Mehran Karimi Nasseri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mehran Karimi Nasseri Masjed Soleiman , Iran Mehran Karimi Nasseri (مهران کریمی ناصری pronounced [meɦˈrɔːn kʲæriːˈmiː nɔːseˈriː] ; born 1942), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran (including the comma), is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment. His autobiography has been published as a book and he may have been the basis for the movie The Terminal . Contents [ edit ] Early life Nasseri was born in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company settlement located in Masjed Soleiman , Iran. His father was an Iranian physician working for the company. Nasseri stated that his mother was a nurse from Scotland working in the same place. [1] He arrived in the United Kingdom in September 1973, to take a three-year course in Yugoslav studies at the University of Bradford .

[ edit ] Current position Nasseri was expelled from Iran in 1977 for protests against the Shah and after a long battle, involving applications in several countries, was awarded refugee status by the United Nations High Commission for refugees in Belgium . This permitted residence in any European country. Having one British parent, he decided to settle in the UK in 1986, but en route to there in 1988, he had his briefcase containing his papers stolen in Paris. [2] Despite this setback, he boarded the plane for London but was promptly returned to France when he failed to present a passport to British immigration. He was initially arrested by the French, but then released as his entry to the airport was legal and he had no country of origin to be returned to and his residency at Terminal 1 began. His case was later taken on by French human rights lawyer Christian Bourget . In 1992, French courts ruled that, having entered the country legally, he could not be expelled from the airport, but it could not grant him permission to enter France. Attempts were then made to have new documents issued from Belgium, but the authorities there would only do so if Naserri presented himself in person.

However, under Belgian law a refugee who voluntarily leaves a country that has accepted him cannot return. In 1995, the Belgian authorities granted permission for him to return, but only if he agreed to live there under supervision of a social worker. Naserri refused this on the ground of wanting to enter the UK as originally intended. [2] Nasseri's life at the airport ended in July 2006 when he was hospitalized and his sitting place dismantled. Towards the end of January 2007, he left the hospital and was looked after by the airport's branch of the French Red Cross ; he was lodged for a few weeks in a hotel close to the airport. On March 6, 2007, he transferred to an Emmaus charity reception centre in Paris 's twentieth arrondissement. As of 2008, he continues to live in a Paris shelter. [2] [ edit ] Life in Terminal 1 During his eighteen year long stay at Terminal 1 in the Charles de Gaulle Airport , Nasseri would have his luggage at his side, and be either reading, writing in his diary, or studying economics.

[3] He would receive food and newspapers from employees of the airport. [ edit ] Documentaries and fictionalizations Nasseri's story provided the inspiration for the 1994 Tombés du ciel French film, starring Jean Rochefort , internationally released under the Lost in Transit title. The short story , "The Fifteen-Year Layover," written by Michael Paterniti and published in GQ and The Best American Non-Required Reading, chronicles Nasseri's life. Alexis Kouros made a documentary about him, Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle in 2000. Glen Luchford made the Here to Where mockumentary in 2001, also featuring Nasseri. Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the 2004 movie The Terminal ; however, neither publicity materials, nor the DVD "special features" nor the film's website mentions Nasseri's plight as an inspiration for the film. Despite this, in September 2003, The New York Times noted that Steven Spielberg bought the rights to his life story as the basis for The Terminal.

[4] The Guardian indicates that Spielberg's Dreamworks production company paid $250,000 to Nasseri for rights to his story and report that as of 2004 he carried a poster advertising Spielberg's film draping his suitcase next to his bench. Nasseri was reportedly excited about The Terminal, but it was unlikely that he would ever have a chance to see it. [1] Nasseri's story was also the inspiration for the award winning contemporary opera Flight by British composer Jonathan Dove [5] . mehran karimi nasseri : definition of mehran karimi nasseri and synonyms of mehran karimi nasseri (English) 7 External links Early life Nasseri was born in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company settlement located in Masjed Soleiman , Iran. His father was an Iranian physician working for the company. Nasseri stated that his mother was a nurse from Scotland working in the same place. [2] He arrived in the United Kingdom in September 1973, to take a three-year course in Yugoslav studies at the University of Bradford .

Current position Nasseri was expelled from Iran in 1977 for protests against the Shah and after a long battle, involving applications in several countries, was awarded refugee status by the United Nations High Commission for refugees in Belgium . This permitted residence in any European country. Having claimed to have one British parent, although he has produced no evidence to support this, he decided to settle in the UK in 1986, but en route to there in 1988, his briefcase containing his papers was stolen in Paris. [3] Despite this setback, he boarded the plane for London but was promptly returned to France when he failed to present a passport to British immigration. He was initially arrested by the French, but then released as his entry to the airport was legal and he had no country of origin to be returned to; thus began his residency at Terminal 1. His case was later taken on by French human rights lawyer Christian Bourget . In 1992, French courts ruled that, having entered the country legally, he could not be expelled from the airport, but it could not grant him permission to enter France.

Attempts were then made to have new documents issued from Belgium, but the authorities there would only do so if Nasseri presented himself in person. However, under Belgian law a refugee who voluntarily leaves a country that has accepted him cannot return. In 1995, the Belgian authorities granted permission for him to return, but only if he agreed to live there under supervision of a social worker. Nasseri refused this on the grounds of wanting to enter the UK as originally intended. [3] Nasseri's stay at the airport ended in July 2006 when he was hospitalized and his sitting place dismantled. Towards the end of January 2007, he left the hospital and was looked after by the airport's branch of the French Red Cross ; he was lodged for a few weeks in a hotel close to the airport. On March 6, 2007, he transferred to an Emmaus charity reception centre in Paris 's twentieth arrondissement. As of 2008, he continues to live in a Paris shelter.

