Friedrich Nietzsche | The thought of | underlies much 20th century analysis of power. Nietzsche disseminated idea ... |
Hitler | ... joined the Columbia Broadcasting System under Edward R. Murrow. He visited | 's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, i ... |
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, . ... |
Ovid | ... tian thinkers in his Divine Comedy such as Virgil, Averroes, Homer, Horace, | , Lucan, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin, Avicenna has been recognized by bot ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... me a Top 10 Hit. The group was asked to open for many rock tours, including | and The Doors |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Enzo Francescoli | ... rales, singer and actress Natalia Oreiro, soccer players Antonio Alzamendi, | and Carlos Goyen, actor Daniel Hendler, actress China Zorrilla, entertaine ... |
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 ... |
Mircea Eliade | The religious historian | speaks of a desire to transcend old age and death and achieve a state of n ... |
Christian Bale | ... itol and surrounding area for use in the 2009 film Public Enemies featuring | and Johnny Depp |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pervez Musharraf | ... ge number of Pakistani students to study in Turkish universities. President | studied in Turkey and spoke Turkish fluently |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Franz Beckenbauer | ... aptain of the German football squad in 1958. The other four are Uwe Seeler, | , Lothar Matthäus and |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Subh-i-Azal | ... nce to Bahá'u'lláh, they are not subject to shunning. However, followers of | , Bahá'u'lláh's half-brother who tried to poison him, were engaged in acti ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
China Zorrilla | ... Alzamendi, Enzo Francescoli and Carlos Goyen, actor Daniel Hendler, actress | , entertainer Carlos Perciavalle and former playboy and journalist Luis Cé ... |
Ann-Margret | Others who have covered the song include | , who would later co-star with Presley in the 1964 motion picture Viva Las ... |
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 ... |
Alan García | ... resident of Peruvian Chamber of Deputies during the government of President | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Canadian pioneers in the film industry | She was one of several | who were attracted by the rapid growth of the fledgling motion picture bus ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | Avary and novelist | 's long gestating screenplay for Beowulf was finally produced by the pair ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry L. Stimson | Named after | , United States Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration (1929–1933 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Leopold Kozeluch | ... eriod include Johann Baptist Vanhal, Franz Anton Hoffmeister (3 concertos), | , Anton Zimmermann, Antonio Capuzzi, Wenzel Pichl (2 concertos), and Johan ... |
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" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | The philosopher | is often interpreted as arguing that language is not up to the task of des ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Willem Dafoe | ... ntius Pilate. (In the 1988 version, these roles were played respectively by | and David Bowie. |
Johnny Depp | ... an Connery overlooking the maze, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory starring | and V for Vendetta with Stephen Fry |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
Frédéric Chopin | The works of some composers, especially | , may contain long series of notes printed in the small type reserved for ... |
Ramban | ... ere is some dispute as to how to divide these up (mainly between the rabbis | and ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sandra Dickinson | ... dio series, except for David Dixon as Ford Prefect instead of McGivern, and | as Trillian instead of Sheridan |
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 ... |
Richard Harris | ... bellum home located next door to Lee High School. This cult classic starred | , Ernest Borgnine, Ann Turkel, and Cecily Hovanes |
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 ... |
Heinrich Jalowetz | ... ipline from Schoenberg's teaching. Other pupils of this generation included | , Erwin Stein and Egon Wellesz, and somewhat later Eduard Steuermann, Hann ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adrienne Clarkson | ... ere also buoyed by the Sponsorship Scandal. Martin advised Governor General | to call an election for June 28, 2004 |
Albert Einstein | ... othic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of | |
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) |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Lawrence Alloway | The term "Pop Art" was used by | to describe paintings that celebrated consumerism of the post World War II ... |
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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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Guillermo del Toro | ... or Warner Independent. Don Murphy and Susan Montford are the producers, and | is the film's executive producer |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | ... el written in collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
René Descartes | ... ason to reject the concept of 'absolute' omnipotence, while others, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent, despite the problem |
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 ... |
Marx's | Althusser's contention is that | thought has been fundamentally misunderstood and underestimated. He fierce ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Deanna Durbin | The 11th Annual Academy Awards recognized both | and Mickey Rooney with the Juvenile Award honoring "their significant cont ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
George Brecht | ... age's students included Fluxus founding members Jackson Mac Low, Al Hansen, | and Dick Higgins |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Herodotus | According to | , the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silve ... |
Ferdinand Daučík | Managers | and László Kubala led the team to five different trophies including La Lig ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Billy Wilder | Mulholland Drive has been compared with | 's film noir classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), another tale about broken dr ... |
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 ... |
Marcia Hines | ... NXS, Noiseworks, Skyhooks, AC/DC, Renée Geyer, Spectrum, Chain, Daddy Cool, | , Zoot, The Masters Apprentices, Dragon, Air Supply, The Radiators, The An ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Malcolm McDowell | ... n repressed his homosexuality, was seen as a betrayal by his other friends. | was quoted in 2006 as saying |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | Stardust (1998) is the first solo prose novel by | . It is usually published as a novel with illustrations by Charles Vess. S ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... his merciless satirising the personalities and policies of German dictator | , Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and ot ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Ed Bishop | The American actor | (1932–2005) is buried in the parish churchyard |
Schoenberg | ... of athematic serial composition that rejected the twelve-tone technique of | (Felder 1977, 92). He characterized many of these earliest compositions (t ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 |
René Descartes | Some Philosophers, such as | , argue that God is absolutely omnipotent. In addition, some philosophers ... |
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 ... |
Leonard Wood | ... cked for several ballots between Illinois Governor Frank Lowden and General | , few delegates seriously considered Hoover as a compromise choice. Althou ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Michael Schumacher | ... ne drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent among them, World Champions | , Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Butto ... |
Robert Graves | In The Greek Myths (1955), | views Oenopion as his perennial Year-King, at the stage where the king pre ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Frédéric Chopin | ... antic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer | . In the occupied and repressed Poland, some sought progress through self- ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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) |
