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Van Dyke was once offered the role as Ambassador Thorn in the 1976 movie The Omen, but turned it down because of the movie's violent gory content.
Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925 in West Plains, Missouri.
He was raised in Danville, Illinois.
Van Dyke now lives in Malibu, California.
During his early years, Van Dyke use to work as a weather man.
Van Dyke has been married to Margie Willett in 1948 until they divorced in 1984.
He was married to Arlene Silver since 2012.
Van Dyke had been partners with Michelle Triola from 1976 until her death from lung cancer in 2009.
Van Dyke has 4 children and one grandson.
He has won a Grammy Award, a Tony Award, and an Emmy Award.
He has been honored a Disney Legend Award in 1999.
He was given The Life Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 2013.
Van Dyke was a heavy cigarette smoker for most of his life.
He has been using Nicorette gum since 2003.
In April 2013, Van Dyke revealed that he has been displaying symptoms of a neurological disorder since 2006, but despite undergoing tests no diagnosis has been made.
In 2013 the actor stated that his dental-related implants might be responsible.
On August 19, 2013, it was reported that Van Dyke, age 87, was rescued from inside his Jaguar by a passerby as the actor's car caught fire on a Los Angeles-area highway.
He was not injured in the fire.
The car burned down to its frame.
Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American movie, television, voice, and stage actor who gained fame during the late 1950s.
For his performance as Silva Vacarro in Baby Doll, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer, an Honorary Academy Award, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award nomination.
Wallach's famous roles are Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Calvera in The Magnificent Seven, and as Mr. Freeze in Batman.
Other roles includes; Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Cotton Weinberger in The Two Jakes, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday.
He is still an active actor even in his nineties and being in films as in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and in The Ghost Writer.
Wallach was married to Anne Jackson since 1948.
His great nephew was movie critic A. O. Scott.
Wallach lived in East Hampton, New York.
Wallach, during a set of a movie he was in, accidentally drank from a bottle of acid that a technician had carelessly placed next to his soda bottle.
He spat it out quickly, but was angry because his vocal cords could have been damaged if he had swallowed any of it.
In Australia, the outstation movement is the movement of Australian Aboriginal people from large towns to much smaller communities, called outstations.
It is mostly seen in the Northern Territory and amongst the people of the Western Desert.
Before the 20th century, most Aboriginal families lived by themselves or in groups of 20–30 people.
They were nomadic (moving from place to place), hunting and foraging across the deserts.
As Euro-Australians started to build roads, towns and farms on Aboriginal lands, the native people were forced out.
They had to move off their lands into towns or missions.
There, the government would give them food, water and clothes.
This way of life did not suit them.
In the towns, there were many conflicts between different ethnic groups, people became addicted to alcohol, and many of them died from foreign diseases.
Many groups were also far away from their traditional homelands, which were important to them and their spirituality.
From the 1970s, many families started to move away from the towns.
They returned to the places they grew up, and set up smaller communities.
One of the main reasons behind the movement is for Aboriginal people to get back autonomy and self-sufficiency.
The communities manage themselves, as nomadic groups (or "tribe") did many years before.
Hunting and foraging – getting their own food, and food for everybody – is still important.
The Santa Catalina Rattlesnake (Crotalus catalinensis), also known as the "Santa Catalina Island Rattlesnake", is a species of venomous Pit viper found on Santa Catalina Island.
There are currently no subspecies recognized.
The Santa Catalina Rattlesnake is a small and slender species of rattlesnake.
It can grow up to the length of 73.1 centimeters (28.8 in), and is known for being one of the few rattlesnakes which don't have a rattle on the end of their tail.
Some Santa Catalina Rattlesnakes are light cream in color with reddish-brown blotches down their back, while some are ash gray with dark gray blotches on them.
While other rattlesnakes of the genus "Crotalus" are mainly terrestrial (live on land), the Santa Catalina Rattlesnake's small size makes it very good climber.
In July, the hottest month on Santa Catalina Island, the Santa Catalina Rattlesnake is found on branches of bushes and trees so they can escape the heat on the ground.
Claire Conner McCaskill (born July 24, 1953) is an American politician.
She was the United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019.
She is a member of the U.S. Democratic Party.
She was the first female elected to the Senate of United States in her own right.
Before being elected to United States Senate McCaskill was the Missouri State Auditor from 1999 to 2007.
She is a native of Rolla and a graduate of the University of Missouri.
Arlene Carol Dahl (August 11, 1925 – November 29, 2021) was an American actress.
She was a former MGM contract star.
Dahl became famous in the 1950s.
She was born in Minneapolis and starred in many movies.
She was the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas.
Dahl died on November 29, 2021 at her home in New York City, aged 96.
The Didache (pronounced "did ah kay") or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles is an early Christian hand book.
It was written in the first or early second century AD.
Youth Riding a Rooster is a red-figure plate painted by Epiktetos about 520–510 BC.
Its diameter measures 7 3/8 in. (
18.7 cm).
The plate is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
It shows a boy riding a rooster.
It was a rare subject among ancient artists.
It probably references homosexual relations between older men and youths.
It also references the practice among Greek males of giving a rooster as a love gift.
The vase scholar Sir John Beazley wrote in 1918 in Attic Red-Figured Vases in American Museums (p. 18): "The best of [Epiktetos] is in his plates.
