age girls, Betty Hansen and Peggy Satterlee, accused him of statutory rape.
The two girls said that the event occurred at the Bel Air home of Flynn's friend Frederick McEvoy.
A group was organized to support Flynn.
It was called the American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn (ABCDEF).
Its members included William F. Buckley, Jr. The trial took place in January and February 1943.
Flynn was cleared of the charges.
Errol Flynn at the National Film and Sound Archive
Map of where Errol died in Vancouver
Profile for Errol Flynn at Find A Grave
Errol Flynn on CBC's Front Page Challenge
Wu Ming's "In Like Flynn" at Chicago Review
Disease-related deaths in British Columbia
David Niven (March 1, 1910 – July 29, 1983) was an English actor.
He won the Academy Award for "Best Actor" for his role in the movie Separate Tables in 1958.
Originally, he was the actor who was to play the first James Bond, but the producers later decided to give the role to Sean Connery instead.
Some of the movies that he was in include The Pink Panther, Around the World in 80 Days, The guns of Navarone, and Casino Royale.
Niven started his career as an extra.
He died of motor neurone disease.
Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor of silent movies.
He was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy.
He became popular as one of the first sex symbols in Hollywood in the 1920s.
Valentino did not live long enough to see movies with sound replace silent movies.
He died of peridontis on August 23, 1926, at the age of 31.
My Official Wife (1914)
The Quest of Life (1916)
The Foolish Virgin (uncredited) (1916)
Seventeen (uncredited, extra) (1916)
Alimony (1917)
A Society Sensation (1918)
All Night (1918)
The Married Virgin (or Frivolous Wives; 1918)
The Delicious Little Devil (1919)
The Big Little Person (1919)
A Rogue's Romance (1919)
The Homebreake (1919)
Out of Luck (1919)
Virtuous Sinners (1919)
The Fog (1919)
Nobody Home (1919)
The Eyes of Youth (1919)
Stolen Moments (1920)
An Adventuress (1920)
The Cheater (1920)
Passion's Playground (1920)
Once to Every Woman (1920)
The Wonderful Chance (1920)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Uncharted Seas (1921)
Conquering Power (1921)
Camille (1921)
The Sheik (1921)
Moran of the Lady Letty (1922)
Blood and Sand (1922)
The Young Rajah (1922)
Monsieur Beaucaire (1924)
A Sainted Devil (1924)
Cobra (1925)
The Eagle (1925)
The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Rudolph Valentino homepage
Rudolph Valentino Yahoo discussion group
Rudolph Valentino photo gallery at Silent Gents.
Audio history (MP3, 17:23).
Emily Leider, author of Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
Affairs Valentino.
Valentino biography in Spanish, Italian & English
Rudolfo Valentino at tricolore.net
Italian actors
Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940), usually called Raquel Welch, is an American actress and model.
She became famous during the 1960s as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.
She won the Golden Globe Award in 1975.
A House Is Not a Home (1964)
Roustabout (1964)
A Swingin' Summer (1965)
The Queens (1966)
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)
Think Twentieth (1967) (short subject)
The Oldest Profession (1967)
Fathom (1967)
Bedazzled (1967)
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Bandolero! (
Lady in Cement (1968)
100 Rifles (1969)
Flareup (1969)
The Magic Christian (1969)
The Beloved (1970)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Hannie Caulder (1971)
Bluebeard (1972)
Fuzz (1972)
Kansas City Bomber (1972)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
The Three Musketeers (1973)
The Four Musketeers (1974)
The Wild Party (1975)
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
The Animal (1977)
Crossed Swords (1978)
Trouble in Paradise (1989)
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994) (Cameo)
Chairman of the Board (1998)
What I Did for Love (1998)
Tortilla Soup (2001)
Legally Blonde (2001)
Jim Brown: All American (2002) (documentary)
Forget About It (2005)
'' The Elvis Cup (2006)
Raquel Welch video clips
Obituary, New York Times, May 16, 1987 - Rita Hayworth, Movie Legend, Dies
Rita Hayworth Biography.
Find-A-Grave profile for Rita Hayworth
The All-American Love Goddess  Rita Hayworth: 1918-1987   Time Magazine 1987 obituary.
