Friedrich Nietzsche | The thought of | underlies much 20th century analysis of power. Nietzsche disseminated idea ... |
John McFarlane | ... ald Gracie, shipping magnate and business tycoon in USA, was from Dumfries. | , CEO of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) originates ... |
Jason Priestley | ... was based on the adjustment and culture shock that twins Brandon (played by | ) and Brenda Walsh (played by Shannen Doherty) experienced when they and t ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... y successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and | whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers. Shaffer was to ... |
Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
Henry Tudor | ... brother, Richard, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against | at Bosworth Field |
Johannes Matthias Sperger | ... ozeluch, Anton Zimmermann, Antonio Capuzzi, Wenzel Pichl (2 concertos), and | (18 concertos). While many of these names were leading figures to the musi ... |
Clive James | ... llander wrote a poem titled in his book, . It ends with Chomsky's sentence. | wrote a poem titled "A Line and a Theme from Noam Chomsky" in his book, . ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ysis represented a key means of identifying the bodies. A blood sample from | (a grandson of Alexandra's oldest sister, Princess Victoria of Hesse and b ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... Theatre. Until 1950, she also worked in the same theatre in other plays by | , Arthur Miller, Philip Jordan and André Roussin. She then moved to Paris, ... |
Albert Einstein | ... time or lived in Halesite include comedian/singer Fanny Brice and scientist | |
Magdi Yacoub | ... Harpenden, Herts in January 1979, which led to a heart bypass operation by | in June 1979. After the heart attack, Morecambe asked Yacoub what would ha ... |
Jarno Trulli | ... r drivers. Senna had been a part of the latter in 1985. Michael Schumacher, | , Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso and many others faced the likes of D ... |
Elissa Landi | ... Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, Charles Laughton as Nero, and | as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus falls in love |
Wayne Gretzky | ... lar-season success continued into the playoffs, as the Flyers swept a young | and his Edmonton Oilers in the first round, then went on to get revenge ag ... |
Rex Harrison | ... in 1930 and 1948. The latter was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring | , Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell. The screenplay was by Philip Dunne |
Barbara Amiel | ... cated. Following these revelations and others, Trevor-Roper told journalist | in 1995 that he was no longer certain about the allegations, and that Bern ... |
Greg Bear | The setting for | 's City at the End of Time is one hundred trillion years in the future and ... |
Radosław Sikorski | Poland's foreign minister, | , delivered a speech on 28 November 2011 in Berlin, in which he emphatical ... |
John Lydon | ... s in favor of dense, repetitive dub- and krautrock-inspired soundscapes and | 's cryptic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. The year before Metal Box was ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... me a Top 10 Hit. The group was asked to open for many rock tours, including | and The Doors |
Paul Tillich | ... has been advocated by many theologians Immanuel Kant, Hastings Rashdall and | . It remains the most popular view of atonement among liberal Christians. ... |
Herbert C. Hoover | The 1928 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate | made his only southern campaign stop at Elizabethton and delivered his nat ... |
Tom Cruise | ... iro and Cuba Gooding Jr.; the 2002 drama Hysterical Blindness; and the 2005 | science fiction film War of the Worlds, which opens at the Bayonne home of ... |
Daniel C. Tsui | ... rst Störmer and former Bell Laboratories researchers Robert B. Laughlin and | ; they consequently won a Nobel Prize in 1998 for the discovery. In 1983, ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... February 1, 1956 and commanded by Major General John B. Medaris with Doctor | |
Christian Bale | ... itol and surrounding area for use in the 2009 film Public Enemies featuring | and Johnny Depp |
Charles Laughton | ... ng Fredric March as centurion Marcus Superbus, Claudette Colbert as Poppea, | as Nero, and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Christian woman with whom Marcus ... |
Fernando Alonso | ... f the latter in 1985. Michael Schumacher, Jarno Trulli, Rubens Barrichello, | and many others faced the likes of Dunga, Careca, Taffarel and several of ... |
Merckx, Eddy | ... ut - Meetjesland - Meeuwen-Gruitrode - Melle - Menen - Mercator, Gerardus - | - Merelbeke - Merksplas - Mertens, Pierre - Mesen - Meulebeke - Meuse-Infé ... |
Elvis Costello | ... ing Big Star, The Clash, The Who, Led Zeppelin,The Kinks, Pink Floyd, Rush, | , Television, Motown and flamenco records, AC/DC, Hank Williams, Scorpions ... |
Stewart Granger | In 1950 she married the English actor | , with whom she appeared in several films, successfully making the transit ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | The Skin Game was adapted and directed by | in 1931. It starred C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, Jo ... |
Woody Guthrie | In 1941, the BPA hired Oklahoma folksinger | to write songs for a documentary film promoting the benefits of hydropower ... |
Franz Beckenbauer | ... aptain of the German football squad in 1958. The other four are Uwe Seeler, | , Lothar Matthäus and |
Terry Pratchett | ... e End and is buried in Little Marlow. Modern-day writers from Bucks include | who was born in Beaconsfield, Tim Rice who is from Amersham and who is fro ... |
Charlotte Auerbach | ... a spontaneous variant arising in a colony of mice maintained by geneticist | . Histopathological studies in the 1960s revealed that the cerebellum of r ... |
Otto Preminger | ... n career. She made four films for Hughes, including Angel Face, directed by | . According to David Thomson "if she had made only one film – Angel Face – ... |
Kim Campbell | ... r B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University; Joe Clark and | , who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell wor ... |
Lothar Matthäus | ... n football squad in 1958. The other four are Uwe Seeler, Franz Beckenbauer, | and |
Shinji Ono | ... yenoord opened a fanshop in the center of Tokyo, Japan when Japanese player | was a key player at the club, and also in South Korea when Song Chong-Gug ... |
Alan García | ... 1990, he reached the position of Secretary General after the resignation of | . He was also Prime Minister from 1985 until 1987, when serious disputes w ... |
Gene Vincent | ... cluding Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, | , Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis |
Joe Jackson | ... rn in Portsmouth, Mick Jones, founder of Foreigner, was born in Portsmouth, | , musician and singer–songwriter, Paul Jones, vocalist of Manfred Mann, Di ... |
John Ericson | ... esidents are inexplicably hostile. The young hotel desk clerk, Pete Wirth ( | ), claims he has no vacant rooms. The newcomer is none-too-subtly threaten ... |
Ann-Margret | Others who have covered the song include | , who would later co-star with Presley in the 1964 motion picture Viva Las ... |
Alan García | ... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President | |
Wenzel Pichl | ... meister (3 concertos), Leopold Kozeluch, Anton Zimmermann, Antonio Capuzzi, | (2 concertos), and Johannes Matthias Sperger (18 concertos). While many of ... |
M.I.A. | ... Kim, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Da Brat, Eve, Trina, Nicki Minaj, Khia, | , Foxy Brown, and Lisa Lopes from TLC. As these all are hearing rap artist ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... n a cabin (which he dubbed "Marin-an") outside Mill Valley, California with | . It was also at this time that Snyder was an occasional student at the Am ... |
Yoko Ono | ... ein in France, and Carolee Schneemann, Yayoi Kusama, Charlotte Moorman, and | in New York City were pioneers of performance based works of art. Groups l ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... cal, Tsiolkovsky influenced later rocket scientists throughout Europe, like | . Russian search teams at Peenemünde found a German translation of a book ... |
Stevie Wright | ... ed Mulry Gang, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Ol' 55, Mark Holden, Lyndon Hart, | , John Paul Young, Helen Reddy, Redgum, Hot City Bump Band, Jo Jo Zep & Th ... |
Natsume Sōseki | As an author, he studied under | , who was a teacher at his high school in Kumamoto. Terada is best known f ... |
Douglas Campbell | ... s on television. The 1957 film version, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, starred | as Oedipus, and had the cast performing the entire play in masks, as in an ... |
Stewart Granger | ... k Organisation who vetoed the idea. Rank was unhappy at this time also that | was pursuing his young star and, (according to the actor's account), confr ... |
Phineas Gage | ... ften said that when an iron rod was accidentally driven through the head of | in 1848, this constituted an "accidental lobotomy", or that this event som ... |
Tim Berners-Lee | The Semantic Web as described by | is one example of the many attempts over many decades to define standards ... |
Donald McIntyre | ... nd musicians performing at home and abroad include Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Sir | , Simon O'Neill, Jonathan Lemalu, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Anna Leese, Dame Malv ... |
Theodore Schwan | Holbrook served with General | 's Southern Expedition from January 3 to February 18, 1900, and was at the ... |
Jules Dassin | ... nnes Film Festival, where she met for first time the American film director | , with whom she would share her life, as they got married in 1966, and car ... |
Marx's | ... entialist Jean-Paul Sartre—this meant the recovery of the humanist roots of | thought, and the opening of a dialogue between Marxists and moderate socia ... |
Elvis Presley | ... he first Australian rock star, who rose to fame by imitating Americans like | and Little Richard. O'Keefe and other "first wave" bands were popular unti ... |
Rex Harrison | ... Wisdom appeared at a charity concert at the Cheltenham Town Hall, the actor | came backstage and urged him to become a professional entertainer |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... cently been called "The Platinum Rule" Philosophers, such as Immanuel Kant, | , and , have objected to the rule on a variety of grounds. The most seriou ... |
William Wyler | ... rl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran | . Streisand won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role, shar ... |
Chiura Obata | ... o study Asian culture and languages. He studied ink and wash painting under | and Tang Dynasty poetry under Ch'en Shih-hsiang. Snyder continued to spend ... |
Paul Shaffer | ... iters and crew members of the show. Common contributors included bandleader | , Chris Elliott, Calvert DeForest as "Larry 'Bud' Melman," announcer Bill ... |
L. Sprague de Camp | ... historical novel The Mask of Apollo (1966). He also features prominently in | 's historical novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965) as a patron of inventors ... |
F. W. Murnau | ... e was lost in a studio vault fire. Flaherty then agreed to collaborate with | on another South Seas picture, Tabu, but this combination proved even more ... |
Lew Grade | ... ly a child audience. Henson was finally able to convince British impresario | to finance the show, which would be shot in the United Kingdom and syndica ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... oika') in the Communist Party, playing a key role in the marginalization of | . The triumvirate carefully managed the intra-party debate and delegate se ... |
John Gorrie | In 1842, an American physician, | , designed the first system to refrigerate water to produce ice. He also c ... |
Leopold Kozeluch | ... eriod include Johann Baptist Vanhal, Franz Anton Hoffmeister (3 concertos), | , Anton Zimmermann, Antonio Capuzzi, Wenzel Pichl (2 concertos), and Johan ... |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... ted by large distances to talk to each other. Developed in the mid-1870s by | and others, the telephone has long been considered indispensable to busine ... |
Horst Köhler | ... the Ministry of Defence to decide on the matter. On 6 March 2008, President | approved a proposal by Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung to institute a ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... made his TV debut the same year and was soon commanding enormous audiences. | called Wisdom his "favourite clown" |
Nikola Tesla | ... tor by Frank J. Sprague and accelerated after the AC motor was developed by | (Westinghouse) and others. Electrification of factories was fastest betwee ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... has hosted nationally known entertainers such as Gwen Stefani, Rob Zombie, | , Josh Groban, and Bob Dylan. The annual Apollo Night talent show draws ab ... |
Andrew Carnegie | Dunfermline's most famous son is the entrepreneur and philanthropist, | who was born in the town in 1835. Among the gifts he gave to his home town ... |
Władysław Anders | In 1943 the Polish II Corps, commanded by | , arrived in Palestine from Iraq. The British insisted that no Jewish unit ... |
David Bowie | ... the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by Willem Dafoe and | . |
Oscar Wilde | He befriended | in Paris, and in 1895 Gide and Wilde met in Algiers. There, Wilde had the ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | The philosopher | is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ... |
Sidney Bechet | ... moved to New Orleans, where he studied with Lorenzo Tio and with the young | , who was only 13 at the time. By 1912, he was playing professionally with ... |
Karl Marx | ... c sociology, political sociology, and the sociology of religion. Along with | and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of mode ... |
Liev Schreiber | ... lays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co-stars as Ophelia, Laertes by | , Uncle Claudius by Kyle MacLachlan, and Polonius by Bill Murray |
Jacques Derrida | ... tempt to view history as a process without a subject garnered sympathy from | ; historical materialism was defended as a coherent doctrine from the stan ... |
Claes Oldenburg | ... disconnected acts. Allan Kaprow, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, | , Jim Dine, Red Grooms, and Robert Whitman among others were notable creat ... |
Elvis Presley | ... movies: Ride Beyond Vengeance, Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding, and two of | 's movies, Clambake, and Speedway. He turned down the role as Marlo Thomas ... |
Yul Brynner | ... Hanighen) for the 1946 Broadway musical Lute Song, starring Mary Martin and | |
Suzi Quatro | ... Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, | , Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Diamond, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Guns N' Roses |
Leon Trotsky | ... mless crimes. Following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution led by V.I. Lenin and | , Russia became the 1st nation to legalize homosexuality. The new Bolshevi ... |
John Surtees | Curiously, Ferrari won the 1964 World championship with | by competing the last two races in North America with cars painted in the ... |
Henry VII | ... e best inn in Stamford. David somehow secured the favour of the first Tudor | , to whom he seems to have been Yeoman of the Guard. He was Sergeant-of-Ar ... |
John Colter | ... he late 18th century, leaving French toponyms such as Téton, La Ramie, etc. | , a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, itself guided by French Cana ... |
Willem Dafoe | ... ntius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by | and David Bowie. |
Nikola Tesla | ... h neighboring village Shoreham, was also the home to inventor and scientist | 's early research facilities |
John Graham Mellor | ... 's future members were active in different parts of the London music scene. | sang and played rhythm guitar in the pub rock act The 101'ers, which forme ... |
Lee Boyd Malvo | ... purportedly under mind control, including Patty Hearst, Steven Fishman and | , have not been successful |
Stanley Kubrick | ... riginal score written by the film composer. One of the most famous cases is | 's , where Kubrick opted for existing recordings of classical works, inclu ... |
Claudette Colbert | ... The Sign of the Cross, starring Fredric March as centurion Marcus Superbus, | as Poppea, Charles Laughton as Nero, and Elissa Landi as Mercia, the Chris ... |
Anthony Quinn | ... ans of Irish descent are: Romulo O'Farril, Juan O'Gorman, Edmundo O'Gorman, | , Alejo Bay (Governor of the state of Sonora), Famed Conductor Felix Carra ... |
Michael East | Notable people famous in sports known for being born in Portsmouth such as | , a Commonwealth Games gold medal winning athlete, Richard Harwood cellist ... |
Carl Foreman | ... us directors as well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Ronald Neame, | , Norman Jewison, and starred in films like Spanish language The Uninhibit ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he visit would prove of benefit to Jews, Hearst visited Berlin to interview | . Hitler asked why he was so misunderstood by the American press. "Because ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... when British attacks had become more effective than earlier in the battle. | , then a Gefreiter of the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, fought in the Bat ... |
Johann Baptist Vanhal | ... bass. Other composers that have written concertos from this period include | , Franz Anton Hoffmeister (3 concertos), Leopold Kozeluch, Anton Zimmerman ... |
Ezra Pound | ... the Poetic Edda include Vilhelm Ekelund, August Strindberg, J.R.R. Tolkien, | and Karin Boye |
Frédéric Chopin | The works of some composers, especially | , may contain long series of notes printed in the small type reserved for ... |
Narendra Karmarkar | ... , the Karmarkar Linear Programming Algorithm was developed by mathematician | . Also in 1984, a divestiture agreement signed in 1982 with the American F ... |
Louis Agassiz | ... ntly recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, | and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Scie ... |
Norman Jewison | ... s well, such as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Ronald Neame, Carl Foreman, | , and starred in films like Spanish language The Uninhibited by Juan Anton ... |
Bob Nystrom | ... acing the Islanders for the Cup, the Flyers ultimately lost in six games on | 's overtime Cup-winning goal. The end result of the series was marred by c ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Davenport) is concerned about the "crisis" in Europe, the growing power of | and Nazi Germany, and the inability of celebrated foreign correspondents i ... |
Franz Schubert | ... phenomenon, Irrlicht, has been the name of a song by the classical composer | in his song cycle Winterreise. Additionally, the first solo album of elect ... |
Napoleon I | ... as a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against | at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the Battle of Water ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ncastrian line had virtually been extinguished, and the only rival left was | , who was living in exile |
Shannon's | ... encryption algorithm) is infeasible – i.e., would take too long to execute. | work on information theory showed that to achieve so called perfect secrec ... |
Robbie Williams | ... ristie, Utah Saints, Ministry of Sound, Craig David, George Michael, KMFDM, | and |
Otto Neurath | ... s efficiently in order to satisfy human needs. Socialist intellectuals like | had realised that in a completely socialised economy, prices would not exi ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... om novels, religion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially | , T. S. Eliot, and (and other Russian novelists) |
Jason Priestley | ... fall. Viewership increased dramatically and the cast members, particularly | and Luke Perry, became teen idols, while the series would make actresses S ... |
César Pelli | The Overture Center for the Arts, designed by Argentina-born architect | , and led by Flad Architects and Potter Lawson (Madison-based firms) as ex ... |
Philemon Wright | ... al Region. It was founded on the north shore of the Ottawa River in 1800 by | at the portage around the Chaudière Falls just upstream (or west) from whe ... |
Stewart Granger | Jean Simmons was married and divorced twice. She married | in Tucson, Arizona, on 20 December, 1950. In 1956 she and Granger became U ... |
Paul Gascoigne | ... famous song, "Fog on the Tyne" (1971), was covered by Geordie ex-footballer | in 1990. Venom, reckoned by many to be the originators of black metal and ... |
David Rappaport | Semi-regulars were dwarf actor | who played characters such as 'Green Nigel' (in a pastiche of BBC programm ... |
John Batman | In September 1829, | (aged 28), with the assistance of several "Sydney blacks" he brought to Ta ... |
Claes Oldenburg | ... champ, the rebellious Dadaist — with a sense of humor; and Pop Artists like | , Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and the others |
Frank Oz | ... becoming typecast as a purveyor of solely children's entertainment, Henson, | , and his team targeted an adult audience with a series of sketches on the ... |
Walter Damrosch | ... e composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with | conducting the New York Philharmonic |
Samuel Noah Kramer | ... g the annual Akitu (New Year) ceremony, at the spring Equinox. According to | in The Sacred Marriage Rite, in late Sumerian history (end of the third mi ... |
Albert Bierstadt | ... nt works by late 19th and early 20th century artists. Notable among them is | , who was well known for interpreting the towering grandeur of Yosemite an ... |
Bruno Senna | Ayrton was the uncle of Formula One driver | (Viviane's son), of whom he said in 1993: "If you think I'm fast, just wai ... |
Coco Lee | ... or cello played by Yo-Yo Ma. The "last track" (A Love Before Time) features | . The music for the entire film was produced in two weeks |
William Bradford | ... ch of land between the Manomet and the Scusset rivers for potential routes. | established the trading post of Aptuxcet in 1627 at the portage between th ... |
Anthony Hopkins | In 1988 she starred in The Dawning with | and Hugh Grant, and in 1989 she again starred in a mini-series, this time ... |
Rhys Chatham | ... June 1981. Each night three to five acts performed, including Glenn Branca, | , Rudolph Grey, Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day, Off Beach and others |
Lawrence Alloway | The term "Pop Art" was used by | to describe paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World War II ... |
Eric Idle | Next there was a comedy interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe ( | , Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My ... |
Albert Einstein | ... nics. He strongly disagreed with Niels Bohr's instrumentalism and supported | 's realist approach to scientific theories about the universe. Popper's fa ... |
Vivian Campbell | ... nie James Dio also wrote the song "Stars" for the Hear 'n Aid project, with | contributing on guitar. Campbell became unhappy with the direction of the ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... served alongside the Heer (regular army) but was never formally part of it. | resisted integrating the Waffen-SS into the army, as it was to remain the ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... per proprietor Twiggy Rathbone (who bore more than a passing resemblance to | ) and his editor, Russell Spam |
Yo-Yo Ma | ... ercussion Ensemble. It also features many solo passages for cello played by | . The "last track" (A Love Before Time) features Coco Lee. The music for t ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... ion and philosophy. He liked classic literature, especially Samuel Beckett, | , and (and other Russian novelists) |
Marcel Duchamp | ... schenberg and Jasper Johns as part of the transitional phase, influenced by | , between modernism and postmodernism. Both these artists used images of o ... |
Yoichiro Nambu | ... omposed of three up quarks with parallel spins. In 1965, Moo-Young Han with | and Oscar W. Greenberg independently resolved the problem by proposing tha ... |
Jason Priestley | ... e of Blossom (and to a lesser extent, Joey's brothers, Matthew and Andrew), | and Luke Perry of Beverly Hills, 90210 fame, and Erik Von Detten of variou ... |
Karl Marx's | ... rk of Althusser and his students in an intensive philosophical rereading of | Capital. The book reflects on the philosophical status of Marxist theory a ... |
Chopin | ... tor Seiji Ozawa. Since 1999 the pianist Fujiko Hemming, who plays Liszt and | , has been famous and her CDs have sold millions of copies. Japan is also ... |
Gilberto Gil | In 2004, the minister of culture | submitted to Unesco an application for declaring samba as a Cultural Herit ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
Charles Simonyi | Richard Brodie, | , and David Luebbert, members of the Microsoft Word development team, deve ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... interlude with members of the Monty Python troupe (Eric Idle, Terry Jones, | along with Neil Innes) performing "Sit on My Face". Then Michael Palin cam ... |
Jacob Schiff | ... g expedition in London, the Japanese Vice-Governor of the Bank of Japan met | , a Jewish-American banker and head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Schiff was sympath ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... Award nominated novel written in collaboration between the English authors | and Neil Gaiman |
Alfred Tarski | ... pondence. Then came the semantic theory of truth formulated by the logician | and published in 1933. Popper writes of learning in 1935 of the consequenc ... |
Anthony Quinn | ... o also has a large number of people of Irish ancestry, among them the actor | . There are also monuments in Mexico City paying tribute to those Irish wh ... |
JK Galbraith | Power may be held through | summarises the types of power as being "Condign" (based on force), "Compen ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... roved the killing: Yitzhak Yezernitsky (the future Prime Minister of Israel | ), Nathan Friedmann (also called Natan Yellin-Mor) and Yisrael Eldad (also ... |
Stevie Wonder | ... she was inspired by a number of performers. These include Michael Jackson, | , Sade, En Vogue, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Prince, Naughty by Nature, Johnny ... |
René Descartes | ... ason to reject the concept of 'absolute' omnipotence, while others, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem |
Marx's | Althusser's contention is that | thought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ... |
Paul Hindemith | ... the Dead, Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung, Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and | 's Cardillac |
Lew Grade | During its ATV days, the chairman of the station | , was said to have taken a personal dislike to the show but was persuaded ... |
Hermann Oberth | ... and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German | and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the foun ... |
Mary Shelley | ... a book called The Horse And His Boy after the events related in the novel. | 's Frankenstein at one point features the narration of an Arctic explorer, ... |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... s founded by one of the best military engineers of the time, Polish General | . It was manned by a small garrison of Continental soldiers through the en ... |
Ezra Pound | ... in Paris in March 1928. Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: | , W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met wi ... |
Béla Bartók | ... sed by Ernő Lendvaï, in his analysis of the use of tonality in the music of | . Tritone relations are also important in the music of George Crumb. Georg ... |
Tilo Wolff | Lacrimosa is a duo led by German | , the main composer, and Finnish Anne Nurmi, currently based in Switzerlan ... |
Igor Gouzenko | Following the 1945 defection of Soviet cipher clerk, | and his revelations of espionage, the RCMP Security Service implemented me ... |
George Brecht | ... age's students included Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, | and Dick Higgins |
Mile-a-Minute Murphy | In 1899, | rode a bicycle along the Long Island Rail Road's Central Branch through th ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... tured their own takes on space suit design. Science fiction authors such as | contributed to the development of fictional space suit concepts |
Igor Stravinsky | ... ng Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead, Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung, | 's Oedipus rex, and Paul Hindemith's Cardillac |
Benazir Bhutto | ... as with U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister | , or as part of coups d'état where security is either overwhelmed or compl ... |
Yakov Yurovsky | ... early in the morning of 17 July 1918, by a detachment of Bolsheviks led by | . In the basement room of the Ipatiev House, Nicholas asked for and receiv ... |
Pablo Picasso | ... entury art critics have suggested that the "analytic Cubist" experiments of | and Georges Braque were founded upon Poussin's example. In 1963 Picasso ba ... |
Casimir Pulaski | ... d in three of the town's street names: Pulaski after Revolutionary War hero | as well as Warsaw and Cracow. Lyons is the subject of a recently published ... |
Pierce Brosnan | ... d Queen was also shot on the preserved Nene Valley Railway in 1989. In 1995 | filmed train crash sequences for the 17th James Bond film, GoldenEye, at t ... |
Ferdinand Daučík | Managers | and László Kubala led the team to five different trophies including La Lig ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Paris at this time hosted many expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, | ; and artist Pablo Picasso. Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request ... |
Tina Turner | ... Prince, dance-pop star Michael Jackson, and a wave of female vocalists like | and Whitney Houston. Michael Jackson and Prince has been described as the ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Bolsheviks shared power with other socialist parties and dropped Lenin and | from the government. Zinoviev, Kamenev, and their allies in the Bolshevik ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... Press, a Concrete poet, married to artist Alison Knowles and an admirer of | . Ihab Hassan includes, "Intermedia, the fusion of forms, the confusion of ... |
Lucy Diakovska | ... Angels are an all-female pop trio from Germany, consisting of band members | , Sandy Mölling, and Jessica Wahls. Critically acclaimed, the band has won ... |
Wim Wenders | ... ly well regarded by critics in the years since its release. German director | numbered it among his fifteen favourite films. Also, Scorsese apparently b ... |
Jules Dassin | ... New York City, from lung cancer, aged 73. She was survived by her husband, | . She received a state funeral with Prime Minister's honors at the First C ... |
Lee Harvey Oswald | ... nnedy's assassination. The commission conducted hearings and concluded that | acted alone in the assassination. Not everyone agreed with the Warren Comm ... |
László Kubala | Managers Ferdinand Daučík and | led the team to five different trophies including La Liga, the Copa del Ge ... |
Lepidus | ... one of the forcible acts of the triumvirs of 43 BC (Octavianus, Antony, and | ), that they obliged the senators to repair the public roads at their own ... |
Pablo Picasso | ... y expatriate writers: Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, Ernest Hemingway; and artist | . Gershwin met with Boulanger and at her request he played ten minutes of ... |
Osama bin Laden | Already long time affiliates of Al-Qaeda, Hazmi and Mihdhar were chosen by | as respected jihadists due to their extensive fighting experience for an a ... |
Billy Wilder | Mulholland Drive has been compared with | 's film noir classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), another tale about broken dr ... |
Anoushka Shankar | ... nal Sanskrit invocation, the Sarvesham chant, followed by Indian music when | , daughter of Ravi Shankar, played "Your Eyes". Next, Anoushka Shankar and ... |
Samwise Gamgee | ... s are present in the Dead Marshes outside of Mordor. When Frodo Baggins and | make their way through the bogs the spindly creature Gollum tells them "no ... |
Marcia Hines | ... NXS, Noiseworks, Skyhooks, AC/DC, Renée Geyer, Spectrum, Chain, Daddy Cool, | , Zoot, The Masters Apprentices, Dragon, Air Supply, The Radiators, The An ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... arrated the documentary Lost in La Mancha (2002), about the "unmaking" of a | retelling of Don Quixote, tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixot ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... e in the place of man . A variation that also falls within this metaphor is | ’ "", which sees Jesus receiving a punishment as a public example of the l ... |
Helena Modjeska | ... of the Old Court theatre, where in the following year he introduced Madame | to London in an adaptation of Maria Stuart (by ), together with production ... |
Hal Foster | ... on the context can be construed as a precursor to the postmodern movement. | , in his essay The Crux of Minimalism, examines the extent to which Donald ... |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... World War II, Milne was one of the most prominent critics of English writer | , who was captured at his country home in France by the Nazis and imprison ... |
Yakov Yurovsky | On 4 July 1918, | , the chief of the Ekaterinburg Cheka, was appointed commandant of the Ipa ... |
Lita Ford | ... band The Runaways would produce 1980s solo recording artists Joan Jett and | . The highest-selling album was Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (19 ... |
Anoushka Shankar | ... when Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, played "Your Eyes". Next, | and Jeff Lynne performed "The Inner Light", followed by a Ravi Shankar com ... |
George Gamow | ... expertise in the interpretation of X-ray diffraction patterns of proteins. | established a group of scientists interested in the role of RNA as an inte ... |
Boris Karloff | ... ta's "fearsome" appearance: 1930's The Sea Bat, starring a pre-Frankenstein | , and 1936's The Sea Fiend, later re-issued as the 1946 Devil Monster |
Thomas Mann | ... arius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively. Such connections were taken up by | , who in his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes characteristics of a ... |
Pelé | Waiting for the ball was | , who had arrived at speed and with perfect timing. He leapt hard at the b ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... n singles with their band, which would later include then-unknown guitarist | . With Hendrix, the brothers cut the songs, "Testify" and "Move Over and L ... |
Althusser | ... ded a third 'critical' dimension which built upon insights from Gramsci and | |
Marcel Duchamp | ... ançois Lyotard, it was painting of the artists Valerio Adami, Daniel Buren, | , Bracha Ettinger, and Barnett Newman that, after the avant-garde's time a ... |
Salman Rushdie | ... into seclusion, and are rarely heard from or seen in public, such as writer | . A related form of protection is the use of body doubles a person built s ... |
Bob Hope | ... n downtown Stockton, is one of several movie palaces in the Central Valley. | often came to Stockton to visit close friend and billionaire tycoon Alex S ... |
Princess Grace of Monaco | ... of Irish descent. Other famous visitors to the Áras an Uachtaráin have been | and her husband, Prince Rainier III; King Baudouin of the Belgians; King J ... |
Yo-Yo Ma | ... d Placido Domingo, actors Jack Nicholson and Brian Stokes Mitchell, cellist | , actress Lauren Bacall, presidents and chancellors of Boston-area college ... |
Ben Webster | ... some of the hottest black jazz heavyweights of the day, such as saxophonist | , trumpeter Charlie Shavers, bassist Billy Taylor, trumpeter Emmett Berry, ... |
Johnny Depp | ... tentatively titled The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, which would have starred | as Sancho Panza and Jean Rochefort as the quixotic hero. Bridges had previ ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... 5. In the 1980s, there was an attempt by unknown entrepreneurs to seek from | , who owned The Times, the right to use the Times Roman name; separately, ... |
David Bowie | ... unning and cinema. He also enjoys music, including The Beatles, Beach Boys, | and other acts including Ryan Adams. Hoon has recently also stated that he ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ts place the responsibility for the decision with the Ural Regional Soviet. | , in his diary, makes it quite clear that the assassination took place on ... |
Paul Verhoeven | ... ited States market, including the first major American success for director | |
Jairzinho | ... los Alberto who sent a fizzing low ball down the right flank for the speedy | to latch on to. The Brazilian winger sped past left back Terry Cooper and ... |
Johnny Depp | ... g area for use in the 2009 film Public Enemies featuring Christian Bale and | |
Pervez Musharraf | ... ction teams from the military's elite Special Service Group unit. President | , as civilian head of state, was due to have this withdrawn after retiring ... |
Tzvetan Todorov | ... hers. Later authors in the semiotic tradition of literary criticism include | , Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Michael Riffaterre, and ... |
Chaka Khan | ... by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu and | performed musical tributes to Ross, covering several of her most popular r ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ns when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? He points out that | demonstrated the equivalence of mass-energy. That is, according to relativ ... |
Roger Abbott | ... rior commitment. This was the first Air Farce special that will not feature | in its cast who passed away earlier in 2011 |
Otto Höfler | ... removed by trickery; it must be kept for a whole year and carefully tended. | (1934) and other authors of his generation emphasized the identification o ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... Hearst shared Smith's opposition to Prohibition he swung his papers behind | in the 1928 presidential election. Hearst's support for Franklin D. Roosev ... |
Man Ray | ... man One). In 1924, in collaboration with Dudley Murphy, George Antheil, and | , Léger produced and directed the iconic and Futurism-influenced film, Bal ... |
Marco Polo | ... ten report back to the Mongols. Around the same time, the Venetian explorer | became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and hi ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... ith an unprecedented succession of generals – Fox Conner, John J. Pershing, | and George Marshall. He first became executive officer to General Conner i ... |
Ringo Starr | ... Band" and included the surviving members of The Beatles, Paul McCartney and | , as well as musicians Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Billy Preston, ... |
David Wu | ... ile at Harvard he shared an apartment with future United States Congressman | |
Schoenberg | ... of athematic serial composition that rejected the twelve-tone technique of | (Felder 1977, 92). He characterized many of these earliest compositions (t ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... und to a differentiated location in space contra transcendent omnipresence. | , a confirmed atheist, answered a variation of this question: what happens ... |
Mark Rothko | ... a sense the innovations of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, | , Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhard ... |
Lord Elgin | ... s during the Rebellions of 1837-1838 in Lower-Canada. The Governor General, | , had serious misgivings about the bill but nonetheless assented to it des ... |
Ang Lee | ... merican-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by | and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Cho ... |
Orson Welles | ... Kid Ory's band, which was featured for a time on a radio program hosted by | . Noone played a few broadcasts with the band, but died suddenly of a hear ... |
Jedediah Smith | ... before flowing west through the Sierra Nevada into California. Mountain man | reached the lower Colorado by way of the Virgin River canyon in 1826. Smit ... |
Aristotle Onassis | ... s of convenience. The most notable shipping magnate of the 20th century was | , others being Yiannis Latsis, George Livanos, and Stavros Niarchos. A fam ... |
Tori Amos | # | – Little Earthquake |
Rachmaninoff | ... ost notable examples include Brahms's Variations on a Theme of Paganini and | 's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
René Descartes | Some Philosophers, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent. In addition, some philosophers ... |
Callum Keith Rennie | ... s, Dean Stockwell, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Rick Worthy, Matthew Bennett, | , Michael Hogan and Rekha Sharma. The only "Cylon" actor not present was ( ... |
John Amos Comenius | ... s displaced by French, Italian, and English by the end of the 16th century. | was one of many people who tried to reverse this trend. He composed a comp ... |
Wonder Woman | ... eries. Frank Miller's revamp of Batman with , George Pérez's relaunching of | in Gods and Mortals, and John Byrne's reboot of Superman in The Man of Ste ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... Lasswitz in 1897 and Bernal, Oberth, Von Pirquet and Noordung in the 1920s. | contributed his ideas in a 1952 Colliers article. In the 1950s and 1960s, ... |
Madonna | ... 989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from | . Their daughter Dylan Frances Penn was born on April 13, 1991. Their son ... |
Abraomas Kulvietis | ... rotestant Lithuanian pastors as professors (e.g. Stanislovas Rapolionis and | ), making the Albertina also a centre of Lithuanian language and literatur ... |
UN Messenger of Peace | ... Smith in the superhero film Hancock, and in late 2008 she was asked to be a | by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a joined the so-called "cafeteria group", together with Frank P. Ramsey and | , a sort of informal club that discussed Keynes's theory of probability an ... |
Robert Graves | In The Greek Myths (1955), | views Oenopion as his perennial Year-King, at the stage where the king pre ... |
Herodotus | The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of | around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς θάλασσα; ... |
Rod Stewart | ... as the Great American Songbook from the series of albums produced by rocker | ) has undergone something of an off-air revival, with artists such as Stew ... |
Nicos Poulantzas | ... d Jacques Rancière in philosophy, Pierre Macherey in literary criticism and | in sociology. The prominent Guevarist Régis Debray also studied under Alth ... |
Mark Twain | ... in the past, among the most renowned of them are Bernardin de Saint Pierre, | , Nicholas Pike, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul-Jean Toulet. Mauritian write ... |
Frank Ifield | ... in the 1950s has represented a vaudeville style of comic Australian country | ;achieved considerable success in the early 1960s, especially in the UK Si ... |
Sidney Bechet | ... of the second generation of jazz clarinetists, along with Johnny Dodds and | . Noone's playing is not as blues-tinged as Dodds nor as flamboyant as Bec ... |
Heinrich Boere | ... aller-scale atrocities such as the Houtman affair or murders perpetrated by | . The most infamous incidents include the following |
Steve McQueen | Along with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and later | , Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969, so the actors ... |
Hans Hofmann | ... ackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, | , Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt and others opened the flood ... |
Mohandas Gandhi | ... e and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as | in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Ac ... |
Stevie Wonder | ... h a Lifetime Achievement Award by her five children and singer Alicia Keys. | , Erykah Badu and Chaka Khan performed musical tributes to Ross, covering ... |
Allan McLeod Cormack | ... mark paper, published in 1961, he described the basic concept later used by | to develop the mathematics behind computerized tomography. In October, 196 ... |
Denis Law | ... o David Herd. After that things got worse for England's newest keeper, when | wrong-footed Banks with a smart shot on the turn to put United 2–0 ahead. ... |
Abba Eban | ... otte's body was returned to Sweden, where the state funeral was attended by | on behalf of Israel. Folke was survived by a widow and two sons, a 12 year ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... died law (he passed the final state examination in 1926) and rose to become | 's personal legal adviser. In this capacity, Frank was privy to personal d ... |
George Brecht | ... s Fountain. Fluxus art was often presented in "events", which Fluxus member | defined as "the smallest unit of a situation". The events consisted of a m ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... London. In August, McTell played the huge Isle of Wight Festival alongside | , Joan Baez, and Leonard Cohen |
Imre Lakatos | Popper's student | attempted to reconcile Kuhn’s work with falsificationism by arguing that s ... |
Frances Fisher | On Law & Order it is the topic of episode Animal Instinct in which | plays a woman who is diagnosed an erotomaniac. It is also seen in season 3 ... |
Tilo Wolff | Sehnsucht, the latest album is released in 2009. Singer and producer | wanted to create an album that was less conceptual and more spontaneous th ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... resident of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison; and | , first United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Washington |
Isaac Asimov | | claims that Gothic cavalry adopted technology reverse-engineered from the ... |
Usain Bolt | ... r most career gold medals for an Olympian by winning eight swimming events. | secured the traditional title of "World's Fastest Man" by setting new worl ... |
Tina Turner | According to a 1990s interview with singer | 's mother, Zelma Bullock, the singer was born Anna Mae Bullock in a sharec ... |
Ludwig Minkus | ... e melodious "musique dansante" of the old maestros such as Cesare Pugni and | , and cared little for anything else which strayed from the salon-style ba ... |
Herodotus | ... le was fought and Josiah was killed (2 Kings 23:29, 2 Chronicles 35:20-24). | reports the campaign of the pharaoh in his Histories, Book 2:159 |
Adolf Hitler | ... racy lapsed in the early 1930s, leading to the ascent of the Nazi Party and | in 1933. The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and M ... |
Arvydas Sabonis | CB Valladolid is the town's basketball team and they play in the Liga ACB. | played in this team. The matches are held in the Polideportivo Pisuerga |
Jim Carrey | ... camera appearance was in the 1984 TV sitcom The Duck Factory, which starred | |
Henry VII | ... the royal finances were in good shape thanks to the prudence of his father | . But this soon changed as Henry VIII doubled household expenditure and st ... |
shannon | Often, information entropy is measured in | s, whereas the (discrete) storage space of digital devices is measured in ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... n the past and of those more complex Cosmoses He will create in the future. | 's 1953 short story "The Nine Billion Names of God" treats non-scientific ... |
Friedrich List | ... s aspects of Infant Industry protection, promoted by Alexander Hamilton and | , and which defined the trade policy of the United States and Britain duri ... |
Graham Greene | ... than complimentary about his work, and Priestley began legal action against | for what he took to be a defamatory portrait of him in the novel Stamboul ... |
Norma Shearer | ... ie-Antoinette was later adapted for a Hollywood movie, starring the actress | in the title role |
Irving Berlin | ... ers written by Groucho, who donated his letters to the Library of Congress. | quipped, "The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho in ... |
Otto Neurath | ... ch as Bertrand Russell and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, | , and Moritz Schlick. Morris was greatly impressed with the logical positi ... |
Rex Harrison | ... semble of travelling salesmen, as are most of the numbers for British actor | in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady. In musical theater, the ... |
Denis Law | ... t Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and | score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4–3 victory for Leicester, which meant ... |
Alan Shepard | ... passenger, and the results from his test flight led directly to the mission | made on May 5, 1961 aboard Freedom 7 |
Harry Houdini | ... e and burlesque were theatre staples in Union City, with performers such as | and Fred Astaire making appearances locally. Union City was also for a tim ... |
John Barnes | ... Newcastle, John Aldridge from Oxford United (who replaced Ian Rush); winger | from Watford; and Oxford United midfielder Ray Houghton. The new-look Live ... |
Casimir Pulaski | ... Historic Site. The city is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero | |
Alexander Hamilton | ... dustrialization combines aspects of Infant Industry protection, promoted by | and Friedrich List, and which defined the trade policy of the United State ... |
Henry VII | ... usation against Richard III on the matter. The Bill of Attainder brought by | made no definitive mention of the Princes in the Tower, though author and ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... acked. It was an act that was imitated by other bands and artists including | (who had just signed with the same label) in his break-out performance at ... |
Empress Alexandra of Russia | ... ists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of | 's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Pr ... |
Freeman Dyson | In 2001, the space news website Space.com asked | , J. Richard Gott and Sid Goldstein for reasons why some humans should liv ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... e's The Firebird, but refused the part, as she could not come to terms with | 's avant-garde score, and the role was given to Tamara Karsavina. All her ... |
Boy George | ... falo Girls." Later the Hilltoppers' home was visited by the Sex Pistols and | |
Xiongnu | ... s replaced by the Gupta Empire. China was in the Three Kingdoms period. The | formed the Tiefu state under Liu Qubei. Korea was ruled by the Three Kingd ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... to school in 1925, where he received daily meals in a program organized by | . In school, Zapf was mainly interested in technical subjects. One of his ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ation. Among the holders of the 1914 Iron Cross 2nd Class and 1st Class was | , who held the rank of . Hitler can be seen wearing the award on his left ... |
James Lovelock | In 1984, | and Michael Allaby published The Greening of Mars. Lovelock's book was one ... |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... Antony. Octavius (Caesar's adopted son), along with general Mark Antony and | , Caesar's best friend, established the Second Triumvirate. Lepidus was fo ... |
Christopher Chataway | ... a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. | recommended student twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running ... |
Tamara Karsavina | ... o terms with Igor Stravinsky's avant-garde score, and the role was given to | . All her life Pavlova preferred the melodious "musique dansante" of the o ... |
Rudolf Carnap | ... philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and members of the Vienna Circle like | , Otto Neurath, and Moritz Schlick. Morris was greatly impressed with the ... |
John Lennon | ... ublished in 2005; the book records similar sayings between Groucho Marx and | |
Ernest Thompson Seton | ... s, and the idea of new members pledging themselves to the new organization. | 's Woodcraft Indians program was also consulted for its use of American In ... |
James Blish | ... observed by mankind: Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. | 's Cities in Flight series of books (1955 and 1962) ends with the disrupti ... |
Jorge Acuña | ... Picornie being killed and several others injured. In 2004 Feyenoord player | was taken to hospital with head, neck and rib injuries after Feyenoord pla ... |
Greta Scacchi | ... 0). It was produced and directed by Karl Francis, starred Jeff Goldblum and | and was released on September 29, 2000 in Spain and European countries. It ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... ere is a memorable description of the docks, their buildings and people, in | 's |
Vivian Campbell | ... Guitarists have included Craig Goldy (most recent guitarist), Doug Aldrich, | , Tracy G, Jake E. Lee and Rowan Robertson |
Albert Bierstadt | ... ver - Albert Bierstadt - overall.jpg|thumb|left|Mount Baker from the [sic], | , ca. 1890 (Brooklyn Museum)] |
Herodotus | ... wap his horse with a fresh one, for maximum performance and delivery speed. | described the system in this way: "It is said that as many days as there a ... |
Bob Hope | ... d as film performers), Groucho was scheduled to appear on a radio show with | . Annoyed that he was made to wait in the waiting room for 40 minutes, Gro ... |
Friedrich Engels | ... description of housing of the mill workers in England in 1844 was given by | , a co-founder of Marxism. In the introduction of the 1892 edition of Enge ... |
Adolf Berman | ... was also a member of the elite Kedyw unit, "Kolegium A", Ludwik Widerszal, | or Calel Perechodnik, were part of the AK, while others, such as Szmul Zyg ... |
Teoberto Maler | ... Maudslay's report was published by the Royal Geographical Society in 1883. | visited the site repeatedly from 1897 to 1900, his detailed two volume des ... |
Brigitte Hamann | ... ere not allowed to return until the 1860s, scholars such as Ian Kershaw and | dismiss as baseless the Frankenberger hypothesis, which before had only Fr ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... which isolates them from local space-time at the instant of the collision. | 's short story, "The Last Question" was published in 1956. The story is br ... |
Seasick Steve | American blues musician | , who is achieving fame in the United Kingdom, currently resides in Notodd ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... the film's theme of war in Europe. Also, there is an unmistakable image of | in the windmill scene. Right after McCrea rescues his coat from the grindi ... |
Erwin Chargaff | ... equal to cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine. A visit by | to England in 1952 reinforced the salience of this important fact for Wats ... |
Jim Carrey | ... Canadians (with the exception of Adam Sandler), and included such stars as | and Mike Myers. As the show was taped at a theater, unlike the trip to L.A ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... ized in three films — Judgement at Nuremberg, where the character played by | is a widow whose fictional German general was tried and put to death for t ... |
Gerard Béhague | models or, for that matter, passive consumption by national audiences." – | , Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology. Pg. 8 |
Elvis Presley | From 1956 Norman was fascinated with the music of | . According to Norman, his father banned him from listening to rock and ro ... |
Arthur St. Clair | ... Blue Jacket defeated another American expedition, this time led by General | . It was the worst defeat the Americans would ever suffer at the hands of ... |
John van 't Schip | ... Another Feyenoord player, Robin van Persie had to be rescued by Ajax coach | and player . Then in 2005 riots before and after the match happened in Rot ... |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | Musicians and composers Niccolò Paganini, | , and Robert Johnson are thought to have had the disease. Bradford Cox of ... |
Shimon Peres | ... dish deputy prime minister, Israeli Foreign Minister and Labor Party member | issued a "condemnation of terror, thanks for the rescue of the Jews and re ... |
Allan Pinkerton | ... d named the town Dundee in honor of his Scottish hometown. In 1843 Scotsman | , later the renowned detective, set up business as a cooper. The town was ... |
Moritz Schlick | ... sell and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and | . Morris was greatly impressed with the logical positivist (logical empiri ... |
Jack Liebowitz | ... sub-companies, Max Gaines' All-American Publications and Harry Donenfeld & | 's National Periodical Publications. Though he continued to script for Nat ... |
Gore Vidal | Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author | prior to marrying Paul Newman. However, there was no real engagement: Vida ... |
Turkic | ... the Magyars. In the 11th and 12th centuries, constant incursions by nomadic | tribes, such as the Kipchaks and the Pechenegs, caused a massive migration ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... hieve complete intuitive understanding), from Stranger in a Strange Land by | ; "McJob", from by Douglas Coupland; "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by Wil ... |
Piers Anthony | ... e proclamation "'LET THERE BE LIGHT!' And there was light—" the story ends. | 's soft science fiction novel Ghost, deals with the topic of an energy-poo ... |
Vincent Schiavelli | ... m an aortic dissection the day before the off-Broadway opening of Rent; and | , an actor and spokesperson for the National Marfan Foundation |
Vyacheslav Ganelin | ... produced musicians like Tomasz Stanko, Zbigniew Seifert, Vladimir Chekasin, | and Vladimir Tarasov. Japanese guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi and saxophoni ... |
Bolesław Limanowski | ... 39) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (1835–1917), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and | (1835–1935) in Poland |
Jimi Hendrix | ... Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Halen, | , Neil Diamond, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Guns N' Roses |
Jack Williamson | ... eloped from both science fiction and actual science. The term was coined by | in a science-fiction story ("Collision Orbit") published during 1942 in As ... |
Johnny Depp | ... to other projects. The film was removed from IMDB. There was a rumour that | was originally cast as Crowley and Robin Williams as Aziraphale. However N ... |
Jedediah Smith | ... area alongside other mountain men like Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, and | |
Paul Shaffer | ... tone ranked them #76 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. | , who did the write-up, wrote that the girl-group sound, originated by the ... |
Rod Stewart | ... sic charts with two duets in 2005. "I've Got a Crush on You", recorded with | for his album The Great American Songbook, reached number 19 on the Billbo ... |
Jakob Meckel | ... the trench warfare of World War I. A German military advisor sent to Japan, | , had a tremendous impact on the development of the Japanese military trai ... |
Neil Gaiman | Destruction is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series The Sandman |
Paul Dirac | ... charge, opposite to the +1 electric charge of the proton, was predicted by | in his 1933 Nobel Prize lecture. Dirac received the Nobel Prize for his pr ... |
Rob Hayles | ... old medal winning athlete, Richard Harwood cellist, was born in Portsmouth, | , cyclist and Olympic Games medal winner, Tony Oakey, Former British light ... |
George Soros | ... r's students at the London School of Economics was the billionaire investor | , among whose philanthropic foundations is the Open Society Institute, a t ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... chorus form, post-rock groups generally make greater use of soundscapes. As | states in his "Post-Rock" from Audio Culture, "A band's journey through ro ... |
Jacob Sheskin | In 1964, | , Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at Hadassah University H ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... ve Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Doors, The Who, Janis Joplin, | , Moby Grape, and San Jose bands Syndicate of Sound, and Count Five |
Emmanuel Levinas | David Couzens Hoy states that | 's writings on the face of the Other and Derrida's meditations on the rele ... |
John Lydon | ... s picked up on by NME who championed the band, although one guest reviewer, | of Public Image Limited condemned the band as "trendy hippies. |
Martin Page | ... wo No.1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by Bernie Taupin, | , Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf and was engineered by Grammy-winning prod ... |
Paul Hindemith | ... d a Praeludium and Scherzo for double bass and piano, Op. 32 No.1 and No.2. | wrote a rhythmically challenging Double Bass Sonata in 1949. In the Soviet ... |
Rudolph Ruzicka | ... uced in sizes as small as 20 micrometers across. The design has appeared on | 's Bicentennial Medal (Philadelphia Mint, 1969) and elsewhere |
Pinhas Lavon | ... The deportation was approved by Ben-Gurion and Dayan over the objections of | , secretary-general of the Histadrut, who envisioned the town as a product ... |
Ernst Gombrich | ... opper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian | , biologist Peter Medawar, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
Otto Preminger | ... e Skidoo (1968), co-starring Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing, directed by | , and released by the studio where he got his Hollywood start, Paramount P ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... treet is the Category B listed handloom weavers' cottage, the birthplace of | which dates from the early 18th century. An adjacent memorial hall was add ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... was their own idea, not that of their publisher, to collaborate on a novel. | has said |
Sylvia Plath | ... themes of tradition and the importance of the past to the present. The poet | uses them to symbolize nature in her poetry in "On the Difficulty of Conju ... |
Elvis Presley | ... op chorus on Jesse Stone's "Down in the Alley", recorded by The Clovers and | . Stone transcribed the riff as: "Changety changety changety changety chan ... |
Ringo Starr | ... mers at a single concert, including Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, | , Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, Ronnie Wood an ... |
Henry Tudor | ... rd's rival claimants; alternatively, he could have been acting on behalf of | (later to become King Henry VII). On the other hand, if Buckingham were gu ... |
Stephen Leacock | ... London School of Economics. His tutors at the LSE included Hugh Dalton and | . Horne was dissatisfied there, and through the generosity of an uncle, Au ... |
Ozzy | ... he was "...thoroughly thrilled with Chris... it reminds me a lot like when | found Randy Rhoads" |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ry was the first in the world to be funded via donations by philanthropist, | . A total of 2,811 free public libraries were eventually built altogether. ... |
David Coulthard | ... n McNish, as it was to David Leslie (racing driver). Another racing driver, | was born in Dumfries and raised in nearby Twynholm. Scotland rugby union i ... |
Nick Cave | ... music of successful contemporary bands The Waifs and The John Butler Trio. | has been heavily influenced by the country artist Johnny Cash. In 2000, Ca ... |
Poul Anderson | The Big Crunch as the fate of the Universe was also explored in | 's 1970 novel Tau Zero which posits a cyclic universe where the big crunch ... |
Michael Douglas | ... Roosevelt, First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and | , actress Jane Wyatt, poet Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, hi ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... some political leaders of the Polish insurrection movement (in particular, | ) sent emissaries to Japan to collaborate on sabotage and intelligence gat ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... h were opened on 28 June 1929. The gates which were named after the wife of | lead up a to a bronze statue of Andrew Carnegie which was unveiled in 1914 ... |
Helmut Haller | ... anks who was beaten first. A weak header from Ray Wilson handed a chance to | whose shot was not fierce but was on target and needed dealing with. Banks ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... for Aylesbury. Later authors include Jerome K. Jerome who lived at Marlow, | who also lived at Marlow, Roald Dahl who lived at Great Missenden, Enid Bl ... |
Claudette Colbert | ... ptation on videotape of The Bells of St. Mary's was shown in 1959, starring | , Marc Connelly, Glenda Farrell, Nancy Marchand, Barbara Myers, Robert Pre ... |
Jacob Bronowski | ... ulian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, Sir | , Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon, Ray Davies, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry ... |
Marija Gimbutas | ... and Northern Europe. This hypothesis contradicted the work of archaeologist | who, as early as 1958 in an article entitled "Culture Change in Europe at ... |
Lennox Lewis | In May 2005, King was sued by | , who wanted $385 million from the promoter, claiming King used threats to ... |
Haim Bar-Lev | ... yeret Kharuv, an anti-terror battalion, at the time when IDF Chief of Staff | had begun to focus IDF manpower and budget on armoured tank units, resulti ... |
Karl Popper | ... o you. Their tastes may not be the same" (Maxims for Revolutionists; 1903). | wrote: "The golden rule is a good standard which is further improved by do ... |
Tim Berners-Lee | In 1980, physicist | , who was a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system ... |
Jacques Derrida | ... t to problematize human relationships to knowledge and 'objective' reality. | argued that access to meaning and the 'real' was always deferred, and soug ... |
Alfred Molina | ... John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, | and David Suchet |
René Descartes | ... nds occupy a different category of beings from physical objects. Some, like | , have thought that this is so (this view is known as dualism, and functio ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... tioned in the classic comedy The Blues Brothers. Elwood Blues (as played by | ) explains that his brother Jake (John Belushi) was in prison for holding ... |
Terry Gilliam | A film, directed by | , was planned. As of 2002 Gilliam still hoped to make the film with its al ... |
Jim Bridger | ... rapper, François Payette, roamed the area alongside other mountain men like | , Peter Skene Ogden, and Jedediah Smith |
Joe Hill | ... s and reinvigorated their cause with impromptu singing performances, e.g. " | ", and he was given arts and artifacts from Aborigine culture to signify t ... |
Eusébio | ... Charlton handling the ball. Banks was finally beaten after 43 minutes when | put away the spot kick to his right. That said, England had won 2–1 and we ... |
Constantine I of Greece | ... s made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip's uncle, the reigning King | , was forced to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, along with others, was arrest ... |
Terry Pratchett | while | has said |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ded more fuel to the already simmering Russian Revolution of 1905, an event | had hoped to avoid entirely by taking intransigent negotiating stances pri ... |
Anna Nicole Smith | ... ies, odd Texas-related news items and personalities from the previous year. | (prior to her death) was a perennial "winner". Other Bum Steer "Hall of Fa ... |
Arthur Boyd | ... s of Highgate include Tariq Ali, Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, | , Sarah Blackwood, Sir Jacob Bronowski, Craig Charles, Sir Clifford Curzon ... |
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Gregory Nagy | Laos has been construed by | , following Leonard Palmer, to mean a corps of soldiers, a muster. With th ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... Chicago Park District, is the only lakefront structure to be built based on | 's 1909 Plan of Chicago. The island was to be populated by trees and grass ... |
Song Chong-Gug | ... layer Shinji Ono was a key player at the club, and also in South Korea when | played for Feyenoord |
André Previn | ... i Aho's Concerto (2005), John Harbison's Concerto for Bass Viol (2006), and | 's Double Concerto for violin, double bass, and orchestra (2007) |
Benjamin Foulois | ... aining names of the field's customers, including Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, | , and Jimmy Doolittle. Doolittle, awarded the Medal of Honor for his 1942 ... |
Cristiano Ronaldo | ... r Hugo Sánchez for most goals scored in a single season with 38 goals until | broke that record and set the new record at 41 goals |
Terry Pratchett | ... of his novel Good Omens "is in the works from Terry Jones." with a link to | 's webpage confirming the news |
Shimon Peres | ... strongly with the Labour governments of 1992–1996 (led by Yitzhak Rabin and | ) and 1999–2001 (Ehud Barak), however, he looked favourably on the Netanya ... |
Sir Bobby Robson | ... luding Kevin Keegan (who had also served the club as a player) and the late | , who both also managed the England team |
Richard Burton | He was a close friend of actor | , whom he met at Oxford University |
Henry Morgenthau | ... Armenians by the Turks. Among them there are Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, | , Franz Werfel, Johannes Lepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gor ... |
Zelda Rubinstein | ... a group of parapsychologists and a spiritual medium named Tangina Barrons ( | ). Carol Anne is eventually retrieved from the other side and, following a ... |
Augustus Saint-Gaudens | ... eum that includes the first U.S. planetarium. The site also features one of | most famous outdoor bronze statues, The Puritan, depicting early Springfie ... |
John Wesley Powell | ... tales strengthened their credibility. In 1869, one-armed Civil War veteran | led an expedition from Green River Station in Wyoming, aiming to run the t ... |
Henry Wise Wood | The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, | , president of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) during that movement's ... |
Lukas Foss | ... an, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, | , Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby La ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ere named after the wife of Andrew Carnegie lead up a to a bronze statue of | which was unveiled in 1914 to a crowd of 20,000 |
Hugo Sánchez | ... Telmo Zarra (also known as Zarra) who shared the record with Mexican player | for most goals scored in a single season with 38 goals until Cristiano Ron ... |
Madeleine Albright | ... residential appointees. However, he worked smoothly with Secretary of State | |
Olivia de Havilland | ... The Letter to which Davis nodded. Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood and | were among the actors who paid tribute, with de Havilland commenting that ... |
Imre Lakatos | ... od at the London School of Economics and there lectured and influenced both | and Paul Feyerabend, two of the foremost philosophers of science in the ne ... |
David Bowie | ... Be Loved, Loved, Loved, Loved)" (R&B #31) used the main riff from "Fame" by | , not the other way around as was often believed. The riff was provided to ... |
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Ernest Hemingway | Among his friends were Orson Welles and | . Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eul ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... the nominal command of William S. Hamilton, a militia colonel and a son of | . Hamilton would prove to be an unfortunate choice to lead the force; hist ... |
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John Paul Young | ... ced by bands like Spectrum and Tully, acts as diverse as AC/DC, Sherbet and | were able to achieve major success and develop a unique sound for Australi ... |
Orson Welles | Among his friends were | and Ernest Hemingway. Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Hust ... |
Douglas G. Hurley | ... ate Harold Rosen, who invented the geosynchronous communications satellite. | , NASA astronaut and pilot of mission STS-127, became the first alumnus to ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... the Madrid Conference of 1991, Ze'evi withdrew from the Likud government of | , remaining in the opposition for a decade. He disagreed strongly with the ... |
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Marco Polo | ... even made a distinct impression on some of China's early European visitors. | recounted the Grand Canal's arched bridges as well as the warehouses and p ... |
David Bowie | ... then Siouxsie and the Banshees as early as September 1978. In December 1978 | appeared in the audience and later declared to NME that he "had seen the f ... |
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Bolesław Limanowski | In Poland | thought deeply about Agrarianism and worked out an eclectic program that f ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... a direct realist view of this relation. For a time, under the influence of | , he adopted a pluralist view of philosophy itself and came to view most p ... |
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Hamid Karzai | Zahir Shah attended the 7 December 2004 swearing in of | as President of Afghanistan. In his final years, he was frail and required ... |
Britt Ekland | ... participated in the Swedish reality show "Stjärnorna på slottet" along with | , Arja Saijonmaa, Jan Malmsjö and Magnus Härenstam. He appears in as Dr. Z ... |
Schoenberg | ... an. This was a break from the intellectual serial music of the tradition of | which lasted from the early 1900s to 1960s |
Sauron | The eagle who brings the news of | 's defeat to Minas Tirith refers to the city as the Tower of Anor. The eag ... |
Roy Hay | ... riginal band comprised Boy George (lead vocals), Mikey Craig (bass guitar), | (guitar and keyboards) and Jon Moss (drums and percussion). Their second a ... |
Andrew Carnegie | The | birthplace museum dedicated to his life and work is on the southern gatewa ... |
Danny Huston | ... r marriage. In addition to his children with Soma, he fathered a son, actor | , with author Zoe Sallis |
Frank Oz | ... Master Yoda. Henson suggested to Star Wars creator George Lucas that he use | as the puppeteer and voice of Yoda. Oz voiced Yoda in The Empire Strikes B ... |
Alfred Tarski | ... ave learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps | ." Popper dedicated his Conjectures and Refutations to Hayek. For his part ... |
James Naismith | ... was first incorporated in 1959 at Springfield College—the institution where | invented the sport in 1891—and in that year, the hall inducted its first c ... |
James Joyce | ... g use of stream-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as | , Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner |
Louis Althusser | Antihumanists such as | and Michel Foucault and structuralists such as Roland Barthes challenged t ... |
Henry Tudor | ... reated to be spread in England as an excuse for the October 1483 attempt of | and Buckingham to seize the throne, making Henry and Buckingham other like ... |
Tariq Ali | Recent and current inhabitants of Highgate include | , Julian Barratt, Stanley Baxter, Andy Bell, Arthur Boyd, Sarah Blackwood, ... |
Judy Garland | ... e Here Again" duet originally heard during Streisand's 1963 appearance with | on Garland's weekly TV series. In the season three episode "I Am Unicorn," ... |
Jimmy Choo | ... nternational fashion houses, including those of London-based shoe designers | and Manolo Blahnik, and two Prada stores. The district also has banks that ... |
Daniel Day-Lewis | ... that he had scripted an Anno Dracula movie for and , who originally wanted | and Isabelle Adjani for Beauregard and Geneviève, and then Ralph Fiennes a ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... or the revitalized Quart Festival 2009 includes world-famous stars, such as | , Fergie, The Black Eyed Peas, Marilyn Manson and Placebo |
Dennis Gabor | ... thought, starting with Haar's work in the early 20th century. Later work by | yielded Gabor atoms (1946), which are constructed similarly to wavelets, a ... |
Lewis Hamilton | ... paid an emotional tribute to Senna with British Formula One World Champion, | driving Senna's original MP4/4, with which he won the 1988 title |
John Julius Norwich | ... ad a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarital affair with | ; Huston treated the girl as one of his own children following Soma's deat ... |
John Lennon | ... ay around as was often believed. The riff was provided to "Fame" co-writers | and Bowie by guitarist Carlos Alomar, who had briefly been a member of Bro ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... that became Soviet-controlled following the partition of eastern Europe by | and Joseph Stalin in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 were resettled to ... |
Che Guevara | ... . Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa, written in 1968 as a requiem for | , is properly speaking an oratorio; Henze's Requiem is instrumental but re ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... "cyberspace", from Neuromancer by William Gibson; "nymphet" from Lolita by | |
Orson Welles | 1981. | receives funding from a mysterious source to film the ultimate version of ... |
Henry VII | ... ted for himself, on Richard's orders, or in collusion with the Tudor party. | (Henry Tudor) following his accession, proceeded to find a legal excuse to ... |
Otto Preminger | ... lagher and Mister Shean," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean) and the 1968 | film Skidoo. In his 50s at the time, Marx remarked on his appearance: "I l ... |
Tina Turner | ... ity concert, he performed at Philadelphia's JFK Stadium; he did a duet with | of "It's Only Rock and Roll", and the performance was highlighted by Jagge ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... were the only ones by Western actors permitted by Enver Hoxha to be shown. | once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown" |
Maurice Wilkins | ... of King's College London, given to them by Gosling and Franklin's colleague | ), Watson and Crick together developed a model for a helical structure of ... |
Shimon Peres | ... led in action and more were wounded. In July 1974, Israeli Defense Minister | informed the Knesset that high-ranking Soviet officers had been killed on ... |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... Orbit 18 edited by Damon Knight. Robinson gave the novella in rough form to | to read and edit while he was enrolled in her writing workshop at UCSD in ... |
Yoko Ono | ... ad, Diana Ross, B.B. King, Asleep at the Wheel, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, | , Blues Traveler, Cher, Chicago, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Coll ... |
Buzz Aldrin | ... his role in the movie Charly. On television, he portrayed retired astronaut | in the 1976 adaptation of Aldrin's autobiographic Return to Earth, played ... |
John Lennon | James is mentioned in The Beatles' song "For You Blue": while | plays the slide guitar (James' trademark), George Harrison says, "Elmore J ... |
Errol Flynn | ... " He also pointed to a lack of a suitable British actor to portray Flashman | ;was always his favourite for the role (although Flynn was Australian): "I ... |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... at on his way to Philadelphia to meet Washington, Little Turtle met General | , who presented him with a matching pair of pistols along with instruction ... |
Roy Makaay | ... number of high profile signings amongst which Giovanni van Bronckhorst and | . Despite the efforts, Feyenoord underperformed once again in the national ... |
Roddy McDowall | ... taking an ever-growing group of children to safety. It stars Monty Woolley, | and Anne Baxter. The movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel ... |
John A. Widtsoe | ... seph Angell Young. Another descendant, Leah D. Widtsoe, was wife of apostle | and herself a leading expert in home economics. Other descendants include ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... s, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, | , Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, Ulrika Jonsson ... |
Overseas Chinese | Chinese immigration law gives priority to returning | — ethnic Chinese who were living abroad. As a result, practically all immi ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... rasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and | worked here. More recently, its work in tropical medicine has gained promi ... |
George Brecht | Event scores, such as | 's "Drip Music", are essentially performance art scripts that are usually ... |
Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... gan's book described the newspaper's claims as a hoax. On February 9, 2007, | 's husband Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt said that he had had a decade-long af ... |
Lost Colony DNA Project | ... orbed the Shakori and Eno people), and the Coree and the Lumbee tribes. The | was established to test all of these claims |
Kevin Spacey | ... C miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan (NBC, 1988) starring Jack Lemmon and | and portrayed the daughter of a presidential candidate (Michael Murphy) in ... |
Al Shean | ... on the song "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean," co-written by Marx's uncle | ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo. In his 50s at the time, Marx re ... |
Gary Oldman | ... Brown was featured in Tony Scott's 2001 short film, , alongside Clive Owen, | , Danny Trejo and Marilyn Manson. Brown also made a cameo appearance in th ... |
Bob Marley | ... ar in the U.S. and in Europe, mostly because of reggae superstar and legend | . The late '70s also saw the beginning of hip-hop music with the songs "Ra ... |
Bob Hope | ... th regular appearances on coast-to-coast broadcasts starring Jimmy Durante, | and |
Daniel Day-Lewis | ... ust his looks and his style. He had that shifty quality." The suggestion of | struck a chord with him and he says that although "He's probably getting o ... |
Stewart Granger | ... rtrayed by a number of actors in film and television productions, including | in the 1946 biographical portrait The Magic Bow, Roxy Roth in A Song to Re ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... f other contemporary socialists and communists, from Lenin (a communist) to | (a socialist), were more sympathetic to national self-determination) |
Edward Teller | ... s now called the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by | and Harold Brown. The Navy accepted delivery of the first 16 warheads in J ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... rtin anchored SNLs "Weekend Update" segment in 1976–77, and was paired with | in 1977–78 and Bill Murray in 1978–80 |
Leif Frode Onarheim | ... to Growth; Peter Lorange, former president of IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland | ;, a former member of the Norwegian Parliament and current CEO of leading ... |
Pelé | ... ber of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup. In March 2004 | listed Banks as one of the 125 greatest living footballers. His most famou ... |
Mary Seacole | ... her independence and feeling of religious calling, but in Channel 4's 2006 | : The Real Angel of the Crimea and Simon Schama's A History of Britain she ... |
William Shatner | ... Gene Evans. In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and | in the last episode, entitled "The Scarlet Ribbon", of NBC's western serie ... |
Simon Grigg | ... , produced by James Pinker, Alan Jansson, Dave Bulog (ex Car Crash Set) and | |
Leonhard Euler | ... iversity of Basel, dating from 1460. Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, | , Jacob Burckhardt, and Friedrich Nietzsche worked here. More recently, it ... |
Mahatma Gandhi | ... national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti (birthdate of | ) are meant to be dry days nationally. The state of Andhra Pradesh had imp ... |
Ernst Lubitsch | Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 American comedy film produced and directed by | . The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Le ... |
Maimonides | ... ing to these laws is regarded as one of "the righteous among the gentiles". | writes that this refers to those who have acquired knowledge of God and ac ... |
Jack Huston | ... on, Walter Antony "Tony" Huston, now an attorney and who is father of actor | . Soma also had a daughter, Allegra Huston, as the result of an extramarit ... |
Albert Einstein | ... the individual's capacity to judge his or her fatherland's foreign policy. | stated that "Nationalism is an infantile disease... It is the measles of m ... |
Senda Berenson Abbott | ... opened, it also recognized women for the first time, with inductees such as | , who first introduced basketball to women at Smith College. During the ye ... |
Descartes | ... n, as we are in thought by the laws of logic." This position is advanced by | . It has the theological advantage of making God prior to the laws of logi ... |
Carlos Montalbán | ... Roman Catholic. Montalbán had a sister, Carmen, and two brothers, Pedro and | , an actor. As a teenager, Ricardo moved to Los Angeles to live with Carlo ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... ondon in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist | , bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, th ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... s story. During this run on the title, Grant Morrison (issues #25 & 26) and | (issue #27) both filled in during a three-month break, Grant Morrison's st ... |
Kenneth Brokenburr | ... team-mates Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, Maurice Greene and | . An spokeswoman said the committee would look into the matter as part of ... |
John George Kemeny | In 1970, longtime professor of mathematics and computer science | became president of Dartmouth. Kemeny oversaw several major changes at the ... |
Nevil Shute | ... he movie was adapted by Nunnally Johnson from the novel of the same name by | . It was directed by Irving Pichel |