[3] Life in Terminal 1 During his 17-year long stay at Terminal 1 in the Charles de Gaulle Airport , Nasseri had his luggage at his side, and spent his time reading, writing in his diary, or studying economics. [4] He received food and newspapers from employees of the airport. Contrary to what many believe, he has never been stuck in the transit area and was therefore free to move. Documentaries and fictionalizations Nasseri's story provided the inspiration for the 1994 Tombés du ciel French film, starring Jean Rochefort , internationally released under the title Lost in Transit. The short story , "The Fifteen-Year Layover," written by Michael Paterniti and published in GQ and The Best American Non-Required Reading, chronicles Nasseri's life. Alexis Kouros made a documentary about him, Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle in 2000. Glen Luchford and Paul Berczeller made the Here to Where mockumentary in 2001, also featuring Nasseri. Hamid Rahmanian and Melissa Hibbard made a documentary called Sir Alfred of Charles De Gaulle Airport in 2001.

[5] Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the character Viktor Navorski, from the 2004 movie The Terminal ; however, neither publicity materials, nor the DVD "special features" nor the film's website mentions Nasseri's plight as an inspiration for the film. Despite this, in September 2003, The New York Times noted that Steven Spielberg bought the rights to his life story as the basis for The Terminal. [6] The Guardian indicates that Spielberg's Dreamworks production company paid $250,000 to Nasseri for rights to his story and report that as of 2004 he carried a poster advertising Spielberg's film draping his suitcase next to his bench. Nasseri was reportedly excited about The Terminal, but it was unlikely that he would ever have a chance to see it. [2] In 2004, the book The Terminal Man was published in several countries including the UK and Germany. The Terminal Man was a full-length autobiography co-written by Nasseri and British author, Andrew Donkin.

The book was reviewed in the UK Sunday Times as being "profoundly disturbing and brilliant." Nasseri's story was also the inspiration for the award-winning contemporary opera Flight by British composer Jonathan Dove . [7] See also Jordanian stranded for two weeks at Kuwaiti-Saudi borders | GulfNews.com Jordanian stranded for two weeks at Kuwaiti-Saudi borders LARGE Manama:A Jordanian national has been stranded for two weeks between the borders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after he was unable to access either country. Yasser Mohammad Al Haj said that he has been trapped in the unexpected limbo after he was told that he had no right to continue his land trip ahead to Kuwait or to return to Saudi Arabia. “I have been living in the border area between Al Salmi and Al Raqii for two weeks after I was unable to find a solution to my problem,” Al Haj told Kuwaiti daily Al Rai over the phone. “My residency in Kuwait has expired and the Kuwaiti authorities said they could not let me in because I did not have the necessary documents and wanted me to turn back. At the same time, Saudi Arabia said they could not take me in to cross back to Jordan since I did not have the required visa to enter or transit the kingdom.

The Jordanian foreign ministry has tried to help, but I am still stuck here at the border,” he said. Al Haj, exasperated and frustrated, has decided to go on hunger strike in a bid to find a solution to his predicament, the daily said on Thursday. Desperate “I am going through very difficult conditions, and I have no accommodation or food. My sponsor in Kuwait has tried several times to help and requested the Kuwaiti interior ministry to let me in, but the head of the border office has refused. I have eventually resorted to the hunger strike to draw attention to my dire condition and find a solution,” he said. Al Haj’s story has echoes of the 2004 comedy movie The Terminal where Tom Hanks' character Viktor Navorski is trapped in a terminal at an airport in New York City after he was denied entry into the United States, but at the same time, he could not return to his native country due to a revolution. The movie was based on the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris from August 1988 until July 2006.

HI ALL:-)) Strangers in the night exchanging glances Wondering in the night What were the chances we'd be sharing love Before the night was through. Something in your eyes was so inviting, Something in you smile was so exciting, Something in my heart, Told me I must have you. Strangers in the night, two lonely people We were strangers in the night Up to the moment When we said our first hello. Little did we know Love was just a glance away, A warm embracing dance away and - Ever since that night weve been together. Lovers at first sight, in love forever. It turned out so right, For strangers in the night. Posted by The TERMINAL-A real story.. Mehran Karimi Nasseri (مهران کریمی ناصری [meɦˈrɔːn kʲæriːˈmiː nɔːseˈriː]), (born 1942), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran (including the comma), is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August 1988 until July 2006, when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment.

His autobiography has been published as a book and he may have been the basis for the movie The Terminal. Early life Nasseri was born in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company settlement located in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. His father was an Iranian physician working for the company. Nasseri stated that his mother was a nurse from Scotland working in the same place.[1] He arrived in the United Kingdom in September 1973, to take a three-year course in Yugoslav studies at the University of Bradford Current position Nasseri was expelled from Iran in 1977 for protests against the Shah and after a long battle, involving applications in several countries, was awarded refugee status by the United Nations High Commission for refugees in Belgium. This permitted residence in any European country. Having one British parent, he decided to settle in the UK in 1986, but en route to there in 1988, he had his briefcase containing his papers stolen in Paris.[2] Despite this setback, he boarded the plane for London but was promptly returned to France when he failed to present a passport to British immigration.

He was initially arrested by the French, but then released as his entry to the airport was legal and he had no country of origin to be returned to and his residency at Terminal 1 began. His case was later taken on by French human rights lawyer Christian Bourget. In 1992, French courts ruled that, having entered the country legally, he could not be expelled from the airport, but it could not grant him permission to enter France. Attempts were then made to have new documents issued from Belgium, but the authorities there would only do so if Naserri presented himself in person. However, under Belgian law a refugee who voluntarily leaves a country that has accepted him cannot return. In 1995, the Belgian authorities granted permission for him to return, but only if he agreed to live there under supervision of a social worker. Naserri refused this on the ground of wanting to enter the UK as originally intended.[2] Nasseri's life at the airport ended in July 2006 when he was hospitalized and his sitting place dismantled.