You cannot draw better, you can only draw differently.
Epiktetos' people are all lightness and fairy grace, as if they belonged to a world where passion and pain were unknown, to those 'woods of Athens' where Oberon reigned in the days before 'the middle summer's spring'".
The plate was discovered in Vulci in 1828.
Twenty years later it became the possession of the second marquess of Northampton.
On July 2, 1980, his great-great-grandson, the seventh marquess, sold it with other pottery at Christie's in London.
Ancient Greek paintings
Paintings and pottery by Epiktetos
Footrace on a Panathenaic Amphora is a depiction of an ancient Greek footrace on a terracotta amphora dated about 530 BC.
It is said to be by the Euphiletos Painter.
The height of the amphora is  tall.
The amphora would have been filled with olive oil from the sacred groves at Athens then given as a prize to the winner of a footrace in the Panathenaic Games at Athens.
These games were held every four years.
The amphora is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
These prize amphores were made to a standardized shape, held about 42 quarts, and were decorated in the black-figure technique.
An armed Athena was depicted on the front of the amphora and a picture of the sport on the back.
This amphora depicts five men and a youth.
Greg Louganis (born January 29, 1960) is an American Olympic diver and author.
He was born in El Cajon, California.
He is of Samoan and Swedish descent and was adopted by a Greek-American couple.
He received a James E. Sullivan Award from the Amateur Athletic Union.
He won a silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
Two years later, Louganis received his first world title in a tower event.
He won many gold medals each at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Greg Louganis is openly gay.
He was diagnosed with HIV in 1988.
He wrote the book Breaking the Surface about his life.
Vicki Ann Axelrad (also called Vicki Lawrence; born March 26 1949) is an American comedienne, actress and a singer.
She is best known for her acting on the Carol Burnett Show and as Thelma Harper on Mama's Family.
She was often on game shows in the 1970s and 1980s.
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou ( , ; 5 July 19112 April 1974) was a French politician.
He was the President of the French Republic from 20 June 1969 until 2 April 1974.
He was born in Cantal.
He also was Prime Minister of France from 14 April 1962 until 10 July 1968.
In 1968, he was elected president.
He died of lymphoma in Paris.
He is the only French president of the French Fifth Republic to die in office.
He is best known for his role as Cliff Clavin in Cheers and for his role in all of the Pixar animated movies which includes; Hamm in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Toy Story 4 and Woody's Roundup: The Movie, P.T. Flea in A Bug's Life, The Abominable Snowman in Monsters, Inc., the school of Moonfish in Finding Nemo, The Underminer in The Incredibles and in The Incredibles 2, Mack the Truck in Cars, Cars 2 and in Cars 3, Mustafa the waiter in Ratatouille, John in WALL-E, Tom the construction worker in Up, Gordon the Guard in Brave, The Abominable Snowman in Monsters University, Fritz in Inside Out, Earl in The Good Dinosaur, Bill the Crab in Finding Dory and as Juan Ortodoncia in Coco.
Ratzenberger was married to Georgia Stiny from 1985 until they divorced in 2004.
Ratzenberger has a son James John (b. 1987), and a daughter Nina Kathrine (b. 1989).
Ratzenberger is a Republican.
Shaivism is a form of Hinduism, which sees Shiva as the most important deity.
In practice, there are different branches of Shaivism.
Shaivism is common in  India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
It can also be found in  Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia.
Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer  (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor.
His career began in 1946 and had his first Broadway role in 1954.
He first main stage roles were as Cyrano de Bergerac in Cyrano (1974) and Iago in Othello.
He also appeared in Hamlet at Elsinore, Macbeth, King Lear, and Barrymore.
After appearing on stage, he made his first movie appearances in Stage Struck (1958) and had his first main role that same year in Wind Across the Everglades.
He became well known for playing Captain Georg von Trapp in the musical movie The Sound of Music (1965).
Plummer played many historical people in movies, such as Commodus in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970), Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009), Kaiser Wilhelm II in The Exception (2016), and J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World (2017).
Plummer also narrated the animated series Madeline and voiced Charles Muntz in the Disney Pixar movie Up (2009).
His final roles were as Harlan Thrombey in Knives Out (2019), Frank Pitsenbarger in The Last Full Measure (2020) and as Howard Lawson in the television drama Departure.
Plummer won many awards for his work.
He won an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a British Academy Film Award.
He was one of the few actors to have won the Triple Crown of Acting, and the only Canadian.
He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, at aged 82, for Beginners (2010).
At the time, he became the oldest person to win an acting Oscar.
He was nominated again for an Academy Award, at aged 88, for All the Money in the World.
This made him the oldest person to be nominated for an acting Oscar.
Plummer was born on December 13, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario.
He was the only child of John Orme Plummer and Isabella Mary Abbott.
His great-grandfather was Canadian Prime Minister Sir John Abbott.
Plummer's parents divorced shortly after he was born, and he was raised by his mother in the Abbott family home in Senneville, Quebec.
He spoke English and French very well.
At an early age, he loved acting and went to High School of Montreal.
He wanted to become an actor after watching Laurence Olivier's movie Henry V (1944).
He learned acting as an apprentice with the Montreal Repertory Theatre.
Plummer never went to college or university, something he wished he did.
Even though his family had connections to McGill University, he was never went there.