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 ... |
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 |
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. ... |
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, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Imre Lakatos | Popper's student | attempted to reconcile Kuhn’s work with falsificationism by arguing that s ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | In by | , the necropolis apprentice Petrefax tells a story that includes a storyte ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 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 |
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 ... |
Fernando Alonso | ... among them, World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, | , Kimi Räikkönen, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. Many ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Casimir Pulaski | ... Historic Site. The city is named in honor of Polish Revolutionary War hero | |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Boy George | ... falo Girls." Later the Hilltoppers' home was visited by the Sex Pistols and | |
Adam Mickiewicz | ... e greatest Polish literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets | , Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin. In the o ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Vivian Campbell | ... Guitarists have included Craig Goldy (most recent guitarist), Doug Aldrich, | , Tracy G, Jake E. Lee and Rowan Robertson |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bebe Daniels | ... Turpin, Wallace Beery, Thomas Meighan, Francis X. Bushman, Gloria Swanson, | , Tom Mix, Ann Little, Helen Dunbar, Harold Lloyd, Lester Cuneo, Eugene Pa ... |
Elvis Presley | From 1956 Norman was fascinated with the music of | . According to Norman, his father banned him from listening to rock and ro ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gore Vidal | Woodward was reported to have been engaged to author | prior to marrying Paul Newman. However, there was no real engagement: Vida ... |
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 ... |
Vitaly Petrov | All current (with the exception of Russian driver | ) and many former Formula One drivers grew up racing karts, most prominent ... |
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 ... |
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; ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Bolesław Limanowski | ... 39) in Russia; Adolf Wagner (1835–1917), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and | (1835–1935) in Poland |
Solomon Trujillo | In May 2009, | stood down as Chief Executive Officer to return to the United States. Davi ... |
Jimi Hendrix | ... Merle Haggard, Tom Jones, Dax Riggs, Roger McGuinn, Suzi Quatro, Van Halen, | , Neil Diamond, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Guns N' Roses |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stanley Kubrick | ... robably the most effective fusion of existentialist philosophy and cinema." | 's 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory "illustrates, and even illuminates... ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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. |
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) |
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 ... |
Rudolph Ruzicka | ... uced in sizes as small as 20 micrometers across. The design has appeared on | 's Bicentennial Medal (Philadelphia Mint, 1969) and elsewhere |
Ernst Gombrich | ... opper also had long and mutually influential friendships with art historian | , biologist Peter Medawar, and neuro-scientist John Carew Eccles |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tristan Tzara | ... t admirer of the Dadaists and Surrealists, especially his fellow countryman | . Ionesco became friends with the founder of Surrealism, André Breton, who ... |
Ozzy | ... he was "...thoroughly thrilled with Chris... it reminds me a lot like when | found Randy Rhoads" |
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 ... |
Otto Robert Frisch | ... y, they communicated these results to Lise Meitner. Meitner, and her nephew | , correctly interpreted these results as being nuclear fission. Following ... |
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 ... |
Vivian Campbell | | left Whitesnake in late 1988 due to creative differences, and so the band' ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... some political leaders of the Polish insurrection movement (in particular, | ) sent emissaries to Japan to collaborate on sabotage and intelligence gat ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Toby Robins | ... storian Pierre Berton, Betty Kennedy (who later become a Canadian senator), | (who later became a movie actress) and columnist Gordon Sinclair. Columnis ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Terry Gilliam | A film, directed by | , was planned. As of 2002 Gilliam still hoped to make the film with its al ... |
Rihanna | ... nds. Hip-hop artists commonly sample 1980s synthpop and R&B artists such as | have also embraced that subgenre |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Alex Hyde-White | Burnside was portrayed by | in Ronald F. Maxwell's 2003 film Gods and Generals, which includes the Bat ... |
Stepan Bandera | ... sassin Bohdan Stashynsky killed Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and | with a spray gun that fired a jet of poison gas from a crushed cyanide amp ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Robert Graves | Karl Kerenyi (and | ) theorizes that Ariadne (whose name they derive from Hesychius' listing o ... |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Olivia de Havilland | Catherine Sloper ( | ) is a plain, painfully shy woman whose emotionally detached father (Ralph ... |
Richard Burton | He was a close friend of actor | , whom he met at Oxford University |
William Brown | Widely considered a national hero, | is the most famous Irish citizen in Argentina. Creator of the Argentine Na ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henry Wise Wood | The most important Canadian theorist was an American immigrant, | , president of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) during that movement's ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... Dwan's daughter Judith, he climbed a pile of rubble that marked the site of | 's bunker, the site of Hitler's death, and performed a two-minute Charlest ... |
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 ... |
Ernest Hemingway | Among his friends were Orson Welles and | . Humphrey Bogart was one of his best friends and Huston delivered the eul ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Naomi Watts | Lynch cast | and Laura Elena Harring by their photographs. He called them in separately ... |
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 ... |
Ovid | ... tly and published scholarly articles on such authors as Horace, Propertius, | , Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles. He gradually acquired such a high re ... |
Bolesław Limanowski | In Poland | thought deeply about Agrarianism and worked out an eclectic program that f ... |
Giuseppe Garibaldi | ... inent radical figures in the unification movement were Giuseppe Mazzini and | . The more conservative constitutional monarchic figures included Count Ca ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Natalia Oreiro | ... ier Juan Navarro, sports journalist Victor Hugo Morales, singer and actress | , soccer players Antonio Alzamendi, Enzo Francescoli and Carlos Goyen, act ... |
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 |
Schoenberg | ... an. This was a break from the intellectual serial music of the tradition of | which lasted from the early 1900s to 1960s |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Olivia de Havilland | After seeing The Heiress on Broadway, | approached William Wyler about directing her in a screen adaptation of the ... |
Danny Huston | ... r marriage. In addition to his children with Soma, he fathered a son, actor | , with author Zoe Sallis |
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 ... |
James Joyce | ... g use of stream-of-consciousness would be utilised by such later authors as | , Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner |
Alejandro O'Reilly | Don | , Spanish governor of Louisiana, issued a land ordinance to allow settlers ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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," ... |
