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Rowling was born 31 July 1965 at Chipping Sodbury Cottage Hospital in Chipping Sodbury, Yate, Gloucesterhire England.
She grew up in Tutshill, Gloucestershire, and went to school at Wyedean Comprehensive.
She earned a degree in French and Classics at the University of Exeter.
She worked at Amnesty International in London.
The original idea for Harry Potter came to her on a train that was delayed for four hours in 1990.
She moved to Portugal to teach English in 1990.
She married Jorge Arantes in October 1992.
They had her first child, Jessica in 1993.
The marriage ended in divorce and Rowling moved to Edinburgh, Scotland.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (British version) (American version: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) was first published in the United Kingdom in 1997.
She married Dr. Neil Murray in 2001.
She had a second child, David, in 2003, and a third, Mackenzie, in January 2005.
Rowling claims inspiration from Christianity.
Her books
Rowling has won many awards for the Harry Potter series of books and has earned over $1 billion.
The last book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released on 21 July 2007.
Due to the popularity of the books, Rowling has become very wealthy.
The books have sold over 500 million copies.
Rowling has written many books about the magic in Harry's world, such as 'Quidditch Through the Ages' and 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'.
Additionally, she has written other books targeting adults, the first of which is called The Casual Vacancy.
The Cuckoo's Calling was published in April 2013, under the pen name Robert Galbraith, and its sequel, called The Silkworm, followed in June 2014.
In 2016, people made an eighth book inspired by Harry Potter.
This book was called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
The book was the script for a play.
J K Rowling's novels feature a teenage boy named Harry Potter who grows up in a normal world with his aunt, uncle and cousin Dudley.
When he is eleven years old, he discovers that he is a wizard and attends a magical academy called Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, where Albus Dumbledore is headmaster.
Harry discovers his past about a dark wizard and with the help from his best friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, he attempts to destroy the darkest wizard of all time, Voldemort, once and for all.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (26 June 1997 (UK), 9 January 1998 (US))
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2 July 1998 (UK), 6 February 1999 (US))
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (8 July 1999 (UK), 9 August 1999 (US))
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (7 July 2000)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (21 June 2003)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (16 July 2005)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (21 July 2007)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (supplement to the Harry Potter series) (2001)
Quidditch Through the Ages (supplement to the Harry Potter series) (2001)
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (supplement to the Harry Potter series) (2007)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Script of new Play) (2016)
The Casual Vacancy (An 'adult' book.
Her first novel that wasn't in the Harry Potter universe) (2012)
The Cuckoo's Calling (A crime fiction novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) (2013)
The Silkworm (A crime fiction novel written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith) (2014)
"The First It Girl: J.K. Rowling reviews Decca: the Letters of Jessica Mitford ed by Peter Y Sussman", The Daily Telegraph 26 July 2006
Introduction to "Ending Child Poverty" in Moving Britain Forward.
Selected Speeches 1997–2006 by Gordon Brown, Bloomsbury (2006)
Foreword to the anthology Magic, edited by Gil McNeil and Sarah Brown, Bloomsbury (2002)
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination, J.K. Rowling, Harvard Magazine, 5 June 2008
Foreword to "Harry, A History", written by Melissa Anelli, Pocket (2008)
Jk Rowling Net Worth
Alumni of the University of Exeter
Royal Society of Literature
Writers from Gloucestershire
Charmed is an American television series set in San Francisco.
It is the story of three sister witches known as the Charmed Ones who fight demons and warlocks.
Charmed was on The WB television network for 8 seasons from 1998 until 2006.
Charmed ended production April 2006.
Its last episode Forever Charmed was shown on May 21, 2006.
The story begins when Phoebe finds the Book of Shadows after seeing the word "ATTIC" spelled out on the spirit board.
She reads out an incantation which gives them their powers.
They remained a threesome until their sister, Prudence (Prue), dies fighting the demon Shax.
Shortly after Prue dies, Piper casts a To Find A Lost Soul spell and finds that they have a younger half-sister, Paige Matthews.
The triad or Power of Three is once again complete.
This continues until the seventh season.
After vanquishing the demon Zankou and an astral projection form of themselves everyone believes that they are dead.
They give up magic to have normal lives.
But the magic is still alive.
They are sought out to help a young new witch named Billie who is a college student wanting to fight demons.
Paige is first drawn to her because she is Billie's Whitelighter.
Prue Halliwell: Prue was the oldest sister of the Charmed Ones.
She had the powers to move objects with her mind (Telekinesis) and Astral Projection.
Prue was in love with a police officer named Andy.
He died at the end of season 1.
She died at the end of season 3.
Prue's power to move objects with her mind is connected with her emotions.
It is affected by anger.
He power is stronger when she feels the need to protect herself and her sisters, or protect the innocents or the other good creatures.
Piper Halliwell: Piper was the middle child and always the middle.
She has a husband, Leo.
Leo used to be the Charmed Ones' Whitelighter Piper also has three children: Wyatt and Christopher and a daughter that the sisters (Prue Piper and Pheobe) saw on a trip to the future.
Piper has the power to blow things up and to freeze things.
Piper's powers are connected with her emotions.
When she panics, she has the urge to freeze people and when she gets angry she usually blows things up.