In 1946, the Montreal Gazettes theatre critic Herbert Whittaker liked Plummer's role as Mr Darcy in a Montreal High School play of Pride and Prejudice.
Whittaker was also a stage director and he hired Plummer at age 18 to play Oedipus in Jean Cocteau's La Machine infernale.
Early roles
Plummer began acting in 1948 with Ottawa's Stage Society.
In 1952, he appeared in many stage works with the Bermudiana Theatre in Bermuda.
While working there, he was hired by an American producer.
Edward Everett Horton hired Plummer to play Gerard in the 1953 play of André Roussin's Nina.
Plummer had his first Broadway role in January 1953 in The Starcross Story.
His next Broadway role, Home is the Hero, lasted from September to October 1954.
Plummer was Tyrone Power's understudy.
After acting in Night of the Auk, Plummer was in Elia Kazan's Broadway play J.B.. He played Jason in Robinson Jeffers' version of Medea at the Theatre Sara Bernhardt in Paris in 1955.
Also in 1955, he played Mark Antony in Julius Caesar and Ferdinand in The Tempest at the American Shakespeare Festival.
Plummer began acting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in 1956.
He played the main character in Henry V. He played the main role in Hamlet and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night in 1957.
The next year, he played Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Bardolph in Henry IV, Part 1, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.
In April 1961, he played Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
He also worked with the RSC in May 1961 in the main character of Richard III.
He played King Henry II in Jean Anouilh's Becket.
For his role, Plummer won the Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.
At the Stratford Festival, he played Philip the Bastard in King John and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.
In 1962, he played the main roles in both Cyrano de Bergerac and Macbeth.
He returned in 1967 to play Mark Antony in Antony and Cleopatra.
Plummer played the main role in a 1963 play of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, playing Francisco Pizarro.
Many critics enjoyed Plummer's roles as Ui and Pizarro.
Royal National Theatre and Broadway roles
From June 1971 to January 1972, he appeared at the Royal National Theatre.
The plays he appeared in were Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38 directed by Laurence Olivier; Georg Büchner's Danton's Death; Adrian Mitchell's Tyger; Luigi Pirandello's The Rules of the Game; and Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night at the New Theatre in London.
From May to June 1973, he appeared on Broadway as the main character in Cyrano.
It was a musical version of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac.
For that role, Plummer won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
Later that year, he played Anton Chekhov in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor.
He was also in Arthur Miller's 1974 version of After the Fall, where he played Quentin.
Plummer appeared in Lovers and Madmen at the Opera House at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in 1973.
He also appeared in Love and Master Will at the same place in 1975.
In 1982, he starred on Broadway play of the Shakespearean tragedy Othello, playing Iago.
His performance as the main villain had positive reviews from critics, such as The New York Times.
For his role, he got a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination losing to Roger Rees.
In 1988, he played the main role in Broadway's Macbeth.
He also had positive reviews for his role as the main character.
He appeared with Jason Robards in the 1994 version of Harold Pinter's No Man's Land.
For his role in No Man's Land, Plummer was nominated for a Tony Award.
Plummer became well known for playing actor John Barrymore in the 1997 Broadway play of William Luce's Barrymore.
He had many positive reviews from critics, especially from Vincent Canby of The New York Times calling Plummer a great actor.
His role as Barrymore, gave Plummer his second Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award.
Later stage career
In 2002, he appeared in King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller.
The play had strong positive reviews.
He was nominated for a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award for his role in King Lear.
He also received a Tony Award nomination for playing Henry Drummond in the 2007 revival of Inherit the Wind.
He played Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra.
The play was videotaped and shown in Canadian cinemas on January 31, 2009.
In 2009 and 2010, Plummer starred in two stage to screen versions of the Stratford Festival plays of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra and William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Plummer returned to the Stratford Festival in the summer of 2010 in The Tempest as the lead character, Prospero.
In 2014, Plummer presented A Word or Two in Los Angeles.
Plummer's movie career began in 1958 when Sidney Lumet hired him as a young writer in Stage Struck.
That same year, Plummer played the main character in Nicholas Ray's movie Wind Across the Everglades.
Plummer did not appear in any other movie for six years after 1958 until he played the Roman emperor Commodus in Anthony Mann's epic The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964).
The Sound of Music and success
Plummer became well known for his role as Captain Von Trapp in Robert Wise's musical movie The Sound of Music (1965).
Plummer however, said the movie was "so awful and sentimental and gooey".
The movie made the most money than any other movie since Gone with the Wind.
Plummer hated being on the movie, but liked working with co-star Julie Andrews.
During his career, he tried not to talk about the movie.
He did not show up at the 40th Anniversary cast reunion, but he did talk about the movie for the 2005 DVD release.
He appeared for the 45th anniversary with the full cast on The Oprah Winfrey Show on October 28, 2010.
In one interview he said that he had great memories of making the movie.
He was in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) and then played World War II agent Eddie Chapman in Triple Cross (1966).
He had a role as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Night of the Generals (1967).
Plummer was cast to replace Rex Harrison for the movie version of Doctor Dolittle.
This decision was later reversed, but Plummer was paid $87,500 for signing the contract.
Plummer had the main role in Oedipus the King (1968) and The High Commissioner (1968).
He also appeared in Battle of Britain (1969), and the lead in a musical, Lock Up Your Daughters (1969).