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 ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tia Carrere | ... on, Gregory Itzin, Lauren Tom, Jane Sibbett, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Stoyanov, | , Beverley Mitchell, Michael Madsen, Jon Gries, Kurt Fuller, Donald Gibb a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... were the only ones by Western actors permitted by Enver Hoxha to be shown. | once referred to Wisdom as his "favourite clown" |
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 |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Roy Makaay | ... number of high profile signings amongst which Giovanni van Bronckhorst and | . Despite the efforts, Feyenoord underperformed once again in the national ... |
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 ... |
Overseas Chinese | Chinese immigration law gives priority to returning | — ethnic Chinese who were living abroad. As a result, practically all immi ... |
Orson Welles | ... gene O'Neill, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and | |
Terry Gilliam | ... s, Noel Fielding, Roger Fry, Kate Garraway, Stephen Gately, Stella Gibbons, | , Jeremy Hardy, Freddie Highmore, Bob Hoskins, Terry Jones, Ulrika Jonsson ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... rasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Jacob Burckhardt, and | worked here. More recently, its work in tropical medicine has gained promi ... |
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 ... |
George Brecht | Event scores, such as | 's "Drip Music", are essentially performance art scripts that are usually ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Al Stewart | Singer-songwriter | released a song entitled "The Palace of Versailles", a song detailing the ... |
Józef Piłsudski | ... f other contemporary socialists and communists, from Lenin (a communist) to | (a socialist), were more sympathetic to national self-determination) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Shania Twain | ... the contestants on the final show was then emerging country music superstar | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | File:Nietzsche-munch.jpg|Portrait of | (1906 |
Pythagoras | ... oclea – Delphic priestess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to | General:*Greek art*List of traditional Greek place name |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
Albert Einstein | In his famous work on special relativity in 1905, | predicted that when two clocks were brought together and synchronized, 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 ... |
Max Robertson | ... rn in Paris and travelled the world with her BBC sports commentator husband | |
Laird Cregar | ... Don Ameche and Charles Coburn. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, | , Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, Signe Hasso, Louis Calhe ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Olivia de Havilland | ... nd returned to Hollywood, in debt and without income, to resume her career. | mounted a similar case in 1943 and won |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chris Martin | Coldplay singer | married Paltrow's daughter in 2003. The 2005 Coldplay album X&Y carried a ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Julie Andrews | ... e recently having co-starred in the box office hit Victor/Victoria opposite | two years earlier) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Peter Beardsley | ... Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers | , Michael Carrick and Alan Shearer. John Dunn, inventor of keyed Northumbr ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Karl Marx | ... taste for the classics of French literature as well as for the writings of | |
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 |
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 ... |
Gwyneth Paltrow | ... ewhere. His last production was the film Duets, which starred his daughter, | |
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 ... |
Felipe Massa | ... lesi, Eddie Irvine, Rubens Barrichello, Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen, | , and Fernando Alonso |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rod Stewart | ... Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and plays host to acts like Dave Matthews Band, | and the Eagles |
Adolf Hitler | Mussolini and | first met in June 1934, as the issue of Austrian independence was in crisi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Béla Bartók | Cell z is also one of the basic cells in | 's String Quartet No. 4 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ferdinand Magellan | ... church's altar are two of the original doors from the Victoria, the ship of | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pedro Zamora | | struggled with AIDS. He succumbed to the disease on November 11, 1994, hou ... |
William S. Burroughs | Moore named | as one of his main influences during the conception of Watchmen. He admire ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Imre Lakatos | ... e, several decades before Gray's criticism, in reply to a critical essay by | |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Mircea Eliade | | discussed initiation as a principal religious act by classical or traditio ... |
Orson Welles | ... 975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina. (Legendary actor and director | voiced her husband, the cobra "Nag". |
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 ... |
Madonna | ... zgerald, Sam Cooke, Diana Ross, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Hiromi Uehara, | , Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | In 1947 | , former president of the moderate Kikuyu Central Association, became pres ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Boris Karloff | ... nted a collection of 1930s electrical props originally used in the original | Frankenstein films. The interiors of Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems were shot ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Ruth Westheimer | ... Roddy McDowall and others; Chubby Checker, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and Dr. | appeared in episodes as themselves |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
John Cleese | ... f the ITV listings magazine, TV Times, being suspended because of a strike. | was a cast member |
Jimi Hendrix | The most famous guitarist who admired Elmore James was | . Early in his career Jimi styled himself variously as 'Maurice James' and ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bob Marley | Rita Marley, | 's wife, converted to the Rastafari faith after seeing Haile Selassie on h ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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: | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Willy Brandt | ... monstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor | , who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maimonides | Towards the end of the period of Crusader rule, in 1166 | visited Hebron, which he apparently thought lay east of Jerusalem, and wro ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Orson Welles | On 28 October 1940 Wells was interviewed by | , who two years previous had performed an infamous radio adaptation of The ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | ... Stations Give Worldwide Radio Coverage?" by British science fiction writer | , published in Wireless World magazine. The orbit, which Clarke first desc ... |
Samuel Beckett | Like | , Ionesco began his theatre career late: he did not write his first play u ... |
Enrique Iglesias | ... of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, Thalía, Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, | , Pitbull, Sussan Taunton, Jorge Ramos, Gloria Estefan and her husband Emi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Edith Wharton | ... he wanted to play the character "Mattie" in a proposed 1944 film version of | 's novel Ethan Frome (1911) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... o allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary | argued that, following a socialist revolution, money could not be arbitrar ... |
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 | |
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" ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Thalía | ... d Shakira, Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, | , Julio Iglesias, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Sussan T ... |
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 ... |
Lee Harvey Oswald | # Suite from " | " - Velton Ray Bunch (14:55 |