California Carmen  Hayworth's November 10, 1941 Time Magazine cover story article.
Cultural Studies essay on Rita
Thomas "Tommy" Lee Jones (born September 15, 1946) is an American actor and movie director.
He won the Academy and the Golden Globe awards in 1993 for his role in the movie The Fugitive.
He was born in Texas in 1946.
His mother, Lucille Marie (née Scott), was a police officer, school teacher, and beauty shop owner, and his father, Clyde C. Jones, was an oil field worker.
The two were married and divorced twice.
Jones has stated that his grandmother was of Cherokee ancestry.
He was raised in Midland, Texas.
Jones was given an athletic scholarship to go to a school in Dallas, Texas.
After finishing school he worked on the oil rigs before going to Harvard University to study English.
He finished university in 1969 and moved to New York to be an actor.
His first role was in the Broadway play, A Patriot For Me.
He had many small parts until he got the main role in the movie JFK.
He won the Academy Award for the best actor in a supporting role for the movie The Fugitive.
James Garner (born James Scott Bumgarner; April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014) was an American movie and television actor.
He acted in several television series in a career of more than fifty years, including his roles as Bret Maverick in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, Maverick and Jim Rockford in the popular 1970s detective drama, The Rockford Files.
He also acted in many movies, including The Great Escape (1963) and Paddy Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily (1964).
Toward the Unknown (1956)
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Sayonara (1957)
Darby's Rangers (1958)
Up Periscope (1959)
Alias Jesse James (1959) (Cameo)
Cash McCall (1960)
The Children's Hour (1961)
Boys' Night Out (1962)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Thrill of It All (1963)
The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Move Over, Darling (1963)
Action on the Beach (1964) (short subject)
36 Hours (1965)
The Art of Love (1965)
Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions (1966) (short subject)
Duel at Diablo (1966)
Mister Buddwing (1966)
Hour of the Gun (1967)
Once Upon a Wheel (1968) (documentary)
The Man Who Makes the Difference (1968) (short subject)
How Sweet It Is! (
The Pink Jungle (1968)
The Racing Scene (1969) (documentary)
Support Your Local Sheriff! (
Marlowe (1969)
A Man Called Sledge (1970)
Support Your Local Gunfighter! (
Skin Game (1971)
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
One Little Indian (1973)
The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
HealtH (1980)
The Fan (1981)
Tank (1984)
Murphy's Romance (1985)
Sunset (1988)
The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Maverick (1994)
Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) (documentary)
The Hidden Dimension (1997) (documentary) (narrator)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) (voice)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration (2003) (voice) (direct-to-DVD)
Al Roach: Private Investigator (2004) (short subject) (voice)
The Ultimate Gift (2007)
The Magic Shoe (2007)
Terra (2008) (voice)
Jim's bio @ the Museum of Broadcast Communications
Archive of American Television Interview with James Garner March 17, 1999 on Google Video
Rockford Files site
People from Norman, Oklahoma
Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001) was a Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer.
He is famous in the United States for his roles in two Hollywood films, the star role in Zorba the Greek and Viva Zapata!.
He won two Academy Awards during his very long career.
The Estate of Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn's artwork
Directing Anthony Quinn
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American movie and television actor.
He is famous for his good looks and remembered as a romantic star during the 1950s and 1960s, especially several movies where he starred with actress Doris Day.
Hudson was voted Star of the Year and Favorite Leading Man, by many movie magazines and was one of the most popular movie stars of the time.
He made nearly 70 movies and acted in several television productions during a career of more than three decades, and he received the Golden Globe Award four times.
Hudson was a closeted homosexual.
He was one of the first major Hollywood personalities to die from AIDS.