Towards the end of January 2007, he left the hospital and was looked after by the airport's branch of the French Red Cross; he was lodged for a few weeks in a hotel close to the airport. On March 6, 2007, he transferred to an Emmaus charity reception centre in Paris's twentieth arrondissement. As of 2008, he continues to live in a Paris shelter. Life in Terminal 1 During his eighteen year long stay at Terminal 1 in the Charles de Gaulle Airport, Nasseri would have his luggage at his side, and be either reading, writing in his diary, or studying economics.[3] He would receive food and newspapers from employees of the airport Documentaries and fictionalizations Nasseri's story provided the inspiration for the 1994 Tombés du ciel French film, starring Jean Rochefort, internationally released under the Lost in Transit title. The short story, The Fifteen-Year Layover by Michael Paterniti and published in GQ and The Best American Non-Required Reading, chronicles Nasseri's existence. Alexis Kouros made a documentary about him, Waiting for Godot at De Gaulle in 2000.

Glen Luchford made the Here to Where mockumentary in 2001, also featuring Nasseri. Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the 2004 movie The Terminal; however, neither publicity materials, nor the DVD "special features" nor the film's website mentions Nasseri's plight as an inspiration for the film. Despite this, in September 2003, The New York Times noted that Steven Spielberg bought the rights to his life story as the basis for The Terminal.[4] The Guardian indicates that Spielberg's Dreamworks production company paid $250,000 to Nasseri for rights to his story and report that as of 2004 he carried a poster advertising Spielberg's film draping his suitcase next to his bench. Nasseri was reportedly excited about The Terminal, but it was unlikely that he would ever have a chance to see it.[1] Nasseri's story was also the inspiration for the award winning contemporary opera Flight by British composer Jonathan Dove[5]. Merhan Karimi Nasseri has spent 16 years living in Charles de Gaulle airport.

Now Steven Spielberg's Terminal has catapulted him to international stardom - but casts little light on who he really is. And Sir Alfred, as he calls himself, isn't too sure either. Paul Berczeller, who spent a year with Nasseri, set out to unravel the mysteryPaul Berczeller The Guardian, Monday 6 September 2004 Merhan Karimi Nasseri: Forever delayed I first saw him, many years ago now, staring out with an uncanny gaze of blank intensity from the pages of a newspaper. Seated alone on a bench, immune to the endless motion of the airport around him, there was a curious inscrutability to his slight, balding yet dignified countenance. He looked like some unlikely cross between a Zen master and Chaplin's Tramp. He had these amazing long brows, as dark as his hooded eyes, and a small, perfectly groomed moustache perched on top of his upper lip. It was like a caricature of a face, five charcoal marks on a canvas. But strangely noble, too.

The Terminal Directors: Steven Spielberg Cast: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride, Diego Luna, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hanks His name was Merhan Karimi Nasseri though he called himself "Sir Alfred". He lived in a lost dimension of absurd bureaucratic entanglement. That is to say, on a bench in Terminal One of the Charles de Gaulle International Airport, and he had lived there since 1988. For a series of insanely complicated reasons, the Iranian-born refugee was now a man without a country - or any other documented, internationally accepted identity status. Alfred couldn't leave France because he did not have papers; he couldn't enter France because he did not have papers. The authorities told him to wait in the airport lounge while they sorted the paradox out. That he did - for years and years. Then one day, I heard that Alfred had finally been given his papers. He was free to go anywhere in the world he wished. Except now it seemed he didn't want to leave the airport after all. It was the only home - the only past - he had left. Posted by INTERVIEW TIPS Interviews 1: preparing for the interview Interviews can be nerve-wracking and preparation is very important.

You will be better equipped to answer questions and you will walk in to the interview feeling more confident. Here are some tips for preparing for an interview. Read the text below and select the best option from the drop-down menu of words. If you have ---- (gained /reached /arrived/achieved) the interview stage, your CV and letter of application must have been ---- (effective/important/ impressive/ significant!) The company now wants to know more about you. But there is still more work to do if you want to get that job! Make sure you have ---- (researched/ discovered /inquired /examined) the company as thoroughly as possible - use the Internet, company reports, recruitment literature etc. ---- (remember/ remind/ imagine/ summarise) yourself of why you applied to this company. Make a list of the skills, experience, and interests you can ---- (show /present/ offer/ demonstrate) the organisation. Finally, try to ---- (ask /suggest /give/ predict) the questions you will be expected to answer - imagine you are the interviewer!

Posted by Calaméo - The Terminal: The True Story of Nerham Nasseri- Macarena Alvarez- 5° HCS 1 The Terminal: The True Story of Nerham Nasseri- Macarena Alvarez- 5° HCS 1 by Carmen Nani PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See pediapress. com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:13:11 UTC The Terminal. by Macarena Alvarez. PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See pediapress. com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:13:11 UTC The Terminal. by Macarena Alvarez. Less The Terminal - 必应 Sign in The Terminal The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones . It is about a man who becomes trapped in New York City's JFK International Airport terminal when he is denied entry into the United States and at the same time cannot return to his native country due to a revolution.

The film is partially inspired by the 18-year stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris, France, from 1988 to 2006. So i need a list of signals that can be generated at the terminals.The only ones i can think of are SIGTERM,SIGINT,SIGQUIT,SIGTSTP,SIGALRM Are there any others? 图片: 图片: 答 $ kill -l 1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) SIGQUIT 4) SIGILL 5) SIGTRAP 6) SIGABRT 7) SIGEMT 8) SIGFPE 9) SIGKILL 10) SIGBUS 11) SIGSEGV 12) SIGSYS 13) SIGPIPE 14) SIGALRM 15) SIGTERM 16) SIGURG 17) S... Cleanly handle user input at the terminal without crashing I have this simple project to do. This is the code I have so far, it works perfectly fine. But if someone types in a letter or an unknown symbol, the program crashes.

How can I make this error proof and display or print a message if the wrong thing is entered?def excercise5(): print("Programming Excercise 5") print("This program calculates the cost of an order.") pound = eval(input("Enter the weight in pounds: ")) shippingCost = (0.86 * pound) + 1.50 coffee = (10.50 * pound) + shippingCost if pound == 1: print(pound,"pound of coffee costs $", coffee) else: print(pound,"pounds of coffee costs $", coffee) print() excercise5() 图片: 图片: 答 I'd advise against using eval. It is not good from the security point of view. Just do an explicit conversion to the desired type:pound = float(input("Enter the weight in pounds: ")) _... The Terminal Plot Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a traveller from the nation of Krakozhia, arrives at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, only to find that his passport is suddenly no longer valid due to the sudden outbreak of a civil war in his homeland.