Sauron | ... Necromancer was a pseudonym used by Tolkien in The Hobbit for the character | . The song departs from the story of the book as Part III sees the return ... |
Roger Hodgson | ... xy, electronic music artist Christopher Reeves, better known as The Gasman, | of Supertramp was born in Portsmouth, Brian Howe, vocalist of Bad Company, ... |
Brainiac | ... he Flash (Barry Allen), Earth-2 Superman, the Anti-Monitor, Lex Luthor, and | . The third and final wave included action figure representations of Earth ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... n extreme, crisis situations. Near the end of her time as governor general, | stated: "My constitutional role has lain in what are called 'reserve power ... |
Marion Jones | Riddick is serving a prison term of five years and three months. | served a six-month prison term for lying to investigators about the check- ... |
Graham Nash | This 'prototype' version of Jefferson Starship included David Crosby and | and Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, ... |
Noël Coward | ... ch We Serve is a 1942 British patriotic war film directed by David Lean and | , and inspired by the sinking of Kelly, under Mountbatten's command. Cowar ... |
Damon Knight | ... ella On the North Pole of Pluto in 1980 in the anthology Orbit 18 edited by | . Robinson gave the novella in rough form to Ursula K. Le Guin to read and ... |
Pythagoras | ... oclea – Delphic priestess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to | General:*Greek art*List of traditional Greek place name |
T. S. Eliot | ... inia Woolf's biographer tells an anecdote on how Virginia Woolf, Keynes and | would discuss religion at a dinner party, in the context of their struggle ... |
Elvis Presley | ... a comeback. Working in the U.S. with Burnett, a band containing a number of | 's sidemen (including James Burton and Jerry Scheff), and minor input from ... |
John Lennon | ... biting his Kinetic Light Sculptures at the Indica Gallery. Mardas impressed | with the Nothing Box; a small plastic box with randomly blinking lights, a ... |
Xiongnu | ... ted archery and javelin throwing. They were possibly the descendants of the | who had been northern neighbours of China three hundred years before and m ... |
Helen Reddy | ... the world. Meanwhile, a score of Australian expatriate solo performers like | , Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen became major stars in the USA and int ... |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... by recalling both its shabbiness and the fact that the greatest Polish poet | died there from the cholera in 1855. Mickiewicz´ museum at Dolapdere, stil ... |
Sam Worthington | Emerging star | had early lead roles in the 2002 mobster black comedy Dirty Deeds and 2003 ... |
Olivia de Havilland | ... drew allegedly due to illness soon after filming began, she was replaced by | . The film was a considerable success and brought renewed attention to its ... |
Herodotus | ... ds, 1955.*Hall, Manly Palmer, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928. , , * | , The Histories* * Manas, John Helen, , New York, Pythagorean Society, 194 ... |
Colin Mochrie | ... red, with both Stiles and Carey credited as executive producers. Stiles and | were the only two performers to appear in every episode of the US version, ... |
John Galliano | Having signed a deal with | in 2004, Theron replaced Estonian model Tiiu Kuik as the spokeswoman in th ... |
Handel | ... large house northwest of London. For a couple of years he worked alongside | - in 1717/18 both men were employed there by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Ch ... |
Sauron | ... were also created for the Ents, but, in the Second Age, were driven out by | |
Jane Jacobs | ... ionals" as a full style of capital of its own. Some ethicists, most clearly | , see this as simple corruption. Nonetheless, corruption clearly has a cas ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ps from starring roles to background ensemble, in support of comedians like | and Fatty Arbuckle. The Keystone Kops serve as supporting players for Mari ... |
Fernando Alonso | ... , Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen, Felipe Massa, and | |
Ang Lee | ... ", became a catchphrase the world over (the phrase was used again, first in | 's Hulk (2003), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incre ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... came unpopular with the onset of the Great Depression. He advised President | to "liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real e ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... Corporation when the warehouses started to be converted into luxury flats. | moved his News International printing and publishing works into Wapping in ... |
Jan Karski | ... ng Western Allies about the fate of the Jewish population. In 1942, AK sent | on a secret mission to personally carry the first eyewitness accounts of t ... |
Laird Cregar | ... Don Ameche and Charles Coburn. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, | , Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, Signe Hasso, Louis Calhe ... |
Peter Allen | ... tralian expatriate solo performers like Helen Reddy, Olivia Newton-John and | became major stars in the USA and internationally. Icehouse also formed in ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... il the later inclusions of Thurgood Marshall, Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, | , and William J. Brennan, Jr. See, and Cover. In 1987, Congress passed a l ... |
Jean Gottmann | This concept of a "megalopolis" was first proposed by the French geographer | in his book Megalopolis, a study of the northeastern United States. One pr ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | The plot was loosely adapted into the 1990 film Total Recall, starring | . In the film, the hero, renamed Quaid, actually travels to Mars, but the ... |
Max Steiner | ... tally with the famous "Can-can" from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. | weaves quotes from "La Marseillaise" throughout his score for the 1942 fil ... |
Wolfgang Petersen | ... g Move. In 1976 she had her first major role in the feature length film and | directed episode Reifezeugnis of the German TV crime series Tatort. Also i ... |
Luigi Chinetti | In 1949, | drove a 166 M to Ferrari's first win in motorsports, the 24 Hours of Le Ma ... |
Charles Bendire | ... tors would go to extreme lengths to obtain eggs of rare birds. For example, | was willing to have his teeth broken to remove a rare egg that became stuc ... |
Jacques Offenbach | ... see by Kurt Weill, Carmen by Georges Bizet and Orpheus in the Underworld by | . He has also translated a Bertolt Brecht play into English. He appeared o ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... gous to the laws of physics except for their being restricted to organisms. | supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and ... |
Elvis Presley | ... own decision and as an assignment in games. These included Carol Channing, | , John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Steve Irwin and Christopher Lloyd's character ... |
Olivia Newton-John | ... anwhile, a score of Australian expatriate solo performers like Helen Reddy, | and Peter Allen became major stars in the USA and internationally. Icehous ... |
Handel's | ... exactly the same manner, although the general outlines remain understood. ( | "Chaconne" in G minor for keyboard has only the faintest relationship to t ... |
Madonna | ... usic videos in the 1990s. His first video role was as the Angel of Death in | 's 1993 "Bad Girl". The second appearance was in Skid Row's "Breakin' Down ... |
Noel Redding | ... singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist | and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which ... |
Xavier Cugat | ... . Arnaz and Ball married on November 30, 1940. Arnaz also played guitar for | |
Orson Welles | One of the most influential films of all time was | ' 1941 film Citizen Kane, which was loosely based on parts of Hearst's lif ... |
Julie Andrews | ... e recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite | two years earlier) |
Alexander Alekhine | ... jor contributions to chess theory. Paradoxically his two title matches with | were displays of tactical ferocity from both sides. But the comments by Km ... |
Wonder Woman | ... well known for wearing 1950s style horn-rimmed glasses as Clark Kent, while | wears either round, Harold Lloyd style glasses or 1970s style bug-eye glas ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... rt was about to consider the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, supposed driver to | , who was challenging the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. A group ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... nd it was used to toast the Declaration of Independence. George Washington, | , Benjamin Franklin and John Adams are also said to have appreciated the q ... |
Herodotus | ... dating back to 4000 BC; the slow burning oil was used mostly to fuel lamps. | and other Greek travellers noted the use of castor seed oil for lighting, ... |
Claire Forlani | ... n (William Forsythe) manages to escape to see his estranged daughter Jade ( | ), who is the only proof that he exists. Goodspeed arrives and reveals to ... |
David Bowie | ... ter" of June 1944 when 12 people were killed by a V1 at Tolworth Park Road. | launched his Ziggy Stardust stage show with the Spiders from Mars—Ronson, ... |
David Sedaris | ... inning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. Sylvia Plath, Truman Capote, and | have all been artists-in-residence. The Yaddo grounds are adjacent to the ... |
Martinů | ... addition to 12 wind instruments for his "Gran Partita" Serenade, K.361 and | used the double bass in his nonet for wind quintet, violin, viola, cello a ... |
Wangari Maathai | ... ding the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, environmentalist | |
Kimi Räikkönen | ... in Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, | , Felipe Massa, and Fernando Alonso |
Thomas Paine | ... enjamin Franklin, believed in reincarnation or resurrection. Others such as | were agnostic about the immortality of the soul |
Walter M. Elsasser | ... nisms. Erwin Schrödinger supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists | and Eugene Wigner |
Anthony Hopkins | ... r; it was adapted as a film by the same name, released in 2003 and starring | , Nicole Kidman, and Gary Sinise |
Nabil Kanso | Othello, a series of 60 paintings executed in 1985 by | . It was published in 1996 by NEV Editions |
Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
Felix Salzer | ... Oregon in Eugene, Oregon where he studied with Homer Keller, Henri Lazarof, | and Robert Trotter. It was there that he assembled a primitive electronic ... |
Jan Hammer | ... uced by Nile Rodgers and Bill Laswell, featuring Herbie Hancock, Jeff Beck, | , Pete Townshend, and the Compass Point All Stars. It sold fairly well, an ... |
Raya Dunayevskaya | ... hy correspondence with Trinidadian Marxist C.L.R. James, Russian expatriate | , and Chinese-American Grace Lee Boggs, all of whom were members of a US b ... |
Arthur St. Clair | ... county seat is Osceola. The county was organized in 1841 and named for Gen. | , governor of the Northwest Territory. St. Clair was also the 9th Presiden ... |
James J. Davis | ... hrough the Coolidge and Hoover administrations. Along with James Wilson and | , he is one of only three Cabinet members to serve under three consecutive ... |
King Constantine I | ... its territory and population. In the following years, the struggle between | and charismatic Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos over the country's fo ... |
James Brown Scott | ... he Court "should have given every lawyer a thrill of cosmic vibration", and | wrote that "the one dream of our ages has been realised in our time". Much ... |
Felipe Massa | ... lesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen, | , and Fernando Alonso |
Nevil Shute | ... former, who appeared on Britain's Got Talent in 2007 came from Portchester, | , also known as Nevil Shute Norway, novelist and aeronautical engineer and ... |
Signe Hasso | ... arjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, | , Louis Calhern, Tod Andrews, and Clara Blandick |
Sylvia Plath | ... been home to 60 Pulitzer Prize winning authors and one Nobel Prize winner. | , Truman Capote, and David Sedaris have all been artists-in-residence. The ... |
Adolf Hitler | Mussolini and | first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ... |
Rod Stewart | ... Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and plays host to acts like Dave Matthews Band, | and the Eagles |
Eugene Wigner | ... r supported similar ideas, as well as the physicists Walter M. Elsasser and | |
Edward Drinker Cope | ... two skulls were assigned to the preexisting species Laelaps incrassatus by | in 1892, although the name Laelaps was preoccupied by a genus of mite and ... |
Lew Grade | On the back of their success on stage and on screen, in 1961 | offered the duo a series for the London-based ITV station ATV. Entitled Tw ... |
Michael J. Fox | ... ar (1924). More recently, the 1987 movie The Secret of My Success (starring | ) was filmed in Lasdon Park and Muscoot Farm. Muscoot Farm was also used a ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... , Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, | , Kimi Räikkönen, Felipe Massa, and Fernando Alonso |
Richard Whitehead Young | ... right activist Susa Young Gates, NFL Hall of Fame athlete Steve Young, and | , U.S. Army Brigadier General and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Cour ... |
Maimonides | ... s as not being under the scrutiny of the ordinances as Jews. Jewish scholar | (13th century) held Gentiles may have a part in salvation and in the world ... |
Paul Verhoeven | ... or only in Quaid's own fantasy, which was an artistic decision by director | . In fact, in the 1997 re-release DVD, Verhoeven explains in the commentar ... |
Marco Polo | ... arked the Renaissance", inspired "Leonardo and Michelangelo", and motivated | and his father to journey to the Orient, paying back the library by adding ... |
Mary Goble Pay | ... a log meetinghouse was built and by this time the town had an LDS Ward with | as president of the Primary Organization. In 1930 Leamington and its immed ... |
Ameen Rihani | ... partnership with Saudi officials. Through his advisers St. John Philby and | , he granted substantial authority over Saudi oil fields to American oil c ... |
Inky Mark | ... ebellious MPs rejoined the Alliance party. Two MPs did not rejoin, however: | chose to remain outside of caucus, and eventually joined the Tories, and t ... |
Jason Priestley | | left the show at the beginning of the ninth season. However, he remained c ... |
Rubens Barrichello | ... sister, Viviane, revealed that following, first the accident of his friend | followed the next day by the death of Roland Ratzenberger during the San M ... |
Amedeo Modigliani | ... art, including works, not all of them minor, by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, | , Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Seurat (some of which can now ... |
Marija Gimbutas | ... iginated in the Near East and then spread to Europe. He also excavated with | at Sitagroi in Greece |
Ashley Montagu | According to | , "The Mongoloid skull has proceeded further than in any other people. |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... nd God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater are sprinkled with these plot descriptions. | 's later books (The Number of the Beast, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls a ... |
William S. Burroughs | Moore named | as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admire ... |
Madonna | ... to these types of pacts. Several artists such as Paramore, Maino, and even | have signed such types of deals |
Ian Smith | ... nda immediately after Idi Amin's departure, but not Zimbabwe Rhodesia after | 's. Helms hosted Muzorewa when he visited Washington and met with Carter i ... |
Claude Shannon | ... es of his/her color. It was invented by "the father of information theory", | . A rectangular grid is commonly used for the graph; in this form the game ... |
Imre Lakatos | ... e, several decades before Gray's criticism, in reply to a critical essay by | |
Wayne Gretzky | In addition, number 99 was retired league-wide for | on February 6, 2000, and number 31, last worn by goaltender Pelle Lindberg ... |
Ovid | ... sed by Horace, who tells of his death at the hands of Diana/Artemis, and by | , in his Fasti for May 11, the middle day of the Lemuria, when (in Ovid's ... |
Canibus | ... e. "Say What You Say" is next, featuring Dr. Dre. The track insults rappers | and Jermaine Dupri, whom Eminem and Dr. Dre feuded with, respectively. It ... |
Bob Maitland | 1952 saw BSA establish a Professional Cycling Team. | a successful amateur cyclist and the highest placed British finisher in th ... |
Charles George Gordon | After time spent in Palestine in 1882–83, General | found a location outside the old city walls that he suggested to have been ... |
Barry Humphries | ... ws filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino, Dennis Hopper, George Miller and | |
Colin Farrell | ... otal Recall, filmed in Toronto, Canada, will be released on August 3, 2012. | , Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel will star in the film directed by Len W ... |
Orson Welles | ... 975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina. (Legendary actor and director | voiced her husband, the cobra "Nag". |
Christa McAuliffe | ... analp was a notary for many years, as were Fawn Hall, teacher and astronaut | , and former major league baseball pitcher Joe Moeller |
Andrew Carnegie | ... he former public library on Broadway was donated by Scottish philanthropist | in 1906; Carnegie was made first freeman of the city on the day of the ope ... |
Madonna | ... zgerald, Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, | , Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole ... |
Piers Anthony | ... g from a dream. A novelization of the film (ISBN 0-380-70874-4), written by | , was published the year before the film was released |
Henry David Thoreau | ... wthorne's atmosphere and melodrama. Later Transcendentalist writers such as | and Ralph Waldo Emerson still show elements of its influence and imaginati ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... lectoral victory on the 36th ballot, but only after Federalist Party leader | —who disfavored Burr's personal character more than Jefferson's policies—h ... |
Karl Marx | ... initially Romanticism and Historicism, and eventually both the Communism of | , and the modern forms of nationalism inspired by the French Revolution, i ... |
Christian Fittipaldi | ... amy, Maurizio Sala, Raul Boesel, Emerson Fittipaldi, Wilson Fittipaldi, and | . Neither Sid Watkins nor Jo Ramirez, the McLaren team coordinator, could ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... sounds of late 1960s to mid 1970s rock music. According to music journalist | , the music had a twitchy, agitated feel to it. New Wave musicians often p ... |
Anthony Panizzi | ... es called the "second founder" of the British Museum, the Italian librarian | . Under his supervision, the British Museum Library (now the British Libra ... |
Bobby Fischer | ... where he shared first place, ahead of Bronstein, at Mar del Plata 1960 with | on 13½/15, defeating Fischer in their first career meeting |
Alexander Hamilton | ... ng for someone besides Adams (a carefully organized scheme originating with | ) less out of opposition to him than to prevent Adams from matching Washin ... |
Jeffrey Simpson | ... cretion. At the end of the 20th century and into the 21st, analysts such as | , Donald Savoie, and John Gomery argued that both parliament and the Cabin ... |
Moshe ben Nahman Gerondi | ... e of the most important Kabbalistic schools in Europe. The Rabbi of Girona, | (better known as Nahmanides or Ramban) was appointed Great Rabbi of Catalo ... |
Bobby Fischer | In 1957 Euwe played a short match against 14-year-old future world champion | , winning one game and drawing the other. His lifetime score against Fisch ... |
Ringo Starr | ... ight. For example, during The Beatles' appearance he persistently addressed | as "Bongo" |
Pablo Picasso | ... hem minor, by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Braque, | , and Georges Seurat (some of which can now be seen at the Fitzwilliam Mus ... |
Henry Miller | ... hoven, Van Gogh or Dostoyevsky, or the American writers he admired, notably | , Jackson Pollock or Walt Whitman |
Henry David Thoreau | ... ers included Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) and | (1817–1862). After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce (1855–1916), botanis ... |
Joan Gamper | Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Catalan footballers led by | , the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence th ... |
Wim Wenders | ... New Wave actress Lisa Kreuzer placed her in the role of the dumb Mignon in | ' film The Wrong Move. In 1976 she had her first major role in the feature ... |
Tom Cruise | ... , a video produced by the Church of Scientology featuring an interview with | was leaked to the Internet and uploaded to YouTube |
Raul Boesel | ... , Mauricio Gugelmin, Hans Stuck, Johnny Herbert, Pedro Lamy, Maurizio Sala, | , Emerson Fittipaldi, Wilson Fittipaldi, and Christian Fittipaldi. Neither ... |
Nicky Hopkins | ... om the debut album My Generation) with Townshend, Entwistle and keyboardist | . "Tommy's Holiday Camp" (from Tommy) was credited to Moon, who suggested ... |
Dirk Kuyt | ... saw their two star players leave to Chelsea (Salomon Kalou) and Liverpool ( | ). At the same time, it became clear that Feyenoord were in an appalling f ... |
Dimitris Christofias | ... arliament in the general election on 27 September 2009. Communist candidate | won a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus, defeating his conservative ri ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Owing to Wagner's relationship with the then unknown philosopher | , the first Bayreuth festival is cited as a key turning point in Nietzsche ... |
Albert Einstein | ... y from collisions between the particle and gas molecules. As pointed out by | in 1905, this experimental evidence for kinetic theory is generally seen a ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ayments to the victorious allies, and the controversial "War Guilt Clause". | later blamed the republic and its democracy for the oppressive terms of th ... |
Kevin Spacey | Lester Burnham ( | ) is a middle-aged magazine writer who despises his job. His wife, Carolyn ... |
Orson Welles | ... rom films such as Luchino Visconti's Senso and his Il Gattopardo as well as | 's The Magnificent Ambersons and also Roberto Rossellini's La Prise de pou ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... styles. The social and political ferment of the 1960s inspired artists like | and Curtis Mayfield to release albums with hard-hitting social commentary, ... |
David Thompson | Canadian explorer | , of the North West Company, spent the winter of 1807–08 at Kootenae House ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
Tony Esposito | ... st goals in the league, Parent also shared the Vezina Trophy with Chicago's | |
Yoko Ono | ... Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, La Monte Young, Joseph Byrd, and | who explored media ranging from performance art to poetry to experimental ... |
August Duranowski | ... osition) was influenced by two violinists, Pietro Locatelli (1693–1746) and | (1770–1834). During Paganini's study in Parma, he came across the 24 Capri ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... a Mangy Lover (1963). He was personal friends with such literary figures as | and Carl Sandburg. Much of his personal correspondence with those and othe ... |
Clara Hughes | ... peed Skating, and was present to see her former teammates Cindy Klassen and | win their personal and national record achievements |
Joe Orlando | ... es of the Black Freighter at the end of issue five credits real-life artist | as a major contributor to the series. Moore chose Orlando because he felt ... |
Ulrika Jonsson | ... s, Terry Gilliam, Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, | , Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, Yehudi Menuhi ... |
Madonna | ... Herb Alpert's A&M Records, now owned by Universal Music Group). Similarly, | 's Maverick Records (started by Madonna with her manager and another partn ... |
Kate Beckinsale | ... lmed in Toronto, Canada, will be released on August 3, 2012. Colin Farrell, | and Jessica Biel will star in the film directed by Len Wiseman |
Constantine II | King | 's dismissal of George Papandreou's centrist government in July 1965 promp ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... a songwriter for Motown writing hits for Michael Jackson, The Miracles and | while Chico became a professional dancer and choreographer joining his eld ... |
Chaka Khan | ... lish or bolster the careers of vocalists including Al Jarreau, Anita Baker, | and Sade. In this same time period Chaka Khan released Echoes of an Era, w ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... umbents publicly outshine the actual head of state; former governor general | alluded to what she saw as "an unspoken rivalry" that had developed betwee ... |
Herodotus | ... lays by Aristophanes are also a treasure trove of comic presentation, while | and Thucydides are two of the most influential historians in this period |
Kate Winslet | ... o. 26, in 2009 at No. 25, and in 2010 at No. 7. In April 2010, she replaced | as the new face and ambassador of Lancôme's Trésor fragrance. Lancôme has ... |
Nearchus | ... was referred to by the Greeks as "Tylos", the centre of pearl trading, when | discovered it while serving under Alexander the Great. From the 3rd centur ... |
Harlan Ellison | ... ot know where that sentence originated. After reading the interview, author | informed Moore that the sentence is a translation of the question "Quis cu ... |
Ashley Montagu | ... eoteny, "Asians", not whites, are "clearly" the most neotenized human race. | mirrored this statement when he stated that the "Mongoloid skull, whether ... |
Lost Colony DNA Project | The | is an ongoing effort underway by the Lost Colony of Roanoke DNA Project at ... |
Lena Headey | ... ed, or been home to, actors such as Oona O'Neill, Earl Cameron, Diana Dill, | , Will Kempe, and most famously, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. ... |
Nick Cave | ... ic scene which had sprung up in Melbourne came The Boys Next Door featuring | . The Boys Next Door would eventually become The Birthday Party |
Burr Caswell | In 1845, | moved to the area near the mouth of the Pere Marquette River as a location ... |
Diana Dill | ... a has produced, or been home to, actors such as Oona O'Neill, Earl Cameron, | , Lena Headey, Will Kempe, and most famously, Michael Douglas and Catherin ... |
Mark Rothko | ... m Rehnquist. Tulane has also hosted several prominent artists, most notably | , who was a Visiting Artist from 1956–1957. Currently on the faculty are J ... |
John Batman | ... 0, Tasmanians in this region were shot or rounded up by bounty hunters like | |
Salomon Kalou | ... w even bigger. The supporters saw their two star players leave to Chelsea ( | ) and Liverpool (Dirk Kuyt). At the same time, it became clear that Feyeno ... |
Charles Fey | The first slot machine was invented by | of San Francisco, California, U.S., who devised a much simpler automatic m ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... 's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian historiographic ideas. | was accused of brandishing a poker at Popper during a meeting of the Cambr ... |
Ovid | He survived Tibullus (d. 19 BC), but was no longer alive when | wrote (c. AD 12) the epistle from Pontus (E Ponto, iv. 16) containing a li ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... portrayed a controlled liberal viewpoint (referencing Shana Alexander) vs. | , who (referencing James J. Kilpatrick) prototyped the right-wing view, al ... |
Sauron | ... R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. They were nine Men who succumbed to | 's power and attained near-immortality as wraiths, servants bound to the p ... |
Jet Li | ... Louis Leterrier, to score the entire soundtrack for Danny The Dog, starring | . It was off the back of this lucrative job that they would have the fundi ... |
Björk | ... Amalia Rodrigues, as well as Caetano Veloso, Juanes, Jeff Buckley, Esthero, | , Cornershop, Oasis, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins and Beck. Furtado's ... |
Imre Lakatos | ... he subject of modern ethno-cultural studies of mathematics. The philosopher | in his Proofs and Refutations aimed to sharpen the formulation of informal ... |
Max Mosley | ... fact that the race had not been abandoned after his accident. FIA President | instead attended the funeral of Ratzenberger which took place on 7 May 199 ... |
Pervez Musharraf | ... s in the Kargil district led to the Kargil War of 1999, after which General | took over through a bloodless coup d'état and assumed vast executive power ... |
Henry VII of England | ... , forcing them on shore near Melcombe Regis. The couple stayed as guests of | but were in fact hostages for the duration of their stay. In order to get ... |
Rod Stewart | ... n hiatus as Ron Isley focused on solo work, later having a top ten hit with | on his cover of the Isleys' Motown hit, "This Old Heart of Mine". Ron also ... |
Gene Deitch | ... more jobs, including creating design tests for the studio's head director, | . However, Deitch was not convinced that Bakshi had a modern design sensib ... |
Marlon Devonish MBE | ... Andy Goode; motor-cyclist Cal Crutchlow; golfer Laura Davies CBE; sprinter | ; distance runners Brian Kilby and David Moorcroft OBE; darts player Steve ... |
Atrocitus | ... wers of the Spectre also become an interest to the Red Lantern Corps leader | , as he senses the Spectre's real nature despite being influenced by the b ... |
Maurice Jarre | Jean Michel Jarre was born in Lyon on 24 August 1948, to composer | and French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor France Pejot. ... |
Charles Laughton | ... m was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from Alfred Hitchcock and | 's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received a mixed critical rec ... |
Selman Waksman | The term antibiotic was coined by | in 1942 to describe any substance produced by a microorganism that is to t ... |
Catherine Zeta-Jones | ... Diana Dill, Lena Headey, Will Kempe, and most famously, Michael Douglas and | . Other film and television personalities who were born, or have lived, in ... |
Carl Peter Thunberg | ... liliiflora, and Magnolia coco and Magnolia figo. Soon after that, in 1794, | collected and described Magnolia obovata from Japan and at roughly the sam ... |
Edward Teller | ... onfused with the U.S. Army Jupiter Intermediate-range ballistic missile. At | 's prompting, the Navy's "Jupiter" missile plans were abandoned in favor o ... |
Henry Chadwick | ... the USA's Commissioner at that year's Summer Olympic Games. In 1905, after | wrote an article saying that baseball grew from the British sports of cric ... |
David Bowie | ... part of Turner's dress. He also did a cover of "Dancing in the Street" with | , who himself appeared at Wembley Stadium. The video was shown simultaneou ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... e mainstream, the film was a stylized thriller taking its cues heavily from | and Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955). Cape Fear received ... |
Salo Flohr | ... hine was unlikely—and is sometimes attributed to Alekhine's alcoholism. But | , who was helping Euwe during the match, thought over-confidence was more ... |
Albert Einstein | In the opening scene, Maggie spells EMCSQU with her blocks, a reference to | 's mass-energy equivalence equation. A picture of Einstein also appears on ... |
David Moorcroft OBE | ... Davies CBE; sprinter Marlon Devonish MBE; distance runners Brian Kilby and | ; darts player Steve Beaton; fencer Kevin Reilly |
Jimi Hendrix | The most famous guitarist who admired Elmore James was | . Early in his career Jimi styled himself variously as 'Maurice James' and ... |
Hikaru Nakamura | ... n the top 100 chess players in the world, and America's number four (behind | , Gata Kamsky and Alexander Onischuk). He played six games in the July 200 ... |
Jean Goldkette | ... s a larger market for jazzy dance music played by white orchestras, such as | 's orchestra and Paul Whiteman's orchestra. In 1924 Whiteman commissioned ... |
Michael Douglas | ... eill, Earl Cameron, Diana Dill, Lena Headey, Will Kempe, and most famously, | and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Other film and television personalities who were ... |
Max Born | Far from claiming to make "the contradiction disappear" which | thought could be achieved with a statistical approach, de Broglie extended ... |
Imre Lakatos | It has been argued that Popper's student | transformed Popper's philosophy using historicism and updated Hegelian his ... |
Donald Mackenzie | ... 6. One party employed by the British North West Company and led by explorer | is believed to have entered Jackson Hole from the west in 1818 or 1819. Th ... |
Bob Marley | Rita Marley, | 's wife, converted to the Rastafari faith after seeing Haile Selassie on h ... |
Vincent van Gogh | In 1990, he acted in a cameo role as | in the film Dreams by legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa |
David Bowie | ... alongside covers of "Summer in the City" (The Lovin' Spoonful), "TVC 15" ( | ), and the theme song from TV's The Munsters. Pictures on a String, their ... |
Jane Goodall | ... ht bulb. Dr. Pryor compares Bart's proposed work among ordinary children to | 's study of chimpanzees. Goodall was pleased to be mentioned in the episod ... |
Ivan Galamian | ... e United States to study at the Juilliard School with the violin pedagogue, | , and his assistant Dorothy Delay |
Sanhaja | ... a (Maghreb) and Spain (al-Andalus), was under the rule of the Almoravids, a | Berber dynasty. Early in his life, Ibn Tumart went to Spain to pursue his ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... s regarded Port Moresby as a key base for a planned counteroffensive, under | , against Japanese forces in the southwest Pacific area. Nimitz's staff al ... |
Wim Wenders | ... s in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and Cat People), as well as parts in | ' films The Wrong Move; Paris, Texas; and Faraway, So Close!. Richard Aved ... |
Mikis Theodorakis | ... enen based on diverse texts, the title taken from a poem of Bertolt Brecht. | composed the cantatas According to the Sadducees and Canto Olympico. Herbe ... |
Boris Spassky | ... ne himself said he would win easily. Former World Champions Vasily Smyslov, | , Anatoly Karpov, and Garry Kasparov analyzed the match for their own bene ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 with | |
Franklin K. Lane | ... government to improve the situation. In response, Secretary of the Interior | challenged him to lobby for creating a new agency, the National Park Servi ... |
Selman Waksman | ... growth of Bacillus anthracis. These drugs were later renamed antibiotics by | , an American microbiologist, in 1942 |
Antonio Carlos Jobim | ... nced, along with several legendary artists, including bossa nova originator | & late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Diana Ross received a Grammy Special Merit Li ... |
Mikhail Baryshnikov | ... ideotaped television production. For example, Larry Boelens's credit on the | Nutcracker was "director of photography", although the production was shot ... |
Jim Lovell | ... il Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, | , and Bill Anders) |
Ranavalona III | ... f the island, missionaries and foreigners were particularly terrible. Queen | was deposed on January 1897 and was exiled to Algiers in Algeria, where sh ... |
Jules Dassin | ... in 1952, and Davis appeared in a Broadway revue, Two's Company directed by | . She was uncomfortable working outside of her area of expertise; she had ... |
Maimonides | Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 | visited Hebron, which he apparently thought lay east of Jerusalem, and wro ... |
George Clooney | ... two major film franchises. He co-starred as thief Linus Caldwell, alongside | , Brad Pitt, and Julia Roberts, in Steven Soderbergh's 2001 remake of the ... |
Alexander Alekhine | At Zürich 1934, Euwe finished second, behind only World Champion | , and he defeated Alekhine in their game. Alekhine was in an eight-year st ... |
Shmuel Eisenstadt | ... ilisations, and the post-colonial perspective of "alternative modernities," | introduced the concept of "multiple modernities" (2003; see also Delanty 2 ... |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... t for a number of composers. Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, | , Boris Blacher, Andrew Lloyd Webber, George Rochberg and Witold Lutosławs ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... in 1998. His final (silent) acting performance was in a film adaptation of | 's short play Catastrophe, opposite longtime collaborator Harold Pinter an ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer | , published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... ional (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by | ). News International had built and clandestinely equipped a new printing ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... from physics into biology that he was influenced by both Linus Pauling and | . It was clear in theory that covalent bonds in biological molecules could ... |
Zygmunt Bauman | Critical theorists such as Theodor Adorno and | propose that modernity or industrialization represents a departure from th ... |
Clara Zetkin | ... omen in Stuttgart where suffrage was described as a tool of class struggle. | of the Social Democratic Party of Germany called for women's suffrage to b ... |
Veronica Lake | ... airstyle, Aaliyah took her mother's advice to cover her left eye, much like | . In 1998, she hired a personal trainer to keep in shape, and exercised fi ... |
Sauron | ... e is also apparently a 'price' to be paid for these manifestations, as when | is deprived of the ability to appear in a wholesome form |
Jorma Kaukonen | ... back to England to play on Smiler, Stewart's last album made in London, so | 's brother Peter Kaukonen first played with the band early in 1974 before ... |
Ringo Starr | Moon's close friend | was seriously concerned about his lifestyle and told Moon that if he kept ... |
Caetano Veloso | ... LC, world music artists Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Amalia Rodrigues, as well as | , Juanes, Jeff Buckley, Esthero, Björk, Cornershop, Oasis, Radiohead, The ... |
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski | ... r "Arrowhead"), served as the AK's first commander until his arrest in 1943 | ;commanded from July 1943 until his capture in September 1944 and Leopold ... |
Mihajlo Pupin | Loading coils are archaically known as Pupin coils after | (especially when used for the Heaviside condition), and the process of ins ... |
René Descartes | ... as human beings feel it traces back to the 17th-century French philosopher, | , who argued that animals do not experience pain and suffering because the ... |
John Cleese | ... corporate video company Video Arts, famous for its training films starring | |
Arnoud Okken | ... sporting park 'de IJsselweide', is well-known of the athletes Bram Som and | |
Beckett's | ... Ralph Richardson, but he drew the line at being offered the role of Hamm in | Endgame, saying that the play offered "nothing but loneliness and despair" ... |
Rudolph A. Marcus | Nobel Prize-winning scientist | was able to discover the function and significance of the electron transpo ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... on to assassinate him had been taken by Natan Yellin-Mor, Yisrael Eldad and | , who was later to become Prime Minister of Israel |
Maurice Greene | ... mission will affect team-mates Jon Drummond, Bernard Williams, Brian Lewis, | and Kenneth Brokenburr. An spokeswoman said the committee would look into ... |
Claude Shannon | ... y behind DSL, like many other forms of communication, can be traced back to | 's seminal 1948 paper: A Mathematical Theory of Communication |
David Bowie | ... Singh, MIDIval Punditz, Missy Elliott, The Freestylers, Nine Inch Nails and | (the last two both using elements of Goldie's "Timeless") and others quoti ... |
Gottfried von Einem | ... gica, op. 27 (1960), Bomarzo, op. 32 (1964), and Milena, op. 37 (1971), and | composed in 1973 An die Nachgeborenen based on diverse texts, the title ta ... |
Rupert Murdoch | In 1986, | 's News International built a new £80m printing and publishing works in th ... |
Ranavalona III | ... Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. After a few skirmishes, the Queen | promptly surrendered. The Foreign Legion lost 226 men, of whom only a tent ... |
Miyoshi Umeki | ... iendship as well. The cast was rounded out by Academy Award winning actress | , who played the role of Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston, James Komack ... |
Frederik Pohl | ... nd society. Amis was particularly enthusiastic about the dystopian works of | and C. M. Kornbluth, and in New Maps of Hell coined the term "comic infern ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... cs could be studied in a laboratory as it were, the social milieu. In 1787, | wrote: "...The science of politics like most other sciences has received g ... |
Hervé Villechaize | ... ision, and his character as well as that of his sidekick, Tattoo (played by | ), became pop icons |
Andy Thomas | ... o Mir. In the fifth and last exchange of a U.S. astronaut, STS-89 delivered | to Mir and returned with David Wolf. Mission duration was 8 days, 19 hours ... |
John Septimus Roe | ... y features, Parry Inlet and Edward Point. The bay was named in the 1830s by | |
Robert Sheckley | ... be a type of humorous dystopia, particularly as exemplified in the works of | . Amis further displayed his devotion to the genre in editing, with the So ... |
Lemmy | ... r their Electric and Sonic Temple albums. Motörhead lead singer and bassist | can be seen wearing an Iron Cross live, and often in interviews as he owns ... |
Ashley Montagu | | notes the following neotenous traits in women relative to men: more delica ... |
Herodotus | ... t was also used by ancient Egyptians to embalm mummies. The Greek historian | said hot bitumen was used as mortar in the walls of Babylon |
John Wesley | ... clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman | and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley (the Younger), and father of musician ... |
Maria Altmann | ... ndling the sale of the remaining four works by Klimt that were recovered by | and her co-heirs after their long legal battle against Austria (see Republ ... |
Claude Rains | ... 967, aged 71. Muni died the same year that his Angel On My Shoulder co-star | , and another co-star, Spencer Tracy, also died. Muni has a star on the Ho ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... d generous partner." Republican Governor of California and Kennedy relative | described "Uncle Teddy" as "a liberal icon, a warrior for the less fortuna ... |
Rod Stewart | ... that was later christened Jefferson Starship. Sears had worked on three of | 's early British recordings, and had to go back to England to play on Smil ... |
Bram Som | ... 3, located in sporting park 'de IJsselweide', is well-known of the athletes | and Arnoud Okke |
Eddie Campbell | Following a brief interlude by From Hell artist | , the series' direction was taken over by Paul Jenkins in 1995. He had bee ... |
Karl Marx | ... l new challenges. Various 19th century intellectuals, from Auguste Comte to | to Sigmund Freud, attempted to offer scientific and/or political ideologie ... |
Lafcadio Hearn | ... dhist monk U Dhammaloka (?Laurence Carroll?) in Burma, Buddhist sympathiser | in Japan, the Hindu nun Sister Sanghamitta (Margaret Noble) and the Theoso ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
Richard Burton | ... ough many of Huston's films. In The Night of the Iguana, Kaminsky notes how | , while preaching a sermon to his congregation, seems "lost, confused, his ... |
Benjamin of Tudela | In 1170, | visited the city, which he called by its Frankish name, St.Abram de Bron. ... |
John von Neumann | ... nother 5 bits — and so it was 16-bits. Nevertheless the small word size led | to conclude the machine would be worthless |
Yves Montand | ... sung by prominent 20th century French vocalists, including Marianne Oswald, | , and Édith Piaf, as well as by the later American singers Joan Baez and N ... |
Yo-Yo Ma | ... imple Gifts" at the 2009 inauguration ceremony for Barack Obama, along with | (cello), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill (clarinet). The quart ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... eir time entertaining, holding lavish parties, the guests at which included | , Douglas Fairbanks, Winston Churchill and a young John F. Kennedy. Upon v ... |
Sauron | ... n's influence over it. According to Gandalf, it is beyond the skill of both | and Saruman to create the palantíri and that Sauron cannot make the palant ... |
Cary Grant | The lead role of Steve was originally offered to | , with a promise by Frank to rewrite the script to play up the age differe ... |
Albert Einstein | In the early 20th century, Frederick Frost Blackman along with | investigated the effects of light intensity (irradiance) and temperature o ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... War I. Over the next 25 years, through the Great Depression and the rise of | , he stayed on the job. ... It is doubtful any individual has ever given m ... |
Ann-Margret | ... after four months due to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and | for the Frank Capra film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra ... |
Euler | Following the classical dynamics of Newton and | , the motion of a material body is produced by the action of externally ap ... |
Jean Renoir | ... nst the tsar. The mood of the army is perhaps captured well by one scene in | 's movie, La Grande Illusion. Alexandra sends boxes to Russian prisoners o ... |
George II of Greece | ... Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King | , to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explan ... |
Sam Mendes | American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by | and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as office worker Lester Burnh ... |
Slick Rick | ... delays. The album features many Wu-Tang members and affiliates, as well as | , Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, Beanie Sigel and more. On September 28, 2009 Rae ... |
Hannah Chaplin | Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to | (née Hannah Harriet Pedlingham Hill, 1865–1928) and Charles Chaplin Sr. (1 ... |
John Wesley | In the 18th century Lincoln became the cradle of Methodism when | , a fellow there from 1726, held religious meetings with his brother Charl ... |
Bebeto | ... ces of 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. This style was developed by artists such as | , Bedeu, Scotland 7, Djalma Ferreira, the Daydreams, Dhema, Ed Lincoln, El ... |
Rudy Sarzo | ... r, he was only available for the recording sessions, and so was replaced by | on the tour |
Gilles Villeneuve | ... rio Andretti, Clay Regazzoni, Niki Lauda, Carlos Reutemann, Jody Scheckter, | , Didier Pironi, Patrick Tambay, René Arnoux, Michele Alboreto, Gerhard Be ... |
Yo-Yo Ma | ... he violin soloist for the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha, along with cellist | . Perlman played selections from the musical scores of the movies nominate ... |
Mengistu Haile Mariam | ... s cause was the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) insurgency. In 1984, President | announced that 46% of the Ethiopian Gross National Product would be alloca ... |
Jeroen Blijlevens | ... amples of famous cyclists who won the race once or more are Servais Knaven, | and Alessandro Petacchi. Regularly, the NK (Dutch Championships) Survival ... |
Britt Ekland | ... opment. She also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role of | in the 2004 HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. On 30 September, ... |
Herbert Marcuse | ... ments despite his claiming that his philosophical views ignore metaphysics. | criticized Being and Nothingness (1943) by Jean-Paul Sartre for projecting ... |
Michael Pupin | | , inventor and Serbian immigrant to the USA, also played a part in the sto ... |
Shania Twain | ... d pedal steel guitar styles. Some notable Canadian country artists include: | , Blue Rodeo, Marg Osburne, Hank Snow, Johnny Mooring, Don Messer, Doc Wal ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... Though Reid proclaimed he was a soldier of God (Allah) under the command of | , Judge Young declared: Reid reportedly demonstrated a lack of remorse and ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... er Winston Churchill and President Harry S. Truman without the knowledge of | . The main point of the proposal was that Germany would only surrender to ... |
Simon Kuznets | GDP was first developed by | for a US Congress report in 1934, who immediately said not to use it as a ... |
Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, John Westbrook provi ... |
Glenn Ford | ... the production after four months due to "chronic illness". She then joined | and Ann-Margret for the Frank Capra film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a ... |
Otto Preminger | ... end of his career he also began to act in various films. In 1963, director | asked if he would portray a Boston prelate in The Cardinal, and, writes au ... |
Neil Armstrong | ... en-surviving Apollo astronauts, including the complete crews of Apollo 11 ( | , Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell ... |
James Joyce | ... n the Oxford English Dictionary is the onomatopoeic tattarrattat, coined by | in Ulysses (1922) for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gi ... |
Alessandro Petacchi | ... sts who won the race once or more are Servais Knaven, Jeroen Blijlevens and | . Regularly, the NK (Dutch Championships) Survival takes place in Gendring ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | The Ultimate Sin is the fourth studio album by | . It was released on 22 February 1986, and it was remastered and re-issued ... |
George Brecht | ... l for Social Research in New York City were attended by Mac Low, Al Hansen, | , and Dick Higgins, many of whom were working in other media with little o ... |
John Sutter | ... 1839 and originally called "New Helvetia" (New Switzerland) by its builder, | , the fort was a 19th century agricultural and trade colony in California. ... |
Servais Knaven | ... ympia's Tour. Examples of famous cyclists who won the race once or more are | , Jeroen Blijlevens and Alessandro Petacchi. Regularly, the NK (Dutch Cham ... |
Zog of Albania | ... while Władysław Sikorski, military leader of Poland, lived at Iver and King | lived at Frieth. Much earlier, King Louis XVIII of France lived in exile a ... |
Pythagoras | ... a (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher | , is the small interval (or comma) existing in Pythagorean tuning between ... |
Buzz Aldrin | ... ollo astronauts, including the complete crews of Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, | , and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill An ... |
Claude Shannon | ... one has been explicitly formulated by Auguste Kerckhoffs (in the 1880s) and | (in the 1940s); the statements are known as Kerckhoffs' principle and Shan ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... lotic elite. The KAU remained dominated by the Kikuyu ethnic group. In 1947 | , the former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became ... |
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus | ... ral legions were dispatched to North Africa under the command of the Consul | . The war dragged out into a long and seemingly endless campaign as the Ro ... |
Hank Snow | ... e Canadian country artists include: Shania Twain, Blue Rodeo, Marg Osburne, | , Johnny Mooring, Don Messer, Doc Walker, Emerson Drive, Paul Brandt, The ... |
Fausto Sozzini | ... io Biandrata, Bernardino Ochino, Giovanni Alciato, Giovanni Battista Cetis, | , Francesco Stancaro and Giovanni Valentino Gentile) who propagated Nontri ... |
Albert O. Hirschman | ... Practice; Gunnar Myrdal's (1957) Economic Theory and Underdeveloped Regions | ;'s (1958) The Strategy of Economic Development; and Claude Ponsard's (195 ... |
Olivia de Havilland | ... n 1935 as the comedy Alibi Ike, starring Joe E. Brown in the title role and | in her film debut |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... Ulrika Jonsson, Judge Jules, Ralf Little, Sienna Miller, Marina Diamandis, | (and later Sting who bought Menuhin's old house), Ewan Mcgregor, George Mi ... |
Al Shean | ... ce-Lorraine). Minnie's brother was Al Schoenberg, who shortened his name to | when he went into show business as half of Gallagher and Shean, a noted va ... |
Carl-Gustaf Rossby | ... t calculations were done on April 1, 1954 and BESK handled weather data for | and the SMHI meteorological agency, statistics for the telecommunications ... |
Hikaru Utada | ... her as the "undisputed queen of the midtempo come-on". Japanese pop singer | has said several times that "It was when I heard Aaliyah's Age Ain't Nothi ... |
Gaius Marius | ... decisively. Frustrated at the apparent lack of action, Metellus' lieutenant | returned to Rome to seek election as Consul. Marius was elected, and then ... |
Terrence Malick | ... iety of film directors, such as Richard Attenborough, Francis Ford Coppola, | , David Cronenberg, Mike Nichols, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Ol ... |
Stravinsky | ... heory. Although these include analyses of music by Mozart, Debussy, Bartók, | , Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, Michael von Biel, and, espec ... |
Sauron | ... the enemies' eyes. Knowledge of this technique was lost long ago, although | probably knew of it |
Gerhard Berger | Senna was close friends with McLaren teammate | , and the two were always playing practical jokes on each other. Berger is ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... rs may have been more directly deist. These include James Madison, possibly | , Ethan Allen |
Marcel Duchamp | ... he Surrealist movement. Together with the writer Raymond Queneau and artist | , he was a member of the Rue du Château group. He was also a member of the ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with | as a Keystone Kop |
George Augustus Robinson | ... e' (also known as the Black War) was being disbanded elsewhere in Tasmania, | spent a week in north-east Tasmania, searching without success, for the "B ... |
Teddy Stauffer | ... lor, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Fisher and Brigitte Bardot. Former Swing Musician | , so called "Mister Acapulco", was a hotelowner ("Villa Vera", "Casablanca ... |
David Bowie | ... the early 1980s, Hulce was chosen over intense competition (which included | and Mikhail Baryshnikov) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Form ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. | stars as office worker Lester Burnham, who has a midlife crisis when he be ... |
Mikhail Baryshnikov | ... , Hulce was chosen over intense competition (which included David Bowie and | ) to play the role of Mozart in director Milos Forman's film version of Pe ... |
Alexander Mackenzie | ... re Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier (Mackenzie King twice) | ;and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliam ... |
Frank Borman | ... Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) and Apollo 8 ( | , Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) |
Mars Exploration Rover | ... f gallium arsenide, indium gallium phosphide or indium gallium arsenide.The | s and several satellites use triple junction gallium arsenide on germanium ... |
Frank Capra | ... ue to "chronic illness". She then joined Glenn Ford and Ann-Margret for the | film A Pocketful of Miracles (1961) (a remake of Capra's 1933 film, Lady f ... |
Banshee | ... neration X, featuring Jubilee and other teenage mutants led and schooled by | and former villainess Emma Frost at her Massachusetts Academy. In 1998, Ex ... |
Bartók | ... music theory. Although these include analyses of music by Mozart, Debussy, | , Stravinsky, Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, Michael von Biel ... |
John Wesley | In terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike | , was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, fina ... |
Robert Crumb | ... ings, and even a similar Keep On Truckin' figure later to be made famous by | . His characters were frequently seen chasing butterflies; when asked why ... |
Hitler | The term Übermensch was a favorite of | and the Nazi regime, which borrowed from Nietzsche's work and sought to ad ... |
George Augustus Robinson | ... n, Tasmania as one of numerous vagrant children. When taken into custody by | he was a "professional thief". He was sent to the Boy's Orphan School in H ... |
Lars Ulrich | ... , drug use, violent behavior and personality conflicts with James Hetfield, | , and original Metallica bassist Ron McGovney. Two months after being fire ... |
Ferdinand Magellan | ... on of Africa and Asia, Columbus's voyage to the Americas (1492) and finally | 's circumnavigation of the Earth (1519–21) provided the final, practical p ... |
Leo Strauss | ... elements of his thought were emphasized by Carl Schmitt, Joseph Schumpeter, | , Hans Morgenthau, and Raymond Aron. According to Austrian economist Ludwi ... |
Bahadur Shah | ... native Indian ones, and only allowed British soldiers to handle artillery. | was exiled to Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), where he died in 1862 |
William Pattison Telford, Sr. | Politician David Mundell was born in Dumfries as were William Dickson, | and Ambrose Blacklock all of whom made their mark politically in Canada. M ... |
Karl Marx | ... uages resulting in many people being unable to communicate with each other. | wrote about the creation of nations as requiring a bourgeois revolution an ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... in the 1950s and early 1960s. Besides reading the works of writers such as | and Allen Ginsberg, he discovered African American music - jazz, blues and ... |
Jim Bridger | ... ed South Pass in 1812. The Oregon Trail later followed that route. In 1850, | located what is now known as Bridger Pass, which the Union Pacific Railroa ... |
Elvis Costello | ... ic with the sardonic attitude and tense, aggressive energy of punk" such as | , Joe Jackson, and Graham Parker. In the U.S., the first New Wavers were t ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ntury Republican attorney and black civil rights activist who served in the | administration, was born in Holmes County in 1877 |
Mordechai Vanunu | ... d organisations, including Wangari Maathai, Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, | , Petra Kelly and Memorial |
Kurt Benirschke | ... y between closely related species is the muntjac, which was investigated by | and his colleague Doris Wurster. The diploid number of the Chinese muntjac ... |
Rubens Barrichello | ... reto, Gerhard Berger, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, | , Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen, Felipe Massa, and Fernando Alonso |
Max Steiner | ... ometimes credited to Carl Stalling, although other sources have given it to | and Scott Bradley. The click track was sufficiently useful as a synchroniz ... |
Gilles Villeneuve | * In , the trophy was not given to | , a Canadian driver, who finished the season as runner-up but ahead of Ala ... |
Alexander Berkman | ... mbing attacks planned by anarchists associated with the radical journalists | and Luigi Galleani |
Leonhard Euler | ... sis of the lunar data in the early decades of the Nautical Almanac, £300 to | for his (assumed) contribution to the work of Mayer, £50 each to Richard D ... |
Arthur St. Clair | ... acket and Miami Chief Little Turtle, defeated an American expedition led by | , governor of the Northwest Territory. The engagement, known as the Battle ... |
Brainiac | ... athing room for the heroes, but the various supervillains join forces under | (who murders Alexi Luthor of Earth-Two for trying to take leadership) and ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... were invited by Cage to attend his classes unofficially at the New School. | and Allan Kaprow (who is credited as the creator of the first "happenings" ... |
René Descartes | Influenced both by Galileo's new physics and Bacon, | argued soon after that mathematics and geometry provided a model of how sc ... |
Osama bin Laden | | held Hazmi and Mihdhar in high respect, with their experience fighting dur ... |
Haydn | ... ethoven's late quartets". Mendelssohn was not thought of highly, Mozart and | "were considered out of date and naïve", and J.S. Bach merely mathematical ... |
Joseph Haydn | The earliest known concerto for double bass was written by | ca.1763, and is presumed lost in a fire at the Eisenstadt library. The ear ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... after the 18th century. In 1860, the inhabitants enthusiastically supported | in his conquest of southern Italy (in the course of the Unification of Ita ... |
Maimonides | ... analysis, while the Middle Eastern Aristotelians such as Avicenna and later | and Averroes, continued Aristotle's tradition of analysis and empiricism, ... |
Richard Dawson | ... s. He was also a panelist on the 1974 revival of Masquerade Party hosted by | . He had also appeared with Dawson on Cop-Out |
Wangari Maathai | ... has been awarded to a diverse group of people and organisations, including | , Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Petra Kelly and Memori ... |
Pursh | Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva | ) is a small, low plant with a pink to white flower. It is the state flowe ... |
Horace Capron | Capron was named after General | |
Zaha Hadid | ... omplex in nearby Weil am Rhein, composed of buildings by architects such as | (fire station), Frank Gehry (design museum), Alvaro Siza Vieira (factory b ... |
John Gorrie | ... in 1805, Jacob Perkins patented the first refrigerating machine in 1834 and | patented his mechanical refrigeration machine in 1851 in the US to make ic ... |
Edward G. Robinson | ... toga Springs has graced the silver screen since the days of Clark Gable and | . The following is a list of movies filmed in and around Saratoga Springs |
Melissa George | Camilla Rhodes ( | , Laura Elena Harring) is little more than a face in a photo and a name th ... |
Serge Reggiani | ... t the River Seine. The poem was read as narration during the film by singer | |
Kit Carson | ... xico in the Mexican–American War in 1846, U.S. military forces commanded by | forced more than eight thousand Navajo men, women and children from their ... |
Guy Lombardo | ... of amenities. Some of the most well-known performers of the era, including | , the Dorsey Brothers, Phil Harris, and Benny Goodman, appeared at the par ... |
Sekou Cissé | ... act more investors to the club leading to some unexpected signings, such as | , Dani Fernández and Stefan Babović |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... as Thus Spake Zarathustra; ) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher | , composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885. Much of the work deals wit ... |
Gracie Fields | ... radio, dance hall bands, and so on, playing with many performers including | , Bob Monkhouse and Kathy Kirby, and on television programs such as Opport ... |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... acking characteristics of true polyphonism, as pointed out by Eugène Ysaÿe. | , on the other hand, suggested that this might have been the result of his ... |
Frank Gehry | ... ein, composed of buildings by architects such as Zaha Hadid (fire station), | (design museum), Alvaro Siza Vieira (factory building) and Tadao Ando (con ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... endencies split), but they eventually folded as well, with Trujillo joining | 's band (and later Metallica) and Muir performing as Cyco Miko, releasing ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... t and believing it could appeal to the same audience that had recently made | 's Psycho (1960) a success. She negotiated a deal that would pay her 10 pe ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... res states that although feminists were among those who opposed the rise of | , feminism has a complicated relationship with the Nazi movement as well, ... |
Joseph Priestley | ... ant's biomass comes from the inputs of photosynthesis, not the soil itself. | , a chemist and minister, discovered that, when he isolated a volume of ai ... |
Dolores Ibárruri | ... organization in the U.S. and is still active. During the Spanish Civil War, | (La Pasionaria) led the Communist Party of Spain. Although she supported e ... |
Iannis Xenakis | ... oprano Maria Callas, composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Skalkottas, | , Manos Hatzidakis, Eleni Karaindrou, Yanni and Vangelis, one of the best- ... |
Mark Twain | ... ecommendation of economically motivated cannibalism. Again, some critics of | see Huckleberry Finn as racist and offensive, missing the point that its a ... |
Stewart Granger | ... , a romanticised version of Thomas Seymour's obsession with Elizabeth I saw | as Seymour, Jean Simmons as the young Elizabeth and screen legend Deborah ... |
Alexander Mackenzie | ... e prefix Sir before their name; of the first eight premiers of Canada, only | refused the honour of a knighthood from Queen Victoria. Following the 1919 ... |
Richard Curtis | ... levision special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson and inspired screenwriter | , who attended the London service, to write the growing-orchestra wedding ... |
Rupert Murdoch | After | , the head of Fox Studios and an Australian, saw the new Fox studios were ... |
Walter Kaufmann | ... ernard Shaw, who had done the same in his 1903 stage play Man and Superman. | lambasted this translation in the 1950s for two reasons: first, its near o ... |
Gus Kahn | ... uite includes lyrics to the central section of "On the Trail" by songwriter | |
Charles Laughton | The first actor to portray Hercule Poirot was | . He appeared on the West End in 1928 in the play Alibi which had been ada ... |
Grace Jones | ... anist Herbie Hancock, Sting (who provided backing vocals on "The Promise"), | (who provided the brief but dramatic spoken-word interlude on "Election Da ... |
Cuong Vu | ... more experimental end of the spectrum, including trumpeters Rob Mazurek and | , saxophonist Ken Vandermark, guitarist Nels Cline, bassist Todd Sickafoos ... |
Chaka Khan | ... Heart' concert event, which also featured fellow performers Gladys Knight, | and Patti LaBelle. The following month she was a headliner at the City Sta ... |
Rakesh Sharma | ... orn woman and the second Indian person to fly in space, following cosmonaut | who flew in 1984 in a spacecraft. On her first mission Chawla traveled ove ... |
Schuschnigg | ... ny, leading to the assassination of Dollfuss on 25 July 1934. His successor | maintained the ban on pro-Hitlerite activities in Austria, but was forced ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... of the Taliban government and its replacement by the current government of | , there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the nationa ... |
Poldek Pfefferberg | ... the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of | , a Holocaust survivor. The book would later be adapted to Steven Spielber ... |
Simon Kuznets | ... ch as social and environmental concerns. Examples of externalities include: | in his very first report to the US Congress in 1934 said: ...the welfare o ... |
Elvis Presley | ... ic's most successful artists died within eight weeks of each other in 1977. | , the best-selling singer of all time, died on August 16, 1977. Presley's ... |
Yo-Yo Ma | ... , Perlman has performed with a number of other notable musicians, including | , Jessye Norman, Isaac Stern, and Yuri Temirkanov at the 150th anniversary ... |
Takao Doi | ... tellite which malfunctioned, necessitating a spacewalk by Winston Scott and | to capture the satellite. A five-month NASA investigation fully exonerated ... |
Arianna Huffington | ... n the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of How I Met Your Mother along with | , and Will Shortz. Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jocke ... |
Zenata | ... bly a struggle for succession, in which Abd al-Mu'min prevailed. Although a | Berber from Targa (Algeria), and thus an alien among the Masmuda of southe ... |
David McHattie Forbes | ... land stand of cinchona trees, from which quinine is made. It was planted by | in the early 1900s |
Walter Kaufmann | ... slations, titled Thus Spoke Zarathustra, separately by R.J. Hollingdale and | , which are considered to convey more accurately the German text than the ... |
Theodor W. Adorno | ... he latter half of the 20th century to a realization of its unattainability. | said in 1970, "It is now taken for granted that nothing which concerns art ... |
Max Horkheimer | Weber has influenced many later social theorists, such as Theodor Adorno, | , György Lukács and Jürgen Habermas. Different elements of his thought wer ... |
Marion Jones | The investigation also implicated his former partner | , winner of the women's 100 metres at the Sydney Games |
James Joyce | ... y comes from the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in Finnegans Wake by | . On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the ... |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... ein their casket lies in state in the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. Only | and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being t ... |
Jean Simmons | ... Thomas Seymour's obsession with Elizabeth I saw Stewart Granger as Seymour, | as the young Elizabeth and screen legend Deborah Kerr as Parr in the popul ... |
Flohr | ... (1926), Capablanca (1931), and Spielmann (1935); and Euwe drew a match with | in 1932. His playing strength gradually increased, so that by 1932 he and ... |
Alexander Alekhine | ... shment of a chess school under Bogoljubow and the World Chess Champion, Dr. | , and he visited a chess tournament in October 1942 at the "Literary Café" ... |
Albert Einstein | ... etical constructs, rather than real objects. An important turning point was | 's (1905) and Marian Smoluchowski's (1906 |
Julius Pokorny | ... ho of the ancient fame of the magic hand of Nodens the Catcher". Similarly, | derives the name from a Proto-Indo-European root *neu-d- meaning "acquire, ... |
Noël Coward | Visited by Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, | and Queen Elizabeth II among many others, Penang has always been a popular ... |
Yanni | ... akis, Nikos Skalkottas, Iannis Xenakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Eleni Karaindrou, | and Vangelis, one of the best-selling singers worldwide Nana Mouskouri and ... |
Philip Schaff | According to Protestant theologian | , "The Nicene fathers passed this canon not as introducing anything new, b ... |
Thierry Henry | ... eland ball instead of France as a joke at the expense of FIFA, referring to | 's handball controversy in the play off match between France and Ireland. ... |
Meyer Lansky | ... alliances with other criminal enterprises, including the Jewish mob, led by | , the leading Jewish gangster of that period. from 1920–1933, Prohibition ... |
Peter Brook | ... 7 production of Ben Jonson's Volpone for the Royal National Theatre, and in | 's acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. At about this time, ... |
Al Stewart | On his album A Beach Full of Shells, | paid tribute to Donegan in the song "Katherine of Oregon". Additionally, i ... |
Alla Nazimova | ... eral films starring Marguerite Clark. His next role, in War Brides opposite | , attracted the attention of legendary director D. W. Griffith, who offere ... |
Albert Einstein | ... Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to | 's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this p ... |
James Ferman | ... Bishop replied, "Well, he's sort of Jesus-shaped." During an interview with | (former director of the British Board of Film Classification), Ali G asks ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... nand II of Portugal, and also a first cousin to Queen Victoria, her husband | , Empress Carlota of Mexico and her brother Leopold II of Belgium. These l ... |
Uhuru Kenyatta | ... ng in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted | , the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor. A rainbow coalitio ... |
Franz Blei | ... erotic drawings however: 15 of his drawings were selected by Viennese poet | for his translation of Hellenistic satirist Lucian's Dialogues of the Cour ... |
Nietzsche | ... -Human, Superman"; ) is a concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. | posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 188 ... |
Malcolm McDowell | ... l Flash was released in 1975. It was directed by Richard Lester and starred | as Flashman, Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismarck and Alan Bates as Rudi von S ... |
Claude Rains | ... Shoulder, playing a gangster whose early death prompts the Devil (played by | ) to make mischief by putting his soul into the body of a judge, only to h ... |
James Edward Tait | ... ological breakdown. Dr Ian Gibson is another to leave his mark on politics. | was a Dumfries-born recipient of the Victoria Cross. William Robertson and ... |
Lysias | ... hey are more technical and legal are the orations by Antiphon, Demosthenes, | , Isocrates and many others. The Attic Greek of the philosopher Aristotle ... |
Eugene Wigner | ... fundamental. First, the particles were classified by charge and isospin by | and Werner Heisenberg; then, in 1953, according to strangeness by Murray G ... |
Enrique Iglesias | ... rt in South Africa hosted by MTV, BET, and Nike; fellow performers included | , Kanye West, Kelly Rowland, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson. Furtado also h ... |
Charles Laughton | ... cinemas in 1934, in Alexander Korda's film The Private Life of Henry VIII. | played the king, with actress Everley Gregg appearing as Catherine Parr. T ... |
Raymond Loewy | ... d Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the designers of the kitchen, including | , announce plans to sell affordable prefabricated houses, called Leisurama ... |
Oliver Reed | ... It was directed by Richard Lester and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, | as Otto von Bismarck and Alan Bates as Rudi von Sternberg |
Spielmann | ... n matches against the world's best: Alekhine (1926), Capablanca (1931), and | (1935); and Euwe drew a match with Flohr in 1932. His playing strength gra ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... limited access to MCA's clients such as Stewart, Rock Hudson, Doris Day and | to make films for Universal |
Adolf Hitler | ... purpose of the SS, that of safeguarding the leadership of the Nazi Party ( | ) continued until the very end of the group's existence. Hitler had used b ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... led Mandu çarará, based on an Indian legend collected by Barbosa Rodrigues. | composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951–52, which used stanzas from ... |
Isaac Stern | ... ith a number of other notable musicians, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, | , and Yuri Temirkanov at the 150th anniversary celebration of Tchaikovsky ... |
Hitler | ... forbidden the unification of Austria and Germany, but native Austrian-born | was vastly striving to annex Austria during the late 1930s, which was fier ... |
Richard Lester | A film version of Royal Flash was released in 1975. It was directed by | and starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman, Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismarck ... |
Luis Miguel | ... rs. Acapulco is still popular with Mexican celebrities and wealthy, such as | , Plácido Domingo and Dolores Olmedo, who maintain homes here |
Ian Porterfield | ... ving failed to get the Royals back into the Second Division. His successor, | , lasted just 18 months before further failures cost him his job |
Andrew Carnegie | ... s a literary award established in 1936 in honour of Scottish philanthropist | and given annually to an outstanding book for children and young adults. I ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... He was well known for aiding Joseph Stalin in the Military Council (led by | ), having become closely associated with Stalin during the Red Army's 1918 ... |
Gerhard Berger | ... s Villeneuve, Didier Pironi, Patrick Tambay, René Arnoux, Michele Alboreto, | , Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello ... |
Red Mitchell | ... octave lower (C-G-D-A low to high). This tuning was used by the jazz player | and is increasingly used by classical players, notably the Canadian bassis ... |
De Kooning | ... four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence and Rauschenberg's Erased | Drawing. Many conceptual works take the position that art is created by th ... |
Rod Stewart | ... James Sainsbury, Peter Sellers, Mike Skinner, Alison Steadman, Imre Varadi, | , Victoria Wood, Lord Young of Dartington, Toby Young, and Alex Zane |
Eric Idle | ... uccess. He assessed happiness by his friendships and his enjoyment of life. | and Stephen Fry said Cook had not wasted his talent but rather that the ne ... |
Fritz Lang | Many of the following fictional cities were inspired by | 's 1927 film, Metropolis and the influential depiction of Los Angeles in R ... |
Oisín | ... 761 James Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian ( | ) in the Scottish Gaelic language on the subject of "Fingal" (Fionnghall m ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... vernor General Luke E. Wright, Burnham Park in honor of Baguio city planner | , Governor Pack Road, and Session Road |
Elvis Presley | ... h version of "On The Street Where You Live" is sung while Joe is on a date. | 's version of "Blue Moon" plays as Joe spend his final night before depart ... |
Al Jolson | ... orded Gershwin songs, including Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, | , Bobby Darin, Percy Grainger, Art Tatum, Yehudi Menuhin, Bing Crosby, The ... |
Joseph Priestley | ... of his attempt to investigate the law of electrical repulsions as stated by | in England |
Marcia Hines | Parallel with Geyer's success, American born vocalist | emerged as one of Australia's most successful solo singers. She first came ... |
Vernor Vinge | The poem was referenced in | 's hard science fiction novel A Fire Upon the Deep |
Ovid | ... no evidence for the conflated Romulus-Quirinus before the first century BC. | in Book 14, lines 812-828, of the Metamorphoses gives a description of the ... |
Claudette Colbert | ... ole of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950). | , for whom the part had been written, had severely injured her back, and s ... |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... d transcriptions, most famously in a piano version made by Russian composer | . Other selections familiar to listeners in the West are "Dance of the Tum ... |
Jim Keays | ... m Shakespeare, Sherbet, Silver Studs, John St Peters, Jeff St John, Stylus, | , Tamam Shud, Ted Mulry Gang, Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Ol' 55, Mark Hold ... |
William Sublette | ... 1820s, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company partnership included Jedediah Smith, | and David Edward Jackson or "Davey Jackson". Jackson oversaw the trapping ... |
Laura Elena Harring | ... nd exhibits several instances of temporal disruption. A dark-haired woman ( | ) escapes her own murder by being the sole survivor of a car accident on M ... |
Yuri Gagarin | After the flight of | in 1961, Sergey Korolyov, the chief Soviet rocket engineer, came up with t ... |
Abu Hamza al-Masri | ... Park Mosque in North London headed at that time by the anti-American cleric | and described as "the heart of the extremist Islamic culture" in Britain. ... |
Leó Szilárd | ... ling hands". In 1932, the physicist and conceiver of nuclear chain reaction | read The World Set Free, a book which he said made a great impression on h ... |
William Joyce | ... ho fought on the opposite side, with the Republican International Brigades. | became an English-language propagandist for the Third Reich, known colloqu ... |
Terry Gilliam | Damon played a fictionalized version of Wilhelm Grimm in | 's fantasy adventure The Brothers Grimm (2005), which was a critically pan ... |
Poul Anderson | It was also an influence for | 's hard science fiction novel "Tau Zero |
Daniel Burnham | ... e residence of the American governor-general. The famous American architect | , one of the earliest successful modern city planners, laid a meticulous p ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... ds. The party benefited from the support of the proprietor of News Limited, | , who preferred Whitlam over McMahon. Labor was so dominant in the campaig ... |
Greg Kuperberg | ... e Development and Envelopment at MIT, which was posted on Usenet in 1989 by | , who wrote |
Rudolf Nureyev | ... nce companies around the world and notable interpreters of the Moor include | |
Werner Herzog | He next starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the | film , and alongside Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in Streets of Blood. Both we ... |
Steve Nash | ... rst NBA championship only two years before. The Mavericks, run by a trio of | , Michael Finley, and Dirk Nowitzki, had just defeated the Utah Jazz despi ... |
Hikaru Utada | Today, game soundtracks are sold on CD. Famous singers like | , Ayumi Hamasaki and Gackt sometimes sing songs for games as well, and thi ... |
Noël Coward | ... nts. Sometimes the songs represented original material, or on one occasion, | 's classic There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner, but just as often t ... |
Osama bin Laden | On 2 May 2011, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned the killing of | in Pakistan by the United States. Haniyeh praised Bin Laden, the founder o ... |
Ezra Pound | ... specially Cubism. Although Imagism isolates objects through the use of what | called "luminous details", Pound's Ideogrammic Method of juxtaposing concr ... |
John Julius Norwich | ... simplest terms, the loss of the Eastern Roman Empire's Anatolian heartland. | says in his trilogy on the Byzantine Empire that the defeat was "its death ... |
Mary Maxwell | In March 1937, Shoghi Effendi married | entitled Rúhíyyih Khanum, a Canadian. She was the only child of May Maxwel ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ers to deploy mustard gas to Italy. This included Italian intelligence that | had threatened to use gas against Italy if the state changed sides, and pr ... |
Naomi Watts | ... anger title role in the film Ned Kelly, which co-starred Australian actress | |
Claudia Schiffer | Smith secured a contract to replace supermodel | in the Guess jeans ad campaign in a series of sultry black and white photo ... |
Zhanna Yorkina | ... undred applicants, five were selected: Tatyana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, | , Valentina Ponomaryova, and Tereshkova. Qualifications included that they ... |
Jung Chang | | and Jon Halliday claim that Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to esca ... |
Mark Twain | ... st doubt on the protagonist's version of events. Another influence might be | 's short story Luck, about an illustrious British general who was actually ... |
Jacques Tourneur | ... he United Kingdom as Build My Gallows High) is a 1947 film noir directed by | and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film was ad ... |
Jim Bridger | ... ition. It was first seen by Europeans in 1824, apparently independently, by | and Etienne Provost. Shortly thereafter other trappers saw it and walked a ... |
Shlomo Ben-Ami | ... tle the Palestinian terror organizations. The Israeli response as stated by | , then Israel's Minister of Foreign Relations who participated in the talk ... |
Arthur St. Clair | ... American Revolutionary War General and Governor of the Northwest Territory | , but the name was in use with the current spelling long before St. Clair ... |
Marco Polo | ... te 13th century, the monarch of the Samudra kingdom had converted to Islam. | visited the island in 1292, and Ibn Battuta visited twice during 1345–1346 ... |
Daniel De Leon | ... had joined the Socialist Labour Party in 1903, he clashed with party leader | , who called Connolly, amongst other things, a "Jesuit spy. |
Frédéric Chopin | ... dramatic roles on stage, Viardot's performances inspired composers such as | , Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns (who dedicated Samson and Delilah to her, a ... |
Robert Graves | ... it the patronage of Athena, for the olive tree brought wood, oil, and food. | was of the opinion that "Poseidon's attempts to take possession of certain ... |
Nina Simone | ... ote his 1963 song "Only a Pawn in Their Game" about Evers and his assassin. | wrote and sang "Mississippi Goddam". Phil Ochs wrote the songs, "Too Many ... |
Percy Grainger | ... cluding Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, | , Art Tatum, Yehudi Menuhin, Bing Crosby, The Moody Blues, Janis Joplin, J ... |
Fernando Valenzuela | The Dodgers have not issued No.34 since the departure of | in 1991, although it has not been officially retired. Steve Garvey's No.6 ... |
Elvis Presley | ... rning Rain", written by Gordon Lightfoot and popularized by artists such as | , Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary |
Tarō Asō | ... nd nationalist, he enjoyed the respect of his colleagues and enemies alike. | , the 92nd Prime Minister of Japan, is a great-great-grandson of Ōkubo Tos ... |
Ezra Pound | ... ngs, Native American songs and poems, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Jeffers, | , Noh drama, Zen aphorisms, Federico García Lorca, and Robert Duncan as si ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... Novels. Sir Walter Besant, a novelist and historian was born in Portsmouth, | author, journalist and literary critic was born in Portsmouth, Rudyard Kip ... |
Jorginho Paulista | ... allers that used fake passports. Alberto and Warley, Alejandro Da Silva and | of Udinese, Fábio Júnior and Gustavo Bartelt of Roma, Dida of Milan, Álvar ... |
Slash | ... but had declined in order to remain in Dark Angel. Guns N' Roses guitarist | had been jamming with Mustaine and Ellefson and, though it appeared that h ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... these scales made him seem conservative compared with later composers like | , though they were often building on Rimsky-Korsakov's work |