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 ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... believed Africans were already socialists. Other African socialists include | , Kenneth Kaunda, and Kwame Nkrumah. Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism a ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Aldous Huxley | ... the classics The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World, by | |
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 ... |
Albert Einstein | In the early 20th century, Frederick Frost Blackman along with | investigated the effects of light intensity (irradiance) and temperature o ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maurice Jarre | Jarre has a half-sister Stéphanie Jarre, from | 's other marriages. His half-brother, Kevin Jarre, died in 2011. Although ... |
Errol Flynn | De Havilland and | were known as one of Hollywood's most exciting on-screen couples, appearin ... |
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 ... |
John Singer Sargent | ... exponents of the medium included Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, John LaFarge, | , Childe Hassam, and, preeminently, Winslow Homer |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gilles Villeneuve | ... rio Andretti, Clay Regazzoni, Niki Lauda, Carlos Reutemann, Jody Scheckter, | , Didier Pironi, Patrick Tambay, René Arnoux, Michele Alboreto, Gerhard Be ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pythagoras | ... a (or ditonic comma), named after the ancient mathematician and philosopher | , is the small interval (or comma) existing in Pythagorean tuning between ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Fausto Sozzini | ... io Biandrata, Bernardino Ochino, Giovanni Alciato, Giovanni Battista Cetis, | , Francesco Stancaro and Giovanni Valentino Gentile) who propagated Nontri ... |
Olivia de Havilland | ... n 1935 as the comedy Alibi Ike, starring Joe E. Brown in the title role and | in her film debut |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Henning Wehn | | is the self-styled the "German Comedy Ambassador in London". He often appe ... |
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 ... |
J. K. Rowling | ... ainstream literature, alongside Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991) and | 's Harry Potter series (1997–2007) |
Sunil Chhetri | ... efeating favourites Tajikistan 4–1 with a stellar performance by local star | , and the 2009 Nehru Cup |
Gerhard Berger | Senna was close friends with McLaren teammate | , and the two were always playing practical jokes on each other. Berger is ... |
Charlie Chaplin | ... Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with | as a Keystone Kop |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Karl Popper | ... ve since refined this idea, including Henri Poincaré, Arthur Holly Compton, | , Henry Margenau, Robert Kane, Alfred Mele, and Martin Heisenberg |
Shirazeh Houshiary | ... prize and adding a political dimension, painter Peter Doig and multi-media | |
Bartók | ... music theory. Although these include analyses of music by Mozart, Debussy, | , Stravinsky, Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, Michael von Biel ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Rubens Barrichello | ... reto, Gerhard Berger, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Jean Alesi, Eddie Irvine, | , Michael Schumacher, Kimi Räikkönen, Felipe Massa, and Fernando Alonso |
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 " ... |
Gilles Villeneuve | * In , the trophy was not given to | , a Canadian driver, who finished the season as runner-up but ahead of Ala ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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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 ... |
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 |
René Descartes | Influenced both by Galileo's new physics and Bacon, | argued soon after that mathematics and geometry provided a model of how sc ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Wangari Maathai | ... has been awarded to a diverse group of people and organisations, including | , Astrid Lindgren, Bianca Jagger, Mordechai Vanunu, Petra Kelly and Memori ... |
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 ... |
Horace Capron | Capron was named after General | |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sekou Cissé | ... act more investors to the club leading to some unexpected signings, such as | , Dani Fernández and Stefan Babović |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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, ... |
Mark Hateley | ... , Dion Dublin, Stuart Pearce, Gerry Francis, Kevin Gallacher, Terry Gibson, | , Ian Wallace, Tommy Hutchison, Martin Jol, Les Sealey, Robbie Keane, Gary ... |
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, ... |
David Bowie | ... ited to a rock video (the featured song in this scene was "Golden Years" by | ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hamid Karzai | ... of the Taliban government and its replacement by the current government of | , there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the nationa ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
David McHattie Forbes | ... land stand of cinchona trees, from which quinine is made. It was planted by | in the early 1900s |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Herodotus | The ram deity of Mendes was described by | in his History as being represented with the head and fleece of a goat: “. ... |
Kim Beazley | He is also a long-time friend of former federal Labor Leader | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Shakira | Prominent guests included | , Don Francisco, the former members of Menudo, Selena, Celia Cruz, Thalía, ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | In 1923, Winifred met | , who greatly admired Wagner's music. When Hitler was jailed for his part ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Al Stewart | On his album A Beach Full of Shells, | paid tribute to Donegan in the song "Katherine of Oregon". Additionally, i ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elvis Presley | ... Collage No.1 (Blue Suede) (for tape) by sampling and manipulating a famous | recording |
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 ... |
Pervez Musharraf | Pakistani President | - then as Army Chief of Staff - was responsible for sending thousands of P ... |
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 ... |
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) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Orson Welles | On his death, fellow director and friend | wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, "Jean Renoir: The Greatest of ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Arthur C. Clarke | The spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov in | 's novel uses aerobraking in the upper layers of Jupiter's atmosphere to e ... |
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 ... |
Ian Rush | Notable former players of the club include | (who later managed the club), Cyrille Regis, Arthur Albiston, Earl Barrett ... |
Daniel Burnham | ... vernor General Luke E. Wright, Burnham Park in honor of Baguio city planner | , Governor Pack Road, and Session Road |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marcia Hines | Parallel with Geyer's success, American born vocalist | emerged as one of Australia's most successful solo singers. She first came ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Karl Marx | ... odity is something other than its value. In Value, Price and Profit (1865), | quotes Adam Smith and sums up |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Werner Herzog | He next starred alongside Nicolas Cage in the | film , and alongside Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson in Streets of Blood. Both we ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ezra Pound | ... specially Cubism. Although Imagism isolates objects through the use of what | called "luminous details", Pound's Ideogrammic Method of juxtaposing concr ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tycho Brahe | ... , and included by Ptolemy in his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, | 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20 |
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. |
Leonard Bernstein | ... nsdorf; more recently, others have included Kurt Sanderling, Pierre Boulez, | , Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chris Pedersen | ... second set of songs. At the end of the sessions, in 1986, long-term drummer | was added |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Björk | ... say they studied with Stockhausen (Flur 2003, 228), and Icelandic vocalist | has acknowledged Stockhausen's influence (Heuger 1998, 15; Björk 1996; Ros ... |