Fighter Squadron (1948)
Undertow (1949)
One Way Street (1950)
Peggy (1950)
The Desert Hawk (1950)
Shakedown (1950)
Tomahawk (1951)
Air Cadet (1951)
The Fat Man (1951)
Iron Man (1951)
Bend of the River (1952)
Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Scarlet Angel (1952)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (
Horizons West (1952)
The Lawless Breed (1953)
Seminole (1953)
Sea Devils (1953)
The Golden Blade (1953)
Gun Fury (1953)
Back to God's Country (1953)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953) (narrator)
Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)
Bengal Brigade (1954)
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
One Desire (1955)
Battle Hymn (1957)
Something of Value (1957)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
Twilight for the Gods (1958)
This Earth Is Mine (1959)
The Last Sunset (1961)
Come September (1961)
Lover Come Back (1961)
The Spiral Road (1962)
Marilyn (1963) (documentary) (narrator)
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
Man's Favorite Sport? (
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Strange Bedfellows (1965)
A Very Special Favor (1965)
Blindfold (1965)
Seconds (1966)
A Fine Pair (1969)
The Undefeated (1969)
Darling Lili (1970)
Hornets' Nest (1970)
Pretty Maids All in A Row (1971)
Showdown (1973)
Embryo (1976)
The Ambassador (1984)
Transcript of CNN Larry King 7.
june 2001, Special on Rock Hudson offscreen with Dale Olson
Transcript of CNN Larry King 1.
October 2003, 18th anniversary of Hudson's death
Rock Hudson biography at TCM
Rock Hudson at AllExperts
Rock Hudson at classic movies - many links
fan page by LMScully
Rock Hudson at Brian's drive-in theatre
People from Winnetka, Illinois
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland DBE (July 1, 1916 – July 26, 2020) was a British-American actress.
She was one of two the only living star of Gone with the Wind, but there are also actors with smaller roles in said movie who are still alive.
She has won the Academy Award two times.
She is the sister of late actress Joan Fontaine, who also won the Academy Award.
They did not get along ever since they were children.
De Havilland was born in Tokyo to British parents.
She became an American citizen in 1941.
She lived in Paris from 1956 until her death in 2020.
De Havilland died on July 26, 2020 at her home in Paris at the age of 104.
Alibi Ike (1935)
The Irish in Us (1935)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
A Dream Comes True (1935 - short subject)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Making of a Great Motion Picture (1936 - short subject)
Call It a Day (1937)
It's Love I'm After (1937)
The Great Garrick (1937)
Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Four's a Crowd (1938)
Hard to Get (1938)
A Day at Santa Anita (1939 - short subject)
Wings of the Navy (1939)
Dodge City (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Raffles (1940)
My Love Came Back (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
The Male Animal (1942)
In This Our Life (1942)
Show Business at War (1943 - short subject)
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Government Girl (1943)
To Each His Own (1946)
Devotion (1946)
The Well-Groomed Bride (1946)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
The Heiress (1949)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
That Lady (1955)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Libel (1959)
The Light in the Piazza (1962)
Lady in a Cage (1964)
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
The Adventurers (1970)
Pope Joan (1972)
The Swarm (1978)
The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
Long obituary at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/olivia-de-havilland-dead-gone-wind-adventures-robin-hood-star-was-104-720040
1995 interview
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright and musician whose career spans over fifty years.
He has won the Academy Award three times, and many others in his very long career.
His many works and his cerebral movie style, mixing satire and humor, have made him one of the most respected movie directors in the modern era.
Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in most of them.
To inspire himself for his movies, Allen uses literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived all life.
Allen was born at Mount of Eden Hospital in The Bronx, He was raised in Brooklyn, New York City.
His parents were Nettie (born Cherrie; November 8, 1906 – January 27, 2002), a bookkeeper at her family's delicatessen, and Martin Konigsberg (December 25, 1900 – January 13, 2001), a jewelry engraver and waiter.
His family was Ashkenazi Jewish; his grandparents immigrated from Russia and Austria, and spoke Yiddish, Hebrew, and German.
Both parents were born and raised on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Allen has a sister, Letty, who was born in 1943, and was raised in Midwood, Brooklyn.
Allen started writing scripts for The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show and other television shows when he was 19.
He started working as a comedian in 1961.
His first movie, What's New Pussycat?,
was released in 1965.
In 1966 he wrote his first play, the Broadway play Don't Drink the Water.
In 1986 Allen's movie Hannah and Her Sisters made $18 million.
Allen has had three wives.
He dated Mia Farrow for 12 years.
However, they never married and lived in different houses.
Allen and Farrow adopted Dylan and Mosche Farrow together.
Mia said in 1994 that Allen molested her 7-year-old daughter, Dylan Farrow.