Phoebe Halliwell: Phoebe was the youngest and that will never change noboby can change that.
Phoebe was married to a demon.
His human name is Cole Turner and his demon name is Belthazor.
She is now married to coop a cupid and has three children.
Phoebe has the power to see the past and the future, the ability to levitate, and is able to read others feelings/thoughts.
Paige Mathews: Paige is the half-sister to the Halliwell sisters.
She is the youngest of the sisters.
She is the daughter of Patricia "Patty" Halliwell (Mother of the Halliwell sisters) and Sam Wilder (Patty's Whitelighter).
She came into the series when Prue died.
She has Prue's power of telekinesis but with a twist because she is half whitlighter.
She has the power to orb things to her.
Prue only had to think about something to move it, Paige must reach out to it and call for it, this is known as 'tele-orbing'.
She also has the Whitelighter abilities of Orbing and Glamouring (to shapeshift into a different human appearance).
She finally receives the power to heal in the middle of season 8.
Their husbands
Leo started out on the show as the Charmed Ones' Whitelighter.
Then he became and elder Leo died during World War II.
Then he was reborn as a whitelighter.
He was a medic in the military.
After being the Whitelighter for the Charmed Ones for several years, Leo was elevated to the position of Elder.
He later joined a group of beings called The Avatars.
By the end of the series, he had fallen from grace and was made mortal again.
He has killed two Elders and many demons to protect Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Paige, Wyatt and Chris.
He was half human/half demon.
His demon side was strongest until he met and fell in love with Phoebe.
As a demon, he could not help hurting the sisters.
He asked Phoebe to strip (remove) his powers.
After he helped vanquish the Source of All Evil, he became the new Source.
In spite of Phoebe's love for Cole, she and her two sisters vanquish him, or so they thought.
Cole came back and helped the sisters many times.
Cole was eventually vanquished for good.
Cole loved Phoebe very much.
He would stop at nothing to win her back but he never succeeded.
Coop is a Cupid.
He was sent to Phoebe by the Elders to help her find love.
He realizes that he loves her and he wants to be with her.
Phoebe does not feel the same way until the series finale.
He is a human.
He worked as a parole officer.
He is one of the few people who understood Paige's powers—well, not understood but accepted.
Their love is very strong.
Demons are evil creatures with powers that try to kill the Charmed Ones.
They do not have souls so therefore can kill innocent people with contious.
Most demons work for "The Source" but some hate him.
The Source of all Evil is a very powerful demon who rules the Underworld.
The Charmed ones have killed The Source three times.
There are different ranks of demons and the Charmed ones have faced them all.
In some situation demons actually helped the Charmed ones.
Demons try to kill the Charmed ones to impress the Source and all of the Underworld.
The Book of Shadows is the Charmed One's magical book.
It contains spells, potions and information of various magical creatures such as demons and warlocks.
The Book of Shadows has been around since beginning of the family line.
The book has its own defensive power.
Whenever evil tries to touch the book, it jumps away.
Each generation has added to the Book of Shadows making it more and more powerful.
For example, in the final episode, each of the sisters adds all that they have learned so that future generations of Halliwell witches can learn from their experiences.
Phoebe Halliwell - Alyssa Milano (seasons 1-8)
Piper Halliwell - Holly Marie Combs (seasons 1-8)
Prue Halliwell - Shannen Doherty (seasons 1-3)
Paige Mathews - Rose McGowan (seasons 4-8)
Leo Wyatt - Brian Krause (seasons 1-8)
Darryl Morris - Dorian Gregory (seasons 1-7)
Cole Turner - Julian McMahon (seasons 3-5)
Chris Perry Halliwell - Drew Fuller (season 6)
Billie Jenkins - Kaley Cuoco (season 8)
Dan Gordon - Greg Vaughn (season 2)
Andy Trudeau Ted King in season 1
1998 American television series debuts
1990s American drama television series
2000s American drama television series
Fantasy television series
Telekinesis in fiction
Television series about sisters
Television series set in San Francisco
WB network shows
The WB original programming
A train is a series of cars on a railway, not to compare with the shoo shoo train, a 'train' in this context is simply the series of cabines, with that it goes without mentioning again, metros are not shoo shoo trains, they simply consist of series of cabines but they arent trains.
They are metros.
To train is to teach how to do something, or to practice doing something.
Not only human beings but also animals can be trained.
Train (band), an American pop rock band.
Media (communication), tools used to store and deliver information or data
Advertising media
Broadcast media
Electronic media
Published media
Mass media can mean television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet
News media, mass media focused on communicating news
Journalists, the people who write for and work in news media
Multimedia, communications that include multiple forms of information
Media (computer), used in computer data storage devices
Media (arts), materials and techniques used by an artist to produce a work
Medium (disambiguation)
The Falkland Islands are a group of islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of South America.
They are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom.
Argentina disputes this, and claims their sovereignty.
The Falklands War was fought over their possession during Margaret Thatcher`s time as British Prime Minister.
There are many islands in the group but the two biggest are East Falkland and West Falkland.
As of the census of 2016, 3,398 people live on them.
The people of the islands are British and speak English.
The main income for the people is from fishing and sheep farming.
The Falkland Islands are about 300 miles (480 km) east of Argentina.