Herodotus | ... merist version that begins the account of Persian-Hellene confrontations of | , she was kidnapped by Minoans, who likewise were said to have taken her t ... |
Tatyana Kuznetsova | ... monaut corps. Out of more than four hundred applicants, five were selected: | , Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yorkina, Valentina Ponomaryova, and Tereshkova. ... |
Jacob Bronowski | ... and artists including James Reeves, Norman Cameron, John Aldridge, Len Lye, | , and Honor Wyatt. The house is now a museum. Progress of Stories (1935) w ... |
Björk | ... say they studied with Stockhausen (Flur 2003, 228), and Icelandic vocalist | has acknowledged Stockhausen's influence (Heuger 1998, 15; Björk 1996; Ros ... |
S. T. Joshi | ... diploma (although he maintained for most of his life that he did graduate). | suggests in his biography of Lovecraft that a primary cause for this break ... |
David Bowie | ... rmed "The Missing Frame," "Love Like Winter," "Miss Murder," and a cover of | 's "Ziggy Stardust" |
Maimonides | ... emicircular, but Rashi may be interpreted as saying they were straight, and | , according to his son Avraham, held that they were straight; other author ... |
Len Lye | ... writers and artists including James Reeves, Norman Cameron, John Aldridge, | , Jacob Bronowski, and Honor Wyatt. The house is now a museum. Progress of ... |
Antal Doráti | ... . Paray was followed by noted music directors Sixten Ehrling, Aldo Ceccato, | , and Günther Herbig |
Roger Williams | ... eory. He broke with the political leadership in Massachusetts, and, just as | created a new polity in Rhode Island, Hooker and his cohort did the same a ... |
Harout Pamboukjian | ... sers dedicated their songs to Yerevan: Arno Babajanian, Rouben Hakhverdian, | , Aram Asatryan, Tata Simonian, Arsen Petrosian, Arman Hovhannisian, Rudik ... |
Franz Schubert | ... ntation of piano, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The most famous is | 's Piano Quintet in A major, known as "The Trout Quintet" for its set of v ... |
Jedediah Smith | ... ormed in the mid 1820s, the Rocky Mountain Fur Company partnership included | , William Sublette and David Edward Jackson or "Davey Jackson". Jackson ov ... |
Arif Mardin | ... m Luxury to Heartache (UK #10, US #32) dragged on for so long that producer | had to abandon the sessions due to prior commitments and leave it to engin ... |
Sir Karl Popper | ... be able to see that I fully accept the recent philosophical achievements of | with his concept of three worlds. I was a dualist, now I am a trialist! Ca ... |
Kurt Gödel | On its surface, GEB examines logician | , artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, discussing commo ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... wo consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and | |
Jason Priestley | ... opening was designed by Kathie Broyles. The cast shown in this version are | , Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Per ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... g's "Metropolis", which offer an example of how technophobia can occur, and | 's "Modern Times", in which people are reduced to nothing but cogs in the ... |
Karl Marx | Highgate Cemetery is the burial place of | , Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph ... |
James Mason | ... E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan to pay their respects. On June 27, | gave a eulogy at the funeral, an Episcopal service led by the Rev. Peter A ... |
Ovid | ... the myth of the Athenian maidens is told in Metamorphoses by the Roman poet | (43 BC – 17 AD); in this late variant Hermes falls in love with Herse. Her ... |
Elvis Presley | ... d, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. — only | and The Beatles had sold more albums. In 1980, she released her best-selli ... |
Franz Limmer | ... Hummel, George Onslow, Jan Ladislav Dussek, Louise Farrenc, Ferdinand Ries, | , Johann Baptist Cramer, and Hermann Goetz. Later composers who wrote cham ... |
Carl Foreman | ... n to say he would never regret having helped blacklist liberal screenwriter | from Hollywood. Ironically, Gary Cooper himself had conservative political ... |
Elvis Presley | "Heartbreak Hotel" is a song recorded by American rock and roll musician | . It was released as a single on January 27, 1956, Presley's first on his ... |
Yehudi Menuhin | ... Armstrong, Dean Martin, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Percy Grainger, Art Tatum, | , Bing Crosby, The Moody Blues, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra ... |
Jet Li | Jackie Chan and | are prominent movie figures who have been responsible for promoting Chines ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged by | to be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ... |
Mark Twain | ... e life of Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science church, and | , one of her most famous critics. Kilmer wrote the screenplay, describing ... |
Buzz Aldrin | In 1976, he portrayed a retired | in an adaptation of Aldrin's autobiography Return to Earth. The next year, ... |
Meyer Lansky | ... Anthony Strollo, Joe Adonis, and Anthony Carfano all served as caporegimes. | and Bugsy Siegel were both unofficial advisors to the Luciano family |
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza | ... 0 on the site of a Bateke village named Nkuna by a Franco-Italian explorer, | , after whom the city was named. The local leader, Makoko of the Téké, sig ... |
Jim Bridger | ... on. Led by U.S. Army Captain William F. Raynolds and guided by mountain man | , it included naturalist F. V. Hayden, who later led other expeditions to ... |
Ernst Lubitsch | ... have been based on an ancient Sanskrit play, The Little Clay Cart. The 1942 | comedy To Be or Not to Be confuses the audience in the opening scenes with ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... written for the series include Paul Jenkins, Warren Ellis, Brian Azzarello, | , Grant Morrison, Denise Mina, and currently Peter Milligan |
Max Born | ... an a “classical” mechanics, formulated in matrix-form by Werner Heisenberg, | , and Pascual Jordan in 1925, were based on the probabilistic relationship ... |
Margot Kidder | ... he appeared in Shoot the Sun Down, a western filmed in 1976 that costarred | . Along with Nick Nolte, Walken was considered by George Lucas for the par ... |
Charles Saatchi | ... hom were nominees and winners), Cool Britannia, and exhibitions such as the | -sponsored Sensation exhibition |
Joan Fontaine | ... won her the respect and admiration of her peers, among them her own sister | who later commented, "Hollywood owes Olivia a great deal". The studio, how ... |
Ludwig Minkus | ... he Spanish Manuel de Falla, a Russian ballet by the Russian-German composer | , a tone poem by the German composer Richard Strauss, a German film (1933) ... |
Michael Collins | ... including the complete crews of Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and | ) and Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) |
Billy Wilder | He became a favorite actor of director | , starring in his films Some Like It Hot (for which he was awarded Best Ac ... |
John von Neumann | ... ing physics and philosophy. Together with Warren McCulloch, Norbert Wiener, | , Lawrence J. Fogel, and others, Heinz von Foerster was an architect of cy ... |
M.I.A. | ... everal artists including Paul Weller, Jarvis Cocker, Razorlight, Brian Eno, | , Ian Brown, The Futureheads, Belle & Sebastian, Damon Albarn, Dizzee Rasc ... |
Claudette Colbert | ... In 1931, Chevalier starred in a musical called The Smiling Lieutenant with | and Miriam Hopkins. Despite the disdain audiences held for musicals in 193 ... |
Robert Bloch | ... e of the great letter writers of the century. Among his correspondents were | (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian se ... |
Shaul Mofaz | ... er 2009 survey conducted by Haaretz, 57% of Israelis support the view of MK | of Kadima, that Israel should establish a dialogue with Hamas under certai ... |
James Joyce | ... ly in modern Irish literature. Most notably he makes several appearances in | 's Finnegans Wake, and some have posited that the title, taken from the st ... |
Alfred Hitchcock's | ... li song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter". | 1963 thriller The Birds is an example of a Hollywood film with no music wh ... |
Louis B. Mayer | ... ch made Shearer an offer on behalf of Louis B. Mayer Pictures, run by mogul | . After three years of hardship, she found herself signing a contract for ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... still showed a liking for musical comedy. She worked with such directors as | on Stage Fright (1950), Frank Capra on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Mic ... |
Ovid | ... m, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, | , Livy and Persius |
Douglas MacArthur | ... ng as it did just after the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and General | , former Chaplain of the Senate Frederick Brown Harris officiated. All thr ... |
Barry Gibb | ... old more albums. In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date, the | -produced Guilty. The album contained the hits "Woman in Love" (which spen ... |
Greta Garbo | Another Tony came when Verdon memorably played a role associated with | , Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, the hard-luck girl fleeing from her past ... |
Pablo Casals | Other museums such as the | Museum, the Book Museum, Americas Museum and the National Gallery display ... |
Tommy Chong | ... a Grammy Award-winning comedy duo consisting of Richard "Cheech" Marin and | , who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their films and sta ... |
Tom Molineaux | ... 1809. He then tried to get into "society" by sponsoring bare-knuckle boxer | (the first black man to contend for a championship) and subsequently marri ... |
Sauron | ... in the realm of Mordor. Tolkien describes the language as being created by | as an artificial language to be the sole language of all the servants of M ... |
Isabella Rossellini | He was married to actress | from 1979 to their divorce in 1983. He then married producer Barbara De Fi ... |
Herodotus | ... death Darius I of Persia succeeded his throne. According to Greek historian | , Darius wanted to know more about Asia. He wished to know where the "Indu ... |
Haydn | ... section. Most classical pieces written for full orchestra since the time of | and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, a ... |
Richie Hawtin | ... be trending heavily with "lo-fi" acts such as Wavves and Times New Viking. | , Jan Jelinek, Ricardo Villalobos, Decomposed Subsonic, Trentemøller, and ... |
Frank Capra | ... She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright (1950), | on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rog ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... tational son from the scene. Louis attended a lunch with Haile Selassie and | . The conversation turned to fossils and Haile wanted to know why none had ... |
Hitler | ... k, states, "The work of the Eugenics Board was not far from the thinking of | . |
Jason Donovan | The World War II drama Blood Oath (1990) debuted both Russell Crowe and | , in minor cinematic roles. Crowe demonstrated his versatility as an actor ... |
Mark Twain | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by | , first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... harles, Aretha Franklin plus Motown artists The Supremes, The Four Tops and | . Along with Isaac Hayes, White is considered by Allmusic.com as the first ... |
Richard Matheson | Also in the 1960s, the film Omega Man (loosely based on the | novel I am Legend) showed a world scarred by biological warfare and only a ... |
Frank Capra | ... . The book's issues are detectable from a slightly different perspective in | 's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Scrooge is likely an influence upon Dr ... |
Greta Garbo | ... e to fight hard to stay ahead of the pack. Seeing that sensational newcomer | was one of a kind, she went to Thalberg and "demanded recognition as one o ... |
George Grosz | ... schools, and Art reflected the new ideas of the time, with artists such as | being fined for defaming the military and for blasphemy |
Nick McKim | ... he 2006 election. After gaining 5 seats in the 2010 election, in April 2010 | became the first Green Minister in Australia |
Pablo Picasso | ... . Brassai photographed many of his artist friends, including Salvador Dalí, | , Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers ... |
John von Neumann | He knew well and was in conversation with | , Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, Gregor ... |
Dolores del Río | ... the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, | , Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. For the next two years, Crawford appeared in ... |
Jon Secada | ... Lozada. The ceremony was emceed by Oprah Winfrey. In addition, Daryl Hall, | and Diana Ross gave musical performances. Ross was also supposed to kick a ... |
Marcel Breuer | ... haus school, and its leaders left Germany. Two of these, Walter Gropius and | , took positions at the Harvard GSD. Their iconoclastic focus on modern ar ... |
Albert Einstein | The concept of fields was introduced by, among others, Faraday. | wrote |
Graham Norton | ... ring the 1990s, Wapping was home to American entertainer Cher. TV presenter | , currently (as of 2010) lives in the locality |
Elvis Presley | While in jail, White listened to | singing "It's Now or Never" on the radio, an experience he later credited ... |
Ayahuasca | ... f the world, provisions are made for the use of traditional sacraments like | , Iboga, and Peyote. In Gabon, Africa, iboga (Tabernanthe iboga) has been ... |
Sidney Nolan | ... eorge Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir | , Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
Terry Gilliam | ... t into turnaround in 1991, and the project was moved to Warner Bros., where | was attached to direct and Charles McKeown to rewrite it. They used the ch ... |
Jacob Bronowski | ... he burial place of Karl Marx, Michael Faraday, Douglas Adams, George Eliot, | , Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Li ... |
Elvis Presley | ... pcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also wrote and acted the main role in a play about | titled Him, in 1995 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... nstant status to the new orchestra. A friend of composers Gustav Mahler and | , Gabrilowitsch demanded a new auditorium be built as a condition of his a ... |
Andrew R. Cobb | ... edicated to the war dead from Acadia University during the Second World War | designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916; ... |
Madonna | ... ed after this city based on the results of a dart thrown randomly at a map. | was born here and once referred to Bay City as "a stinky, little town in N ... |
Tom Jones | ... dets, Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, John Cale, Merle Haggard, | , Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Dia ... |
Robert Crumb | ... the East Side Book Store on St. Mark's Place, Bakshi came across a copy of | 's Fritz the Cat. Impressed by Crumb's sharp satire, Bakshi purchased the ... |
Daniel Auteuil | In the mid-1980s, she began a relationship with | (her co-star in Love on the Quiet, Manon des Sources, A Heart in Winter an ... |
Elvis Presley | ... e number two, three and four songs on Billboard's charts for that year were | , "Heartbreak Hotel"; Johnny Cash, "I Walk the Line"; and Carl Perkins, "B ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... k, which includes several jarring authorial intrusions, which fellow author | described as "patronising and unfair" |
Link Wray | Pete Townshend, having been influenced by | , is often credited for introducing the term and the power chord in genera ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... cleaned." Thus the two men have lost their lives for nothing. (Compare with | 's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Julius von Ficker | ... 1859–1866, Sybel was engaged in a literary controversy with the historian, | , on the significance of the German Empire |
David Coverdale | ... Deep Purple and founding Whitesnake. At this time, the band was made up of | , Bernie Marsden, Micky Moody, Neil Murray and drummer David "Duck" Dowle ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... cil to campaign against the visit to Ireland of King Edward VII his consort | |
Manu Ginóbili | ... h 2.6 ticks to go, Nowitzki converted a three-point play to force overtime. | , the one who fouled Dirk was the same person who gave San Antonio their f ... |
Graham Greene | ... erious, tight, economical drama films such as Seven Days to Noon (1950) and | 's Brighton Rock (1947), both with Roy producing and John directing. They ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... Orion aveugle of 1970. Marion Perret argues that Orion is a silent link in | 's The Waste Land (1922), connecting the lustful Actaeon/Sweeney to the bl ... |
P. P. Arnold | ... t in Japan. George also collaborated on the song "Electric Dreams", sung by | . The song was written with Phil Pickett (former member of the 1970s band ... |
AOL Instant Messenger | ... , and later "FlashMail." (Quantum Link later became America Online and made | (AIM), discussed later). While the Quantum Link service ran on a Commodore ... |
Adam Makowicz | ... mous in 60s and 70s. Some famous Polish jazz artists are: Krzysztof Komeda, | , Tomasz Stańko, Michał Urbaniak |
Ottmar Mergenthaler | ... hine and Monotype at the end of the 19th century. The Linotype, invented by | , enabled one machine operator to do the work of ten hand compositors by a ... |
Robert Graves | ... in 1925, at the end of which year she went to England at the invitation of | and his wife Nancy Nicholson. She would remain in Europe for nearly 14 yea ... |
Artur Schnabel | ... a symphony orchestra concert with Gabrilowitsch conducting and guest artist | at the piano. From 1934 to 1942, the orchestra performed for millions acro ... |
Ann-Margret | ... ris Day, Kim Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, | , Sophia Loren, and many more. He was also close friends with actors Tony ... |
Alexander Litvinenko | ... acob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, | , Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
Dimitri Tiomkin | ... for Best Supporting Actor to Joseph Schildkraut for the same film. Although | composed the music, the nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original ... |
James Joyce | In | 's Ulysses, the precocious Stephen Dedalus recalls with disdain his boyhoo ... |
Henry Tudor | ... ately, the conflict culminated in success for the Lancastrian branch led by | , in 1485, when Richard III was killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field |
Nicholas II | ... ho were personally appointed by the Tsar Alexander III and by his son, Tsar | . The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed as the Russo-Chin ... |
Mary Shelley | An early example of technophobia in fiction and popular culture is | 's Frankenstein. It has been a staple of science fiction ever since, exemp ... |
Leslie Nielsen | ... Hudsucker Proxy. Later the same year she played a supporting role opposite | and Fred Ward in the cop comedy film . Though both of these appearances we ... |
Yves Montand | ... adult role in a film, and in 1986 she achieved fame with her role opposite | , in the film Manon des Sources. For her performance, she won the 1987 Cés ... |
Mike Cuellar | ... 4 games and won a second consecutive Cy Young Award, tying with Baltimore’s | , marking the first time two players had shared the award. It would be the ... |
Gordon Cooper | ... Tereshkova was ten years younger than the youngest Mercury Seven astronaut, | |
Andrew Carnegie | ... g located in downtown Medford. It was erected in 1911 thanks to a gift from | , but was vacated in 2004 after a new library building was constructed nea ... |
Sophia Loren | ... Novak, Judy Holliday, Rita Hayworth, June Allyson, Virna Lisi, Ann-Margret, | , and many more. He was also close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie ... |
Hitler | ... ended classes at the University of Berlin from 1931 to 1933. In 1933, after | took over Germany and began instituting anti-Semitic policies, Mendel and ... |
Napoleon | ... ork appeared ultimately in a published form. Thus, in 1808 he was placed by | upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presi ... |
Johannes Kepler | ... ia that commonly develops as a symptom of aging. It was not until 1604 that | published the first correct explanation as to why convex and concave lense ... |
Fernando Valenzuela | ... dgers since 1959. The color analyst for some games is former Dodger pitcher | , for whom Jarrin once translated post-game interviews. The Spanish-langua ... |
James Joyce | ... in Irish intellectuals made their homes in continental Europe, particularly | , and later Samuel Beckett (who became a courier for the French Resistance ... |
Felix Fabri | ... tions of Hebron were recorded in Stephen von Gumpenberg’s Journal (1449),by | (1483) and by Mejr ed-Din It was in this period, also, that the Mamluk Sul ... |
James Randi | According to | , controlled tests by several other researchers, eliminating several sourc ... |
Tom Cruise | Following their appearance together in Top Gun, Kilmer and co-star | reportedly had taken their onscreen conflict offscreen. Reports classified ... |
John Lennon | In a 1972 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, | stated that James Connolly was an inspiration for his song, Woman Is the N ... |
Martin Buber | ... . One of the most prominent Jewish existential thinkers was the philosopher | |
Zhang Xueliang | | , known also as The Young Marshal, was the son of Zhang Zuolin, warlord of ... |
Emma Goldman | ... ortrayed this in more positive terms. Thus we find Almeda Sperry writing to | in 1918, about the "rhythmic spurt of your love juices". Anatomical knowle ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... hen, in 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of | 's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre. They have said Bottom was oft ... |
Jacques Loeb | ... opmental biology, but this criticism goes back at least a century. In 1912, | published a landmark work, The Mechanistic Conception of Life. He describe ... |
Josephine Baker | ... hair, smoking and breaking with traditional mores. The euphoria surrounding | in the metropolis Berlin for instance, declared "erotic goddess" and in ma ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... made their homes in continental Europe, particularly James Joyce, and later | (who became a courier for the French Resistance). Eoin O'Duffy led a briga ... |
Olga Kurylenko | ... Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Derek Jacobi, Golshifteh Farahani, Dougray Scott, | , and Lily Cole |
Jimmy Barnes | Following their initial dissolution in 1982 Cold Chisel lead vocalist | embarked on a successful solo career that has continued from the 1980s to ... |
Christopher Reeve | ... even, born 30 November 1995, and named after family friends Johnny Cash and | |
George A. Malcolm | ... September 1, 1909, as authored by former Philippines Supreme Court Justice | . The City of Baguio celebrated its Centennial last September 1, 2009 |
James Cameron | ... ude the French lyrics.) She was offered the chance to compose the score for | 's 1997 feature film Titanic, but she declined. A 1989 recording of Enya s ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... Partnership." This was the among many historic steps led by Prime Minister | to strengthen global economic stability |
Nikola Tesla | In 1891, | established his Houston Street laboratory. Much of Tesla's research was lo ... |
Valentina Ponomaryova | ... s, five were selected: Tatyana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yorkina, | , and Tereshkova. Qualifications included that they be parachutists under ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... ark to become the center of government and a design commission was given to | to create a master plan for the city patterned after Washington D.C.. Thes ... |
John Singer Sargent | ... its virtuosity. At the turn of the 20th century, the adroit performances of | were alternately admired and viewed with skepticism for their manual fluen ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | Von Foerster was influenced by the Vienna Circle and | . He worked in the field of cybernetics and is known as the inventor of se ... |
Peter C. Lemon | ... . Since 1900, only four have been awarded to Canadians. In the Vietnam War, | was the only Canadian recipient of the Medal of Honor |
Nikolai Berdyaev | ... n postmodern Christianity and on theologians and religious thinkers such as | , Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
Jean-Claude Van Damme | ... produced some Hollywood action stars with martial arts background, such as | and Chuck Norris |
George de Hevesy | ... ewis isolated the first sample of pure heavy water by electrolysis in 1933. | and Hoffer used heavy water in 1934 in one of the first biological tracer ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... ession of the 1930s. The CCF first took power in Saskatchewan under Premier | , and made major inroads in British Columbia |
Herbert Hoover | ... ected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and | . |
Dolores del Río | ... ether Chaplin, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma Talmadge, John Barrymore, | , Gloria Swanson and D.W. Griffith to speak on the radio show The Dodge Br ... |
Ernst Lubitsch | ... r the studio. She was rewarded for this consistent success by being cast in | 's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, her first prestige production, wi ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... r, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for | |
Meyer Lansky | ... ing a "made-man," or an amico nostro, in a family should be done away with. | , however, urged him against it, arguing that young people needed rituals ... |
George R. R. Martin | A character in | 's A Song of Ice and Fire series is forced to perform a penance walk model ... |
Yang Liwei | ... hina became the third country to independently send humans into space, with | 's spaceflight aboard Shenzhou 5. In 2008, China conducted its first space ... |
Greta Garbo | ... ve with "fallen women", by using a story of naivete from his past. It stars | , Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon, Elliott Nugent, Florence Lake, and Henry Arme ... |
Shimon Agranat | ... s. Anger against the Israeli government (and Dayan in particular) was high. | , President of the Israeli Supreme Court, was asked to lead an inquiry, th ... |
Rolf Gerhardsen | ... two sons Truls and Rune Gerhardsen and a daughter Torgunn. His brother was | and with him Einar Gerhardsen also had a lifelong working relationship |
Albert Einstein | ... cal new physical theories also began to emerge in this same period. In 1905 | , then a Bern patent clerk, argued that the speed of light was a constant ... |
Fay Wray | ... Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and | . For the next two years, Crawford appeared in increasingly important film ... |
Marco Polo | ... e been exposed as hoaxes. Furthermore, although there have been claims that | encountered eyeglasses during his travels in China in the 13th century, no ... |
Valery Bykovsky | ... t plan was altered in March 1963. Vostok 5 would now carry a male cosmonaut | flying the joint mission with a woman aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963. The St ... |
Napoleon I | ... the little island of Saint Helena and stayed in the same building to which | would later be exiled |
Pablo Picasso | ... tist who would become the era's most recognized and peripatetic iconoclast, | , was completing a traditional academic training at which he excelled |
Rouben Mamoulian | ... ron. Featuring songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, it was directed by | , who, with the help of the songwriters, was able to put his ideas of the ... |
Ewan McGregor | ... ember 2007, directed by Michael Grandage, with Chiwetel Ejiofor as Othello, | as Iago and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona. Despite tickets selling as high as ... |
Mick Jagger | ... s of 1960s celebrities and socialites including Terence Stamp, The Beatles, | , Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, Rudolf Nureyev, Andy Warhol and ... |
Arne Treholt | ... not acting sooner to stop the activities of politician and career diplomat | , who was arrested in 1984 and convicted of treason and espionage in favor ... |
Leszek Kołakowski | Although | 's works were officially banned in Poland, underground copies of them infl ... |
Helen Singer Kaplan | ... en, for not being based on rigorous scientific procedures, and psychiatrist | (1983) stated |
Karel Reisz | The script to | 's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by Harold Pinter, i ... |
John Lydon | ... ums for the band Public Image Limited, fronted by former Sex Pistols singer | , on their 1986 release album/cassette/compact disc (the album title varie ... |
Dougray Scott | ... ffe, and stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Derek Jacobi, Golshifteh Farahani, | , Olga Kurylenko, and Lily Cole |
Beto Cuevas | ... rock band formed by Andrés Bobe and Rodrigo Aboitiz with Mauricio Claveria, | and Luciano Rojas. After a failed first album, Desiertos (1989), they rele ... |
Uri Geller | ... ying, therapeutic touch, astrology, fire walking, voodoo, magical thinking, | , alternative medicine, channeling, Carlos hoax, psychic hotlines and dete ... |
Gregory Bateson | ... Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Gordon Pask, | , Lawrence J. Fogel and Margaret Mead, among many others. He influenced ge ... |
AOL Instant Messenger | ... y are known today, began to take off in the mid 1990s with PowWow, ICQ, and | . Similar functionality was offered by CU-SeeMe in 1992; though primarily ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... ility required in the production of the artistic object. In conceptual art, | 's "Fountain" is among the first examples of pieces wherein the artist use ... |
Clyde McPhatter | ... the work of contemporary musicians such as Ray Charles, Little Willie John, | and Little Richard |
Kevin Spacey | ... so close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau, and | . He made two films with Curtis, three films with Kovacs (Operation Mad Ba ... |
Tom Cruise | ... bank on Main Street downtown, while around the same time, Cameron Diaz and | 's movie Knight & Day shot scenes on the Fellsway. The same month, a docum ... |
Meyer Lansky | Luciano now had businesses throughout the country. His longtime friend | served as his right-hand man and adviser. When Dutch Schultz decided he wa ... |
flat packs | ... ed circuits. Parts for military and aerospace applications were packaged in | , a form of surface-mount package, with leads suitable for welding or sold ... |
Orson Welles | ... ly related to each other. (The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring | was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of ... |
Francis Asbury | Whitefield is honored together with | with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Varley is often compared to | . In addition to a similarly descriptive writing style, similarities inclu ... |
Ramón Novarro | ... came the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them | , William Haines, John Gilbert and Tim McCoy. Crawford appeared in The Unk ... |
Mark Ronson | ... riweather, has after several successful collaborations with artists such as | , released his official debut album, Love & War, in June 2009. It entered ... |
Frantz Fanon | ... s include Subaltern Studies (specifically its postcolonial manifestations), | 's "psychopathology of colonization", and filmmakers of the Latin American ... |
Link Wray | ... re is disagreement over which was the first record to feature power chords. | is often cited as having introduced power chords, especially with his 1958 ... |
Charles Coughlin | ... s, a famous radio evangelist of the period was Roman Catholic priest Father | , whose strongly anti-Communist and anti-Semitic radio programs reached mi ... |
Shimon Peres | ... 994, Arafat received the Nobel Peace Prize, together with Yitzhak Rabin and | , for the negotiations at Oslo. During this time, Hamas and other militant ... |
Richard Lester | ... Spring of Mrs Stone (José Quintero, 1961), Carry On Cleo, 1964, and Help! ( | , 1965) and played leads in All The Way Up (James MacTaggart, 1970), The C ... |
Sylvia Plath | ... teristic of speech and writing, metaphors can serve the poetic imagination, | , in her poem "Cut", to compare the blood issuing from her cut thumb to th ... |
Helen Reddy | ... e Aztecs, Ol' 55, Mark Holden, Lyndon Hart, Stevie Wright, John Paul Young, | , Redgum, Hot City Bump Band, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Colleen Hewett, Lin ... |
Nawaz Sharif | ... elected as the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was followed by | , and over the next decade the two leaders fought for power, alternating i ... |
Heimatvertriebene | ... mony in 1945, were expelled as well. These expellees and refugees (known as | ) were given refugee status and documents and resettled by Germany. Discus ... |
Hank Snow | ... try star of 1955. Axton had been hired earlier in the year to publicise the | Jamboree concerts at the Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, whic ... |
Charles Boyer | ... he actually felt quite lonely, and sought the company of Adolphe Menjou and | , also French, but both much better educated than Chevalier. Boyer in part ... |
Harry Houdini | ... onan Doyle had years earlier made a similar accusation against the magician | . A similar event involved Senator Claiborne Pell. Pell believed in psychi ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... choice of a new flag was part of the negotiation process set in motion when | was released from prison in 1990. When a nationwide public competition was ... |
Joseph Schillinger | Russian | 's influence as Gershwin's teacher of composition (1932–1936) was substant ... |
Marcia Gay Harden | ... episode of the long running NBC television series Law & Order. She replaced | as Harper Pitt in Tony Kushner's Angels in America (1994), received a Tony ... |
Léon Brillouin | ... It was theoretically described by physicists such as Arnold Sommerfeld and | . See dispersion for a full discussion of wave velocities |
Eric Dolphy | With | With Kenny Dorham With Gil Evans With Tommy Flanagan With Hal Galper With ... |
David Coverdale | Whitesnake are an English rock band, founded in 1976 by | after his departure from his previous band, Deep Purple. The band's most p ... |
Lars Ulrich | ... long standing feud with Metallica members James Hetfield and in particular | . This feud stemmed from his ejection from the band, the method with which ... |
Pierce Brosnan | ... er actually used it. In 1995, this machine was purchased by the Bond actor, | |
Roger Waters | ... te Townshend, is said to have "an interest in Stockhausen". Rick Wright and | of Pink Floyd also acknowledge Stockhausen as an influence (Macon 1997, 14 ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... d Old Cholmeleians, the name given to old boys of the school. These include | , who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins ... |
Pablo Picasso | In the twentieth century, | 's Guernica (1937) used arresting cubist techniques and stark monochromati ... |
Wilfrid Desan | ... and religious thinkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, | and John Macquarrie |
Rudolf Nureyev | ... ce Stamp, The Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Cecil Beaton, | , Andy Warhol and notorious East End gangsters the Kray twins (see photo) |
Yoko Ono | ... 's Gin. The prize is awarded by a distinguished celebrity: in 2006 this was | |
Igor Stravinsky | ... or qué nací?", the first movement of three in his fourth book of Madrigals. | 's final composition, The Owl and the Pussy Cat, is a palindrome |
new king | ... sensitive diplomatic duties connected with the problematic behaviour of the | , and as the 1936 abdication crisis looms, he gloomily predicts the coming ... |
Marco Polo | ... anskrit and spent four years of his life working in Palembang. The explorer | visited Sumatra in 1292 |
Davy Jones | ... ter their TV show became an over night success, especially Micky Dolenz and | . The English born member of The Monkees Davy Jones was regularly features ... |
Aristotle Onassis | ... bled, primarily through the investment undertaken by the shipping magnates, | and Stavros Niarchos. The basis of the modern Greek maritime industry was ... |
Albert Einstein | While spacetime can be viewed as a consequence of | 's 1905 theory of special relativity, it was first explicitly proposed mat ... |
John Paul Young | ... Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs, Ol' 55, Mark Holden, Lyndon Hart, Stevie Wright, | , Helen Reddy, Redgum, Hot City Bump Band, Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons, Collee ... |
Handel | ... asso continuo with some combination of harpsichord, organ, lute or theorbo. | wrote several collections of concerti grossi, and several of the Brandenbu ... |
Paul Tillich | ... on theologians and religious thinkers such as Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Barth, | , Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
Uri Geller | ... rks about the paranormal and pseudoscientific. These include biographies of | and Nostradamus as well as reference material on other major paranormal fi ... |
Boy George | ... ard and Judy Show in 2003 with his counterpart Paul Masterson and singer/DJ | promoting their album, on which Boy George made a cameo singing contributi ... |
Benazir Bhutto | Zia died in a plane crash in 1988, and | , daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, was elected as the first female Prime M ... |
Ruth Chatterton | ... She recalled that she had seen the same lighting technique "on the sets of | and Kay Francis, and I knew what they meant". She began to regret acceptin ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, | and Joseph Schumpeter. In the years 2010 and 2011, the Times Higher Educat ... |
Cary Grant | The role of Phillip Green was first offered to | , but he turned it down. Peck decided to accept the role, although his age ... |
Pelé | ... Downing Stadium for two seasons, starting in 1974. In 1975, the team signed | , officially recorded by FIFA as the world's greatest soccer player, to a ... |
George Brecht | ... sses the use of noise as a medium and explores the ideas of Antonin Artaud, | , William Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McCl ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... g in the north of the country forced the resignation and exile of President | . A provisional government took control with security provided by the Unit ... |
Émile Dewoitine | ... alisation d'engins balistiques (SÉREB). Starting in 1971 it was directed by | and Bernard Dufour |
Errol Flynn | ... Brown in Alibi Ike and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, she played opposite | in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Bri ... |
Bernard Katz | ... erform some of the experiments which proved chemical synaptic transmission. | and Eccles worked together on some of the experiments which elucidated the ... |
Anne Frank | ... usten, written to amuse brothers and sisters, are also written by children. | wrote a novel and many very short stories in addition to her diary (which ... |
Ovid | ... steadily in the Golden Age of Latin Literature. Poets like Vergil, Horace, | and Rufus developed a rich literature, and were close friends of Augustus. ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... e 27 April elections, the nation's first fully inclusive elections, and for | 's 10 May inauguration. Although the flag had mixed reception, the interim ... |
Nicolae Densuşianu | ... essenia (Stephanus Byzantinus), Achilleios in Laconia (Pausanias, III.25,4) | (Densuşianu 1913) even though he recognized Achilles in the name of Aquile ... |
James Randi | In 2005, | offered her the James Randi Educational Foundation US$1 million prize to d ... |
Audrey Hepburn | ... n in Double Indemnity (film); Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve | ;and Gary Cooper flirt about it in Love in the Afternoon (1957 film); it i ... |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... er the rise of Napoleon; it is often taken to begin with the publication of | 's first poems in 1822, and end with the crushing of the January Uprising ... |
Claude Shannon | ... n data transmission and information theory by Harry Nyquist, Ralph Hartley, | and others during the early 20th century, was done with these applications ... |
Edgard Varèse | ... nstruments. Beginning in the early 20th century, perhaps with Ionisation by | which used air-raid sirens (among other things), composers began to requir ... |
Sergei Prokofiev | ... udents who later found fame included Anatoly Lyadov, Alexander Spendiaryan, | , Ottorino Respighi, Witold Maliszewski, Mykola Lysenko, Artur Kapp, and K ... |
Bảo Đại | ... ệm, who was previously appointed Prime Minister of South Vietnam by Emperor | , eventually assumed control of South Vietnam. In the words of U.S. Presid ... |
Louis Riel | ... Cartier was acclaimed the victor in the Manitoba riding of Provencher after | and Henry James Clarke resigned as candidates there. It is notable that Ca ... |
Béla Bartók | ... ch form, by many other composers, including James Tenney, and most famously | . George Crumb also used musical palindrome to text paint the Federico Gar ... |
Picasso | ... artistic subjects in Gauguin (1950) and Guernica (1950), which examined the | painting based on the 1937 bombing of the town, and presented it to the ac ... |
Bradbury's | ... dith) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence. This notion, akin to | "The Pedestrian", is also alluded to in "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", i ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... s which regulate conduct in war and during peacetime. An early exponent was | , whose Rights of War and Peace (1625) had a major impact of the humanitar ... |
Colonel Tom Parker | ... . With a publishing deal in place, Axton arranged through Presley's manager | to present the song to Presley at the annual Country Music Disc Jockey Con ... |
Samuel Goldwyn | ... en it was assumed incorrectly that he was Jewish. Before filming commenced, | and other Jewish film executives approached Darryl Zanuck and asked him no ... |
David Bowie | ... eatured as a location in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) starring | |
David Sarnoff | ... latter uses were brought about after 1920 by business entrepreneurs such as | , who created the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and William S. Pale ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... see the greatest progress in electrical engineering. Through such people as | , Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Je ... |
Tori Amos | ... ow were Enrique Iglesias, Sheryl Crow, Janice Robinson, Lulu, Joan Jett and | |
Henry Miller | ... took a job as a journalist. He soon became friends with the American writer | , and the French writers. Léon-Paul Fargue and Jacques Prévert. In the lat ... |
Meyer Lansky | ... tions of Luciano's last name. After his abduction Luciano found out through | that the attack had been ordered by Masseria's enemy, Salvatore Maranzano. ... |
Paul Hindemith | ... works by Darius Milhaud, Luigi Boccherini (3 quintets), Harold Shapero, and | |
Steve Nash | During the 2004 off-season, former Dallas Mavericks point guard | signed a free-agent deal with the 29–53 Phoenix Suns to help out their off ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... ncluding providing hand claps and singing backup for Motown artists such as | and The Temptations. During these years, all three members took turns sing ... |
Lafcadio Hearn | ... s considerably smaller than the Heike biwa (平家琵琶) played by the biwa hōshi. | related in his book "Mimi-nashi Hoichi" (Hoichi the Earless), a Japanese g ... |
Debye | The first theoretical treatment of screening, due to | and Hückel (1923), dealt with a stationary point charge embedded in a flui ... |
Edgard Varèse | John Cage, Harry Partch, | , and Peter Schickele, all noted composers, created entire pieces of music ... |
Neeme Järvi | ... Spring was the first CD to win the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque award. | began his music directorship in 1990, and served through 2005, the second- ... |
Harry Nyquist | ... fundamental theoretical work in data transmission and information theory by | , Ralph Hartley, Claude Shannon and others during the early 20th century, ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... y are often confused with one another. A primary cause of confusion is that | is an important philosopher in both fields, but also the existentialist in ... |
Tony Dovolani | ... ancing with the Stars; she finished in sixth place, along with her partner, | . In "One Life to Lose" Jane Seymour guest starred in a soap opera-themed ... |
Leo White | ... There, Chaplin began to form a stock company of regular players, including | , Bud Jamison, Paddy McGuire and Billy Armstrong. In San Francisco he recr ... |
Vincent van Gogh | ... uding the works of three artists who would prove influential: Paul Gauguin, | , and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec—all notable for how they used color to convey ... |
Phil Collins | ... deluxe double-disc issue in 2007, containing the original album remastered. | played drums and sang backing vocals on Grace and Danger and subsequently ... |
Herodotus | The historian | recorded (2.44) |
Bradbury's | ... that today's technology-dependent world, where books have become passé (cf. | "The Pedestrian"), could render an outage both a liberator and an executio ... |
Tony Hancock | ... d by other comic actors with whom they had worked, including Peter Sellers, | , Frankie Howerd and Kenneth Williams. In May 2009 the play was seen again ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader | termed it "the final solution of the Jewish question" |
Edgar Mitchell | ... location in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) starring David Bowie. | , Apollo 14 astronaut, identifies Artesia as his "hometown. |
Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
Kim Medcalf | ... d stage in April 2006 in Hay Fever alongside Peter Bowles, Belinda Lang and | . She finished off 2006 with the role of Mistress Quickly in the RSC's new ... |
Cyril Cusack | ... glishman Brian Blessed as Peppone. The narrator and Voice of the Christ was | |
Igor Stravinsky | ... ught, including Glazunov, or those he taught privately at his home, such as | . Apart from Glazunov and Stravinsky, students who later found fame includ ... |
John Singer Sargent | ... sed in the clothing of the time, rather than in robes of the antique world. | 's Madame Pierre Gautreau (Madam X) (1884), caused a huge uproar over the ... |
André Kertész | ... e city through this medium, in which he was tutored by his fellow Hungarian | . He later wrote that he used photography "in order to capture the beauty ... |
Henry VII of England | ... r, Edward IV's daughter Elizabeth of York later became the Queen consort of | . The grounds for Titulus Regius, passed to justify the accession of Richa ... |
Jennifer Granholm | In May 2005, Dick DeVos ran against incumbent Governor | in Michigan's 2006 gubernatorial election. DeVos was defeated by Granholm, ... |
Orson Welles | Shot between 1948 and 1952, | directed (1952), produced as a black-and-white film noir. The film stars W ... |
Belinda Carlisle | ... Tour supported by ABC, A Flock of Seagulls, Naked Eyes, and at some venues, | |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... of prosperity and a determination to defeat the Axis powers. Prime Minister | and President Franklin D. Roosevelt were determined not to repeat the mist ... |
Shade, the Changing Man | ... ths, Infinite Crisis, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, The Sandman, Lucifer, and | . He was a recurring supporting character in both Swamp Thing and The Book ... |
Fernando Lamas | ... ught dance to performers who eventually became stars, such as Jane Russell, | , Lana Turner, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe |
Nikola Tesla | The original inventors of radio, such as | and Guglielmo Marconi, expected it to be used for one-on-one wireless comm ... |
Ramón Novarro | ... on tire of her "good girl" image, and took the advice of friend and co-star | to visit an unknown photographer named George Hurrell. There she took a se ... |
William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... n expected to seek election to the Commons as soon as possible. For example | , after losing his seat in the same general election that his party won, b ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... aintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Giacomo Cavedone (1577–1660), | (1573–1640), Rembrandt van Ryn (1606–69), Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), Pier ... |
Joseph Haydn | | 's Symphony No. 47 in G is nicknamed "the Palindrome". The third movement, ... |
David Bowie | ... . Over the decades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, Madonna, | , Mos Def, Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many others. Despi ... |
Raphael Mechoulam | It was isolated and its structure first described in 1992 by | of the Hebrew University |
Norma Shearer | ... orus girl. In the same year, Crawford worked on Lady of the Night, starring | . Crawford was made up and used as a double for Shearer and her face is br ... |
Edward G. Robinson | ... number of Hollywood films. For example, Fred MacMurray talks about it with | in Double Indemnity (film); Bette Davis screams about it in All About Eve; ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the |
Jacques Tourneur | ... of the Past was produced by RKO Pictures, and the key personnel — director | , cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, actors Mitchum and Greer, along with ... |
Roger Williams | ... ony, clashing with the more conservative Thomas Dudley and the more liberal | and Henry Vane. Although Winthrop was a respected political figure, his at ... |
Boy George | In the 1980s, | said about the music style of his band Culture Club, "We play rock 'n' rol ... |
William S. Burroughs | ... g on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by | . Oswald discovered in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase ... |
Thomas Blake Glover | ... s are being used as part of the Homecoming Scotland campaign. See article - | In September 2009, the school had a visit from the Poet Laureate Carol Ann ... |
John Colter | ... ring the expedition's return trip from the Pacific Ocean, expedition member | was given an early discharge so he could join two fur trappers who were he ... |
Monie Love | ... ps—The Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah and | —along with fellow travellers like Leaders of the New School, KMD and Bran ... |
Marcello Truzzi | ... e from within the scientific community and at times from within CSI itself. | , one of CSICOP's co-founders, left the organization after only a short ti ... |
Isaac Brock | ... rit of British professional commanders was illustrated by Major-General Sir | in Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry, a F ... |
Wes Anderson | ... in the TV series 24 with "Ný batterí", and with "Svefn-g-englar". In 2004, | used "Starálfur" in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou as did the Emmy win ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... s Dei. There have also been allegations that Escrivá expressed sympathy for | |
Descartes' | ... d and the way the world really is, skeptical scenarios such as this one (or | Evil demon) present a formidable challenge. Putnam, by arguing that such a ... |
Björk | ... uary 2006, Baker was voted the fourth most eccentric star. He was beaten by | , Chris Eubank and David Icke |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... al power, namely, the Hindus, the Muslims and the Sikhs. During this period | stated that a resolution was adopted by the Congress to satisfy the Sikh c ... |
George Frideric Handel | ... onsiderable influence on most of the famous late Baroque composers, such as | , Domenico Scarlatti or Georg Philipp Telemann. He did influence Johann Se ... |
Alfred Korzybski | D. David Bourland, Jr. (1928–2000) proposed E-Prime as an addition to | 's general semantics some years after Korzybski's death in 1950. Bourland, ... |
Audrey Hepburn | ... d musical director. The Billy Wilder film Love in the Afternoon (1957) with | and Gary Cooper was his first Hollywood film in more than 20 years |
Paul Hindemith | ... r similar forces, he added one more violin for his Octet in F major, D.803. | used the same instrumentation as Schubert for his own Octet. In the realm ... |
Nick Cave | ... music, from the internationally renowned work of the Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, | , Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular loc ... |
Joseph Haydn | She also arranged instrumental works by | , Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms as songs. She was on very friendly te ... |
Herodotus | ... be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like | and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripi ... |
Phil Collins | ... n Vevey (there is a memorial statue of him along the promenade). Pop singer | lives in a home overlooking the lake. Rock band Queen owned and operated M ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... Freeway (Hwy 401) is named after Cartier and fellow Father of Confederation | , as are Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International Airport and the Macdonal ... |
Mahatma Gandhi | ... 's missionary work had taken him abroad where he had met and conferred with | . When he was a student at Boston University, King often visited Thurman, ... |
John Lennon | ... s a key component in individuals' personal image. Musicians Buddy Holly and | became synonymous with the styles of eye-glasses they wore to the point th ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... tionship between discrete “states” and denied the possibility of causality. | established an equivalent theory based on waves in 1926; but Heisenberg’s ... |
Boris Becker | ... a hotel, several apartment buildings, an observatory, and a private marina. | , Oprah Winfrey, and Mel Brooks are among the celebrities with homes on th ... |
Herbert Hoover | On March 3, 1933, President | signed the Reorganization Act of 1933. The act would allow the President t ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... rnment Leader in the Senate, succeeded prime ministers who died in office ( | in 1891 and John Sparrow David Thompson in 1894), a convention that has si ... |
Uri Geller | ... the focus of the organization's attention. TV celebrity and claimed psychic | , for example, was until recently in open dispute with the organization, f ... |
Frédéric Chopin | ... t many happy hours at George Sand's home at Nohant, with Sand and her lover | . The warmth of feeling that existed between Viardot and Chopin was based ... |
Sholem Aleichem | ... based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman and Other Tales) by | . The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attemp ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... dimir Lenin rented a little "chalet" at the French bank, near Geneva. Actor | spent his final years and passed away in Vevey (there is a memorial statue ... |
David Stratton | Margaret Pomeranz and | of The Movie Show both gave the film four out of five stars. Pomeranz said ... |
Yoko Ono | ... illiam Burroughs, Sergei Eisenstein, Fluxus, Allan Kaprow, Michael McClure, | , Jackson Pollock, Luigi Russolo, and Dziga Vertov |
Nancy Astor | Also on the local political stage Buckinghamshire has been home to | who lived in Cliveden, Frederick, Prince of Wales who also lived in Clived ... |
Franz Schubert | ... o, and bass. When the clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer commissioned a work from | for similar forces, he added one more violin for his Octet in F major, D.8 ... |
Mackenzie Bowell | ... inister. Two former prime ministers Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott and Sir | served in the 1890s while members of the Senate; both, in their roles as G ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Narratives of decline can be identified in morality: | 's amorality, Freud’s description of co-operation as sublimation, Stanley ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... e Bee Gees, AC/DC, INXS, Nick Cave, Savage Garden, the Seekers, or pop diva | to the popular local content of John Farnham, Jimmy Barnes or Paul Kelly. ... |
Madonna | ... a live action all-star cast film, along with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and | |
Norman McCabe | ... al animators. Some, including Rod Scribner, Dick Lundy, Virgil Walter Ross, | and John Sparey, welcomed Bakshi and felt that Fritz the Cat would bring d ... |
John McEnroe | ... by Kalamazoo College. The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, | , Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and ... |
Sholem Aleichem | ... based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman) and other tales by | that he wrote in Yiddish and published in 1894. The musical's title stems ... |
Anna Netrebko | ... 1993), Le nozze di Figaro (1995 and 2006), Don Giovanni (2002, marking also | 's international breakthrough as Donna Anna, and 2003), La clemenza di Tit ... |
Hristo Stoichkov | ... garians had never won a match in five previous World Cup finals but, led by | who eventually shared the tournament lead in scoring, they made a surprisi ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... prin died of a myocardial infarction at home in his bed on May 22, 2008,. A | novel and his reading glasses were found next to him. He was to have been ... |
Jean Goldkette | ... The Wolverines in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based | Orchestra before joining Frankie "Tram" Trumbauer for an extended gig at t ... |
Gödel's | His book Forever Undecided popularizes | incompleteness theorems by phrasing them in terms of reasoners and their b ... |
Madonna | ... istory of the United Kingdom charts, based upon a tally of her career hits. | would eventually succeed Ross as the most successful female artist in the ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... claps and background vocals for the songs of other Motown artists including | and Mary Wells. In January 1961, Gordy finally relented and agreed to sign ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... , London, Decca, Mercury, RCA, Chandos and DSO labels. The DSO recording of | 's The Rite of Spring was the first CD to win the prestigious Grand Prix d ... |
Irving Berlin's | ... lar culture, such as the Ritz Hotel in London, through its association with | song, 'Puttin' on the Ritz'. The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is famed ... |
Pablo Picasso | ... Paris, on May 18, 1917, that was conceived by Jean Cocteau, with design by | , choreography by Leonid Massine, and music by Eric Satie. The extra-music ... |
Franz Schubert | She also arranged instrumental works by Joseph Haydn, | and Johannes Brahms as songs. She was on very friendly terms with Clara Sc ... |
Emilio Segrè | ... by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, Franco Rasetti and | . For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also took part in what ... |
Billy Wilder | ... can tour was in 1955, with Vic Schoen as arranger and musical director. The | film Love in the Afternoon (1957) with Audrey Hepburn and Gary Cooper was ... |
Stephen Leacock | In Canada, satire has become an important part of the comedy scene. | was one of the best known early Canadian satirists, and in the early 20th ... |
Adelsteen Normann | ... as seen in Melancholy, in which color is the symbol-laden element. In 1892, | , on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists invited Munch to exhibit at its ... |
Jimmy Barnes | ... rs, or pop diva Kylie Minogue to the popular local content of John Farnham, | or Paul Kelly. Indigenous Australian music and Australian jazz have also h ... |
Clyde Best | ... 's cricket and football teams. Bermuda's most prominent footballers include | , Shaun Goater, The legendary Kevin De Silva, Reggie Lambe, Sam Nusum and ... |
Andrew Dasburg | Parisian born | (1887–1979) was one of the earliest friends of Luhan to come and stay in T ... |
John M. Deutch | ... y of the American homeland" appears in the 1998 report by Ashton B. Carter, | , and |
Benoît Mandelbrot | It was discovered by | that changes in prices do not follow a Gaussian distribution, but are rath ... |
Ferdinand Magellan | ... was explored by Europeans from the 16th century onwards, the Spanish, with | in the expedition achieved the circumnavigation of the world for the first ... |
Sauron | ... his previous gains and exploited the disarray of the Noldor. From Angband, | was sent in command of a great force of Orc-hosts, Werewolves, and Wolves ... |
Mario Davidovsky | ... and double bass; Mohammed Fairouz's Litany for double bass and wind quartet | ;'s Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass; and Iannis Xenakis' ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... allusion to the works of poets of previous centuries. An example of this is | 's novel Pale Fire, the second section of which is a 999 line, 4 canto poe ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... Mercury stands on the northern shore of the lake. Current Formula 1 driver | lives with his family in a home overlooking the lake |
Chaim Herzog | According to | |
Noël Coward | ... , making Alan Ayckbourn rich and earning him a congratulatory telegram from | . This was not quite the end of Ayckbourn's hit-and-miss record, because h ... |
Rachel Ward | Out of the Past was remade as Against All Odds (1984) with | in the Greer role, Jeff Bridges filling in for Mitchum, and James Woods as ... |
Joe Adonis | ... ciano, this group included Frank Costello, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia, | , Joe Bonanno, Carlo Gambino, Joe Profaci, Tommy Gagliano, and Tommy Lucch ... |
Lionel Stander | ... completed in 1972 with Gastone Moschin playing the role of Don Camillo and | as Peppone. A Don Camillo (The World of Don Camillo) film was remade in 19 ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... – Anthony Thwaite – Chidiock Tichborne – Aurelian Townsend – W. J. Turner – | – John Wilmot, Lord Rochester – Roger Woddis – Charles Wolfe – William Wor ... |
Davy Jones | ... ecially Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones. The English born member of The Monkees | was regularly features in all time teen idol lists. In 2008, Yahoo Music n ... |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... harles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, | and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into a ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... ebruary 1960), is the second son, and third child of Queen Elizabeth II and | . At the time of his birth, he was second in the line of succession to the ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... st selling album in the world. Black Sabbath had split with original singer | in 1979 and replaced him with Ronnie James Dio, formerly of Rainbow, givin ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... 's Stephen Harper, who was appointed on 6 February 2006 by Governor General | , following the general election that took place that year. As with all ot ... |
Kate Winslet | ... lat in 2000; for the lead role of writer Iris Murdoch in Iris in 2001 (with | playing her as a younger woman); for Mrs Henderson Presents (a romanticise ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... once again used to hold prisoners of war. One such person was Rudolf Hess, | 's deputy, albeit just for four days in 1941. He was the last state prison ... |
Jacques Attali | In (1985), | explores the relationship between noise music and the future of society. H ... |
Louis B. Mayer | ... r ability but felt that her name sounded fake; it also, he told studio head | , sounded like "Le Sewer". Smith organized a contest in conjunction with t ... |
T. S. Eliot | ... ised Modernist English language literary movement or group. In the words of | : "The point de repère usually and conveniently taken as the starting-poin ... |
Günther Herbig | ... ed by noted music directors Sixten Ehrling, Aldo Ceccato, Antal Doráti, and | |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... r is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves novels of British author | . An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... oviet Republic and the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving Erich Ludendorff and | took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Republic, though, Bava ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Søren Kierkegaard and | were two of the first philosophers considered fundamental to the existenti ... |
Anthony O'Connell | ... hild abuse allegations. Resigned bishop Joseph Keith Symons was replaced by | , who later also resigned in 2002 |
Jane Goodall | The United Nations appointed | , the primatologist most closely associated with chimpanzees and author of ... |
Theodore Sturgeon | | , reviewing a 1964 American edition for a genre audience, declared that "M ... |
Noël Coward | ... Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, | , and P. G. Wodehouse |
Terry Pratchett | In the United Kingdom, a popular modern satirist is Sir | , author of the internationally best-selling Discworld book series. One of ... |
Golden Horde | ... der was arrested by Ivan for refusing to aid the Crimean Tatars against the | . He died in prison in 1493, Ivan seized his land. In 1494 Boris died, the ... |
Hubert Opperman | ... Never slow to avail of publicity BSA sponsored the great Australian cyclist | and re-branded the top of the range machine the "Opperman" model . A less ... |
Marcel Duchamp | An early Dada-related work from 1916 by | also worked with noise, but in an almost silent way. His ready-made With H ... |
Justin Fashanu | ... Andy Linighan, midfielder Mike Phelan, midfielder Tim Sherwood and striker | . The club's most successful managers have included Ken Brown, Ron Saunder ... |
J. Michael Straczynski | ... under the "Before Watchmen" banner. Among the creators involved are writers | , Brian Azzarello, Darwyn Cooke, and Len Wein, and artists Lee Bermejo, J. ... |
Oliver Reed | ... praised his time on the show as the highlight of his life, and was proud of | berating him as a publicity whore as they got drunk together in the Ivy. I ... |
Jarvis Cocker | ... uence on rock n' roll, photographing several artists including Paul Weller, | , Razorlight, Brian Eno, M.I.A., Ian Brown, The Futureheads, Belle & Sebas ... |
P. G. Wodehouse | ... s Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward, and | |
Natasha Richardson | ... e Cherry Orchard (1981), Going Gently (1981), Ghosts (with Kenneth Branagh, | and Michael Gambon, 1987), Make and Break (with Robert Hardy, 1987), Can Y ... |
Hermione Gingold | Chevalier appeared in the movie musical Gigi (1958) with Leslie Caron and | , with whom he shared the song "I Remember It Well", and several Walt Disn ... |
Paulo Coelho | ... is document are: Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo, Cesar Gaviria, | , Enrique Santos, Mario Vargas Llosa, Moisés Naím, Tomas Eloy Martine |
Salma Hayek | Cruz appeared alongside her good friend | in the 2006 Western comedy film, Bandidas. Randy Cordova of the Arizona Re ... |
Richard Burton | ... t University College, Oxford, for six months. There he met his contemporary | , and together they joined the RAF in 1944. He completed his navigator tra ... |
David Bowie | ... hletic Club. The National Stadium also hosted many music concerts including | , The Rolling Stones, U2 and Michael Jackson |
Rihanna | ... The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring" in 2001. In 2010, singer | sampled "One By One" on a song from her new album Loud |
Adolf Hitler | ... Beer Hall Putsch, also called the Munich Putsch, staged by the NSDAP under | in Munich. In 1920, the German Workers' Party had become the National Soci ... |
Sir Edgar Speyer, 1st Baronet | ... s, the last individual to be expelled from the Council against his will was | , who was removed on 13 December 1921 for pro-German activities during the ... |
Douglas MacArthur | Jayu (Freedom) Park- The statue of General, | , as well as a memorial to the centennial anniversary of U.S. and Korea re ... |
Michael Moorcock | The Eternal Champion is a fictional creation of the author | and is a recurrent feature in many of his novels |
Marian McPartland | A CD recording of a collaboration with | on her show Piano Jazz was released in 2005. It featured Costello singing ... |
Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ch of his term in office, Harcourt and his newly-appointed Attorney-General | succeeded in regaining substantial public support by taking a hard line ag ... |
Richard Burton | | 's description of the acting profession had convinced him that it would be ... |
Uri Geller | ... which occurred at a meeting where Randi was duplicating the performances of | : A professor from the University at Buffalo shouted out that Randi was a ... |
Elisabeth of Bavaria | ... uri (Γαστούρι) to the south of the city of Corfu Greece, Empress of Austria | also known as Sissi built in 1890 a summer palace with Achilles as its cen ... |
Karl Marx | ... attach to their own actions. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and | , as one of the three principal architects of modern social science |
Davy Jones | After | came Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy. They held the title of Teen Idols fr ... |
Neil Armstrong | ... st famous recording that allegedly demonstrates this is the speech given by | at the time of the first manned lunar landing on 20 July 1969. If played b ... |
Madonna | ... ls of the room containing Creed's work as a protest. At the prize ceremony, | gave him the prize and said, "At a time when political correctness is valu ... |
Brian Aldiss | A contemporary of | and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox E ... |
Manuel Lisa | ... who were heading west in search of beaver pelts. Colter was later hired by | to lead fur trappers and to explore the region around the Yellowstone Rive ... |
Schubert | ... s favorite classical piano pieces by composers such as Bach, Scarlatti, and | . Some recordings are available on the Piano Society website, along with t ... |
George Formby | ... kiffle and American rock'n'roll. Acquiring an old ukulele and a copy of The | Method, he played his first chord. He later recalled, "I was thunderstruck ... |
Uta Hagen | ... y Shakespeare play on Broadway, running for 296 performances. Stage actress | played Desdemona, and José Ferrer played Iago. For his portrayal, Robeson ... |
Jacques Offenbach | ... er, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of | 's famous but fictitious opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and the author of th ... |
Oisín | ... or her, but to no avail. Fortunately, he was later reunited with their son, | , who went on to be one of the greatest of the Fianna |
Kobe Bryant | ... t with a core of new players led by Raja Bell (who clotheslined Lakers star | in a first-round series game), Boris Diaw and Tim Thomas to go along with ... |
Vernor Vinge | ... science fiction writing on occasion. In the novel A Deepness in the Sky by | , the spacefaring Qeng Ho culture is depicted as using metric units such a ... |
Al Stewart | ... at also included Don McLean, Tom Rush, Jesse Colin Young, Steve Forbert and | |
Marcel Duchamp | In the early 20th century | exhibited a urinal as a sculpture. His point was to have people look at th ... |
Ovid | ... dons) over whom Aeacus ruled, or that he made men grow up out of the earth. | , on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the t ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... hort story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by | , Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Cowa ... |
Igor Sikorsky | ... hile practicing for the Reims Aviation Meet in France. The Wright Brothers, | , Captain Rene Fonac, and the famed duo of Clarence Chamberlain and Bert A ... |
Alma Reville | ... g reputation. On 2 December 1926, Hitchcock married his assistant director, | , at the Brompton Oratory in South Kensington. Their only child, daughter ... |
George Frideric Handel | ... a German-born monarch and German-born composer define the English oratorio. | , most famous today for his Messiah, also wrote other oratorios based on t ... |
Orson Welles | A radio adaptation starring | aired in the USA on November 6, 1938, as part of his Mercury Theatre on th ... |
Theodor W. Adorno | ... ist social philosophy of convergence proposed by the Frankfurt School (e.g. | Jürgen Habermas ) |
Chiang Fang-liang | ... ti (黃友棣) wrote the Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Song in 1988. In January 2004, | asked that both father and son be buried at Wuchih Mountain Military Cemet ... |
Owen Moore | ... io in Fort Lee, New Jersey and made a number of films starring Lawrence and | before selling out to the new Universal Pictures in 1913. With this new pr ... |
Gregory Benford | A variation, developed by brothers James Benford and | , is to use thermal desorption of propellant trapped in the material of a ... |
Björk | ... Come to Daddy" and "Windowlicker" are perhaps his best known. His video for | 's "All Is Full of Love" won multiple awards, including an MTV music video ... |
Orson Welles | ... Mycroft. This series was co-produced by the American Broadcasting Company. | appeared as Professor Moriarty in The Final Problem |
Pearl White | ... the films turned out to be extremely well preserved. Included were films by | , Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, and Lon Chaney. These films are now hou ... |
Cary Grant | ... as Alice, W. C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Edna May Oliver as the Red Queen, | as the Mock Turtle (Grant's star was still on the ascent at the time), Gar ... |
Hans Kamper | On 22 October 1899, | placed an advertisement in Los Deportes declaring his wish to form a footb ... |
Eric Idle | ... Pythons' stay are said to include the owner, Donald Sinclair, having thrown | 's suitcase out of the window thinking it was a bomb. Cleese later describ ... |
Charles Boyer | ... Frank Sinatra. In 1961, he starred in the drama Fanny with Leslie Caron and | , an updated version of Marcel Pagnol's "Marseilles Trilogy." In 1962, he ... |
Johnny Weissmuller | ... movie theaters to see bodybuilding idols such as Reg Park, Steve Reeves and | on the big screen. "I was inspired by individuals like Reg Park and Steve ... |
Eric Idle | ... e the 1960s. He also appeared in a Monty Python sketch, taking the place of | . Cook was on the cast album of the show and in the film, Pleasure At Her ... |
Joan Marshall | ... Fair Munster". The cast in order of appearance in the title sequence were: | as Phoebe (instead of Lily), Beverley Owen as Marilyn, Nate "Happy" Derman ... |
Link Wray | ... ed the damage; he is certain that it did not fall from the roof of the car. | explains the development of his fuzz tone with a similar story |
Wernher von Braun | ... GMC). Central to this was a group of German scientists and engineers led by | that had originally been brought to America by Colonel Holger Toftoy under ... |
Tracey Ullman | ... ctors as Chuck Norris (Walker, Texas Ranger), Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), and | (Tracey Takes On...). Eventually, Maguire was cast as the lead in the FOX ... |
Clemens Westerhof | ... ofile managers also started their coaching careers at Varkenoord, including | and Leo Beenhakker |
Natsume Sōseki | ... ura Kakuzō kept an interest in traditional Japanese painting. Mori Ōgai and | studied in the West and introduced a more modern view of human life |
J. M. Coetzee | ... Glass's Waiting for the Barbarians, written by University of Texas alumnus | ). The Austin Symphony Orchestra performs a range of classical, pop and fa ... |
Karl Popper | ... ing to the autonomous education philosophy emerged from the epistemology of | in The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality, which ... |
Glenn Curtiss | ... s in history. The Aero Club of America chose the area for the level plains. | brought the area to national attention in July 1909 with his second Scient ... |
Mighty Sparrow | Kitchener returned to Trinidad in 1962. He and the | proceeded to dominate the calypso competitions of the sixties and seventie ... |
Steve Nash | ... 2000s, first led by a new "Big Three" of Dirk Nowitzki, Michael Finley and | . With a new owner in Mark Cuban and head coach Don Nelson leading the cre ... |
Philip Schaff | ... sser quality on some minor points. An American (in fact a German American), | , was commissioned to supervise the first series of the NPNF. He was joine ... |
Maimonides | ... ontemporaries cultural figures included Averroes and the Jewish philosopher | |
Edwin Starr | ... eet Rhythm Band, Booker T. & the M.G.'s and soul shouters like King Curtis, | , Temptations David Ruffin, and Dennis Edwards. A then-prepubescent Michae ... |
Orson Welles | ... ar cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta, | as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Livesey as the Shepherd, and ... |
Karl Marx | ... itutions led by a spontaneous uprising of the working class as predicted by | . On 25 January 1918, at the Petrograd Soviet, Lenin declared "Long live t ... |
Henry VII | ... sion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of | following the Battle of Bosworth Field, Lincoln took the oath of allegianc ... |
Naomi Watts | ... , red-headed woman has just vacated. An aspiring actress named Betty Elms ( | ) arrives at the same apartment and finds the dark-haired woman confused, ... |
John Jacob Astor | ... 1810, fur trader, entrepreneur, and one of the wealthiest men in the U.S., | of the American Fur Company, outfitted an expedition (known as the Astor E ... |
Paul Strand | ... le, including painter Georgia O'Keeffe, artist John Marin, and photographer | , all of whom created famous works during their stays in the Southwest |
Scott Westerfeld | The Risen Empire by | uses metric time to measure time within an empire that extends over many s ... |
William Osler | ... pprenticed in surgery and anatomy under surgeon John Hunter and others at . | records that Hunter gave Jenner William Harvey's advice, very famous in me ... |
Joseph Nechvatal | ... tware (for example, the C++ software used in creating the viral symphOny by | ) |
Neil Gaiman | ... re's Swamp Thing, The Floronic Man is detained there, and in The Sandman by | , Doctor Destiny escapes the asylum to wreak havoc on both the real and dr ... |
Grace Kelly | ... f Hadleyville, New Mexico Territory, has just married pacifist Quaker Amy ( | ) and turned in his badge. He intends to become a storekeeper elsewhere. S ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... al unity. The title of the 'Father of the Nation' dissolved with his death. | , a prominent figure from the Popalzai clan, became the president of Afgha ... |
Lewis Milestone | ... duced by the Hal Roach Studios, was adapted by Eugene Solow and directed by | . It was nominated for four Oscars. The musical score was by American comp ... |
Jaromir Jagr | ... July 1, the Flyers traded Kris Versteeg to Florida, signed former all-star | to a 1-year contract, Anaheim's Andreas Lilja to a 2-year contract and Pit ... |
Abba Eban | ... d the tacit support of Levi Eshkol and Yigal Allon, while it was opposed by | and Pinhas Sapir. After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bl ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ere he used to recuperate with his leg elevated while watching the films of | and others. After the war, Renoir followed his father's suggestion and tri ... |
Irving Berlin | ... wer was an issue-free, feel-good animated cartoon with a soundtrack song by | called I Like Ike. For the first time the candidates' personal medical his ... |
John Cleese | ... ook performed all four nights of The Secret Policeman's Ball – teaming with | . Cook performed a couple of solo pieces and a sketch with Eleanor Bron. H ... |
Frank Gehry | ... a museum for contemporary art and design, housed in a building designed by | , has been open to the public since May 2005. Its exhibits change regularl ... |
Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog | ... ople such as Dr. Chaim Weizmann and the Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine, | did not reduce his sentence. In Shlomo Ben-Yosef's writings in Hebrew were ... |
Audrey Hepburn | Imbruglia was named 6th most naturally beautiful woman of all time in 2004. | topped the poll in which only experts like fashion editors, model agents a ... |
Mary Shelley | ... rial projects that never got off the ground including Haunted Summer, about | and a film with Marlon Brando about the Indian massacre at Wounded Knee |
Jacob J. Shubert | ... choruses of traveling revues and was spotted dancing in Detroit by producer | . Shubert put her in the chorus line for his 1924 show, Innocent Eyes, at ... |
Anthony Hopkins | ... by such performers as Paul Scofield at the Royal National Theatre in 1980, | in the BBC Shakespeare television production on videotape. (1981), and Mic ... |
Yamada Nagamasa | ... any surviving rōnin turned to farming or became townspeople. A few, such as | , sought adventure overseas as mercenaries. Still, the majority lived in p ... |
Fritz Lang | An opening scene of | 's 1927 film Metropolis shows a metric clock with ten numbers instead of t ... |
Frank Kelly Freas | ... Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth. Originally illustrated by | , and later by Phil Foglio, the highly pun-driven books follow a "demon" m ... |
Christian Bale | ... e Rules of Attraction. As a in-joke reference to Bateman being portrayed by | in the then-in-production 2000 film adaptation, the actor himself briefly ... |
Melvin Van Peebles | ... come in California. By the time production wrapped, Cinemation had released | ' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song to considerable success, despite the X ... |
Erich von Stroheim | ... mics, but he soon set that aside to make films, inspired, in particular, by | 's work |
Barry Humphries | ... s His Own (1974). The Barry McKenzie films saw performing-artist and writer | collaborating with director Bruce Beresford. In 1976, Peter Finch was awar ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... of most soviets at the second All-Russian Congress of Soviets, while he and | simultaneously led the October Revolution. As a matter of political pragma ... |
Herodotus | By the time of | (c. 475 BCE), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2,857 km from ... |
Oisín | ... annaidheacht), much of it purported to be narrated by Fionn's son, the poet | |
Henry Koster | ... vey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, directed by | , and starring James Stewart and Josephine Hull. The story is about a man ... |
Ang Lee | ... od, a teenage boarding school student whose narration anchors the action in | 's 1997 film, The Ice Storm. This led to a variety of lead roles in films ... |
Tina Turner | In 1996, White recorded the duet "In Your Wildest Dreams" with | . 1996 also saw the release of Space Jam and its soundtrack, on which Whit ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... n Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation and features Morgan Freeman as | . Invictus earned Damon an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Ac ... |
Tom Cruise | ... down because he did not like the script. Hall was recommended to Mendes by | , because of Hall's work on Without Limits (1998), which Cruise had execut ... |
Walter Krueger | ... ifornia and Texas. In June 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff to General | , Commander of the 3rd Army, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. He ... |
Tony Sheridan | Other than the commercially released songs with | issued on In the Beginning (Circa 1960), only three recordings made by the ... |
Sofia Gubaidulina | ... r many instruments. He wrote Parable XVII for Double Bass, Op. 131 in 1974. | penned a Sonata for double bass and piano in 1975. In 1977 Dutch-Hungarian ... |
Bonaventure Kalou | ... Feyenoord chairman Jorien van den Herik to Abidjan to sign the then unknown | , when Van den Herik contacted with the education institute at Kalou’s clu ... |
Rolf Harris | ... ltic folk ballads. Country and folk artists such as Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, | , The Bushwackers, John Williamson, and John Schumann of the band Redgum h ... |
John Cleese | Cook appeared at the first three fund-raising galas staged by humourists | and Martin Lewis on behalf of Amnesty International. The benefits were dub ... |
Richard Harris | A film adaptation was released in 1990, directed by Jim Sheridan with | in the lead role |
Fritz Lang | ... uffaut (Simon and Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock also said he was influenced by | 's film Destiny (1921) |
Hume Cronyn | ... s Ruth in Marvin's Room (1996), co-starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, and | . In 1999, Verdon served as artistic consultant on a plotless Broadway mus ... |
Juan Soler | ... ed on a real life drama, the story of Leonarda Ruan. Other cast members are | and Alma Delfina. She incorporated regional Mexican music, rancheras, pop, ... |
Henry H. Arnold | At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. | , commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effec ... |
Iannis Xenakis | ... Other examples of music that contain noise-based features include works by | , Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Cornelius Cardew, Theatre of E ... |
Haim Drukman | ... abbi Moshe Levinger rented the main hotel in Hebron as Swiss tourists, with | presiding over seder, and then refused to leave. A Druze border policeman ... |
Ezra Pound | ... d what came to be seen as "Imagism's enabling text", the haiku-like poem of | entitled "In a Station of the Metro" |
Roddy McDowall | She remained forgotten until 1991, when actor | , serving on the National Film Preservation Board, paid for a memorial mar ... |
Alexey Leonov | ... r importance in Russian space history is only surpassed by Yuri Gagarin and | . Since her retirement from politics, she appears infrequently at space-re ... |
Vince Clarke | ... asure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist | and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their d ... |
Oscar Loew | ... ested that peroxide's breakdown is caused by an unknown substance. In 1900, | was the first to give it the name catalase, and found its presence in many ... |
Boris Karloff | ... ewart Stern, uses the encounter between Marlow (Roddy McDowall) and Kurtz ( | ) as its final act, and adds a backstory in which Marlow had been Kurtz's ... |