That same year, he played Inca Emperor Atahualpa in The Royal Hunt of the Sun.
Plummer played the Duke of Wellington in Waterloo (1970) alongside Rod Steiger as Napoleon Bonaparte.
He played Rudyard Kipling in The Man Who Would Be King (1975).
He also appeared in the comedy The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), alongside Peter Sellers and The Silent Partner (1978).
He appeared in Aces High (1976), Starcrash (1978), International Velvet (1978), and played Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979).
Plummer appeared in the romantic drama Somewhere in Time (1980), the drama Eyewitness (1981), and the comedy Dragnet (1987).
Plummer also did some voice work, such as the voice of Henri the pigeon in An American Tail (1986) and the Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-a-Doodle (1991).
Plummer appeared in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
He also appeared in Spike Lee's drama biographical movie Malcolm X (1992), Mike Nichols' horror drama Wolf (1994), Taylor Hackford's psychological drama Dolores Claiborne (1995), and Terry Gilliam's science fiction drama 12 Monkeys (1995).
One of Plummer's most well known roles was as journalist Mike Wallace in Michael Mann's The Insider (1999).
Plummer later played Dr. Rosen in Ron Howard's Academy Award-winning movie A Beautiful Mind (2001).
He appeared as Uncle Ralph in the 2002 movie version of Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby and as the philosopher Aristotle in Alexander (2004).
Plummer was wanted for the role of Gandalf for The Lord of the Rings movie series, however he did not want the role.
In 2004, Plummer played John Adams Gates in the Disney adventure movie National Treasure.
In 2005, he appeared in Stephen Gaghan's drama Syriana, the romantic comedy Must Love Dogs, and Terrence Malick's drama The New World.
Plummer did not like working with Malick on The New World and called the movie "boring" and told him to "get a new writer".
He played Arthur Case in another Spike Lee's movie called Inside Man (2006).
That same year, he was in the romantic drama The Lake House (2006).
In 2009, Plummer had a voice role in Pixar's animated movie Up where he played the main villain Charles Muntz.
Muntz character design was inspired by Plummer's appearance.
That same year he also had a voice role in 9 playing 1.
Beginners and final years
In January 2010, Plummer got his first Academy Award nomination for his role as author Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station (2009).
In an interview about his Academy Award nomination, Plummer said: "Well, I said it's about time!
I mean, I'm 80 years old, for God's sake.
Have mercy".
He lost the Academy Award to Christoph Waltz.
Plummer appeared in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as businessman Henrik Vanger.
Plummer got his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Hal in Mike Mills' independent comedy drama movie Beginners (2011).
In the role, Plummer played a dying 80-year old who recently came out as gay to his son.
He won the Academy Award and others for his role in Beginners, making Plummer, at age 82, the oldest actor to win an Academy Award.
In 2021, Anthony Hopkins would win an Academy Award at aged 83, beating Plummer's record.
His Academy Award also made Plummer one of the few actors and only Canadian to win the Triple Crown of Acting.
In 2014, he appeared with Shirley MacLaine in the comedy-drama Elsa & Fred.
In 2015, he starred in Remember as a Holocaust survivor with dementia.
Plummer played Ebenezer Scrooge in The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017).
In November 2017, Plummer was hired to replace Kevin Spacey as J. Paul Getty in All the Money in the World.
He was director Ridley Scott's first choice for the role, but TriStar Pictures wanted a more well known actor for the role.
Plummer was hired because Spacey had been accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault.
All scenes that had Spacey were filmed again with Plummer.
The decision was made a few weeks before the movie was set to be released.
For his role, Plummer earned Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor.
Plummer, at aged 89, became the oldest actor to be nominated for an Academy Award.
Plummer appeared in Rian Johnson's mystery thriller movie Knives Out (2019) as rich mystery writer Harlan Thrombey.
Plummer also appeared as Frank Pitsenbarger in the war drama The Last Full Measure (2020), in his final movie role.
In 2021 before his death, Plummer was hired to play the main character for a movie version of Shakespeare's King Lear.
Plummer had his first television role in 1953 for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation version of Othello.
He was also in a 1953 Studio One episode "The Gathering Night".
In the 1950s, he appeared in The Alcoa Hour, General Electric Theater, Kraft Television Theatre, and Omnibus.
In 1956, he was in an episode of CBS's Appointment with Adventure.
He was in the live television drama Little Moon of Alban and he got his first Emmy Award nomination.
He played Torvald Helmer in a 1959 television movie version of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Plummer had a role in the television version of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story (1959).
In 1964, his role as Gloomy Dane in the BBC's Hamlet at Elsinore got him his second Emmy nomination.
He played Hamlet in Hamlet at Elsinore.
Later work and success
He played Herod Antipas in the television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977).
Plummer played Herbert Kappler in the television movie The Scarlet and the Black.
He was in the five-time Emmy Award-winning television series The Thorn Birds.
From 1993 to 1995, he narrated the animated television series Madeline and won an Emmy Award for his voice work.
He also narrated the animated television series The World of David the Gnome.
In 2000, Plummer played Sir David Maxwell Fyfe in the Emmy Award-winning Nuremberg (2000).
That same year he appeared in American Tragedy as F. Lee Bailey.
He appeared in Miracle Planet, and a documentary by Ric Burns about Eugene O'Neill.
He got an Emmy Award nomination for his role in the television movie version of the play On Golden Pond.