Argentina and the UK had a short war in 1982 because Argentina claims to own the islands.
The war lasted 6 weeks and about 1,000 soldiers were killed.
The UK defeated Argentina and after this the governments of the two countries would not negotiate (talk) with each other.
In 1990 they began to have talks again, but Argentina later refused to continue talks.
Oil and gas has been found below the sea around the islands.
There is also oil and gas outside the sea area that belongs to the UK.
This is owned by Argentina.
The islands were discovered and occupied by Europeans.
They were not inhabited until 1754, when a French captain landed and founded Port Louie.
The British landed in 1766 and created a settlement at Port Egmont on Saunders Island.
Spain discovered and captured Port Egmont in 1770.
War was avoided by Spain giving it back to Britain in 1771.
Later attempts by Spanish forces from the River Plate to seize Falklands were ended in 1833, when British forces took control.
In 1840 the Falkland Islands became a Crown Colony of the British nation.
The Falklands became a British Dependent Territory in 1981.
This followed the British Nationality Act 1981.
In 1983 the Falkland Islanders were granted British citizenship.
On 18 April 1985 the Falkland Islands Constitution Order 1985 came into force which increased the number of elected members of the Legislative Council to eight.
It guaranteed the Falkland Islanders' rights and constitutional arrangements.
In 1997 the constitution was amended with regard to voters rights.
In 2002 the Falklands became a British Overseas Territory with the British Overseas Territories Act 2002.
On 1 January 2009 the current constitution came into force with the Falkland Islands Constitution Order 2008.
This replaced the 1985 version.
It was agreed on by the UK Government and the Falkland Islands Government.
The new constitution provided for finance, the public service, the administration of justice, and a Complaints Commissioner.
L.L. Ivanov et al.. The Future of the Falkland Islands and Its People.
Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2003.
96 pp.
(Capítulo principal en español)
Carlos Escudé y Andrés Cisneros, dir.
Historia general de las relaciones exteriores de la República Argentina.
Obra desarrollada y publicada bajo los auspicios del Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales (CARI).
Buenos Aires: GEL/Nuevohacer, 2000.
(en castellano)
Graham Pascoe and Peter Pepper.
Getting it right: The real history of the Falklands/Malvinas.
May 2008.
D.W. Greig, Sovereignty and the Falkland Islands Crisis.
Austrialian Year Book of International Law.
8 (1983).
20–70.
The Falkland Islands Constitution Order, 2008
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and engineer and is known as the first person to walk on the moon.
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in a small spacecraft that had been sent to the moon using the Saturn V rocket.
The mission was called Apollo 11.
They both walked on the moon, and millions of people watched and heard this event on live television.
He earned a BSc degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Purdue University and an MSc degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California.
In 1970 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the Purdue University.
In 1971 he became professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
After graduating (1955) from Purdue University, he joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, then known as the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, serving as a civilian test pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, Lancaster, Calif.
In 2005 he received the Honorary Doctorate of letters from the University of Southern California.
The Houston Chronicle newspaper reported on October 1, 2006, that Australian computer programmer Peter Shann Ford found the missing "a" from Armstrong's famous first words on the Moon.
Ford reported that he downloaded the audio recording from a NASA web site and analyzed it using editing software originally intended for use with hearing disabled people.
Armstrong is said to have been pleased with Ford's finding of the missing "a".
Prior to being an astronaut, Armstrong was called to Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida in 1949 before he could complete his degree.
There he earned his pilots wings at 20 years of age, making him the youngest flyer in his squadron.
While studying for his aeronautical engineering degree, the Korean War broke out in 1950, in which he flew 78 combat missions.
His plane was shot down once and he was also awarded 3 Air Medals.
Later, he became a skilful test pilot, flying right to the atmosphere’s edge,  at , in the experimental rocket powered aircraft the X-15.
Armstrong went on his first mission into space on the 16th of March 1966, in the spacecraft Gemini 8, as the command pilot.
He docked the Gemini 8 successfully with an Agena target craft that was in orbit already.
Although the docking was smooth enough, while the spacecrafts orbited together, they started to roll and pitch.
Armstrong then managed to undock the Gemini, and regained control of the spacecraft by using the retro rockets.
However, this resulted in the astronauts having to make an emergency landing into the Pacific Ocean.
Following the fatal explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986, Armstrong was appointed deputy chief of the presidential commission set up to investigate the disaster.
He spoke those words when he set his foot on the moon.
He wanted to say "That's one small step for a man…", but for some reason the "a" was never spoken.
Armstrong thought he had said it.
Listening to the audio shows that the "for" runs on smoothly, giving no time for "a" to be spoken.
Armstrong prefers written quotations to include the "a" in parentheses.
Armstrong was married to Janet Shearon from 1956 until they divorced in 1994, they had three children; Mark, Eric, and Karen.
Lastly he married Carol Held Knight from 1994 until his death in 2012.
Some years after returning from the Moon, he visited the 2,000 year-old King Herod's Temple Mount in the city of Jerusalem.
While he was there, Neil Armstrong said it was more exciting to step on the stone steps where Jesus Christ walked than even stepping on the Moon.
Armstrong died on the morning of August 25, 2012 from complications of a blocked coronary artery after surgery in a hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was 82 years old.