Boy George | ... o were part of the 1980s New Romantic movement. The original band comprised | (lead vocals), Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards) a ... |
Dick Gregory | ... African-American comedians such as Redd Foxx, George Kirby, Bill Cosby and | began to cross over to white audiences during this time |
Lilli Palmer | ... ces and boasted an all-star cast, including Christopher Plummer as Oedipus, | as Jocasta, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Richard Johnson as Creon, Roger Live ... |
Michael Johnson | ... -studded history: Pietro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions | and Donovan Bailey went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and improv ... |
Robert W. Service | ... later became the Ester Gold Camp, featured a musical variety show including | 's poetry, held at a sawdust-strewn bar known as the Malemute Saloon, afte ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... me idiom being taken up by classical composers including Claude Debussy and | . Blues music was published and popularized by W. C. Handy, whose "Memphis ... |
Melissa George | ... rent mobsters, who insist he cast an unknown actress named Camilla Rhodes ( | ) as the lead in his film. After he resists, he returns home to find his w ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... ers and values of art; it is term associated with Dadaism and attributed to | just before World War I, when he was making art from found objects. One of ... |
Roddy McDowall | ... This version, written by Stewart Stern, uses the encounter between Marlow ( | ) and Kurtz (Boris Karloff) as its final act, and adds a backstory in whic ... |
John von Neumann | ... the U.S. Navy had decided to build a large scale computer, on the advice of | . Atanasoff was put in charge of the project, and he asked Mauchly to help ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... apparent leader of the Italian unification movement was Italian nationalist | . He was popular amongst southern Italians. Garibaldi led the Italian repu ... |
Jacques Offenbach | ... ing a 2002 duet with opera singer Filippa Giordano of the "Barcarolle" from | 's Les contes d'Hoffman as well as the song "The Sun Will Shine Again", wr ... |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... scientific achievement with the now-famous activities launched by inventors | and Guglielmo Marconi |
Bảo Đại | ... ognized by France as an independent country ruled by the Vietnamese Emperor | , and the Vietnamese National Army (VNA) was soon created. The VNA fought ... |
Turkic | On August 25, some of Romanos' | mercenaries came into contact with their Seljuk relatives and deserted. Ro ... |
Magnus Hirschfeld | ... of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and continuing in the late nineteenth century with | , John Addington Symonds, Edward Carpenter, Aimée Duc and others. These wr ... |
Madonna | ... a Culture Minister (Kim Howells) criticising exhibits, a guest of honour ( | ) swearing, a prize judge (Lynn Barber) writing in the press, and a speech ... |
John Cleese | ... aying in Torquay at the Gleneagles Hotel with the Python team in 1971, that | found inspiration (and the setting although not the actual film location) ... |
Neil Finn | ... eep lyrically and get to some root emotion down there.” Explains Collins, “ | [of Crowded House] once said, ‘A great producer is someone whom you admire ... |
Keith Urban | ... er Road and Sara Storer. In the USA, Olivia Newton John, Sherrié Austin and | have attained great success |
Carl Foreman | ... forced to face a gang of killers by himself. The screenplay was written by | |
Dannii Minogue | In May 2010, after | , who is a judge on the British version of The X Factor, declined to judge ... |
Henry Astor | | had a home in West Copake |
Marcel Duchamp | ... urope, Man Ray's early paintings display facets of cubism. Upon befriending | who was interested in showing movement in static paintings, his works begi ... |
Celia Cruz | ... successful telenovela Valentina with Juan Ferrara and the "Queen of Salsa", | |
F. W. Murnau | ... udios in Potsdam near Berlin. Hitchcock also observed part of the making of | 's film Der letzte Mann (1924). He was very impressed with Murnau's work a ... |
Erich von Stroheim | ... of his most well-known films, Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion), starring | and Jean Gabin. A film on the theme of brotherhood about a series of escap ... |
Bahadur Shah II | ... afire, and marched into the Red Fort, where they asked the Mughal emperor, | , to become their leader and reclaim his throne. The emperor was reluctant ... |
Georgi Markov | In 1978 Bulgarian dissident writer | was killed in London by a dose of ricin injected via a modified umbrella. ... |
Maimonides | ... ly monotheistic and follows in the footsteps of the Aristotelian theologian | , the panentheistic conception of God can be found in certain Jewish mysti ... |
Yuri Gagarin | ... o, and to some her importance in Russian space history is only surpassed by | and Alexey Leonov. Since her retirement from politics, she appears infrequ ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
Grace Kelly | ... erican Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and | . The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a ... |
Allan McLeod Cormack | ... the Mayo Clinic has an EMI scanner on display in the Radiology Department. | of Tufts University in Massachusetts independently invented a similar proc ... |
Johnny Depp | ... riter Nicholas St. John. He also appeared in Nick of Time, which also stars | , and an art house film by David Salle, "Search and Destroy. |
Nick McKim | ... ach, the Greens backed a Labor minority government. Tasmanian Greens Leader | was appointed to the new Labor-Green cabinet, making him the first Green M ... |
Che Guevara | ... cis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth (2007) and another cameo in the 2008 | biopic Che. He lent his voice to the English version of the animated film ... |
Golden Horde | ... n lands", he tripled the territory of his state, ended the dominance of the | over the Rus, renovated the Moscow Kremlin, and laid the foundations of th ... |
Pevsner | ... uding most of the black-and-white buildings, is Victorian, a result of what | termed the "black-and-white revival" |
Susaye Greene | ... 72, the lineup changed more frequently; Lynda Laurence, Scherrie Payne, and | all became members of the group during the mid-1970s. The Supremes disband ... |
William S. Burroughs | ... . Reed, a fan of poets and authors such as Raymond Chandler, Nelson Algren, | , Allen Ginsberg, and Hubert Selby, Jr., saw no reason why the content in ... |
César Pelli | ... 9 Science Center and the Joe Rosenfield '25 Student Center. Noted architect | designed the athletics center, the Joe Rosenfield '25 Student Center, and ... |
Corky Evans | ... an acrimonious leadership race between Dosanjh, maverick West Kootenay MLA | and Wilson, who had been persuaded to fold his stalled PDA in 1998 and joi ... |
Rickie Lee Jones | ... uthwest (SXSW) festival included Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, Tom Morello, and | .Austin has been the location for a number of motion pictures, partly due ... |
Mike Vanderjagt | ... phins in Miami, when a potential 49-yard game-winning field goal attempt by | sailed to the right of the goalposts. Edgerrin James tore his ACL in the s ... |
Enrique Iglesias | Notable people who performed on The Roseanne Show were | , Sheryl Crow, Janice Robinson, Lulu, Joan Jett and Tori Amos |
Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... Inigo Jollifant in Victor Saville's The Good Companions (1933), the lead in | 's Secret Agent (1936), Benjamin Disraeli in The Prime Minister (1940), Ca ... |
Tibor Rubin | ... Bush presented the Medal of Honor to Jewish veteran and Holocaust survivor | , whom many believed to have been overlooked because of his religion |
Hendrix | ... "I Was Born To Love You"), slide guitar ("Drowse", "Tie Your Mother Down"), | sounding licks ("Liar", "Brighton Rock"), tape-delay ("Brighton Rock", "Wh ... |
Vladimir Ashkenazy | ... bitions, parties and receptions are held including a performance by pianist | in Adams' Carmel Highlands home. Adams died on April 22, 1984, of heart fa ... |
Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
Gil Kane | ... on of the new Atom, who debuted in Showcase #34 (Sep-Oct, 1961) with art by | three years after his creation of sci-fi hero Adam Strange, who debuted in ... |
Van Gogh | ... missions, Resnais was invited in 1948 to make a film about the paintings of | , to coincide with an exhibition that was being mounted in Paris. He filme ... |
Carl Foreman | ... with the second Red Scare and the Korean War. Writer, producer, and partner | was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) while ... |
James M. Wahl | ... nited States. The city was named by Norwegian settler and former legislator | . The population was 3,057 at the |
Joseph Haydn | ... assical style working in the late 18th and early 19th century, particularly | , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert. Though ... |
Marco Polo | ... eliable attendants working for the mail service. Foreign observers, such as | , have attested to the efficiency of this early postal system |
Phil Collins | ... award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk awards. The award was presented by his friend | . The BBC website says of Martyn, "his heartfelt performances have either ... |
Willem de Kooning | ... reation of new works of art. In a sense the innovations of Jackson Pollock, | , Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, B ... |
Idaho Territorial Legislature | ... that was launched on the Columbia River in 1860. It was reorganized by the | on February 4, 1864. In this context, the name of the county predates both ... |
Ovid | ... fish — which again is intended to explain the Syrian abstinence from fish. | in his Metamorphoses (5.331) relates that Venus took the form of a fish to ... |
Ernst Happel | ... n manager to lead Feyenoord. Feyenoord's international trophies were won by | , Wiel Coerver and Bert van Marwijk |
Wilhelm Weitling | ... nch of socialism produced the communist work of Étienne Cabet in France and | in Germany |
Ray Harryhausen | ... ast as Princess Farah in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, the third part of | 's Sinbad trilogy. The film was not released until its stop motion animati ... |
Allan McLeod Cormack | ... od – this last due to the work of Godfrey Hounsfield and South African-born | – gradually supplanted it as the modality of CT. In terms of mathematics, ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... e twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as | , Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williams ... |
Chaim Herzog | ... enty helicopters, inflicting heavy casualties. Israeli Major General (res.) | placed Egyptian helicopter losses at fourteen. Still, other sources claim ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... llowing year, he was named "National Hero" by the order of Afghan President | . The date of his death, September 9, is observed as a national holiday kn ... |
Jenny Kwan | ... ropped to only two — MacPhail and neighbouring Vancouver-Mount Pleasant MLA | . They were also the only surviving members of the previous Cabinet; even ... |
Poul Anderson | The Fourth Crusade is depicted in | 's novel There Will Be Time from the point of view of a 20th Century time- ... |
Haydn | ... life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since | or Mozart. More remarkably, he completed 14 of these symphonies in his 80s ... |
Uri Geller | ... e international spotlight in 1972 when he publicly challenged the claims of | . Randi accused Geller of being nothing more than a charlatan and a fraud ... |
Pablo Picasso | ... st. In 1912 he visited the Sonderbund exhibition in Cologne, where works by | and post-Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin profound ... |
Björk | ... nnale, which consisted of a loop of Monkey Drummer, Flex, and his video for | 's "All Is Full of Love" |
Rudolph Valentino | ... l premiere in 2012. The film is based on the life of the silent screen icon | , known as the Hollywood's first "Great Lover". After the emergency surger ... |
Herodotus | ... ncluding the poet Anacreon) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( | i.168). The chief coin type, a griffon, is identical with that of Teos; th ... |
Linford Christie | The 100 m Olympic Gold and Silver medallist, | of Great Britain famously had frequent false starts that were marginally b ... |
Jules Dassin | The film stars Melina Mercouri and | , and it gently submerges the viewer into Greek culture, including dance, ... |
Gunder Bengtsson | ... yenoord was managed by two managers at once, Dutchman Pim Verbeek and Swede | . Bengtsson was the last foreign manager to lead Feyenoord. Feyenoord's in ... |
Joe Strummer | ... on Calling" at the 45th Grammy Awards ceremony, in honour of Clash frontman | , who had died the previous December. In March, Elvis Costello & The Attra ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providing | with the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ... |
Siavash Ghomayshi | ... , Alla Pugacheva, Shadmehr, Ian Gillan, Hasmik Papian, Isabel Bayrakdarian, | , Space, Bambir, Grigory Leps, George Benson, and many more |
Joan Fontaine | ... Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress | . The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood o ... |
Morrissey | ... band "Death Cult". Duffy had previously been in The Nosebleeds (along with | ), Lonesome No More and then Theatre of Hate. In addition to Astbury and D ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... fect of, "You should give me lessons." (Some versions of this story feature | rather than Ravel as the composer; however Stravinsky confirmed that he or ... |
Bridget Bate Tichenor | ... embers of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, | , and Antonin Artaud posed for his camera |
Cornelius Castoriadis | ... t modern thinkers who were inspired by the concept of direct democracy are: | , Hannah Arendt, and Pierre Clastres |
Jacinda Barrett | cast member | has become a film actress, appearing in films such as Ladder 49, The Names ... |
William Bradford | ... apher Francis Bremer, Winthrop's writings echoed those of other Puritans: " | 's Of Plymouth Plantation (unpublished until 1856), Edward Johnson's Wonde ... |
Carole James | ... contested by establishment favourite and former Victoria School Board chair | , Oak Bay City Councillor Nils Jensen, and former MLAs Leonard Krog and St ... |
Friedrich Engels | ... holic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves socialists. | argued that in 1848, at the time when the Communist Manifesto was publishe ... |
Saka | The Western Satraps or Kshatrapas (35-405 CE) were | rulers of a land called Ariaca according to the Periplus of the Erythraean ... |
Albert Einstein | ... attempts of the Banovina of Croatia to have them extradited were fruitless. | and Heinrich Mann sent a letter to the International League for Human Righ ... |
William C. Farr | # | 1891–189 |
Pablo Picasso | ... oward making a work of art was as important as the work of art itself. Like | 's innovative reinventions of painting and sculpture near the turn of the ... |
Turkic | ... xtant mosque in India. After the fall of the Slave dynasty, a succession of | dynasties, the Khilji dynasty, the Tughluq dynasty, the Sayyid dynasty and ... |
James Joyce | ... rk on the art of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as | , Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud ... |
Gore Vidal | ... or McVeigh typically described his deed as an act of war, as in the case of | 's essay The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh. Other journalists compared him to ... |
Pim Verbeek | ... t period in history Feyenoord was managed by two managers at once, Dutchman | and Swede Gunder Bengtsson. Bengtsson was the last foreign manager to lead ... |
Christopher Reeve | ... se, and as Elise McKenna in the romantic fantasy Somewhere in Time opposite | . In 1981, she appeared in the television film East of Eden, based on the ... |
Madonna | ... its bands. Over the decades, the group have collaborated with Neneh Cherry, | , David Bowie, Mos Def, Elizabeth Fraser and Sinéad O'Connor amongst many ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... e Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Chief Minister of Victor Emmanuel, and | , a general and national hero. In 1866 Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bi ... |
Richard Garriott | The term MMORPG was coined by | , the creator of Ultima Online, in 1997. Previous to this and related coin ... |
Che Guevara | In 1965 Argentinian revolutionary | used the western shores of Lake Tanganyika as a training camp for guerrill ... |
Franz Schubert | ... articularly Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and | . Though Mozart and Schubert did not study with Haydn, Mozart and Haydn we ... |
Gertrude Stein | ... of photography. Significant members of the art world, such as James Joyce, | , Jean Cocteau, Bridget Bate Tichenor, and Antonin Artaud posed for his ca ... |
Avi Shlaim | ... mission, without the consent of their commander, as described by historian | |
Naomi Watts | ... ical thriller written and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, | , and Laura Harring. The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many crit ... |
Tony Hancock | Meanwhile, in 1954, he began working with | in BBC radio's Hancock's Half Hour, playing a character with his own name ... |
Bohuslav Martinů | ... by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, | , Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, ... |
David Beckham | ... e city of Tirana his appearance at the training ground overshadowed that of | . He appeared on the pitch before the start of the Albania v England match ... |
John Lennon | ... ly Damage Your Health. She portrays Diana, a fan of The Beatles band member | ; she tries unsuccessfully to meet him. Years later, after multiple failed ... |
Breaker Morant | 1980's | starring Jack Thompson and Bryan Brown dramatised the controversial trial ... |
Van Gogh | ... of his work was shown to, and appreciated by, contemporary artists such as | and Delacroix; the latter expressed the opinion that if Hugo had decided t ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... l style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of Philip José Farmer, and | helped develop the series (and was originally going to be its co-author). ... |
George Shearing | ... s with such musicians as Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, | , Cal Tjader, and Thelonious Monk. She appeared in the documentary Jazz on ... |
Rhys Chatham | ... Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Cornelius Cardew, Theatre of Eternal Music, | , Ryoji Ikeda, Survival Research Laboratories, Whitehouse, Cabaret Voltair ... |
John Lennon | ... s by Glyn Johns of the Get Back album (which would later become Let It Be). | may have been the unintentional source for one of the Get Back bootlegs; L ... |
Nick Cave | ... ey Cricket Ground, also included performances by Powderfinger, Silverchair, | , John Butler Trio, Finn Brothers and others |
Laura Harring | ... tten and directed by David Lynch, starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and | . The surrealist film was highly acclaimed by many critics and earned Lync ... |
Martin Short | Along with | , Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast ... |
Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
Milla Jovovich | ... features performances by Isabella Rossellini and Galina Jovovich, mother of | , will premiere in 2012. The film is based on the life of the silent scree ... |
Terrence Malick | The 1973 | film Badlands as well as the 1974 film Mr. Majestyk starring Charles Brons ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... and "They Laid Jesus Christ in His Grave" with a guitar I borrowed that was | 's; found broken in a field with a bird nest inside. I included a song of ... |
Song Chong-Gug | ... e and Korean editions are available due to the popularity of Shinji Ono and | in their home countries. Since 2004 Feyenoord have shared a website 2 team ... |
Isabella Rossellini | ... re length silent film Silent life started in 2006, features performances by | and Galina Jovovich, mother of Milla Jovovich, will premiere in 2012. The ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... ks of Alban Berg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, and | . He also asked Schoenberg for composition lessons. Schoenberg refused, sa ... |
Indo-Iranians | ... tegral part of Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex, and was occupied by | . In the 5th century BCE, it became a province of the Achaemenian Empire a ... |
Tarik O'Regan | In 2011, an operatic adaptation by composer | and librettist Tom Phillips was premiered at the Royal Opera House in Lond ... |
Orson Welles | ... , George, Duke of Clarence to Olivier's Richard III (1955), and Henry IV to | ' Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight (1966). A brief glimpse of his Hamlet fro ... |
Hikaru Utada | ... Ayumi Hamasaki became popular in 1990s, new names in the late 90s included | and Morning Musume. Hikaru Utada's debut album, First Love, went on to be ... |
Kevin Keegan | ... of the most famous names in football have also managed the club, including | (who had also served the club as a player) and the late Sir Bobby Robson, ... |
Donovan Bailey | ... etro Mennea set a world best in 1983, Olympic champions Michael Johnson and | went head-to-head over the distance in 1997, and improved Mennea's record ... |
Erik Erikson | ... ic reasoning." His work can be compared to Lev Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud, and | who were also great contributors in the field of Developmental Psychology |
Tina Turner | ... enor saxophone solos by 17-year-old Raymond Hill (later to be the father of | 's first child, before she married Ike). Willie Sims played drums for the ... |
Jim Morrison | ... pa John Creech of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna). Other tracks included " | 's Grave", which once again brought Taylor some MTV exposure, and the Flan ... |
Meyer Lansky | ... boss of the modern Genovese crime family. He was, along with his associate | , instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the ... |
Philip José Farmer | ... period. The metafictional style was inspired by the Wold Newton Universe of | , and Neil Gaiman helped develop the series (and was originally going to b ... |
Descartes | ... by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton. Where | held that all motions should be explained with respect to the immediate fo ... |
Jagrup Brar | ... urrey-Panorama Ridge. The region had not voted NDP in 1996 but had in 1991. | became the third member of the party's caucus. Brar beat a locally popular ... |
Anthony Boucher | Even the "avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man", | , writing for The New York Times appeared to enjoy Goldfinger, saying "the ... |
Ukok Plateau | ... – Altai and Katun Natural Reserves, Lake Teletskoye, Mount Belukha and the | – comprise a natural UNESCO World Heritage Site entitled Golden Mountains ... |
James Joyce | ... work by F.S. Flint, Skipwith Cannell, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, | , Ford Madox Ford, Allen Upward and John Cournos |
Barry Humphries | ... his soul, but repeatedly tricks him. The film features cameo appearances by | as Envy and Raquel Welch as Lust. Moore composed the soundtrack music and ... |
Christian Bale | ... ne dance song "Bale Out", making it sound as if she were arguing with actor | (whose recorded outbursts during the filming of Terminator Salvation were ... |
Robert Graves | ... oits. On 27 July 1916 he was awarded the Military Cross; the citation read: | described Sassoon as engaging in suicidal feats of bravery. Sassoon was al ... |
Jastrow | ... ue; Yer. Nazir vii.56a; Yer. San. i.18a; compare Josephus, B. J. ii.14, § 5 | ;, Dict. p. 838), whence some of the most prominent teachers of the next g ... |
Karina Smirnoff | ... competed on Season 8 of Dancing with the Stars in 2009 where he danced with | . Despite Wozniak and Smirnoff receiving 10 combined points from the three ... |
Mark Rothko | ... Edward Corbett (artist). Other visiting artists include Richard Diebenkorn, | , Ad Reinhardt, Clyfford Still and Morris Graves |
Pablo Picasso | With Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, and | , Man Ray was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galeri ... |
Paul Tillich | ... dissertation on "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of | and Henry Nelson Wieman". A 1980s inquiry concluded portions of his disser ... |
Herodotus | ... g boats, fishing and other skills required to survive in their environment. | also mentions that Darius had made use of the ocean in this region of Sind ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... atermass 2. He also had a supporting part as a TV advertisement producer in | 's A King in New York (1957) and played Master Henry in Outlaw Money an ep ... |
James Joyce | ... me as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own ingenious wordplay. | , author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, is another noted word-player. For ... |
Osvaldo Golijov | ... Bûcher, Krzysztof Penderecki St. Luke Passion, René Clemencic Kabbala, and | La Pasión según San Marcos. Oratorios by popular musicians include Paul Mc ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | Foreign Correspondent is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by | which tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy sp ... |
Yoko Ono | Yo La Tengo collaborated with | on the 2003 charity album Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig ... |
Gertrude Stein | ... iday on the French Riviera socializing with political free thinkers such as | and Claude McKay. Robeson and Brown began a series of concert tours in Ame ... |
Shinji Ono | ... f 2007, Japanese and Korean editions are available due to the popularity of | and Song Chong-Gug in their home countries. Since 2004 Feyenoord have shar ... |
Lionel Chetwynd | ... t High Noon: The Carl Foreman Documents, written, produced, and directed by | , Foreman's role in the creation and production of High Noon has over the ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... protagonist of DC Comics' Vertigo comic book series The Sandman, written by | . One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greate ... |
James Joyce | ... as Carol), or a pollyanna (from Eleanor H. Porter's book of the same name). | 's Finnegans Wake, composed in a uniquely complex linguistic style, coined ... |
Dick Gregory | ... Henry Ford, and Oliver North; and it has supported liberal figures such as | , H. L. Mencken, Rockwell Kent, and Dr. Benjamin Spock |
Adolf Hitler | ... . Concerned about the rise of totalitarian governments, especially those of | and Joseph Stalin, he tried to find the roots of these "madhouses" in huma ... |
Phil Collins | ... an unbearable sense of loss we must announce that John died this morning." | paid tribute, saying: "John's passing is terribly, terribly sad. I had wor ... |
Sir Oswald Mosley | ... ife peer in her own right; Cynthia, who became the first wife of politician | ; and Alexandra Naldera ("Baba"), who married Edward "Fruity" Metcalfe, th ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... ward nomination, for his role in The Contender. He also starred in the 2005 | film Tideland, his second with the director (the first being 1991's The Fi ... |
Saionji Kinmochi | ... Crisis in 1912–13 that interrupted the earlier politics of compromise. When | tried to cut the military budget, the army minister resigned, bringing dow ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... ce, Gershwin was intrigued by the works of Alban Berg, Dmitri Shostakovich, | , Darius Milhaud, and Arnold Schoenberg. He also asked Schoenberg for comp ... |
Hugo Grotius | ... lectures, Christian came under the influence of the political philosophy of | and Samuel Pufendorf, and continued the study of law at Frankfurt an der O ... |
Patrick Stewart | ... Asda's Christmas 2007 TV advertising campaign. She also appeared alongside | in UK Nintendo DS Brain Training television advertisements, and in a Publi ... |
Björk | The music video for the | song "Bachelorette" features a musical that is about, in part, the creatio ... |
Henry Tudor | ... h this claim was though an illegitimate line, it was no weaker than that of | , who dislodged the House of York from the throne in 1485 |
Martin Brodeur | Boucher and the Flyers consistently outplayed | and New Jersey and pulled off the upset in five games. However, the victor ... |
Mark Twain | Samuel Clemens ( | ) made his last public appearance on June 9, 1909, at the commencement cer ... |
Frank Auerbach | ... h dramatically record the "action" of painting itself. Still more recently, | has used such heavy impasto that some of his paintings become almost three ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... aims; RSEP disbanded and its members, along with others such as Carl Sagan, | , B.F. Skinner, and Philip J. Klass joined Kurtz to form CSICOP |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... rel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and | . The world was changing rapidly, too rapidly for many, who feared the cha ... |
John Lahr | | wrote a biography of Orton entitled Prick Up Your Ears, a title Orton hims ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... nd to emerge during the 1980s was Manchester's The Smiths. Music journalist | singled out The Smiths and their American contemporaries R.E.M. as "the tw ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ond World War in textbooks illustrated with Low's cartoons. German dictator | had a personal hatred of the cartoonist. It is, therefore, not surprising ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... ed as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Novelist | was known for his satirical stories such as Babbitt, Main Street, and It C ... |
Frédéric Chopin | ... an outstanding pianist all her life, and often played duets with her friend | , who approved of her arranging some of his mazurkas as songs, and even as ... |
Jacques Offenbach | ... g this period, he is said to have discovered Johann Strauss, and encouraged | to drop a lucrative conducting career to write his first operetta. Steiner ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... klin. Crick and Watson felt that they had benefited from collaborating with | . They offered him a co-authorship on the article that first described the ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... homage to "Time Enough at Last". In , Albert Brooks recounts the episode to | as they drive along an empty stretch of highway. "This thing freaked me ou ... |
Mark Twain | ... e Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written to' included | , Charles Dickens and Christopher Marlowe |
Svetlana Savitskaya | ... lans for further flights by women, it took 19 years until the second woman, | , flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's early group ever ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... espread areas and in greater yield. In April 2004, Afghan interim president | declared a jihad on drugs (after opium output reached a near-record 3,600 ... |
Joan Fontaine | ... by English author Daphne du Maurier. The film starred Laurence Olivier and | . This Gothic melodrama explores the fears of a naïve young bride who ente ... |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | ... continuation of styles created by such architects as Frank Lloyd Wright and | . Early in the decade, several architects competed to build the tallest bu ... |
Zhang Xueliang | ... the leader of the Kuomintang was suddenly arrested and kidnapped by Marshal | , a former warlord of Manchuria, then Japanese-occupied Manchukuo |
Shakira | ... d as a venue for high-profile concerts. Linkin Park, The Prodigy, t.A.T.u., | , Scorpions, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and othe ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... their second album Queen II. The photo, inspired by a photograph of actress | , was the band's favourite image of themselves. The video then fades into ... |
Ernst Gräfenberg | ... G-Spot" was coined by Addiego et al. in 1981, after the German gynecologist | , even though his 1940s research was dedicated to urethral stimulation and ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... role of "Adenoid Hynkel", Dictator of Tomainia, modelled on German dictator | , who was only four days his junior and sported a similar moustache. The f ... |
Naomi Watts | ... American psychological horror film directed by Gore Verbinski, and starring | and Martin Henderson. It is a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring |
William Herschel | ... old. It was the marriage place (May 7, 1788) and burial place (1822) of Sir | (in whose memory there stands a newly erected stained-glass window depicti ... |
Dinesh D'Souza | ... ondent Jake Tapper, novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst | , radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and jou ... |
Jule Styne | ... ervicemen's club in Hollywood, Davis—with the aid of Warner, Cary Grant and | —transformed an old nightclub into the Hollywood Canteen, which opened on ... |
Boris Karloff | ... esome is probably the best known of the four, with the villain portrayed by | . All four movies had many of the visual features associated with film noi ... |
Robert Graves | ... n written, one of which, Count Belisarius, was written by poet and novelist | in 1938 |
Willem de Kooning | ... aesthetics and expression. Abstract expressionists such as Hans Hofmann and | also made extensive use of it, motivated in part by a desire to create pai ... |
Craig Ferguson | ... tars of the 1980s, such as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Alexei Sayle, | , Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson began their careers. The stand-up comedy ... |
Joseph Conrad | Heart of Darkness is a novella written by | . Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) i ... |
Chiwetel Ejiofor | ... Warehouse in London on 4 December 2007, directed by Michael Grandage, with | as Othello, Ewan McGregor as Iago and Kelly Reilly as Desdemona. Despite t ... |
Jean-Baptiste Lully | ... ttist for the new musical genre known as opera, collaborating with composer | . After Alceste (1674) was denounced by traditionalists who rejected it fo ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... smond Tutu and also visited Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned black leader | . Upon returning, Kennedy became a leader in the push for economic sanctio ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... s" in Chandler Brossard's 1952 novel Who Walk in Darkness, "Harold Sand" in | 's autobiographical 1958 novella The Subterraneans and possibly "Bill Gray ... |
Keith Urban | ... n record sales. Australian country artists including Olivia Newton-John and | have achieved considerable success in the USA. In recent years local conte ... |
Ayn Rand | In | 's novel Atlas Shrugged, the protagonist's secret hideaway was in a beauti ... |
Thomas Paine | ... rst kind of mainstream popular music. These included "The Liberty Tree", by | . Cheaply printed as broadsheets, early patriotic songs spread across the ... |
Stanisław Mikołajczyk | ... trolled by the communists. Some democratic and pro-Western elements, led by | , the former Prime Minister in Exile, participated in the Provisional Nati ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... l, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and Marie Curie, and inventors such as | , Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. The world was changing rapidly, ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
Roger Corman | ... orsese made the Depression-era exploiter Boxcar Bertha for B-movie producer | , who had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, James Camero ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... as being spherical, with Narnian king Caspian X being amazed by this fact). | 's Discworld novels (1983 onwards) are set on a flat, disc-shaped world th ... |
Walter Hasenclever | ... so released in 1930. This film was adapted by Frances Marion, translated by | and directed by Jacques Feyder, also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, Hans ... |
Samuel Goldwyn | ... ilms himself. In addition, Selznick, as well as fellow independent producer | , made only a few films each year, so he did not always have projects for ... |
Louis B. Mayer | First she went to Paris, then met | in London. After he hired her, at his insistence, she changed her name to ... |
James Joyce | ... laubert, Melville, Twain, and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of | , Giannina Braschi, and Jorge Luis Borges. The theme of the novel also ins ... |
Franz Beckenbauer | ... the Germans again after Alan Mullery had put the defending champions ahead. | then hit a low shot under the body of Bonetti, who had been slow to react. ... |
Paul Henreid | ... known of her "women's pictures." In one of the film's most imitated scenes, | lights two cigarettes as he stares into Davis's eyes and passes one to her ... |
Paul Hogan | Actor/comedian | wrote the screenplay and starred in the title role in his first film, Croc ... |
George Best | ... d, Banks was also involved in a notorious incident with Manchester United's | who, while playing against England for Northern Ireland, flicked the ball ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... of sub-stories in the Season 17 episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". | 's influential graphic novel series The Sandman includes several examples ... |
Caryl Churchill | ... 6 novel The Papess Joanne. Pope Joan is a character in the opening scene of | 's feminist play Top Girls (1982). The story is reworked in American write ... |
Martynas Mažvydas | ... cabulary used in the first book printed in the Lithuanian language in 1547, | 's Catechism. The majority of loan words in the 20th century arrived from ... |
Morrissey | ... ndie scene through the end of the decade, as various bands drew from singer | 's English-centered lyrical topics and guitarist Johnny Marr's jangly guit ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... ident. Ickx finished second in the drivers' championship, with 37 points to | 's 63. Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three f ... |
Roger Waters | ... ts. Linkin Park, The Prodigy, t.A.T.u., Shakira, Scorpions, Paul McCartney, | , Red Hot Chili Peppers, and other celebrities performed there. For the Ne ... |
Marie Curie | ... steur, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Michael Faraday, Henri Becquerel, and | , and inventors such as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham B ... |
Bruce Graham | ... le are the John Hancock Center and Sears Tower in Chicago, both designed by | and Fazlur Khan and the World Trade Center towers in New York by American ... |
Marcello Truzzi | ... ims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, James Randi, and | , all members of the Resources for the Scientific Evaluation of the Parano ... |
Hans Junkermann | ... lever and directed by Jacques Feyder, also starring Garbo, with Theo Shall, | , and Salka Viertel |
Jean Hersholt | ... films received Special or Honorary Awards. Academy leader and board member | argued that "an international award, if properly and carefully administere ... |
Max Steiner | ... ecame a theatre manager and operator of a music hall. He was grandfather of | , a Hollywood film composer |
Valery Bykovsky | ... final Vostok flight and was launched two days after Vostok 5 which carried | into a similar orbit for five days, landing three hours after Tereshkova. ... |
Gerd Müller | ... er looped a back header over Bonetti to take the game into extra time; then | smashed home the winner in the added period |
Adolf Hitler | ... i industrialists. In Ecstasy and Me, Lamarr wrote that Benito Mussolini and | attended Mandl's grand parties. She related that in 1937 she disguised her ... |
Paulette Goddard | ... apaloni", dictator of Bacteria, a jab at Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. | filmed with Chaplin again, depicting a woman in the ghetto. The film was s ... |
James Cameron | ... r Roger Corman, who had also helped directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, | , and John Sayles launch their careers. It was Corman who taught Scorsese ... |
Einstein's | ... inguishes these spaces from the curved spaces of non-Euclidean geometry and | general theory of relativity, and is named for the Greek mathematician Euc ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... rish Nobel pantheon featuring William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | , Heaney responded: "It's like being a little foothill at the bottom of a ... |
Noël Coward | ... ined a King's Scholarship, Gielgud trained briefly at RADA and understudied | in Coward's The Vortex at the Everyman Theatre in Hampstead under the dire ... |
Adium | ... re applications exist that will connect with most of the major IM services. | , Empathy, Meebo, Miranda IM, Pidgin, Qnext and Trillian are a few of the ... |
Vincent van Gogh | Honoré Daumier, | |
famous physicist | ... y career. He changed his surname from Einstein (to avoid confusion with the | ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and ... |
Geoffrey Kelly | ... f Stiltskin and later Genesis was born in Dumfries as were fellow musicians | and Ian Carr. While Bill Drummond of KLF is from Newton Stewart he is one ... |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ience with a left-wing libertarian and anti-capitalist utopian vision since | 's 1974 novel, The Dispossessed |
Belinda Carlisle | In 1996 he worked with | and wrote two songs for her album, A Woman and a Man; "Always Breaking My ... |
Lorenzo Da Ponte | ... art's Don Giovanni in the United States, in the presence of the librettist, | ) and . By the age of six she was fluent in Spanish, French, English and I ... |
Yvonne De Carlo | ... me life of a family of monsters. It stars Fred Gwynne as Herman Munster and | as his wife, Lily Munster. The series was a satire of both traditional mon ... |
Haruki Murakami | ... i, during his days as political prisoner in the People's Republic of China. | 's 1995 novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle deals greatly with Manchukuo thro ... |
William Lamport | ... robably the most famous Irishman ever to reside in Mexico is the Wexfordman | , better known to most Mexicans as Guillen de Lampart, precursor of the In ... |
James Randi | ... of paranormal claims. Amongst those invited were Martin Gardner, Ray Hyman, | , and Marcello Truzzi, all members of the Resources for the Scientific Eva ... |
Peter Frampton | ... ter, Leary sang at Road Recovery, on New York City's The Bowery, along with | , John Varvatos and Leary's band The Enablers |
Patrick Stewart | In 1997, | took the role of Othello with the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. These provisions were later used by | to subvert the rest of the constitution and institute rule by decree, allo ... |
Jeff King | ... , and in which many famous mushers participated, including Dean Seibold and | . In January 1999, the town's first newspaper, The Ester Republic, was fou ... |
Bob Hope | The fathers of modern American stand-up comedy, Jack Benny, | , George Burns, Fred Allen, Milton Berle and Frank Fay all came from vaude ... |
Henk Rogers | ... ope. He only started to get royalties from his creation by 1996 when he and | formed The Tetris Company |
Idaho Territory | ... February 4, 1864. In this context, the name of the county predates both the | and the State of Idaho |
Jan Karski | The Polish courier | warned US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1943 of the possibility o ... |
Olivia Newton-John | ... with more than 7 million record sales. Australian country artists including | and Keith Urban have achieved considerable success in the USA. In recent y ... |
Emeric Pressburger | ... dramas. In 1949 he played the alcoholic hero's barman in Michael Powell and | 's The Small Back Room |
Frankie J | Paula DeAnda, | , old member of the Kumbia Kings and associated with Baby Bas |
Benjamin Bonneville | Bonneville County was established in 1911, named after | (1796–1878), a French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and expl ... |
Charles S. Zimmerman | ... ote of 73-34, Rustin continued to serve as national co-chairman, along with | of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU). In his opening ... |
John Dowland | In music, the post-Elizabethan cult of melancholia is associated with | , whose motto was Semper Dowland, semper dolens. ("Always Dowland, always ... |
Alfred Molina | ... hr's research. Directed by Stephen Frears, it starred Gary Oldman as Orton, | as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. Alan Bennett wrote the ... |
Joe Cocker | ... r, Serj Tankian, Jivan Gasparyan, Plácido Domingo, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, | , John McLaughlin, Brazzaville, The Alan Parsons Project, Jethro Tull, Akv ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... presario, Fred Karno, working as a supporting actor and as an understudy of | . Laurel said of Karno "There was no one like him. He had no equal. His na ... |
Andy Serkis | ... by Andrew Davies, and featuring Claire Foy, Freema Agyeman, Bill Paterson, | , Matthew Macfadyen, Tom Courtenay, Judy Parfitt, Arthur Darvill, Russell ... |
Johnny Marr | ... drew from singer Morrissey's English-centered lyrical topics and guitarist | 's jangly guitar-playing style. The C86 cassette, a 1986 NME premium featu ... |
Lee Sharpe | ... ril Knowles, Neil Warnock and Roy McFarland. Notable former players include | , Neville Southall, Garry Nelson and Eddie Kelly. The club won a Wembley f ... |
Albert Einstein | ... rtz helped establish the photoelectric effect (which was later explained by | ) when he noticed that a charged object loses its charge more readily when ... |
Larry Niven | ... ak prevalent in much of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, | , and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples), and his work has been cal ... |
Johnny Depp | ... rtel and Lost It All. She had a supporting role as Mirtha Jung, the wife of | 's character. The film received mixed reviews, but made $80 million worldw ... |
Yuki Kajiura | ... music include Joe Hisaishi, Michiru Oshima, Yoko Kanno, Toshihiko Sahashi, | , Kōtarō Nakagawa and [[:ja|林ゆうき|Hayashi Yuuki]] |
Mark Twain | ... sh Music Hall, Minstrel shows, humorist monologues by personalities such as | and Norman Wilkerson, and circus clown antics. Comedians of this era often ... |
Johan Risingh | ... Casimir was captured by soldiers from the New Sweden colony led by governor | . Fort Casimir was renamed Fort Trinity (in Swedish, Trefaldigheten) |
Gary Oldman | ... on's diaries and on Lahr's research. Directed by Stephen Frears, it starred | as Orton, Alfred Molina as Halliwell and Vanessa Redgrave as Peggy Ramsay. ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... hed on her suggestion in Saint Petersburg in 1765. She lured the scientists | and Peter Simon Pallas from Berlin and Anders Johan Lexell from Sweden to ... |
Robert Graves | ... 1915, and in November was sent to the 1st Battalion in France. There he met | and they became close friends. United by their poetic vocation, they often ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... tates. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is a satire on | . Many social critics of the time, such as Karl Kraus, Dorothy Parker and ... |
Valentino Rossi | ... e event has been held, there has been a different rider in victory circle ( | in 2008, Jorge Lorenzo in 2009, Dani Pedrosa in 2010, and Casey Stoner in ... |
Elvis Presley | ... s somewhat overshadowed, having occurred just three days after the death of | . In an interview, he jokingly suggested his epitaph read: "Excuse me, I c ... |
Jon English | ... n, The Dingoes, Babeez, Mondo Rock, Icehouse, Midnight Oil, Doug Parkinson, | , Blackfeather, Ronnie Burns, The Ferrets, Mike Brady, Martin Gellatley, H ... |
Michael J. Fox | The film Doc Hollywood starring | (based on the book What, Dead Again? by Neil B. Shulman, M.D.), was filmed ... |
Cary Grant | ... of opening a servicemen's club in Hollywood, Davis—with the aid of Warner, | and Jule Styne—transformed an old nightclub into the Hollywood Canteen, wh ... |
Schaff | ... ys that "Sergius [III] indulged in no resurrection-man tactics himself" and | , Milman, Gregorovius, von Mosheim, Miley, Mann, Darras, John the Deacon o ... |
Greta Garbo | ... 20s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and | . Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and finan ... |
Poul Anderson | ... ibertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction (Robert A. Heinlein, | , Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples), and his work ... |
Pythagoras | ... d end with Clitomachus, Theophrastus and Chrysippus; the latter begins with | , and ends with Epicurus. The Socratic school, with its various branches, ... |
Kevin Eubanks | ... ire, was helped by its presence upon the head of Samuel L. Jackson in 1997. | , bandleader for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, sports a Kangol beret on ... |
Mario Davidovsky | ... al Bass (1997). Two significant recent works written for solo bass include, | 's Synchronisms No.11 for double bass and electronic sounds and Elliott Ca ... |
Pablo Picasso | Emil Nolde, | |
Dani Pedrosa | ... nt rider in victory circle (Valentino Rossi in 2008, Jorge Lorenzo in 2009, | in 2010, and Casey Stoner in 2011) |
Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
Hugo Gernsback | ... n writing text books and rules for war games. Together with Jules Verne and | , Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction" |
Ovid | ... Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by | . By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus (father of Achilles), ... |
Jacques Necker | ... their writings. The leading economists of her day, such as Arthur Young and | , became foreign members of the Free Economic Society, established on her ... |
Saul Lieberman | ... r-extant text of a Midrash. This Midrash was reconstructed and published by | |
AOL Instant Messenger | ... there is no central authoritative server, as there is with services such as | or Windows Live Messenger. Some confusion often arises on this point as th ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... to the right-wing libertarian streak prevalent in much of science fiction ( | , Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle being prominent examples ... |
John Lennon | ... t and actor of English, Japanese and Irish Descent. He is the only child of | and Yoko Ono and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather ... |
Edward Louis Bernays | ... d individuals to achieve mutual understanding and realize strategic goals." | , who is considered the founding father of modern public relations along w ... |
Naomi Watts | ... After Katie's funeral, Ruth Embry (Lindsay Frost) asks her sister Rachel ( | ), Aidan's mother and a journalist, to investigate Katie's death, which le ... |
Willem de Kooning | M. C. Escher, | |
Yoko Ono | ... nglish, Japanese and Irish Descent. He is the only child of John Lennon and | and the younger half-brother of Julian Lennon. His godfather is Sir Elton ... |
Jewish refugees | ... he most famous such event was the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. See | , and History of anti-Semitism for more details |
Norma Shearer | ... the end of the 1920s. In the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues | and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find ro ... |
Jorge Lorenzo | ... here has been a different rider in victory circle (Valentino Rossi in 2008, | in 2009, Dani Pedrosa in 2010, and Casey Stoner in 2011) |
Tony Hancock | ... ) was a British-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as | 's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On ... |
Frank Oz | ... raise their children. Henson hired writer Jerry Juhl in 1961 and puppeteer | in 1963 to replace her. Henson later credited both writers with developing ... |
Andy White | ... sion released in the US with Ringo Starr on tambourine and session musician | on drums |
Grace Elvina Hinds | ... ir with the romance novelist Elinor Glyn, Curzon married in 1917 the former | , the wealthy Alabama-born widow of Alfred Hubert Duggan; in later years w ... |
James Joyce | ... which reversed a ban by the Customs Department against the book Ulysses by | . The ACLU only achieved mixed results in the early years, and it was not ... |
Karl Bühler | In 1928, he earned a doctorate in psychology, under the supervision of | . His dissertation was entitled "Die Methodenfrage der Denkpsychologie" (T ... |
T. S. Eliot | | 's use of a quotation from The Heart of Darkness—"Mistah Kurtz, he dead"—a ... |
Hank Snow | ... recorded. In chronological order others include: "I've Been Everywhere" by | (1962) (album of the same title) and (1996) reworked from the original 195 ... |
Casey Stoner | ... (Valentino Rossi in 2008, Jorge Lorenzo in 2009, Dani Pedrosa in 2010, and | in 2011) |
Charlie Chaplin | ... war films of all types were showing throughout the world, notably those of | who actively promoted war bonds and voluntary enlistment |
Alexander Hamilton | ... se would also serve as the County Circuit Court. The county was named after | , the first secretary of the treasury |
Donna Summer | ... A Star Is Born)" (US No. 1), "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (1979, with | ), which as of 2010 is reportedly still the most commercially successful d ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... th extreme volume and distortion. In the avant rock domain examples include | 's use of feedback, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and Sonic Youth. Other ... |
Wolfgang Reitherman | ... innie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966). According to the film's director, | , Piglet was replaced by Gopher, which was thought to have a more "folksy, ... |
Pablo Picasso | ... cisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Edward Hopper, Käthe Kollwitz, | , Cy Twombly, Lucas van Leyden, Carlos Alvarado Lang |
Charlie Chaplin | ... throughout Europe and United States. The film The Great Dictator (1940) by | is a satire on Adolf Hitler. Many social critics of the time, such as Karl ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... the United States Navy. The Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) under Dr. | had suggested using a modified Redstone rocket (see: Juno I) while the Air ... |
Albert Einstein | ... Transformation or even the FitzGerald - Lorentz - Einstein Transformation. | dismissed the notion of the aether as an unnecessary one, and he concluded ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... hree women left Germany in the 1930s and went to England, after the rise of | . Charles Susskind interviewed Mathilde Hertz in the 1960s and he later pu ... |
Chris Martin | ... written by Imbruglia, Daniel Johns (credited Kat Kourtney), Gary Clark, and | , was released on 28 September 2009, to critical acclaim, but poor worldwi ... |
Gräfenberg | ... lation appeared shortly after, in 1950, with the publication of an essay by | based on his observations of women during orgasm |
Henry VII | ... nd Tower be built at the mouth of the harbour, which was completed in 1426. | rebuilt the fortifications with stone, raised a square tower, and assisted ... |
Aaron Klug | ... k addressed the Origin of Protein Synthesis in a paper with Sydney Brenner, | , and George Pieczenik. In this paper, based on Pieczenik's work, they spe ... |
Joseph Rotblat | ... ard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and | |
Alexander Lippisch | ... rer, writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten, and aerodynamics pioneer Dr. | . In the 1990s and 2000s, Hollywood would feature several Cedar Rapidians ... |
Cary Grant | ... , California, for the English coastline sequence. This film was to be actor | 's first time working with Hitchcock, and it was one of the few times that ... |
Coral Browne | ... death in 1969. It opened at the Queen's Theatre with Sir Ralph Richardson, | , Stanley Baxter, and Hayward Morse |
Michael Douglas | ... rbergh on a project as Liberace's longtime partner, Scott Thorsen, opposite | in an upcoming film centered on the pianist's life. He will also star in E ... |
George Balanchine | ... tsev, a 1965 ballet (no relation to the one by Minkus) with choreography by | , an American musicalMan of La Mancha (1965)by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh ... |
David Beckham | ... ances by guitarist Jimmy Page, and recording artist Leona Lewis. Footballer | was also featured during London's presentation |
Liam Finn | ... on, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson with Troy Cassar-Daley, Kings Of Leon, | , Crowded House, Jet, Paul Kelly, Split Enz and Wolfmother |
Kevin Spacey | Actor | recalled that Lemmon is remembered as always making time for other people. ... |
Pete Best | ... es' EMI contract, on a night when Ringo Starr happened to be sitting in for | . In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, John Lennon wr ... |
Tycho Brahe | Further advances in the instrument were made by | (1546–1601), whose elaborate armillary spheres passing into astrolabes are ... |
John Lennon | ... in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to block the album's release, | wrote, "the sleeve note, apart from being inaccurate, seems to have been w ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... of privilege. Honorary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, | , Bobby Robson, Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppin ... |
John Lennon | In a 1975 interview, | recalled his friend Don Beatty introducing him to Presley's music. Lennon ... |
Michael Laudrup | ... s fueled speculation in June 2007 that Recreativo had offered Danish legend | a contract to coach the club in 2007–08. According to Laudrup's agent, the ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... of the city is built on uneven, hilly terrain of the northern section. When | plotted the plans for the city, he made the City Hall as a reference point ... |
Natalie Portman | ... William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist, Alfred Lansing, author of , and | |
Igor Stravinsky | ... e would seem to suggest his remarkable significance. (Ballantine 1977, 244) | expressed great, but not uncritical, enthusiasm for Stockhausen's music in ... |
Bruce McCandless II | ... a laser harp. Jarre worked with several Houston-based astronauts including | , and former Jazz musician Ronald McNair, who was to have played the saxop ... |
Herodotus | ... tions of the Second Sophistic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were | and especially Thucydides, and their subject matter was secular history. T ... |
George Simpson | Sir | then instructed Alexander Ross to organize and lead a party of Red River C ... |
Charles Forte, Baron Forte | ... f F1 motor racing fame was educated at St Joseph's College, Dumfries as was | . St Joseph's was founded by Brother Walfrid, the founder of Celtic F.C |
Yitzchak Ben Tzvi | ... world a better place, " and to eliminate suffering. In 1954, in a letter to | , Israel's second President, the Rebbe wrote: "From the time that I was a ... |
Douglas MacArthur | Johnson reported to General | in Australia. Johnson and two Army officers went to the 22nd Bomb Group ba ... |
Bobby Robson | ... norary freemen include Bob Geldof, King Harald V of Norway, Nelson Mandela, | , Alan Shearer and the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Hoppings funfair, sa ... |
Ringo Starr | ... in the spring of 1962, prior to The Beatles' EMI contract, on a night when | happened to be sitting in for Pete Best. In commentary for a lawsuit to bl ... |
Noël Coward | ... lted, extraordinarily polite dialogues, in scenes that were parodies of Sir | 's style, most particularly that of Dame Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard i ... |
Michael Crawford | ... c, having created successful Las Vegas venues for Phantom of the Opera star | and pop star David Cassidy. Grady also played drums in the 60s po group Ye ... |
Sophia Loren | ... Kong (1967), which he directed, produced, and wrote. The latter film stars | and Marlon Brando, and Chaplin made his final on-screen appearance in a br ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of World War II. By 1940 Göring was at the peak of his power and influence. | had promoted him to the rank of Reichsmarschall, making Göring senior to a ... |
Elvis Presley | His two-volume biography of | , in 1994, followed by in 1999, placed the story of Presley's career into ... |
Sylvia Plath | Other sources include | 's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with ... |
Tom Cruise | ... pretation of Open Your Eyes, she played Sofia Serrano, the love interest of | 's character. The film received mixed reviews but made $200 million worldw ... |
Alexander Ross | Sir George Simpson then instructed | to organize and lead a party of Red River Colony settlers over the Rockies ... |
Stanley Kubrick | After seeing Cunningham's work on the 1994 film version of Judge Dredd, | head-hunted Cunningham to design and supervise animatronic tests of the ce ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... he ACLU were divided on the best tactics to use to promote civil liberties. | felt that legislation was the best long-term solution, because the Supreme ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ned his daughter Oona for marrying the English actor, director and producer | when she was 18 and Chaplin was 54. He never saw Oona again |
Pinball Clemons | ... cause of his relationship with Argonauts head coach and former running back | , and the desire to "say goodbye to the CFL". According to the report, Flu ... |
John Glenn | ... he 2003 Columbia disaster. Discovery also carried Project Mercury astronaut | , who was 77 at the time, back into space during STS-95 on October 29, 199 ... |
Simon Schama | ... "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", but according to historian | this is incorrect: he accepts the account of the contemporary biographer E ... |
John Witherspoon | ... l, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." | , one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, said "Pure democr ... |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | ... s and around the world, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of | . King has become a national icon in the history of modern American libera ... |
Ronald McNair | ... on-based astronauts including Bruce McCandless II, and former Jazz musician | , who was to have played the saxophone on "Rendez-Vous VI", recorded in th ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | After the defeat of | , Kalisz became a provincial capital of Congress Poland and then the capit ... |
ethnic Chinese | ... aris is located. Located in the 13th arrondissement, the area contains many | inhabitants |
Emil Artin | ... heory of commutative rings in the works of David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, and | |
Madeleine Albright | ... rom the option of returning to Israel. According to U.S. Secretary of State | , some of the Palestinian negotiators were willing to privately discuss a ... |
Tim Burton | ... h his suburban home. The same year, he appeared as the Headless Horseman in | 's Sleepy Hollow, starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. He also appear ... |
Robert Graves | ... Tilman survived the battle, along with the British writers J.R.R. Tolkien, | , David Jones and C.S. Lewis. Future British Prime Minister Harold Macmill ... |
Gerard Butler | ... apted as a direct-to-video animated feature to be released that same month. | , who starred in 300, voices the Captain in the film. The film itself was ... |
Mike Vanderjagt | ... ne by Ben Roethlisberger. The Colts then drove down the field, only to have | miss a 46-yard field goal attempt wide right |
Robert Graves | ... il Murderer (1913), was a parody of John Masefield's The Everlasting Mercy. | , in describes it as a "parody of Masefield which, midway through, had for ... |
James Hoban | ... main road through the Phoenix Park) was used as a model by Irish architect | who designed the White House. However the porticoes were not part of Hoban ... |
Branko Grünbaum | ... ied solution for over 30 years. In Tilings and Patterns, published in 1987, | and G. C. Shephard stated that in all perfect integral tilings of the plan ... |
Xiongnu | To the north of China proper, the nomadic | chieftain Modu Chanyu (r. 209–174 BCE) conquered various tribes inhabiting ... |
Mimosa tenuiflora | ... ation has led to weedy invasion in some areas, notably Hawaii. The other is | , which is best known for its use in shamanic ayahuasca brews due to the p ... |
John Cleese | ... Fry and Lorraine Kelly at Dundee, Clarissa Dickson Wright at Aberdeen, and | and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as Mordechai Va ... |
Wernher von Braun | ... tee" included consultation from the ABMA's large booster program, headed by | . Von Braun's Group was referred to as the "Working Group on Vehicular Pro ... |
Albert Einstein | ... tific exploration of the ultimate fate of the universe became possible with | 's 1916 theory of general relativity. General relativity can be employed t ... |
Richard Lester | ... g morning when a chauffeur arrived to take Orton to a meeting with director | to discuss filming options on Up Against It |
Vagliano Brothers | ... ced through the local Greek community, notably with the aid of the Ralli or | . With economic success, the Diaspora expanded further across the Levant, ... |
Dean Reed | ... d El Cantor (the Singer) was made in 1978. It was directed by Jara's friend | , who also played the part of Jara |
Nick Cave | ... elicity Urquhart and Kasey Chambers. Others influenced by the genre include | , Paul Kelly, The John Butler Trio and |
David Levy Yulee | In 1851, | established a sugar plantation on the Homosassa River, close to the curren ... |
Conrad Weiser | ... e from attacks. Subsequently, in 1783, he worked with Samuel Weiser (son of | , the famous Native Americans liaison who died in 1760, and with whose fam ... |
Max Reinhardt | She studied ballet and piano at age 10. When she worked with | in Berlin, he called her the "most beautiful woman in Europe". Soon the te ... |
Vincent van Gogh | ... the French Impressionists created entire canvases of rich impasto textures. | used it frequently for aesthetics and expression. Abstract expressionists ... |
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor | ... llite, which is a remote sensing satellite with CCD cameras. In early 2006, | and three other finalists were selected for the Angkasawan spaceflight pro ... |
Aldous Huxley | In the 20th century, satire was used by authors such as | and George Orwell to make serious and even frightening commentaries on the ... |
Yoko Ono | ... artists Joe Jones, Yasunao Tone, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Wolf Vostell, | , Walter De Maria's Ocean Music, Milan Knížák's Broken Music Composition, ... |
Nguyen Van Hinh | ... ained in Ecoles des Cadres such as Da Lat, including Chief of Staff General | who was a French Union airforce veteran |
Werner Herzog | ... f Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic silent vampire movie Nosferatu (1922). | honored the same film in his own version, (1979) |
Arthur Rudolph | In 1958 AMBA's scientific and engineering staff, including Von Braun and | , were transferred to the newly created NASA, and the facilities on the so ... |
Golda Meir | ... tember 25, Hussein secretly flew to Tel Aviv to warn Israeli Prime Minister | of an impending Syrian attack. "Are they going to war without the Egyptian ... |
George Brecht | ... xus art movements, specifically the Fluxus artists Joe Jones, Yasunao Tone, | , Robert Watts, Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono, Walter De Maria's Ocean Music, Mil ... |
Simon Reynolds | The term "post-rock" is believed to have been coined by critic | in his review of Bark Psychosis' album Hex, published in the March 1994 is ... |
Henry Morton Stanley | ... ons to Africans. One of the possible influences for the Kurtz character was | of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume" fame, as he was a principal explorer of "T ... |
James Lovelock | ... them or books that describe them (SimAnt: E.O. Wilson’s The Ants, SimEarth: | ’s Gaia Theory, SimCity: Jay Forrester’s Urban Dynamics and World Dynamics ... |
Olivia Newton-John | ... atley, Hush, Tully, Madder Lake, Supernaut, Russell Morris, Allison Durbin, | , Ross D. Wylie, The News, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Debra Byrne, Rose ... |
Miguel Ondetti | ... ity relationship required for inhibition of ACE was growing. David Cushman, | and colleagues used peptide analogues to study the structure of ACE, using ... |
Meave Leakey | ... oldest fossil hominid in the world after Sahelanthropus tchadensis. In 1995 | named a new species of hominid Australopithecus anamensis following a seri ... |
Gabriella Cilmi | ... h Midnight Oil in Melbourne were Augie March, Bliss N Eso with Paris Wells, | , Hunters & Collectors, Jack Johnson, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson wit ... |
Pedro Zamora | ... or his poor personal hygiene, and his roommates, most notably AIDS activist | . As the show increased in popularity, Zamora’s life as someone living wit ... |
Saul Bellow | ... eventies also saw the decline of previously well-respected writers, such as | and Peter De Vries, who both released poorly received novels at the start ... |
Akon | ... to America as well as tour there, such as Sway DaSafo possibly signing with | 's label Konvict. Hyphy is the latest of these spin-offs. It is typified b ... |
Mordechai Vanunu | ... d John Cleese and Frank Muir at St. Andrews, and political figures, such as | at Glasgow. In many cases, particularly with high-profile rectors, attenda ... |
Pierre Monteux | ... the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the direction of French maestro | . Gershwin suffered "musical blackouts" during his final performances. In ... |
Maurice Greene | ... cond 100 m performances in history, with 28, behind former training partner | , who has 52, and Jamaica's former 100 m World Record holder Asafa Powell |
Hans Hofmann | ... t frequently for aesthetics and expression. Abstract expressionists such as | and Willem de Kooning also made extensive use of it, motivated in part by ... |
Chris Martin | According to The Sun, Imbruglia and | of Coldplay collaborated on "a string of tracks, which are likely to featu ... |
Lynn Anderson | ... ing decimated by the British Invasion). Top artists included Tammy Wynette, | , and Charlie Rich, as well as such former "hard country" artists as Ray P ... |
Richie Hawtin | ... t Stockhausen a package of recordings from contemporary artists Aphex Twin, | (Plastikman), Scanner and Daniel Pemberton, and asked him for his opinion ... |
Sam Neill | ... d Bangkok Hilton (1989), and in 1989, Kidman starred in Dead Calm alongside | and Billy Zane. The thriller garnered strong reviews and Hollywood roles f ... |
Anny Ondra | ... , 1920 and 1934. The 1934 German-language adaptation, Klein Dorrit, starred | as Little Dorrit and Mathias Wieman as Arthur Clennam. It was directed by ... |
Pierre Cardin | ... l berets were the height of fashion. In the 1960s, designers Mary Quant and | worked with the company, whose products graced the heads of the rich and f ... |
Johnny Depp | ... e appeared as the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, starring | and Christina Ricci. He also appeared in Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Michael ... |
Annabella Lwin | ... opularity in this role caused friction with the group's actual lead singer, | . After his tenure with the group ended, George decided to start his own b ... |
Elissa Landi | ... and Nora Charles. The film was directed by W. S. Van Dyke and also featured | , Joseph Calleia, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshall, and Penny Singleton |
Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... e Irgun founded a new headquarters, staffed by Moshe Rosenberg at the head, | as secretary, David Raziel as head of the Jerusalem branch, Hanoch Kalai a ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... and emergence of Indian leadership at both national and provincial levels. | formed the East India Association in 1867, and Surendranath Banerjee found ... |
David Coverdale | ... to form Rainbow and after the break-up of the band the next year, vocalist | formed Whitesnake. 1970 saw The Who release Live at Leeds, often seen as t ... |
Philip José Farmer | ... s written a novel called Venus on the Half-Shell. In 1975 real-world author | wrote a science-fiction novel called Venus on the Half-Shell, which he pub ... |
Ovid | ... tian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, | , Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by bot ... |
Warner Oland | ... cer Major Lenard (Emile Chautard), and a mysterious Eurasian, Henry Chang ( | ) |
Greta Garbo | ... by Frances Marion was released in 1930 directed by Clarence Brown, starring | , Charles Bickford, George F. Marion and Marie Dressler. This pre-Code fil ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | The director and producer | popularized both the term "MacGuffin" and the technique, with his 1935 fil ... |
Billy J. Kramer | ... Liverpool band The Beatles. Along with fellow NEMS stablemates Cilla Black, | and the Fourmost, and contemporary Mancunian band The Hollies, The Beatles ... |
Thomas Mann | ... prevented Hedwig and Alfred Pringsheim (whose daughter Katia was married to | ) from being arrested by the Gestapo |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... roduced Los Angeles audiences to important new works by Igor Stravinsky and | . The orchestra responded well to his leadership, but Klemperer had a diff ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | On December 12, 2003, he was appointed by then Governor General | as the twenty-first Prime Minister of Canada. When sworn in as Prime Minis ... |
Paul Tillich | ... of at the time, resulting in alienation from fellow writers such as Camus. | , an important existentialist theologian following Kierkegaard and Karl Ba ... |
Arthur Berson | ... toa easterlies". It was observed again in 1908, by the German meteorologist | , who saw that winds blow from the west at altitude in tropical Africa fro ... |
Daniel Hendler | ... soccer players Antonio Alzamendi, Enzo Francescoli and Carlos Goyen, actor | , actress China Zorrilla, entertainer Carlos Perciavalle and former playbo ... |
John Wesley | The Methodist Church, founded by | , upholds Article VII in the Articles of Religion in the Book of Disciplin ... |
Pierre Cardin | ... , was suggested by the actress to design Emma Peel's "softer" new wardrobe. | was brought in to design a new wardrobe for Macnee. In America, TV Guide r ... |
Felipe Massa | ... in Las Vegas, along with F1 drivers Sébastien Buemi and Nelson Piquet, Jr.. | also used karting in September 2009 to test his condition in Brazil, two m ... |
Herodotus | ... contains numerous tumuli – typical for IE originators.The Chernoles culture | is "sometimes portrayed as either a step in the development of the Slavic ... |
Mark O'Toole | ... , an interview between Morley and the group's three musicians ("The Lads"), | , Brian Nash and Peter Gill, over an otherwise untitled instrumental track ... |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... d on January 25, 1881, as the result of an agreement between Thomas Edison, | , the Oriental Bell Telephone Company of New York and the Anglo-Indian Tel ... |
George Clooney | ... ire starred in his first villainous role as Corporal Patrick Tully opposite | and Cate Blanchett in Steven Soderbergh's The Good German, based on the Jo ... |
Emile Berliner | Later, at the request of the gramophone's inventor | , the American rights to the picture became owned by the Victor Talking Ma ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... in their home country and some parts of Europe, and even reached the ear of | , who took time out from his tour to jam with the duo, along with George C ... |
Don Stroud | ... New Dragnet starred Jeff Osterhage and Bernard White as the detectives, and | as Capt. Lussen. The show lasted two seasons |
Enzo Francescoli | ... rales, singer and actress Natalia Oreiro, soccer players Antonio Alzamendi, | and Carlos Goyen, actor Daniel Hendler, actress China Zorrilla, entertaine ... |
Frank De Winne | ... flight by Russian cosmonauts Yuri Lonchakov, Sergei Zalyotin and Belgium’s | |
Neil Gaiman | In the late 1990s, Avary was hired by Warner Bros studio to adapt | 's comic series The Sandman to the big screen. He frequently sparred with ... |
Brigitte Hamann | According to biographer | , Winifred Wagner was reported to be "disgusted" by Hitler's persecution o ... |
Golden Horde | ... , Turkic Kaganate, Kara-Khanid Khanate, Great Seljuk Empire, Mongol Empire, | , and the Kazakh Khanate. Uighur tribes started to settle in the most east ... |
Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
Terpander | ... ringing of the Greek lyre in the heroic age. Plutarch says that Olympus and | used but three strings to accompany their recitation. As the four strings ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... G. M. Anderson, starring in the very popular "Broncho Billy" westerns, and | . Allan Dwan was hired by Essanay Studios as a screenwriter and developed ... |
Bob Hope | ... ny to award the Special Juvenile Award. Playfully dubbed the "Oscarette" by | in 1945, the statuette itself was a miniaturized Oscar, depicting an Art D ... |
James Cameron | ... what some would say was the signature role in his acting career in director | 's science fiction thriller film The Terminator. Following The Terminator, ... |
Muhammad Salih | ... ntested election. Karimov drew 86% of the vote against opposition candidate | (also spelled "Salih" or "Salikh" ), whose showing experts praised in view ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... n al-Shibh traveled to terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and met with | who recruited the four Hamburg cell members for the attacks in the United ... |
Franka Potente | ... thern California with his friend "Tuna" (Ethan Suplee); they meet Barbara ( | ), an airline stewardess, who introduces them to Derek Foreal (Paul Reuben ... |
Pervez Musharraf | ... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. President | studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
Herodotus | Since | , Typhon has been identified by some scholars with the Egyptian Set. In th ... |
Eric Dolphy | ... ld in Europein part because musicians such as Ayler, Taylor, Steve Lacy and | spent extended periods in Europe. A distinctive European contemporary jazz ... |
Zeca Afonso | ... was also credited as one of the discoverers of the Newfoundland fisheries. | was a singer and composer |
Martin Esslin | ... er of the Theatre of the Absurd. This is a label originally given to him by | in his book of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary ... |
Judy Garland | ... any of them went into mass hysteria after he died at the age of 31 in 1926. | 's pin-ups adorned many a high school male's locker after her sudden rise ... |
Gabriel Byrne | ... opedia Americana sits on the shelves of psychotherapist Dr. Paul Weston's ( | ) home office |
Benjamin Bonneville | It was explored and mapped by | in the 1830s, and first settled by Euro-Americans in the 1860s. The smalle ... |
Bronisław Malinowski | ... works in a society. The functionalist perspective, usually associated with | , maintains that all aspects of society are meaningful and interrelated. I ... |
Thabo Mbeki | ... etc. renewal. This concept has been popularized by South African President | during his term of office. This was first articulated in the 1990s; it con ... |
Allan Dwan | ... starring in the very popular "Broncho Billy" westerns, and Charlie Chaplin. | was hired by Essanay Studios as a screenwriter and developed into a famous ... |
Patrick Macnee | ... ially focused on Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry) and his assistant John Steed ( | ). Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... n addition to composing new film scores, Timothy Brock has restored many of | 's scores |
Arthur C. Clarke | In his 1962 book Profiles of the Future, | predicted that the construction of what H. G. Wells called the World Brain ... |
Tim Curry | ... secluded New England mansion. They are met by the house butler, Wadsworth ( | ), who reminds them each that they have been given pseudonyms to protect t ... |
refugees | ... abs fled or were expelled from their homes inside what is now Israel. These | numbered 420,000 – 756,000 at the time. Today, they and their descendants ... |
Stevie Wonder | ... , to start a family; her replacement was Lynda Laurence, a former member of | 's backup group, Third Generation (a predecessor to Wonderlove). Jimmy Web ... |
William Richardson Davie | ... Corkle Place is the Davie Poplar tree under which the university's founder, | , supposedly selected the location for the university. The legend of the D ... |
Maziar Bahari | ... creen his or her personal Top 10 favorite films. In 2007, Iranian filmmaker | selected O Dreamland and Every Day Except Christmas (1957), a record of a ... |
Les Hinton | ... pics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO | and novelists Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva. Naked City photographer Wee ... |
Sergei Zalyotin | ... ogram, and was replaced on the flight by Russian cosmonauts Yuri Lonchakov, | and Belgium’s Frank De Winne |
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Douglas MacArthur | General | , the Army’s Chief of Staff, believed that the 1921 mobilization plan was ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | The Second Viennese School is the group of composers that comprised | and his pupils and close associates in early 20th century Vienna, where he ... |
Andrew Garfield | ... anchise will be rebooted, and will focus on a younger Spider-Man (played by | ) as Peter Parker is still in high school in the movie, and Garfield has a ... |
China Zorrilla | ... Alzamendi, Enzo Francescoli and Carlos Goyen, actor Daniel Hendler, actress | , entertainer Carlos Perciavalle and former playboy and journalist Luis Cé ... |
Wonder Woman | ... feminist theorist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character | . Two women, his wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston and Olive Byrne (who live ... |
Herodotus | ... The only histories of Sparta are from the writings of Xenophon, Thucydides, | and Plutarch, none of whom were Spartans. Plutarch was writing several cen ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... e House of Representatives. On August 8, 2005, then-Prime Minister of Japan | dissolved the Lower House and called for a general election, due to the re ... |
David Thompson | In August 1811, three months after Fort Astor was established, | and his team of British North West Company explorers came floating down th ... |
Yngwie Malmsteen | ... chael from Rage was hired as their drummer and soon after Jens Johansson of | -fame was hired as keyboardist, a position he has held to this date. This ... |
Elvis Costello | # Days – | # Claire's Theme – Graeme Revell # (I'll Love You) Till The End Of The Wor ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... its best to avoid any application of the law of the State". In April 2010, | and Richard Dawkins wanted to prosecute the Pope for crimes against humani ... |
Mark Kriski | ... dson (who would eventually host the series), while the second was emceed by | |
Stan Grant | ... air host Ray Martin, Martin's predecessor Mike Willesee, and Real Life host | |
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J. Michael Straczynski | He was the only person other than | to write a Babylon 5 script in the last three seasons, contributing the se ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... to contest elections and oppose the programs of Secretary for the Treasury | . Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to counteract the Federalist ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... al or real—including scientists such as Thomas Edison, Charles Steinmetz or | —were popularly conceived of as having wizard-like powers |
Richard Burton | ... supporting her as Jason (1947), The Lady's Not for Burning (1949) that won | his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov (1965). But many believed that ... |
Rudolph Valentino | ... . Its first manifestation (often referred to as matinee idol) may have been | , whose good looks and winning way with women featured heavily in such sil ... |
Heinrich Schliemann | ... and the great "Treasury of Atreus" had borne silent witness for ages before | 's time; but they were supposed only to speak to the Homeric, or, at farth ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... ald (1824–1905), Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), Franz Kafka (1883–1924) and | (1899–1980). Hoffmann's story Das Fräulein von Scuderi is sometimes cited ... |
Georg Solti | ... Wagner himself did not envisage. The production by Peter Hall, conducted by | at Bayreuth in 1983 is an example of the former, while the production by R ... |
Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
Thomas Taggart | ... support, at the state convention he was a dark horse candidate. Party boss | did not support him because of Marshall's support of prohibition. Taggart ... |
Natalie Portman | ... adapted from the novel of the same name by Billie Letts. Judd's co-star was | . When Judd spoke her emotionally painful lines about the abuse of her chi ... |
Eugenie Besserer | ... mas H. Ince with stars Blanche Sweet, William Russell, George F. Marion and | |
Michael Schumacher | ... ipation to a possible return to F1 with Ferrari, Formula One world champion | did some preparation driving a kart in Lonato, Italy. Schumacher also race ... |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... area and in exile, were soon working on national insurrection preparations. | was chosen as its leader; the popular general came from abroad and on Marc ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... ok of the same name, placing Ionesco alongside such contemporary writers as | , Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov. Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albe ... |
Egon Wellesz | ... Other pupils of this generation included Heinrich Jalowetz, Erwin Stein and | , and somewhat later Eduard Steuermann, Hanns Eisler, Rudolf Kolisch, Paul ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of | , which began in the following year. Morison and a number of other histori ... |