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 ... |
David Bowie | ... rmed "The Missing Frame," "Love Like Winter," "Miss Murder," and a cover of | 's "Ziggy Stardust" |
Roberto Martínez | ... ), Cyrille Regis, Arthur Albiston, Earl Barrett, Lee Dixon, Steve Harkness, | and Stan Pearson |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Antal Doráti | ... . Paray was followed by noted music directors Sixten Ehrling, Aldo Ceccato, | , and Günther Herbig |
Ezra Pound | In 1915, | , overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the m ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... wo consecutive years), Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, Alvin Sargent, and | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... otege Clark Ashton Smith, Ambrose Bierce, Upton Sinclair, Robinson Jeffers, | , Sydney Yard, Ferdinand Burgdorff, William Frederic Ritschel, William Kei ... |
Nikolaus Pevsner | ... of the buildings are listed, including the Cheltenham Synagogue, judged by | to be one of the architecturally "best" non-Anglican ecclesiastical buildi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
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 ... |
Billy Wilder | He became a favorite actor of director | , starring in his films Some Like It Hot (for which he was awarded Best Ac ... |
M.I.A. | ... everal artists including Paul Weller, Jarvis Cocker, Razorlight, Brian Eno, | , Ian Brown, The Futureheads, Belle & Sebastian, Damon Albarn, Dizzee Rasc ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ovid | ... m, Terence, Cicero, Plautus; then Lucan, Horace, Juvenal, Sallust, Statius, | , Livy and Persius |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pablo Casals | Other museums such as the | Museum, the Book Museum, Americas Museum and the National Gallery display ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Bohuslav Martinů | Concert composers who have written for theremin include | , Percy Grainger, Christian Wolff, Joseph Schillinger, Moritz Eggert, Irai ... |
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 ... |
Carsten Jancker | ... against Mönchengladbach. Feyenoord were knocked out in the semi-finals by a | inspired |
Pablo Picasso | ... . Brassai photographed many of his artist friends, including Salvador Dalí, | , Henri Matisse, Alberto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers ... |
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 |
Adolf Hitler | ... 935), which chronicled the 1934 Nazi Party Congress and was commissioned by | . Leftist filmmakers Joris Ivens and Henri Storck directed Borinage (1931) ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sidney Nolan | ... eorge Eliot, Jacob Bronowski, Sir Ralph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir | , Alexander Litvinenko, Malcolm McLaren, and Radclyffe Hall |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Leon Trotsky | ... Konovalets, Ignace Poretsky, Fourth International secretary Rudolf Klement, | , and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) leadership in Catal ... |
Elvis Presley | ... pcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also wrote and acted the main role in a play about | titled Him, in 1995 |
Jimi Hendrix | ... ind "Television", "Sparta" and "Southern Cross". Midnight Oil came from the | song, "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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; ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Tom Stoppard | Housman is the main character in the 1997 | play The Invention of Love. Many titles for novels and films have been dra ... |
Julius von Ficker | ... 1859–1866, Sybel was engaged in a literary controversy with the historian, | , on the significance of the German Empire |
Marwan al-Shehhi | ... ing project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and | all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
James Joyce | In | 's Ulysses, the precocious Stephen Dedalus recalls with disdain his boyhoo ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... informed performance movement. Performances of composers from Beethoven to | with limited vibrato are now not uncommon. Norrington caused controversy d ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maurice Schwartz | He was quickly recognized by | , who signed him up with his Yiddish Art Theater. Edward G. Robinson and P ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elvis Presley | ... s of Sun Records as the type of music he was seeking when he first recorded | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Junichiro Koizumi | ... Partnership." This was the among many historic steps led by Prime Minister | to strengthen global economic stability |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nikolai Berdyaev | ... n postmodern Christianity and on theologians and religious thinkers such as | , Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Wilfrid Desan and John Macquarrie |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Herbert Hoover | ... ected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and | . |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The Emperor's erudition amazed | when both met. Victor Hugo told him: "Sire, you are a great citizen, you a ... |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala | ... r, whose novels A Room with a View and Howards End resulted in two wins for | |
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 | |
Euler | The following infinite product definitions for the gamma function, due to | and Weierstrass respectively, are valid for all complex numbers z, except ... |
David Strassman | ... Son (Mack carved Charlie McCarthy's head), Revello Petee, Kenneth Spencer, | , Cecil Gough, Jeff Dunham, and Glen & George McElroy |
Colin Farrell | ... , including Noel Purcell, Sir Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Stephen Rea, | , Colm Meaney and Gabriel Byrne. The best known theatres include the Gaiet ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Bobby Robson | Cruyff was briefly replaced by | , who took charge of the club for a single season in 1996–97. The club sig ... |
Hans Gude | File:Hans Gude--Vinterettermiddag--1847.jpg| | , Winter Afternoon, 1847, National Gallery of Norway, Osl |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Karel Reisz | The script to | 's movie The French Lieutenant's Woman (1980), written by Harold Pinter, i ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Dougray Scott | ... ffe, and stars Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley, Derek Jacobi, Golshifteh Farahani, | , Olga Kurylenko, and Lily Cole |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marco Polo | | , the famed explorer, saw newborns exposed in Manzi. China's society pract ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
William S. Burroughs | ... ape performances by a wide variety of figures, including Allen Ginsberg and | |
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 ... |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ( ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Eric Dolphy | With | With Kenny Dorham With Gil Evans With Tommy Flanagan With Hal Galper With ... |
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 ... |
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, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pablo Picasso | In the twentieth century, | 's Guernica (1937) used arresting cubist techniques and stark monochromati ... |
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 |
Tom Jones | ... e Olivier, John Mills, the Dad's Army cast, Glenda Jackson, Shirley Bassey, | , Elton John, The Beatles and even former Prime Minister |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Elvis Presley | ... lk music and rock. In this period, his key visual and musical influence was | |
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 ... |
Pablo Picasso | ... . In Paris, Gris followed the lead of another friend and fellow countryman, | . Although he submitted darkly humorous illustrations to journals such as ... |
John Surtees | ... Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Mike Hawthorn, Peter Collins, Giancarlo Baghetti, | , Lorenzo Bandini, Ludovico Scarfiotti, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Clay R ... |