In July 2019, The New York Times reported that Armstong died after nurses removed the wires connected to his temporary pacemaker.
He began to bleed internally and his blood pressure dropped and the doctors did not perform surgery on time to save him.
Biography on About.com
2012 deaths
Deaths from surgical complications
Deaths from hemorrhage
Scientists from Cincinnati, Ohio
Caretaker can also refer to a caregiver.
A caretaker is someone who has the job of looking after a building.
For example, the building could be a school or shop.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was born in Dublin, Ireland.
He was a writer of books, plays, and poetry.
He also translated other famous works of literature.
He was given the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.
His most best-known play is Waiting For Godot.
It has often been acted on stage and has been on TV.
Beckett was stabbed in Paris in 1938.
He died of emphysema in the city in 1989.
Many writers of plays (playwrights) and others think he is one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
There have been many books written about him.
1989 deaths
Crime victims
Deaths from emphysema
Disease-related deaths in France
Irish novelists
Irish poets
Irish theatre directors
Irish playwrights
Writers from Dublin
Irish Nobel Prize winners
Vegetarianism is the practice of not eating meat or fish.
People who follow vegetarianism are called vegetarians.
Vegetarians eat foods like vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans and grains.
Some vegetarians eat or drink animal products, like milk and eggs.
They are called lacto-ovo vegetarians.
Vegetarian people may like tofu, falafel and other meat substitutes.
There are many reasons for not eating meat.
Vegetarians are healthier than other people in some ways.
Some people think that it is wrong to kill animals; others think that eating meat is bad for their health or the world.
This is because land used for animals can be used to grow food.
Some people may become vegetarians because their religion says not to eat animals.
Vegetarians who do not drink milk and eat eggs are called vegans.
Vegans also often will not use animal products like leather, but many vegetarians do use animal products.
Some people who call themselves vegetarians and eat fish or sea food are not vegetarians, because fish and sea creatures are also animals.
Such people are sometimes called pescetarians.
There are also many people who are not vegetarians, but do not eat too much animal food.
Some eat only very little meat (so-called "flexitarians" or "semi-vegetarians"), some eat only fowl ("pollotarians").
There is also a philosophy called freeganism, it means eating animal products only if  otherwise they will be thrown away to waste - such as food thrown away by restaurants.
Types of vegetarian diet
There are several reasons why people choose to be vegetarians.
It has many proven benefits on human health.
Some think it is wrong or cruel to eat animals, since animals are killed and often feel pain.
Other people may feel disgusted by meat or do not like the taste.
A fourth reason is the effect on the environment.
Producing meat (especially beef) uses more of the earth's land and water than eating food from plants.
People may have more than one different reason for being a vegetarian.
A vegetarian diet or a diet very low in meat has proven good effects on human health.
It takes work to put together a healthy vegetarian diet that has everything the human body needs.
When people decide to become vegetarian, they usually think carefully about what they eat and choose healthy food.
They also go to the trouble of finding fresh food more often.
Vegetarians eat lots of antioxidants and natural fiber.
Scientists say vegetarians are less likely to have heart disease, some kinds of cancer, obesity and diabetes.
Religious and spiritual
Most vegetarians in the world are Hindu.
Hinduism and Jainism in general teach vegetarianism, while Buddhism may or may not.
Without any specific religion, some people in the Western world also follow a vegetarian diet because it may deepen inner spiritual connections (for example, James Redfield).
Mahatma Gandhi said that spiritual experiences are greatly enhanced on a vegetarian diet.
Hindus teach vegetarianism as a way to live with a minimum of hurt to other beings.
In today’s world, about twenty percent of all Hindus are vegetarians.
There are approximately 200 million vegetarians in India, which has more people that do not eat meat than any other country.
More vegetarians live in the South of India than in the North, possibly because the North is colder.
For yoga and meditation, it is wise to be vegetarian.
The Hindu who believes in non-injury or nonviolence (ahimsa) naturally adopts a vegetarian diet.
It is a matter of conscience more than anything else.
The Vedic and Puranic scriptures of Hinduism explain that animals have souls and the act of killing animals brings bad karma because the killer will suffer the pain of the animal he has killed in this life or the next.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami adds that when we eat meat, fish, fowl and eggs, we absorb the vibration of the creatures into our nerves.
This promotes fear, anger, jealousy, confusion, resentment and the like.
The Manu Dharma Shastras state, “When the diet is pure, the mind and heart are pure.”
Generally there is the belief, based on scriptures such as Bhagavad Gita, that one's food shapes the personality, mood and mind.
Official Vegetarian Society website
HappyCow's Vegetarian Guide
Vegetarian facts
GoVeg
A British person or object comes from the United Kingdom of Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) and Northern Ireland.
It is sometimes used by the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands (near France).
It can also be used for some overseas places like Gibraltar (near Spain) or the Falkland Islands (near South America).
A British person can also be called a Briton.
A unique symbol of the "British" is the Union Jack flag which is recognised globally as a symbol of the United Kingdom.
The flag is made up of a combination of the flags of the countries that are part of the United Kingdom.
The British Isles are Great Britain, Ireland, and some smaller islands.
The British Isles include the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis is a video game for the PC and PlayStation 2.