Philip Schaff | ... d, depending on the congregation. Many Presbyterian Churches, influenced by | 's Mercersburg Theology, have adopted a High Church liturgy. Openness rang ... |
Tom Jones | ... late 1960s and 1970s (although he wrote "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" for | in 1967), and he began to play on the American cabaret circuit. A notable ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... ters news agency. The photo included a protest sign that depicted Bert with | , an image that had been inadvertently placed there by the owner of a post ... |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | ... copper baron, arts enthusiast, and part-time violinist. He originally asked | to be the Philharmonic's first music director; however, Rachmaninoff had o ... |
Elvis Presley | The great success of young rock stars like | and film stars like James Dean in the 1950s, as well as the wider emergenc ... |
Victoria Beckham | ... ndent performing arts college, is based in the town. Students have included | . Leisure facilities in and around the town include a leisure centre (the ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... ters with Catholicism. Another author Merton began reading at this time was | , whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism. In August of t ... |
Edward Dmytryk | ... nemann's From Here to Eternity, and the Jewish GI bullied by antisemites in | 's The Young Lions. Later, after a disfiguring car crash in 1956, and alco ... |
Henry L. Stimson | Named after | , United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration (1929–1933 ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... eneficiary of the rebellion due to its sheltering of the rebel ringleaders. | broke from other New Yorkers, including major landowners with claims on Ve ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... sidered that the north and south transepts were also 12th century but Prof. | proposed a later date of about 1275, noting their triplets of Early Englis ... |
Russell Peters | ... cessful comedians like Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Lorne Michaels, | , Howie Mandell, Rich Little, Norm Macdonald, Harland Williams, Shaun Maju ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... twisted, instantly memorable characters one meets in John Ford's westerns, | 's road novels, but, most of all, in the blues and country songs of the 19 ... |
Jean-Baptiste Lully | ... ly a peasant dance of Poitou, was introduced into Paris and set to music by | and danced by the King Louis XIV in public, and would continue to dominate ... |
Albert Einstein | ... described a ray of light as the "quickest of all the messengers". In 1905, | proposed the existence of a light-particle in answer to the question: "wha ... |
Tommy Armour | ... atest Game Ever Played), and Arthur Havers. From America came Walter Hagen, | , Jim Barnes and Al Watrous |
Johnny Depp | The film opens to a young George ( | ) and his parents Fred (Ray Liotta) and Ermine (Rachel Griffiths) of Weymo ... |
Herodotus | ... e same time. With the exception of a few remarks by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, | , Plato, Aristotle, and Isocrates, we are mainly dependent on Diogenes Laë ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... ("scabs") and the business property of the major industrialists, including | |
Meyer Lansky | ... emon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, | , Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino and Vito Genovese all of who ... |
Boris Trakhtenbrot | ... as Hisao Yamada's paper on real-time computations (1962). Somewhat earlier, | (1956), a pioneer in the field from the USSR, studied another specific com ... |
Elvis Presley | ... e hits by different artists that followed this album; for example, ELV1S by | or Number Ones by the Bee Gees). On its back cover, the album also include ... |
Marco Polo | ... uan Dynasty, Kublai Khan enjoyed ice cream and kept it a royal secret until | visited China and took the technique of making ice cream to Italy |
Akon | ... one hits with Swing and Moonshine, the latter featuring a USA artist called | . Both of the songs stayed in the number one spot for eight weeks each |
Olivia Newton-John | ... rted with pop music singers like Glen Campbell, Bobbie Gentry, John Denver, | , Anne Murray, Marie Osmond, B. J. Thomas, The Bellamy Brothers, and Linda ... |
Nelson Piquet, Jr. | ... ing place each year in Las Vegas, along with F1 drivers Sébastien Buemi and | . Felipe Massa also used karting in September 2009 to test his condition i ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... where many Broncho Billy westerns were shot, along with The Tramp featuring | . Eventually the studio moved all operations to Los Angeles |
Artur Rodziński | ... subsequent Music Directors through the 1920s included Georg Schnéevoigt and | |
Paul Anka | ... ian — and to artists who deliberately cultivated a (safer) idol image, like | . Anka initially modelled himself on a particular generic type, the teen i ... |
Boris Karloff | ... rusaders like Malcolm X, sports figures like Gordie Howe, entertainers like | and Ed Sullivan, and writers like Upton Sinclair. From 1957 to 1979, the s ... |
Linda Thorson | ... Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and later Tara King ( | ). Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction an ... |
Johnny Depp | ... an Connery overlooking the maze, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring | and V for Vendetta with Stephen Fry |
Dan Aykroyd | ... waves on the big screen. Many famous successful comedians like Jim Carrey, | , John Candy, Lorne Michaels, Russell Peters, Howie Mandell, Rich Little, ... |
Jean Hersholt | ... roval and resistance of the committee, Davis resigned, and was succeeded by | , who implemented the changes she had suggested. Davis starred in three mo ... |
Sébastien Buemi | ... ionals, an event taking place each year in Las Vegas, along with F1 drivers | and Nelson Piquet, Jr.. Felipe Massa also used karting in September 2009 t ... |
Ed Bishop | Actor | is buried in the churchyard |
Stevie Wonder | ... th Eric Clapton and The Yardbirds and appearing on live British television. | learned harmonica at age 5 and plays the instrument on many of his recordi ... |
Jim Carrey | ... ports making waves on the big screen. Many famous successful comedians like | , Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Lorne Michaels, Russell Peters, Howie Mandell, ... |
Wolfgang Pauli | ... ependently by Procopiu using directly Max Planck's quantum theory. In 1920, | gave the Bohr magneton its name in an article where he contrasted it with ... |
1948 Palestinian exodus | ... alem, and that restoring Palestinians' "historical rights" (relating to the | ) "would be left for future generations." On January 25, 2004, senior Hama ... |
Errol Flynn | ... e Skylark, is featured prominently in the novel Traveller by Richard Adams. | played Stuart in the movie Santa Fe Trail, depicting his antebellum life, ... |
Peter Carey | ... German film director Wim Wenders; the screenplay was written by Wenders and | , from a story by Wenders and Solveig Dommartin. An initial draft of the s ... |
Jorge Ramos | ... o Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, | , Gloria Estefan and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., Gloria Trevi, Chayan ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... old seat in Niigata in 1991, and became foreign minister in the cabinet of | in 2001 |
Ramban | ... ere is some dispute as to how to divide these up (mainly between the rabbis | and ) |
Igor Stravinsky | ... l premieres, and introduced Los Angeles audiences to important new works by | and Arnold Schoenberg. The orchestra responded well to his leadership, but ... |
G. S. Viereck | ... could not understand the nature of God in an interview published in 1930 in | 's book Glimpses of the Great explaining: "I'm not an atheist. I don't thi ... |
Erwin Schrödinger | ... ly compatibilistic (deterministic) free will is possible based on the data. | , a nobel laureate in physics and one of the founders of quantum mechanics ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... been imagined by the opposite side of the political spectrum. For example, | 's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress portrays an individualistic and libertaria ... |
Sandra Dickinson | ... dio series, except for David Dixon as Ford Prefect instead of McGivern, and | as Trillian instead of Sheridan |
Richard Harris | ... bellum home located next door to Lee High School. This cult classic starred | , Ernest Borgnine, Ann Turkel, and Cecily Hovanes |
Prince Philip | ... Windsor by subsequent royal decree. After the marriage of Elizabeth II and | , it was decreed that their non-royal descendants were to bear the (maiden ... |
Heinrich Jalowetz | ... ipline from Schoenberg's teaching. Other pupils of this generation included | , Erwin Stein and Egon Wellesz, and somewhat later Eduard Steuermann, Hann ... |
Arthur Adamov | ... esco alongside such contemporary writers as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and | . Esslin called them "absurd" based on Albert Camus' concept of the absurd ... |
Miguel Indurain | ... sionals were admitted to the Olympics, with five-time Tour de France winner | winning the inaugural individual time trial event |
Ranavalona III | ... Paul Razafinkarefo. He was the son of Henri Razafinkarefo, nephew of Queen | of Imerina, and Jennie (Waller) Razafinkarefo, the daughter of John L. Wal ... |
Herodotus | According to | the Heraclids ruled for 22 generations during the period from 1185 BC, las ... |
Caitlín R. Kiernan | ... ttle, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, | , and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... sion channels such as E!. Young sports icons are considered teen idols like | , Mary Lou Retton, Shawn Johnson, Michael Phelps and Apolo Ohno as well as ... |
George Tsypin | ... ucted by Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Opera, St. Petersburg, designed by | . The production drew parallels with Ossetian mythology |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General | to call an election for June 28, 2004 |
Stadlen | ... rs from the Second Viennese School (e.g. Leibowitz, Rufer, Adorno, Kolisch, | , Stuckenschmidt, Scherchen) converged with the new serialists (e.g. Boule ... |
Warner Oland | ... he pre-Code picture stars Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and | . It was written by Jules Furthman, based on a story by Harry Hervey. It w ... |
Albert Einstein | ... othic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of | |
Johnny Cecotto | ... an, a relatively new team, using less competitive Pirelli tyres. Venezuelan | was his team mate |
Stevie Wonder | Examples include | 's vamp-based "Superstition" and Little Johnny Taylor's "Part Time Love", ... |
Greta Garbo | ... se, Priscilla Dean in Outside the Law and White Tiger, and Lillian Gish and | in most of their performances made restraint and easy naturalism in acting ... |
Mark Hateley | ... ki, Alan Knight, Paul Walsh, Darren Anderton, Guy Whittingham, Micky Quinn, | and Jimmy Dickinson, who played more than 800 times for his only club and ... |
Jim Carrey | ... le of Mary Svevo in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), alongside | , Kate Winslet, and Tom Wilkinson. The latter film received very positive ... |
Carl Lewis | ... e Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, Frankie Fredericks and | , have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. He is the curre ... |
Anna Notaras | ... ent was used simultaneously by both the Byzantines and the Ottoman Sultans. | , daughter of the last Megas Doux of the Byzantine Empire Loukas Notaras, ... |
Edward G. Robinson | ... , Jean Muir, George Murphy, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Irving Pichel, Dick Powell, | , Edwin Stanley, Gloria Stuart, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, Warren William ... |
John T. Mills | ... As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,936. Mills County is named for | , a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. The seat of the county is Goldthwa ... |
Gershom Scholem | ... of Jewish spirituality. The birth of academic scholarship of Kabbalah under | , and the search for deeper Jewish spirituality, in the 20th Century, redi ... |
Ammar al-Baluchi | ... hhi returned to Germany in March 2000, and began to learn to fly airplanes. | , one of the most important 9/11 financial organizers, bought a Boeing 747 ... |
Wolfgang Pauli | ... e, then brand new) with the inclusion of the neutrino postulated in 1930 by | , and the discovery of slow neutrons, which was to prove pivotal for the w ... |
Anthony Haden-Guest | ... ied in 1996. He succeeded upon the ineligibility of his older half-brother, | , who was born prior to the marriage of his parents. According to an artic ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... Latin and Greek so she could read works like those of Sir Isaac Newton and | . She also enjoyed Traité d'Arithmétique by Étienne Bézout and Le Calcul D ... |
Euler | ... stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and | ). A special case of Fermat's theorem may have been known much earlier by ... |
Mary Shelley | ... edical literature shortly after Galvani's work. These results were known to | when she authored Frankenstein (1819), although she does not name the meth ... |
Jascha Heifetz | ... of Wallenstein's tenure were recordings of concertos with fellow Angelenos, | and |
Micky Quinn | ... bert Prosinečki, Alan Knight, Paul Walsh, Darren Anderton, Guy Whittingham, | , Mark Hateley and Jimmy Dickinson, who played more than 800 times for his ... |
Ayub Ommaya | ... tree to the attention of natural products chemists. Pakistani neurosurgeon | invented the Ommaya reservoir, a system for treatment of brain tumours and ... |
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Neil Gaiman | ... lan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and | , have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences. Beyond direct a ... |
Phil Collins | ... for services to the music industry". May is a friend of singer and musician | and was a special guest at the Genesis reunion concert at Twickenham Stadi ... |
Michael Douglas | ... oorly received The Island of Dr Moreau. That year, Kilmer starred alongside | in the thriller The Ghost and the Darkness. The next year he played Simon ... |
Charles Saatchi | ... it as an "ongoing national joke" and "a state-funded advertising agency for | ", adding "the only artist who wouldn't be in danger of winning the Turner ... |
Guillermo del Toro | ... or Warner Independent. Don Murphy and Susan Montford are the producers, and | is the film's executive producer |
Lysias | ... he faced there 1,207 warships, of which 207 were "fast ships". Diodorus and | independently claim there were 1,200 ships in the Persian fleet assembled ... |
Sir Georg Solti | ... an international superstar of opera), and the 1973 RCA Victor conducted by | with Montserrat Caballé as Mimì and Plácido Domingo as Rodolfo which won t ... |
Tim Powers | ... n Welles directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend; and | featured it in On Stranger Tides, a novel of 18th century pirate-voodoo ad ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... mer Aynsley Dunbar, formerly of Journey, and keyboardist Don Airey from the | band and Rainbow, were brought in for the recording of the album. The albu ... |
Linda Thorson | Bryce signed his then-girlfriend, 20-year-old newcomer | , as the new female costar and chose the name "Tara King" for her characte ... |
Eleftherios Venizelos | ... han 14 million travellers annually and its name honours the Greek statesman | . The airport has become increasingly popular as a gateway to Asia and the ... |
David Bowie | In fact, musicians such as | joined many rock bands with blues, folk and soul orientations in his first ... |
Frank Capra | Scorsese has earned praise from many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, | , Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, ... |
Paul Muni | ... ther box office hits in 1939, The Old Maid with Miriam Hopkins, Juarez with | and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex with Errol Flynn. The latter ... |
Al Calavicci | ... s that he's not who everyone in the past seems to think he is. Rear Admiral | (Dean Stockwell), a senior naval officer, Naval Aviator and Sam's best fri ... |
Frantz Fanon | ... e wrote, "who does not have his private Bigger Thomas living in his skull." | discusses this feeling in his 1952 essay L'Experience Vecue du Noir, or "T ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... n landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau; the Italian statesman | (1807–1882); Russian Tsars Nicholas I (1796–1855) and Alexander I (1777–18 ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... or previously granted to only two other heads of state: Peter the Great and | . Pedro II exchanged letters with scientists, philosophers, musicians and ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... 2 American film directed by Josef von Sternberg. The pre-Code picture stars | , Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, and Warner Oland. It was written by Jules Fu ... |
Pythagoras | ... known if Plato's ideas of idealism have some earlier origin, but Plato held | in high regard, and Pythagoras as well as his followers in the movement kn ... |
Fritz Leiber | ... contemporaries, such as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and | . Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including autho ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... Drivers' Championships — a record which stood for 46 years until bested by | — with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Masera ... |
Steffi Graf | ... ventually make him the first man and second player overall (after his wife, | ) to win what is referred to as the Golden Slam, which consists of an Olym ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... om, and he later produced expressionist works, rather in the style of early | , before developing a leaner, contrapuntally complex style in the 1920s. T ... |
Werner Herzog | ... m many film legends including Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra, Jean-Luc Godard, | , Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Michael Powell, Satyajit Ray, an ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... has been described as neoclassical, but is very different from the works by | labeled with that term, owing more to the contrapuntal language of Bach th ... |
Deanna Durbin | The 11th Annual Academy Awards recognized both | and Mickey Rooney with the Juvenile Award honoring "their significant cont ... |
Xiongnu | ... and Li Guangli (李廣利), two military officers who led a campaign against the | in the north, were defeated and taken captive. Emperor Han Wudi attributed ... |
Kate Winslet | ... vevo in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), alongside Jim Carrey, | , and Tom Wilkinson. The latter film received very positive reviews, with ... |
Gerard Butler | ... ival hunters, mutants and pirates along the way. It has been announced that | is in negotiations to star in the film while Antoine Fuqua in talks to dir ... |
Phil Hartman | ... e of Saturday Night Live, Kirk (guest host William Shatner) directs McCoy ( | ) to help a man who's choking. McCoy snaps, "Dammit, Jim! I'm a doctor, no ... |
Orson Welles | ... is a far better remedy than deluded journeys to Florida for legendary cures | ;directed and starred in a 1958 TV program based on the legend; and Tim Po ... |
Franco Rasetti | ... ich soon was joined by notable minds like Edoardo Amaldi, Bruno Pontecorvo, | and Emilio Segrè. For the theoretical studies only, Ettore Majorana also t ... |
George Simpson | ... s route through northern Canada. In 1841 James Sinclair, on orders from Sir | , guided nearly 200 settlers from the Red River Settlement (located at the ... |
Susaye Greene | ... by Mary Wilson's then-husband Pedro Ferrer), left again and was replaced by | , another former member of Wonderlove |
Bob Marley | ... Paul Blackman, Earl Sixteen, Roman Stewart, Lacksley Castell, The Heptones, | , Ricky Grant, Delroy Wilson, Junior Delgado, Horace Andy and Freddy McKay ... |
Vivian Campbell | ... e the album's release, Coverdale had dismissed Sykes. Adrian Vandenberg and | mimed Sykes' guitar parts in the videos and played in the subsequent live ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... ion team of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the creative force behind | 's and Tammi Terrell's hit duets and Diana Ross & the Supremes' "Some Thin ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to | and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Seraf ... |
Herodotus | According to | , the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silve ... |
Al Stewart | More is the focus of the | song "A Man For All Seasons" from the 1978 album Time Passages, and of the ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... h a psychedelic rock touch whose influences include the amplifier sounds of | and Led Zeppelin, James Brown's funk, blues, Sun Ra's experimentation, Fra ... |
Cary Elwes | The 1987 film The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner, starring | , was filmed in Derbyshire and includes scenes at Haddon Hall and in the W ... |
Elefthérios Venizélos | ... ral Athens ( by road, due to intervening hills). The airport is named after | , the prominent Cretan political figure and Prime Minister of Greece, who ... |
Subhash Kak | ... lism, addressed for example by K. D. Sethna and in Shrikant G. Talageri's . | (1994) claimed that there is an "astronomical code" in the organization of ... |
Maurice Tourneur | ... ch director who also did work in America directing Alla Nazimova films) and | insisted on naturalism in their films. Tourneur had been just such a minim ... |
Mark Twain | ... ome sum for that day of one hundred dollars a month. Famous American author | , who saw the Pony Express in action first hand, described the riders in h ... |
Jenson Button | ... ael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, | , Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. Many NASCAR drivers also got their ... |
Foppe de Haan | In May 2011 it was announced that the Dutchman | had become the new coach of Tuvalu. Under his control during the Pacific G ... |
Lewis Hamilton | ... Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, | and Sebastian Vettel. Many NASCAR drivers also got their start in racing f ... |
Mary Shelley | ... produced the hugely influential novel Frankenstein by Shelley's wife-to-be | and the novella The Vampyre by Byron's doctor John William Polidori. The l ... |
Alistair Cooke | ... towering figure among the informative programmes was Letter from America by | , which was broadcast for over 50 years. For many years, a daily reading f ... |
Karl Marx | | , in Das Kapital, writes |
Ovid | ... ed to the East in 27. Pompeius was the center of a literary circle to which | belonged; he was also an intimate friend of the most literary prince of th ... |
Ian Hancock | ... omanis, it is impossible to accurately assess the actual number of victims. | , director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at ... |
Man Ray | ... or of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists Marcel Duchamp and | ). Both filmmakers, Clair and Buñuel, experimented with editing techniques ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... e other space advocates such as actor Tom Hanks and author and futurist Sir | . In a 2007 interview with GQ magazine, Bass stated that he "absolutely" s ... |
Kimi Räikkönen | ... d Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, | , Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. Many NASCAR drivers ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... d Elizabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher | came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania (Neues D ... |
Sicinnus | ... e been a spectacularly successful use of misinformation. He sent a servant, | , to Xerxes, with a message proclaiming that Themistocles was "on the king ... |
Karl Marx | In the most influential of all socialist theories, | and Friedrich Engels believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage o ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ng the report Lawlessness in Law Enforcement in 1931, under the auspices of | 's Wickersham Commission. In 1934, the ACLU lobbied for the passage of the ... |
Frank Oz | ... children's television show, Sesame Street. Bert was originally performed by | . Since 2001, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary ... |
Wim Wenders | Until the End of the World is a 1991 film by the German film director | ; the screenplay was written by Wenders and Peter Carey, from a story by W ... |
Ann-Margret | ... Dr. David Banner's alter ego. Schwarzenegger appeared with Kirk Douglas and | in the 1979 comedy The Villain. In 1980 he starred in a biographical film ... |
José Ramos-Horta | ... born 3 February 1948) is an East Timorese Roman Catholic bishop. Along with | , he received the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for work "towards a just and peac ... |
Bob Hope | ... enile Award Honoree Judy Garland. Hosting the Annual ceremony that year was | who endearingly dubbed the Juvenile Award the "Oscarette" upon presenting ... |
Che Guevara | ... guerilla warfare that Massoud had learned from the works of Mao Zedong and | . His forces were considered the most effective of all the various Afghan ... |
Norman Jewison | ... Hood. The blacklist was lifted when producer Martin Ransohoff and director | gave him screen credit for writing 1965's The Cincinnati Kid. Lardner's la ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... hinese or the Japanese, and the secretary was further hampered by President | ’s clear indication that he would not support economic sanctions as a mean ... |
Nelson Mandela | EDMs tabled on serious topics have included one demanding the release of | when he was incarcerated in apartheid South Africa, and one calling for a ... |
Marcel Duchamp | ... René Clair (director of 1924's Entr'acte which starred famous dada artists | and Man Ray). Both filmmakers, Clair and Buñuel, experimented with editing ... |
Henry Tudor | ... until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 by the Lancastrian | , who ascended to the throne as Henry VII |
Gong Li | ... ctor. Yimou was previously rumored to be involved in an affair with actress | , whom he similarly debuted and with whom Ziyi was quickly compared. Howev ... |
Michael Chekhov | ... mation, also known as Creative Speech) and the Chekhov Method originated by | (nephew of Anton Chekhov) |
J. K. Rowling | ... for fans. A well-known example of this comes in the Harry Potter series of | , where three such supplemental books have been produced, with the profits ... |
Paul Kagame | ... African Renaissance were President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and President | of Rwanda |
Friedrich Engels | In the most influential of all socialist theories, Karl Marx and | believed the consciousness of those who earn a wage or salary (the "workin ... |
Miguel López de Legazpi | ... June 24, 1571 by three conquistadors: Martín de Goiti, Juan de Salcedo and | . In 1867, the Spanish Government of the Philippines established the munic ... |
Napoleon | ... . While France had been very powerful in Europe at the time of Louis XIV or | , the demographic decline the country experienced after 1800 resulted in i ... |
Stefan Johansson | ... in 1984: The ADAC 1000 km Nürburgring where, alongside Henri Pescarolo and | , he co-drove a Joest Racing Porsche 956 to finish 8th, as well as an exhi ... |
Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... tand). The anthem adopted by the Irgun was "Anonymous Soldiers", written by | who was at the time a commander in the Irgun. Later on Stern defected from ... |
Sergey Brin | ... 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with | , is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on ... |
Jaromir Jagr | ... yers went 25–9–3 and outscored their opponents 128–98 enroute. Lindros tied | for the regular season scoring lead (though Jagr won the Art Ross Trophy w ... |
Blas María de la Garza Falcón | ... s it that he placed a large wooden cross. Six years later another Spaniard, | , found the cross while conducting an expedition in the area and named the ... |
Louis Althusser | ... d not only Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, | , André Breton and Jacques Lacan. A selection from Heidegger's Being and T ... |
Malcolm McDowell | ... n repressed his homosexuality, was seen as a betrayal by his other friends. | was quoted in 2006 as saying |
Yo-Yo Ma | ... rmal names, although there are famous male examples such as Li Xiaoping and | . People from the countryside previously often bore names that reflecting ... |
Mischa Barton | Christensen appeared opposite | in Virgin Territory, which was released directly-to-DVD in North America o ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... n of Remington Rand was renamed the Univac division of Sperry Rand. General | was chosen to head the company. In the 1960s, UNIVAC was one of the eight ... |
Alla Nazimova | ... Albert Capellani (a French director who also did work in America directing | films) and Maurice Tourneur insisted on naturalism in their films. Tourneu ... |
Queen Alexandra | ... ning of Mary's period as consort brought her into conflict with the Dowager | . Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn; sh ... |
Frankie Fredericks | ... and Tobago and four-time Olympic medal winner. Only 2 other men in history, | and Carl Lewis, have won as many Olympic individual event sprint medals. H ... |
George A. Romero | The film Knightriders (1981) by | starring Ed Harris used scenes shot in Fawn Township (1980) for the movie |
Francis Asbury | ... ort by New York brush manufacturer James A. Bradley, the city was named for | , the first American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the Unite ... |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
Tōgō Heihachirō | ... e War, Yamamoto showed strong leadership and was responsible for appointing | as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet. He gave voice to Tōgō's repor ... |
Judy Garland | The 12th Annual Academy Awards recognized | with the Juvenile Award honoring "her outstanding performance as a screen ... |
Lu Xun | ... ctions; his innovative use of informal, humorous, and varied language (even | (魯迅) regarded Shiji as "the unique work of all historians, the songs of Qu ... |
Jean-Baptiste Lully | ... d as well as Louis Le Vau's historic expansion of the Palace of Versailles, | 's revolution in Baroque music, and most importantly, the ascension of Lou ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... in fanatical support through the use of microphone technology was Germany's | . By first creating a speaking environment, designed by Joseph Goebbels, h ... |
Mickey Hargitay | ... graphical film of the 1950s actress Jayne Mansfield as Mansfield's husband, | |
Elvis Presley | ... s daughter, Lisa-Marie, was born on September 17, 2002. She was named after | 's daughter |
Sandra Dickinson | ... the end of the final episode, the first part of Maggs' alternative ending.) | , who played Trillian in the TV series, here played Tricia McMillan, an En ... |
Boris Vallejo | ... . The "bikini" proved popular, becoming well known through the paintings of | and others |
Charles Laughton | ... irline and eyebrows. During filming she was visited on the set by the actor | . She commented that she had a "nerve" playing a woman in her sixties, to ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator | , Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ... |
Oskari Tokoi | ... of its prominent leaders. He became an Agrarian minister in the Senates of | , Pehr Evind Svinhufvud and Juho Kusti Paasikivi |
Wallis Simpson | ... d a public scandal by announcing his desire to marry the divorced American, | , even though the Church of England opposed the remarriage of divorcées. A ... |
Miriam Stockley | ... Moran (Keyboards), Rick Wakeman (Keyboards), Maggie Ryder (Backing vocals), | (Backing vocals) and Chris Thompson (Backing vocals). The original line-up ... |
Kelvin Tatum | ... Coventry teams are Tom Farndon, Jack Parker, Arthur Forrest, Nigel Boocock, | , Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions Ole Olsen, Hans Niels ... |
Friedrich Engels | ... n between "utopian" and "scientific" socialism was first explicitly made by | in , which contrasted the "utopian pictures of ideal social conditions" of ... |
Ed Bishop | The American actor | (1932–2005) is buried in the parish churchyard |
Nigel Boocock | ... ve represented Coventry teams are Tom Farndon, Jack Parker, Arthur Forrest, | , Kelvin Tatum, Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions Ole Ols ... |
Grace Kelly | ... televise her anticipated acceptance speech. The Oscar was won, however, by | for The Country Girl (1954). The camera crew was packing up before Kelly c ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... sity of Tennessee, is named in his honor. He is tied with Robert Altman and | for the most Academy Award nominations for best director without a single ... |
Louis Ginzberg | ... degree of Hattarat Hora’ah under the great talmudic scholar Rabbi Professor | . He was one of only three people, along with Boaz Cohen and Louis Finkels ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... y of Warsaw, a small, semi-independent Polish state, was created in 1807 by | , following his defeat of Prussia. The Duchy's military forces, led by Józ ... |
Herodotus | ... e that circumcised females have been found among Egyptian mummies, and that | (c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE) referred to the practice when he visited Egypt. ... |
Detlef Schrempf | ... inal draft pick Brad Davis, Rolando Blackman, Derek Harper, Sam Perkins and | , the Mavericks made the playoffs six of seven times from 1983 to 90, winn ... |
Carl Schurz | Together with | , the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln ... |
Terry Pratchett | In a collaboration with author | (best known for his series of Discworld novels), Gaiman's first novel Good ... |
Shailesh Vara | ... y and neighbouring Huntingdonshire. The serving member is the Conservative, | MP , who succeeded the (then) Rt Hon Dr. Sir Brian Mawhinney, former Secre ... |
Dan Aykroyd | ... He had a cameo in the opening scene of , playing a driver whose passenger ( | ) has a shocking secret. In James L. Brooks's hit Broadcast News (1987), A ... |
Leonard Wood | ... cked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General | , few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice. Althou ... |
Grace Jones | In 2008, Cunningham produced a fashion shoot for Dazed & Confused using | as a model to create "Nubian versions" of Rubber Johnny. In an interview f ... |
Lemmy | ... in Sensible switched to guitar and keyboards, and after a brief period with | of Hawkwind and Motörhead on bass for studio demos and a handful of live a ... |
Satprem | ... he composition of Aus den sieben Tagen, Stockhausen had read a biography by | about the Bengali guru Sri Aurobindo (Guerreri 2009), and subsequently he ... |
José Díaz | ... alter" Świerczewski. On 17 October 1936, an open letter by Joseph Stalin to | was published in Mundo Obrero, arguing that victory for the Spanish second ... |
Indo-Aryan migration | ... istuti sukta in particular have become tied to an ideological debate on the | (termed "Aryan Invasion Theory") versus the claim that Vedic culture, toge ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... ne drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent among them, World Champions | , Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Butto ... |
Teddy Kollek | ... hday, but the Haganah learned about the plan and warned the British through | of the Jewish Agency. Army sappers then dug them up. On another occasion, ... |
Norma Shearer | ... only after she meets Dorothy that Jerry is forced to evaluate her decision. | won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Also starring in the film are Robe ... |
Graham Greene | ... Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author | , and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval (1930–1996), foo ... |
Arthur Forrest | ... ay riders who have represented Coventry teams are Tom Farndon, Jack Parker, | , Nigel Boocock, Kelvin Tatum, Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdinov and World Ch ... |
Obadele Thompson | ... time of 9.88 s, beating Namibia's Frankie Fredericks (9.96 s) and Barbados' | (10.00 s). The Commonwealth Games 100 m record remains unbroken |
Sidney Bechet | ... t aural tapestry. There had been soloists, to be sure, with the clarinetist | the best known among them, but these players "lacked the technical resourc ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... aking the Bond films, Connery also starred in other acclaimed films such as | 's Marnie (1964) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974). Apart from The M ... |
Frédéric Chopin | ... antic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer | . In the occupied and repressed Poland, some sought progress through self- ... |
Usain Bolt | ... cord (shared with Bruny Surin since 1999). His Olympic record was broken by | at the 2008 Beijing Olympics |
Ernest Hemingway | ... t Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and named the 1st Baron Hornblower. | is quoted as saying, "I recommend Forester to everyone literate I know," a ... |
Albert, Prince Consort | ... ncess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and | . His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and Princess Ju ... |
David Bohm | Some quantum physicists have supported Sheldrake's hypothesis. The late | suggested that Sheldrake's hypothesis was in keeping with his own ideas on ... |
Che Guevara | ... classes for the purpose of suppressing the oppressed classes, withers away. | sought socialism based on the rural peasantry rather than the urban workin ... |
Greg Hancock | ... Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions Ole Olsen, Hans Nielsen, | , Billy Hamill and Jack Young |
Richard Burton | ... in many of the Shakespearean roles that he was famous for playing, notably | as Hamlet (1964), Anthony Quayle as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (19 ... |
Gwyneth Paltrow | ... He was the husband of actress Blythe Danner, and was the father of actress | and director Jake Paltrow |
Neil Armstrong | ... that it was a "great movie in all regards". Fellow test pilot and astronaut | (who was not portrayed in the film) said the movie "was very good filmmaki ... |
Tim Montgomery | ... ded to silver after all the times and performances of the American sprinter | (who was second in the 100 m and won the 4 x 100 m with the US team) were ... |
Shania Twain | ... lliams, Jr. (and, to an even greater extent, Hank Williams III); Gary Allan | ;; Brooks & Dunn; Faith Hill; Garth Brooks; Dwight Yoakam; Steve Earle; Do ... |
Emmanuel Constant | ... de embargo. A campaign of terror against Aristide supporters was started by | . In 1993, Constant, who had been on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency' ... |
Robert Stigwood | Producer | said in a recent interview on "The Inside Story: Saturday Night Fever", ab ... |
Timaeus | ... sa can be traced back to references by Roman historians to lost writings of | of Tauromenium in Sicily (c. 356–260 BC) |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... ir own country, albeit as part of the Empire. This trend was personified by | , who went as far as contesting, successfully, an election to the British ... |
Tsuguharu Foujita | ... interior being painted with religious scenes by the School of Paris painter | . In 1996, it was designated an historic monument by the French Government |
Errol Flynn | ... arner offered her services to Selznick as part of a deal that also included | and Olivia de Havilland, but Selznick did not consider Davis as suitable, ... |
Carl Laemmle | ... dependent Moving Pictures Company of America (IMP). The company, founded by | , the owner of a film exchange (who later absorbed IMP into Universal Pict ... |
Raoul Cédras | ... ristide was overthrown in the 1991 Haitian coup d'état, led by Army General | , and flown into exile. Elections were scheduled, but then cancelled. The ... |
Emil Sayfutdinov | ... on, Jack Parker, Arthur Forrest, Nigel Boocock, Kelvin Tatum, Chris Harris, | and World Champions Ole Olsen, Hans Nielsen, Greg Hancock, Billy Hamill an ... |
Mick Jagger | ... oject's high profile brought heavy trade journal coverage, and fans such as | visited the studio for the chance to play a role. Animator Carl Bell loved ... |
Herbert Marcuse | ... iderable influence in European philosophy. Eros and Civilisation (1955), by | , explicitly attempted to merge Marxism with Freudianism. The social scien ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... ntings at the Louvre. Among her favorite painters were Nicholas Poussin and | , but she also copied the paintings of Paulus Potter, Porbus, Louis Léopol ... |
Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
Idaho Territory | ... art of the Dakota Territory. The Great Falls area was incorporated into the | on March 4, 1863, and then into the Montana Territory on May 28, 1864. It ... |
Daniel Day-Lewis | ... ), Murray Moston (5), Joe Pesci (3), Frank Vincent (3) and Verna Bloom (3). | , who had become very reclusive to the Hollywood scene, Alec Baldwin, Ben ... |
Wonder Woman | Editor Sheldon Mayer replaced the name "Suprema" with " | ", and the character made her debut in All Star Comics #8 (December 1941). ... |
Gerrard Winstanley | ... dly documented in 17th-century England and 18th-century Europe and America. | (1648), Richard Coppin (1652), Jane Leade (1697), and then George de Benne ... |
Celia Cruz | ... Stop Making Sense in 1984. Byrne added "Loco de Amor" (Crazy for Love) with | to Jonathan Demme's 1986 film Something Wild |
Jim Morrison | ... tion '84 - '90". In 1991, director Oliver Stone offered Astbury the role of | in Stone's film The Doors. He declined the role because he was not happy w ... |
Donna Summer | ... ci commercial that he also directed. He travelled to Nashville to work with | to record a brand new vocal for it |
Saul Bellow | ... ists and musicians; these include Pulitzer Prize-winning and Nobel Laureate | , Andrei Bely, Joseph Beuys, Owen Barfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Nobel Laure ... |
Pierre Cardin | ... ith Savile Row suit, bowler hat and umbrella with clothes later designed by | . (The bowler and umbrella were full of tricks, including a sword hidden w ... |
Fernando Alonso | ... among them, World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, | , Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. Many ... |
Norma Shearer | Ted Chester Morris, Jerry | , Paul and Dorothy are part of the New York in-crowd. Jerry's decision to ... |
Barbara Frum | ... ath threat over the change of appearance. The books also include journalist | 's remarks about how influential Robins was for 1950s-era female equality ... |
Osama bin Laden | The media focused on a large computer simulation of a former hideout of | by Ben Langlands and Nikki Bell, as well as the fact that one of their exh ... |
Turkic peoples | ... o-Mongol mythology. Tengriism, the major belief among Xiongnu or Mongol and | , Magyars and in ancient times incorporates elements of shamanism. Shamani ... |
Jacinda Barrett | ... rs of the cast found the cameras burdensome at times, such as Jay Frank and | , who felt they intruded on the intimacy of their romantic relationships. ... |
Prince Albert | ... te. Melbourne's role faded away as Victoria came to rely on her new husband | as well as on herself |
Eddy Merckx | ... out that a recent article in Sports Illustrated magazine had declared that | , the great Belgian cyclist, had the highest recorded "oxygen uptake" of a ... |
Ovid | ... er their mistresses. Allusions to it are tolerably frequent in the poets. ( | Fast. lib. ii., 1. 31 I.; Martial, lib. xi., ch. 73.; lib. xiv, ch. 28, 13 ... |
King Henry VII | ... 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of | |
Ernie Stautner | ... Steelers no longer officially retire uniform numbers (with the exception of | 's #70), they have not reissued Bradshaw's #12 since he retired, and it is ... |
Jack Webster | ... was also part of each episode. In 1990, journalist and radio/TV personality | joined the show as its permanent fourth panelist |
Edward Dmytryk | ... , Herbert Biberman, Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, Dalton Trumbo, Lester Cole, | , Samuel Ornitz and John Howard Lawson, he refused to answer any questions ... |
Tim Curry | ... y Jonathan Lynn, who collaborated on the script with John Landis, and stars | , Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren, Christopher Lloyd, Micha ... |
Norma Shearer | ... film was also nominated for Best Picture and won Best Actress for its star | |
Ringo Starr | ... the US for one week on 30 May. This is the version released in the US with | on tambourine and session musician Andy White on drums |
Henry David Thoreau | ... ter. CORE was conceived as a pacifist organization based on the writings of | . It was modeled after Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent resistance against Br ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... n years of U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia, cited among reasons by Saudi-born | for his September 11, 2001 attacks on America, most of U.S. forces were wi ... |
Stravinsky | ... and perhaps most notably, in 1996 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for a | festival conducted by Salonen and Pierre Boulez; it was during this Paris ... |
José Ramos-Horta | ... f peace and reconciliation were internationally recognised when, along with | , he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1996. Bishop Belo capit ... |
Harry Bridges | ... any persons who were prosecuted under the Smith Act, including labor leader | |
Gerald Eaton | ... ow. Her performance attracted the attention of The Philosopher Kings singer | , who then approached her to write with him. He and fellow Kings member Br ... |
Natalie Portman | In 2009, he starred alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and | in the Jim Sheridan-directed war drama Brothers as Sam Cahill, a prisoner ... |
Juan Carlos Onetti | ... onal Novel Prize in 1967, contending with works by veteran Uruguayan writer | and by Gabriel García Márquez. This novel alone accumulated enough awards ... |
James Mason | ... s, production facilities, and crew. Directed by George Cukor and costarring | , it was a large undertaking to which she initially fully dedicated hersel ... |
Edward G. Robinson | ... ort for the Hollywood Ten. (Several of the CFA's members, including Bogart, | , and John Garfield later recanted, saying they had been "duped", not real ... |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... e greatest Polish literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets | , Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the o ... |
Johannes Kelpius | ... 19th century, including the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness (led by | ), the Ephrata Cloister, and the Harmony Society, among others. The Harmon ... |
Baron Frederick William Rudolph Gerald Augustus von Steuben | ... County, Maine, United States. Upon incorporation in 1795 it was named after | , the Inspector General of the U.S. Army during the Revolutionary War. The ... |
The Duke of Edinburgh | ... Palace on 19 February 1960, the third child and second son of The Queen and | , and third grandchild of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. Baptised in th ... |
Deepa Mehta | ... engaged in fighting border terrorism, was well received, as was his role in | 's art house film Earth. His first release for the new millennium, Mela, i ... |
Typhoid Mary | ... . The most famous asymptomatic carrier was Mary Mallon (commonly known as " | "), a young cook who was responsible for infecting at least 53 people with ... |
Mike Hailwood | ... e Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, | and composer John Barry all owned SMs |
Emil Artin | ... mple body of research by Emmy Noether, David Hilbert, Richard Dedekind, and | . In the following year, 1931, he was appointed professor at the Universit ... |
Jim Bridger | ... son visiting the site of the city of Great Falls until explorer and trapper | reached the area in 1822. Bridger and Major Andrew Henry led a fur-trading ... |
Christopher Skase | ... ported that Dave "Sluggo" Richardson had made a highly misleading report on | for Today Tonight. Richardson was suspended from duty for a month, and in ... |
Chrissie Hynde | ... uring interviews with James, Sensible, Scabies, Glen Matlock, Don Letts and | , the programme gave some new insights into the bands and personalities ar ... |
Herodotus | ... ed by most major geographers of the period, including: Ptolemy, iv. 5. § 54 | ;, ii. 3, 7, 59; Strabo, xvii. p. 805; Diodorus, i. 84, v. 57; Arrian, Exp ... |
Zhang Xueliang | ... w plan of suppression of the communist forces, raising opposition from both | and Yang Hucheng. On 4 December 1936, Chiang came to Xian again, accompani ... |
Rudy Sarzo | ... . The resulting music videos from Whitesnake also featured new band members | , Tommy Aldridge and Vivian Campbell (who also re-recorded the solo for th ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... gue, which was built specially for the Court in 1913 with an endowment from | . From 1922 on, the building also housed the distinctly separate Permanent ... |
William Shatner | ... Chair". In the Family Guy episode "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein" (2003), | is depicted as playing Tevye in a scene from Fiddler. The second episode o ... |
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy | ... amed with Fascist names. A failed assassination attempt was carried towards | by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana. In November 1941, ... |
Wonder Woman | ... ebowitz of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed | with Elizabeth (whom Marston believed to be a model of that era's unconven ... |
W. H. Auden | ... and places it alongside Flatland, Phantastes, and The Wind in the Willows. | , in his review of the sequel The Fellowship of the Ring calls The Hobbit ... |
Ovid | ... the results in his favor. In the disputes that followed, Remus was killed. | has Romulus invent the festival of Lemuria to appease Remus' resentful gho ... |
Tom Farndon | Amongst the top speedway riders who have represented Coventry teams are | , Jack Parker, Arthur Forrest, Nigel Boocock, Kelvin Tatum, Chris Harris, ... |
John Ericsson | ... rew propeller had been patented just months prior to Gatling’s invention by | . While living in North Carolina, he worked in the county clerk’s office, ... |
Elvis Presley | ... y 1980, it reached number 27. The cover of the album, based on the cover of | 's self-titled 1956 debut LP, became one of the best known in the history ... |
Dadabhai Naoroji | ... y, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Rabindranath Tagore, and | , as well as women such as the Scots–Irish Sister Nivedita, spread the pas ... |
Michael Douglas | HBO has agreed to film Behind the Candelabra to air on its network. | is to star as Liberace, with Matt Damon playing Scott Thorson, in a story ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... d, his voice was restored. He returned to Europe, where he starred opposite | in the 1930 film The Blue Angel, filmed in English simultaneously with its ... |
Gehry Partners LLP | On October 12, 2004, the LMDC announced that | and Snøhetta, a Norwegian architectural firm, would design the site's perf ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... of Warner Bros.' biggest stars, Jane Wyman, with the sultry German actress | . Hitchcock used a number of prominent British actors, including Michael W ... |
John Moses | ... World War II soldiers, the game was developed into a radio show by Reid and | . Grant Tinker, later President of NBC and MTM Enterprises, got his start ... |
Frankie Fredericks | ... Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, setting a record time of 9.88 s, beating Namibia's | (9.96 s) and Barbados' Obadele Thompson (10.00 s). The Commonwealth Games ... |
Carlo Gatti | ... om Norway and the US in the mid-Victorian era. A Swiss-Italian businessman, | , opened the first ice cream stall outside Charing Cross station in 1851, ... |
Amit Goswami | ... f the Past: A Field Theory of Life was positively reviewed by the physicist | |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... rominent in Tristan und Isolde, is often cited as a milestone on the way to | 's revolutionary break with the traditional concept of key and his dissolu ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | In December 1990, the former priest | was elected President in the Haitian general election, winning more than t ... |
Usain Bolt | ... tator for CBC Television at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He estimated that had | not slowed down near the end of the 100m dash (which he still won in recor ... |
Bebe Daniels | ... Turpin, Wallace Beery, Thomas Meighan, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson, | , Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Harold Lloyd, Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pa ... |
Orson Welles | ... ween the authors affecting the project. The initial production, directed by | and with Canada Lee as Bigger opened at the St. James Theatre on March 24, ... |
Jack Liebowitz | Marston introduced the idea to Max Gaines, co-founder with | of All-American Publications. Given the go-ahead, Marston developed Wonder ... |
Gene Wolfe | ... on anthology featured stories and contributions by Tori Amos, Clive Barker, | , Tad Williams, and others |
Boris Vallejo | ... (First solo story in black and white. Also featured in the cover painted by | ) |
Nelson Mandela | ... pon this honour through meetings with Bill Clinton of the United States and | of South Africa. In 1995, he also won the John Humphrey Freedom Award from ... |
Vitaly Petrov | All current (with the exception of Russian driver | ) and many former Formula One drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent ... |
Paulette Goddard | ... on of the Octave Mirbeau novel, Le Journal d'une femme de chambre, starring | and Burgess Meredith. The Woman on the Beach (1947) starring Joan Bennett ... |
Johnny Depp | ... chose to release the story exclusively to People magazine, who bumped actor | off of that week's cover in favor of Bass. In his coming out interview, Ba ... |
Ringo Starr | ... he drummer of the fictional band The Rutles. A spoof of The Beatles drummer | |
Carrie Underwood | ... tiful at Super Bowl XLIV hosted in Miami, Florida on February 7, 2010, with | . Latifah hosted the 2010 BET Awards on June 27, 2010. She starred with Do ... |
Charles Laughton | ... nti-Nazi film set in France, This Land Is Mine, starring Maureen O'Hara and | . Two years later, he made The Southerner, a film about Texas sharecropper ... |
James Mason | ... on the witness stand; his opponent—the high-priced attorney Ed Concannon ( | )—has at his disposal a large legal team that is masterful with the press; ... |
G.E. Hutchinson | ... is termed the realized niche. The ecological niche has also been termed by | a "hypervolume." This term defines the multi-dimensional space of resource ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... horough-bred Frenchman". It has been said that the Alien Acts were aimed at | , the Jeffersonian from Geneva; and the Sedition Act aimed at Benjamin Fra ... |
Percy Grainger | ... osers from a classical, music-school background such as Benjamin Britten or | |
Joseph Priestley | ... ciation of Ideas). A friend, associate, and one of his chief advocates, was | (1733–1804), the discoverer of oxygen. Priestley was one of the foremost s ... |
J. Hudson Taylor | #A Retrospect by Protestant Christian missionary | (1832–1905), which documented how he founded the China Inland Mission (ren ... |
David Bowie | ... val in San Bernardino, California, which the Clash co-headlined, along with | and Van Halen. The band argued with the event's promoters over inflated ti ... |
Trevor Horn | ... were already intact prior to any involvement from ZTT or eventual producer | |
Solomon Trujillo | In May 2009, | stood down as Chief Executive Officer to return to the United States. Davi ... |
Elvis Costello | ... ecording artists—Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, | , Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music to be used in the film ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... robably the most effective fusion of existentialist philosophy and cinema." | 's 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory "illustrates, and even illuminates... ... |
Yitzhak Shamir | ... ats, military officials, and media producers. In the elections that brought | to power, Schneerson publicly lobbied his followers and the Orthodox membe ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed | for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, C-SPA ... |
Chaim Herzog | ... ge was repaired, but only a trickle of Israeli forces crossed. According to | , the Egyptians continued attacking the bridgehead until the cease-fire, u ... |
Robert F. Wagner | Senator | proposed the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, which empowered workers ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... gineer Roger Mayer, who supplied guitar pedals to Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and | . In 1997 the electronic dance music magazine Mixmag described the Worksho ... |
David William Thomas | In the 1920s, | edited a weekly newspaper in Hammond prior to moving to Minden, the seat o ... |
William Lamport | ... rdo O'Higgins, Daniel Florencio O'Leary, Juan O'Donojú, Morgan O'Connell, & | |
Eileen Collins | ... Jarvik, inventor of the first artificial heart implanted into human beings | ;, first female commander of a Space Shuttle; musician Lou Reed; and Princ ... |
Palestinian refugee | ... agreed to return to its 1967 borders and grant the "right of return" to all | s. In November 2008, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh re-stated that Hamas was ... |
Ngonidzashe Makusha | ... s from 1996 until it was broken by Travis Padgett, who ran 9.89s, in 2008. | later equalled this record at the 2011 NCAA Championships in Eugene, Orego ... |
Nick Cave | ... —Depeche Mode, U2, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, | , Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc.—for music to be used in the film; specifica ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by | and Frederik Pohl, Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subra ... |
Nikola Tesla | In 1891, | invented the Tesla coil, an air-cored, dual-tuned resonant transformer for ... |
Jean-Claude Duvalier | "Papa Doc" was succeeded by his son (born 3 July 1951) | – known also as "Bébé Doc" – who led the country from 1971 until his ouste ... |
Vivian Campbell | ... om Whitesnake also featured new band members Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge and | (who also re-recorded the solo for the "Give Me All Your Love" remix) |
Yoko Ono | ... 2006. The exhibition of nominees' work opened at Tate Britain on October 3. | , the celebrity announcer chosen for the year, declared Tomma Abts the win ... |
Alexander Esenin-Volpin | ... mathematicians accept the reality of countably infinite sets (however, see | for a counter-example) |
St. Brendan | ... y, Bermuda had unusual connections with Ireland. It has been suggested that | discovered it during his legendary voyage; a local psychiatric hospital (s ... |
Milo O'Shea | ... a large legal team that is masterful with the press; the presiding judge ( | ) takes great strides to obstruct Frank's questioning; and any witnesses p ... |
Theodosius Dobzhansky | ... , (1942). Other major figures in the modern synthesis include R. A. Fisher, | , J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, E. B. Ford, Ernst Mayr, Bernhard Rensch ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... 27 August 1979), was a British statesman and naval officer, and an uncle of | (the husband of Elizabeth II). He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and ... |
Olivia de Havilland | ... ames. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by | as Catherine Sloper, Montgomery Clift as Morris Townsend, and Ralph Richar ... |
Johannes Kepler | ... ope had on astronomy came quickly and were both controversial and profound. | was able to formulate his famous three laws of planetary motion, which des ... |
Madonna | Directors Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer | have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As a child, Johnny Depp ... |
Patrick Edward Connor | ... that the territory maintained its allegiance during the American Civil War. | , who was the leader of the garrison stationed at Fort Douglas, was openly ... |
Sidney Bechet | ... ew Orleans, she met musicians including Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, | and Pops Foster. Blues music increased in popularity and Ma Rainey became ... |
Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
Otto Robert Frisch | ... y, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew | , correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following ... |
Damon Knight | ... ded in 1968 by Robin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. | and Kate Wilhelm were among the first teachers at the workshop. In 1972 th ... |
Vivian Campbell | | left Whitesnake in late 1988 due to creative differences, and so the band' ... |
Nancy Langhorne | Danville was home to both | , Viscountess Astor, the first woman to serve in the British House of Comm ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... ten abbreviated "HHGTTG" (as used on fan websites) or "H2G2" (first used by | as a chapter title in and later by the online guide run by the BBC). The s ... |
Sam Neill | ... he film's theatrical release, Wenders worked with multiple copies and, with | , recording additional narration, completed a 280-minute version. The long ... |
Henry James | ... lay of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by | . The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Ol ... |
Oliver Smithies | ... ent that increased fourfold to over $2 billion in just ten years. Professor | was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2007 for his work in genetics |
Patrick Stewart | ... from 1930 to 1959. The casting of the role comes with a political subtext. | played the role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 1997 staging of the pla ... |
Toby Robins | ... storian Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), | (who later became a movie actress) and columnist Gordon Sinclair. Columnis ... |
William Wyler | ... n the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by | , with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper, M ... |
Kiki Vandeweghe | ... of being a stern disciplinarian, but was also a great teacher of the game. | of UCLA was drafted by the Mavs with the 11th pick of the 1980 NBA Draft, ... |
Rihanna | ... nds. Hip-hop artists commonly sample 1980s synthpop and R&B artists such as | have also embraced that subgenre |
Maureen O'Hara | ... d and directed an anti-Nazi film set in France, This Land Is Mine, starring | and Charles Laughton. Two years later, he made The Southerner, a film abou ... |
Ilan Stavans | ... rd, Beowulf translator Howell Chickering, Jewish and Latino studies scholar | , novelist and legal scholar Lawrence Douglas, physicist Arthur Zajonc, Pu ... |
Doris Lessing | ... ton, Sir Julian Huxley, Edward Hyams, the Bishop of Llandaff Dr Glyn Simon, | , Sir Compton Mackenzie, the Very Rev George McLeod, Miles Malleson, Denis ... |
Alex Hyde-White | Burnside was portrayed by | in Ronald F. Maxwell's 2003 film Gods and Generals, which includes the Bat ... |
Richard Matheson | ... lm works was the music to The Omega Man, based upon the book I Am Legend by | and starring Charlton Heston. The soundtrack was not released on CD until ... |
Karl Popper | ... contend, the greatest harms are more consequential than the greatest goods. | also referred to an epistemological argument: “It adds to clarity in the f ... |
Ivan Reitman | ... r It for You Wholesale". Kindergarten Cop (1990) reunited him with director | , who directed him in Twins |
Robert Graves | Karl Kerenyi (and | ) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from Hesychius' listing o ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... s still an important pop label with artists such as Coldplay, Gorillaz, and | among others. It is also EMI's oldest active label: its contemporary HMV, ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... an American motion picture studio. It is best known today for its series of | comedies of 1915 |
Gus Grissom | ... s as part of "dramatic license", criticism focused on one: the portrayal of | panicking when his Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft sank following splashdown. Mo ... |
Diran Alexanian | ... as a movement towards the bridge, meaning upwards in pitch,—and the cellist | , in his 1922 treatise Traité théorique et pratique du Violoncelle, shows ... |
Olivia de Havilland | Catherine Sloper ( | ) is a plain, painfully shy woman whose emotionally detached father (Ralph ... |
William Brown | Widely considered a national hero, | is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina. Creator of the Argentine Na ... |
Svend Robinson | ... t these have been controversial and of minor legal consequence. In 1999, MP | brought forward a failed proposal before the Canadian House of Commons tha ... |
Lauren Jackson | ... ennis grand slam winner Margaret Court, 2003, 2007 and 2010 WNBA MVP winner | , NRL Player Adrian Purtell, and Test cricketer Steve Rixon, among other c ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... he Philippine Army to the Armed Forces of the Philippines and asked General | to be its first commanding officer after the Philippines gained independen ... |
Ferrari 250 GTO | ... was the Pontiac GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato), a muscle car named after the | . It evolved from the practical 1961 Pontiac Tempest, which DeLorean later ... |
Anna Paquin | ... istensen made his London theater debut co-starring with Jake Gyllenhaal and | in This Is Our Youth |
Gore Vidal | ... a comment which the network censors decided to cut from the broadcast tape. | once quipped to Claire Bloom, Roth's second wife: "You have already had Po ... |
Greta Garbo | ... the main directors of their female stars–he directed both Joan Crawford and | six times. Garbo called Brown her favorite director |
T. S. Eliot | ... us love in the Pervigilium Veneris, a late Latin poem. In "The Waste Land", | quoted the line "Quando fiam uti chelidon [ut tacere desinam]?" ("When wil ... |
F. W. Murnau | ... who went into films. He starred in the 1922 film version of Othello and in | 's The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann, 1924), as a proud but aged hotel doorm ... |
G. Evelyn Hutchinson | The niche concept was popularized by the zoologist | in 1957. Hutchinson wanted to know why there are so many different types o ... |
Jacques Offenbach | ... ired by "The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr", in which Kreisler appears). | 's masterwork, the opera Les contes d'Hoffmann ("The Tales of Hoffmann", 1 ... |
Joe Strummer | ... Studios at the same time as The Clash were there to record London Calling, | and Mick Jones made an uncredited vocal appearance on the title track. Fan ... |
Jim Morrison | ... he band of the same name. Kilmer memorized the lyrics to all of lead singer | 's songs prior to his audition, and sent a video of himself performing som ... |
Pervez Musharraf | ... in the cities of Peshawar, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. General | faced already fierce opposition from his mostly Muslim population for his ... |
Emily Mortimer | ... ery reclusive to the Hollywood scene, Alec Baldwin, Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, | , John C. Reilly, Frank Sivero, and Ray Winstone have also appeared in mul ... |
Edgard Varèse | ... ng as silence. Noise is always happening that makes musical sound. In 1957, | created on tape an extended piece of electronic music using noises created ... |
Billy Hamill | ... Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions Ole Olsen, Hans Nielsen, Greg Hancock, | and Jack Young |
Carl Lewis | ... 100 m concurrently (World Champion, Olympic Champion & World Record Holder) | ;was the first to achieve this feat |
Bell's father | The Volta Laboratory and the Volta Bureau were earlier located at | 's house at 1527 35th Street in Washington, D.C., where its carriage house ... |
Richard Burton | Their next Broadway production was Camelot. The production starred | , Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet.The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Sho ... |
David Thompson | ... drew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, | , James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, Alexander Ross, James Sinclair and othe ... |
Lise Meitner | ... g uranium with neutrons; simultaneously, they communicated these results to | . Meitner, and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted these ... |
Abraham Robinson | ... use of infinitesimal quantities was finally given a rigorous foundation by | in the 1960s. Robinson's approach, called non-standard analysis, uses tech ... |
Ovid | ... tly and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, | , Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high re ... |
Kate Wilhelm | ... bin Scott Wilson at Clarion State College in Pennsylvania. Damon Knight and | were among the first teachers at the workshop. In 1972 the workshop moved ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... inent radical figures in the unification movement were Giuseppe Mazzini and | . The more conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Ca ... |
Natalia Oreiro | ... ier Juan Navarro, sports journalist Victor Hugo Morales, singer and actress | , soccer players Antonio Alzamendi, Enzo Francescoli and Carlos Goyen, act ... |
the Duke of Edinburgh | ... were made for Queen Elizabeth II by the Regency Act 1953, which stated that | (the Queen's husband) could act as regent in these circumstances |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... sm in his books. He sold millions of copies in the Soviet Union alone. When | was expelled from the Soviet Union, he first took refuge in Heinrich Böll' ... |
Joe Cocker | ... sted only during the South American support tour (supporting The B-52's and | ) on only five dates |
Alexander Ross | ... ridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, | , James Sinclair and other mountain men. Besides discovering and naming ma ... |
William Hughes | ... ing his employment at the Bulletin, Low became famous for a 1916 cartoon of | , then the Prime Minister of Australia, entitled The Imperial Conference. ... |
Alejandro O'Reilly | ... in the vicinity. More cattlemen would follow after 1770, when Spanish Gov. | (English: Alexander O'Reilly) decreed that "a grant of 42 arpents in front ... |
Frederik Pohl | In the fictional work "The Last Theorem" by Arthur C. Clarke and | , Sophie Germain was credited with inspiring Ranjit Subramanian to solve F ... |
Olivia de Havilland | After seeing The Heiress on Broadway, | approached William Wyler about directing her in a screen adaptation of the ... |
Adolf Hitler | In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and | labelled Anthroposophy "Jewish methods." The anthroposophical institutions ... |
Lemmy | ... bsite, Captain Sensible is quoted as saying: "Ha ha..... we're working with | again are we? Excellent! He's the real deal, the absolute antithesis to al ... |
Julie Andrews | ... ext Broadway production was Camelot. The production starred Richard Burton, | and Robert Goulet.The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few ... |
Anton Seidl | ... zed the first staging in the United Kingdom of the Ring Cycle, conducted by | and directed by Angelo Neumann |
Orson Welles | ... ), John Gielgud (1961), Laurence Olivier (1964), Anthony Hopkins (1981) and | . Ground-breaking black American actor Paul Robeson played the role from 1 ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... the protection of the Former Presidents Act; two living former Presidents, | and Harry S. Truman, left office before the Act was passed. Under the act, ... |
Charles Taylor | ... ighbouring Ivory Coast. Prince Johnson, a former Liberian warlord allied to | , told Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that it was eng ... |
Michaëlle Jean | ... government announced that Martin had advised Queen Elizabeth II to appoint | as governor general. The reception to the appointment was mixed: some, inc ... |
Milo O'Shea | ... The movie stars Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, | , and Lindsay Crouse |
William Wyler | ... el (1938), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director | . She later described him as the "love of my life", and said that making t ... |
Alejandro O'Reilly | Don | , Spanish governor of Louisiana, issued a land ordinance to allow settlers ... |
Sonja Henie | ... c links with actress Joanne Rio (whom he claimed he nearly married), skater | , aging Hollywood icon Mae West, and famous transsexual Christine Jorgenso ... |
Hendrix | ... adelic and was a major force on the first several albums by that group. His | -inspired style has become very influential. After the early 1970s he cont ... |
Mark Twain | ... to shape an emerging nation's culture through its sense of the ridiculous. | was a great American satirist: his novel Huckleberry Finn is set in the an ... |
Donald Mackenzie | ... Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, | , Alexander Ross, James Sinclair and other mountain men. Besides discoveri ... |
Fab Moretti | ... Records. The album includes a number of high-profile guest appearances from | of The Strokes, Har Mar Superstar, Yo Majesty, Spank Rock, Cate Le Bon and ... |
Simon Cowell | ... llent! He's the real deal, the absolute antithesis to all that the likes of | stand for. And for that we should all be grateful. This tour will be a cel ... |
Jack Vance | In the novelette Rumfuddle (1973), | presents a novel twist on the ecological utopia. His hero invents paratime ... |
Abraham Robinson | Contrary to such views, | showed in 1960 that infinitesimals are precise, clear, and meaningful, bui ... |
Sam Neill | ... 80s. Gillian Armstrong's My Brilliant Career (1979) featured Judy Davis and | in early lead roles. 1982's We of the Never Never followed up on the theme ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... yed in the unpublished first draft sketches. It is most probably based upon | 's Skibo Castle, befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose cari ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... out before the resolution was passed. As they exited, they were taunted by | who told them "You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; yo ... |
Daniel Negreanu | ... d in the money in several events and has been tutored by poker professional | . Maguire can be seen on ESPN's coverage of the 2005, 2006, and 2007 World ... |
Golda Meir | ... ister of India until 1977 (and taking office again in 1980), Prime Minister | of Israel and acting Chairman Soong Ching-ling of the People's Republic of ... |
Anthony Hopkins | ... lude Ralph Richardson (1937), John Gielgud (1961), Laurence Olivier (1964), | (1981) and Orson Welles. Ground-breaking black American actor Paul Robeson ... |
Martin Buber | Jewish thinkers such as | and Hugo Bergmann were also influenced by Anthroposophy. Hugo Bergmann vie ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | ... ife of Saint Bruno by Eustache Le Sueur and the Life of Marie de Médicis by | were placed on display. The museum, which included the sculptures in the g ... |
Hugo Bergmann | Jewish thinkers such as Martin Buber and | were also influenced by Anthroposophy. Hugo Bergmann viewed Steiner's soci ... |
Tōgō Heihachirō | During the Russo-Japanese War, Katō served as chief of staff to Admiral | on the battleship , assisting in Japan's victory at the Battle of Tsushima ... |
Travis Padgett | ... ld the collegiate 100 m record with 9.90 s from 1996 until it was broken by | , who ran 9.89s, in 2008. Ngonidzashe Makusha later equalled this record a ... |
Dimitri Kitsikis | ... rived from the "Intermediate Region" geopolitical model first formulated by | and published in 1978. The Intermediate Region, which spans the Adriatic S ... |
Gene Deitch | ... on of The Hobbit, a 12-minute film of cartoon stills, was commissioned from | by William L. Snyder in 1966, as related by Deitch himself. This film was ... |
Catherine O'Hara | ... d a loose repertory group, which appear across several films. These include | , Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higg ... |
John Glenn | When the film came out, former (and future) astronaut and Senator | (Ohio) was running for the Democratic nomination for President of the Unit ... |
George Soros | ... Hong Kong dollar in August 1998 and after the Russian ruble collapsed. (See | |
Tia Carrere | ... on, Gregory Itzin, Lauren Tom, Jane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, | , Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb a ... |
Salman Rushdie | ... he Six Billionth Citizen". The essay was written by British-Indian novelist | , who found controversy in 1988 over one of his books gaining him a religi ... |
Richard Burton | ... ap were William Charles Macready and Samuel Phelps at Drury Lane (1837) and | and John Neville at the Old Vic Theatre (1955). When Edwin Booth's tour of ... |
Ovid | In Metamorphoses, the poet | wrote the following depiction of Jupiter's seduction |
Georg Solti | ... e played as part of it. Famous Mahler conductors such as Leonard Bernstein, | and Bernard Haitink never performed it. Others perform Blumine before or a ... |
Joe Cocker | ... ieved the number one position on the British singles charts three times: by | in 1968, Wet Wet Wet in 1988 and by Sam & Mark in 2004 |
Michael J. Fox | ... n taken must choose a new name. Notable examples include Michael Keaton and | , whose birth names "Michael Douglas" and "Michael Fox", respectively, wer ... |
Robert Graves | ... ephone, for whom Leuce seems to be a doublet, as a goddess of regeneration. | used the myth of Leuce in developing his poetic theories of mythology. Gra ... |
Ang Lee | # Lust, Caution (Taiwan, 2007) directed by | |
Adolf Hitler | ... ng and two other Chinese KMT officials visited Germany and were received by | in June 13. Hitler told Kung that "I understand that people in China think ... |
Nikolai Berdyaev | Two Ukrainian/Russian thinkers, Lev Shestov and | , became well known as existentialist thinkers during their post-Revolutio ... |
Paul Dirac | ... in physics before eventually winning a Nobel Prize in chemistry. Similarly, | , one of the founders of quantum mechanics, began his academic career as a ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... ard Stein at Los Angeles City College. (Stein had served as an assistant to | when Schoenberg, the inventor of the twelve-tone method, had taught at UCL ... |
Orson Welles | ... gene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and | |
Herodotus | ... recounted across the world for thousands of years, appearing in writings by | , the Alexander romance, and the stories of Prester John. Stories of a sim ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... 854 Cartier was appointed to cabinet. From 1857 to 1862 he served alongside | as co-premier of the united province. Cartier was a loyal friend of Macdon ... |
Vincent van Gogh | ... iffin and Rationalism as an angel). "Religions pass away, but God remains", | wrote that Hugo declared (but actually it was Jules Michelet). Christianit ... |
Sid Vicious | ... When the two decided to start their own band, James and Scabies had invited | and Dave Vanian to audition to be the singer of The Damned. Only Vanian sh ... |
Al Stewart | Singer-songwriter | released a song entitled "The Palace of Versailles", a song detailing the ... |
Albert Einstein | ... he aging difference, not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by | and Max Born invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a ... |
Louis B. Mayer | ... n affair during the production, resulting in an ultimatum from studio chief | to Gable that the affair end. Gable complied, although for many years thei ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about | during a 1958 episode; this is one of the episodes that does not survive |
Pelé | ... 2002), and is listed as one of FIFA's 125 best living players (as chosen by | ). Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon called Hamm, "Perhaps the most ... |
Michael Douglas | ... ble examples include Michael Keaton and Michael J. Fox, whose birth names " | " and "Michael Fox", respectively, were already in use |
Stevie Wonder | ... and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra as well as creative funk master | . In 1977, their friend Sid McCray introduced the band, who were already i ... |
Edith Wharton | ... England perhaps London, circa 1890, we see a man pedaling a penny-farthing. | 's novel The Age of Innocence (1920) opens with a description of a perform ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... as first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read | ’s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism. ... |
Lucian Freud | ... Tony Cragg is awarded. Other nominees included figurative/portrait painter | , Pop artist Richard Hamilton, Richard Long, David Mach, printer Boyd Webb ... |
Lew Grade | ... ial television in the 1950s, where it was broadcast on Sunday afternoons by | 's Associated TeleVision. This exposure gave Liberace a dedicated followin ... |
Noël Coward | ... ic films such as Alfie starring Michael Caine, The Italian Job in 1969 with | , Roman Polanski's first English language film in 1965 Repulsion; Be My Gu ... |
Shania Twain | ... the contestants on the final show was then emerging country music superstar | |
Jane Goodall | ... ught necessary to maintain a breeding population. A few scientists, such as | and Jeffrey Meldrum, have expressed interest and belief in the creature, w ... |
René Descartes | ... calculus. They drew on the work of such mathematicians as Isaac Barrow and | . Infinitesimal calculus consists of differential calculus and integral ca ... |
Grace Kelly | ... scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to murder his unfaithful wife | for her money. When she kills the hired assassin in self-defense, Milland ... |
Tina Turner | ... med. Footage from the show was used on the Delicate Sound of Thunder video. | played here in 1990 during her Foreign Affair Tour |
Eddie Van Halen | ... rk, a mini-album entitled Star Fleet Project, on which he collaborated with | . May contributed to former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett's album , play ... |
Chris Achilleos | ... in 1979, which courted controversy due to its risqué album cover by artist | , which featured an illustration of a naked woman straddling a coiled snak ... |
Joe Cocker | | 's version was a radical re-arrangement of the original, in a slower, 6/8 ... |
Olivia Newton-John | ... uran, Pat Benatar, Mary J. Blige, Bea Arthur, Dionne Warwick, Cyndi Lauper, | , Beenie Man, Pete Burns, Bow Wow Wow, and the Backstreet Boys were notabl ... |
Ronaldinho | ... ,000 in September 2009, the sharp rise being attributed to the influence of | and then-president Joan Laporta's media strategy that focused on Spanish a ... |
Ang Lee | ... ts to her name, she has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, | , Wong Kar-wai, Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, Lou Ye, Seijun Suzuki, Feng Xiaogan ... |
Alan Shepard | ... rthplace of Louise Brewer Shepard, the wife of the first American in space, | . The population was 7,565 at the 2010 census |
Theodosius Dobzhansky | | , a Ukrainian emigrant, who had been a postdoctoral worker in Morgan's fru ... |
Alfred Molina | ... 2004, and ran for 36 previews and 781 performances at the Minskoff Theatre. | , and later Harvey Fierstein, starred as Tevye, and Randy Graff, and later ... |
Ray Milland | ... ial M for Murder (1954) was adapted from the stage play by Frederick Knott. | plays the scheming villain, an ex-tennis pro who tries to murder his unfai ... |
Ovid | ... hne's arrogance, Athena set a contest between the two weavers. According to | , the goddess was so envious of the magnificent tapestry and the mortal we ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... ogrammed works by several avant garde composers, including Anton Webern and | . From 1927 he taught composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik in ... |
Terry Wogan | ... rision of the song, including the usual sardonic words from BBC commentator | ("a nicely understated performance there") |
Chrissie Hynde | ... d Masters of the Backside, which also included future Pretenders frontwoman | . Brian James (Brian Robertson) had been a member of the Crawley-based gar ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?", written after the trial of | , addressed more general social injustice towards homosexuality. In the po ... |
Albert Einstein | ... he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption. His research, which was encouraged by | , was supervised by Gusztáv Buchböck, and in 1919 the University of Budape ... |
Tori Amos | ... ter) was used as an archetype for the character Tori by contemporary artist | in her 2007 album American Doll Posse, and the Canadian rock band Rush ref ... |
Billy J. Kramer | ... 1962 Martin signed rising new Liverpool band The Beatles. With Cilla Black, | , the Fourmost, and contemporary Mancunian band The Hollies also signed to ... |
John Lennon | ... ased Home at Last. Included on this album is "God Part III", which draws on | 's "God" and the U2 riposte ("God II"); "Come Away", written about his 197 ... |
Claude Shannon | ... al engineer before proceeding to mathematics and later theoretical physics. | , a theoretical engineer, founded modern information theory |
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Adolf Hitler | ... o the site of a World War I German awards ceremony in August 1918, in which | was presented the Iron Cross (First Class) on recommendation from his supe ... |
Leonard Bernstein | ... so it should not be played as part of it. Famous Mahler conductors such as | , Georg Solti and Bernard Haitink never performed it. Others perform Blumi ... |