As a result, the United States no longer recognizes Krakozhia as a sovereign nation, and he is no longer permitted to either enter the country or return home as he is now considered to be stateless. Due to his inability to communicate in proper English, the airport's branch of the US Customs and Border Protection seize both his passport and airline ticket, whereupon its temporary director, Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), makes him stay in the terminal he came through. Left with no other choice, Viktor decides to settle in at a closed off section of the terminal, Gate 67, with only his luggage and a peanut can, soon making a home out of it. Much to the frustration of Dixon, who is being considered for promotion to director of the US Customs branch, Viktor chooses not to break out of the terminal but wait patiently until he can legally enter the United States. Dixon, who wants him to illegally attempt to enter the country so he can deport him, decides to try finding ways to make it difficult for him to survive in the terminal, slowly becoming obsessed in doing so.

During his initial days at the terminal, Viktor encounters and helps out a flight attendant named Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta-Jones) after she slips on a wet floor and breaks the heel of her shoes, who assumes he is a contractor of sorts from the pager he was given by Customs but is surprised by his respectful kindness to her. When Viktor is unable to secure himself some food after Dixon cuts him off from an avenue of money, his plight is noticed by a food service worker at the airport, Enrique Cruz (Diego Luna), who offers him food in exchange for helping in learning more about an immigration officer that he is infatuated with, Dolores Torres (Zoë Saldana). After meeting with Amelia once again and wanting to take her out for a meal, Viktor begins improving his English while attempting to find work, and is soon hired by an airport contractor and paid under the table after he impulsively remodelled a wall at a gate that was scheduled for future renovation.

During this time, he also befriends some of Enrique's friends whom he plays poker with, including a cargo handler named Joe Mulroy (Chi McBride), and an Indian janitor named Gupta Rajan (Kumar Pallana), learning from the latter that they had come to the States in order to avoid being arrested for assaulting a corrupt police officer back in India in 1979. When a Russian traveller creates a delicate situation when Customs try to remove the medicine he is carrying for his father, Dixon is annoyed when Viktor, whom he uses to persuade the man to leave the medicine behind, claims he misheard his Krakozhian dialect for "father" as "goat" so the traveller can leave with them. Shortly after the traveller leaves, Dixon strong-arms him over a photocopier, nearly blowing his chance for promotion, before later promising Viktor that he will never let him leave the airport. When the airport employees hear from Gupta of the incident in customs with the Russian and what Viktor did, Viktor finds himself respected and admired for his kind-hearted actions, with many stores showing off photocopied images of his hand that had been accidentally made.

When Viktor meets with Amelia once again and takes her out for a meal, he slowly begins taking an interest with her, even wooing her, before offering to surprise her with a gift when she returns, based on his recent knowledge of Napoleon, soon creating a majestic fountain. After helping Enrique finally marry Torres, Viktor awaits the arrival of Amelia. Unbeknown to him, Dixon pulls her aside to question her about Viktor, revealing his true situation in the process. Feeling that he lied to her, Amelia confronts Viktor in Gate 67, shocked at his predicament, and tries to learn why he came to New York. Agreeing to tell her, Viktor reveals the contents of the peanut can he was carrying, explaining that his late father, a jazz enthusiast, had discovered the famous portrait, "A Great Day in Harlem", in a Hungarian newspaper in 1958, where after spending a week looking at it, he vowed he would collect the signatures of all 57 of the jazz musicians featured on it. Viktor reveals that the can contains not only a copy of the portrait, but the autographs of all the musicians his father received, bar one - tenor saxophonist Benny Golson.

After his father died, Viktor had promised to collect the last signature by coming to New York to find Golson. After hearing his story, Amelia kisses Viktor. After having spent nine months in the terminal, Viktor is awakened by his friends who give him news that the war in Krakozhia has ended. Overjoyed, he celebrates in an airport bar, where Amelia meets with him and explains that a man she had been having an affair with, a government official, helped her to secure Viktor with a one-day emergency visa to fulfil his dream. While delighted, Viktor is saddened when he learns that her "friend" did so in order to renew their relationship. Despite this, Viktor heads off to Customs to with renewed hope of going to New York, only to find that Dixon must sign the visa. Seizing the opportunity, Dixon instructs Viktor to go home to Krakozhia, threatening to cause trouble for Viktor's friends by deporting them if he refuses. Unwilling to let that happen, he agrees to do so, despite his friends offering to prevent this happening.

When Gupta, assuming he was acting a coward, learns of the situation he was put into, he decides to take the burden off Viktor by running in front of the plane to Krakozhia as it taxies to the terminal, choosing to let himself be deported back to his home country in order to let his friend go to New York. Dixon, shocked by this, attempts to stop Viktor leaving as he receives gifts from employees for his trip into the city, but is thwarted by his Custom agents, who allow him to leave. As Viktor leaves, seeing Amelia once more before taking a taxi, Dixon decides to finally not pursue him further. Meanwhile, Viktor arrives in New York at the hotel where Benny Golson is performing, and finally collects the last autograph. As he steps into a taxi and places the last signature into the can, he soon tells the driver, "I am going home.\ Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski, a Krakozhian immigrant temporarily living in a JFK Airport terminal.

Catherine Zeta-Jones as Amelia Warren, flight attendant Stanley Tucci as Frank Dixon, Director of Customs and Border Protection at JFK Chi McBride as Joe Mulroy, cargo handler and a friend of Viktor Diego Luna as Enrique Cruz, food service and a friend of Viktor Barry Shabaka Henley as Thurman, assistant to Dixon Kumar Pallana as Gupta Rajan, janitor and friend of Viktor hiding in America to avoid an arrest back in India Zoë Saldana as Dolores Torres, an immigration officer and Star Trek fan romanced by Enrique through Viktor Eddie Jones as Richard Salchak, Dixon's boss Jude Ciccolella as Karl Iverson, Viktor's construction supervisor Corey Reynolds as Waylin, a security officer Guillermo Diaz as Bobby Alima Rini Bell as Nadia Stephen Mendel as First Class Steward Valery Nikolaev as Milodragovich Michael Nouri as Max, Amelia's married boyfriend Benny Golson as himself The Terminal Production Some have noted that the film appears to be inspired by the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in Terminal One of the Charles de Gaulle airport, Paris from 1988 when his refugee papers were stolen until 2006 when he was hospitalized

 for unspecified ailments.