The goal of the game is to create a theme park and keep the park guests safe.
The player can choose the island they build on and what dinosaurs to place in their park.
They can choose up to 25 dinosaurs to add to the park.
After the park is created, they can play 12 missions.
After winning all missions, a game option called Site B is unlocked.
With Site B, the player can create an island without any fences or people, just like the 3rd Jurassic Park movie.
2003 video games
PlayStation 2 games
Xbox games
ThinkQuest was an educational website.
It was used by students of schools in the United States and other countries.
It was run by the Oracle Education Foundation.
ThinkQuest library archive
Terry Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-British cartoonist and filmmaker.
He was born in Minnesota and grew up in California, but he now lives in England and is a British citizen.
He was a member of the British comedy team Monty Python.
He designed animated sequences and acted in both their TV show and movies.
He also directed the movies Jabberwocky (1976), Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), Baron Münchhausen (1989), Fisher King  (1991), 12 Monkeys (1996), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), and The Brothers Grimm (2005).
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (co-directed with Terry Jones)
Jabberwocky (1977)
Time Bandits (1981)
Brazil (1985)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
The Fisher King (1991)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Tideland (2005)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (in pre-production)
Storytime (1968) (animated short)
Miracle of Flight (1974)  (animated short)
The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983) (a short supporting feature that went with Monty Python's The Meaning of Life)
The Legend of Hallowdega (2010)
The Wholly Family (2011)
MTV "Boogeyman" (1987)
Secret Tournament (2002)
The Rematch (2002)
Awards, nominations and honours
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Film, Director, and Screenplay
1 Academy Awards nominations Best Original Screenplay
3 BAFTA Awards Best Costume Design, Best Make Up Artist, Best Production Design
3 Silver Ribbons awarded by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design
4 Academy Awards nominations Best Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup
4 Saturn Awards nominations Best Costumes, Best Fantasy Film, Best Make-Up, Best Special Effects
Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation
Academy Award Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Mercedes Ruehl)
4 Academy Awards nominations Best Actor in a Leading Role (Robin Williams), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Music, Original Score, Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Winner
Toronto Film Festival People's Choice Award Winner
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
2 Academy Awards nominations Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Brad Pitt), Best Costume Design
Berlin Film Festival Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" – 3rd Place
Cannes Film Festival Official Selection
Venice Film Festival Official Selection
San Sebastian Festival Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize
2 Academy Awards nominations Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction
2 BAFTA Awards nominations Best Production Design, Best Make Up & Hair
Best Fantasy Film nomination by the Costume Designers Guild of America
British Independent Film Awards nomination for Best Achievement in Production
International Press Academy Satellite Award Best Costume Design, 3 more nominations for Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction & Production Design, Best Original Song
Voted Best Fantasy Film of the Year by readers of the Total Sci-Fi Online magazine.
An asteroid, 9619 Terrygilliam, is named in his honor.
Gilliam was given the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 2009 for his contribution to motion picture arts.
Awarded the Fellowship of the Kermodes, by film critic Mark Kermode.
Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity Award at the Camerimage film festival in Łódź, Poland in 2009.
1940 births
Actors from Minnesota
American cartoonists
American movie directors
British movie directors
Writers from Minnesota
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, and writer.
He was born in Weston-super-Mare, England.
He graduated from Downing College, Cambridge.
Cleese has a degree in law.
He was a member of the comedy team, Monty Python.
He starred in the television sitcom, Fawlty Towers that he co-wrote with his first wife, Connie Booth, who played the role of Polly Sherman on the show.
He plays the role of Q in some of the James Bond movies.
1939 births
Actors from Somerset
Actors who played Q
English movie producers
English radio actors
English screenwriters
English television personalities
English television producers
English television writers
Writers from Somerset
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British doctor and author.
He is well known because he wrote short stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes.
He also wrote science fiction and historical stories.
He became an  agnostic by the time he left school.
He studied medicine at Edinburgh University from 1876 to 1881.
He wrote short stories in his spare time.
In 1882, he started working as a doctor in Southsea.
He carried on writing short stories while he waited for patients.
His first Sherlock Holmes story that was published was A Study in Scarlet.
Doyle's great gifts as a writer were story-telling and character.
He created really memorable characters.
Holmes' gift for deduction has been copied many times in fiction.
The character was probably based on a doctor called Joseph Bell.
Holmes himself and Watson were balanced by the evil genius Moriarty, one of the great villains in fiction.
After A Study in Scarlet came The Sign of the Four, The Valley of Fear and The Hound of the Baskervilles.
The other Holmes stories were published in the Strand Magazine.
They were later collected together in five volumes, starting with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Conan Doyle also wrote The Lost World, published in 1912.
In it, Professor Challenger and his companions travel to find a large plateau in South America where dinosaurs still live.
Doyle's wife Louisa died in 1906.
After the death of his son Kingsley just before the end of the First World War, and the deaths of his brother Innes, his two brothers-in-law and his two nephews shortly after the war, Doyle sank into depression.
He found solace supporting spiritualism and its attempts to find proof of existence beyond the grave.
He was a member of the renowned supernatural organisation The Ghost Club.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate
The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1930 deaths
Knights of Grace of the Order of St John
Muslims are people who have professed belief in Islam.