Marco Polo | ... anskrit and spent four years of his life working in Palembang. The explorer | visited Sumatra in 1292 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Uri Geller | ... rks about the paranormal and pseudoscientific. These include biographies of | and Nostradamus as well as reference material on other major paranormal fi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Nahmanides | ... overed the remains of what turned out to be the medieval yeshiva founded by | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Brian Aherne | ... n 1933 by Dorothy Farnum and directed by Dean. It featured Victoria Hopper, | and Leonora Corbett |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
David Bowie | ... eatured as a location in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) starring | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Oscar Wilde | ... ded soirees that included soldiers, politicians, literary lights (including | , Algernon Swinburne, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins), and artists (in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Herodotus | The historian | recorded (2.44) |
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 ... |
Karl Marx | ... began essentially as a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. According to | , industrialisation polarised society into the bourgeoisie (those who own ... |
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" |
Adolf Hitler | The Queen called | "the arch-enemy of mankind". Her late-night broadcasts were eagerly awaite ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 & ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Cyril Cusack | ... glishman Brian Blessed as Peppone. The narrator and Voice of the Christ was | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Boy George | In the 1980s, | said about the music style of his band Culture Club, "We play rock 'n' rol ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Béla Bartók | ... classical music rather late, thanks to his teachers at university. He cites | , Igor Stravinsky, Perotin, Leonin, Claude Debussy and Organum musical sty ... |
Jean Darling | ... , 1947. The original cast included John Raitt (Billy), Jan Clayton (Julie), | (Carrie), Eric Mattson (Enoch Snow), Christine Johnson (Nettie Fowler), Mu ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maimonides | ... n against committing murder includes a prohibition against human sacrifice. | , in his Mishnah Torah, interpreted the prohibition against homicide as in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Andreas Papandreou | Meanwhile, | founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in response to Karamanl ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Narratives of decline can be identified in morality: | 's amorality, Freud’s description of co-operation as sublimation, Stanley ... |
Fausto Sozzini | ... nes Völkel. This work was a compendium of the arguments of Völkel's teacher | , figurehead of the Polish Unitarian movement |
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. ... |
Michael Haydn | ... likes of Leopold Mozart, Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Johann Albrechtsberger, | and Johann Ernst Eberlin |
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 ... |
Madonna | ... a live action all-star cast film, along with Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and | |
Mal Evans | ... and son, McCartney and Jane Asher, Pattie Boyd's 16-year-old sister, Paula, | and Alistair Taylor set off for Athens |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | Among others, writers | and Patrick O'Leary have credited Wolfe for inspiration. O'Leary has said: ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Lion Feuchtwanger | Alfonso was the subject for | 's novel Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo), in which is narrated ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Franz Schubert | She also arranged instrumental works by Joseph Haydn, | and Johannes Brahms as songs. She was on very friendly terms with Clara Sc ... |
Daniel Day-Lewis | ... ward nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for | , however it did not win in any category |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Junichiro Koizumi | On March 17, 2003, Japanese prime minister | said that he supported the U.S., U.K., and Spain for ending diplomatic eff ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Maimonidean | ... r the belief in one God. Among the in-depth explanations of that belief are | rationalism, Kabbalistic mysticism, and Chassidic Philosophy (Chassidut). ... |
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 ... |
Rainer Maria Rilke | | 's poetry partially inspired the movie; Wenders claimed angels seemed to d ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jackie Stewart | ... gers Ken Tyrrell, Peter Collins, Ron Dennis, and Frank Williams, and driver | . The pallbearers included drivers Gerhard Berger, Michele Alboreto, Alain ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Noël Coward | ... Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, | , and P. G. Wodehouse |
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 ... |
Justin Fashanu | ... Andy Linighan, midfielder Mike Phelan, midfielder Tim Sherwood and striker | . The club's most successful managers have included Ken Brown, Ron Saunder ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... as well as highlighting a statement Lukashenko had made seemingly praising | . Lukashenko referred to the media attack as 'dirty propaganda' |
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 ... |
Richard Lester | ... ow fan and one time The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film collaborator, | named Clark Kent's former schoolmistress "Minnie Bannister" in 1983's Supe ... |
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 ... |
Salma Hayek | Cruz appeared alongside her good friend | in the 2006 Western comedy film, Bandidas. Randy Cordova of the Arizona Re ... |
Jon Dahl Tomasson | ... ooijdonk. Early in the second half Jan Koller scored a goal to make it 2–1. | then made it 3–1 and things looked good for Feyenoord. Dortmund only manag ... |
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 |
Ian Rush | ... e 1980s with a milk advert on television, in which a young boy boasted that | had told him that "if [he] didn't drink lots of milk, when [he] [grew] up, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Nelson Mandela | ... obel Peace Prize winners – Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, F. W. de Klerk and | . Since 1994, the city has struggled with problems such as HIV/AIDS, tuber ... |
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 ... |
Jerry Donahue | ... um included Lindisfarne's Rod Clements, Fairport Convention's Dave Pegg and | , and Maddy Prior from Steeleye Span. He decided to tour with a band to pr ... |
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 |
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 Crawford | ... venue. Lloyd Webber, the original London cast including Sarah Brightman and | , and four previous actors of the titular character, among others, were in ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stefan Zweig | ... were translated into more than twenty languages. His German translator was | He travelled, giving lectures, throughout Europe. The outbreak of World Wa ... |
Boris Karloff | ... ovich accepted immediately. He worked with Corman on Targets, which starred | , and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, under the pseudonym Derek ... |
Al Stewart | ... at also included Don McLean, Tom Rush, Jesse Colin Young, Steve Forbert and | |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Orson Welles | A radio adaptation starring | aired in the USA on November 6, 1938, as part of his Mercury Theatre on th ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marlene Dietrich | Blonde Venus, starring | and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though Mae West ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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" |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 |
Albert Einstein | In August 1939 Leó Szilárd prepared and | signed the famous letter warning President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the pr ... |
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 | ) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Benazir Bhutto | In Pakistan, former prime minister and opposition leader | was assassinated in 2007, while in the process of running for re-election. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
Tony Sheridan | Other than the commercially released songs with | issued on In the Beginning (Circa 1960), only three recordings made by the ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) |
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 |