In September 2003, The New York Times noted that Spielberg bought the rights to Nasseri's life story as the basis for the film; and in September 2004 The Guardian noted Nasseri received thousands of dollars from the filmmakers. However, none of the studio's publicity materials mention Nasseri's story as an inspiration for the film. Steven Spielberg traveled around the world to find an actual airport that would let him film for the length of the production, but could not find one. The Terminal set was built in a massive hangar at the LA/Palmdale Regional Airport. The hangar, part of the U.S. Air Force Plant 42 complex was used to build the Rockwell International B-1B bomber. The set was built to full earthquake construction codes and was based on the Düsseldorf International Airport. The shape of both the actual terminal and the set viewed sideways is a cross section of an aircraft wing. The design of the set for The Terminal, as noted by Roger Ebert in his reviews and attested by Spielberg himself in a feature by Empire magazine, was greatly inspired by Jacques Tati's classic film Play Time.

Hanks based his characterization of Viktor Navorsky on his father-in-law Allan Wilson, a Bulgarian immigrant, who according to Hanks can speak "Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek, little a bit of Italian, little a bit of French", in addition to his native Bulgarian. Hanks also had some help from a Bulgarian translator named Peter Budevski. Everything functioned in the set as in real life. There was real food, ice cream and coffee in the appropriate outlets. The escalators were purchased from a department store that had gone bankrupt. Each of the outlets featured in the concourse building was actually sponsored by the real company. Many stores are seen and Viktor seeks a job at the Brookstone, La Perla and Discovery Channel stores, eats at the Burger King, buys his New York City guide book at Borders and buys his suit at Hugo Boss.

Enrique proposes to Dolores at Sbarro.[citation needed] Most exterior shots and those featuring actual aircraft were shot at Montréal–Mirabel International Airport: additional interior shots were also done there including the mezzanine overlooking the immigration desks and the baggage carousels directly behind them, the jetways showing Aéroports de Montréal signs, and many Air Transat planes in the background: New York is not one of their regular destinations. Additional pre-production shooting was done at Los Angeles International Airport and at Spielberg's offices at DreamWorks. Montreal is also mentioned on the loudspeaker at the beginning of the film, around the point where the customs officer tells Viktor to wait in a special line.[citation needed] The 747 was provided by United Airlines. The Star Alliance was a major sponsor and provided uniforms, equipment, and actors in addition to those cast. In spite of the heavy presence of the Star Alliance airlines, a Delta Air Lines pilot passes Viktor in a scene during the last five minutes of the film.[citation needed] The Terminal Reception Rotten Tomatoes reported that 61% of 198 sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it got a rating average of 6.2 out of 10.

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 55 based on 41 reviews. Michael Wilmington from the Chicago Tribune said "[the film] takes Spielberg into realms he's rarely traveled before." A. O. Scott of The New York Times said Hanks' performance brought a lot to the film. However, Joe Morgenstern from The Wall Street Journal thought that "The Terminal is a terminally fraudulent and all-but-interminable comedy." The film grossed $77,872,883 in North America and $141,544,372 in other territories, totaling $219,417,255 worldwide. The Terminal Krakozhia Krakozhia (Кракозия or Кракожия) is a fictional country, created for the film, that closely resembles a former Soviet Republic or Eastern Bloc state. The exact location of Krakozhia is kept intentionally vague in the film, keeping with the idea of Viktor being simply Eastern European or from a former Soviet Republic.

However in one of the scenes, a map of Krakozhia is briefly displayed on one of the airport's television screens during a news report on the ongoing conflict, and its borders are those of the Republic of Macedonia. The film presents a reasonably accurate picture of the process of naturalistic second-language acquisition, according to professional linguist Martha Young-Scholten. John Williams, the film's composer, also wrote a national anthem for Krakozhia. The Terminal References ^ a b c The Terminal at Box Office Mojo ^ a b Ethan Gilsdorf, Behind 'The Terminal,' a true story, The Christian Science Monitor, June 21, 2004. Retrieved December 5, 2010. ^ Duncan Walker, "Life in the lounge", BBC News Online Magazine, August 17, 2004 ^ Matthew Rose, "Waiting For Spielberg", The New York Times, September 21, 2003. Retrieved June 12, 2008. ^ Berczeller, Paul (September 6, 2004). "The man who lost his past". The Guardian. Retrieved May 5, 2007.

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Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport Airports Council International [2] [3] Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport ( IATA : CDG, ICAO : LFPG) ( French : Aéroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle), also known as Roissy Airport (or just Roissy in French), in the Paris area, is one of the world's principal aviation centres, as well as France 's main airport. It is named after Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic . It is located within portions of several communes , 25 km (16 mi) [1] to the north-east of Paris. The airport serves as the principal hub for Air France . In 2009, the airport handled 57,884,954 passengers [3] and 525,314 aircraft movements [2] , making it the world's sixth busiest airport in terms of passengers and Europe's busiest ( world's seventh busiest ) airport in terms of aircraft movements.

In terms of cargo traffic, the airport is the tenth busiest in the world , having handled 1,818,503 metric tonnes of cargo [4] . Contents Val-d'Oise département: communes of Roissy-en-France and Épiais-lès-Louvres Management of the airport is solely under the authority of Aéroports de Paris , which also manages Orly , Le Bourget , Marsa Alam in Egypt and several smaller airports in the suburbs of Paris. History The planning and construction phase of what was known then as Aéroport de Paris Nord (Paris North Airport) began in 1966. On 8 March 1974 the airport, renamed Charles de Gaulle Airport, began service. Terminal 1 was built to an avant-garde design of a ten-floor high circular building surrounded by seven satellite buildings each with four gates. The main architect was Paul Andreu , who was also in charge of the extensions during the following decades. The grassy lands on which the airport is located are notorious for rabbits and hares , which can be seen by airplane passengers at certain times of the day. The airport organises periodic hunts and captures to keep the population to manageable levels [5] .