Plummer voiced Arngeir, speaker for the Greybeards, in the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
At the age of 89, he appeared in a main role in Departure, a 2019 Canadian-British TV series.
Plummer returned for season 2, but worked from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
He finished filming for the second season before his death.
Plummer married Tammy Grimes in 1956.
Their marriage lasted four years, and they had a daughter together, actress Amanda Plummer.
Plummer was married to journalist Patricia Lewis from 1962, until their divorce in 1967.
He later married actress Elaine Taylor in 1970.
They lived together in Weston, Connecticut.
He used to live in Darien, Connecticut before moving to Weston.
Plummer had no children by either his second or third marriages.
In 1968, Plummer was honored with the companion of the Order of Canada.
His memoir, In Spite of Myself, was published in November 2008.
Plummer supported the Theatre Museum Canada and donated money to keep the museum open.
Plummer died at his home in Weston, Connecticut on February 5, 2021 from head trauma at the age of 91.
He died two and a half weeks after a fall where he hit his head.
Plummer's family said that he had died "peacefully with his family at his side".
Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau said that there is "no doubt [that] his work will continue to inspire and entertain us all for years to come" and called Plummer an "iconic actor".
The Sound of Music co-star Julie Andrews said of Plummer's death: "The world has lost a [great] actor today and I have lost a [good] friend".
Others who paid tribute to Plummer included Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Katherine Langford, Rian Johnson, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, William Shatner, Anne Hathaway, Elijah Wood, Vera Farmiga, Ed Asner, Ridley Scott, Spike Lee, Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Antonio Banderas, Leonard Maltin, Daniel Dae Kim, George Takei, Russell Crowe, Bruce Greenwood and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Christopher Plummer at the Canadian Film Encyclopedia
Christopher Plummer website
Canadian radio actors
Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor and voice actor who is known for his role as Hank Knigsley on The Larry Sanders Show, King Atlantis in SpongeBob SquarePants, and as George Bluth, Sr.
and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development.
He won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award in 2015.
Tambor was married to Kathryn Mitchell from 1991 until they divorced in 1999.
He is currently married to Kasia Ostlun since 2001 and have 4 children together.
Wilbert "Bill" Cobbs (born June 16, 1934) is an American movie and television actor.
He has starred in over 120 movies and television programs.
Cobbs was born on June 16, 1934 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cobbs is the second cousin of the late African American actor James Baskett.
Cobbs career began during 1973 in the movie Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws.
He is known for his role in The Bodyguard.
Cobbs latest appearance was in The Muppets (2011) and in Oz the Great and Powerful (2013).
Cobbs is not married and lives in Los Angeles, California and in New York City, New York.
Cobbs continues to act.
A world line is the unique path that an object has as it travels through both space and time, usually called spacetime.
As we learn from special relativity, the faster an object goes, the more time slows down for that object.
As you can see in the illustration to the right, the slower object has a quicker passage of time than the very fast object, the one which time passes much more slowly for.
When an object reaches the speed of light, it will be zero on the t axis, meaning that it will have made no progress in the time direction.
Basically, the world lines show that when the speed of light is reached, time stops for the observer.
World lines are very often used in theoretical physics and special relativity, as well as general relativity.
The concept of world lines is used widely in theoretical physics, for it shows some interesting facts about high-speed motion.
For example, the time dilation equation presented by Albert Einstein is algebraically undefined when an object's velocity is the speed of light, but using world lines one can find that when the speed is the speed of light, time will stop.
Although Einstein's equation (for time dilation) does show that an object going faster than light goes backward in time, the same concept can be described using world lines.
Vase in the Form of a Phallus is an ancient Greek terracotta vase in the form of a flaccid, uncircumcised, penis.
The scrotum and pubic hair are depicted.
Its overall measurements are 4 ½ in.
x 4 in.
x 3 ½ in. (
11.4 cm.
x 10.2 cm.
x 8.9 cm.).
It dates back to the Archaic period, about  550 BC to 500 BC.
Phallic vases are rare in Archaic Greek pottery, and this vase is thought to have held a perfumed oil, used for erotic or medicinal purposes.
It is also believed to have been made in Rhodes.
The museum writes that the vase displays a playfulness typical of Greek art.
Noureddine Morceli (born February 28, 1970 in Ténès, Chlef Province) is a retired Algerian athlete.
He won the 1500 m run at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
He won the silver medal in the 1500 m at the World Junior Championships in 1988.
Morceli went to college in Riverside, California.
Morceli was coached by his brother Abderrahmane.
His brother ran for Algeria in the Moscow Olympics of 1980 and in Los Angeles in 1984.
Bahari won the bronze medal in the middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Bahari became a professional boxer in 2003.
His last fight was in 2004.
He retired with a record of 3-2-2.
George Homer Ryan, Sr. (
born February 24 1934) is an American politician.
He was the former Governor of Illinois.
He is a member for the United States Republican Party.
His political career was tarnished due to scandals and corruption: Ryan was found guilty on almost all charges and sent to prison.
He was released in 2013.
Ryan was Illinois' Governor beginning 1999 until 2003.
He is listed as Federal Inmate Number 16627-424, and was scheduled July 4, 2013.
He was released in June 2013.
At the 1999 All-Africa Games in Johannesburg Mérah-Benida won silver medals in both 800 metres and 1500 metres.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney she won the gold medal.