As believers, they worship the One God and revere Prophet Muhammad as the last messenger of God.
Additionally, they also believe in all the prophets which preceded Prophet Muhammad and the holy books which they brought, such as the Psalms, Torah, and the Gospel.
A fundamental article of faith in Islam is belief in the Day of Judgement, when all humanity will be recompensed for their deeds in this world.
Muslims believe in angels, as well as in predestination.
Muslim Men are cirucmcised.
Muslims around the World
After Prophet Muhammad, the very first Muslims were people from his own circle of family and friends as well as the poor and needy in Mecca more than 1400 years ago.
During the life of Muhammad, this small band of followers grew by tens of thousands.
As centuries passed, Muslims have only grown in number.
Today, Muslims account for about one quarter of the entire world population.
There are between 1.2 and 1.6 billion Muslims across the world.
Most of the Muslims are concentrated in Muslim-majority countries, such as Azerbaijan and Albania in Europe, Mali and Tunisia in Africa, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in the Middle East, Pakistan and Bangladesh in southeast Asia, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in central Asia, and Indonesia and Malaysia in Asia Pacific.
At the same time, a growing Muslim diaspora has taken root in many areas as well, such as China, Australia, Europe, America and Canada, Latin America, and parts of western, central, and southern Africa.
It is estimated that there are around 7 million Muslims in the United States.
The common belief that most Muslims are Arabs is a misconception.
In fact, the majority of Muslims in the world are non-Arabs.
Islam and Muslims
As in other religious bodies, there are practicing and non-practicing Muslims, liberal and conservative Muslims, tolerant and extremist Muslims.
However, their individual actions should not be used to scrutinize or label Islam.
In fact, it must be mentioned here that the media stereotype of Muslims is far from reality.
The vast majority of the Muslims in the world are indeed peace-loving human beings with many of them striving hard to live up to the great ideals of Islam.
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Charles was born in Albany, Georgia and was raised in Greenville, Florida.
When he was six he started going blind and was completely blind by age 7.
He played jazz, soul, and R&B music.
Charles never knew exactly why he lost his sight, though there are sources which suggest his blindness was due to glaucoma.
He attended school at the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind in St. Augustine, Florida.
He also learned how to write music and play various musical instruments.
While he was there, his father died, and his mother died five years later.
Charles died in 2004 from liver failure.
"Roll with Me Baby" (1952)
"The Sun's Gonna Shine Again" (1953)
"Feelin' Sad" (1953)
"It Should've Been Me" (1954)
"Don't You Know" (1954)
"I've Got a Woman" (1954)
"Come Back" (1954)
"This Little Girl of Mine" (1955)
"A Fool for You" (1955)
"Blackjack (song)" (1955)
"Greenbacks" (1955)
"Drown in My Own Tears" (1956)
"Mary Ann" (1956)
"Hallelujah I Love Her So" (1956)
"What Would I Do Without You" (1956)
"Lonely Avenue" (1956)
"Ain't That Love" (1957)
"It's All Right" (1957)
"Swanee River Rock" (1957)
"Talkin' 'bout You" (1958)
"Yes Indeed" (1958)
"My Bonnie" (1958)
"Rockhouse" (Part 2) (1958)
"Night Time Is the Right Time" (1959)
"That's Enough" (1959)
"What'd I Say (Part 1)" (1959)
"I'm Movin' On" (1959)
"Let the Good Times Roll" (1960)
"Don't Let the Sun Catch You Cryin'" (1960)
"Just for a Thrill" (1960)
"Tell the Truth" (1960)
"Come Rain or Come Shine" (1960)
"Doodlin' (Part 1)" (1960)
"My Baby! (
I Love Her, Yes I Do)" (1960)
"Sticks and Stones" (1960)
"Georgia on My Mind" (1960)
"Ruby (song)" (1960)
"Hardhearted Hannah" (1960)
"Them That Got" (1960)
"Early in the Mornin'" (1961)
"Am I Blue" (1961)
"Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)" (1961)
"One Mint Julep" (1961)
"I've Got News for You" (1961)
"I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" (1961)
"Hit the Road Jack" (1961)
"Unchain My Heart" (1961)
"But on the Other Hand Baby" (1961)
"Baby, It's Cold Outside" (1962)
"Hide Nor Hair" (1962)
"At the Club" (1962)
"I Can't Stop Loving You" (1962)
"Born to Lose" (1962)
"You Don't Know Me" (1962)
"Careless Love" (1962)
"You Are My Sunshine" (1962)
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (1962)
"Feelin' Sad" (1963)
"Don't Set Me Free" (1963)
"The Brightest Smile in Town" (1963)
"Take These Chains from My Heart" (1963)
"No Letter Today" (1963)
"No One" (1963)
"Without Love (There Is Nothing)" (1963)
"Busted (song)" (1963)
"Making Believe" (1963)
"Talkin' 'bout You" (1964)
"That Lucky Old Sun" (1964)
"My Heart Cries for You" (1964)
"Baby, Don't You Cry" (1964)
"My Baby Don't Dig Me" (1964)
"A Tear Fell" (1964)
"No One to Cry To" (1964)
"Smack Dab in the Middle" (1964)
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"Makin' Whoopee" (1965)