Corporate identity The Frutiger typeface was commissioned for use in the airport and implemented on signs throughout the building in 1975. Initially called Roissy, it was renamed for its designer Adrian Frutiger . Until 2005, every PA announcement made at Terminal 1 was preceded by a distinctive chime, nicknamed "Indicatif Roissy" and composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1971. The chime can be heard in the Roman Polanski film Frantic . Although the chime was officially replaced by the "Indicatif ADP" chime in late 2005 there has recently been unconfirmed reports that Indicatif Roissy has since occasionally returned. Terminals Terminal 2 Hall F. Wide open spaces characterise Terminal 2. Aerial view of Terminal 1 The Airport has three terminals. Terminal 1 [6] is the oldest. Terminal 2 [7] was originally built exclusively for Air France , since then it had been expanded significantly and now also hosts other airlines. The third terminal (T3, formerly T9) hosts charter and low cost airlines. The CDGVAL is a light-rail shuttle that links the terminals, railway station and parking lots.

Started on 4 April 2007, the CDGVAL links all the three terminals (except hall 2G); although there is only a single station for Terminal 2, near the rail station, so the walk distance to the more distant halls 2A-2B is more than 500 m (1,600 ft) (and both CDGVAL and bus are needed to reach 2G from Terminal 1). Terminal 1 Has a single main building for check-in and baggage reclaim with 7 satellites for arrivals and departures. Each satellite can handle about 5 aircraft at any given time. Underground walkways with moving walkways connect the satellites to the main building. Terminal 1 was built to an avant-garde design which is maintained today even though interior sections of the building have been renovated and modernised. The RER station for Terminal 1 [8] , Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1, is at a distance from Terminal 1 must be reached using the free CDGVAL automatic light rail system ( Véhicule Automatique Léger (VAL); previously, shuttle buses were used.

Terminal 2 Today consists of multiple terminals joined together by ground-level or below ground passageways. The seven terminals consist of 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F and the separate 2G. Terminal 2G is located 2.5 km (1.6 mi) away from the terminals 2A-2F and a bus ride is needed for transfer. Terminal 2 also has an RER and TGV station, Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV , below the common area linking halls 2C-2F. Terminal 3 Has a single hall. It is located 1 km (0.62 mi) from Terminal 1, but the walking path is 3 km (1.9 mi) long. The RER and CDGVAL trains are at a distance of 300 m (980 ft) on foot. Collapse of Terminal 2E Terminal 2E, with a daring design and wide open spaces, was CDG's newest addition.

On 23 May 2004, not long after its inauguration, a portion of Terminal 2E's ceiling collapsed early in the day, near Gate E50, killing four people [9] . Two of the dead were reported to be Chinese citizens and another Czech . Three other people were injured in the collapse. Terminal 2E had been inaugurated in 2003 after some delays in construction and was designed by Paul Andreu . Administrative and judicial enquiries were started. Andreu also designed Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport , which collapsed while under construction on 28 September 2004. Before this accident, ADP had been planning for an initial public offering in 2005 with the new terminal as a major attraction for investors. The partial collapse and indefinite closing of the terminal just before the beginning of summer seriously hurt the airport's business plan. In February 2005, the results from the administrative inquiry were published. The experts pointed out that there was no single fault, but rather a number of causes for the collapse, in a design that had little margin for safety.

The enquiry found the concrete vaulted roof was not resilient enough and had been pierced by metallic pillars and some openings weakened the structure. Sources close to the enquiry also disclosed that the whole building chain had worked as close to the limits as possible, so as to reduce costs. Paul Andreu denounced the building companies for having not correctly prepared the reinforced concrete . On 17 March 2005, ADP decided to tear down and rebuild the whole part of Terminal 2E (the "jetty") of which a section had collapsed, at a cost of approximately €100 million [10] . The reconstruction replaced the innovative concrete tube style of the jetty with a more traditional steel and glass structure. During reconstruction, two temporary departure lounges were constructed in the vicinity of the terminal that replicated the capacity of 2E before the collapse. The terminal reopened completely on 30 March 2008. Expansion plans 2007–2012 Apart from the reconstruction of Terminal 2E, two major terminal extensions are underway as of 2008.

The completion of 750 m (2,460 ft) long Satellite 3 (or S3) to the immediate east of Terminals 2E and 2F provides further jetways for large capacity airliners, specifically the Airbus A380 . Check-in and baggage handling are provided by the existing infrastructure in Terminals 2E and 2F. Satellite 3 was opened in part on 27 June 2007 and fully operational in September 2007. A similar in size and scope Satellite 4 is planned to open in 2012 to provide additional capacity [11] . Construction began on a new terminal building, Terminal 2G, to the east of the S3 construction site in September 2006 with the first stone of the new building itself laid in March 2007. This terminal was in operation in March 2009. It is connected to the Terminal 2 complex by shuttle buses and eventually an extension of the CDGVAL shuttle train service.

2G is used for passengers flying in the Schengen Area (and thus has no passport control) and handles Air France regional and European traffic and provides small capacity planes (up to 150 passengers) with a faster turn-around time than is currently possible by enabling them to park close to the new terminal building and boarding passengers primarily by bus, or walk on the ground. Its bus connection is outside the security area and a security check is needed also for transfer passengers. At least 20 minutes must be planned as time when getting from another terminal to the 2G departure area. Future use of Terminal 2 by Air France constantly evolves thanks to the development and opening of the S3 complex and the new 2G section of Terminal 2. On 30 March 2008, the reopening of Terminal 2E was completed allowing maximum passenger activity and full airport services. Air France operations are now concentrated at Terminals 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F and 2G and it has ceased operating from Terminals 2A and 2B. Terminal 3 is not directly connected to the others, and there is a more than five-minute walk from the tram station.