Stevie Wonder | ... t. Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Joe Sample, George Duke, Christian McBride, and | made guest appearances. It was nominated for a Grammy in the "Best Traditi ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... demy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won that year for her role in | 's Suspicion over de Havilland's performance in Hold Back the Dawn. Charle ... |
Mary Shelley | ... im. This sub-plot has an obvious similarity to the story of Frankenstein by | and even more so, perhaps, to subsequent film adaptations of the novel (th ... |
Yoko Ono | ... Cartney", the song was written solely by McCartney. In 2000 McCartney asked | if she would agree to change the credit on the song to read "McCartney–Len ... |
Bob Marley | ... d". Despite their burgeoning punk sound, the early Bad Brains, after seeing | in concert, also delved deep into reggae music and the Rastafari movement. ... |
Ben Bova | ... Ford Coppola's new production company, American Zoetrope. A novelization by | was published in 1971 |
Elvis Presley | ... rock and roll with teenage delinquency. American rock and roll acts such as | , Little Richard and Buddy Holly thereafter became major forces in the Bri ... |
Pavel Jozef Šafárik | ... published De Originibus Slavicis. The works of Slovak philologist and poet | (1795–1861) has influenced generations of scholars. The foundation of his ... |
Tom Cruise | ... ugh film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business opposite | . Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Hele ... |
Herodotus | According to | ' rationalizing approach, Europa was kidnapped by Minoans who were seeking ... |
Gloria Estefan | ... official state song, at the opening ceremony. The closing ceremony featured | singing "Reach", the official theme song of the 1996 Olympics. At the clos ... |
Karl Polanyi | ... lectuals and which continued until her death in 1939. His older brother was | , the political economist |
Sergei Prokofiev | ... that quotes the children's song Frere Jacques, transposed into a minor key. | 's Lieutenant Kijé Suite features a difficult and very high double bass so ... |
Maurice Greene | ... uring a competition in Reno, Nevada in 1996. He was timed at 5.56A seconds. | matched that performance in 1999, but his run was never ratified as a worl ... |
Max Azria | ... lay Moses in a Los Angeles musical production of , produced by BCBG founder | . The production played at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and also feature ... |
Albert Einstein | In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, | predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, and ... |
Anish Kapoor | | received the prize for an untitled piece in sandstone and pigment. Other n ... |
Max Robertson | ... rn in Paris and travelled the world with her BBC sports commentator husband | |
John von Neumann | ... the brain as essentially a digital computer in disguise, as for example in | 's 1958 book, The Computer and the Brain. Over the years, though, accumula ... |
Pythagoras | ... osophy and astronomy are claimed to have been frequented by Orpheus, Homer, | , Plato, Solon, and other Greek philosophers. From Ichonuphys, who was lec ... |
Karl Marx's | ... n, thinking it to be from the book of Acts. Ironically, the quote is wholly | , but does exist partially within the Bible (Acts 11:29 & Matthew 25:15) |
Józef Piłsudski | ... nrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with Roman Dmowski and | active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist factions respectively. ... |
Lauren Jackson | ... st Ken Maynard of Ettamogah Pub fame, were all born in Albury. Basketballer | , who currently plays with the Seattle Storm of the WNBA, was also born in ... |
Olivia de Havilland | ... nd returned to Hollywood, in debt and without income, to resume her career. | mounted a similar case in 1943 and won |
John G. Downey | ... was the first foreign-born governor of California since Irish-born Governor | in 1862 |
Cheryl Cole | ... t Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, | , entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, ... |
Roman Dmowski | ... waves of Polish unrest, political maneuvering, strikes and rebellion, with | and Józef Piłsudski active as leaders of the nationalist and socialist fac ... |
Tommy Eyre | ... s by Procol Harum's B.J. Wilson, guitar lines from Jimmy Page, and organ by | ). Cocker performed the song at Woodstock in 1969 and that performance was ... |
Chris Martin | Coldplay singer | married Paltrow's daughter in 2003. The 2005 Coldplay album X&Y carried a ... |
Elias Anton Cappelen Smith | ... le of Stiklestad. The organ was funded mostly by donations, particularly by | . In 1962, the organ was heavily rebuilt and moved to the west nave. Many ... |
Ringo Starr | ... ases had worked with before) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, | , Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond |
Mircea Eliade | ... 33 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met Emil Cioran and | , and the three became lifelong friends |
Eadweard Muybridge | The first projected primary proto-movie was made by | some time between 1877 and 1880. The first narrative film was created by L ... |
Martin Buber | Although | wrote his major philosophical works in German, and studied and taught at t ... |
Theopompus | ... is Archelaus and on Plato in his Satho. His style was pure and elegant, and | even said that Plato stole from him many of his thoughts. However, Cicero, ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... safety reasons. Hillsborough is the only football ground to be mentioned in | 's Buildings of England due to this stand. At the time of opening the stan ... |
Emile Berliner | ... phone (later renamed Victor Talking Machine Company of Canada). Ironically, | died in 1929, the same year RCA bought out Victor, and Edgar Berliner resi ... |
Peter Beardsley | ... Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers | , Michael Carrick and Alan Shearer. John Dunn, inventor of keyed Northumbr ... |
Kurt Gödel | ... ist position and David Hilbert the formalist position — see van Heijenoort. | offered opinions referred to as Platonist (see various sources re Gödel). ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... Elder writes that "he used short, sharp sentences, with language as raw as | or Raymond Carver. With sparse adjectives and honed-to-the-bone descriptio ... |
Max Born | ... not the acceleration per se. Explanations put forth by Albert Einstein and | invoked gravitational time dilation to explain the aging as a direct effec ... |
Frank Gehry | ... ich opened in 1977, was a prominent example. As the decade drew to a close, | broke out in new direction with his own house in Santa Monica, a highly co ... |
Lisa Mitchell | ... er Clint Morris, the actor Malcolm Kennard (E Street) and singer/songwriter | |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ember 9, 2004, the three signed a letter addressed to then-Governor General | , stating |
Saeed Jaffrey | ... themselves, June Whitfield as the Raffle Woman, Leslie Phillips as Hactar, | as the Man on the Pole, Sir Patrick Moore as himself, and Christian Slater ... |
László Babai | ... ertain inputs irrespective of the seed (though these inputs might be rare). | , Lance Fortnow, Noam Nisan, and Avi Wigderson showed that unless EXPTIME ... |
Gwyneth Paltrow | ... ewhere. His last production was the film Duets, which starred his daughter, | |
Joseph Conrad | #An Outcast of the Islands by | (1857–1924) |
Herodotus | | mentions a fountain containing a very special kind of water located in the ... |
Adolf Hitler | Starting in the 1930s, | and Joseph Stalin murdered many Esperanto speakers because of their anti-n ... |
Edward Teller's | ... along with Stanislaw Ulam, calculated that the amount of tritium needed for | model of a thermonuclear weapon would be prohibitive, and a fusion reactio ... |
Madonna | ... e an unannounced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, | and Roseanne Barr. Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character ... |
Emil Cioran | ... from 1928 to 1933 and qualified as a teacher of French. While there he met | and Mircea Eliade, and the three became lifelong friends |
Cedric Gibbons | ... interiors filmed in an Art Deco house designed in 1931 by MGM art director | for his wife, Dolores del Río. Deserted rooms at Brentwood's V.A. hospital ... |
Grégoire Michonze | ... s, Antonio Roybal, George Huszar, Donald Jackson, Tim Lowly, Altoon Sultan, | , Shaul Shats, Sandro Chia (e.g. Studio 1986), Jon Gernon, Fred Wessel, Mi ... |
Ovid | ... s master, claiming that Odysseus' violence was not unwarranted by the gods. | mentions the "cruel" Medon as one of the suitors; he is also included on t ... |
Béla Bartók | Cell z is also one of the basic cells in | 's String Quartet No. 4 |
Ferdinand Magellan | ... church's altar are two of the original doors from the Victoria, the ship of | |
Charlotte Gainsbourg | ... ia as a depressed woman at the end of the world. The film, which also stars | , Kiefer Sutherland and Charlotte Rampling premiered at the 2011 Cannes Fi ... |
Henry David Thoreau | Important influences were | , Leo Tolstoy and Elisee Reclus. Anarcho-naturism advocated vegetarianism, ... |
Richard Lester | ... McCartney would take advantage of this opportunity to tinker with the song. | , the director, was eventually greatly annoyed by this and lost his temper ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... he 2010 census, the city population was 268. The city was named in honor of | , first Secretary of the Treasury |
Frank Gehry | ... on on solid financial footing." She is widely credited (along with Salonen, | , and Yasuhisa Toyota) for the orchestra's very successful move to Walt Di ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... d Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, the daughter of the murdered Tsar | . However, the ultimate test for her is to convince the Dowager Empress, M ... |
Pedro Zamora | | struggled with AIDS. He succumbed to the disease on November 11, 1994, hou ... |
Karl Marx | ... thus maximise their profits, an opinion shared by the socialist Chartists. | said: "The campaign for the abolition of the Corn Laws had begun and the w ... |
Ingemar Stenmark | ... in the municipality, has fostered the internationally famous alpine skiers | , Stig Strand and Anja Pärson |
Alfred Korzybski | While teaching at the University of Florida, | counseled his students to eliminate the infinitive and verb forms of "to b ... |
Golda Meir | ... n controversial figures to match the likes of Timothy Leary, Indira Gandhi, | and William F. Buckley who had held viewers' attention in the 1960s and mo ... |
Nick Cave | The 1980s saw a breakthrough in the independence of Australian rock— | said that before the 80s, "Australia still needed America or England to te ... |
Elvis Presley | ... s. This process has produced such varied stars as Benny Goodman, Eminem and | , as well as popular styles like blue-eyed soul and rockabilly |
Marco Polo | ... for China popularized in Europe by the account of the 13th-century explorer | . The first recorded use in English dates from 1555. The Persian word is, ... |
Frédéric Chopin | ... film which tells a fictionalised life story of Polish pianist and composer | . Directed by Charles Vidor, the film starred Cornel Wilde (as Chopin), Me ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... World War), the entire remaining Baltic German community was repatriated by | to areas Nazi Germany had invaded in western Poland (especially in the War ... |
Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
Taffarel | ... richello, Fernando Alonso and many others faced the likes of Dunga, Careca, | and several of the team that won the World Cup in the United States ten ye ... |
Francis Light | ... f the Malay Sultanate of Kedah, began when the island was leased to Captain | , an English trader-adventurer working for the Madras-based firm, Jourdain ... |
Napoleon Bonaparte | ... II, the last Holy Roman Emperor. Through his mother, Pedro was a nephew of | and first cousin of Emperors Napoleon II of France, Franz Joseph I (Franci ... |
Károly Zipernowsky | In the autumn of 1884, | , Ottó Bláthy and Miksa Déri (Z.B.D.), three engineers associated with the ... |
Orson Welles | ... y of the Red Lectroids to Earth in an incident that was reported in 1938 by | in his radio broadcast The War of the Worlds, only to have it retracted as ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... baden was one of the planners of the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt of | . Beck was designated by his fellow conspirators to be future Head of Stat ... |
Lionel Messi | ... elona won the UEFA Super Cup after defeating Porto 2–0 thanks to goals from | and Cesc Fábregas. This extended the club's overall amount of official tro ... |
Napoleon's | ... me in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by | . It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes ... |
Norma Shearer | ... or Of Human Bondage, The Hollywood Citizen News questioned the omission and | , herself a nominee, joined a campaign to have Davis nominated. This promp ... |
Irving Berlin | ... ted States. Whilst there, he met the American composers George Gershwin and | and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922. He also developed an interest in act ... |
Pedro Zamora | Irene Barrera got married during the season. | exchanged wedding vows with his boyfriend, Sean Sasser, during the season |
Ernest Hemingway | In 1928 | and his pregnant wife, Pauline, stayed at the house of W. Malcolm and Ruth ... |
Anja Pärson | ... the internationally famous alpine skiers Ingemar Stenmark, Stig Strand and | |
Jim Lovell | ... the 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, is an adaptation of the book by astronaut | (the story's protagonist) and Jeffrey Kluger. Howard went to great lengths ... |
Stevie Wonder | ... wn and Stax, and the father of Keith John, a long time backing vocalist for | |
Isildur | In the year , at the Gladden Fields, | and his three eldest sons (Ciryon, Aratan and Elendur) were ambushed by Or ... |
Terry Milewski | ... as killed in retaliation for revealing the identity of a young rape victim. | reported in a 2006 documentary for the CBC that a minority within Canada's ... |
Egon Orowan | ... tion analysis. In 1934, Polanyi, at about the same time as G. I. Taylor and | , realised that the plastic deformation of ductile materials could be expl ... |
Edward Teller | Dr. | at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Califor ... |
Samuel Goldwyn | Produced by | and directed by F. Richard Jones, the movie was adapted by Sidney Howard a ... |
Dolores del Río | ... eco house designed in 1931 by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons for his wife, | . Deserted rooms at Brentwood's V.A. hospital were used for Dr. Lizardo's ... |
Francis Lieber | ... the 7th ed. of the German Conversations-Lexicon was founded by German-born | . After Dobson's Encyclopædia (1789–1798), it was the first significant Am ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... rol. Together they helped force an end to the occupation in 1934. President | sent a commission that set up a plan of withdrawal that was achieved under ... |
Alan Shepard | ... onauts, including John Glenn (Ed Harris) of the United States Marine Corps, | (Scott Glenn) of the United States Navy, Cooper, Grissom, and three others ... |
Jason Priestley | ... iston, Michael Beach, Terry Farrell, Diedrich Bader, Robert Duncan McNeill, | , Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Carla Gugino, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eriq La ... |
Elvis Presley | ... is"–the latter being Scheff's tribute to his father, who had performed with | ). In 2005, they released a compilation entitled Love Songs |
Kylie Minogue | ... on, Silverchair, Youth Group, You Am I and Powderfinger; the "pop princess" | , Pendulum, Pop Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the Joh ... |
Svend Robinson | ... becoming the first elected official in the United States to do so. In 1988, | was the first Canadian Member of Parliament to come out. Governor of New J ... |
Herodotus | The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian | . Herodotus, who has been called the 'Father of History', was born in 484 ... |
Jack Swigert | Astronauts Lovell, | and Fred Haise are launched aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon land ... |
Leonard Bernstein | ... iginally written for the cello) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by | . The third movement of Gustav Mahler's first symphony features a solo for ... |
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia | ... oup of Russian expatriates, led by Yul Brynner, into passing herself off as | , the daughter of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. However, the ul ... |
Claudette Colbert | ... ry, the consideration of a candidate not officially nominated for an award. | won the award for It Happened One Night but the uproar led to a change in ... |
Jack Vance | The Languages of Pao is a science fiction novel by | , first published in 1958, in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis is a centra ... |
Harlan Ellison | ... Clarion's 1971 anthology; another short story, "Childfinder," was bought by | for the never-published collection The Last Dangerous Visions. (Like other ... |
David Bohm | ... 's ideas have resonated with the general public and some physicists such as | . The idea that fields may influence cells has even received cautious supp ... |
Meave Leakey | Richard shifted away from paleontology in 1989, but his wife | and daughter Louise Leakey still continue paleontological research in Nort ... |
Tori Amos | ... used extensively in the Australian film He Died With A Felafel In His Hand. | covered "Strange Little Girl" on her 2001 Strange Little Girls album |
Franz Boas | ... awarded the Copley Medal. Among his most famous students was anthropologist | , who became a professor at Columbia University |
Seiji Ozawa | ... works and movie scoring) being the best known. Also famous is the conductor | . Since 1999 the pianist Fujiko Hemming, who plays Liszt and Chopin, has b ... |
Eddie Campbell | Both | and Grant Morrison have utilised the character. Morrison claims that the m ... |
Robin Gibb | ... pose and Bert, Ernie, and Cookie Monster taking the place of the Bee Gees. | (of the Bee Gees) sings on two tracks for this album "Sesame Street Fever" ... |
Ferdinand Magellan | ... th Enrique of Malacca using the Malay language when the Portuguese explorer | arrived in 1521 |
Peter Arnett | ... ar biased. This approach was used in the Killian documents affair and after | 's interview with the Iraqi press. This approach is presumed to have been ... |
Philippe Kahn | ... utor for Microsoft products in Denmark which put them at odds with Borland. | and Anders first met in 1986. For all those years, , one of Borland's foun ... |
Richard Dawson | ... joke, played Reuben Kincaid on the television sitcom The Partridge Family. | , who previously had a regular supporting role on the sitcom Hogan's Heroe ... |
Kurt Schuschnigg | ... ia, his native country. He met on 12 February 1938 with Austrian chancellor | , threatening invasion if peaceful unification was not forthcoming. The Na ... |
Dionne Warwick | ... . Diana Ross, Nirvana, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Mary J. Blige, Bea Arthur, | , Cyndi Lauper, Olivia Newton-John, Beenie Man, Pete Burns, Bow Wow Wow, a ... |
Dylan Moran | ... l stand-up comedians, including Dave Allen, Spike Milligan, Andrew Maxwell, | , Dara Ó Briain, Tommy Tiernan, Ardal O'Hanlon, Ed Byrne and Sean Hughes |
Helen Reddy | Australian-American singer | , recorded song called I Am Woman, which became an anthem for the women’s ... |
Herodotus | ... attracted the notice of most ancient geographers and historians, including | (ii. 42, 46. 166), Diodorus (i. 84), Strabo (xvii. p. 802), Mela (i. 9 § 9 ... |
Thomas Paine | ... ear in the colonies that the king was not inclined to act as a conciliator, | 's pamphlet Common Sense was published. Paine, who had only recently arriv ... |
Tara Singh Hayer | On 18 November 1998, the Canada-based Sikh journalist | was gunned down by the suspected Khalistani militants. The publisher of th ... |
John Amaechi | ... n and first rugby footballer in the world to come out to the public as gay. | , who played in the NBA with the Utah Jazz, Orlando Magic and Cleveland Ca ... |
George Romney | ... cent, from 25 percent four months before. He ran about even with Republican | in trial matchups that spring. Asked to explain why he was unpopular, John ... |
Gerry Anderson | ... e and Dud. Other sketches included "Superthunderstingcar", a send-up of the | marionette TV shows, and Cook's pastiche of 1960s trendy arts documentarie ... |
David Bowie | In the 2002 direct-to-video film , | is seen holding a vinyl album entitled The Rutles 1. He calls it a "piece ... |
Hong-Chih Kuo | ... ut three Asian pitchers, from different Asian countries, in one game: Park, | of Taiwan, and Takashi Saito of Japan. In the 2008 season the Dodgers had ... |
John Schlesinger | ... de his final Shakespearean appearance on stage in 1977 in the title role of | 's production of Julius Caesar at the Royal National Theatre. He also made ... |
Xavier Rudd | ... Rock duo Savage Garden and alternative music stars the John Butler Trio and | . Other popular artists and groups include The Choirboys, Chantoozies, Che ... |
Boris Karloff | ... nted a collection of 1930s electrical props originally used in the original | Frankenstein films. The interiors of Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems were shot ... |
Alfred Korzybski | ... and "equal" that E-Prime often uses to describe precise actions or states. | criticized the use of the verb "to be", and stated that, "Any proposition ... |
Wendy B. Lawrence | On 12 March 1995, Lieutenant Commander | , class of 1981, became a mission specialist in the space shuttle Endeavor ... |
Paul Muni | ... , the film starred Cornel Wilde (as Chopin), Merle Oberon (as George Sand), | (as Józef Elsner), Stephen Bekassy (as Franz Liszt), and Nina Foch |
Link Wray | ... ng" by The Rolling Stones, "All the Tired Horses" by Bob Dylan, "Rumble" by | , "Glad and Sorry" by Faces, "Strange Brew" by Cream, "Black Betty" by Ram ... |
Chin-Feng Chen | ... tart a Korean player, pitcher Chan Ho Park, and the first Taiwanese player, | . In addition, they were the first team to send out three Asian pitchers, ... |
Angela Lansbury | ... er of the Seventeenth Doll (1959), starring Ernest Borgnine, John Mills and | ; and in 1960, The Sundowners was shot in the Snowy Mountains of New South ... |
Ruth Westheimer | ... Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. | appeared in episodes as themselves |
Turkic | ... ons were relaxed to the extent that Ukrainian Slavs, Albanians from Kosovo, | Tatars, and even Asians from Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) units were recr ... |
Glenn Ford | In Blackboard Jungle, a 1955 film starring | and Sidney Poitier, Beiderbecke's music is briefly featured, but as a symb ... |
Eugene Wigner | ... r in physical chemistry at the University of Manchester. Two of his pupils, | and Melvin Calvin, went on to win a Nobel Prize. The focus of his interest ... |
Henry David Thoreau | ... cal view mainly in the writings of American anarchist and transcendentalist | . In his book Walden he advocates simple living and self-sufficiency among ... |
Al Jolson | When Columbia was preparing a screen biography of | , many big-name stars were considered for the title role, including James ... |
Iannis Xenakis | ... ; Mario Davidovsky's Festino for guitar, viola, cello, and double bass; and | 's Morsima-Amorsima for piano, violin, cello, and double bass. There are a ... |
Rouben Mamoulian | ... of the creative team that had made Oklahoma! a success, including director | and choreographer Agnes de Mille. Miles White was the costume designer whi ... |
Greta Garbo | ... e of 1960s trendy arts documentaries – satirised in a parodic TV segment on | |
Michaëlle Jean | The next day, Martin officially informed Governor General | of his intention to resign as prime minister. Jean asked Harper to form a ... |
Fred Haise | Astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and | are launched aboard Apollo 13 for America's third Moon landing mission. En ... |
Tia Carrere | ... anders and Dean DeBlois, and features the voices of Sanders, Daveigh Chase, | , David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames, Jason Scott Lee, and Ke ... |
Alan Shepard | ... of the "Grads in Space" exhibit on 23 September 1998. The late Rear Admiral | , class of 1945, had flown Freedom 7 into space on 5 May 1961. His histori ... |
Herbert Hoover | Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and | were resoundingly elected in 1920, 1924, and 1928 respectively. The Teapot ... |
Hipponax | ... eiled ironic terms. In contrast, Pliny reports that the 6th century BC poet | wrote satirae that were so cruel that the offended hanged themselves |
Grace Kelly | After I Confess (1953) with Montgomery Clift, three popular films starring | followed. Dial M for Murder (1954) was adapted from the stage play by Fred ... |
Jack Vance | ... novel The Book of the New Sun. Set in a bleak, distant future influenced by | 's Dying Earth series, the story details the life of Severian, a journeyma ... |
George Romney | ... njured, and the inner city a burned out shell. In Detroit in 1967, Governor | sent in 7400 national guard troops to quell fire bombings, looting, and at ... |
Tom Jones | ... In 1999, she recorded a cover of the song Never Tear Us Apart by INXS with | which appeared on his album Reload |
Wilhelm Reich | ... rstanding of modern neurobiology. Henry Bauer compared Sheldrake's ideas to | 's generally discredited claims of orgone energies. In his Skeptic's Dicti ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid, | made his first public speech in decades on 11 February 1990 from the balco ... |
Merle Oberon | ... opin. Directed by Charles Vidor, the film starred Cornel Wilde (as Chopin), | (as George Sand), Paul Muni (as Józef Elsner), Stephen Bekassy (as Franz L ... |
John Glenn | ... ng physical and mental tests select the Mercury Seven astronauts, including | (Ed Harris) of the United States Marine Corps, Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn) ... |
Jim Lovell | On 20 July 1969, veteran astronaut | (Tom Hanks) hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who wat ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... nd many other modern artists) and removed his 82 works from German museums. | announced in 1937, "For all we care, those prehistoric Stone Age culture b ... |
Frederik Pohl | | reported that Vance had "pretty carefully" worked out his extrapolation, b ... |
Herbert Hoover | When campaigning for president during 1928, one of | 's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of ag ... |
Miguel López de Legazpi | ... gellan expedition, King Philip II of Spain sent Ruy López de Villalobos and | in 1543 and 1565 and claimed the islands for Spain. The Visayas region and ... |
Angélica Vale | ... ge Lopez, Jennifer Lopez, Grecia Colmenares, Alexandra Cheron, Amelia Vega, | , Angélica María and others |
Catherine Zeta-Jones | ... ion for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role, but lost to co-star | . Latifah is one of three hip-hop artists to receive an Academy Award nomi ... |
Charles Vidor | ... ised life story of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin. Directed by | , the film starred Cornel Wilde (as Chopin), Merle Oberon (as George Sand) ... |
John Cleese | ... f the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike. | was a cast member |
Alexander Hamilton | ... t Morris declined this office; thus the first Secretary of the Treasury was | , who was appointed at Morris's suggestion. Morris had held a similar posi ... |
Franz Schubert | ... waltz. This is a popular structure in Mahler's other symphonies, as well as | 's. One main theme repeats throughout the Ländler, and it gathers energy t ... |
David Langford | ... en brilliantly", but that his prose sometimes seemed uneven and artificial. | cited Vance's "engaging speculation", but concluded that the protagonist " ... |
Ujjal Dosanjh | ... ans, including blowing up Air India flights." Canadian Member of Parliament | , a moderate Sikh, stated that he and others who spoke out against Sikh ex ... |
Roddy McDowall | ... Saget, Charles Rocket, Neil Patrick Harris, Lydia Cornell, Brooke Shields, | and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. Ruth Westheime ... |
Melanie Lynskey | ... isode of Two and a Half Men playing the father of Charlie's neighbor Rose ( | ), and another as guest star Denise Richards' father; at the time that epi ... |
Ovid | ... ason in Apollonius of Rhodes' Argonautica or Euripides' Medea; the entry in | 's Fasti for May 11 is a poem on the birth of Orion, but that is one versi ... |
Karl Marx | ... a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Socialists including | , Robert Owen and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon advocated various forms of labour ... |
Jessica Mitford | ... that year four shows originated from Montreal including one with challenger | . The show continued going on the road, being videotaped in cities across ... |
Tom Cruise | She had a two year relationship with actor | ; the two lived together in New York after working together on Risky Busin ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... so acquainted with the writings of another German philosopher of decadence: | |
Sammy Sosa | ... St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire and Chicago Cubs outfielder | that year engaged in a home run race for the ages. With both rapidly appro ... |
Schuschniggs's | ... be but a passing phenomenon not worse than the dictatorship of Dollfuß and | authoritarian one-party system, which had ruled Austria. During World War ... |
Twain | ... s in the classic 19th-century novelists Scott, Dickens, Flaubert, Melville, | , and Dostoevsky, and in the 20th -century works of James Joyce, Giannina ... |
Henry David Thoreau | ... ues. An important early influence was the thought of the American anarchist | and his book Walden. In the late 19th century there emerged anarcho-naturi ... |
Karl Maeser | ... when Brigham Young's choice for principal arrived—a German immigrant named | . The school did not become a university, however, until the end of Benjam ... |
Willy Brandt | ... monstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor | , who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour ... |
David Langford | Hugo-winning science fiction critic | observed in a column: "(…The Handmaid's Tale, won the very first Arthur C. ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... five charted pop release. Later that same year, Ross and fellow Motown star | released a duet album, Diana & Marvin. The duo scored an international hit ... |
László Kubala | ... -to-back La Liga titles in 1948 and 1949 and the signing of in June 1950 of | , who would later go on to score 196 goals in 256 matches, drew larger cro ... |
Martynas Mažvydas | ... l translation in 1545; the first printed book in Lithuanian, a Catechism by | was published in 1547 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). La ... |
Orson Welles | On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by | , who two years previous had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The ... |
Lawrence Langner | ... roduce. Hammerstein and Rodgers met weekly in 1943 with Theresa Helburn and | of the Theatre Guild, producers of the blockbuster musical, who together f ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... eam difficulty began to increase dramatically in the 1970s. Olga Korbut and | pioneered advanced tumbling combinations and aerial skills on beam; other ... |
René Descartes | ... led anatomical study resumed, combined with the theoretical speculations of | and those who followed him. Descartes, like Galen, thought of the nervous ... |
John Lydon | ... n the group. At the Black Swan, he approached the Sex Pistols' lead singer, | (then going by Johnny Rotten), and suggested they get a band together if t ... |
Samuel Beckett | Like | , Ionesco began his theatre career late: he did not write his first play u ... |
Frank O. Gehry | ... rch, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower (designed by the American architect | ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, ... |
Enrique Iglesias | ... of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, Thalía, Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, | , Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, Jorge Ramos, Gloria Estefan and her husband Emi ... |
Andrzej Panufnik | Following World War II, some composers, such as Roman Palester and | , fled the country and remained in exile. In the early 1960s, however, a n ... |
Herodotus | ... possible to arrive at this conclusion. Maka is mentioned by Greek historian | as one of the early satraps of Cyrus the Great, who successfully united se ... |
Raymond Massey | ... ed for film by Dudley Nichols, starring Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, | , Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn and Kirk Douglas. It was nominated for Academy ... |
Yul Brynner | ... cted by Anatole Litvak for 20th Century Fox. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, | , and Helen Hayes. Supporting players include Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, ... |
Edith Wharton | ... he wanted to play the character "Mattie" in a proposed 1944 film version of | 's novel Ethan Frome (1911) |
Neil Armstrong | ... r astronauts and their families, who watch on television as their colleague | takes his first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Lovell, wh ... |
Noël Coward | ... f the human story of the film. Powell's work on this film was influenced by | 's film (1942) |
Max Born | In 1924, Fermi spent a semester at the University of Göttingen with | , and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest. From Jan ... |
Haydn | ... , studying the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of | and Mozart. It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising ... |
Wassily Leontief | ... H-O model, such as the Leontief paradox, were exposed in empirical tests by | who found that the United States tended to export labor-intensive goods de ... |
Samuel Roth | ... en, in 1957, the Supreme Court upheld the obscenity conviction of publisher | for distributing adult magazines. As late as 1953, books such as Tropic of ... |
Butch Cassidy | ... lls the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known to history as | (Paul Newman) and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert ... |
George Clooney | ... f the villains. Kilmer went on to do The Saint with a salary of $6 million. | replaced Kilmer as Batman in 1997's Batman & Robin |
Charisteas | ... nancially healthy. Supporters unrest grew into anger, when Feyenoord bought | , a back-up striker of arch-rivals Ajax, with a poor track record, as a re ... |
Merle Oberon | ... oic" Polonaise, a song for Poland. The appearance of George Sand, played by | , alters Chopin's life. Vidor portrays George Sand as a disruptive figure ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... o allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary | argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrar ... |
Ernst Lubitsch | ... w Kind of Love" (or "The Nightingales"). He collaborated with film director | . He appeared in Paramount's all-star revue film Paramount on Parade (1930 ... |
Sir Nikolaus Pevsner | In 1962, | stated in his North-West Norfolk and Norwich volume of The Buildings of En ... |
John Lennon | ... to find the world's favourite song. In 2000 it came second to "Imagine" by | in a Channel 4 television poll of The 100 Best Number 1s. It has been in t ... |
Damon Knight | ... professional science fiction and fantasy writers. It was founded in 1965 by | under the name Science Fiction Writers of America, Inc. and it retains the ... |
Ming-Na | ... ted with the town. People from Mt. Lebanon have excelled in acting, such as | (Joy Luck Club, ER, Mulan), Joe Manganiello (who appeared in the Spider-Ma ... |
Simon Reynolds | ... US draft policies. Combat Rocks "Straight to Hell" is described by scholars | and Joy Press as an "around-the-world-at-war-in-five-verses guided tour of ... |
Julio Iglesias | ... a, Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, Thalía, | , Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, Jorge Ra ... |
Herbert Marcuse | ... works of theorists such as the Frankfurt School Marxists Theodor Adorno and | ; anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Richard Borshay Lee; and others suc ... |
Emeric Pressburger | ... e of the River Plate had its genesis in an invitation to Michael Powell and | to attend a film festival in Argentina in 1954. They decided they couldn't ... |
I. M. Pei | ... ion in glass and steel construction and geometric design. Chinese architect | 's John Hancock Tower in Boston, Massachusetts is an example, although lik ... |
Henry VII | ... vourite residence of Queen Elizabeth I. Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, | 's minister John Cardinal Morton, it comprised four wings in a square surr ... |
Nicholas II | ... s of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to | , the last Tsar) so they changed it to Dickie |
Marcel Duchamp | ... and were married the following year. Along with other artists and friends ( | and Marc Chagall) who had fled from the war and lived in New York City, Er ... |
Alexander Hamilton | ... d 10 percent, depending on the value of the item. Secretary of the Treasury | was anxious to establish the tariff as a regular source of government reve ... |
Eugene Ormandy | ... ent included today, although it is sometimes heard separately. In the 1970s | and the Philadelphia Orchestra made the first recording of the symphony by ... |
Thalía | ... d Shakira, Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, | , Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan T ... |
Klaus Mann | ... opheles, or Faust and Marguerite (1855), Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele (1868), | 's Mephisto, and Franz Liszt's Mephisto Waltzes |
Alan García | ... tion for an Asian American in the U.S. On June 14, 2011, Peruvian president | apologized for his country's internment of Japanese immigrants during Worl ... |
Peter Dillon | ... ds the New Hebrides, a name that lasted until independence. In 1825, trader | 's discovery of sandalwood on the island of Erromango began a rush that en ... |
Lee Harvey Oswald | # Suite from " | " - Velton Ray Bunch (14:55 |
Celia Cruz | ... ests included Shakira, Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, | , Thalía, Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, ... |
Shimon Peres | ... King Hassan II took the daring step of inviting then-Israeli Prime Minister | for talks, becoming only the second Arab leader to host an Israeli leader. ... |
Phil Collins | ... st post-Abba solo album. This was also her first solo album in English. The | -produced album was called Something's Going On, and became a big success ... |
Tim Burton | Directors | and Quentin Tarantino, and pop singer Madonna have publicly stated they ar ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... ign of assassinations against top Nazi German officials in occupied Poland. | , meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various a ... |
Ben Shahn | ... student Roger Medearis; Social Realists Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, and | ; Jacob Lawrence, Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Rudolph F. Zallinger, George ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... the classics The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World, by | |
John Negroponte | Between 1979 and 1985, under | 's appointment as U.S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U.S. military and econo ... |
Wallis Simpson | ... ated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Mrs. | . She supported her second son, Albert, who succeeded to the throne as Geo ... |
Shimon Peres | ... owing year, Arafat and Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with | . The Palestinian reaction was mixed. The Rejectionist Front of the PLO al ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... he Wagner family from 1930 to 1945, and a close friend of German chancellor | |
Rick Fox | ... rts, Joyce Van Patten, Method Man, Luke Perry, Master P, Treach, LL Cool J, | , Dana Ivey and Peter Criss have made appearances on the show |
Clement Vallandigham | ... sed it to arrest former Ohio congressman and candidate for governor of Ohio | , a prominent leader in the copperhead peace movement, and try him in a mi ... |
Franz Schubert | ... ith the more famous examples including Ludwig van Beethoven's Egmont music, | 's Rosamunde music, Felix Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream music, Geo ... |
Chichester Bell | ... to found the Volta Laboratory, along with Sumner Tainter and Bell's cousin | . His research laboratory focused on the analysis, recording and transmiss ... |
Hong-Chih Kuo | ... and Hiroki Kuroda; South Korean pitcher Chan Ho Park; and Taiwanese pitcher | and infielder Chin-Lung Hu. Furthermore in 2005, the Dodgers' Hee Seop Cho ... |
Maurice Jarre | Jarre has a half-sister Stéphanie Jarre, from | 's other marriages. His half-brother, Kevin Jarre, died in 2011. Although ... |
Carl Lewis | ... e, although without a world record, by winning the rare 200 m/400 m double. | won his 4th long jump gold medal at the age of 35 |
Errol Flynn | De Havilland and | were known as one of Hollywood's most exciting on-screen couples, appearin ... |
Ken Mattingly | ... e and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, | (Gary Sinise), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) begin training for their new m ... |
John Singer Sargent | ... exponents of the medium included Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, John LaFarge, | , Childe Hassam, and, preeminently, Winslow Homer |
Tadeusz Kościuszko | ... the Polish national hero and hero of the American Revolutionary War General | , because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow |
Chiang Fang-liang | ... rusian. They married on March 15, 1935, and she would later become known as | . In December of that year, a son, Hsiao-wen was born. A daughter, Hsiao-c ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... portance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by | . First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it ... |
William Shatner | "Exquisite chemistry" among Kelley, | and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Captai ... |
Greta Garbo | Ayres played opposite | in 1929's The Kiss, but it was his leading role in 1930's All Quiet on the ... |
Ben Lilly | ... dden commissioned Dunton to paint a full-length portrait of big-game hunter | . The portrait was exhibited by the National Academy of Design before bein ... |
Benjamin Henry Latrobe | ... njamin Latrobe, who was a civil engineer for the B&O Railroad. (His father, | , was the architect who rebuilt the United States Capitol in Washington, D ... |
W. M. Hughes | ... parents as Peter and Louisa. His funeral was attended by the Prime Minister | and the Premier of New South Wales Jack Lang (who was the husband of Lawso ... |
Herbert Lom | ... Johnny Yates in Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, | , Peggy Cummins and Patrick McGoohan. Later in 1957 Connery appeared in Te ... |
Rudolph II | ... ries of the Christian world during that period. In 1609, Holy Roman Emperor | who made Prague again the capital of the Empire at the time, himself a Rom ... |
Donovan Bailey | | of Canada won the men's 100 m, setting a new world record of 9.84 seconds ... |
Christian Bale | ... played Batman up to that point (before the series was rebooted in 2005 with | in the lead role), he felt Kilmer had given the best interpretation. Film ... |
Deke Slayton | ... IP tour of NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building, Lovell is informed by his boss | that he and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. ... |
Iannis Xenakis | ... sers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Pierre Henry, | , La Monte Young, and David Tudor, composed significant electronic, vocal, ... |
Georg Solti | In 1960, the orchestra, led again by Chandler, signed | to a three-year contract to be music director after he had guest conducted ... |
Ofer Ben-Amots | ... appearances at Carnegie Hall, Stephen Scott, a neo-classical composer, and | , an Israeli composer. Filmmaker Marc Webb (class of 1995) was nominated f ... |
Ervin Nyíregyházi | The hands of pianist | are shown playing the piano |
Carl Davis | ... ow's 1980 restoration of Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927), featuring a score by | . Brownlow's restoration was later distributed in America re-edited and sh ... |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... ell Laboratory and the Volta Laboratory, was created in Washington, D.C. by | |
Louis Kahn | In 1974, | 's last and arguably most famous building, the National Assembly Building ... |
John A. Macdonald | ... ice, began negotiations with the United States. In 1873, Prime Minister Sir | , anxious to thwart American expansionism and facing the distraction of th ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as a footnote to the spate of barbarian films that followed in the wake of | 's appearance as Conan. |
Peter Doig | ... rt to be nominated into the prize and adding a political dimension, painter | and multi-media Shirazeh Houshiary |
Chaim Weizmann | ... n the Anglo-American Committee had made him sympathetic to Zionism, visited | shortly after the attack. Weizmann's ambivalence towards Zionist violence ... |
Palestinian refugee | ... ists in a common opposition against the agreements. It was rejected also by | s in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan as well as by many Palestinian intellectua ... |
Gong Li | ... ay a Japanese geisha. For this film, she was reunited with her 2046 co-star | and with Crouching Tiger co-star Michelle Yeoh. For the role, Zhang receiv ... |
Nina Simone | ... , Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, | , Maureen McGovern, John Fahey, The Residents, Kate Bush, Sublime, Sting, ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... l. All classes of men and women are defined by the colours they wear (as in | 's dystopia Brave New World), drawing on color symbolism and psychology. A ... |
Billy Hughes | ... ts (who had formed the All for Australia League), and former Prime Minister | ' Australian Party (a group of former Nationalists who had been expelled f ... |
Henning Wehn | | is the self-styled the "German Comedy Ambassador in London". He often appe ... |
Paul Shaffer | ... aitsch handled the guitar work, and the album featured guest appearances by | of "David Letterman" fame, and Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry |
Yevgeny Zamyatin | ... iction of totalitarian society, as is their lesser-known predecessor, We by | . Additional totalitarian regimes are also depicted in the classics The Ha ... |
John Sutter | In 1848, | used the set to verify the authenticity of the gold found in his mill, a d ... |
Gloria Estefan | ... lejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, Jorge Ramos, | and her husband Emilio Estefan, Jr., Gloria Trevi, Chayanne, Ricky Martin, ... |
Fred Haise | ... o 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), and | (Bill Paxton) begin training for their new mission. Days before launch, it ... |
Tom Stoppard | The events of the play Arcadia, by | , take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire |
Ringo Starr | Farner toured with | 's Allstars from 1994 to 1995, which also featured Randy Bachman, John Ent ... |
Oscar Wildian | ... itings of men like H.G. Wells and Graham Wallas, wrenching us away from the | dilettantism which had possessed undergraduate litterateurs for generation ... |
Sunil Chhetri | ... efeating favourites Tajikistan 4–1 with a stellar performance by local star | , and the 2009 Nehru Cup |
J. K. Rowling | ... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and | 's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) |
Emanuel Tov | ... ion used by the earliest Christians) was only a poor translation, professor | , senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls' publication, wrote that the Masor ... |
Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... The Tonight Show with Jack Paar in the 1960s, with memorable exchanges with | and Muhammad Ali, and later with Johnny Carson. He was also Red Skelton's ... |
Simon Adebisi | ... one narration; in the Season 3 episode "Unnatural Disasters," the character | turns on a computer and sees Hill, dressed as a pharaoh and speaking to hi ... |
Charles Osborne | ... ent", but still hails the work as "a triumph of pure theatre". Music critic | ascribes Toscas immense popularity with audiences to the taut effectivenes ... |
Lalo Schifrin | ... " cue from the musical score from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke, composed by | , as the theme music. The score included a telegraphic-like melody appropr ... |
Akim Tamiroff | ... rs Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes. Supporting players include | , Martita Hunt, and, in a small role, Natalie Schafer. The film tells the ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... was anticipated in part, down to the microscale, by science fiction author | in his 1942 story Waldo |
Adelaide Hall | ... s, from Nat Shilkret (on Victor 21298-A) and Gene Austin to Erskine Tate to | , but his greatest success came with his own five- or six-piece combo, "Fa ... |
David Byrne | ... evision series Big Love. Mark Mothersbaugh was replaced after one season by | of Talking Heads. Mark Mothersbaugh also composed the theme music for the ... |
Jim Dale | ... uch as Humphrey Lyttelton, the Vipers Skiffle Group, the pianist Mrs Mills, | , Keith Kelly, Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, the Temperance Seven, Laur ... |
Kylie Minogue | ... Not Ashamed, Step Up to the Microphone, Devotion, and more. Then soap star | began her music career in the late 1980s and released The Loco-Motion whic ... |
Herodotus | | , Isocrates, and other early writers all agree that Pythagoras was born on ... |
Grand Duchess Anastasia | ... was called upon to authoritatively rebut impostors' claims to be the living | , who had been his first cousin. Until his own assassination in 1979, Moun ... |
Karl Popper | ... ve since refined this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, | , Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg |
Giovanni Zenatello | ... Francesco Marconi, Francisco Viñas, Emilio De Marchi, Giuseppe Borgatti and | , while the phenomenon was rare among French, German, Russian and Anglo-Sa ... |
Edgeworth David | ... Darwin in the Pacific. Drilling occurred in 1896, 1897 and 1911. Professor | of the University of Sydney lead the expeditions in 1896 & 1897. Photograp ... |
Shirazeh Houshiary | ... prize and adding a political dimension, painter Peter Doig and multi-media | |
Andrew Carnegie | ... later the library moved to Medford's new city hall, in another four years, | 's donation allowed a dedicated library to be built. Construction on the M ... |
Angus MacLise | ... ht work The Ornamental Lightyears Tracery for all performances since 1965), | , and Billy Name. In 1964 the ensemble comprised Young and Zazeela; John C ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... he Age to remain competitive. By the 1980s a new competitor had appeared in | 's national daily The Australian. In 1999 David Syme and Co. became The Ag ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... inst him two-thirds of the time, leaving almost half as fairly independent. | recalled only two caucuses on legislative policy between 1795 and 1801, on ... |
Michael Anderson | ... ovel. Pope Joan. There have been two film versions, a 1972 film directed by | and a 2009 film adapted from Cross' novel |
Paul Hindemith | ... . All the intervals succumb to similar analysis as has been demonstrated by | in his book, The Craft of Musical Composition |
Man Ray | ... and in Beverly Hills, California in October 1946, in a double ceremony with | and Juliet P. Browner, he married Dorothea Tanning. The couple first made ... |
Doris Lessing | ... omen until puberty, and gender has no bearing on social roles. In contrast, | 's The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) suggests that m ... |
George Edwin Rines | ... the Americana Corp. and the Scientific American Compiling Department, with | appointed managing editor in 1903. The relationship with Scientific Americ ... |
John Lennon | ... s" (originally titled "A Little Help from My Friends") is a song written by | and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hea ... |
Paulino Alcántara | ... s all-time highest goalscorer in all competitions (including friendlies) is | with 369 goals. The record league scorer is César Rodríguez, who scored 19 ... |
John Lennon | ... chedelic rock, mod and similar genres; this was called Group Sounds (G.S.). | of The Beatles later became one of most popular Western musicians in Japan ... |
Eddie Van Halen | ... Angeles music scene with a sound based around the skills of lead guitarist | . He popularised a guitar‐playing technique of two‐handed hammer‐ons and p ... |
Sid Vicious | ... and the scene of the stabbing of Nancy Spungen (allegedly by her boyfriend | ) |
Elin | ... the Tiger Woods cheating scandal, in which was originally referred to as " | 's Song". On July 2, 2011 Furtado performed a new track, an acoustic balla ... |
Sam Wanamaker | ... and would return to it in 1959 at Stratford on Avon with co-stars Mary Ure, | and Vanessa Redgrave. The critics had mixed reactions to the "flashy" 1959 ... |
Mario Andretti | ... races over 1965 and 1966 in the BT12. The "Dean Van Lines Special" in which | won the 1965 USAC national championship was a direct copy of this car, mad ... |
Wes Anderson | ... and television. In film, Mothersbaugh has worked frequently with filmmaker | , and scored most of his feature films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal ... |
Trevor Horn | ... ael Michalsky to perform at his StyleNite event during Berlin Fashion Week. | announced on 9 Sep 2010, that OMD will perform as a special guest at the " ... |
Jack Swigert | ... es, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly's backup, | (Kevin Bacon), as a safety precaution. Lovell resists breaking up his team ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... s of making the notation more concise. A standard convention, instigated by | in the 18th century, is to use lower case letters from the beginning of th ... |
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Michael Moriarty | ... Wayne Callies (Prison Break), Mindy Kaling (The Office), Emmy Award winner | , Andrew Shue of Melrose Place, Aisha Tyler of Friends and 24, Dan Rush th ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... cknowledgments and Notes". The later US hardcover edition adds a quote from | , has 43 chapters, drops the subtitle, and expands the Acknowledgements an ... |
Neil Gaiman | Jones' works are also compared to those of Robin McKinley and | . She was friends with both McKinley and Gaiman, and Jones and Gaiman are ... |
John de Chastelain | ... ce for a prosecution. The decommissioning was confirmed by Canadian General | , chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, ... |
Min Chueh Chang | ... PFA for Pincus to begin hormonal contraceptive research. Pincus, along with | , confirmed earlier research that progesterone would act as an inhibitor t ... |
J. K. Rowling | In 1990 | wrote The Harry Potter Series, in which 3 characters embark on new adventu ... |
Lee Harvey Oswald | In the other case, Sam interrupts the JFK assassination, preventing | from killing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. This history change, however, fro ... |
Albert Einstein | ... The actor says that he based his character on Elia Kazan, Jacques Cousteau, | , Leonardo Da Vinci, and Adam Ant |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... "Daisy Bell", with musical accompaniment from Max Mathews. Coincidentally, | was visiting his friend and colleague John Pierce at the Bell Labs Murray ... |
Prince Albert | ... . It was a commission on behalf of Queen Victoria in memory of her husband, | |
Paul Hindemith | In 1930 | and Ernst Toch recycled records to create sound montages and in 1936 Edgar ... |
Edward G. Robinson | ... nd was denounced that same year (along with Danny Kaye, Frederic March, and | ) as a "swimming-pool pink" by Time magazine and called before the House U ... |
James Gurney | ... ng sessions to the final shoot. The film's crew included background artists | and Thomas Kinkade, layout artist Peter Chung, and established Bakshi Prod ... |
Isaac Asimov | Scientist/author | defined two types of scientifi |
Johnny Depp | ... o Crazy" and "Mama's Blues." She began playing at hip nightclubs like actor | 's Viper Room, New York's Algonquin Hotel and Michael's Pub and such Holly ... |
Dan Aykroyd | In 1987, a comedy movie version of Dragnet appeared starring | as the stiff Joe Friday (the original Detective Friday's nephew), and Tom ... |
Alfredo di Stéfano | ... xacerbated further when there was a controversy surrounding the transfer of | , who finally played for Real Madrid and was key to their subsequent succe ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... number of prominent leaders, including René Lévesque, Robert Stanfield, and | , who believed the actions to be excessive and the precedent to suspend ci ... |
Roland Emmerich | ... or comedy Zombieland, and is to reprise his role in its upcoming sequel. In | 's 2012, he played Charlie Frost, a man who warns of the end of the world. ... |
Paul Hindemith | ... , especially the 7th, 11th, and 13th harmonics. In the late 1930s, composer | ranked musical intervals according to their relative dissonance based on t ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Brown also had the honor of being one of three dedicatees of | 's Stranger in a Strange Land |
Franco Rasetti | ... t the Scuola Normale Superiore, Fermi teamed up with a fellow student named | with whom he would indulge in light-hearted pranks and who would later bec ... |
Arthur Nikisch | ... tral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad (first performed at Leeds Festival under | in 1912) |
Herbert Lom | ... MGM action picture Action of the Tiger opposite Van Johnson, Martine Carol, | and Gustavo Rojo; the film was shot on location in southern Spain. He also ... |
Albert Gallatin | ... " Outstanding propagandists included editor William Duane and party leaders | , Thomas Cooper and Jefferson himself |
John G. Kemeny | ... from Dartmouth BASIC — the original BASIC — invented by college professors | and Thomas E. Kurtz |
Jimi Hendrix | ... I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player | , and a new group who had just come out with a hit record, "Dance to the M ... |
Thomas Mann | ... annes Maria Verweyen were deported and died in concentration camps. In 1937 | was deprived of his honorary doctorate. His honorary degree was restored i ... |
Yoko Ono | ... shed a text titled An Anthology) and other members of the nascent movement. | , for example, hosted a series of concerts curated by Young at her loft, a ... |
Eric Dolphy | ... tuff, Sam River's Fuchsia Swing Song, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and | 's Out to Lunch. His first album as a leader, 1964's Life Time, was also i ... |
Aristotle Onassis | ... negotiated the October 1968 marital contract between Jacqueline Kennedy and | |
Robert Capa | ... helma Ritter and Raymond Burr. Stewart's character, a photographer based on | , must temporarily use a wheelchair; out of boredom he begins observing hi ... |
Terrence Malick | ... aith restored by a series of meaningful conversations in Paris in 1981 with | , the director of Sheen’s breakthrough film, Badlands (1973) |
Ernst Toch | In 1930 Paul Hindemith and | recycled records to create sound montages and in 1936 Edgard Varese experi ... |
Cristina Rota | ... eceived three years of Spanish ballet training and four years of theater at | 's New York school. She commented that "I used to take my toenails—they wo ... |
Julie Andrews | ... na Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Madonna, Judy Garland, | , Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, Nina Simone, ... |
Karl Marx | ... resent value as a valuation methodology dates at least to the 19th century. | refers to NPV as fictitious capital, and the calculation as capitalising, ... |
Harry Houdini | ... including "The Mound", "Winged Death", "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" and for | "Under the Pyramids" (also known as "Imprisoned With the Pharaohs") |
Mark Hateley | ... , Dion Dublin, Stuart Pearce, Gerry Francis, Kevin Gallacher, Terry Gibson, | , Ian Wallace, Tommy Hutchison, Martin Jol, Les Sealey, Robbie Keane, Gary ... |
David Bowie | ... ited to a rock video (the featured song in this scene was "Golden Years" by | ) |
George Dolenz | ... on presenter Samantha Juste. Her paternal grandparents were the film actors | and Janelle Johnson |
Martin Neil Baily | ... gence James Woolsey and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers | , have seen their children graduate from CC in recent years. The distingui ... |
Abba Eban | ... n. Apologies were soon sent by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, Foreign Minister | , and chargé d'affaires Efraim Evron. Within 48 hours, Israel offered to c ... |
Napoleon I | When French emperor | completed his conquest of Northern Italy and began to push his armies towa ... |
Lukas Foss | ... e taught primarily at Yale University where he had such notable students as | , Graham George, Norman Dello Joio, Mel Powell, Harold Shapero, Hans Otte, ... |
George Frideric Handel | ... performances, gambling and small musical recitals (for example the composer | (1685–1759) may have performed in this room. Handel lived with the family ... |
Nadia Comăneci | ... ise final and a silver on the beam — becoming the only female gymnast since | to win an individual event gold after winning the all-round title in the s ... |
Judy Garland | ... Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, Madonna, | , Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin ... |
Henry James | ... n in response to a request for a play "with no real serious interest". When | 's Guy Domville failed, Alexander turned to Wilde and agreed to put on his ... |
Ayn Rand | ... its opening, which is a complete two-sentence short-short story in itself. | singled out Brown for high praise in her book The Romantic Manifesto. The ... |
Theodore Bikel | ... have played Tevye include Herschel Bernardi (in the original Broadway run), | and Leonard Nimoy. Mostel's understudy in the original production, Paul Li ... |
Tim Finn | ... ralia. Of these, perhaps the most successful has been Split Enz, founded by | and Phil Judd in the early 1970s. The addition of Tim's younger brother Ne ... |
James Ferman | ... the 18 level, in response to public consultation in 2000. The departure of | from the BBFC may also have allowed some long-proscribed films to be re-ap ... |
Yvonne Elliman | # "If I Can't Have You" performed by | - 3:0 |
Danger Mouse | ... y FC Kahuna) and "Do's and Don'ts" (by Boom Bip) as well as "Just War" from | and Sparklehorse's album . He has also featured on the myspace remix track ... |
Johnny Depp | ... inger Madonna have publicly stated they are fans of the series. As a child, | was so obsessed with Barnabas Collins that he wanted to be him. He has col ... |
George Shearing | ... ranged from Glenn Miller to Jelly Roll Morton to Tchaikovsky." Jazz pianist | 's quintet of the 1950s and 1960s was influenced by Miller: "with Shearing ... |
Dieter Dengler | ... 005 filming of Rescue Dawn, a dramatized biographical film of US Navy pilot | and his capture during the Vietnam War, the flight deck of Chakri Naruebet ... |
Ayelet Waldman | ... married on 2 January 2011. The wedding took place in the parlour of writers | and Michael Chabon |
David Bowie | ... ly a collection of covers of songs by artists like the Beach Boys, 10cc and | , receiving positive reviews from Melody Maker: "The album portrays Frida ... |
Gene Wolfe | ... by authors such as L. Frank Baum and Lloyd Alexander alongside the works of | and Jonathan Swift, which are more often considered adult literature. The ... |
Mikhail Gromov | Jean Bourgain, Alain Connes, Pierre Deligne, | , Alexandre Grothendieck, Oscar Lanford III, Laurent Lafforgue, Maxim Kont ... |
Donald Pleasence | ... . The film is written by Lucas and Walter Murch. It stars Robert Duvall and | and depicts a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through ... |
Ringo Starr | ... lub Band in 1967. The song was written for and sung by The Beatles' drummer | as the character "Billy Shears"; it is ranked #304 on Rolling Stones list ... |
Tycho Brahe | ... his star catalogue, which would eventually triple the number of entries in | 's sky atlas. Unwilling to risk his reputation by releasing unverified dat ... |
Ben Cahoon | ... is the Canadian Football League's third all-time leader in catches, behind | and Terry Vaughn; he is also third all-time in career receiving yardage be ... |
Jenny Lind | ... n the subject of Hans Christian Andersen's infatuation with Swedish soprano | . Called The Secret Songs it was unfinished. In a performance in 2007 dire ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... hy development of the body. Along these lines, the noted German philosopher | spoke of the positive physiological effects of abstinence: "The reabsorpti ... |
Heinrich Ernst Schirmer | ... nd restoration of the cathedral started in 1869, initially led by architect | , and nearly completed by Christian Christie. It was officially completed ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... ashi was the first who became widely recognized. Wataru Takada, inspired by | , also became popular.. They both were influenced by American folk music b ... |
Christian Christie | ... initially led by architect Heinrich Ernst Schirmer, and nearly completed by | . It was officially completed in 2001. Maintenance of the cathedral is an ... |
Peter Debye | ... orate, he became an assistant at Göttingen, but soon became an assistant to | at Zürich. It was there that he and Debye developed their theory (the Deby ... |
Herodotus | The ram deity of Mendes was described by | in his History as being represented with the head and fleece of a goat: “. ... |
Zenata | ... f several tribes. The large Berber tribes or peoples are Sanhadja, Houaras, | , Masmouda, Kutama, Awarba, Berghwata ... etc. Each tribe is divided into ... |
Kim Beazley | He is also a long-time friend of former federal Labor Leader | |
Benedykt Dybowski | ... een proposed, including saturata by Robert Ridgway in 1883, kamtschatica by | in 1883, ambigua by Erwin Stresemann and mandschurica by Wilhelm Meise in ... |
Helen Reddy | ... lleen Hewett, Keith Urban, The Angels, Ted Mullry Gang, Hush, The Mixtures, | , and Diana Trask |
Shakira | Prominent guests included | , Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, Thalía, ... |
Pamela Anderson | ... ), beginning with photos from the famed Stolen Honeymoon sex tape featuring | and Tommy Lee. It also began to regularly feature pictorials of female mod ... |
Cary Grant | ... dy Johnson, who was also the ex-wife of her newspaper editor Walter Burns ( | ) |
Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | In | 's 1948 novel Space Cadet, aerobraking is used to save fuel while slowing ... |
Bon Scott | ... sonnel and direction of established hard rock acts, including the deaths of | , the lead singer of AC/DC, and John Bonham, drummer with Led Zeppelin. Ze ... |
Christian Bale | ... was released in the UK and US in 2005, with the voice of Howl performed by | . Archer's Goon was adapted for television in 1992 |
Anthony Hopkins | ... ternational Film Festival, where Ball attended a private dinner in honor of | , meeting several voters who were in attendance |
Avraham Harman | ... ttacked the ship. Though "strong dismay" was conveyed to Israeli ambassador | , so too was the speed of Israel's notification. Apologies were soon sent ... |
Tori Amos | One of Gaiman's most commented-upon friendships is with the musician | , a Sandman fan who became friends with Gaiman after making a reference to ... |
Ernest Hemingway | Many subsequent critics, | among them, have deprecated the final chapters, claiming the book "devolve ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... instruments and the highly amplified stage sound of rock musicians such as | . All Music Guide states that "..until around 1967, the worlds of jazz and ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... into the modern era. In The Birth of Tragedy (1872), the German philosopher | contrasted Dionysus with the god Apollo as a symbol of the fundamental, un ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... h stylized "Armanen" sig runes) was a major paramilitary organization under | and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Hi ... |
André Previn | Fleischmann then turned to | with the hopes that his conducting credentials and time spent at Hollywood ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... Zeitmasse and Gruppen may be seen in the work of many composers, including | 's Threni (1957–58) and Movements for piano and orchestra (1958–59) and ot ... |
John Cleese | It is believed that the first person to say "shit" on British TV was | of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says ... |
Gracie Fields | ... released in America. Twickenham took on more quality work such as the 1933 | vehicle This Week of Grace. This ultimately led Hagen to stop making quick ... |
Jet Li | Recent portrayals of prefects in modern popular culture include | ’s portrayal of the nameless prefect in the movie Hero |
Irving Berlin | ... ion in the operetta Dédé. He met the American composers George Gershwin and | and brought Dédé to Broadway in 1922. The same year he met Yvonne Vallée, ... |
Roger Corman | ... d and Bryce Dallas Howard appear in uncredited cameos. Horror film director | appears as a congressman being given a VIP tour by Lovell of the Saturn V ... |
Elvis Presley | ... Collage No.1 (Blue Suede) (for tape) by sampling and manipulating a famous | recording |
Schwarzenegger | ... tions. Bodrov responded: The Americans make movies about the Russians where | as a policeman tears off gumbah's leg and drugs are hailing from it and be ... |
Frank Capra | Lost Horizon is a 1937 American drama-fantasy film directed by | . The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1933 novel of the same t ... |
Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
Keith Urban | ... lliams, Peter Andre, Goanna, Australian Crawl, Rose Tattoo, Colleen Hewett, | , The Angels, Ted Mullry Gang, Hush, The Mixtures, Helen Reddy, and Diana ... |
Carl Davis | ... rk Wilson and Jim Riggs. Orchestral conductors such as Gillian B. Anderson, | , Carl Daehler, and Robert Israel have written and compiled scores for num ... |
Lionel Messi | ... managed to score over 100 league goals at Barcelona: César Rodríguez (192), | (165), Ladislao Kubala (131) and (108) |
Mazyar Keshvari | ... ve in the party, most notably Iranian-Norwegian Deputy Member of Parliament | and Indian-Norwegian youth politician Himanshu Gulati |
Leo White | ... films; ingenue Edna Purviance, who became his off-screen sweetheart as well | ;, almost always playing a fussy continental villain; and all-purpose auth ... |
Elvis Presley | ... me to try to curb Stitch's aggressiveness by encouraging him to behave like | , whom she calls a "model citizen." Stitch's antics, although at times foi ... |
Michael Douglas | ... h money in the world. While promoting The Ghost and the Darkness in France, | bitterly complained about Kilmer's attitude in an interview to daily newsp ... |
Jet Li | ... major movie role in Romeo Must Die. Aaliyah starred opposite martial artist | , playing a couple who fall in love amid their warring families. It grosse ... |
Orson Welles | On his death, fellow director and friend | wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, "Jean Renoir: The Greatest of ... |
Albert Einstein | The maser is based on the principle of stimulated emission proposed by | in 1917. When atoms have been induced into an excited energy state, they c ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... pts to submit it to the Papal States failed; and its wish to be left out of | 's Italian unification in the mid-nineteenth century was granted, since it ... |
Percy Grainger | ... es (who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which | and others had developed their collections of country music) died in a hor ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in | 's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ... |
David Brin | ... nsparent Society (1998) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author | in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of pr ... |
Roald Hoffmann | ... sigma and pi electrons, and has its origins in work by William Lipscomb and | for nonplanar molecules in 1962 |
Fritz Reiner | ... nclude Sir John Barbirolli, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Albert Coates, | , and Erich Leinsdorf; more recently, others have included Kurt Sanderling ... |
Tim Powers | ... shbless is a fictional poet, invented by fantasy writers James Blaylock and | |
Paul Hindemith | ... 0–1903/1910–11) evolved into one of the century's largest secular cantatas. | composed three works he designated as cantatas: Die Serenaden, op. 35, for ... |
Ian Rush | Notable former players of the club include | (who later managed the club), Cyrille Regis, Arthur Albiston, Earl Barrett ... |
Edward G. Robinson | ... rs on a remote Florida key. It co-starred Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, and | . The film was an adaptation of the stage play by Maxwell Anderson, and th ... |
Ovid | ... re firmly established, ones that would govern later writers such as Virgil, | , Lucan, and Juvenal. Virgil's opening line for the Aeneid is a classic ex ... |
Rich Hall | ... of theatre sized shows with comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Stephen K. Amos, | , Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, and |
Claude Lévi-Strauss | ... ings. However, another version depicts them with equality and identicality. | argues that the former concept, that of twins representing opposites, is a ... |
Mohammed Sagar | ... centre in exchange for Australian aid. By November 2005, only two refugees, | and Muhammad Faisal, remained on Nauru from those first sent there in 2001 ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... r characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Comparisons have also been drawn to | 's Waiting For Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almos ... |
Erich Leinsdorf | ... rbirolli, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski, Albert Coates, Fritz Reiner, and | ; more recently, others have included Kurt Sanderling, Pierre Boulez, Leon ... |
Claire Forlani | ... o have broken up with their girlfriends—Rene (Shannen Doherty) and Brandi ( | ), respectively. As fate would have it, a local game show called "Truth or ... |
Chris Pedersen | ... times, future Camper Van Beethoven members Richie West, Anthony Guess, and | |
Itō Hirobumi | The Japanese statesman | started to negotiate with the Russians. He believed that Japan was too wea ... |
Robert Graves | ... nd never drop below the horizon, hence explaining why they are circumpolar. | interprets the use of the term nurse in Classical myths as identifying dei ... |
Eddie Jobson | ... 1980 using Maison Rouge Mobile and Maison Rouge Studios in Fulham, London. | guested on the album, playing keyboards and electric violin. The album was ... |
Cary Grant | ... oom in 1945, with Variety proclaiming, "Liberace looks like a cross between | and Robert Alda. He has an effective manner, attractive hands which he spo ... |
Ray Harryhausen | ... sound of a fog horn for the mating cry of a female. Bradbury's close friend | produced the stop-motion animation of the creature. Bradbury would later r ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... d been put in place during peacetime in Canada. A few critics (most notably | and some members of the New Democratic Party ) believed that Trudeau was b ... |
Carl Laemmle | ... as a cemetery, Forest Lawn was a filming location used by directors such as | and Cecil B. DeMille. The climactic battle scenes for D. W. Griffith's The ... |
Roland Emmerich | Cecil, portrayed by David Thewlis, is in | 's Anonymous, which supports the idea that the works of William Shakespear ... |
Arthur Albiston | ... s of the club include Ian Rush (who later managed the club), Cyrille Regis, | , Earl Barrett, Lee Dixon, Steve Harkness, Roberto Martínez and Stan Pears ... |
Elizabeth May | Furtado publicly endorsed Green Party leader | in Saanich-Gulf Islands during the federal election in 2011. Furtado was f ... |
Karl Marx | ... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), | quotes Adam Smith and sums up |
Philip James de Loutherbourg | File:Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg d. J. 002.jpg| | , Coalbrookdale by Night, 1801, a key location of the English Industrial R ... |
Jane Goodall | ... Esteban Sarmiento, and discredited racial anthropologist Carleton S. Coon. | , in a September 27, 2002, interview on National Public Radio's "Science F ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author | . It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Eart ... |
Elvis Presley | ... in a special ceremony held at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, along with | , Keith Green, Kurt Kaiser, Doris Akers, The Rambos, Wendy Bagwell and the ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... a new high-bench mark for special effects, it would be 1968's , directed by | , who assembled his own effects team (Douglas Trumbull, Tom Howard, Con Pe ... |
Nazi Boni | ... rkinabè writers in the post-independence Burkina Faso of the 1960s, such as | and Roger Nikiema. The 1960s saw a growth in the number of playwrights bei ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... aves began soon after, with the experiments conducted by physicists such as | , Jagadish Chandra Bose and Guglielmo Marconi during the 1890s leading to ... |
Samuel Eto'o | ... n without trophies. A pre-season U.S. tour and open feud between the player | and Rijkaard was later blamed for the lack of trophies. In La Liga, Barça ... |
John Lennon | ... g task of presenting the show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of | (who had himself appeared on the show in 1975). This particular episode co ... |
Tom Farndon | Notable Coventrian sportsmen include speedway rider | ; Davis Cup tennis player Tony Mottram; footballers Kenneth Hegan, Reg Mat ... |
Tsung-Dao Lee | ... assumed to be a universal law. However, in the mid-1950s Chen Ning Yang and | suggested that the weak interaction might violate this law. Chien Shiung W ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... e named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man after a line in A Shropshire Lad and | 's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman ... |
W. H. Auden | In a 1955 letter to | , Tolkien recollects that he began work on The Hobbit one day early in the ... |
Frank Capra | ... al and ecological awareness, government propaganda, and leftist viewpoints. | 's Why We Fight (1942–1944) series was a newsreel series in the United Sta ... |
Adam Worth | ... w of the gallery Thomas Agnew and Sons, who had a famous painting stolen by | , but was unable to prove the fact |
Tycho Brahe | ... , and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, | 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20 |
Leonard Bernstein | ... nsdorf; more recently, others have included Kurt Sanderling, Pierre Boulez, | , Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos |
Osama bin Laden | ... ind and neutralize "The Emir", an international terrorist leader modeled on | , while also serving as mentor and trainer to Jack's son Jack Jr., a Campu ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... any of Crawford's friends and co-workers, including Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, | , Myrna Loy, Cesar Romero, Gary Gray, Crawford's first husband, Douglas Fa ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... e viewer until he turns his face toward the camera during a scene featuring | and George Raft. MacLaine also briefly appears in Ocean's Eleven as a drun ... |
Thomas Mann | ... t skiing in Davos in 1899. A sanatorium in Davos is also the setting of the | novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain). Between 1936 and 1938, Ernst Lu ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... ms - The Song Lyrics of Ralph McTell towards the end of 2005. Dedicated "to | , the man who started it all for me", Time's Poems contains "...all the so ... |
Chris Pedersen | ... second set of songs. At the end of the sessions, in 1986, long-term drummer | was added |
Friedrich Engels | ... in Louis-Auguste Blanqui description in 1837 of la révolution industrielle. | in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 spoke of "an indu ... |
Ringo Starr | ... en he made a record of his early songs with such figures as Rory Gallagher, | , Elton John and Brian May called Putting on the Style. A follow-up album ... |
Anna Netrebko | ... is the 2008 Deutsche Grammophon release conducted by Bertrand de Billy with | and as Mimì and Rodolfo |
Borat | ... character of the film Ali G Indahouse. Cohen's character Ali G, along with | and Brüno, has been retired |
Claude Shannon | ... and that of later logicians initially appeared to have no engineering uses. | attended a philosophy class at the University of Michigan which introduced ... |
Henry VII | ... bourgeois respectability. Lynom lost his position as King's Solicitor when | defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485, but he was ... |
Chen Ning Yang | ... nteraction; it was assumed to be a universal law. However, in the mid-1950s | and Tsung-Dao Lee suggested that the weak interaction might violate this l ... |
Walter Pidgeon | ... s as Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls, | in Madame Curie, and Mickey Rooney in The Human Comedy. In the same year, ... |
Yoko Ono | ... rch, London. Harrison and his wife attended, and Lennon (who was there with | ) was joint best man, along with Donovan |
Tom Stoppard | ... th, the meaning of human existence and the place of God in human existence. | 's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist tragicomedy first s ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... n 1930. Although it began as a song cycle (as reflected also by its title), | 's Gurre-Lieder (1900–1903/1910–11) evolved into one of the century's larg ... |
John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ch events spiralled out of control in the run up to and after independence. | , the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governme ... |
Errol Flynn | ... In the Wake of the Bounty, directed by Charles Chauvel, cast Tasmanian born | in a leading role, before he went on to a celebrated Hollywood career. Cha ... |
Gus Edwards | ... ed them better as comedians than as singers. They modified the then-popular | comedy skit "School Days" and renamed it "Fun In Hi Skule". The Marx Broth ... |
Roberto Martínez | ... ), Cyrille Regis, Arthur Albiston, Earl Barrett, Lee Dixon, Steve Harkness, | and Stan Pearson |
Stevie Wonder | ... opular, influential rhythm and blues (R&B) artists as multi-instrumentalist | and the popular quintet The Jackson 5. A major event in music in the early ... |
Gabriel Byrne | ... ichael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and | . The best known theatres include the Gaiety, Abbey, Olympia, Gate, and Gr ... |
Carrie Underwood | In 2005, country singer | rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of American Idol and becam ... |
Karl Marx | ... early labour values theories. Some writers (including Bertrand Russell and | ) think the labour theory of value can be traced back to him. In his Summa ... |
Descartes | | was not only a pioneer of analytic geometry but formulated a theory of mec ... |
Johnny Depp | ... to bring him into line and do what needs to be done." Richards, along with | , tried unsuccessfully to persuade Jagger to appear in , alongside Depp an ... |
Ezra Pound | In 1915, | , overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the m ... |
Mark Twain | ... ally intended for adults are now commonly thought of as works for children. | 's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was originally intended for an adult aud ... |
Francis Xavier Pierz | ... ly by Catholic German-Americans, who were attracted to the region by Father | . Lower Town was founded by settlers from New England and the mid-Atlantic ... |
Herodotus | Hecataeus of Miletus believed the earth was flat and surrounded by water. | in his Histories ridiculed the belief that water encircled the world, yet ... |
Joseph Needham | ... used by Chinese astronomers to describe the heavens as spherical. Historian | quotes Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) as saying |
Benjamin Bonneville | ... of the Oregon Trail and wrote extensively about their explorations. Captain | on his expedition of 1832 to 1834 explored much of the Oregon trail and br ... |
Colm Wilkinson | ... rmed by the 'Dream Cast' led by the Original London & Broadway Jean Valjean | & Philip Quast as Javer |
James Joyce | ... p to Paris in August, 1920 with the artist Wyndham Lewis, he met the writer | . Eliot said he found Joyce arrogant—Joyce doubted Eliot's ability as a po ... |
Martin Esslin | Critic | in his book Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwr ... |
Walter Laqueur | ... uld function with a collective leadership, which led the American historian | to argue that Bracher's definition seemed to fit reality better than the F ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... ice, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), consisted of an effort to trace | following the 1998 embassy bombings. The U.S. and the European Union provi ... |
Ali Akbar Khan | ... e Young discovered Indian music in 1957 on the campus of the UCLA. He cites | (sarod) and Chatur Lal (tabla) as particularly significant. The discovery ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... e Philharmonic in concerts and/or world premieres of their works, including | , William Kraft, John Harbison, Witold Lutosławski, Aaron Copland, Pierre ... |
Henry VII | ... as a military balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory of | at Bosworth, Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited freq ... |
Frank Gehry | ... cated in what was an old dock and wood warehouse. The building, designed by | and inaugurated in October 1997, is considered among architecture experts ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... otege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, | , Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Kei ... |