In February 2014 an open letter by Dylan was published by the New York Times.
In the letter, Dylan said that Allen had molested her.
Her brother Mosche, who is now known as Moses Farrow, said that Allen did not molest her.
Allen said the allegations were "untrue and disgraceful".
On February 7, 2014, Allen wrote a response to Dylan in the New York Times.
In 1992 Farrow realized that Allen was cheating on her with her adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn.
She found naked pictures of Soon-yi in Allen's house.
Farrow and Allen broke up.
In 1997 Allen married Previn.
Previn and Allen have two adopted daughters.
IMP Poster Gallery
Woody Allen Movies
La De Da: Annie Hall as Divine Tragicomedy  Essay Extended version of essay
Woody Allen in Barcelona.
The shooting of a film.
Saint Maximus the Confessor (also known as Maximus the Theologian and Maximus of Constantinople) (born  580 – 13 August, 662) was a Christian monk, theologian, and scholar.
In his early life, he was a civil servant.
He was also an aide to the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
However, he gave up this life to become a monk.
Maximus Confessor: Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality).
George C. Berthold.
Paulist Press, 1985. .
St. Maximus the Confessor: The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on Charity (Ancient Christian Writers).
Polycarp Sherwood.
Paulist Press, 1955. .
Maximus the Confessor and his Companions (Documents from Exile) (Oxford Early Christian Texts).
and Trans.
Pauline Allen, Bronwen Neil.
Oxford University Press, 2004. .
Selected works of Saint Maximus Confessor
Maximus Confessor in the Catholic Encyclopedia
Maximus Confessor  in the Catholic Forum
Maximus Confessor in the Orthodox Church in America
The Toraja are an ethnic group, indigenous to a part of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
There are about 650,000 of them around the world.
450,000 of these still live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja").
Most of them are Christian.
Others of them are Muslim or have local animist beliefs known as aluk ("the way").
The Indonesian government has recognized this animist belief as Aluk To Dolo ("Way of the Ancestors").
Tana Toraja official website .
Toraja on the Net - news and commentary.
batusura.de - A personal website containing photography and recorded music from Toraja.
Online Toraja information.
Backmasking (also known wrongly as backward masking) is a recording technique.
In backmasking, a sound or message is recorded backwards onto a track that is meant to be played forwards.
It was made popular by The Beatles.
Some people think that backmasking causes subliminal persuasion.
Jeff Milner's Backmasking Page—a Flash player with forward and backward versions of songs claimed to contain backmasking; the focus of the Wall Street Journal article
Backmask Flash—flash clips of possible backmasked messages from Albino Blacksheep
TalkBackwards.com —allows uploaded music to be reversed
Hidden and Satanic Messages In Rock Music—1981 radio interview with Michael Mills
Excerpt with alleged backward messages by Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Queen
"Backwards Messages in Rock Music—Revealed! "
podcast featuring The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, Rush, Jefferson Starship, Wings, Queen, Phil Collins, Britney Spears, Judas Priest, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Electric Light Orchestra, Prince, and Information Society
The three branches are as follows:
the Legislative - the part that makes laws
the Executive - the part that carries out (executes) the laws
the Judicial Branch - the courts that decide if the law has been broken
Separation of Powers helps to protect freedom.
The executive branch carries out the laws but cannot make laws to make themselves powerful.
Also the judiciary is responsible for making sure that criminals are punished, so that members of the government or legislature cannot ignore the law as the judiciary can check on them.
Separation of powers is also called a system of checks and balances because the branches can check up on each other and if any of the branches get too strong, that branch will be balanced by the others.
In the United States the three branches of government are completely separate except for the Vice President who is President of the Senate.
In the United Kingdom the three branches of Government are mixed but the checks and balances are provided by history and custom (the rule that says something should happen because that is how it has been done for a long time).
The Queen is Head of State (the executive), but is also part of Parliament (the legislative branch) and is the Fountain of Justice (the head of the judicial branch).
But by convention she does not do anything without the advice of Ministers and never refuses to pass an Act of Parliament.
The Queen has a lot of power but the power is controlled and balanced by the need to act in certain ways or only use the power at certain times.
In some countries the leaders of the executive branch are members of the legislature.