"Cry (song)" (1965)
"Teardrops from My Eyes" (1965)
"I Gotta Woman" (Part One)(1965)
"Without a Song" (Part 1)(1965)
"I'm a Fool to Care" (1965)
"The Cincinnati Kid (song)" (1965)
"Crying Time" (1966)
"Together Again" (1966)
"You're Just About to Lose Your Clown" (1966)
"Let's Go Get Stoned" (1966)
"I Chose to Sing the Blues" (1966)
"Please Say You're Fooling" (1966)
"I Don't Need No Doctor" (1966)
"I Want to Talk About You" (1967)
"Something Inside Me" (1967)
"Here We Go Again" (1967)
"Somebody Ought to Write a Book About It" (1967)
"In the Heat of the Night" (1967)
"Yesterday" (1967)
"Come Rain or Come Shine" (Published again)(1968)
"That's a Lie" (1968)
"Eleanor Rigby" (1968)
"Understanding" (1968)
"Sweet Young Thing Like You" (1968)
"Listen, They're Playing My Song" (1968)
"If It Wasn't for Bad Luck" (1969)
"When I Stop Dreaming" (1969)
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (1969)
"Let Me Love You" (1969)
"We Can Make It" (1969)
"Claudie Mae" (1970)
"Laughin and Clownin" (1970)
"If You Were Mine" (1970)
"Don't Change on Me" (1971)
"Sweet Memories" (1971)
"Booty Butt" (1971)
"Feel So Bad" (1971)
"What Am I Living For" (1972)
"Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma" (1972)
"Hey Mister" (1972)
"I Can Make It Thru the Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights)" (1973)
"Come Live with Me" (1973)
"Louise" (1974)
"Living for the City" (1975)
"America the Beautiful" (1976)
"I Can See Clearly Now" (1977)
"Game Number Nine" (1978)
"Ridin' Thumb" (1978)
"Some Enchanted Evening (song)" (1979)
"Just Because" (1979)
"Compared to What" (1980)
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Jalisco is a state of Mexico.
The capital of Jalisco is Guadalajara.
It is next to the Pacific Ocean and the states of Nayarit, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, and Michoacán.
It also has half of the Chapala Lake.
Ferrari S.p.
A.  is an Italian automobile company that makes fast luxurious automobile.
They are made in Italy and are very expensive.
They usually cost $150,000 - $1,500,000.
Ferrari has a rich racing history and is a well known premium automobile brand.
The fastest street Ferrari is the F50 GT1, which can go over 370 kph (about 222 mph).
The most powerful Ferrari is the FXX, which has about 800 horsepower.
The FXX is a lighter, improved version of the F60 Enzo; it is Ferrari's most exclusive model.
It is basically a race car that you can buy from Ferrari.
The automobile is so extreme (completely flat tires, low ride height, and no roadcar safety features such as Airbags) that it cannot be driven on roads legally.
Ferrari will keep it for you at their Factory in Maranello in Italy.
You can go to Italy and drive it on their private race track, or have it transported to another race track around the world, the same as if you were driving for a racing team.
Thirty have been built and all but two were sold to customers for $2,500,000 each.
Ferrari gave one to seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Michael Schumacer, who had driven for Ferrari for ten years when he retired in 2006, having brought Ferrari much success.
Ferrari made his FXX different by painting it black.
The other twenty-nine are either red or white, with stripes painted in the other colour.
Italian automobile companies
Fiat (UK: /ˈfiːət, -æt/, US: /-ɑːt/, Italian: [ˈfiːat]; originally FIAT, Italian: Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, lit.
'Italian Automobiles Factory, Turin') is a car company in Italy.
It was founded in Turin in 1899.
It also made some planes between 1920s and 1970s.
Some of their cars by year: Fiat is currently owned by Stellantis.
On 11 July 1899, Gianni Agnelli was part of the group of founding members of FIAT, Fabbrica Italiana di Automobili Torino.
The first Fiat plant opened in 1900 with 35 staff making 24 cars.
Known from the beginning for the talent and creativity of its engineering staff, by 1903 Fiat made a small profit and produced 135 cars; this grew to 1,149 cars by 1906.
The company then went public selling shares via the Milan stock exchange.
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Grande Punto
Panda (Nuova) (new)
Siena
500 (Nuova) (new)
500 (Pop) - 500 1.2 Pop, 500 Twinair Pop
From 1920 to 1945
Fiat CR.42 Falco.
Fiat G.50.
From 1945 to 2000
Fiat G.91.
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The Daihatsu Motor Company Ltd. makes small cars and trucks.
The company is part of the same manufacturing group that includes FAW Group Motor Ltd. The company was set up in 1907.
Examples of their cars are the Daihatsu Charade, the Rocky Four Wheel Drive SUV and the Daihatsu Copen.
Daihatsu cars and trucks are notable for their rugged construction and high level of finish.
After a brief, unsuccessful attempt at the U.S. market toward the end of the 20th century, the company withdrew from the U.S. in 1999.
The Subaru Sambar is also made by this company.
1907 establishments in Asia
1900s establishments in Japan
A hydrocarbon is a type of chemical compound.
It is made of only hydrogen and carbon atoms.