David Sarnoff | ... for more FM radio channels. However, the FCC was influenced by RCA chairman | , who had the covert goal of disrupting the successful FM network that Edw ... |
Offenbach | ... mune), where it is juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous "Can-can" from | 's Orpheus in the Underworld |
John Lennon | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of | , Ringo Starr, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained ... |
Yaron Brook | ... ing to specific, objectively defined laws. Objectivists Leonard Peikoff and | have since expressed support for other government functions |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... f social constructs in understanding gender. Notable texts of this kind are | 's The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Joanna Russ' The Female Man (1970), O ... |
Carl Laemmle | ... ou think of these dames who show their chests and think they can get jobs?" | , the head of Universal Studios, considered terminating Davis's employment ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... metimes spelled Shmidt), was a former Nazi general officer and confidant of | . He has been closely affiliated with HYDRA and is an enemy of S.H.I.E.L.D ... |
M.I.A. | ... abyshambles, The Futureheads, The Charlatans and The Arctic Monkeys. Before | had an international hit in 2008 with "Paper Planes", which is built aroun ... |
Alexandra of Denmark | ... e was the last surviving grandchild of Edward VII of the United Kingdom and | |
Liz Yelling | ... er champions of sport past and present including Stephanie Cook, Gail Emms, | and Paula Radcliffe who is Life Vice President of Bedford & County Athleti ... |
John Dudgeon | Scottish Physician | , who worked in Peking, China, during the Qing Dynasty said that in China, ... |
Karl Marx | ... ture and Necessity of a Paper Currency" is sometimes credited (including by | ) with originating the concept in its modern form. However, the theory has ... |
Alex Cuba | ... during the credits of the film. Furtado collaborated with recording artist | and K'naan once again. The duet with K'naan "Is Anybody Out There", was re ... |
Beppo Levi | ... obably the most important monotone convergence theorem. It is also known as | 's theorem |
Ernst Krenek | ... bern had begun sketching a Third Cantata by the time he was killed in 1945. | also composed two examples: a "scenic cantata", Die Zwingburg, op. 14 (192 ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... ovember 2006. On Queen For An Hour 1989 Interview on BBC Radio 1 May listed | , Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton as his guitar heroes. In a 1991 interview for ... |
Louis Riel | ... lp, and other kinds of support. Emerging as a Métis leader was the educated | , who denounced the government in a speech delivered in late August 1869 f ... |
Tia Carrere | ... s serene beauty. The actors voicing the film's young adults Nani and David, | , a native of Honolulu, and Jason Scott Lee, who was raised in Hawaii, ass ... |
C. D. Howe | ... on 11 April 1936. The newly created Department of Transport under Minister | desired an airline, under government control, to link cities on the Atlant ... |
Julie Andrews | ... ld War-related themes. The first, Torn Curtain (1966), with Paul Newman and | , displays the bitter end of the twelve-year collaboration between Hitchco ... |
Ringo Starr | The Hollywood Vampires was also attended by the likes of John Lennon, | , Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood all of whom Moon maintained friendships w ... |
Dirac | ... 934, introduces the idea that the photon is equivalent to the fusion of two | neutrinos |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... eat of a battle in 1718 between Spain and Austria, and of another fought by | against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during his Expedition of the Thousand |
Xenia | ... nov family: Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (husband of Nicholas's sister | ), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (the most artistic of the Imperia ... |
Andrew Golota | ... e Foreman, Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Julio César Chávez, | , Félix Trinidad, Roy Jones, Jr. Marco Antonio Barrera and Nikolai Valuev |
Eliade | ... beliefs are shared by all forms of shamanism. Common beliefs identified by | (1972) are the following |
Béla Bartók | ... mes a specific instruction not to use it (in some of the string quartets of | for example). Furthermore, some modern classical composers, especially min ... |
Thomas Nast | The traditional mascot of the party is the elephant. A political cartoon by | , published in Harper's Weekly on November 7, 1874, is considered the firs ... |
Paula Radcliffe | ... sport past and present including Stephanie Cook, Gail Emms, Liz Yelling and | who is Life Vice President of Bedford & County Athletic Clu |
Andrew R. Cobb | ... were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on November 15, 2007. | designed several campus buildings including: Memorial Library, 1926-27, de ... |
Billy Idol | ... Uriah Duffy and drummer Chris Frazier and that their new drummer is former | drummer Brian Tichy. On August 20, 2010, Whitesnake announced that their n ... |
Shohreh Aghdashloo | ... ris plays the young woman. The film also features Shaun Toub as her father, | as her mother, and David Ackert as her cousin, Ali, who becomes an Islamic ... |
Rick James | In 1988, Shanté and | had a hit with "Loosey's Rap. |
Oliver Reed | In 1974, Moon struck up a friendship with actor | , while working on the movie version of Tommy |
Jamal Badawi | It should be noted that the website Islam Online has an article by | arguing against legal punishment of apostasy |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... . Arguably, the most distinguished Romantic poet of this part of Europe was | , who developed an idea that Poland was the Messiah of Nations, predestine ... |
Muhammad Faisal | ... for Australian aid. By November 2005, only two refugees, Mohammed Sagar and | , remained on Nauru from those first sent there in 2001, with Sagar finall ... |
Frank Rijkaard | ... young president, Joan Laporta, and a young new manager, former Dutch player | . On the field, an influx of international players combined with home-grow ... |
Pierre Mulele | ... mba" (Swahili for "Lion") rebelled against the government. They were led by | , Gaston Soumialot and Christophe Gbenye who were former members of Gizeng ... |
Walter Gropius | ... d condemned the Bauhaus school, and its leaders left Germany. Two of these, | and Marcel Breuer, took positions at the Harvard GSD. Their iconoclastic f ... |
Frank Capra | ... stage play by Ken Ludwig, the lead character, George, hoping to be cast by | as the Scarlet Pimpernel. In The Desert Song, the heroic "Red Shadow" has ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... musical style built around funk or syncopated rock & roll breaks, Al Green, | , Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Billie Holiday, Aretha Frankl ... |
Ed Byrne | ... sized shows with comics such as Ardal O'Hanlon, Stephen K. Amos, Rich Hall, | , Frankie Boyle, and |
William Wyler | ... n ill-fitting costume with a low neckline, she was rebuffed by the director | , who loudly commented to the assembled crew, "What do you think of these ... |
Ronaldinho | ... La Liga and the Supercopa de España in 2004–05, and the team's midfielder, | , won the FIFA World Player of the Year award |
Frederick Loewe | ... alace. It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and | , which is based on T. H. White's literary version of the legend, The Once ... |
Maximillian Arturo | His best friend Wade Welles and his professor/mentor | join him on his second test. However, the wormhole grows unstable and spir ... |
Joe Strummer | ... and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of | (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Mick Jones (lead guitar, vocals), Paul Simon ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... inspired by experiences in Western "serious" music, from Claude Debussy to | , such a scheme cannot be sustained by the evidence from a cognitive appro ... |
Dick Gregory | In 1969, the ACLU won a major victory for free speech, when it defended | after he was arrested for peacefully protesting against the mayor of Chica ... |
Morris Hillquit | ... his book, and he was released upon his own recognizance after his attorney, | , promised to make him available at the Federal Building the next day. His ... |
Mark Twain | ... d about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, | wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: 'A few month ... |
Bohuslav Martinů | Concert composers who have written for theremin include | , Percy Grainger, Christian Wolff, Joseph Schillinger, Moritz Eggert, Irai ... |
Hubert Scott-Paine | ... ed a design (PV70) (later renamed PT-9 during the competition), designed by | |
Bob Marley | ... r Tosh, Sly & Robbie, Bill Laswell, Lee Perry, Mad Professor, Roots Radics, | and Buju Banton heavily influencing the music. This influence has lessened ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... 1953); and Beat the Devil (1953). Moby Dick (1956), however, was written by | , although Huston had his name added to the screenplay credit after the co ... |
Carsten Jancker | ... against Mönchengladbach. Feyenoord were knocked out in the semi-finals by a | inspired |
Eugene Wigner | As | wrote: "Ten days before Fermi had died he told me, 'I hope it won't take l ... |
Ole Olsen | ... l Boocock, Kelvin Tatum, Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions | , Hans Nielsen, Greg Hancock, Billy Hamill and Jack Young |
William Wyler | ... friends in the movie industry. Huston had, with friends including director | and screenwriter Philip Dunne, established the "Committee for the First Am ... |
Richard Garriott | The buyer was computer gaming entrepreneur and astronaut's son | (also known as Lord British), who stated in a 2001 interview with Computer ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by | . Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... #31 (Nov. 1989). A few months after this, the Spectre has a cameo in writer | 's The Books of Magic, a four-issue miniseries starring many DC occult cha ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | According to | , Lincoln College preserves "more of the character of a 15th century colle ... |
Eric Idle | ... parody of the show as part of Rutland Weekend Television in 1975, featuring | as Harris, is the first known mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Spro ... |
Chris Harris | ... are Tom Farndon, Jack Parker, Arthur Forrest, Nigel Boocock, Kelvin Tatum, | , Emil Sayfutdinov and World Champions Ole Olsen, Hans Nielsen, Greg Hanco ... |
Rhys Chatham | ... onic Youth who took inspiration from the No Wave composers Glenn Branca and | (himself a student of LaMonte Young). Marc Masters, in his book on the No ... |
Liev Schreiber | ... hn Clark has been portrayed by Willem Dafoe in Clear and Present Danger and | in The Sum of All Fears. As of now Paramount is trying to get Without Remo ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
Adam Worth | ... lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to | , one of the real life models of Moriarty. The character of Moriarty as Ho ... |
Cathy Young | ... nts of time working, but women still spend more time on housework, although | responded by arguing that women may prevent equal participation by men in ... |
Laurie York Erskine | ... s who specialized in tales of the Mounted Police were James Oliver Curwood, | , James B Hendryx, T Lund, Harwood Steele (the son of Sam Steele) and Will ... |
Joseph Schillinger | ... ten for theremin include Bohuslav Martinů, Percy Grainger, Christian Wolff, | , Moritz Eggert, Iraida Yusupova, Jorge Antunes, Vladimir Komarov and Anis ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... ind "Television", "Sparta" and "Southern Cross". Midnight Oil came from the | song, "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | ... ple in Rome was planned by Julius Caesar and was erected after his death by | on the site of the Curia Hostilia, which had been restored by Lucius Corne ... |
Irving Berlin | ... ole was as Cosmo Constantine in the original 1950 Broadway stage version of | 's Call Me Madam, opposite Ethel Merman (although he is heard singing a so ... |
Tom Stoppard | Housman is the main character in the 1997 | play The Invention of Love. Many titles for novels and films have been dra ... |
Marwan al-Shehhi | ... ing project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and | all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents |
Queen Alexandra | ... Wales's Yorkshire Regiment), the British regiment named for his grandmother | |
Olivia Newton-John | ... selling domestic artist) and John Williamson; solo artists John Farnham and | , folk-rocker Paul Kelly; Dance group The Avalanches; jazz guitarist Tommy ... |
Percy Grainger | Concert composers who have written for theremin include Bohuslav Martinů, | , Christian Wolff, Joseph Schillinger, Moritz Eggert, Iraida Yusupova, Jor ... |
Butch Cassidy | ... e Tender. He has the distinction of being the first actor to portray outlaw | in the film Three Outlaws, opposite Alan Hale, Jr. as the Sundance Kid. Th ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... e of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson. He, Watson and | were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for ... |
Jack Parker | ... he top speedway riders who have represented Coventry teams are Tom Farndon, | , Arthur Forrest, Nigel Boocock, Kelvin Tatum, Chris Harris, Emil Sayfutdi ... |
T. S. Eliot | Merton alumni include four Nobel prize winners: poet | , physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and chemist ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... liards and watching Hollywood movies, especially those of Buster Keaton and | . He also learned rudimentary English skills by reading the Bible and nove ... |
Hitler | ... which would amount to an end or severe curtailment of Poland's sovereignty | ;abrogated the Polish-German pact. Before the war broke out, Poland entere ... |
Willem Dafoe | On film, John Clark has been portrayed by | in Clear and Present Danger and Liev Schreiber in The Sum of All Fears. As ... |
John Carnell | The adaptations were scripted by | . Steve Leialoha provided the art for Hitchhiker's and the layouts for Res ... |
Otto Preminger | ... another modernist innovation, such as jazz star Duke Ellington's score for | 's Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
Nikolaas Tinbergen | ... l prize winners: poet T. S. Eliot, physicist Sir Anthony Leggett, zoologist | and chemist Frederick Soddy. Other Merton alumni are Bodleian Library foun ... |
Yoshitaka Amano | ... remixed soundtrack, added full motion video sequences, and art galleries of | 's illustrations. Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls is, like Final Fanta ... |
Albert Bierstadt | File:Bierstadt LandersPeak 1863.jpg| | , 1863, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Pea |
Arthur MacArthur, Jr. | ... st and famous military men such as Ulysses S. Grant, Philip Henry Sheridan, | , and George Crook were stationed at the fort at various times. Finally, o ... |
W. G. Sebald | German writer (and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia) | in his second book The Rings of Saturn details a coastal walk along the Su ... |
Mark Renshaw | ... nce green jersey champion, Mark Cavendish, with his team mate lead out man, | finishing second. Cavendish had been scheduled to be racing in the 2011 Vu ... |
Éder | ... t in its history. This team that had players like Reinaldo, Toninho Cerezo, | , Luisinho, Paulo Isidoro, João Leite won the state championship 6 times i ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... thropomorphic depiction of Sherlock Holmes. He turned down offers to direct | 's Something Wicked This Way Comes and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream ... |
Mark Cavendish | ... won by sprint specialist and reigning Tour de France green jersey champion, | , with his team mate lead out man, Mark Renshaw finishing second. Cavendis ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... informed performance movement. Performances of composers from Beethoven to | with limited vibrato are now not uncommon. Norrington caused controversy d ... |
Magnus Hirschfeld | ... ls to self-disclose to their family members and acquaintances. Years later, | revisited the topic in his major work The Homosexuality of Men and Women ( ... |
Cedric Gibbons | ... ress in a Leading Role (Caron), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Color) ( | , Paul Groesse, Edwin B. Willis, Arthur Krams), Best Cinematography (Color ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ter signed by a number of prominent Jewish figures including Hannah Arendt, | , Sidney Hook, and Rabbi Jessurun Cardozo, which described Irgun as a "a t ... |
Edward G. Robinson | ... gnized by Maurice Schwartz, who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. | and Paul Muni were cousins to Charles M. Fritz, who was a notable actor du ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... f the vote, compared to 56% statewide. In the 2006 state governor election, | won over 72% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides won nea ... |
Trudy Cooper | Another fact that had been altered in the film was the statement by | , who commented that she "wondered how they would've felt if every time th ... |
Elvis Presley | ... cked up momentum in the 1960s with six flms, including Fun in Acapulco with | in 1963 and Lord Jim with Peter O'Toole in 1965. His final film, The Chall ... |
Elvis Presley | ... r. He became well known as a villain when he killed the character played by | in Love Me Tender. He has the distinction of being the first actor to port ... |
Sergei Prokofiev | ... and a Cantata for Wartime, op. 95, for women's voices and orchestra (1943). | composed Semero ikh (1917–18; rev. 1933), and in 1939 premiered a cantata ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... ld Guy Fawkes" of the Gunpowder Plot—or the colonial and agrarian mythos of | and James George Frazer, which, at least for reasons of textual history, e ... |
Von Neumann | ... ied heat flow and infrared radiation, and discovered the greenhouse effect. | , Turing, Khinchin, Markov and Wiener, all mathematicians, made major cont ... |
Kit Carson | ... ive American tribes of the American West, under James Carleton's direction, | instituted a scorched earth policy, burning Navajo fields and homes, and s ... |
Plácido Polanco | ... Ugueth Urbina and infielder Ramon Martinez to the Philadelphia Phillies for | (and later signed him for 4 years). The Tigers stayed on the fringes of co ... |
Maurice Schwartz | He was quickly recognized by | , who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. Edward G. Robinson and P ... |
Otto Preminger | ... on Is Blue is a 1953 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by | and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara. Written by ... |
John Bidwell | ... e events as the most seminal in Chico history. They included the arrival of | in 1850, the arrival of the California and Oregon Railroad in 1870, the es ... |
Pherecydes of Leros | ... of myths; the account of Orion is based largely on the mythologist and poet | . Here Orion is described as earthborn and enormous in stature. This versi ... |
Daniel Day-Lewis | ... y of "Plastic Paddyism" (or, in his words, "Dermot-itis") are Bill Clinton, | , and Shane MacGowan. Scottish-Australian songwriter Eric Bogle wrote and ... |
Errol Flynn | ... Tracker, Shine and Ten Canoes. Australian trained actors of renown include | , Peter Finch, Rod Taylor, Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Russel ... |
Hristo Stoichkov | ... ng international stars such as Ronald Koeman, Michael Laudrup, Romário, and | . Under his guidance, Barcelona won four consecutive La Liga titles from 1 ... |
Eric Dolphy | ... axophonist John Coltrane. Other important pioneers included Charles Mingus, | , Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, Joe Maneri and Sun Ra. Although today "free ... |
Annabel Jankel | ... evision exposure thanks to its innovative animated music video, directed by | and Rocky Morton. Costello also found time in 1979 to produce the debut al ... |
John Cleese | ... red in a production of Carrie's War, the Nina Bawden novel, at the in 2009. | said in an 8 May 2009 interview that the role of Sybil Fawlty was original ... |
Mikis Theodorakis | ... lis, conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, soprano Maria Callas, composers such as | , Nikos Skalkottas, Iannis Xenakis, Manos Hatzidakis, Eleni Karaindrou, Ya ... |
Madonna | ... onymous Messiah (2001, Vitamin Records). Other tributes include material by | and Blondie |
Kevin Keegan | Dalglish was signed to replace | , and Liverpool supporters were initially sceptical that he could perform ... |
Uta Hagen | ... y, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under coach | . He also became enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. ... |
Frédéric Chopin | ... sing concert star. She became close to Liszt's circle of friends, including | , who dedicated his 12 Études, Op. 25 to her (his earlier set of 12 Études ... |
Orson Welles | ... and starred Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, Richard Basehart as Ishmael, and | as Father Mapple. A significant result of the film was Bradbury's book Gre ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | | shot the scenery for his 1955 movie The Trouble with Harry in Craftsbury. ... |
Elvis Presley | ... s of Sun Records as the type of music he was seeking when he first recorded | |
Catharine Parr Traill | ... Traill, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and son of Canadian pioneer | |
Johnny Rotten | ... of the music for the band's songs and most of the lyrics, while lead singer | made some adjustments. Matlock is credited as a co-author on 10 of the 12 ... |
Jessurun Cardozo | ... sh figures including Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Sidney Hook, and Rabbi | , which described Irgun as a "a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organiza ... |
Peter Kropotkin | ... elated to the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin and influenced by anarchist | . Social ecologists assert that the present ecological crisis has its root ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | The climax of the | film The Man Who Knew Too Much was filmed in the Royal Albert Hall |
Samuel R. Delany | ... of science fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, | , Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Ge ... |
Robert Graves | In the poem The Red Ribbon Dream, written by | not long after Rivers's death, he touches on the peace and security he fel ... |
Joseph M. Papp | Noteworthy residents of Seven Hills have included professional cyclist | ,unjustly convicted World War II war criminal John Demjanjuk, former profe ... |
Minnie Schoenberg Marx | Groucho's parents were | and Sam Marx (called "Frenchie" throughout his life because of his birthpl ... |
Julio Ricardo Cruz | ... entus. However, Juventus were beaten 2–0 in Rotterdam, both goals scored by | . In 1998, the FIOD-ECD (Fiscal Information and Investigation Service/Econ ... |
Elvis Presley | ... eplaced in September 1985 by bassist/singer/songwriter Jason Scheff, son of | 's bassist Jerry Scheff, who joined the band for the final Foster-produced ... |
Luise Rainer | ... ole as a Chinese peasant, with a new bride, in The Good Earth. It costarred | as his humble wife; she won an Academy Award for her part. The film was a ... |
Claude Shannon | ... osed a theory of electric switches based on Boolean logic even earlier than | in 1935 on the testimony of Soviet logicians and mathematicians Yanovskaya ... |
Indo-Aryan migration | ... nds to the Sarasvati area mentioned in the Rig Veda as the homeland for the | s into India, ca. 1500 BC |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... of act 3 following Berg's death, and Helene Berg, Alban's widow, approached | to complete the orchestration. Schoenberg at first accepted, but upon bein ... |
Angela Lansbury | ... world as the "close of yet another chapter of the Golden Age of Hollywood". | summed up the feeling of those of the Hollywood community who attended her ... |
M. Night Shyamalan | ... ctor), a conflicted priest in Quills (2000), a washed-up baseball player in | 's Signs (2002), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widel ... |
Albert Einstein | ... wave-particle duality theory of matter, based on the work of Max Planck and | on light. The thesis examiners, unsure of the material, passed his thesis ... |
William Sublette | ... ll sorts of extravagances that white men or Indians could invent." In 1830, | brought the first wagons carrying his trading goods up the Platte, North P ... |
Mario Bauza | ... iece to be overtly based in-clave was "Tanga" (1943) composed by Cuban-born | and recorded by Machito and his Afro-Cubans in New York City. "Tanga" bega ... |
Elvis Costello | ... nd The Beatles to Eric Clapton, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Led Zeppelin, | , and Elton John |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The Emperor's erudition amazed | when both met. Victor Hugo told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you a ... |
James E. Talmage | In 1930, a small volume edited by Apostle | titled Latter-day Revelations was published, which was a highly edited sel ... |
Jack Kent Cooke | ... t six years, and in the last decade has claimed 41 Fulbright scholars and 3 | scholars |
Jim Morrison | ... y 70s, were the deaths of popular rock stars Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and | all at the age of 27. Funk, an offshoot of Soul music with a greater empha ... |
Madonna | ... f people to the city, and bringing famous celebrities like Adam Sandler and | |
Chris Harris | ... ic speedway treble of Elite League, Knock-out Cup and Craven Shield, whilst | won both the Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain and the British Champion ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... 1 biographical film which tells the story of the last Russian monarch, Tsar | , and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra |
Euler | The following infinite product definitions for the gamma function, due to | and Weierstrass respectively, are valid for all complex numbers z, except ... |
Colin Farrell | ... , including Noel Purcell, Sir Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, | , Colm Meaney and Gabriel Byrne. The best known theatres include the Gaiet ... |
David Strassman | ... Son (Mack carved Charlie McCarthy's head), Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, | , Cecil Gough, Jeff Dunham, and Glen & George McElroy |
Ursula K. Le Guin | ... ien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, | , Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He l ... |
Madonna | "No More Words" was also included as the B-side of | 's #1 hit of 1985, "Crazy for You". Both songs were part of the soundtrack ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... xistentialist themes are displayed in the Theatre of the Absurd, notably in | 's Waiting for Godot, in which two men divert themselves while they wait e ... |
John Demjanjuk | ... ssional cyclist Joseph M. Papp,unjustly convicted World War II war criminal | , former professional football player Jack Squirek, Jaas well as fashion d ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... ajor event in music in the early 70s, were the deaths of popular rock stars | , Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all at the age of 27. Funk, an offshoot of ... |
Walter Laqueur | Writing in 1987, | commented that the revisionists in the field of Soviet history were guilty ... |
John Lennon | ... , the same sort of bass has a tea chest as a resonator. Before the Beatles, | and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as di ... |
Dimitri Mitropoulos | ... uchis, Nikos Engonopoulos, Constantine Andreou, Jannis Kounellis, conductor | , soprano Maria Callas, composers such as Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Skalkot ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... until just before the outbreak of war. In late 1933 Keynes was persuaded by | to address President Roosevelt directly, which he did by letters and face ... |
Terry George | ... ruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village (2004), a disillusioned cameraman in | 's Hotel Rwanda (2004), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 (2004) |
Bobby Robson | Cruyff was briefly replaced by | , who took charge of the club for a single season in 1996–97. The club sig ... |
W. H. Auden | ... erse (1978), which he edited, was a revision of the original volume done by | . Amis took the anthology in a markedly new direction: Auden had interpret ... |
Mohamed Al-Fayed | ... (2004) about Lauren Harries and her family; You're Fayed, about businessman | ; Michael Carroll - King of Chavs about the British lottery winner known t ... |
Hans Gude | File:Hans Gude--Vinterettermiddag--1847.jpg| | , Winter Afternoon, 1847, National Gallery of Norway, Osl |
Michael Moorcock | ... wis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, | , Ursula K. Le Guin, Harlan Ellison, Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. ... |
Madonna | ... enced many electro-pop, other synthpop, and mainstream performers including | , La Roux, Moby, Pet Shop Boys, and Little Boots. They have been sampled a ... |
Andrew Carnegie | In 1915 | gave the school a grant of $50,000 for a central academic building. The te ... |
Licia Albanese | ... e opera, conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Jan Peerce as Rodolfo and | as Mimì. It is the only recording of a Puccini opera by its original condu ... |
Ray Harryhausen | ... Sea in a still-impressive combination of travelling mattes and water tanks. | extended the art of stop-motion animation with his special techniques of c ... |
Chaffey brothers | ... holdings resulted in the land's transferral to private hands. In 1881, the | purchased the land (which at that time also included the present-day city ... |
Usain Bolt | Rogge commented that | 's gestures of jubilation and excitement after winning the 100 meters in B ... |
Jack Young | ... and World Champions Ole Olsen, Hans Nielsen, Greg Hancock, Billy Hamill and | |
Shania Twain | ... h as Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Deana Carter, LeAnn Rimes, | , and Mary Chapin Carpenter all released platinum selling albums in the 90 ... |
Peter Lorre | ... ion, apparently leading him to lash out at cast and crew alike. Even friend | was not immune to the abuse |
Bernard Katz | ... xley, and others on the biophysics of the action potential, and the work of | and others on the electrochemistry of the synapse. These studies complemen ... |
Harlan Ellison | ... James Branch Cabell, Edgar Allan Poe, Michael Moorcock, Ursula K. Le Guin, | , Rudyard Kipling. Lord Dunsany and G. K. Chesterton. He later became a fa ... |
Aurelio Vidmar | ... sited Feyenoord because of suspected fraud, mainly based on the signings of | , Christian Gyan and Patrick Allotey. This became an ongoing scandal in th ... |
John Lennon | ... ed with a cover of "Twist and Shout", which had to be recorded last because | had a particularly bad cold and Martin feared the throat-shredding vocal w ... |
Jessica Mitford | ... os Angeles Magazine described it as a "theme-park necropolis", paraphrasing | , indicating "Forest Lawn’s kitsch was just a sophisticated strategy for l ... |
Emma Goldman | ... feelings about the revolution were now ambiguous: on the one hand, he told | , who had recently arrived aboard Buford and especially complained about t ... |
Fernando Filoni | The current Prefect of the Congregation is Cardinal | . The current Secretary is Archbishop Savio Hon Tai-Fai from Hong Kong |
James Joyce | ... ern literature, a poetic counterpart to a novel published in the same year, | 's Ulysses |
Etta Place | ... k down the gang. Sundance then leaves to visit his lover, the schoolteacher | (Katharine Ross). The next morning, Butch arrives on a bicycle, and takes ... |
Tatiana | ... . Olga was well-loved by her young parents. Three more girls followed Olga: | on 10 June 1897, Maria on 26 June 1899 and Anastasia on 18 June 1901. Thre ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... Robert Heinlein Omnibus is an anthology of science fiction short stories by | published i |
Marco Polo | | , the famed explorer, saw newborns exposed in Manzi. China's society pract ... |
Walter Gropius | ... y on the score until 1935, when the death of Manon Gropius, the daughter of | and Alma Mahler, prompted him to break off work to write his Violin Concer ... |
George Sudarshan | ... ion theory suggested a new approach was needed. In 1957, Robert Marshak and | and, somewhat later, Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann proposed a V−A ( ... |
Brendan Gleeson | ... om the Dublin theatrical scene, including Noel Purcell, Sir Michael Gambon, | , Stephen Rea, Colin Farrell, Colm Meaney and Gabriel Byrne. The best know ... |
Johannes Kepler | ... he traditional minor aspects, introduced by the famed astronomer/astrologer | in the 16th Century AD, were long considered to be of relatively secondary ... |
Richard Garriott | ... stated in a 2001 interview with Computer Games Magazine's Cindy Yans that: | has more recently confirmed that he is the owner of Lunokhod 2 |
William S. Burroughs | ... ape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Allen Ginsberg and | |
Gus Kahn | #"I'll See You in My Dreams" (Isham Jones/ | ) – 4:0 |
George Clooney | ... e village is also mentioned in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou starring | in a lead role. There's a street sign reading "Satartia — 7 miles" in one ... |
Noël Coward | ... n) in 1926. The play was performed on the London stage in 1926 and featured | and |
Elvis Presley | ... meha Schools children's chorus. Also contains five songs by American singer | (the soundtrack, along with the film, features more Presley singles than a ... |
Hitler | ... th anniversary of the failed Munich Putsch the regiment swore allegiance to | . The oath given: Pledging loyalty to him alone and Obedience unto death. ... |
Max Reinhardt | ... stage and film career in Hungary, Germany and Austria where he worked with | . He arrived in Hollywood in 1927 and became a naturalized citizen of the ... |
Tommaso Buscetta | ... tice). In the wake of the Maxi Trial in 1986-87, and after the testimony of | , the term was more often used for former members of the Sicilian Mafia wh ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ces to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein, and | . Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of national archives ... |
Christian Gyan | ... because of suspected fraud, mainly based on the signings of Aurelio Vidmar, | and Patrick Allotey. This became an ongoing scandal in the years to come w ... |
John Glenn | ... he best of them all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, | , Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
Fritz Kreisler | ... considerable controversy. The view that continuous vibrato was invented by | and some of his colleagues is held to be shown by early sound recordings, ... |
Richard Curtis | The Black Adder was the first series of Blackadder and was written by | and Rowan Atkinson, and produced by John Lloyd. The series was originally ... |
Ernest Cassel | ... aftesbury. She was the favourite granddaughter of the Edwardian magnate Sir | and the principal heir to his fortune. There followed a glamorous honeymoo ... |
Elvis Presley | ... nactivated. Probably, the most famous trainee to come through Fort Hood was | , arriving on 28 March 1958. Other than receiving record amounts of mail ( ... |
Alexei Nikolaevich | ... e more years passed before the Empress gave birth to the long-awaited heir: | was born in Peterhof on 12 August 1904. To his parents' dismay, Alexei was ... |
Vartan Gregorian | ... Company president and CEO Janet L. Robinson, Carnegie Corporation president | , and Jim Rettig, president of the American Library Association |
Gus Grissom | ... hem all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, | , Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
Claude Shannon | ... nted by Gilbert Vernam and Joseph Mauborgne at the laboratories. Bell Labs' | later proved that it is unbreakable |
Kit Carson | ... Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, | , Jim Bridger, Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Ma ... |
Madeleine Carroll | ... Lodger are all blondes. In The 39 Steps, Hitchcock's glamorous blonde star, | , is put in handcuffs. In Marnie (1964), the title character (played by Ti ... |
Mark Ronson | ... The Strokes) and model/singer Irina Lazareanu. In October 2007 Sean joined | in the BBC Electric Proms where he sang "Sail on, Sailor", as well as "We ... |
Leon Trotsky | Jack was close to the inner circle of the new government. He met | and was introduced to Lenin during a break of the Constituent Assembly on ... |
Alma Reville | ... novel was first adapted as a 1928 silent film in 1928 by Adrian Brunel and | and directed by Brunel and Basil Dean. This version starred Ivor Novello, ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... had some limitations. It did, however, bring him into fruitful contact with | . He wanted to train in Psychoanalysis and in 1938 he began a training ana ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... tian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by | . Euler gave two different definitions: the first was not his integral but ... |
George Soros | ... tulip market in the eighteenth century. In another well-referenced example, | became notorious for "breaking the Bank of England" on Black Wednesday of ... |
John Lennon | ... made a considerable impact on the humour of The Beatles, and especially on | . On 30 September 1973, Lennon reviewed the book The Goon Show Scripts for ... |
Maimonides | ... od, or at least comply with the minimal requisites of civilization and of . | states, in Mishneh Torah that a non-Jew who is precise in the observance o ... |
Joseph Seligman | ... States. The population was 877 at the 2000 census. The town is named after | , a prominent 19th Century businessman |
Albert Einstein | In 1915, | developed his theory of general relativity, having earlier shown that grav ... |
Ian Rush | ... lso around this time that he began to form a potent strike partnership with | ; Dalglish began to play just off Rush, "running riot in the extra space a ... |
Victor Emmanuel III | ... iopia) and claimed his title, Emperor of Abyssinia, for the King of Italy ( | ), not all states recognized this claim (see diplomatic recognition), and ... |
David Bohm | ... bilistic models which dominate quantum mechanical theory; it was refined by | in the 1950s |
George Hincapie | In the Spring of 1997 Marty Jemison, Tyler Hamilton and | moved to Girona as teammates of the US Postal Service Professional Cycling ... |
Tom Jones | ... e Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, | , Elton John, The Beatles and even former Prime Minister |
Scott Carpenter | ... ered by many test pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were | , Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and ... |
Jim Bridger | ... diah Smith, William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, | , Peter Skene Ogden, David Thompson, James Douglas, Donald Mackenzie, Alex ... |
Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated film version of The Lord of the Rings, the Nazgûl hack an ... |
Carlos Alberto | ... putting England under enormous pressure and an attack was begun by captain | who sent a fizzing low ball down the right flank for the speedy Jairzinho ... |
Cal Crutchlow | ... E, Neil Back, Danny Grewcock MBE, Geoff Evans and Andy Goode; motor-cyclist | ; golfer Laura Davies CBE; sprinter Marlon Devonish MBE; distance runners ... |
Nikola Tesla | The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by | in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boun ... |
Napoleon I | ... July 1795, making it France's first anthem. It later lost this status under | , and the song was banned outright by Louis XVIII and Napoleon III, only b ... |
Daniel Day-Lewis | ... ing on the other end of the social scale (and like that film, also starring | ). The film also marked the first collaboration between Scorsese and actor ... |
Sebastian Coe | ... Vancouver Olympic Torch relay. He handed off the flame to the next runner, | |
M. Night Shyamalan | ... (Patricia Kalember), was killed in a traffic accident caused by Ray Reddy ( | ). The accident left Graham embittered and caused him to lose his faith in ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... rnment's lower house is selected by sortition. In Songs of Distant Earth by | , the futuristic society on Thalassa is ruled by demarchy |
Elvis Costello | ... ed up guest appearances from Madness, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Prefab Sprout, | , Gary Kemp, Tom Robinson, Sade, The Beat, Lloyd Cole, The Blow Monkeys an ... |
Lance Armstrong | ... at the Pont de Pedra. Later, other well-known professional cyclists such as | came to live in the city |
Gordon Cooper | ... pilots to be the best of them all. The Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, | , John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
Elvis Presley | ... lk music and rock. In this period, his key visual and musical influence was | |
Pablo Picasso | ... . In Paris, Gris followed the lead of another friend and fellow countryman, | . Although he submitted darkly humorous illustrations to journals such as ... |
Clive James | ... n possible without this kind of self discipline. Nevertheless, according to | , Amis reached a turning point when his drinking ceased to be social, and ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... pace Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by | |
Maurice Greene | ... d won the bronze medal at those World Championships, finishing third behind | . Two years later, he came in sixth in the individual final, but did win a ... |
John Surtees | ... Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins, Giancarlo Baghetti, | , Lorenzo Bandini, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Clay R ... |
Rick Springfield | Australian/American singer/actor | was regarded as the teen idol in the 1980s with such hits as "Jessie's Gir ... |
Lee Strasberg | ... essive about it." Director Roman Polanski urged Kinski to study acting with | in the United States and cast her in his film, Tess (1979). In 1981, photo ... |
Ezra Pound | ... significant of which was his introduction to the acclaimed literary figure | . A connection through Aiken resulted in an arranged meeting and on Septem ... |
Alfred Brendel | ... Welt. One musician who wrote to the press to defend Rattle was the pianist | . In 2007, the BPO/Rattle recording of Brahms's received the Classic FM Gr ... |
Maurice Wilkins | ... urned down Francis Crick from working at King's College.) Francis Crick and | of King's College were personal friends, which influenced subsequent scien ... |
Irina Lazareanu | ... e likes of Dopo Yume, Albert Hammond, Jr. (of The Strokes) and model/singer | . In October 2007 Sean joined Mark Ronson in the BBC Electric Proms where ... |
John Lennon | ... many skiffle groups that followed was The Quarrymen formed in March 1957 by | . Donegan's "Gamblin' Man" / "Puttin' On the Style" single was number one ... |
Salma Hayek | ... ble because he was black; they lead the others to former muse Serendipity ( | ); they procure the divine instrument that will stop Azrael; Jay reveals t ... |
Werner Herzog | ... ar cabin. Phoenix then realized that the man was famed German film director | . While Herzog helped Phoenix out of the wreckage by breaking the back win ... |
Loussac | ... the Ann Stevens Building in her honor. There is also a reading room at the | Library in Anchorage which is named for her |
Elvis Costello | ... neration stuff." The term was often used in reference to critics' favorites | and Nick Lowe, whose style was viewed as a less-threatening version of pun ... |
Lloyd Cole | ... ma, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Costello, Gary Kemp, Tom Robinson, Sade, The Beat, | , The Blow Monkeys and The Smiths along the way |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | ... ressed. A typical example is the Soviet Union where the dissidents, such as | and Andrei Sakharov were under strong pressure from the government. While ... |
George Frideric Handel | In England, | includes trombones in three of his oratorios: Saul (1738), Israel in Egypt ... |
Greene | Montgomery broke | 's 100 m world record by 0.01 seconds in September 2002. With a tailwind o ... |
Tyler Hamilton | In the Spring of 1997 Marty Jemison, | and George Hincapie moved to Girona as teammates of the US Postal Service ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... Davies, Lily Allen, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Richard Dawkins, Cleo Laine, | , Peter Hitchens, Kathy Burke, Stephen Fry, Andre Previn, Jackie Mason, an ... |
Nicky Hopkins | ... 1966, he did his first work with Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck, session man | , and future Led Zeppelin members Page and John Paul Jones to record an in ... |
Yo-Yo Ma | ... ] and Thomas Adès the same royal treatment that is extended to the likes of | and Joshua Bell; Borda talks about "hero composers." A recent performance ... |
Cary Grant | ... so has unconfirmed references to That Touch of Mink, starring Doris Day and | |
Nahmanides | ... overed the remains of what turned out to be the medieval yeshiva founded by | |
Eugene Wigner | ... in distances himself from mathematical platonism, and gives his reaction to | 's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" |
Rhys Chatham | ... en extremely influential with Young's associates: Tony Conrad, Jon Hassell, | , Michael Harrison, Henry Flynt, Ben Neill, Charles Curtis, and Catherine ... |
Pelé | ... the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players selected by | and commissioned by FIFA for that organization's 100th anniversary.Other a ... |
The Great Khali | The Punjabi Prison match, named after the Punjab state that | (the match's 'founder') is billed from, consists of two large bamboo cages ... |
Boucher | Groff Conklin described the novel as "a thoroughly delightful job". | and McComas praised it as "easily the most plausible, carefully detailed p ... |
Amedeo Modigliani | ... , Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, then in 1915 he was painted by his friend, | . In Paris, Gris followed the lead of another friend and fellow countryman ... |
Jedediah Smith | In fall of 1823, | and Thomas Fitzpatrick led their trapping crew south from the Yellowstone ... |
Grace Kelly | ... (played by Tippi Hedren) is a thief. In To Catch a Thief (1955), Francie ( | ) offers to help a man she believes is a burglar. In Rear Window, Lisa (Gr ... |
Christopher Reeve | ... retty Woman was a rather lengthy process. Marshall had initially considered | for the role of Lewis, and Al Pacino turned it down. Pacino went as far as ... |
John Aldridge | ... Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings | and Peter Beardsley for the 1987–88 season, and he played only twice in a ... |
Ovid | ... g to Statius, it bordered Elysium, the final resting place of the virtuous. | wrote that the river flowed through the cave of Hypnos, god of sleep, wher ... |
Patrick Allotey | ... d fraud, mainly based on the signings of Aurelio Vidmar, Christian Gyan and | . This became an ongoing scandal in the years to come with chairman Jorien ... |
Fritz Lang | ... ures and matte paintings could be used to depict worlds that never existed. | 's film Metropolis was an early special effects spectacular, with innovati ... |
Harry Groener | ... uffy and her friends at graduation against the demonic Mayor of Sunnydale ( | ), where Cordelia slays her first vampire |
George Chaffey | ... ation to develop agriculture irrigated by the waters of the river. Engineer | was hired to design the Alamo Canal, which split off from the Colorado Riv ... |
Joseph Haydn | ... k of trombone players. Most of these works derive from Vienna and Salzburg. | uses trombones in Il rotorno di Tobia, Die Sieben Letzten Worte, The Creat ... |
Celia Cruz | ... June 4, 2004, nearly a year after the death of Cuban-American salsa singer | (who lived in nearby Fort Lee), Union City heralded its annual Cuban Day P ... |
Brian Aherne | ... n 1933 by Dorothy Farnum and directed by Dean. It featured Victoria Hopper, | and Leonora Corbett |
Arnold Dreyblatt | ... ll, Charles Curtis, and Catherine Christer Hennix. Young's students include | , Daniel James Wolf and Lawrence Chandler. It has also been notably influe ... |
Herodotus | ... Aeschylus, Aristotle, Clement of Alexandria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, | , Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, S ... |
Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II | ... was mentioned in an inventory of specimens in the Prague collection of the | to whom Savery was contracted at the time (1607–1611). Savery's several la ... |
Aaron Klug | ... cluded James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Alex Rich, the late Seymour Benzer, | , Christof Koch, Pat Churchland, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Tomaso Poggio, th ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... all honeymooners went there"), and to Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, and | in Hollywood, Chaplin creating a widely seen home movie "Nice and Friendly ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... ansmitted long-distance 128-line television images of Secretary of Commerce | from Washington to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was f ... |
Charlie Chaplin's | ... lk Stories, a low budget salute to sentimental silent comedies particularly | The Kid |
Peter Beardsley | ... Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and | for the 1987–88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign whic ... |
John Wesley Powell | ... up of settlers from Panguitch investigated the area, meeting members of the | expedition. Powell's group recommended any new community be named Escalant ... |
Donna Summer | ... of the decade with bands like the Bee Gees, ABBA, Village People, Boney M, | , KC and the Sunshine Band, etc. In response to this, rock music became in ... |
Oliver O'Grady | ... e scandal in Latin America* Criticism of Pope John Paul II* Marcial Maciel* | * Roman Catholic sex abuse cases by country* Sexual abuse scandal in the E ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ded soirees that included soldiers, politicians, literary lights (including | , Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins), and artists (in ... |
Christopher Hitchens | ... hat the troubled grandee came to disapprove of his own conduct." His friend | said: "The booze got to him in the end, and robbed him of his wit and char ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... reu as well as Siegfried and Winifred Wagner, who invitated keynote speaker | to Wahnfried house. There he met writer Houston Stewart Chamberlain, son-i ... |
Albert Einstein | ... 998, and others have been produced for the birthdays of notable people like | , historical events like the interlocking Lego block's 50th anniversary an ... |
Raoul Wallenberg | | , a Swedish diplomat, was directly inspired by the film Pimpernel Smith to ... |
Jessica Tandy | ... tack by vicious birds, and struggles to free himself of a clinging mother ( | ). The killer in Frenzy (1972) has a loathing of women but idolises his mo ... |
Billy Hughes | ... n for three sitting days. Three days later Labor Caucus unanimously elected | leader of the Federal Parliamentary Party. A Wide Bay by-election was held ... |
Charles Boyer | A third adaptation in 1943 featured | , Joan Fontaine and Alexis Smith. It was adapted by Kathryn Scola and dire ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... 25 seconds into the flight there was an "[U]nscheduled yaw-lift maneuver": | wrote several years later that Mariner 1 was "wrecked by the most expensiv ... |
Vanessa Angel | ... chaser. In 1996, he starred in the comedy Kingpin alongside Randy Quaid and | |
Tony Jay | ... oduced by Dave Gooden, the original TV scripts were adapted and directed by | , for the 1st six months and Dennis Folbigge for the remainder. South Afri ... |
David Bowie | ... let, ABC and Culture Club. They adopted their visual and musical style from | and Roxy Music. The Italian scene between the end of '70s and the '80s was ... |
Osama bin Laden | Analysts believe | ordered the assassination to help his Taliban protectors and ensure he wou ... |
Claude Lévi-Strauss | ... oup of experimental writers where he met Roland Barthes, Georges Perec, and | , all of whom influenced his later production. That same year, he turned d ... |
Wim Wenders | ... Sky Over Berlin) is a 1987 Franco-German romantic fantasy film directed by | . The film is about invisible, immortal angels who populate Berlin and lis ... |
Andrew Carnegie | ... is home to two Carnegie Libraries funded by the donations of steel magnate | . Both are considered historically and architecturally significant by the ... |
Cornelius Lanczos | ... d has been criticized as cumbersome by some (the 20th-century mathematician | , for example, called it "void of any rationality" and would instead use z ... |
Adolf Hitler | In 1945, | ordered his minister of armaments Albert Speer to carry out a nationwide s ... |
Ovid | ... ria, Diodorus, Diogenes, Euripides, Herodotus, Julian, Justin, Livy, Lucan, | , Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, Sophocles, Strabo, Thucydides, and X ... |
John Lennon | On 15 December 1969, Moon joined | 's Plastic Ono Band for a live performance at the Lyceum Ballroom in Londo ... |
Joan Fontaine | A third adaptation in 1943 featured Charles Boyer, | and Alexis Smith. It was adapted by Kathryn Scola and directed by Edmund G ... |
John B. Johnson | ... to New York. In 1928 the thermal noise in a resistor was first measured by | , and Harry Nyquist provided the theoretical analysis. (This is now referr ... |
Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
Ayn Rand | ... tivism is a philosophy created by Russian-American philosopher and novelist | (1905–1982). Objectivism's central tenets are that reality exists independ ... |
Nelson Mandela | This name was also given to | prior to his arrest and long incarceration for his anti-apartheid activiti ... |
Sid Meier | ... Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe. Even today, Dido appears in | 's strategy games Civilization II and Civilization V, as the female leader ... |
David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra | ... he grafting of different species (as defined by Jewish law) of trees. Rabbi | (Radbaz), a contemporary commentator on Maimonides, expressed surprise tha ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... led the Empire novels or trilogy) is a science fiction sequence of three of | 's earliest novels, and extended to one short story. They are connected by ... |
Osama bin Laden | ... umbia River High School in Vancouver, Murray made a number of remarks about | , as she attempted to explain why the US had such problems winning hearts ... |
Max Henius | ... ed in 1911 by a group of Americans of Danish descent. The effort was led by | , a Danish-American biochemist. In 1912 the park was given to the Danish s ... |
Sofia Coppola | ... eron Crowe's tragicomedy Elizabethtown (2005). She played the title role in | 's Marie Antoinette (2006) and starred in the comedy How to Lose Friends & ... |
Roger Waters | The band participated in former Pink Floyd member | ' The Wall Live in Berlin concert in 1990 |
Sophia Loren | ... took inspiration for her look from Italian actresses Gina Lollobrigida and | . He also wanted her to be seductive, amoral, and somewhat threatening. In ... |
Nicholas II of Russia | ... ad 21 godparents, among them his great-grandfather Christian IX of Denmark, | , George I of Greece, Oscar II of Sweden, his grandfather Crown Prince Fre ... |
Tommaso Buscetta | Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is | , the first important pentito. He was helpful to judge Giovanni Falcone in ... |
Harry Nyquist | ... the thermal noise in a resistor was first measured by John B. Johnson, and | provided the theoretical analysis. (This is now referred to as "Johnson no ... |
Houston Stewart Chamberlain | ... itated keynote speaker Adolf Hitler to Wahnfried house. There he met writer | , son-in-law of Richard Wagner and anti-semitic race theorist. Also on tha ... |
George Clooney | In March 2012, Sheen was featured with | in a performance of Dustin Lance Black's play, '8' — a staged reenactment ... |
Felix Yusupov | ... two decadent young princes, Grand Duke Dmitri (Richard Warwick) and Prince | (Martin Potter), invite Rasputin to an opium party and kill him in Decembe ... |
John Bidwell | The City of Chico was founded in 1860 by | , a member of one of the first wagon trains to reach California in 1843. D ... |
Peter Lorre | ... . In addition, the supporting cast included other noted actors: Mary Astor, | , Sydney Greenstreet (his first film role), and his own father, Walter Hus ... |
Lewis Yealland | ... l" illness and "cures" mainly involved electric shock, with doctors such as | particularly keen on this form of "treatment"). Rivers's treatment also we ... |
Albert Einstein | ... apes. Some of the voices to be found include Thomas Edison, Amelia Earhart, | , and Oscar Wilde. Bird Library is also home to the largest collection of ... |
Oisín | ... rs before he could bring it to Diarmuid. He had to be threatened by his son | and grandson Oscar to play fair, but too late: Diarmuid had died. After Di ... |
Orson Welles | ... ges in novel ways and create new illusions. One early showcase for Dunn was | ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu (and some of Gregg Toland's ... |
Alanis Morissette | ... ut by shooting his wings off with a MAC-10, turning him to a mortal), God ( | ) arrives, and proceeds to set things in order. After Jay spouts an obscen ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... h initially reluctant to accept the offer, the fact that one of his heroes, | , had composed dozens of songs for children, convinced him it was worthwhi ... |
Alanis Morissette | ... the previously mentioned Liz Phair, PJ Harvey and the massively successful | fit into this sub group |
Claude Rains | ... ly close relationship with his mother (played by Marion Lorne). Sebastian ( | ) in Notorious has a clearly conflictual relationship with his mother, who ... |
Deke Slayton | ... r, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and | |
Catherine Helen Spence | Finally, with the help of contemporaries such as John Stuart Mill and | , Hare popularised the idea of proportional representation worldwide. The ... |
Napoleon I | ... in the name of brotherhood the Vendôme Column, celebrating the victories of | , and considered by the Commune to be a monument to Bonapartism and chauvi ... |
Herbert Hoover | ... , 2007 when it was removed by the SEC (SEC Release No. 34-55970). President | condemned short sellers and even J. Edgar Hoover said he would investigate ... |
Igor Sikorsky | ... te aircraft, the F4U Corsair, and an official Connecticut Aviation Pioneer, | . The state officially recognizes aircraft designer Gustav Whitehead as "F ... |
John Davidson | ... eter Marshall and the first two seasons of the 1980s daily series hosted by | ), Match Game PM, and several short lived syndicated series in the mid-198 ... |
Artur Yusupov | ... r 6th–7th places, behind joint winners Andrei Sokolov, Rafael Vaganian, and | , but only four players advanced to matches. This was Spassky's last appea ... |
Emile Berliner | | started marketing his disc records in 1889. These records were five inches ... |
Nevil Shute | ... nate history novels. Prince Philip also appears as a fictional character in | 's novel In the Wet (1952) |
Wally Schirra | ... Mercury Seven were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, | , Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton |
Neil Gaiman | ... ader, but some find this "difficulty" rewarding. Wolfe said, in a letter to | : "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educat ... |
Mark Twain | ... ttle Female Academy. Life begins for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in the | stories (1876 and 1885) once Aunt Polly's ineffectual tutelage is shaken o ... |
Rudolph Valentino | ... portrait photographer. Betty was inspired to become an actress after seeing | in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) and Mary Pickford in Little ... |
Alan Shepard | ... ere Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, | , and Deke Slayton |
Mario Andretti | ... o Baghetti, John Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx, | , Clay Regazzoni, Niki Lauda, Carlos Reutemann, Jody Scheckter, Gilles Vil ... |
Pedro Knight | ... elia Cruz Plaza) at 31st Street and Bergenline Avenue, with Cruz's widower, | , present. The park featured a sidewalk star in Cruz's honor, and an 8' x ... |
Denis Law | ... cord) and he scored 30 goals, (also a national record, which he shares with | .) Dalglish's final appearance for Scotland, after 15 years as a full inte ... |
Prince Felix Yusupov | ... d to his murder in December 1916. Amongst the conspirators was the nobleman | , married to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna's daughter, Princess Irina o ... |
Gertrude Stein | ... other than Picasso or Braque. Although Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, | wrote in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that "Juan Gris was the only ... |
Daniel Barenboim | ... as several members of the orchestra were earlier reported to have preferred | for the post. Nevertheless, Rattle won the post and proceeded to win over ... |
K'naan | ... tists for Haiti song, in which many Canadian artists came together and sang | 's inspirational song "Wavin' Flag" to raise money for the victims of the ... |
Zaha Hadid | ... to be redeveloped, following a 2007 master plan designed by Iraqi architect | . This current peninsula will be transformed into an island and will featu ... |
Werner Herzog | ... in 1978. In the late 1970s, Jagger was cast as Wilbur, a main character in | 's Fitzcarraldo. However, a delay and the illness of main actor Jason Roba ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... ing four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Eric Idle and | . Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and Tom Hanks |
Arthur Adamov | ... mporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and | wove into their plays the existentialist belief that we are absurd beings ... |
Peter Debye | ... t the forefront of scientific investigation of new phenomena and materials. | received a degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in physics bef ... |
Claudio Abbado | ... isons with interpretations of the piece by Rattle's immediate predecessors, | and Herbert von Karajan. He has also worked with the Toronto Children's Ch ... |
Charmaine Hooper | ... Lehn, and Dagny Mellgren; Brazil's Sissi, Kátia and Pretinha; and Canada's | , Sharolta Nonen, and Christine Latham. The league also hosted singular ta ... |
Igor Stravinsky | ... ic rather late, thanks to his teachers at university. He cites Béla Bartók, | , Perotin, Leonin, Claude Debussy and Organum musical style as important i ... |
Eric Idle | ... terlude including four members of Monty Python: Michael Palin, Terry Jones, | and Terry Gilliam. Also performing: Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and Tom Ha ... |
Pierre van Hooijdonk | ... d in 1–1 draws, and the clash went into extra time and a penalty shoot-out. | , who had a superb season by scoring many goals from free kicks secured Fe ... |
Stewart Granger | David Threlfall played him in a TV movie, The Queen's Sister (2005). | played him in The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana (1982) |
Béla Bartók | ... classical music rather late, thanks to his teachers at university. He cites | , Igor Stravinsky, Perotin, Leonin, Claude Debussy and Organum musical sty ... |
Frank Gehry | ... , a move was made to the new Walt Disney Concert Hall next door designed by | . Its current "winter season" runs from October through late May or early ... |
John Wesley Powell | The first recorded ascent was in 1868 by the surveying party of | . The East Face of the mountain is quite steep, and is surmounted by a gig ... |
Jean Darling | ... , 1947. The original cast included John Raitt (Billy), Jan Clayton (Julie), | (Carrie), Eric Mattson (Enoch Snow), Christine Johnson (Nettie Fowler), Mu ... |
Nicky Hopkins | ... ty concert. The supergroup also consisted of Eric Clapton, George Harrison, | , Yoko Ono, Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann. The band played Lennon's Col ... |
Franco Modigliani | In the late 1930s and 1940s, economists (notably John Hicks, | , and Paul Samuelson) attempted to interpret and formalise Keynes's writin ... |
Billy Hughes | ... stralia’s war effort. Fisher visited New Zealand during this time which saw | as acting Prime Minister for two months. Fisher and Labor continued to imp ... |
Phil Hartman | ... arks, having a giant sea sponge instead. A captive James Bond, portrayed by | , offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lai ... |
Huntington Hartford | ... tory, religion, art, and myth into a unified whole. It was commissioned for | for the opening of his Museum Gallery of Modern Art on Columbus Circle (he ... |
Pedro Knight | With Fidel Castro assuming control of Cuba in 1959, Cruz and her husband, | , refused to return to their homeland and became citizens of the United St ... |
Maimonides | ... n against committing murder includes a prohibition against human sacrifice. | , in his Mishnah Torah, interpreted the prohibition against homicide as in ... |
Frank Borman | After | became president of Eastern in 1975, he moved Eastern's headquarters from ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... process clause. His chief rival on the issue (and on many other issues) was | , who advocated a substantive view of due process based on "natural law" - ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... ed by Vladimir Lenin (Michael Bryant), Joseph Stalin (James Hazeldine), and | (Brian Cox) have formed |
Osama bin Laden | ... tion of the face of the individual in question—for example, a caricature of | might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of George W. Bush mi ... |
Andreas Papandreou | Meanwhile, | founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in response to Karamanl ... |
César Pelli | ... e and Concert Hall and the Iberdrola Tower, designed by Argentine architect | and that will be, upon completion in 2011, the Basque Country's tallest sk ... |
Fausto Sozzini | ... nes Völkel. This work was a compendium of the arguments of Völkel's teacher | , figurehead of the Polish Unitarian movement |
Michael Haydn | ... likes of Leopold Mozart, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Johann Albrechtsberger, | and Johann Ernst Eberlin |
Yoko Ono | ... supergroup also consisted of Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Nicky Hopkins, | , Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann. The band played Lennon's Cold Turkey a ... |
Mick Jagger | ... caricature of Jay Leno may pronounce his head and chin; and a caricature of | might enlarge his lips. Exaggeration of memorable features helps people to ... |
Ed Victor | ... nd Simon and Schuster were later negotiated by Douglas Adams and his agent, | , after gaining full rights to the recordings from Original Records, which ... |
Mircea Eliade | ... ve been a dominant religious practice for humanity during the Palaeolithic. | writes, "A first definition of this complex phenomenon, and perhaps the le ... |
Georg Solti | | accepted the post in 1960, but resigned in 1961 without officially beginni ... |
Mal Evans | ... and son, McCartney and Jane Asher, Pattie Boyd's 16-year-old sister, Paula, | and Alistair Taylor set off for Athens |
Gerrit de Jong Jr. | ... rts facilities. The de Jong Concert Hall seats 1282 people and is named for | The Pardoe Theatre is named for T. Earl and Kathryn Pardoe. Students use i ... |
Bryan Adams | ... nts to Be Alone" on his new album Kaleidoscope. Furtado sang in a duet with | at the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. The ... |
Glenn Quinn | ... nistrative position. She also becomes close to half-demon co-worker Doyle ( | ), but their budding romance is ended by his death nine episodes into the ... |
W. H. Auden | Richard Aldington – Kenneth Allott – Matthew Arnold – Kenneth Ashley – | – William Barnes – Oliver Bayley – Hilaire Belloc – John Betjeman – Lauren ... |
Ruby Keeler | ... and becoming a mimic. She’d win prizes for looking, acting and dancing like | and singing exactly like Bing Crosby. “Never, never, never can I say I had ... |
Wim Wenders | ... ican roots to the Mississippi Delta and beyond. Seven film-makers including | , Clint Eastwood, Mike Figgis, and Scorsese himself each contributed a 90 ... |
Thomas Paine | ... ties did lead to the imprisonment of Thomas Williams, the London printer of | 's The Age of Reason. Wilberforce's attempts to legislate against adultery ... |
Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
Nikola Tesla | ... 30 km, was installed at Cerchi, Italy. At an AIEE meeting on May 16, 1888, | delivered a lecture entitled , describing the equipment which allowed effi ... |
Luigi Chinetti | ... José Froilán González, Tazio Nuvolari, Marcin Zatorski Juan Manuel Fangio, | , Alberto Ascari, Wolfgang von Trips, Phil Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Mike H ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... Theatre of the Absurd pointed out how many contemporary playwrights such as | , Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Arthur Adamov wove into their plays the ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... une 2007 Lewis-Smith's company made a programme featuring an interview with | , funded by Murdoch's Sky1 channel: How TV Changed Football Forever (Guard ... |
Lion Feuchtwanger | Alfonso was the subject for | 's novel Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo), in which is narrated ... |
Cary Grant | ... onships with their mothers. In North by Northwest (1959), Roger Thornhill ( | 's character) is an innocent man ridiculed by his mother for insisting tha ... |
Tommaso Buscetta | ... tended this sentence to cover relatives of the pentito. For example, all of | 's family was killed in a long series of murders spanning many years |
Herodotus | ... and the Iron Age in Europe and the Middle East. The ancient Greek historian | states in The Histories of the 5th century BC that Glaucus of Chios "was t ... |
Ovid | Letter 7 of | 's Heroides is a feigned letter from Dido to Aeneas written just before sh ... |
Casimir Funk | In 1912, | coined the term vitamin, a vital factor in the diet, from the words "vital ... |
Dick Gregory | ... Cliff, Joe Frazier, Buddy Guy, Ice Cube, Ludacris, Dr. Dre, Little Richard, | , MC Hammer, Prince, Jesse Jackson, Ice-T, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins ... |
Ishtori HaParchi | ... te about Hebron over the next two centuries, among them Nachmanides (1270), | (1322) and Rabbi Meshulam from Volterra (1481). HaParchi in 1322 does not ... |
Lee Harvey Oswald | ... ntained he was a scapegoat similar to the way that John F. Kennedy assassin | is seen by conspiracy theorists. One of the claims used to support this as ... |
Daniel Day-Lewis | ... ward nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for | , however it did not win in any category |
Tim Curry | ... ntually played by the original performer from its run on London's West End, | . Appeared as himself in The Rutles film All You Need Is Cash in 1978. In ... |
Natasha Richardson | ... screenplay by Harold Pinter and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It starred | as Offred, Faye Dunaway as Serena Joy, and Robert Duvall as The Commander ... |
Louis Agassiz | ... m the fossils that are found in the limestone along the Iowa River. In 1866 | , a Harvard University zoologist, gave a lecture at the nearby University ... |
Pythagoras | ... nt authorities in the doxographic tradition credited the Greek philosophers | , in the 6th century BC, and Parmenides, in the 5th, with recognizing that ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... e Nazi Party gained power in Germany. Schmidt wound up serving the rooms of | himself. By chance, Schmidt was present by bringing refreshments when the ... |
Basil Rathbone | ... edy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth. He followed William Powell and | portraying the series detective Philo Vance, a cosmopolitan New Yorker, on ... |
Hugh Walpole | ... book-length studies on Cabell were written during the period of his fame by | , W. A. McNeill, and Carl van Doren. Edmund Wilson tried to rehabilitate h ... |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... is Pasteur, Louis Agassiz, John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, | , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Arthur de Gobineau, Frédéric Mistral, Alessa ... |
Douglas MacArthur | ... ile many officers were injured. Hoover sent U.S. Army forces led by General | and helped by lower ranking officers Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Pa ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ), a short story written by Marcel Schwob—a French novelist and a friend of | —was published in 1893 while Chambers was still studying in Paris. In this ... |
Peter Beardsley | ... erpool. Before the 1987–88 season, Dalglish signed a number of new players: | from Newcastle, John Aldridge from Oxford United (who replaced Ian Rush); ... |
Simon Newcomb | ... hat Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer | . Newcomb was revered as a multitalented genius, with a special mastery of ... |
Henry VII of England | Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, Owen Tudor's Welsh grandson, became King | , founding the Tudor dynasty, when his supporters defeated those of Richar ... |
John Lennon | ... was trying to get all of their music on to the cartridge. Suzuki also cited | as an influential figure to all the composers while the soundtrack was bei ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... the "Most overrated" and "Most underrated" authors, Thomas Disch identified | and Gene Wolfe, respectively, writing: "...all too many have already gone ... |
Haydn | ... fic hymns from the Olney books. For example, the tune 'Austria' (originally | 's 'Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser') is associated today with the hymn 'Glo ... |
Stevie Wonder | ... ether after The Beatles broke up. A loose jam involving the two, along with | , Harry Nilsson, Jesse Ed Davis and others, was recorded at Record Plant S ... |
Adam Worth | In addition to the master criminal | , there has been much speculation among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes en ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | On March 17, 2003, Japanese prime minister | said that he supported the U.S., U.K., and Spain for ending diplomatic eff ... |
Terry Pratchett | The Last Continent is the twenty-second Discworld novel by | . First published in 1998, it mocks the aspects of time traveling such as ... |
David Bohm | ... ect and real physical interpretation of matter-waves, following the work of | . The de Broglie-Bohm theory is today the only interpretation giving real ... |
Mark Twain | ... y and the rest of the black community fled the town. This incident prompted | to write the essay The United States of Lyncherdom. A 2007 PBS documentary ... |
Carl Joachim Friedrich | ... , Richard Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Karl Dietrich Bracher, | and Juan Linz describe totalitarianism in slightly different ways. They al ... |
Maimonidean | ... r the belief in one God. Among the in-depth explanations of that belief are | rationalism, Kabbalistic mysticism, and Chassidic Philosophy (Chassidut). ... |
Yoshitaka Amano | The game's characters and title logo were designed by | , and the scenario was written by freelance writer Kenji Terada, based on ... |
HRH The Princess Royal | ... etes worldwide to compete in the forthcoming Olympic Games. Former Olympian | unveiled medals up for grabs, after both Prime Minister David Cameron and ... |
Albert Szent-Györgyi | ... vitamin D, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928. In 1928, | isolated ascorbic acid, and in 1932 proved that it is vitamin C by prevent ... |
M. Night Shyamalan | ... ns is a 2002 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by | and released on August 2, 2002. Executive producers for the film comprised ... |
Frank Kelly Freas | ... October, November, December 1956, with covers and interior illustrations by | ) and published in hardcover in 1957. It is a fast-paced hard science fict ... |
Alexander Volkov | On October 2, 1991 he launched with Russian cosmonaut | as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut Franz Viehböck in ... |
Sauron | Aragorn also reveals himself to | after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in the extended version of The Lor ... |
Rainer Maria Rilke | | 's poetry partially inspired the movie; Wenders claimed angels seemed to d ... |
John Kenneth Galbraith | ... ing on a scale sufficient to eliminate unemployment. According to economist | (then a US government official charged with controlling inflation), in the ... |
Frederik Pohl | The concept of demarchy played an important role in | 's science fiction novel The Years of the City, which is set in a near-fut ... |
Manuel Lisa | ... ver in the years (1812–1840) the fur trade was active. Fur traders included | , Robert Stuart, William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Smith, William Sublette, A ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... gers Ken Tyrrell, Peter Collins, Ron Dennis, and Frank Williams, and driver | . The pallbearers included drivers Gerhard Berger, Michele Alboreto, Alain ... |
Nayan Chanda | ... orks about Cambodia are Ben Kiernan, David P. Chandler and Michael Vickery. | , the Indochina correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review, is also ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... mocks the aspects of time traveling such as the grandfather paradox and the | short story "A Sound of Thunder". It also parodies Australian people and a ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... of the Court. The most prominent opponents of Black's theory were Justices | and John Marshall Harlan II. Frankfurter and Harlan argued that the Fourte ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... , but what made the biggest impact on his compositions was the serialism of | and Anton Webern |
Hege Riise | ... any's Birgit Prinz, Conny Pohlers, Steffi Jones and Maren Meinert; Norway's | , Unni Lehn, and Dagny Mellgren; Brazil's Sissi, Kátia and Pretinha; and C ... |
Sergey Brin | ... ogle Image Search. Google Search was originally developed by Larry Page and | in 1997. Google Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the or ... |
Zbigniew Brzezinski | The political scientists Carl Friedrich and | were primarily responsible for expanding the usage of the term in universi ... |
Ringo Starr | ... vernment restrictions. On 22 July 1967, Harrison and his wife, Pattie Boyd, | and Neil Aspinall flew to Athens, where they stayed in Mardas' parents' ho ... |
Xenia Alexandrovna | ... le harm. From Tobolsk, Alexandra managed to send a letter to sister-in-law, | , in the Crimea |
Adolf Hitler | ... al statements. He has been accused of making a remark in 1995 which praised | : "The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was ... |
William Osler | ... become major figures in the emerging field of academic medicine, including | , William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Welch. During this period Hop ... |
Link Wray | ... ly influenced by early rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll like | and Hasil Adkins, 1960s surf music acts such as The Ventures and Dick Dale ... |
Béla Bartók | ... as Le chant de la pauvreté op. 92 in 1928 and Veni creator op. 123 in 1938. | composed the secular Cantata Profana, subtitled "The Nine Splendid Stags" ... |
Roland Emmerich | ... the 1994 military science fiction film Stargate, written by Dean Devlin and | . Colonel O'Neill has extensive experience in special operations, and he l ... |
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Adolf Hitler | ... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising | . Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda' |
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William Wyler | ... from the 1949 play of the same name by Sidney Kingsley. It was directed by | |
Gala Dalí | ... is modelled on a boy with whom the artist was sharing his bed at the time. | , the painter's wife, whom he often depicted as the Virgin Mary, poses the ... |
John Aldridge | ... n, Dalglish signed a number of new players: Peter Beardsley from Newcastle, | from Oxford United (who replaced Ian Rush); winger John Barnes from Watfor ... |
Oscar Wilde | It is also possible that the play Salomé by | , published in 1893, was another symbolist source of inspiration for The K ... |
Lubomir Kavalek | ... hibition match over Robert Hübner at Solingen, 1977 by 3½–2½, then defeated | , also at Solingen, by 4/6 in another exhibition match. His next Candidate ... |
Eli Dayan | "Deputy Foreign Minister, | offered compensation to the victims families in 1995, but explained that I ... |
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L. Sprague de Camp | Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in | 's historical novel, The Bronze God of Rhodes, which largely concerns itse ... |
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Tom Cruise | ... vel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to | and Brad Pitt's characters in the film. The film received ambivalent revie ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | The Door into Summer is a science fiction novel by | , originally serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (Octo ... |
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William Lyon Mackenzie King | ... hat St-Laurent finally agreed to enter politics when Liberal Prime Minister | appealed to his sense of duty in late 1941 |
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Michael Crawford | ... venue. Lloyd Webber, the original London cast including Sarah Brightman and | , and four previous actors of the titular character, among others, were in ... |
Louis Agassiz | ... correspondents became his friends, including Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur, | , John Greenleaf Whittier, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexander Graham Bell, ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... appearing in such films as the melodrama Rockabye, the crime caper Grumpy, | 's The Lady Vanishes, the comedy Ladies in Love, and the drama Dodsworth. ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... y, some media outlets alleged that millions were stolen by former president | . However the accuracy of the information is questionable and may have bee ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | Tunnel in the Sky is a science fiction book written by | and published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles. The ... |
Orson Welles | ... (1946), although he was not credited. The film was directed and produced by | , who also acted the part of a Nazi war criminal who manages to settle in ... |
Jedediah Smith | ... ive. Fur traders included Manuel Lisa, Robert Stuart, William Henry Ashley, | , William Sublette, Andrew Henry, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Kit Carson, Jim Brid ... |
Kipchak | ... aty in 1263 with the Egyptian Mamluk sultan Baibars, and the Mongol Khan of | |
Irving Berlin | He performed a song and dance rendition of the | standard, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". Finally, there was the "Colone ... |
Scott Ross | ... ove Inn (now called Covenant Love Community), a ministry started in 1967 by | and his wife Nedra, formerly of the Ronettes, in Freeville, New York. Othe ... |
Wes Anderson | ... ghlights for Smith in 2001 was inclusion of his song "Needle in the Hay" in | 's dark comedy The Royal Tenenbaums. The song plays during a suicide attem ... |
Leonard Peikoff | ... se it in the process of any attempt to deny it." As Objectivist philosopher | noted, Rand's argument for axioms "is not a proof that the axioms of exist ... |
Stefan Zweig | ... were translated into more than twenty languages. His German translator was | He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of World Wa ... |
Rick Davies | ... e Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, | of Supertramp, and Richard "Magic Dick" Salwitz of The J. Geils Band. Bill ... |
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Yakov Yurovsky | ... harsher conditions, and into the keeping of the cold-blooded and unfeeling | (Alan Webb) (whom Alexei immediately pegs as an evil man). At one point, s ... |
Gene Vincent | ... Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, and | . Bo Diddley in particular introduced a new beat and unique guitar style t ... |
Ronaldo | ... g wages and discipline, letting players such as Diego Maradona, Romário and | go rather than meeting their demands |
Stevie Wonder | ... ry Lee Lewis, Bootsy Collins, LL Cool J, Lil Wayne, Lenny Kravitz, 50 Cent, | , and Don King, among others. All of the public and private memorial servi ... |
René Descartes | ... ipotent would mean the omnipotent being is above logic. A view supported by | He issues this idea in his Meditations on First Philosophy |
Neil Gaiman | ... in his opinion of himself, to Jurgen. Cabell was also a major influence on | , acknowledged as such in the rear of Gaiman's novels Stardust and America ... |
Anthony Quinn | ... ). The same year saw the release of Revenge, in which he starred along with | and Madeleine Stowe, directed by Tony Scott (Costner had wanted to direct ... |
Marlene Dietrich | Blonde Venus, starring | and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though Mae West ... |
Kazuo Ishiguro | ... me; established by Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, its graduates include | and Ian McEwan. The university campus is the home of the Sainsbury Centre ... |
Rex Harrison | ... th the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by | and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit in New York and London. The partnership ... |
Ray Lawrence | Lantana, directed by | attained critical and commercial success in 2001 for its examination of a ... |
Fritz Feld | ... stars Rudolph Schildkraut, Louise Dresser, Milton Holmes, Linda Landi, and | |
Marvin Gaye | ... hit as did the chart-topping ballad, "Missing You", which was a tribute to | , who had died earlier that year. Her 1985 album, Eaten Alive, found major ... |