Jamesian | ... s. And the book's narrative style, a huge departure from the stately, semi- | prose of Roth's earlier novels, has often been likened to the stand-up per ... |
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 ... |
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" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Stepan Bandera | Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) of | , a Ukrainian nationalist force and the political arm of the Organization ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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) ... |
Terrence Malick | ... François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa, | , Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, Wes Anderson, and Woody ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Keith Urban | ... er Road and Sara Storer. In the USA, Olivia Newton John, Sherrié Austin and | have attained great success |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Konstantinos Karamanlis | Former prime minister | was invited back from Paris where he had lived in self-exile since 1963, m ... |
Herodotus | According to | |
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 ... |
Maimonides | ... ly monotheistic and follows in the footsteps of the Aristotelian theologian | , the panentheistic conception of God can be found in certain Jewish mysti ... |
Ishmael Beah | Previous University lecturers included | , author of "", 45th Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, Economi ... |
Jomo Kenyatta | ... te by the Kenya African National Union (KANU), a Kikuyu-Luo alliance led by | during 1963 to 1978 |
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) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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. |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Sinclair Lewis | ... and cultural celebrities were guests of the Jeffers family. Among them were | , Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gers ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Enrique Iglesias | Notable people who performed on The Roseanne Show were | , Sheryl Crow, Janice Robinson, Lulu, Joan Jett and Tori Amos |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | Black Orchid, written by | and illustrated by Dave McKean, also featured Arkham Asylum. The award-win ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Hendrix | ... "I Was Born To Love You"), slide guitar ("Drowse", "Tie Your Mother Down"), | sounding licks ("Liar", "Brighton Rock"), tape-delay ("Brighton Rock", "Wh ... |
Neil Gaiman | The Corinthian is a fictional character in | 's comic book series The Sandman. He can first be seen in The Sandman #10 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ernest Hemingway | ... nows and meets various real-life historical figures, including Jack London, | , Hermann Hesse, Butch Cassidy, James Joyce, Frederick Rolfe, Joseph Conra ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gilbert Roland | ... lm starring Mae West and Cary Grant. Others in the cast include Owen Moore, | , Noah Beery, Sr., Louise Beavers and Rochelle Hudson |
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 ... |
Alan Parsons | ... di Lauper, REO Speedwagon, X, Steel Pulse, The New Cars, Asia, Boyz II Men, | , and The Smithereens |
Ernst Happel | ... n manager to lead Feyenoord. Feyenoord's international trophies were won by | , Wiel Coerver and Bert van Marwijk |
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, ... |
Wilhelm Weitling | ... nch of socialism produced the communist work of Étienne Cabet in France and | in Germany |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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" |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Jules Dassin | The film stars Melina Mercouri and | , and it gently submerges the viewer into Greek culture, including dance, ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | ... tter's death in 1937. Norman Malcolm famously credits Sraffa with providing | with the conceptual break that founded the Philosophical Investigations, b ... |
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 ... |
Siavash Ghomayshi | ... , Alla Pugacheva, Shadmehr, Ian Gillan, Hasmik Papian, Isabel Bayrakdarian, | , Space, Bambir, Grigory Leps, George Benson, and many more |
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 - ... |
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 ... |
Bridget Bate Tichenor | ... embers of the art world, such as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, | , and Antonin Artaud posed for his camera |
Limahong | ... Manila was temporarily threatened by the invasion of Chinese pirate-warlord | before it became the seat of the colonial government of Spain |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Boris Karloff | ... on Ames, Tyler Brooke, Clay Clement, James Gleason, Lucile Webster Gleason, | (reportedly influenced by long hours suffered during the filming of Franke ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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). ... |
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 | |
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 |
Zico | ... fourth title after being defeated by Flamengo, containing famous players as | , Bebeto, Jorginho, Leandro, Edinho, Leonardo, Andrade, Zinho and Renato G ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Neil Gaiman | Despair is one of the Endless, fictional characters from | 's comic book series, The Sandman |
Terrence Malick | The 1973 | film Badlands as well as the 1974 film Mr. Majestyk starring Charles Brons ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Overseas Chinese | | played a key role in the birth of the ROC since the nation’s founding fath ... |
Arnold Schoenberg | ... ks of Alban Berg, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, and | . He also asked Schoenberg for composition lessons. Schoenberg refused, sa ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tarik O'Regan | In 2011, an operatic adaptation by composer | and librettist Tom Phillips was premiered at the Royal Opera House in Lond ... |
Mary Cassatt | At the end of the nineteenth century, | was a painter well known for her portraits of mothers |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Descartes | ... by the Cambridge University Physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton. Where | held that all motions should be explained with respect to the immediate fo ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Tori Amos | ... Award, the original fiction anthology featured stories and contributions by | , Clive Barker, Gene Wolfe, Tad Williams, and others |
Pablo Picasso | With Jean Arp, Max Ernst, André Masson, Joan Miró, and | , Man Ray was represented in the first Surrealist exhibition at the Galeri ... |
René Descartes | The French philosopher | was well-connected to, and influential within, the experimental philosophy ... |
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 | ... St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Charles Lindbergh, George Gershwin and | . Later visitors have included William Everson, Robert Bly, Czesław Miłosz ... |
Lepidus | ... lating. Antony complained that Octavian had exceeded his powers in deposing | , in taking over the countries held by Sextus Pompeius, in enlisting soldi ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tim Burton | Warner Bros. has produced a film adaptation of the soap opera. | directed the film, and Johnny Depp stars as Barnabas Collins |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Gary Oldman | ... s in Hollywood, MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch aired a match between Walken and | in 1998, citing their portrayals of such villains |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Björk | The music video for the | song "Bachelorette" features a musical that is about, in part, the creatio ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marx | The thinking of | and Freud provided a point of departure for questioning the notion of a un ... |
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 ... |
Hitler | ... us years. The administrations of Chancellors Brüning, Papen, Schleicher and | (from 30 January to 23 March 1933) governed through presidential decree, r ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Toshirō Mifune | ... ack-and-white Japanese samurai film directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Robert Graves | ... n written, one of which, Count Belisarius, was written by poet and novelist | in 1938 |