In 2000 she also won an 800 m silver medal and a 1500 m gold medal at the African Championships.
People from Algiers
Ali Saidi-Sief (born March 15, 1978 in Constantine) is an Algerian Olympic runner.
His speciality is the 1500 m race.
He won a silver medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics for the 5000 m.
Saidi-Sief received a two-year suspension from the International Association of Athletics Federations.
He failed a urine test at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton, Canada.
He tested positive for nandrolone, a banned performance-enhancing steroid.
Algerian Olympic medalists
Djabir Saïd-Guerni (born March 29, 1977 in Algiers) is an Algerian retired athlete.
He ran in the 800 metres.
He won a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
He announced his retirement on 6 May 2007, following injury problems.
His personal best time was 1:43.09 minutes.
He got this in September 1999 in Brussels.
2005 World Championships in Athletics - fifth place
2004 Olympic Games - seventh place
2003 World Championships in Athletics - gold medal
2002 IAAF World Cup - silver medal
2002 African Championships in Athletics - gold medal
2000 Olympic Games - bronze medal
2000 African Championships in Athletics - gold medal
2000 African Championships in Athletics - gold medal (4 x 400 m relay)
1999 World Championships in Athletics - bronze medal
1999 Summer Universiade - fourth place
1999 Military World Games - gold medal
1999 All-Africa Games - silver medal
1998 African Championships in Athletics - bronze medal
1997 Pan Arab Games - 800 m gold medal, 1500 m bronze, 4x400 m relay gold
1997 Mediterranean Games - bronze medal
1997 Summer Universiade - fourth place
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Abderrahmane Hammad Zaheer (born May 27, 1977 in Dellys) is a former Algerian track and field athlete.
He was in the high jump.
He won the bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
He was also in the 2004 Athens Olympics.
His personal best of 2.34 m is the Algerian record for the event.
He retired from the sport in 2010.
Hammad began his international career as a junior in 1994.
He won the high jump silver medals at the African Junior Athletics Championships and Pan Arab Junior Championships.
He went on to win the African Junior gold medal the following year.
Then he won the Arab Junior title in 1996.
He was at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics but did not make it into the final round.
Hammad had his first international success at senior level in 1997.
He won the silver at both the Pan Arab Championships and the 1997 Pan Arab Games.
The 2000 season was the top of his career.
He kept his title at the 2000 African Championships in Athletics in Algiers.
He made his areer best jump of 2.34 m. He then was in his first Olympicss at the 2000 Sydney Games.
He won the bronze medal.
He won the high jump at the 2001 Mediterranean Games.
He was ninth at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics.
He won his third high jump title in a row at the 2002 African Championships in Athletics.
He took bronze at the 2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final.
He placed fourth for Africa at the 2002 IAAF World Cup.
He represented Algeria for a second time at the Olympics at the 2004 Games in Athens.
He was at the 2004 Pan Arab Games and took the high jump title.
2004 Pan Arab Games - gold medal
2002 IAAF Grand Prix Final - third place
2002 African Championships - gold medal
2001 Mediterranean Games - gold medal
2000 Summer Olympics - bronze medal
2000 African Championships - gold medal
1998 African Championships - gold medal
1997 Arab Championships - silver medal
1997 Pan Arab Games - silver medal
Mohamed Allalou (born September 28, 1973) is an Algerian boxer.
He was in the Men's Light Welterweight division at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
He was also in the 1996 Summer Olympics.
1996 Olympic results
Defeated Peter Bulinga (Kenya) 17-3
Defeated Jacek Bielski (Poland) 19-8
Lost to Fethi Missaoui (Tunisia) 15-16
2000 Olympic results
Defeated Lukáš Konečný (Czech Republic) 17-9
Defeated Ben Neequaye (Ghana) 15-6
Defeated Sven Paris (Italy) 22-8
Lost to Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev (Uzbekistan) RSC
Epiktetos was an ancient Greek potter and vase painter.
His name means "newly acquired".
He may have been a slave, as were most potters and painters in ancient Greece.
He worked mostly with cups and plates between 520 and 490 BC in the red-figure style.
He signed more than half his works.
He was an expert with the tondothe circular picture at the bottom of a cup.
He painted mostly everyday scenes rather than mythological ones.
His end is unknown.
Ancient Greek painters
Ancient Greek potters
Soraya Haddad (born September 30, 1984 in El-Kseur) is an Algerian judoka.
She won the bronze medal in the Women's 52 kg weight class at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
She was African champion four times: 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2011.
She also won the bronze medal in the 48 kg category in the 2005 World Championships in Egypt.
Amar Benikhlef (born 11 January 1982) is an Algerian judoka.
He won the silver medal in the 90 kg group of Judo in 2008.
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A kalos inscription is a marking on ancient Greek pottery.
They were prevalent during the Classical period (550 to 450 BC).
Kalos (καλός) means "beautiful", and in these inscriptions it had an erotic meaning.
The word kalos was followed by the beloved's nameusually a youth, but sometimes a girl or woman working as a prostitute.
These inscriptions are usually found on the drinking cups used during a drinking party.
They were probably declarations of love.
They are sometimes found as graffiti on walls.
He is best known as a hammer thrower who took part in four Summer Olympic Games.