This system is called responsible government.
The first to talk about separation of powers in the modern age was Charles-Louis Montesquieu.
Montesquieu published his book De l'esprit des lois (The Spirit of Laws) in 1748.
The Exclusionary rule is a rule in United States constitutional law.
It says that evidence from people who were forced to talk is not allowed in court.
Also, evidence taken from an illegal search of property may not be used in court.
Chitin is a semitransparent material that is the main component of the exoskeletons of arthropods, such as crustaceans (e.g. crab, lobster and shrimp) and insects (e.g. ants, beetles and butterflies), of the cell walls of fungi, the radula of molluscs and the beaks of cephalopods (e.g. squid, and octopuses).
Chitin has also proven useful for several medical and industrial purposes.
Chitin Product Information from China GreatVista Chemicals
Horseshoe Crab Chitin Research
The radula is the toothed chitinous ribbon in the mouth  of most molluscs.
It can be compared with the tongue of human beings but, unlike our tongue, it is used for cutting and chewing food before it enters the esophagus.
The radula is present in all molluscs except bivalves, and only in molluscs.
For example, Gastropods use it to graze and scrape diatoms and other microscopic algae off rock surfaces and other substrata.
Squid use it for cutting up their prey.
Molluscan buccal structures and radula
A Comparison of the feeding behaviour and the functional morphology of radula structure in Nudibranchs
An exoskeleton supports and protects an animal's body from outside and not like  the internal endoskeleton - of, for example human beings - from inside.
Many invertebrate animals (such as shelled mollusks) have exoskeletons in the sense of external hard parts.
But if one speaks of an exoskeleton one mostly means that of arthropods (i.e. insects, spiders, myriapods and crustaceans).
Exoskeletons contain rigid and resistant components that fulfil a set of functional roles including protection, excretion, sensing, support, feeding and (for terrestrial organisms) acting as a barrier against desiccation.
Exoskeletons first appeared in the fossil record about 550 million years ago, and their evolution has been seen as critical as a driving role in the Cambrian explosion of animals that took place subsequent to this time.
The exoskeleton ( exoskeleton suit) is a device intended to restore the lost motion functions of a person or other living being.
The exoskeleton also serves to increase human muscle strength and range of motion by means of an external skeleton and drive elements.
Geometry and Pattern in Nature 3: The holes in radiolarian and diatom tests
Modern technology
PowerSkip
Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton (BLEEX)
University of Washington Exo Arm Project
High Force is one of Britain's great waterfalls.
It is in Teesdale, County Durham.
It was created by erosion when a river went through the rock and did not erode the hard upper layer of igneous rock, but eroded the bottom layer of soft limestone, a sedimentary rock.
It is one of the biggest waterfalls in the UK.
Omoba Sir Adetokunbo Adegboyega Ademola, KBE, GCON, PC, SAN (1 February 1906 – 29 January 1993) was a Nigerian judge and former Chief Justice of Nigeria (1958-1972).
Before becoming the Chief Justice, he was Chief Justice of the Western Region of Nigeria.
Although, Justice Ademola is known for his judicial duties, he was an important person in the Nigerian crisis of 1966.
Then, a counter coup had challenged the unity of Nigeria.
A few Northern Military officers had successfully executed a coup with a plan to secede from Nigeria.
But the British High Commission, which gets intelligence briefings on Nigeria and Chief Justice Ademola persuaded the Northern leaders not to quit but to take power.
Adetokunbo Ademola was born on February 1, 1906 to the family of a titled traditional ruler of Abeokuta, Oba Ladapo Ademola.
He later married the daughter of a prominent Lagos lawyer, Kofo Moore.
He attended St Gregory's Grammar School and King's College, Lagos before proceeding to Selwyn College, Cambridge.
He was then called to the bar in 1934 and started work as a crown counsel.
In 1939, he was appointed a magistrate before becoming a junior high court judge in 1949.
In 1955, he was made the Chief Judge of Western Nigeria and later became the Chief Justice of the country.
As the Chief Justice, he was instrumental to the establishment of the Nigerian Law School, the first located in the country.
He was also involved in a case: Lakanmi vs the Attorney General of Nigeria, where he ruled that a Nigerian court could review military decrees.