Walter Gropius | ... duate School of Design (GSD) and became friends with the Bauhaus architects | and Marcel Breuer |
Harry Nyquist | ... Journal. It built in part on earlier work in the field by Bell researchers | and Ralph Hartley, but it greatly extended these. Bell Labs also introduce ... |
Harlan Ellison | ... te in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like | and Samuel R. Delany was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerf ... |
Dimitri Mitropoulos | ... t garde and modern classical music, with figures such as Iannis Xenakis and | achieving international prominence |
Christian Wolff | ... ers who have written for theremin include Bohuslav Martinů, Percy Grainger, | , Joseph Schillinger, Moritz Eggert, Iraida Yusupova, Jorge Antunes, Vladi ... |
Isildur | ... Tower of the Sun", Minas Tirith was built in by Anárion, younger brother of | and second son of Elendil, High King of Arnor. Ostoher rebuilt the city in ... |
Ringo Starr | ... featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists including | , session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor/musician Miguel ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... in the Hollywood film industry. Author Ian Freer describes him as "cinema's | "—a filmmaker who was "never afraid to tackle tough issues head on" |
Sir Thomas Elder | ... avels in Central Australia, and on 13 March 1875, with the generous help of | , he began his third expedition. Proceeding considerably to the north from ... |
Tony Pulis | ... man, Paul Scally, stepped in and bought the club. He brought in new manager | , who led Gillingham to promotion in his first season, finishing second in ... |
Jon Lech Johansen | ... rsers, a friend of the founder of the CCC Wau Holland, and a motivation for | to understand the inner workings of computer programs". Johansen commented ... |
Emanuel Rackman | ... such as Joseph Soloveitchik, Norman Lamm, Randalf Stolzman, Abraham Besdin, | , Eliezer Berkovits and others have written on this issue; many of their w ... |
Oscar Hammerstein I | ... liam Hammerstein. His grandfather was German-born Jewish theater impresario | , and his mother was the daughter of Scottish and English parents. Hammers ... |
Leó Szilárd | In August 1939 | prepared and Albert Einstein signed the famous letter warning President Fr ... |
Zoë Wanamaker | The 2007 revival at the Royal National Theatre starred | and Susannah Fielding |
John Lydon | In | 's autobiography, Rotten: No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish, Lydon claimed that ... |
Philip Schaff | ... issues and insist on the theological orthodoxy of the clause. According to | , "To the Greek acts was afterwards added a (pretended) letter of Pope Joh ... |
Marcel Breuer | ... ign (GSD) and became friends with the Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and | |
Olivia de Havilland | ... ord was accused of feigning illness, Aldrich was forced to replace her with | . Crawford was devastated. "I heard the news of my replacement over the ra ... |
Claude Shannon | ... ication", one of the founding works in information theory, was published by | in the Bell System Technical Journal. It built in part on earlier work in ... |
Peter Gay | ... particular deist author as "a constructive deist" or "a critical deist". As | notes |
Iannis Xenakis | ... development of avant garde and modern classical music, with figures such as | and Dimitri Mitropoulos achieving international prominence |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... on 9 August 1976. The programme included Harrison Birtwistle's Meridian and | 's First Chamber Symphony. In 1977 he became assistant conductor of the Ro ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... as George W. Bush won 46% of the vote. In the 2006 state governor election, | got just over 62% of the vote, while Democratic opponent Phil Angelides go ... |
Runa Islam | ... sponsorship, but did not have any during the 2008 events. The nominees were | , Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga, and Cathy Wilkes; the Prize exhibition opene ... |
Rupert Murdoch | ... ould have an enormous impact on the sport of rugby league in the 1990s when | 's News Corporation sought worldwide broadcasting rights and refused to ta ... |
Michael Whelan | ... first appearance of the Red Goddess. Also featured in the cover painted by | |
Albert Einstein | In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and | signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the pr ... |
Tom Cruise | ... e being cast as naval aviator "Iceman" in the action film Top Gun alongside | . Top Gun grossed a total of $344,700,000 worldwide. Following roles in th ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of | . The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; t ... |
Franz Boas | # Pochutec (Uto-Aztecan last documented 1917 by | # Polabian (a Slavic language): (late 18th century) # Sadlermiut Died by d ... |
Rafaela Ottiano | ... ts. Gus works with two other crooked entertainer-assistants, Russian Rita ( | ) and Rita's lover, the suave Sergei Stanieff (Gilbert Roland). One of Gus ... |
Kit Carson | ... were discouraged by the cost, effort and danger of the trip. Western scout | reputedly said, "The cowards never started and the weak died on the way." ... |
Paul Shaffer | ... is offbeat humor. The show also got a house band, hiring prominent musician | to lead the group named The World's Most Dangerous Band |
Walter Gropius | Tange's inspiration for his design office came from his friend | who he had first met at the CIAM meeting in 1951. While lecturing at the B ... |
Elvis Presley | ... sic which was played and recorded in the mid 1950s by white singers such as | , Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis, who drew mainly on the country roots o ... |
William Lyon Mackenzie | ... led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, and the Upper Canada Rebellion led by | , Lord Durham was appointed governor general of British North America and ... |
Dorothy Mackaill | ... woman who comes between a man and his estranged son. It stars Milton Sills, | , Betty Compson, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and released by First National ... |
Chopin | ... howman, unpredictably and whimsically mixing serious with light fare, e.g., | with "Home on the Range." For a while, he played piano along with a phonog ... |
Judy Garland | ... inal members of the Holmby Hills Rat Pack were:Frank Sinatra (pack master), | (first vice-president), Bacall (den mother), Sid Luft (cage master), Bogar ... |
Rachmaninoff | ... n the theremin include Massenet's Thaïs-Méditation (originally for violin), | 's Vocalise, and Saint-Saëns' Le cygne (The Swan) (originally for violonce ... |
Louis B. Mayer | ... er, really." Her insecurity was exacerbated by the attitude of studio chief | , who referred to her as his "little hunchback". During her early years at ... |
Marija Gimbutas | ... has contributed to the films Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist | , Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. She participated ... |
Frank Oz | ... through the air, she is often smothering him in (usually unwanted) kisses. | assigned hooks or personalities to each Muppet. Miss Piggy's hook was a "T ... |
Czesław Miłosz | ... Charlie Chaplin. Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, | and Edward Abbey |
Marija Gimbutas | ... hought to be the antecedent of the city of Elbląg (Elbing). In the words of | , "the name of the town is the earliest known historically in the Baltic S ... |
Roger Waters | June 22, 2006, Pink Floyd frontman | played a live concert at the village, attracting over 50,000 fans |
Umberto II | ... society. Following Victor Emmanuel III's abdication, his son, the new king | , was pressured by the threat of another civil war to call a referendum to ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... ew film industry and motion pictures, but as a spectator only. To Huston, " | was a god. |
Gilbert Roland | ... ussian Rita (Rafaela Ottiano) and Rita's lover, the suave Sergei Stanieff ( | ). One of Gus's rivals and former "friend" of Lou's, named Dan Flynn (Davi ... |
Werner Israel | ... ck hole that is both rotating and electrically charged. Through the work of | , Brandon Carter, and David Robinson the no-hair theorem emerged, stating ... |
Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
Boris Karloff | ... aturing Larry "Bud" Melman delivering lines as an homage to the prologue of | 's Frankenstein, followed by Letterman coming out on stage behind a group ... |
Franz Viehböck | ... t Alexander Volkov as flight commander, and the Austrian research cosmonaut | in Soyuz TM-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, and spent over eigh ... |
Jean-Claude Duvalier | ... sed the US of forcing him out – an accusation the US rejected as 'absurd'". | suddenly returned to Haiti in late January 2011, claiming his doing so was ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... Nations. The slum is a stronghold of supporters of former Haitian President | , who, according to the BBC, "accused the US of forcing him out – an accus ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | Scotts Valley's most famous resident was film director | , who lived in a mountaintop estate above the Vine Hill area from 1940 to ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... too"" came from not only Ireland but from the continent, led by playwrights | , Sean O'Casey and Brendan Behan. Alan Simpson was later released. The pre ... |
Rex Harrison | ... ), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, Cary Grant, | , and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography The Moon's a Balloon, David N ... |
William Feller | ... uld return one day so that he could learn all of the math necessary to read | 's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, An Introduction to Pr ... |
Erik Erikson | ... interactive parts of identity formation, which includes religious identity. | compared faith with doubt and found that healthy adults take heed to their ... |
David Adjaye | ... rector of the Staedelschule international art academy, Frankfurt, architect | , and Suzanne Cotter, senior curator, Modern Art Oxford. The prize winner ... |
Lars Ulrich | ... rug use, violent behavior and personality conflicts with James Hetfield and | , Mustaine and bassist Dave Ellefson formed Megadeth in Los Angeles. Musta ... |
Terry Gilliam | ... the 1970s by Monty Python through the surreal animation inserts created by | |
Mark Twain | ... gon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book Tramps Abroad, writer | spoke of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: "Now comes a si ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... of other authors that he has admired, such as García Márquez, Albert Camus, | , and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main goals of his non-fiction works are to ack ... |
John Lennon | ... s signature song, "Piano Man". includes the harmonica throughout the piece. | played harmonica on early Beatles' hits as "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me ... |
Cary Grant | ... my) is located next door to the bar. Its young director, Captain Cummings ( | ), is in reality an undercover Federal agent working to infiltrate and exp ... |
Deanna Durbin | She performed at various studio functions and was eventually cast opposite | in the musical short Every Sunday. The film contrasted her alto vocal rang ... |
Bob Hope | ... s. A few famous entertainers have performed at the Canfield Fair, including | , Dolly Parton, Rascal Flatts, The Beach Boys, The Monkees, "Weird Al" Yan ... |
Leonhard Euler | ... academies on the Continent, led by such mathematicians as Daniel Bernoulli, | , Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. ... |
John Wesley | ... iritual observance. Members of holiness movements, such as those started by | and George Whitefield, often practice such regular fasts as part of their ... |
Albert Bierstadt | ... und in the paintings of the Hudson River School. Painters like Thomas Cole, | and Frederic Edwin Church and others often expressed Romantic themes in th ... |
Richard Burton | ... epic film that tells the story of a Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio ( | ) who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus Christ. There was a sequel kn ... |
Karl Popper | ... d and incurable" could ignore the trend towards totalitarianism, said Carr. | , in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945) and The Poverty of Historicis ... |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... nsters of Rock festival in Brazil, co-headlining alongside Alice Cooper and | . In January 1995, Megadeth appeared on the soundtrack of the horror film ... |
Cary Grant | ... y (historian), David Niven, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, George Cukor, | , Rex Harrison, and Jimmy Van Heusen. In his autobiography The Moon's a Ba ... |
Jean-Bertrand Aristide | ... o was out of concern for the present situation in Haiti. On the other hand, | was initially denied access to Haiti by Haitian immigration authorities, d ... |
Elvis Presley | ... rds. His manager at Stiff, Jake Riviera, suggested a name change, combining | 's first name and Costello, his father's stage name |
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James Paris Lee | ... lier Lee-Metford, a mechanically similar black powder rifle, which combined | 's rear-locking bolt system with a barrel featuring rifling designed by Wi ... |
Herodotus | ... nection has been a long-standing subject of conjecture. The Greek historian | stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem ... |
Orson Welles | Returning to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with | while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nichols's Catch-22 (1970). Bogda ... |
Frank Gehry | ... l memorial in Washington, D.C.. In 2009, the commission chose the architect | to design the memorial |
Amos Elon | ... book an "obtuse text, [a] piece of nonsense", but this was perhaps due, as | notes, to the level of comfortable assimilation enjoyed by Viennese Jews a ... |
Jamie Bamber | ... by Katee Sackhoff and Grace Park respectively. Other cast members included | (Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama), James Callis (Dr. Gaius Baltar), and Tricia ... |
Simeon Jackson | ... fs after beating Shrewsbury Town 1–0 with a 90th minute header from striker | . In the 2009–10 season, however, the Gills slipped into the bottom four o ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... successful later drivers, such as Jim Clark, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and | , have been compared with Fangio. However, it is acknowledged that such co ... |
Owen Moore | Lou's former boyfriend, Chick Clark ( | ), is a vicious criminal who was convicted of robbery and sent to prison f ... |
Arnold Genthe | In 1906, San Francisco photographer | joined the Carmel arts colony, where he was able to pursue his pioneering ... |
Gregory Bateson | The cybernetician and anthropologist | would observe in the 1970s that though seeing it only as an illustration, ... |
Stepan Bandera | Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) of | , a Ukrainian nationalist force and the political arm of the Organization ... |
William Wyler | ... arred his father, Walter Huston. In addition, House Divided was directed by | , who gave Huston his first real "inside view" of the filmmaking process d ... |
Prokofiev | ... the 20th century, composers such as Wagner, Mahler, Beethoven, Busoni, and | also requested notes below the low E. There are two common methods for mak ... |
Woody Guthrie | ... tained audiences with folk and blues songs by artists such as Leadbelly and | . This proved so popular that in July 1954 he recorded a fast-tempoed vers ... |
Constantine Phaulkon | ... ccess to trade. At the urging of his foreign minister, the Greek adventurer | , Narai turned to France for assistance. French engineers constructed fort ... |
Tom Cruise | ... t. She had to back out of the role of Abby McDeere in The Firm (1993), with | , upon discovering that she was pregnant with her second child (son Hopper ... |
P. P. Arnold | ... rles (1967), Marvin Gaye, Daffy Duck, Jan & Dean, The Sylvers, Wet Wet Wet, | , Plácido Domingo, The Head Shop, Billy Dean, En Vogue, Muslim Magomayev a ... |
Albert Einstein | ... ce frame, and to understand the symmetries of the laws of electromagnetism. | later re-derived the transformation from his postulates of special relativ ... |
Jean Simmons | It also starred veterans | as Elizabeth Collins Stoddard and Roy Thinnes as Roger Collins, British ch ... |
Fritz Lang | ... luential in the era of silent movies, provided some original scores such as | 's movies Die Nibelungen (1924) and Metropolis (1927) which were accompani ... |
250 GTO | The company's loftiest efforts have been in the supercar market. The 1962 | may be considered the first in the line of Ferrari supercars, which extend ... |
Terrence Malick | ... François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, | , Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody ... |
Mary Shelley's | ... "Dark satanic mills" of Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time". | novel Frankenstein reflected concerns that scientific progress might be tw ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... influences on the African Independence movements and his work was cited by | and other post-colonialist, world leaders. In the arts, James Earl Jones, ... |
Konstantinos Karamanlis | Former prime minister | was invited back from Paris where he had lived in self-exile since 1963, m ... |
Herodotus | According to | |
Carla Bruni | ... Buell, Carly Simon, Margaret Trudeau, Mackenzie Phillips, Janice Dickinson, | , Sophie Dahl and , among others |
Ishmael Beah | Previous University lecturers included | , author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, Economi ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... . In the 1980 Mr. Olympia he placed fourth (in a tie with Boyer Coe) behind | , Chris Dickerson and Frank Zane. He retired from competitive bodybuilding ... |
Josef Rubinstein | ... Issue 172, "The Waif and the Warrior", Jim Valentino (w), Steven Carr (p), | (i) |
Adolf Hitler | ... Introduction, Hayek contrasts Western Anglo values with Nazi Germany under | , stating that "the conflict between the National-Socialist "Right" and th ... |
Rudolf Friml | ... m for May. Hammerstein also collaborated with Vincent Youmans (Wildflower), | (Rose-Marie), and Sigmund Romberg (The Desert Song and The New Moon) |
Daniel Burnham | ... es to the United States. Under American control, the new government invited | to plan a modern Manila. The Burnham Plan was a project that attempted to ... |
Julie Andrews | ... ry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and | , was a huge hit in New York and London. The partnership won the Tony Awar ... |
Olivia Newton-John | ... ulling a crew member onstage, making her do jumping jacks along with him to | 's "Physical". The second comedy piece was a remote titled "The Shame of t ... |
Edward Teller | ... ico, home of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic weapons. | and Ernest O. Lawrence, director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, ... |
Sigmund Romberg | ... laborated with Vincent Youmans (Wildflower), Rudolf Friml (Rose-Marie), and | (The Desert Song and The New Moon) |
John Jacob Astor | ... ed down the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, arriving at the mouth just after | 's Pacific Fur Company had founded Astoria. On his return to the north, Th ... |
Cary Grant | ... Pre-Code 1933 Paramount Pictures comedy romance film starring Mae West and | . Others in the cast include Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., ... |
Walter Laqueur | ... rs such as Lawrence Aronsen, Richard Pipes, Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, | , Karl Popper, Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, C ... |
Mark Twain | ... abell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including | , Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. A ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... and cultural celebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were | , Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gers ... |
David Sarnoff | ... nt bank Dillon, Read made an offer of $7.5 million, but Woods and RCA chief | held firm at $8 million. The Blue package contained leases on land-lines a ... |
Juan Manuel Asensi | ... Jordi, after the local saint, for his son. Next to players of quality like | , Carles Rexach, and Hugo Sotil, he helped the club win the La Liga title ... |
Satam al-Suqami | ... was one of four hijackers including Fayez Banihammad, Mohand al-Shehri, and | , sharing a room at the Milner Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts |
Osama bin Laden | ... s led an international coalition invaded Afghanistan, the base of terrorist | . This invasion led to the toppling of the Taliban regime. After a surpris ... |
Claudio Arrau | ... ventually attended a music conservatory in Berlin, one year behind virtuoso | , and studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Eugene d'Albert. He won the covete ... |
Jerry Hall | ... "My marriage ended on my wedding day." In late 1977, he began seeing model | , while still married to Bianca. After a lengthy cohabitation and several ... |
Forrest J Ackerman | ... ublish science fiction stories in fanzines in 1938. Bradbury was invited by | to attend the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society, which at the time met a ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... whereas the second is a direct transliteration of the actual Russian name. | explains: "In Russian, a surname ending in a consonant acquires a final 'a ... |
William Chaffey | ... stablished in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers | and Charles Chaffey. They named the settlement after their home province o ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... nows and meets various real-life historical figures, including Jack London, | , Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conra ... |
Kamel Rabat Bouralha | On 3 October 2004, The Observer revealed that 46-year-old | attended the mosque. Bouralha, with UK citizens Osman Larussi and Yacine B ... |
Wenceslaus Hollar | ... a second, revised edition of The Fables of Aesop, this time illustrated by | 's renowned prints. He had to republish the book in 1668 since his propert ... |
Gilbert Roland | ... lm starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Owen Moore, | , Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Beavers and Rochelle Hudson |
Frank Ifield | Many notable musicians originated in Coventry, including | , Vince Hill, Delia Derbyshire, Jerry Dammers, Terry Hall, Neville Staple, ... |
Alan Parsons | ... di Lauper, REO Speedwagon, X, Steel Pulse, The New Cars, Asia, Boyz II Men, | , and The Smithereens |
George Chaffey | ... tario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer | and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey. They named the settl ... |
Robert Newell | In September 1840, | , Joseph L. Meek, and their families reached Fort Walla Walla with three w ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... of the only things that could hurt the Spectre, which had been obtained by | , giving him control over superheroes that entered Nazi-occupied areas |
Karl Popper | ... nce Aronsen, Richard Pipes, Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, | , Eckhard Jesse, Leonard Schapiro, Adam Ulam, Raymond Aron, Claude Lefort, ... |
Owen Moore | ... y romance film starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include | , Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Beavers and Rochelle Hudson |
John W. Campbell | ... round in time to adjust their ages a bit." The novel "worried and bothered" | , who said "Bob can write a better story, with one hand tied behind him, t ... |
John Cleese | ... ame to be known as 'alternative'." In Ventham's (2002, p. 151) compilation, | notes that "In comedy, there are a very small number of defining moments w ... |
Arnold Schönberg | ... a number of new works, including Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead, | 's Erwartung, Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and Paul Hindemith's Cardilla ... |
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh | ... rg title. His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark (mother of | ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford ... |
Minnie Driver | Damon dated his Good Will Hunting co-star | . He later had a two-year relationship with actress Winona Ryder. From 200 ... |
Karl Marx | ... him; influenced by Albert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had | (as well as Friedrich Engels) as European correspondent in the early 1850s ... |
Vladimir Nabokov | ... ky declared it to be "flawless as a work of art". His opinion was shared by | , who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style", and by W ... |
Karl Marx | ... kbinder Eugène Varlin, an associate of Michael Bakunin and correspondent of | , and by other radicals) for the creation of a "Committee of Public Safety ... |
Sheila Copps | ... Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout "REFOOOOOOORM!", a screaming, bitchy | (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image consciou ... |
Butch Cassidy | ... historical figures, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, | , James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, Whit ... |
Trulli | ... y raced karts typically weigh , complete without driver. Avanti, Tony Kart, | , Birel, CRG, Gillard, Intrepid, Kosmic, Zanardi or FA Kart are a few well ... |
Anders Haugen | In 1974 the final medal of Chamonix 1924 was presented. | , who until then had been recorded as finishing fourth in the ski jumping ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... a fable of the forest". In 1948, he interviewed one of his literary idols, | , travelling with Natalia Ginzburg to his home in Stresa |
David Weiss Halivni | Rabbi | is himself a Holocaust survivor from Hungary. He says that the effort to a ... |
Robert Graves | According to the personal mythology of | , Persephone is not only the younger self of Demeter, she is in turn also ... |
Eleftherios Venizelos | ... ars, the struggle between King Constantine I and charismatic Prime Minister | over the country's foreign policy on the eve of World War I dominated the ... |
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar | In 1931, | calculated, using special relativity, that a non-rotating body of electron ... |
John Mayall | ... d Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, | , Peter Green (musician) of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steve ... |
Sinestro | ... to the past or future. It resembled Darth Vader's helmet. In Doomsday after | , Black Manta and Cheetah (comics) are abandoned by the rest of the Legion ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and | . His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 19 ... |
Hepburn, Audrey | ... m - Hechtel-Eksel - Heers - Heist-op-den-Berg - Hemiksem - Henin, Justine - | - Herentals - Herenthout - Hergé - Herk-de-Stad - Heerlijkheid - Herselt - ... |
Wade Davis | Cultural anthropologist | points to the dangers of "modernization" (often cited as reason for econom ... |
Friedrich Engels | ... bert Brisbane he promoted Fourierism. His journal had Karl Marx (as well as | ) as European correspondent in the early 1850s (although most of his views ... |
Limahong | ... Manila was temporarily threatened by the invasion of Chinese pirate-warlord | before it became the seat of the colonial government of Spain |
Wolf Koenig | ... irected by Barbara Kopple), Dont Look Back (D. A. Pennebaker), Lonely Boy ( | and Roman Kroitor) are all frequently deemed cinéma vérité films |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... lden Globe. In 1954, he starred opposite Grace Kelly and Robert Cummings in | 's Dial M for Murder |
Gerhard Berger | ... nto the gravel trap. Senna finished second, handing the victory to teammate | at the last corner as a thank-you gesture for his support over the season. ... |
Arnold Schönberg | ... ell'arte figure of Pierrot, and La Guirlande des Dieux (1910). The composer | set a German language version (translated by Otto Erich Hartleben) of sele ... |
Claudio Abbado | ... stav Mahler's Symphony No. 6. In 1999, Rattle was appointed as successor to | as the orchestra's principal conductor. The appointment, decided on in a 2 ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... fton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles. This was where he met the writers | , Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Will ... |
Martin Indyk | ... rge H. W. Bush an "anti-Semite." In 1997 he called US Ambassador to Israel, | a "Jewboy" and challenged him to a fistfight |
Elvis Presley | ... to a visitor attraction, Brown's family plans to consult with the family of | for guidance about converting the estate into an attraction similar to |
Sauron | 2. | the Cruel: Sauron (‘The Abhorred’) is Morgoth’s chief lieutenant. He was a ... |
Haydn | ... on the Romantic movement generally. In 1810 E.T.A. Hoffmann called Mozart, | and Beethoven the three "Romantic Composers", and Ludwig Spohr used the te ... |
Pythagoras | ... hics used the word "theory" to mean 'passionate sympathetic contemplation'. | changed the word to mean a passionate sympathetic contemplation of mathema ... |
Elie Wiesel | | is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, ... |
Boris Karloff | ... on Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, | (reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Franke ... |
Michael Moorcock | Gaiman wrote a semi-autobiographical story about a boy's fascination with | 's anti-hero Elric of Melniboné for Ed Kramer's anthology Tales of the Whi ... |
Isaac Asimov | ... iterary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of | 's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers |
Cary Grant | ... ilm about Cole Porter, in which she played herself auditioning for Porter ( | ) |
Maher Arar | ... on Public Safety and National Security that his earlier testimony about the | case was inaccurate. The RCMP had improperly given information to the US t ... |
Neville Staple | ... ding Frank Ifield, Vince Hill, Delia Derbyshire, Jerry Dammers, Terry Hall, | , Hazel O'Connor, Clint Mansell, Julianne Regan, Lee Dorrian, Jen Ledger o ... |
Jack Johnson | ... March, Bliss N Eso with Paris Wells, Gabriella Cilmi, Hunters & Collectors, | , Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson with Troy Cassar-Daley, Kings Of Leon, ... |
Yoko Ono | ... t created primarily by John Lennon with assistance from George Harrison and | . Lennon said he was trying to paint a picture of a revolution using sound ... |
John Badham | Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 drama film directed by | and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, an immature young man whose wee ... |
James Joyce | ... res, including Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, | , Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian gen ... |
Peter Frampton | ... , Brad Paisley, Styx, The Goo Goo Dolls, Bill Cosby, Hank Williams Jr., and | |
Emil Fackenheim | | is known for his understanding that people must look carefully at the Holo ... |
Frederik Pohl | ... Doubleday editor Walter I. Bradbury accepted the story on the suggestion on | , on the condition it was expanded to seventy thousand words and the title ... |
Zico | ... fourth title after being defeated by Flamengo, containing famous players as | , Bebeto, Jorginho, Leandro, Edinho, Leonardo, Andrade, Zinho and Renato G ... |
Tommy Douglas | ... Medicare termed Hospital Insurance at the time, that lay the groundwork for | ' healthcare system in Saskatchewan and Pearson's nationwide universal hea ... |
Zoltán Czibor | ... 60, and two influential Hungarians recommended by Kubala, Sándor Kocsis and | , the team won another national double in 1959 and a La Liga and Inter-Cit ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... ealm of classical music, semi-spoken music was popular stylized by composer | as Sprechstimme, and famously used in Ernst Toch's 1924 Geographical Fugue ... |
Jack Williamson | Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, | characterized Heinlein's story as "a dream of personal freedom" written wi ... |
Harry Nyquist | During the late 1920s, | and Ralph Hartley developed a handful of fundamental ideas related to the ... |
Alice B. Toklas | The Alice B. Toklas Democratic Club, named after San Francisco-born author | , was formed on Valentine's Day 1972 at the offices of the Society for Ind ... |
Vladimir Kulich | ... ories are returned via a spell, along with a vision of a mysterious Beast ( | ). Afterward, she admits to Angel the feelings she once had for him. As L. ... |
Herodotus | ... 85); Hyde may have been the name of the district where Sardis stood. Later, | (Histories i. 7) adds that the "Meiones" were renamed Lydians after their ... |
Overseas Chinese | | played a key role in the birth of the ROC since the nation’s founding fath ... |
Popper falsifiable | Smolin has noted that the string theory landscape is not | if other universes are not observable. This is the subject of the Smolin-S ... |
Jack Kerouac | ... ofessional collaboration with his father. Bakshi wrote a poem influenced by | , jazz, the Beat Generation and Brooklyn that served as the narration, whi ... |
George Clooney | ... te, Charlie Chiemingo, taken under the guidance of Dr. Doug Ross, played by | . In 1997, she was the voice of Young Anastasia in the animated musical fi ... |
Mary Cassatt | At the end of the nineteenth century, | was a painter well known for her portraits of mothers |
George R. R. Martin | ... e company. Liz Danforth created the art for each of the Nazgûl in the game. | 's novel The Armageddon Rag is about a rock band named the Nazgûl. The ban ... |
Heinrich Schliemann | ... nt – a channel of water that separates Asia Minor and Europe. In the 1870s, | set out to find it. Following Homer's description, he started to dig at Hi ... |
Leland Yee | ... Hillsborough is located in the 8th Senate District, represented by Democrat | , and in the 19th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill. F ... |
Richard Pipes | Scholars such as Lawrence Aronsen, | , Leopold Labedz, Franz Borkenau, Walter Laqueur, Karl Popper, Eckhard Jes ... |
Dionne Warwick | ... rk SummerStage: Live from the Heart of the City". Cruz appeared on the 2006 | album My Friends & Me |
Nicholas II | ... va (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as spouse of | , the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born a granddaughter of Queen Vi ... |
Bebeto | ... title after being defeated by Flamengo, containing famous players as Zico, | , Jorginho, Leandro, Edinho, Leonardo, Andrade, Zinho and Renato Gaúcho (w ... |
Errol Flynn | Visiting members included | , Nat King Cole, Mickey Rooney and Cesar Romero |
Jedediah Smith | In 1826, | passed through what is now Upland on the first overland journey to the Wes ... |
James Blish | Science-fiction writer and critic | , writing in 1957, shortly after publication, criticized the lack of chara ... |
James Blish | ... his work was remarkably influential on later authors of fantastic fiction. | was a fan of Cabell's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of t ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... s played by Brigitte Nielsen in the 1985 film Red Sonja, which also starred | as High Lord Kalidor (originally intended to be Conan). The film was direc ... |
Tori Amos | ... Award, the original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by | , Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams, and others |
René Descartes | The French philosopher | was well-connected to, and influential within, the experimental philosophy ... |
Thomas Nast | ... rank who could not be trusted. The most vicious attacks came in cartoons by | in Harper's Weekly. Greeley ultimately ran far behind Grant, winning only ... |
Lepidus | ... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing | , in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and | . Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz ... |
David Charvet | ... ostitute hired by Kimberly Shaw to have an affair with Michael Mancini, and | played Craig Field, Amanda's new co-worker and later Sydney's boyfriend. T ... |
Tim Burton | Warner Bros. has produced a film adaptation of the soap opera. | directed the film, and Johnny Depp stars as Barnabas Collins |
Roman Ungern von Sternberg | ... rederick Rolfe, Joseph Conrad, Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general | and Enver Pasha of Turkey. His acquaintances treat him with great respect, ... |
John Lennon | ... se of sound collage, credited to Lennon–McCartney, but created primarily by | with assistance from George Harrison and Yoko Ono. Lennon said he was tryi ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... a building project, which attracted attention from senior leaders. Because | saw himself as both an architect and artist, he warmed to Speer and gradua ... |
Elizabeth Arden | To support himself, he worked at a number of office jobs, most famously at | – immortalised in the lyrics of "I'm Not Angry" as the "vanity factory" – ... |
Pedro Knight | ... in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at the age of 77. She was survived by her husband, | (died February 3, 2007). She had no children. After her death, her body wa ... |
Theophilus Shepstone | ... ion between Cetshwayo and the Transvaal over border disputes continued. Sir | , whom Cetshwayo regarded as his friend, had supported him in the border d ... |
Boris Vallejo | ... d in several novels by David C. Smith and Richard L. Tierney with covers by | |
Helenio Herrera | With | as manager, a young Luis Suárez, the European Footballer of the Year in 19 ... |
William Shatner | ... , sudden off-beat pauses, and strange speech rhythm, in a manner similar to | , which was subject to parody in a Robot Chicken episode. He is revered fo ... |
Etta Place | ... Clayton Rogers as Butch, Ryan Browning as Sundance, and Rachelle Lefevre as | . A prequel to the film, , starring Tom Berenger and William Katt as the r ... |
Peter Mundy | ... own today. Two live specimens were taken to India in the 1600s according to | , and one of these appears to have been depicted in an Indian painting. On ... |
Samuel R. Delany | ... dia of Science Fiction: "His influence upon writers like Harlan Ellison and | was seminal, and in his life and work he was a powerful and generally libe ... |
Dodi Fayed | Over the next few years Mohammed Al-Fayed, whose son | was also killed in the crash, claimed that Prince Philip had ordered the d ... |
Peder Anker | ... cluded in the canton. Proposed by the Norwegian Prime Minister and unionist | , the white saltire on a red background was supposed to symbolize Norway, ... |
Hamid Karzai | In 2001, the Afghan Interim Government under president | officially awarded Massoud the title of "Hero of the Afghan Nation". One a ... |
FA Kart | ... vanti, Tony Kart, Trulli, Birel, CRG, Gillard, Intrepid, Kosmic, Zanardi or | are a few well known examples of the many European manufacturers of race-q ... |
Giuliano Zaccardelli | On December 6, 2006, RCMP Commissioner | resigned one day after informing the House of Commons Standing Committee o ... |
Carl Wickman | In 1914 two men, | and Andrew "Bus Andy" Anderson, started a bus line between Hibbing and Ali ... |
Gary Oldman | ... s in Hollywood, MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch aired a match between Walken and | in 1998, citing their portrayals of such villains |
Alan Mowbray | ... directors: Ralph Morgan (its first president), Alden Gay, Kenneth Thomson, | (who personally funded the organization when it was first founded), Leon A ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... nest Hemingway, Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, | , Sukhbaatar, John Reed, White Russian general Roman Ungern von Sternberg ... |
Isildur | Using the stone, Aragorn declared himself as the heir of | to Sauron, seeking to distract him from Frodo. Sauron was led to believe t ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... ll's works, and for a time edited Kalki, the journal of the Cabell Society. | was greatly inspired by Cabell's boldness, and originally described his fa ... |
Sándor Kocsis | ... of the Year in 1960, and two influential Hungarians recommended by Kubala, | and Zoltán Czibor, the team won another national double in 1959 and a La L ... |
Timaeus | ... flight in 753 + 72 = 825 BC. Another tradition, that of the Greek historian | (c. 345–260 BC), gives 814 BC for the founding of Carthage. Traditionally ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... respect and admiration of scholars such as Charles Darwin, Victor Hugo and | , and was a friend to Richard Wagner, Louis Pasteur and Henry Wadsworth Lo ... |
Frank Oz | Miss Piggy is a Muppet character who was primarily played by | on The Muppet Show. In 2001, Eric Jacobson began performing the role, alth ... |
Louis Kahn | ... mongst them were Kisho Kurokawa, Junzo Sakakura, Alison and Peter Smithson, | , Jean Prouvé, B. V. Doshi and Jacob Bakema. The conference ended with Tan ... |
Joseph Schillinger | ... as a professional musician. He later studied the Schillinger technique with | , under whose tutelage he composed what became his signature theme, "Moonl ... |
Peter Lawford | ... mit" or "the clan," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., | , and Joey Bishop, who appeared together on stage and in films in the earl ... |
Ray Bradbury | ... er and weaker. He was listed as a primary influence of the much more famous | . Kurt Vonnegut based his character Kilgore Trout on Theodore Sturgeon |
Oscar Malbernat | ... win the world club crown, the first Dutch team to do so. Estudiantes player | got frustrated and grabbed Van Daele's glasses and trampled on them. "You ... |
Overseas Chinese | ... Asia in 1912. Outside of Taiwan, Double Ten Day is also celebrated by many | communities. Sizable Double Ten Day parades occur yearly in the Chinatowns ... |
Nikola Tesla | Both | and Hidetsugu Yagi attempted to devise systems for large scale wireless po ... |
Maimonides | ... gan that God created in man, and so by amputating it, the man is completed. | (Moses ben Maimon "Rambam", CE 1135-1204), who apart from being a great To ... |
William Brewster | ... shires of England. In 1607 a group of pilgrims from Nottinghamshire led by | and William Bradford attempted to escape pressure to conform with the teac ... |
Peter Lorre | ... as also a variant of Dr. Frankenstein, the mad surgeon Dr. Gogol (played by | ), who transplanted hands that were reanimated with malevolent temperament ... |
Ferdinand Magellan | ... dition of world circumnavigation in history, which was put in the charge of | . Following the death of Magellan in the Philippines, the expedition was c ... |
Johnny Depp | ... uced a film adaptation of the soap opera. Tim Burton directed the film, and | stars as Barnabas Collins |
Igor Stravinsky | ... (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlier works by Aaron Copland and | with its "jazz-based harmonies and exciting additive rhythms." A year late ... |
Philip José Farmer | The event was used by the science fiction writer | in his "biographies" of fictional characters (Tarzan Alive and ) as the ba ... |
Wim Rijsbergen | ... 2 draw. Feyenoord then won their match in Rotterdam 2–0, thanks to goals by | and Peter Ressel, and also became the first Dutch team to win the UEFA Cup ... |
Georgi Markov | ... case of state-sponsored assassination, poisoning can be more easily denied. | , a Bulgarian dissident was assassinated by ricin poisoning. A tiny pellet ... |
Joseph Conrad | In 1947, he graduated with a Master's thesis on | , wrote short stories in his spare time, and landed a job in the publicity ... |
Claudette Colbert | ... ur and was willing to change her own appearance if it suited the character. | commented that Davis was the first actress to play roles older than hersel ... |
Herodotus | ... ng to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, | , who mentions them extensively, except legend. The stories of the early L ... |
Jack Vance's | ... lark Ashton Smith are, in background, close to those of Cabell's Poictesme. | Dying Earth books show considerable stylistic resemblances to Cabell; Cuge ... |
Linda McCartney | ... Holly Story on the evening of 6 September 1978. After dining with Paul and | at Peppermint Park in Covent Garden, Moon and his girlfriend, Annette Walt ... |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | ... al Protection Agency in 1970. More recently, California Republican Governor | , with the support of 16 other states, sued the Federal Government and the ... |
Billy Wilder | ... he won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an alcoholic in | 's film The Lost Weekend (1945). He was the first Welsh actor to ever win ... |
Kepler | ... in scientific knowledge: the scientific revolution. The work of Copernicus, | , and Galileo set aside the old notion that the earth was the center of th ... |
Ruud Gullit | ... of the subsequent 1998–1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager | . One commentator has since written, "His 20 months at Newcastle United ar ... |
Yoshitaka Amano | Warrior of Light, based on | 's design of the lead character, and Garland are the respective hero and v ... |
Haydn | ... have also released recordings of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, Romantic, and | 's Symphonies Nos. 88-92 and Sinfonia concertante, and Mahler's Ninth Symp ... |
Roger Zelazny | ... n, reading the works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, | , Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
Mark Twain | ... ls (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, | and the creator of The Three Investigators, Robert Arthur |
Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
W. H. Auden | ... A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings). Their work involved poets such as | , composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J. B. Priestley. ... |
Billy J. Kramer | ... pes. Some of the Lennon demos available include "Bad To Me" (1963, given to | ), "I'm in Love" (1963, given to The Fourmost), "If I Fell" (1964), and "E ... |
Karel Reisz | ... ial Sequence magazine (1947–52), which he co-founded with Gavin Lambert and | ; later writing for the British Film Institute's journal Sight and Sound a ... |
Mark Inglis | Double-amputee climber | revealed in an interview with the press on 23 May 2006, that his climbing ... |
Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
Boardman Robinson | ... which he was accompanied by Canadian artist and frequent Masses contributor | . Traveling from Thessaloniki, they met scenes of profound devastation in ... |
John Jacob Astor | ... st Company between Fort George (originally Fort Astoria, founded in 1811 by | 's American Fur Company), at the mouth of the Columbia River, to Fort Will ... |
Orson Welles | ... in his youth, Bogdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as | and John Ford, whom he later wrote a book about based on the notes he had ... |
Fritz Leiber's | ... medy of Justice), features Jurgen, an appearance of the Slavic god Koschei. | Swords of Lankhmar was also influenced by Jurgen. Charles G. Finney's famo ... |
Toshirō Mifune | ... ack-and-white Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring | |
Reinaldo Arenas | Before Night Falls is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer | , describing his life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his ultimate escape ... |
Michael Laudrup | ... Txiki Begiristain while signing international stars such as Ronald Koeman, | , Romário, and Hristo Stoichkov. Under his guidance, Barcelona won four co ... |
Robert A. Heinlein | ... works of authors as diverse as Alan Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Roger Zelazny, | , H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and Gene Wolfe |
Raghuram Rajan | ... w much deregulation took place during the Reagan administration. Economists | and Luigi Zingales point out that many of the major deregulation efforts h ... |
Kristjan Järvi | ... and David Alan Miller under Previn, and Grant Gershon, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, | , and Alexander Mickelthwate under Salonen |
James Joyce | ... Stoker. It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of | , including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail. Du ... |
Robert Bloch | ... on (Strangers in Town, The Lottery), T.H. White (The Once and Future King), | , H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur ... |
Alexander Graham Bell | ... deas. Innocenzo Manzetti, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, | , and Thomas Edison, among others, have all been credited with pioneering ... |
Christopher Isherwood | ... nce encounter in a Los Angeles bookstore with the British expatriate writer | gave Bradbury the opportunity to put The Martian Chronicles into the hands ... |
Toninho Cerezo | ... , one of the best in its history. This team that had players like Reinaldo, | , Éder, Luisinho, Paulo Isidoro, João Leite won the state championship 6 t ... |
Ronald Koeman | ... ari Bakero, and Txiki Begiristain while signing international stars such as | , Michael Laudrup, Romário, and Hristo Stoichkov. Under his guidance, Barc ... |
James Blish | ... ny other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderson's The Big Rain, and | 's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involving terraforming of Mars include ... |
Nightcrawler | ... n universe also includes such notable heroes as Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, | , Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gambit and Emma Frost. Besides the ... |
Ovid | ... eus slew Lycaon and his fifty sons. Other sources, including the Roman poet | , claim instead that Lycaon’s punishment was transformation into a wolf, a ... |
Immortal Technique | ... n songs by various musicians, including Puerto Rican rock band Puya, rapper | and reggaeton artist Tego Calderón |
William Rotsler | ... some cases, the X ratings were applied by reviewers or film scholars, e.g. | , who wrote "The XXX-rating means hard-core, the XX-rating is for simulati ... |
Gershom Scholem | | once described Gnosticism as "the Greatest case of metaphysical anti-Semit ... |
Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
Irving Berlin | ... alk" with a hard consonant, which does not allow the singer a vocal climax. | later stated that "You'll Never Walk Alone" had the same sort of effect on ... |
Herodotus | Contrary to popular belief, the term delta was not coined by | |
William S. Knudsen | ... ge summer homes at the north end of Parke Lane (one remains today). General | , president of General Motors Corporation from 1937 to 1940, lived during ... |
Madonna | ... pop music, it earned them their best reactions yet, drawing comparisons to | 's album Ray of Light (1998) as well as other female groups such as All Sa ... |
Jim Himes | ... ecent US presidential election years, with Shays being defeated by Democrat | in the 2008 election |
Peter Frampton | ... egarded concert venue that hosts national and regional touring acts such as | , Pat Benetar, Cyndi Lauper, REO Speedwagon, X, Steel Pulse, The New Cars, ... |
Sauron | ... es of Minas Tirith. The Great Gate was breached during the War of the Ring. | 's forces under the command of the Witch-king of Angmar besieged the City ... |
Miloš Forman | ... ople vs. Larry Flynt is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by | about the rise of pornographic magazine publisher and editor Larry Flynt, ... |
Poul Anderson | ... ack Williamson, but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such | 's The Big Rain, and James Blish's "Pantropy" stories. Recent works involv ... |
Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... the screen in Picture Mommy Dead (1966). The role was ultimately filled by | . Ecstasy and Me begins in a despondent mood, with this reference |
Josephine Baker | ... rs of being typecast. Ross had campaigned to portray pioneering entertainer | in a feature film even during her later years in Motown. However, in 1991, ... |
Pedro Knight | ... ar in her honor, at 31st Street and Bergenline Avenue, with Cruz's widower, | , present. There are four other similar dedications to Cruz around the wor ... |
Oliver Reed | Rossetti was played by | in Ken Russell's film Dante's Inferno (1967). The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherho ... |
Gene Wolfe | ... lany, Roger Zelazny, Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Thorne Smith, and | |
Yehezkel Abramsky | ... lly published in Livorno (1776), and printed in editions of the Vilna Shas. | : Hazon Yehezkel (24 volumes, 1925-1975 in Hebrew) |
Kevin Spacey | ... d not want to appear in the film's suggestive sexual scenes or kiss co-star | . She later explained: "When I read it, I was 15 and I don't think I was m ... |
Arnold Genthe | ... s included poet Joaquin Miller, writer Charles W. Stoddard and photographer | , known for his documentary shots of the San Francisco fire that followed ... |
Abu Hamza al-Masri | ... fugees from the Algerian Civil War) to take it over. In 1996 they installed | as imam of the mosque, which subsequently developed a reputation as a cent ... |
Herodotus | According to | , Europa had (at least) two sons, Sarpedon and Minos. When they contended ... |
Haydn | ... an Stefani and Maciej Kamieński), others imitated foreign composers such as | and Mozart |
Althusser | Thinkers such as | , Foucault or Bourdieu theorize the subject as a social construction. Acco ... |
Heimatvertriebene | Thus, a total of 12.3 million | comprised 18% of the population in the two German states created from the ... |
Saul Lieberman | Yehezkel Abramsky: Hazon Yehezkel (24 volumes, 1925-1975 in Hebrew). | : Tosefet Rishonim, Jerusalem 1937 |
her father's | ... Alice herself soon fell ill with diphtheria, and died on the anniversary of | death, 14 December 1878, when Alix was only six years-old. Alix, Victoria, ... |
Grace Kelly | ... for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1954, he starred opposite | and Robert Cummings in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder |
André Previn | ... raphy continued to grow with Carlo Maria Giulini on Deutsche Grammophon and | on both Philips and Telarc Records. Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernste ... |
Jack Williamson | ... o naturally object to the process. The word itself was coined in fiction by | , but features in many other stories of the 1950s & 60s, such Poul Anderso ... |
Karel Reisz | ... ng a series of screenings which he and the National Film Theatre programmer | organized for the venue of independently-produced short films by himself a ... |
James Baldwin's | ... he book was criticized by some of Wright's fellow African-American writers. | 1948 essay Everybody's Protest Novel dismissed Native Son as protest ficti ... |
Pythagoras | ... adigm of a spherical Earth was developed in Greek astronomy, beginning with | (6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth mode ... |
Elvis Presley | ... under any circumstances, fundamentally harmless." According to Norman, even | at his most scandalous had not exerted a "power so wholly and disturbingly ... |
Friedrich Engels | | co-developed with Karl Marx a materialist analysis of history, since known ... |
Sonja Henie | | , at just eleven years old, skates in the ladies' figure skating competiti ... |
Friedrich Engels | ... from which all the prayers of their priest will not avail to redeem them.". | echoed this idea, later maintaining that the absence of a standing army, t ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... 1982, with the release of the mainstream American hits "Sexual Healing" by | and "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa. Other early users of the TR-808 inc ... |
Saul Lieberman | In 1955 | began publishing his monumental Tosefta ki-Feshutah. Between 1955 and 1973 ... |
Chopin | Artists from Poland, including famous composers like | or Lutosławski and traditional, regionalized folk musicians, create a live ... |
Antonio Meucci | ... mission over a wire and improved on each other's ideas. Innocenzo Manzetti, | , Johann Philipp Reis, Elisha Gray, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edis ... |
Vivienne Poy | ... implied "that women can't feel true patriotism or love for Canada." Senator | similarly criticized the English lyrics of the anthem as being sexist and ... |
Richard Burton | ... ud played the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in productions of the play, first to | 's Melancholy Dane on the Broadway stage which Gielgud directed in 1964, t ... |
Ovid | ... ikram and the Vampire. Both The Golden Ass by Apuleius and Metamorphoses by | extend the depths of framing to several degrees. Another early example is ... |
Lucy Diakovska | After listening to a few old recordings, | approached her former bandmates in mid-2006 to arrange a first meeting wit ... |
Victor Emmanuel III | ... was far better armed than the Fascist militias, the liberal system and King | were facing a deeper political crisis. The King was forced to choose which ... |
Peter Paul Rubens | Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_068.jpg|The Raising of the Cross, | , 1610–1 |
Peter Frampton | ... d by a number of rock bands, including Fleetwood Mac (on album Penguin) and | (on I'm in You), and also by comedian Bill Cosby on Bill Cosby Sings Hoora ... |
Tony Abbott | ... ogy for high-bet/high-intensity poker machines, against opposition from the | Coalition and Clubs Australia |
Colossus | ... . The X-Men universe also includes such notable heroes as Wolverine, Storm, | , Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Rogue, Psylocke, Dazzler, Gambit and Emma Frost ... |
Kevin Spacey | ... rade. He then attended Chatsworth High School—where his classmates included | and Mare Winningham—as well as the Hollywood Professional School. At the a ... |
Lance Armstrong | ... f several cycling groups and the seven-time Tour de France champion cyclist | , as well as environmentally and economically minded bicycle commuters. Co ... |
Sauron | ... l Dúath. When Minas Ithil fell to the Nazgûl in , the Ithil-Stone came into | 's hands, and leading up to the War of the Ring was kept by him in Barad-d ... |
Orson Welles | ... ry was a source of inspiration for the development of the lead character in | ' film Citizen Kane. His mansion, Hearst Castle, near San Simeon, Californ ... |
Alfred Hitchcock | ... (1955) and Rebel Without a Cause (1955). In his ten-year collaboration with | , Bernard Herrmann experimented with ideas in Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960 ... |
Ruud Gullit | ... r history. Key players in the squad from this period included Johan Cruyff, | and Peter Houtman (who later became the Feyenoord stadium announcer). Crui ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... eas from such thinkers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, | , Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the wo ... |
Paul Hogan | Commercially successful Australian films have included | 's Crocodile Dundee, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! and Chris Noonan's Babe. ... |
Joel Spolsky | ... l mis-steps during introduction, like the lack of a macro language or undo. | blames it on the design itself, claiming it was too perfectly aimed at a s ... |
Handel | ... lennes de Confessore (K339, 1780), Vesperae de Dominica, his arrangement of | 's Messiah plus two of his three great operas: Don Giovanni (K527, 1787) a ... |
Audrey Hepburn | ... e McNamara was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress but lost to | in Roman Holiday. Otto Ludwig was nominated for the Academy Award for Best ... |
Emily Mortimer | ... erfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ray Winstone, | and Jude Law. The film has been met with critical acclaim and earned Scors ... |
Boris Karloff | ... ed in monsters, with Bela Lugosi's reprisal of his stage role, Dracula, and | playing Frankenstein's monster. The studio also made several lesser films, ... |
Saka’s period | During the | (from 700 BC to the beginning of the Common Era), these lands were chosen ... |
Joseph Needham | ... ertium, extensively analyzed by J. R. Partington, several scholars cited by | concluded that Bacon had most likely witnessed at least one demonstration ... |
Tim Berners-Lee | ... blem of distributed authoring on the World Wide Web with interested people. | 's original vision of the Web was that of a medium for both reading and wr ... |
Eugene Wigner | ... ot, under ordinary conditions, an alkali metal. In 1935 however, physicists | and Hillard Bell Huntington predicted that under an immense pressure of ar ... |
Ferdinand Magellan | ... refers to the two Magellanic Clouds, and "obscure" refers to the Coalsack. | sighted the LMC on his voyage in 1519, and his writings brought the LMC in ... |
Leigh Brackett | ... the writers Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, | , and Jack Williamson. His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilem ... |
Marvelous Marvin Hagler | ... nocking out Roberto Durán, and challenging undisputed Middleweight Champion | in a fight known as The War |
Jack Williamson | ... A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and | . His first published story was "Hollerbochen's Dilemma", which appeared i ... |
Herbert Marcuse | ... s as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, | , Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the works of artists su ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... and exciting additive rhythms." A year later, Leonard Rosenman, inspired by | , experimented with atonality in his scores for East of Eden (1955) and Re ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... hampionship, behind the Williams duo of Mansell and Patrese, and Benetton's | |
Adolf Hitler | ... a decree issued by gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by | . Many who would not co-operate with the rulers of Nazi Germany were sent ... |
Jacob D. Cox | ... irst Maj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno (killed at South Mountain) and then Brig. Gen. | as the corps commander, funneling orders to the corps through them. This c ... |
Michael I. Pupin | ... one of its own scientists, George A. Campbell, and an external investigator | to determine whether Heaviside's work was incomplete or incorrect. Campbel ... |
Napoleon I | ... ril 1785 – 2 September 1870) was a French general and . He was the lover of | 's stepdaughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland, by whom he had ... |
Karl Marx | Another Young Hegelian, | , was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to ... |
Kit Carson | ... te sympathizers in the area attempted to remove the flag. The Union officer | sought to discourage this activity by having guards surround the area and ... |
Michaëlle Jean | In the Throne Speech delivered by Governor General | on March 3, 2010, a plan to have parliament review the "original gender-ne ... |
Ian Roberts | In 1995 | became the first high-profile Australian sports person and first rugby foo ... |
Peter Ressel | ... hen won their match in Rotterdam 2–0, thanks to goals by Wim Rijsbergen and | , and also became the first Dutch team to win the UEFA Cup. As a result, S ... |
Mick Jagger | ... d harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, | and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the Ne ... |
Onassis | ... ubled, primarily through the investment undertaken by the shipping magnates | and Niarchos. The basis of the modern Greek maritime industry was formed a ... |
Robert Helpmann | ... bert Donat played Becket at the Old Vic in 1953 in a production directed by | |
Irving Berlin | ... s included a number of famous people such as Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Edison, | , and George Gershwin |
Tony Pulis | ... back to Division Three three years later before controversially resigning. | took over in 1995, with Gillingham once again in the bottom division, and ... |
Joseph Haydn | ... estra since around the middle of the 18th century. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, | and Ludwig van Beethoven all used it, though sparingly, usually in imitati ... |
Constantine II of Greece | ... nd VIPs, using the former King of Greece as his principal salesman. Ex-King | (then exiled in Britain) provided contacts to a half a dozen royal familie ... |
Terry Pratchett | ... from that he wrote the opening of what would become his collaboration with | on the comic novel Good Omens, about the impending apocalypse |
Alistair Cooke | ... ular the pursuit of objectivity. Taking as an example some comments made by | in 1935, where Cooke claimed to be without politics as a critic, Anderson ... |
Herodotus | Thebes' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both | and Strabo give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one ... |
Nawaf al-Hazmi | ... h mosque, sometime in early April. They were joined there by 9/11 hijackers | and Hani Hanjour who had moved out of San Diego and Arizona after living i ... |
C. Aubrey Smith | ... oel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, | , Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle ... |
Vincent van Gogh | Image:Portrait of Dr. Gachet.jpg| Portrait of Dr. Gachet, | , 189 |
Sauron | ... he largest battle of the Third Age, the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, when | 's Orcs and evil Men overran the Rammas Echor by blasting through it and b ... |
Mischa Barton | ... om and promptly vomits in his tent. He finds where the girl, Kyra Collins ( | ), lived and goes to her house during her funeral reception. Kyra died aft ... |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions | ... late 1970s commonly identified as power pop were the new wave bands XTC and | . They played driving, melodic music, but neither group sported the mod im ... |
Abdul Rahman | In 2006 | , an Afghan convert from Islam to Christianity, attracted worldwide attent ... |
Jon Lech Johansen | ... D in October 1999. The one known author of the trio is Norwegian programmer | , whose home was raided in 2000 by Norwegian police. Still a teenager at t ... |
Marvin Gaye | ... an, Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles (1967), | , Daffy Duck, Jan & Dean, The Sylvers, Wet Wet Wet, P. P. Arnold, Plácido ... |
Rubens Barrichello | During the afternoon qualifying session, Senna's compatriot and protégé, | was involved in a serious accident when his Jordan became airborne at the ... |
Errol Flynn | ... racter appears to come directly from the adventure film heroes portrayed by | at this time — indeed, they share a jaw line — including his buccaneering ... |
Overseas Chinese | ... which remains under control of the Republic, but is also celebrated by some | |
Kit Carson | ... . Frémont of the U.S. Army's Corps of Topographical Engineers and his guide | led three expeditions from 1842 to 1846 over parts of California and Orego ... |
Isabel Paterson | ... that it more united the Soviet and German dictatorships than divided them. | , in The God of the Machine (1943), used the term in connection with the S ... |
Peter Lorre | ... tor Fritz Lang barely used musical scores in his movies anymore. Apart from | whistling a short piece from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Lang's movie M - Ei ... |
Richard Burton | ... return plane journey had a chance encounter with actor and fellow passenger | , who had purchased all the seats around him for solitude. Burton agreed t ... |
Joseph Conrad | ... d to look after the family's shipping business. During these travels he met | , then the first mate of a sailing-ship moored in the harbour of Adelaide, ... |
Judy Garland | ... ature statuette, a total of 14 Juvenile Oscars are actually known to exist. | had reportedly lost her award over the years, and in June 1958 contacted t ... |
Jim Dale | ... e foppish exterior of British aristocrat Sir Rodney Ffing. It also features | as his assistant, Lord Darcy. They must rescue preposterously effete arist ... |
Henk Fräser | ... e strongest Dutch club of the period, were knocked out of the KNVB Cup by a | goal in Eindhoven. Feyenoord progressed to the 1991 final, where they beat ... |
Marietta FitzGerald | ... iage to Black that he embarked on an affair with married New York socialite | . While her lawyer husband was helping the war effort, the pair were once ... |
Parallax | ... cases, in the final struggle against the main villain (the Anti-Monitor and | , respectively) the Spectre was the only hero capable of standing against ... |
Arnold Genthe | ... Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Keith, Percy Gray, | and Nora May French |
Johnny Depp | ... died, outside the Hollywood nightclub The Viper Room, which was co-owned by | at the time. Joaquin's call to 911 to save his brother was recorded and re ... |
Edgard Varèse | ... ally from musical tradition and his work is influenced by Olivier Messiaen, | , and Anton Webern, as well as by film (Stockhausen 1996b) and by painters ... |
Grand Touring | The car was named the GT (for | ) with the 40 representing its overall height of 40 inches (1.02 m, measur ... |
Turkic peoples | ... authorized him to make Christian converts among the Pechenegs, semi-nomadic | living between the Danube and the Don rivers. Bruno spent five months ther ... |
P540 Superfast Aperta | ... s the SP1, commissioned by a Japanese business executive. The second is the | , commissioned by an American enthusiast |
Ritchie Blackmore | ... luded the tracks "Highway Star" and "Smoke on the Water". In 1975 guitarist | left, going on to form Rainbow and after the break-up of the band the next ... |
Ovid | ... t least one son born to Omphale and Heracles: Diodorus Siculus (4.31.8) and | (Heroides 9.54) mention a son Lamos, while pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke ... |
Maimonides | ... ves according to these laws is known as "the righteous among the gentiles". | states that this refers to those who have acquired knowledge of God and ac ... |
John Cleese | ... ith the very nature of the medium." This is reiterated by Michael Palin and | in their contributions to Ventham's (2002) book. Cleese recalls listening ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... , Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, | , Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody Allen. Charlie K ... |
David Byrne | ... nthesizer to produce music resembling acid house in 1982. A TR-808 was also | 's sole accompaniment (apart from his acoustic guitar) at the beginning of ... |
Maimonides | ... tradition of Jewish theology, while still affirming a literal acceptance of | ' thirteen principles |
Albert Einstein | ... han Huizinga, and Pisacane, and works by Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and | on physics. Disdainful of Turin students, Calvino saw himself as enclosed ... |
Martin Buber | ... idespread, and extended to many German and Austrian Jews: Zweig, as well as | and Hermann Cohen, all showed support. Zweig, although patriotic, refused ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
Theophilus Shepstone | By 1877, Sir | , the British Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, annexed the Transvaal ... |
Bruce Purchase | Geoffrey was portrayed by actor | in the 1978 BBC TV series The Devil's Crown, which dramatised the reigns o ... |
Dan Dare | ... est of Mars (1898). Later comic book series such as Buck Rogers (1930s) and | (1950s) also featured their own takes on space suit design. Science fictio ... |
Leonard Bernstein | ... and André Previn on both Philips and Telarc Records. Michael Tilson Thomas, | , and Sir Simon Rattle also made several recordings with the orchestra in ... |
René Descartes | ... een subject and object corresponds to the distinction, in the philosophy of | , between thought and extension. Descartes believed that thought (subjecti ... |
James Paris Lee | ... he Lee-Enfield takes its name from the designer of the rifle's bolt system— | —and the factory in which it was designed—the Royal Small Arms Factory in ... |
Pim Verbeek | ... Jansen was appointed as the interim manager to replace Günder Bengtsson and | after a 6–0 defeat against PSV, the outlook began to improve for the club. ... |
C. D. Howe | ... t. Laurent was criticized for a lack of restraint exercised on his minister | , who was widely perceived as extremely arrogant. Western Canadians felt p ... |
Sheila Copps | ... n easily defeated his sole remaining opponent, former Deputy Prime Minister | by securing ninety-three per cent of the party delegates from across the c ... |
Mark Twain | ... ipment and the most talented writers of the time, including Ambrose Bierce, | and Jack London. A self-proclaimed populist, Hearst went on to publish sto ... |
Karel Reisz | Along with | , Tony Richardson, and others, he secured funding from a variety of source ... |
Marlene Dietrich | ... e Done Him Wrong but Grant had already made seven movies, including playing | 's leading man in Blonde Venus the previous year. Of the people who appear ... |
Robert Graves | ... Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – | – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea ... |
David Manners | ... , Jean Hersholt, Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, | , Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Chester Morris, Jean Muir, George Murphy, ... |
Henry Wirz | ... of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, as well as the court-martial of | , the commandant in charge of the South's Andersonville prison camp |
Terry Pratchett | In the 2008 TV miniseries adaptation of | 's The Colour of Magic, the characters of Rincewind and Twoflower parody t ... |
Yakov Smirnoff | ... un verb you!" The phrase was actually originated by Ukrainian-born comedian | as his famous Russian reversal – "In America, you can always find a party. ... |
Martin Short | ... one liners as an archetypal instrument that requires no skill to play. The | sketch comedy character Ed Grimley is the best known example. A triangle p ... |
Elizabeth McGovern | ... declined, he later considered Elizabeth Perkins. He also considered casting | . Molly Ringwald was almost cast, but Meg Ryan convinced Reiner to give he ... |
Judy Garland | ... 1941, she was cast alongside two other Hollywood beauties, Lana Turner and | in the musical extravaganza Ziegfeld Girl |
Sofia Coppola | In | 's independent film The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dunst played the role of t ... |
Estelle Brody | ... dancer Margot St. Leger, and through her was introduced to American actress | . Brody queried Milland's commitment to an army career, which led to Milla ... |
David Eccles | Parkdale was founded by | and R. J. McIsaac in 1910 to serve as a terminus for the Mount Hood Railro ... |
Hans Gude | ... opinin, with Ivan Aivazovsky specializing in marine painting, and in Norway | painted secenes of fjords. In Italy Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) was the le ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... re Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, | , Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, Konrad Adenau ... |
Hephthalite | ... threat of a new wave of nomadic, Indo-European invaders from the north. The | s (or White Huns) swept out of Central Asia around the 4th century into Ba ... |
Maimonides | ... (Jacob Katz, Exclusiveness and Tolerance, Oxford Univ. Press, 1961, Ch.10) | , one of Judaism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained ... |
Stevie Wonder | ... upwards of $200,000, to famous musicians such as Sting, Michael Jackson and | , and to major studios the world over. The Synclavier was also employed by ... |
Baltej Singh Dhillon | In 1990, | became the first Sikh officer in the RCMP to be allowed to wear a turban i ... |
Stravinsky | ... on two other Grammy Awards, one Choral Performance Award for a recording of | 's Symphony of Psalms in 2007, and another for Best Orchestral Performance ... |
Roddy McDowall | ... yn, New York City. Elizabeth Taylor, who was in Paris, sent flowers, as did | , Myrna Loy, and Lew Wasserman |
Buzz Aldrin's | ... TV. In a typically surreal SCTV sketch, the play is presented by NASA and " | Mercury III Players," with space-suited astronauts as the actors, and proc ... |
Billy Hughes | ... ent lasted beyond the divisions that would later occur with World War I and | ' conscription push |
Ozzy Osbourne | ... 08 Whitesnake played at the Rock2Wgtn two day festival, which also featured | , Kiss, Poison, Alice Cooper and Lordi, with special effects by the Academ ... |
Pythagoras | ... assertions of results. Likewise there is contrast between the practices of | and Euclid. While Euclid was the originator of what we now understand as t ... |
Rudolf II | ... verted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, Maximilian II, | , and Mathias largely tolerated |
Van Tran | ... trying to take away 'our' seat", referring to her Vietnamese-born opponent, | . Sanchez also described Tran as "anti-immigrant" |
Wes Anderson | ... Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, | , and Woody Allen. Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the p ... |
King Henry VII | ... Richard III in the Wars of the Roses. More's work, however, little mentions | , the first Tudor king, perhaps for having persecuted his father, Sir John ... |
Zsa Zsa Gabor | ... bout the handsome magician, wishing to replace his sexy assistant Rosalie ( | ) |
Elvis Presley | ... d previously had limited mainstream success, but it was the white performer | who first appealed to mainstream audiences with a black style of music, be ... |
Eero Saarinen | ... el's World Fair and Yale University's hockey stadium, which was designed by | (both structures completed in 1958). The roof of the Philips pavilion was ... |
Jacob Bekenstein | Work by James Bardeen, | , Carter, and Hawking in the early 1970s led to the formulation of black h ... |
John Lennon | ... Revolver. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by | . The track included looped tape effects. For the track Paul McCartney sup ... |
Lazar Horowitz | ... o give the above ruling:. He tells the story that a student of Moses Sofer, | , author of Yad Elazer and Chief Rabbi of Vienna at the time, needed the r ... |
Ralph Bakshi | In | 's 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings, one of the Nazgûl is sh ... |
Mika Häkkinen | ... second qualifier Schumacher, he was hit from behind in the first corner by | and his race came to a definitive end when a Ferrari driven by Nicola Lari ... |
Fernando Valenzuela | ... went on to win the World Series again in 1981, thanks to pitching sensation | . The early 1980s were affectionately dubbed "Fernandomania." In 1988, ano ... |
Sid Vicious | ... n's attempts to pit the two men against each other. Matlock was replaced by | , and went on to form The Rich Kids, a New Wave power pop band, with himse ... |
Friedrich Engels | ... l system based on participatory democracy from the grass roots up. Marx and | , Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Mao Zedong t ... |
John Wesley | ... he early 13th century, but little remains from that period. John Bunyan and | both preached in the church. In 1865–1868 the tower and spire were complet ... |
David Frum | ... espread connotations of the disease with homosexuality would discredit him. | , a former speechwriter for U.S. President George W. Bush, speculated that ... |
Emile Berliner | In 1887 | invented the record and the gramophone |
Dionne Warwick | ... irelles' songs to chart. However, they carried on performing and recording. | replaced Owens and Coley, who took leave to marry their fiancés, in concer ... |
Van Tran | Sanchez was challenged by Republican nominee | and Independent candidate Ceci Iglesias. According to Roll Call, Sanchez c ... |
Percy Grainger | ... the first part of the 20th century were heavily influenced by folk music ( | 's "English Country Gardens" of 1908 being a good example of this) |
Béla Bartók | ... Sony and Deutsche Grammophon. A recording of the Concerto for Orchestra by | released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2007 was the first recording by Gustavo ... |
Liev Schreiber | ... most famous character John Clark has been played by actors Willem Dafoe and | . All but two of Clancy's solely-written novels feature Jack Ryan or John ... |
Jean Hersholt | ... ld, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall, Paul Harvey, | , Russell Hicks, Murray Kinnell, Gene Lockhart, Bela Lugosi, David Manners ... |
Lewis A. Coser | The American sociologist | (following the German philosopher and sociologist Max Scheler) defines an ... |
William Shatner | ... BC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man. | corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at ... |
Bernd Schuster | ... d as manager, and he won La Liga with notable displays by German midfielder | . The next season Venables took the team to their second European Cup fina ... |
Peter Mansbridge | ... 31, 2008, at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. It featured special guests Ron MacLean, | , and former Air Farce member Dave Broadfoot. The final episode was viewed ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... es, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | . Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan ... |
Karl Marx | | found it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ... |
T. S. Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral is a verse drama by | that portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury ... |
Willem Dafoe | ... while his second most famous character John Clark has been played by actors | and Liev Schreiber. All but two of Clancy's solely-written novels feature ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... s up. Marx and Friedrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and later Vladimir Lenin, | and Mao Zedong tried to draw major theoretical lessons (in particular as r ... |
Alma Mahler | ... l 1935, when the death of Manon Gropius, the daughter of Walter Gropius and | , prompted him to break off work to write his Violin Concerto |
Sid James | ... rodied extensively in the Carry On film Don't Lose Your Head which featured | as the Black Fingernail who helps French aristocrats escape the guilotine ... |
George Frideric Handel | ... ria, the cantata became a group of two or three arias joined by recitative. | 's numerous Italian duets and trios are examples on a rather large scale. ... |
Poldek Pfefferberg | ... ly wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel in 1982, inspired by the efforts of | , a Holocaust survivor. In 1980 Pfefferberg met Keneally in his shop, and ... |
Sigmund Romberg | ... collaborated with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml and | , but his most famous collaboration was with Richard Rodgers |
Charles Laughton | ... . MGM started Milland out in films such as Payment Deferred (1932) starring | |
Marvin Gaye | ... d song "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", which had previously hit for | in 1964. Not far behind, "(I'm a) Road Runner", by the same songwriters, r ... |
Juliet Prowse | ... wford, and for a brief stint, Norman Fell. Marilyn Monroe, Angie Dickinson, | , and Shirley MacLaine were often referred to as the "Rat Pack Mascots". T ... |
Brian Aldiss | Most of Wyndham's novels have a contemporary 1950s English setting. | , another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some ... |
Felix Frankfurter | ... ecedents were thus upheld. In 1939 Black was joined on the Supreme Court by | and William O. Douglas. Douglas voted alongside Black in several cases, es ... |
Kristina Keneally | Keneally's nephew Ben is married to the former Premier of New South Wales, | |
M. Night Shyamalan | ... ense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by | . The film tells the story of Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), a troubled, i ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... Shaw and Samuel Beckett. Other influential writers and playwrights include | , Jonathan Swift and the creator of Dracula, Bram Stoker. It is arguably m ... |
Heinz Prechter | ... 07 had more than 44,000 employees and annual sales in excess of $8 billion. | , the German-born, but American-spirited inventor of the automobile sunroo ... |
Elvis Presley | ... y Hathaway, Michael Bolton, Bob Dylan, Liberace, Frank Sinatra, Matt Monro, | , Ray Charles (1967), Marvin Gaye, Daffy Duck, Jan & Dean, The Sylvers, We ... |
Roger Corman | ... invitations. At one screening, Bogdanovich was viewing a film and director | was sitting behind him. The two struck up a conversation when Corman menti ... |
Rudolf Friml | ... usic. Hammerstein collaborated with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, | and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with Richard Ro ... |
Chris Martin | ... pean New Wave acts influenced various incarnations of Eurodisco and trance. | was inspired to start Coldplay by |
Avraham (Yair) Stern | ... d military issues such as guerrilla warfare, tactics and laying land mines. | was notable among the cell organizers in Europe. In 1937 the Polish author ... |
Bobby Fischer | ... Santa Monica 1966 (the Piatigorsky Cup), with 11½/18, half a point ahead of | . Spassky also won at Beverwijk 1967 with 11/15 ahead of Anatoly Lutikov, ... |
Leonard Bernstein | ... combined dissonance with elements of blues and jazz. Kazan also approached | to score On the Waterfront (1954) and the result was reminiscent of earlie ... |
Bo Svenson | ... made famous in the Walking Tall series of movies starring Joe Don Baker and | , and in numerous documentaries and books |
Albert Einstein | ... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people ( | ) and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ... |
Damon Knight | At the other extreme, science fiction author and critic | wrote |
Patrick Stewart | ... ile. Expanded to the nth degree. Taken to infinity. Overlaid on the back of | 's head. |
Bob Hope | ... ure as the Biblical strongman. However, following her comedic turn opposite | in My Favorite Spy (1951), her career went into decline. She appeared only ... |
James Blish | ... iction book Doctor Mirabilis, written in 1964 by the science fiction author | . This is the second book in Blish's quasi-religious trilogy After Such Kn ... |
Marian Damaschin | ... utch Supercup, the first Supercup held since 1949. PSV were beaten 1–0 by a | goal to add another honour to the club's achievements. They went on to win ... |
Tan D. Nguyen | In 2006, she defeated | (R) with 62% of the vote |
Malcolm McDowell | ... remembered as a film maker for his "Mick Travis trilogy", all of which star | as the title character: If.... (1968), a satire on public schools; O Lucky ... |
Christopher Isherwood | ... radbury's work is sharply divided. In his review of The Martian Chronicles, | wrote |