Michael Laudrup | ... Txiki Begiristain while signing international stars such as Ronald Koeman, | , Romário, and Hristo Stoichkov. Under his guidance, Barcelona won four co ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... acked leaders. Such is the case in many African states; Idi Amin in Uganda, | in Germany, Ferdinand Marcos in Philippines, for example |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | He was an outspoken and early critic of | and the Nazi regime. In a public address in 1934, LaGuardia warned, "Part ... |
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 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 ... |
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 ... |
Herodotus | Contrary to popular belief, the term delta was not coined by | |
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 ... |
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, ... |
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, ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
Oliver Reed | Rossetti was played by | in Ken Russell's film Dante's Inferno (1967). The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherho ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
Belinda Carlisle | In 1996 he worked with | and wrote two songs for her album, A Woman and a Man; "Always Breaking My ... |
Heimatvertriebene | Thus, a total of 12.3 million | comprised 18% of the population in the two German states created from the ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Chopin | Artists from Poland, including famous composers like | or Lutosławski and traditional, regionalized folk musicians, create a live ... |
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 ... |
John Dowland | In music, the post-Elizabethan cult of melancholia is associated with | , whose motto was Semper Dowland, semper dolens. ("Always Dowland, always ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... eas from such thinkers as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michel Foucault, Franz Kafka, | , Herbert Marcuse, Gilles Deleuze, and Eduard von Hartmann permeate the wo ... |
Yuki Kajiura | ... music include Joe Hisaishi, Michiru Oshima, Yoko Kanno, Toshihiko Sahashi, | , Kōtarō Nakagawa and [[:ja|林ゆうき|Hayashi Yuuki]] |
Paul Hogan | Commercially successful Australian films have included | 's Crocodile Dundee, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! and Chris Noonan's Babe. ... |
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. ... |
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, ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Marvelous Marvin Hagler | ... nocking out Roberto Durán, and challenging undisputed Middleweight Champion | in a fight known as The War |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pablo Picasso | Emil Nolde, | |
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 ... |
Mircea Eliade | Kehoe is highly critical of | 's work on shamanism as an invention synthesized from various sources unsu ... |
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 ... |
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), ... |
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 | |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
C. Aubrey Smith | ... oel Madison, Reginald Mason, Bradley Page, Willard Robertson, Ivan Simpson, | , Charles Starrett, Richard Tucker, Arthur Vinton, Morgan Wallace and Lyle ... |
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 |
Vincent van Gogh | Image:Portrait of Dr. Gachet.jpg| Portrait of Dr. Gachet, | , 189 |
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 ... |
Andy White | ... sion released in the US with Ringo Starr on tambourine and session musician | on drums |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Abdul Rahman | In 2006 | , an Afghan convert from Islam to Christianity, attracted worldwide attent ... |
Karl Bühler | In 1928, he earned a doctorate in psychology, under the supervision of | . His dissertation was entitled "Die Methodenfrage der Denkpsychologie" (T ... |
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 ... |
Casey Stoner | ... (Valentino Rossi in 2008, Jorge Lorenzo in 2009, Dani Pedrosa in 2010, and | in 2011) |
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 | |
Charlie Chaplin | ... war films of all types were showing throughout the world, notably those of | who actively promoted war bonds and voluntary enlistment |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Pablo Picasso | ... cisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Edward Hopper, Käthe Kollwitz, | , Cy Twombly, Lucas van Leyden, Carlos Alvarado Lang |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Albert Einstein | ... Transformation or even the FitzGerald - Lorentz - Einstein Transformation. | dismissed the notion of the aether as an unnecessary one, and he concluded ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Joseph Rotblat | ... ard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J. B. Priestley and | |
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 ... |
Adolf Hitler | ... rmann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, | himself |
Bruce Purchase | Geoffrey was portrayed by actor | in the 1978 BBC TV series The Devil's Crown, which dramatised the reigns o ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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. ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Tycho Brahe | Further advances in the instrument were made by | (1546–1601), whose elaborate armillary spheres passing into astrolabes are ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Robert Graves | ... Elliot – George Farewell – James Elroy Flecker – Thomas Ford – Roy Fuller – | – Thomas Gray – Fulke Greville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | ... re Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Heinrich Hertz, Friedrich Hirzebruch, | , Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, Joseph Schumpeter, Konrad Adenau ... |
Maimonides | ... (Jacob Katz, Exclusiveness and Tolerance, Oxford Univ. Press, 1961, Ch.10) | , one of Judaism's most important theologians and legal experts, explained ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rudolf II | ... verted to Lutheranism, which Ferdinand I and his successors, Maximilian II, | , and Mathias largely tolerated |
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 | |
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 ... |
Wes Anderson | ... Kurosawa, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hideaki Anno, | , and Woody Allen. Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York focuses on the p ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 |
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 |
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 ... |
Vincent van Gogh | ... the French Impressionists created entire canvases of rich impasto textures. | used it frequently for aesthetics and expression. Abstract expressionists ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Samuel Beckett | ... es, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and | . Other influential writers and playwrights include Oscar Wilde, Jonathan ... |
Nguyen Van Hinh | ... ained in Ecoles des Cadres such as Da Lat, including Chief of Staff General | who was a French Union airforce veteran |
Karl Marx | | found it aggravating that the Communards "lost precious moments" organisin ... |
Werner Herzog | ... f Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic silent vampire movie Nosferatu (1922). | honored the same film in his own version, (1979) |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Meave Leakey | ... oldest fossil hominid in the world after Sahelanthropus tchadensis. In 1995 | named a new species of hominid Australopithecus anamensis following a seri ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
Rudolf Friml | ... usic. Hammerstein collaborated with composers Jerome Kern, Vincent Youmans, | and Sigmund Romberg, but his most famous collaboration was with Richard Ro ... |
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 ... |
Chris Martin | ... pean New Wave acts influenced various incarnations of Eurodisco and trance. | was inspired to start Coldplay by |
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 ... |
Chris Martin | According to The Sun, Imbruglia and | of Coldplay collaborated on "a string of tracks, which are likely to featu ... |
Albert Einstein | ... add increased dimensionality, such as intentionality (used for x), people ( | ) and colloquial terminology more relevant to Internet search (i.e., blogg ... |
Patrick Stewart | ... ile. Expanded to the nth degree. Taken to infinity. Overlaid on the back of | 's head. |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 ... |