Nigerian people
One can find endoskeletons in three phyla and one subclass of animals: in Chordata, Echinodermata, Porifera and Coleoidea.
An endoskeleton allows the body to move and gives the body structure and shape.
A true endoskeleton develops from mesodermal tissue.
Such a skeleton is present in echinoderms and chordates.
The Coleoidae do not have a true endoskeleton in the evolutionary sense; here, a mollusc exoskeleton developed into several sorts of internal structure, the "cuttlebone" of cuttlefish being the best-known version.
An important advantage of an endoskeleton over an exoskeleton is that the endoskeleton provides more structural support.
In professional wrestling, something that is "kayfabe" is not real, something that is "acted out" and not happening in real life.
Many things in wrestling are kayfabe, that is, they appear to be real (such as the storylines), but are, in actuality, fake.
People who believe that kayfabe acts are real are called marks, as opposed to smarks.
Those who know wrestling is scripted but still enjoy the storylines are known as smart-marks, or smarks.
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955 in Germany) is an American actor and film producer.
His mother was German; his father was American.
He became famous in the late 1980s.
He has remained one of Hollywood's biggest stars, mostly for his role as Lt.
John McClane in the Die Hard series.
Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2001.
They were married for thirteen years.
He has received many awards and honors in his career.
Willis supports the United States armed forces and has been a spokesman several times.
Some of his best-known movies are Die Hard, The Player, Pulp Fiction and Sin City.
Bruce Willis interview  on The Tavis Smiley Show
Independent (United States)
A zoospore is an asexual spore that uses a flagellum for moving around.
It is also called a swarm spore.
These spores are created by some algae and fungi to multiply themselves.
Flagella
There are two types of flagellated zoospores, whiplash and tinsel or "decorated".
Whiplash flagella are straight, to power the zoospore through its medium.
There is also the 'default' zoospore, which only has the propelling, 'whiplash' flagellum.
Tinsellated flagella have lateral filaments perpendicular to the main axis, which allow for more surface area, and disturbance of the medium, giving it the property of a rudder, which it uses for steering.
Both tinsel and whiplash flagella beat in a sinusoidal wave pattern, but when both are present, the tinsel will beat in the opposite direction of the whiplash, to give 2 axes of control of motility.
There can be many combinations for location of the flagella, such as posterior whiplash; posterior whiplash, anterior tinsel; and anterior whiplash.
Zoosporangium
Angiosperm
C.J. Alexopolous, Charles W. Mims, M. Blackwell et al.,
Introductory Mycology, 4th ed. (
John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 2004)
A gamete is a specialized sex cell that fuses with another gamete during fertilization (conception) in organisms that reproduce sexually.
Gametes are produced by germ cells.
Gametogenesis
Gametogenesis is the development of diploid germ cells into haploid eggs or sperm, (respectively oogenesis and spermatogenesis).
It is different for each species but the general stages are similar.
The development of eggs (oogenesis) and sperm (spermatogenesis) have many features in common.
They both involve:
Extensive morphological cell differentiation
Unable to survive for very long if fertilization does not occur
Different timing of maturation: oogenic meiosis is interrupted at one or more stages (for a long time) while spermatogenic meiosis is rapid and uninterrupted.
Morphology (general), the study of the shape and form of things in general.
Morphology (linguistics), the study of the structure of word forms.
Morphology (biology) is the study of the external features [phenotype] comprising how the organisation of body of living organisms is formed
Morphology (astronomy) is the shape of an astronomical object, like nebulae, galaxies, or other extended objects.
Morphology (folkloristics), the structure of narratives such as folk tales.
Morphology (architecture), the study of the shape and form of buildings.
Morphology (metallurgy), the study of the microstructure of metals.
Geomorphology, the study of landforms.
Mathematical morphology, theoretical model based on Lattice theory, used for digital image processing.
River morphology, the field of science dealing with changes of river planform.
Morphological analysis, a general method for non-quantified modelling.
For other uses, see Morphology (disambiguation).
Morphology is the study of animal or human form or body shape.
It is the branch of biology dealing with the study of the form of organisms and their specific structural features.