Murofushi was born in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
His family were international sports competitors.
His early interest in the hammer was encouarged by his father, Shigenobu Murofushi, who is an Olympic athlete and Asian Games champion.
He is the brother of Yuka Murofushi, who is also an Olympian.
Koji Murofush at International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)
Lachesis, also known as the "bushmasters", is a genus of venomous Pit vipers found in forests of Central and South America.
The name "Lachesis" is also the name of one of the Three Fates in Greek mythology.
There are currently three species found.
Adult bushmasters can grow up to the length of 2 meters (6.5 ft) to 2.5 meters (8.25 ft), but there have been some which have grown up to the length of 3 meters (10 ft).
The largest one ever found was 3.65 meters (12 ft) long, making the bushmasters the longest venomous snakes in the Western Hemisphere and the longest vipers in the world.
They are not the heaviest vipers in the world, but adults usually weigh up to 3 to 5 kg (6.6 to 11 Ib).
Bushmasters are found in forest areas of Central and South America.
They are also found on the island Trinidad
Bushmasters are oviparous: they lay eggs.
This makes bushmasters different to other pit vipers found in the New World, because other pit vipers are viviparous,  they give live birth instead of laying eggs.
A female can lay around a dozen eggs at a time.
The female stays with her eggs until they have hatched and may attack any predator that comes near the nest.
The bushmasters are one of the largest and dangerous snakes in South America, and can inject a large amount of venom into their enemies.
Even young bushmaster's bites are harmful, but bushmasters are nocturnal (they are active at night), so not a lot of people have been bitten by them.
Black-headed bushmaster, L. melanocephala
South American bushmaster, L. muta
Central American bushmaster, L. stenophrys
Yengibarov was born in Moscow.
His father was Armenian.
In 1955 he joined the State School of Circus Art.
After graduation in 1959 he moved to Yerevan and joined the Armenian state circus.
He was one of the first Soviet clowns to create the poetic, intellectual clownery.
He was invited to work in cinema.
His first film was A Path to the Arena.
In 1960s he was known as one of the best clowns in the USSR and Eastern bloc.
He created a pantomime troupe, and managed to stage only a single piece, "Star Rain" before his death in 1972.
1963: A Path to the Arena, Путь на арену
1964: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Тени забытых предков
1966: Aybolit-66, Айболит-66
1971: A Necklace for My Beloved, Ожерелье для моей любимой. (
Comedy, directed by Tengiz Abuladze, cast in the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union)
1972: Stoves-Benches, Печки-лавочки
Please meet Leonid Yengibarov,
2 Leonid 2, 2 Леонид 2
Soviet movie actors
The Great Sandy Desert is a desert in the northwest of Australia, mostly in Western Australia.
It is the second-largest desert in Australia (after the Great Victoria Desert).
South of the Great Sandy Desert is the Gibson Desert, and to the east is the Tanami Desert.
There are not many people living in the Great Sandy Desert.
Most of them  are Aboriginal communities and mining towns.
The Aboriginal people of the desert fall into two main groups: the Martu in the west and the Pintupi in the east.
They both speak Western Desert languages.
The area does not get much rain, but even in the driest parts rainfalls rarely drop below .
The rate of evaporation (how quickly the water dries up) is very high.
Most of the rain comes from thunderstorms.
Many drought years end with a monsoon or tropical cyclone.
On average for most of the area, there are about 20-30 days where thunderstorms form.
Most of the plants growing across the Great Sandy Desert are spinifex grasses.
Animals living in the desert include  dingos, red kangaroo, monitor lizards, bilbies, marsupial mole, thorny devils, bearded dragons and many other species of lizard.
The first European to cross the desert was Peter Warburton.
He made the journey from Alice Springs leaving in April 1873 and arriving at De Grey Station in January 1874.
When Warburton arrived, he was starving and blind in one eye.
He thanked his survival on his Aboriginal companion Charley.
The Disrobing of Christ is an oil painting by El Greco.
It was completed in the spring of 1579 for the High Altar of the sacristy of the Cathedral of Toledo, where it still hangs.
It measures 285 x 173cm.
Harold Wethey says that the painting is a "masterpiece of extraordinary originality".
The power of the picture depends upon El Greco's original and forceful use of color.
Paintings by El Greco
Azemiopinae, commonly known as the "Fea's vipers", is a monotypic subfamily made for a monotypic genus, Azemiops, which contains the venomous viper, Azemiops Feae.
It is found on the mountains of Southeast Asia.
The Feas's vipers can grow up to the length of 77 cm.
They are blueish-gray or black in color with orange crossbands, the head is orange while the chin and throat is yellow, it also has yellow eyes.
The Fea's viper is found in northern Vietnam, southern China, south-east Myanmar, and south-east Tibet.
In China the Fea's viper is found in Fujien, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Kweichow, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
The Fea's viper is found on mountains which have an altitude of 1000 meters.
It prefers to live in cool climates which have an average temperature of 18-25 °C.
In Vietnam it is found in bamboo forests.
The Fea's viper is said to be nocturnal, but some people say that it crepuscular, and it hibernates in the winter.
When disturbed, the Fea's viper flattens its body to make it look wider, and opens its mouth widely to show its fangs, giving its head a triangular shape.
It sometimes also vibrates it tail.
Fea's vipers are said to eat small mammals.