Airlines and destinations CDG is connected to Paris, as well as the rest of France and Europe by both the RER , Paris' suburban rail network, and the TGV high-speed national rail network. RER CDG airport is connected to Paris by the RER B suburban route. Normally there are two types of services: 4 times per hour to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse calling at all stations to Cité Universitaire , then Bourg-la-Reine , La Croix de Berny , Antony , Massy – Palaiseau and then all stations to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and 4 times per hour to Massy – Palaiseau (on the Saint-Rémy line), first stop Gare du Nord and then all stations to Massy – Palaiseau. The fast services take about 30 minutes to the Gare du Nord, the stopping services about 35.

There are two RER B stations inside the airport: one, called Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1 , is located inside Roissypôle (an area with hotels and company offices) next to Terminal 3 and is the preferred way to access Terminals 1 and 3; the other, called Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV , is located beside the TGV station under Terminal 2. RER B both serves CDG airport (with a travelling clientele) as well as northern suburbs of Paris. The line, operated by SNCF , suffers from slowness and saturation. For these reasons, French authorities have started two projects: one, CDG Express [13] (opening between 2012 and 2015), will link CDG to Paris Gare de l'Est with trains specifically designed for air travellers; the other, RER B Nord Plus [14] , will modernise and streamline the northern branches of RER B. TGV Terminal 2 includes a TGV station on the LGV Interconnexion Est high-speed line.

SNCF operates direct TGV services to several French stations from CDG, including Le Havre , Angers , Avignon , Bordeaux , Dijon , Grenoble , Le Mans , Lille , Arras , Lyon , Marseilles , Montpellier , Nantes , Nîmes , Poitiers , Angoulême , Rennes , Strasbourg , Toulouse , Tours and Valence . Bus Roissybus, operated by RATP , departs from terminals 1 and 2 and goes non-stop to Paris, behind the Palais Garnier . There is a bus and coach station in Roissypôle, next to the RER B station. Buses departing from this station include RATP lines 350 and 351 going to Paris and the bus going to the Parc Astérix . Alternative airports The two other airports serving Paris are Orly Airport (the most important after CDG) and Le Bourget Airport (for general aviation and private jets ). Some low-cost airlines also advertise Beauvais-Tillé Airport as being serving Paris, using the name Paris-Beauvais to designate it.

Accidents and incidents On 25 July 2000, a Concorde , Air France Flight 4590 from Charles de Gaulle to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, crashed into the farthest hotel of Hotelissimo in Gonesse killing everyone on the aircraft and four people on the ground. Investigations concluded that a tire burst occurred on take off due to metal left on the runway from a previously departing aircraft. The Concorde was on operating a charter flight for a German tour company. Other accidents and incidents involving CDG include: On 25 May 2000, a freight-carrying Short SH36 (operated as Streamline flight 200), departing to Luton, England, collided on the runway with departing Air Liberte flight 8807, an MD-83 jet. The first officer of the SH36 was killed when the wing tip of the MD-83 tore through his side of the flight deck. The captain was slightly injured and all others aboard survived.

On 2 August 2005, a A340-300 , Air France Flight 358 from Charles de Gaulle to Toronto Pearson International Airport , made a successful landing during a thunderstorm but overran the runway crashing in a gully; all 309 passengers including crew members survived the crash. On 1 June 2009, an A330-200 , Air France Flight 447 , departed Rio de Janeiro for Charles de Gaulle. The plane's computers transmitted messages stating that it had experienced various failures. Wreckage of the aircraft was found 370 miles off the coast of Brazil on 2 June 2009; all 228 people on board were presumed dead. 1983: Avianca Flight 011 , bound from CDG to Bogotá via Madrid, crashed near Madrid. 1989: UTA Flight 772 , bound for CDG from Brazzaville-N'Djamena, crashed when a bomb placed inside a luggage exploded when the aircraft was flying in Niger .

1996: TWA Flight 800 , bound for CDG, exploded soon after takeoff and crashed off the coast of Long Island . 2004: Flash Airlines Flight 604 , bound for CDG, crashed into the Red Sea . Trivia Mehran Karimi Nasseri On 26 August 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri found himself held at Charles de Gaulle airport by immigration. He claimed he was a refugee, but had had his refugee papers stolen. After years of bureaucratic wrangling, it was concluded that Nasseri had entered the airport legally and could not be expelled from its walls; but since he had no papers, there was no country to deport him to either, leaving him in residential limbo. Nasseri continued to live within the confines of the airport until 2006, even though French authorities had since made it possible for him to leave if he so wished [15] . Nasseri was the possible inspiration for the 2004 film The Terminal . In July 2006 he was hospitalised and later taken care of by charities; he did not return to the airport.

Appearances in films and other works In the video of the U2 song " Beautiful Day " the band can be seen walking through the airport. The cover photo for their album All That You Can't Leave Behind was also taken there. The airport tarmac was used in the Disneyland Resort Paris attraction film The Timekeeper ( Le Visionarium ), featuring an Air France Concorde and a Union des Transports Aériens McDonnell Douglas DC-10 . Many scenes were filmed at the airport for the film The Concorde ... Airport '79 . The distinctive escalator tubes of Terminal 1 are featured in the films Private Benjamin and French Kiss and are used as the backdrop of the album cover for I Robot by The Alan Parsons Project . The check-in area of Terminal 2F is a favourite film location for French directors and can frequently be seen in French films that require an airport location. The film Décalage Horaire (Jet Lag) is set primarily at the airport and a nearby hotel. The movie Frantic features a scene in terminal one when Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Seigner pick up lost baggage. The movie Rush Hour 3 features Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker arriving from Terminal 2F and they get anally searched by French authorities.