In general use, the word morphology refers to the form and structure of an organism as a whole, including all internal and external structures.
This includes aspects of the outward appearance (shape, structure, colour, pattern) as well as the form and structure of the internal parts like bones and organs.
Morphology is contrasted to physiology, which deals primarily with function.
Branches of morphology
Comparative morphology is analysis of the patterns of structures within the body plan of an organism.
Functional morphology is the study of the relationship between the structure and function of morphological features.
Experimental morphology is the study of the effects of external factors upon the morphology of organisms under experimental conditions, such as the effect of genetic mutation.
Anatomy is the study of the form and structure of internal features of an organism.
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The term "gross morphology" refers to the collective structures or an organism as a whole as a general description of the form and structure of an organism, taking into account all of its structures without specifying an individual structure.
A taxon (plural taxa) is a taxonomic group or taxonomic unit.
It is a group of organisms which a taxonomist decides belong together.
A taxonomist can assign a scientific name and rank to a taxon; this places it at a particular level in a hierarchy.
It is not strictly necessary to assign either a name or a rank to a taxon, but doing so makes it much easier to refer to the taxon.
However, many taxa have to wait for years before getting a name.
Phylum or Division
A distinction is made between taxonomy and systematics.
Systematics deals with how groups relate to each other.
Taxonomy deals with making groups (taxa), deciding what belongs together.
Taxonomy is also known as classification.
A special part of taxonomy is nomenclature.
This consists of rules on what names to use.
So a taxonomist first decides what does and does not belong in a group, and then uses nomenclature to decide what name this group should have.
If a group is made larger or bigger it may get a different name.
On the other hand, the same name may refer to a bigger taxon (according to one particular taxonomist) or a smaller taxon (according to some other taxonomist).
This means that scientific names are not guaranteed to be stable.
Most names are stable, but for some taxa there is no agreement on its name, because taxonomists do not agree what does belong together and what does not belong together.
A taxonomist can decide for himself what scientific reasons he adopts for making a group (a taxon).
If he is not convincing in his choice, other taxonomists will not agree with him, and they will then make other arrangements.
These days biological classification is mostly supposed be done according to evolutionary (phylogenetic) relationships, so far as these are known.
Domain (or its synonyms) is the most inclusive of these biological groupings.
The arrangement of taxa reflects the fundamental evolutionary differences in the genomes.
There are several modern alternative domain classifications of life.
The 'two-empire' system, with top-level groupings of Prokaryota (or Monera) and Eukaryota empires.
The six-kingdom system with top-level groupings of Protista, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia.
The three-domain system of Carl Woese, introduced in 1990, with top-level groupings of Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryota domains.
After defining Archaea as a new domain, Woese redrew the taxonomic tree.
His three-domain system is based upon genetic relationships.
It divides life into 23 main divisions in three domains: Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya.
Archaea are neither bacteria nor eukaryotes.
Looked at another way, they are prokaryotes that are not bacteria.
Keratin is one of a family of fibrous proteins.
Keratin is what makes up hair in animals, as well as horns, nails, hooves, shells, beaks, and feathers.
The name comes from Greek word keras meaning "horn".
Keratins are tough and insoluble.
They form the hard but non-mineral structures in reptiles, birds, amphibians and mammals.
A similar biological toughness is found in chitin.
Variety of animal uses
the α-keratins in the hair (including wool), horns, nails, claws and hooves of mammals
the harder β-keratins in the scales and claws of reptiles, their shells (chelonia, such as tortoise, turtle, terrapin), and in the feathers, beaks, and claws of birds.
These keratins are formed mainly in beta sheets.
However, beta sheets are also found in α-keratins.
Composition and β-sheet structure of silk
Spider silk fiber structure
Hair-Science.com's entry on the miroscopic elements of hair
keratin antibody review
A fibrous protein or scleroprotein  is one of the three main types of proteins.
The others are globular and membrane proteins).
There are many types of scleroprotein, such as  keratin, collagen, elastin, and fibroin.
Such proteins protect and support.
They form connective tissue, tendons, bone matrices, and muscle fibre.
In physics and electrical engineering:
Current filament
Filament propagation, diffractionless propagation of a light beam
Galaxy filament
Solar filament, a structure in a solar corona