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the parables of Jesus.
It is found only in the Gospel of Luke at 15:11-32.
The parable is about a son who wastes his share of his father's estate.
He loses all his money and gets work feeding pigs—one of the lowest jobs a person can do according to the Jewish religion.
He repents and returns to his father's house.
He is welcomed and a feast is held.
His older, dutiful brother who has worked without reward for his father resents the fuss made over the prodigal son.
His father reminds him that all he has is his.
He says they should still celebrate the return of the younger boy because he has come back to them.
In the Western Catholic church, this parable is usually read on the third Sunday of Lent.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church it is read on the Sunday of the Prodigal Son.
The parable is the subject of much art, music, literature, and stage works.
This is the last of three parables about loss and redemption.
It follows the Parable of the Lost Sheep and the Parable of the Lost Coin.
Jesus tells this parable after the Pharisees and religious leaders accuse him of welcoming and eating with "sinners."
The father's joy described in the parable reflects divine love, the "boundless mercy of God," and "God's refusal to limit the measure of his grace."
The Parable of the Mustard Seed is one of the parables of Jesus.
It is found in three of the Gospels of the New Testament: Gospel of Matthew (13:31–32), Gospel of Mark (4:30–32), and Gospel of Luke (13:18–19).
The differences among the three tellings are minor.
In Matthew and Luke, this parable is followed by the Parable of the Leaven.
The Parable of the Leaven also has a theme about the Kingdom of Heaven growing from small beginnings.
A version of the parable also occurs in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas 20.
The parable from Matthew reads: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; which indeed is smaller than all seeds.
But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."
The parables from Mark and Luke are similar.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus.
It is found in the Gospel of Matthew at 18:12–14 and the Gospel of Luke at 15:3–7.
It also appears in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas.
The parable is one of three that tell of loss and redemption.
The others are The Lost Coin and The Prodigal Son.
The Lost Sheep tells of a shepherd who leaves his 99 sheep to search for one sheep that is lost.
Joel B. Green writes that "these parables are ... about God, ... their aim is to lay bare the nature of the divine response to the recovery of the lost."
The parable has been depicted often in art.
The Brandenburg Gate () on the Luisenplatz in Potsdam, should not be confused with the gate of the same name on Berlin's Pariser Platz, it was built in 1770/71 by Carl von Gontard and Georg Christian Unger by order of Frederick II of Prussia.
It stands at the western end of Brandenburger Straße, which runs in a straight line up to the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Previously, from 1733, there was another, simpler gate on the same spot, which resembled a castle gateway.
Together with the city wall, a form of toll barrier, and the other gates it was intended to prevent desertion and smuggling.
Paul Sigel, Silke Dähmlow, Frank Seehausen und Lucas Elmenhorst, Architekturführer Potsdam, Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 2006, .
Order Anura  frogs and toads
Suborder Archaeobatrachia
Family Alytidae - Painted Frogs or Disc-Tongued frogs, 12 species.
Family Bombinatoridae - Fire Belly toads, 8 species
Family Leiopelmatidae - New Zealand primitive frogs, 6 species.
Suborder Mesobatrachia
Family Megophryidae - Litter frogs or Short Legged toads, 156 species
Family Pelobatidae - European Spadefoot toads, 4 species
Family Pelodytidae - Parsley frogs, 3 species
Family Pipidae - Tongueless frogs or clawed frogs, 33 species
Family Rhinophrynidae - Mexican Burrowing Toad, 1 species
Family Scaphiopodidae - American spadefoot toads, 7 species
Suborder Neobatrachia
Family Allophrynidae, 1 species
Family Aromobatidae - 104 species
Family Arthroleptidae - Screeching frogs or squeakers, 140 species
Family Brachycephalidae - Saddleback toads, 51 species.
Family Brevicipitidae - 31 species
Family Bufonidae - True toads, 558 species
Family Calyptocephalellidae - 4 species
Family Centrolenidae - Glass frogs, 146 species
Family Ceratobatrachidae, 85 species
Family Ceratophryidae - 86 species
Family Ceuthomantidae - 4 species, split off from family Brachycephalidae
Family Craugastoridae - 115 species
Family Cycloramphidae - 105 species
Family Dendrobatidae - Poison dart frogs, 179 species
Family Dicroglossidae, 171 species
Family Eleutherodactylidae - 201 species
Family Heleophrynidae - Ghost frogs, 7 species
Family Hemiphractidae - 94 species
Family Hemisotidae - Shovelnose frogs, 9 species
Family Hylidae - Tree frogs, 901 species
Family Hylodidae - 42 species
Family Hyperoliidae - Sedge frogs or bush frogs, 209 species
Family Leiuperidae, 86 species
Family Leptodactylidae - Southern frogs or tropical frogs, 100 species
Family Mantellidae, 191 species
Family Micrixalidae - 11 species
Family Microhylidae - Narrow-mouthed frogs, 487 species
Family Myobatrachidae - Australian ground frogs, 85 species
Family Limnodynastidae, 43 species
Family Nasikabatrachidae - 1 species, formerly included in family Sooglossidae
Family Nyctibatrachidae - 17 species
Family Petropedetidae, 18 species
Family Phrynobatrachidae - 82 species
Family Ptychadenidae - 53 species
Family Pyxicephalidae - 68 species
Family Ranidae - True frogs, 347 species