The movie Taken has a few scenes taking place in Terminal 2. Photography restrictions On 7 November 2005, prefectoral decision 05-4979 was issued, relating specifically to Charles de Gaulle airport. The article 32-5 prohibits photographs being taken for private use of anything moving (e.g. aircraft) or not moving (e.g. buildings) within the "zone reservée" (the restricted area) from the "zone publique" (the public area) [16] . Thus, for example, one is prohibited from taking pictures from the glassed-in jetways while boarding or debarking; however, it is allowed to take pictures inside one's aircraft or terminal.

See also 10 Most Bizarre People on Earth (weird people, bizarre people) - ODDEE 10 Most Bizarre People on Earth 12/6/2006 1 Ngoc: three decades without sleep Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. "I don't know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I'm still healthy and can farm normally like others," Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said, "My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down." She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function.

Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish. 2 Bhagat: had his twin brother on his stomach Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. iving in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry. Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out.

Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene. 3 Yokoi: spent 28 years hidden after WWII Shoichi Yokoi was a soldier, conscripted into the Imperial Japanese Army in 1941 and sent to Guam shortly thereafter. In 1944, as American forces reconquered the island, Yokoi went into hiding. On January 24, 1972, Yokoi was discovered in a remote section of Guam by two of the island's inhabitants.

For 28 years he had been hiding in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive," he said upon his return to Japan, carrying his rusted rifle at his side. 4 Mehran: lives at the Airport since 1988 Mehran Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran (yes, including the comma), is an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988. After he was later imprisoned, tortured and expelled from his country, he applied for asylum in many European countries without luck. When he decided to go to the United Kingdom, he claimed that he was mugged, and his shoulder bag stolen while waiting at the RER platform to go to Charles de Gaulle Airport to take a flight to Heathrow. Nasseri managed to board the plane, but when he arrived at Heathrow without the necessary documentation, Heathrow officials sent him back to Charles de Gaulle.

Nasseri was unable to prove his identity or his refugee status to the French officials and so he was moved to the Zone d'attente (waiting zone), a holding area for travellers without papers. Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the 2004 movie The Terminal. Unlike Tom Hanks' character in the movie, and since at least 1994, Nasseri does not live in the duty-free transit area but simply in the departure hall, in the circular boutiques and restaurants passage on the lowest floor. He can at least theoretically leave the terminal at any moment, although, since everyone knows him, his departure might not remain unnoticed. He does not seem to speak with anyone normally. With his cart and bags, he almost looks like a traveler, so people either do not notice him or ignore him as if he were a homeless person. 5 Mitsuo: a japanese Jesus Christ Matayoshi Mitsuo is an eccentric Japanese politician with the conviction that he is the God and Christ.According to his program, he will do the Last Judgement as the Christ but the way to do this is totally within the current political system and its legitimacy. His first step as the Savior is to be appointed the prime minister of Japan.

Then he will reform Japanese society and then the United Nations should offer him the honor of its General Secretary. Then Matayoshi Jesus will reign over the whole world with two legitimate authorities, not only religious but also political. He has presented himself in many elections but he has not won yet. He has become well-known for his eccentric campaigns where he urges opponents to commit suicide by hara-kiri. 6 Bihari: most officially dead person Lal Bihari (born 1961) is a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, India who was officially dead from 1976 to 1994. He founded Mritak Sangh or the Association of the Dead in Uttar Pradesh, India. He fought Indian government bureaucracy for 18 years to prove that he is alive. When Lal Bihari tried to apply for a bank loan in 1976, he found out that he was officially dead. His uncle had bribed a government official to register him as dead so he would get the ownership of Bihari's land. Bihari discovered at least 100 other people in a similar situation, being officially dead. He formed Mritak Sangh in the Azamgarh district.

He and many other members were in danger of being killed by those who had appropriated their property. Nowadays the association has over 20,000 members all over India. By 2004 they had managed to declare four of their members alive. In 2004 he ran for a seat in the parliament of Lal Ganj. 7 Icke: our salvation from Reptilian Humanoids David Icke, is a former professional football player, BBC television sports presenter, and British Green Party national spokesperson. Since 1990, he has been what he calls a "full-time investigator into who and what is really controlling the world.": reptilians. He dresses only in turquoise and sustains that the world was ruled by a secret group called "The Elite": a race of reptilian humanoids, known in ancient times as the Babylonian Brotherhood, and that many prominent people are descended from them, including George W. Bush, Queen Elizabeth II, and Kris Kristofferson. He believes that descendants of the reptiles engage in child molestation and Satanism. He is the author of 15 books explaining his views.

After a five-hour speech to students, he received a standing ovation at the University of Toronto in 1999. 8 Bawden: the self-elected Pope Michael I, from Kansas David Allen Bawden (born 1959), is an American citizen who was elected "Pope Michael I" by a group of six Conclavist or post-Sedevacantist Catholics, arguing that the elections of the last 6 popes were invalid because they are all modernists. Sedevacantists argue that if the College of Cardinals will not or cannot elect a valid pope, ordinary Catholics can do so, under the principle of "Epikeia" (Equity). Acting on the basis of this, David Bawden was elected Pope by six people on 1990 (including himself and his parents). He is still on the job to this day. 9 Nakamatsu: photographed and analyzed every meal for 34 years Yoshiro Nakamatsu (born June 26, 1928), a.k.a. Dr.

NakaMats, is the Japanese inventor claiming to hold the world record for number of inventions with over 3,000, including the floppy disk and "PyonPyon" spring shoes. He has being photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting). The goal of Nakamatsu is to live over 140 years old. 10 Lotito: mister eat-it-all Michel Lotito (born June 15, 1950) is a French entertainer. Lotito, who was born in Grenoble, is famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all). Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since 1966.

Lotito does not often suffer from ill-effects due to his diet, even after the consumption of materials usually considered poisonous. When performing he consumes around a kilogram of material daily, preceding it with mineral oil and drinking considerable quantities of water during the 'meal'. He apparently possesses a stomach and intestine with walls of twice the expected thickness, and his digestive acids are, allegedly, unusually powerful, allowing him to digest a certain portion of his metallic meals. From the Web

Question: Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of the Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 until 2006 may have been the inspiration behind what 2004 movie?
Answer: The Terminal