They can be found in crude oil and are separated by fractional distillation (which means they are separated into different groups).
The hydrogen and carbon are bonded with non-polar covalent bonds.
Because of its lack of polar covalent bonds, hydrocarbons cannot create hydrogen bonds with water and are hydrophobic.
Hydrocarbon "families"
Hydrocarbons are grouped into "families" or "homologous series".
There are five main families.
The hydrocarbons in each family have a general formula and similar chemical properties, and similar trends in physical properties.
This system was approved in 1892 by the International Congress of Chemists, meeting in Geneva.
Alkanes
Alkanes are the simplest hydrocarbons.
Their general formula is CnH2n+2.
Alkenes
Alkenes are similar to alkanes.
The main difference between them is that alkenes have a carbon to carbon double bond.
The general formula for the alkenes is CnH2n.
Note that there is no "Methene".
Methene is not possible as alkenes require a carbon-carbon double bond and methane only has one carbon atom.
Alkynes
Alkynes have a carbon to carbon triple bond.
CnH2n-2 is their general formula.
Cycloalkanes
Cycloalkanes are isomers of alkenes.
They have the same general formula (CnH2n), the only difference is that they do not have a carbon to carbon double bond.
Alkadiene
Alkadienes have two carbon to carbon double bonds.
Their general formula is CnH2n-2.
They are isomers of Alkynes.
In a similar manner, there can also exist alkatriene (three carbon to carbon bonds) and other forms.
The versatile nature of Carbon's chemistry allows for a nearly infinite number of configurations and compounds.
Aromatic hydrocarbons
Aromatic hydrocarbons are aromatic organic molecules that form flat ring-shaped bonds.
The most simplest of aromatic hydrocarbons are benzene and indole.
They can have one ring, heterocyclic, like benzene or 2 rings, bicyclic like napthalene (primary ingredient in mothballs) or many rings, polycyclic like anthracene (red dye colourant).
Their general formula is CnH2n-6, where n is a number greater than or equal to 6.
Shanghai (, ; Mandarin pronunciation: ) is the biggest city in China and one of the world's largest cities.
It had about 24,000,000 people in 2017.
It is a special province-level city in China ("municipality"), like Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing.
Right now, it is the biggest port in the world.
The Mandarin Chinese name of Shanghai is Shànghǎi, which is written as  in Chinese characters.
This name means "On-the-Sea" because Shanghai used to be next to the East China Sea.
Today, dirt from the Yangtze River has made Pudong much bigger and downtown Shanghai is about  from the open sea.
The city has become so big, though, that its government now controls other areas like Pudong and Fengxian that are still beside the sea.
Shanghai's name is a little simpler than most other Chinese cities' names, because it was a small fishing village for a long time.
The short way to say its name in Chinese is still Hù ().
A hu was an old kind of fishing trap that was made with bamboo and nets.
The people around Shanghai used to use them to catch fish and crabs in Suzhou Creek and other waterways.
Shanghai is at the mouth of the Yangtze River, where it meets the East China Sea in the middle of China's east coast.
Downtown Shanghai is located just south of the place where Suzhou Creek meets the Huangpu River.
This is about  southwest of where the Huangpu meets the Yangtze River.
The area between downtown and the Yangtze used to be farmland and other cities like Wusong and Baoshan, but now Shanghai is so big that they are part of it.
For most of China's history, Shanghai was a small fishing village.
The big cities nearby were Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Under the Ming and Qing, Shanghai had a big city wall and started to grow.
Under the Ming and the Qing, people from other countries could only buy and sell things with China on an island near Guangzhou.
The British began selling Indian drugs to pay for all the tea and other things they were buying from China.
In the 1840s, China tried to stop them and the British started a war.
To keep them from hurting Nanjing, the Chinese agreed to let them keep selling drugs.
They also let the British start buying and selling things at four other cities, including Shanghai.
Soon, parts of Shanghai were controlled by the UK, the US, and France.
This control was ended by the Japanese during World War II.
Shanghai attracts many tourists each year.
Its landmarks include:
Amusement parks
Culture venues
Sightseeing locations
He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky and spent most of his adult life on his ranch in Colorado.
He committed suicide in Woody Creek, Colorado by shooting himself in the head.
His main topic was the health of the American Dream.
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John Christopher "Johnny" Depp Jr. (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, musician, philanthropist and producer.
Depp is the son of an engineer and a waiter.
He is of Belgian (Flemish), Dutch, English, French, German, Irish, Northern Irish (Scotch-Irish), Scottish and Welsh descent.
He grew up with his brother Danny and his sisters Debbie and Christie spent a lot of time with his grandfather.
His family went to Florida and in the next years, they had to change homes often.
Johnny became worse at school and had his first experiences with drugs at the age of 12.
He was thrown out of school for smoking pot in the back of the school and started to make music in a band called The Flame, and later on The Kids.
His first movie was Nightmare on Elm Street in 1984, which was a success.
Afterwards, he decided to go to an acting school in Los Angeles.
He got a small part in the movie Platoon and shortly after this, he was offered a part in the television series 21 Jump Street.
His ex-wife is Lori Allison.
He was engaged to Sherilyn Fenn in the late 1980s.
He had a four-year relationship with Winona Ryder in the mid-1990s.