An Oral History of �Ms.’ Magazine -- New York Magazine Ms. staff meeting in June 1972. From left: Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Gloria Steinem, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Suzanne Levine, Mary Thom, Harriet Lyons, Patricia Carbine, and Ruth Sullivan.   (Photo: Nancy Crampton) In the years leading up to the birth of Ms., women had trouble getting a credit card without a man’s signature, had few legal rights when it came to divorce or reproduction, and were expected to aspire solely to marriage and motherhood. Job listings were segregated (ï¿½Help wanted, maleï¿½). There was no Title IX (banning sex discrimination in federally funded athletic programs); no battered-women’s shelters, rape-crisis centers, and no terms such as sexual harassment and domestic violence. Few women ran magazines, even when the readership was entirely female, and they weren’t permitted to write the stories they felt were important; the focus had to be on fashion, recipes, cosmetics, or how to lure a man and keep him interested. ï¿½When I suggested political stories to The New York Times Sunday Magazine, my editor just said something like, ï¿½I don’t think of you that way,’ ï¿½ recalls Gloria Steinem. ï¿½It was all pale male faces in, on, and running media,ï¿½ says Robin Morgan, who was Ms.’s editor in the late eighties and early nineties. But in the mid-sixties, feminist organizations such as New York Radical Women,Redstockings, and NOW began to emerge. On March 18, 1970, about a hundred women stormed into the male editor’s office of Ladies’ Home Journal and staged a sit-in for eleven hours, demanding that the magazine hire a female editor-in-chief. Says feminist activist-writer Vivian Gornick, ï¿½It was a watershed moment. It showed us, the activists in the women’s movement, that we did, indeed, have a movement.ï¿½ See Also: • Emily Nussbaum on the Rise of the Feminist Blogosphere By age 29, Gloria Steinem had forged a reputation as a smart, pithy writer with her 1963 exposé in Show magazine about going undercover as a Playboy Bunny. She was a staff writer at New York Magazine when it debuted in 1968, along with Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wolfe. Radicalized by an abortion speak-out, which she covered for New York in 1969, Steinem started spending more time thinking, writing, and giving talks about feminism. She testified in the Senate in 1970 on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment, and co-founded the Women’s Action Alliance and the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971. That same year, she helped launchMs. magazine,which became the first periodical ever to be created, owned, and operated entirely by women. A forty-page excerpt of its preview issue was published in the December 20, 1971, issue of this magazine. Here are the stories of the women who were there. Gloria’s Living Room In early 1971, Gloria Steinem and attorney/activist Brenda Feigen hosted a crowd of female journalists at two meetings in their respective apartmentsï¿½Steinem’s in the East Seventies, Feigen’s in Tudor Cityï¿½to brainstorm ideas for a possible publication for women. Brenda Feigen (co-founder, with Steinem, of the Women’s Action Alliance, 1971): It was amazing: jammed with well-known women writers, journalists, and activists. All of them said, ï¿½We can’t get real stories about women published.ï¿½ Jane O’Reilly (contributor, 1971ï¿½90s): People were sitting on the floor, on chairs, hanging from rafters. When it came to all the topics proposed, it struck me as being like your first trip to Europe: You think you have to go to every single country because you might never get to go back. Article Ideas From a Confidential Memo Some Notes on a New Magazine (4/71): *THE POLITICS OF SEX *DON’T BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAYS POLITICS BEGIN IN WASHINGTON. POLITICS BEGIN AT HOME. *HOW NOT TO GO THROUGH MENOPAUSE *A SECRETARY IS AN OFFICE WIFE *SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE LIBERATED PAT NIXON *ï¿½OF COURSE, I’M ALL FOR EQUAL PAY, BUT ï¿½ ï¿½ *HOW MARRIAGE KILLS LOVE Susan Braudy (co-editor/writer, 1973ï¿½78): After oneï¿½meeting, Gloria said, ï¿½I’ve been thinking about aï¿½newsletter.ï¿½ Letty Cottin Pogrebi


A Fistfull of Dollars was filmed on location in which country?

Fistful Of Dynamite - The Bridge ( filming location ) Sergio Leone - YouTube Fistful Of Dynamite - The Bridge ( filming location ) Sergio Leone Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Sep 3, 2011 MY FACEBOOK PAGE http://www.facebook.com/pages/On-The-... One of the best scenes in "Fistful Of Dynamite" (aka "Duck You Sucker, Giu' la testa), directed by the great Sergio Leone. Starring: James Cuburn & Rod Steiger. The bridge was located in Almeria, Spain Giù la Testa, roughly translated as Duck Your Head) also known as Duck, You Sucker! and Once Upon a Time... the Revolution is a 1971 Spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone. Leone was known to prefer the title Duck, You Sucker!, which he was convinced was a frequently used American phrase. Its plot is centered on two individuals, a poor Mexican bandit (played by Rod Steiger) and an ex-Irish Republican Army revolutionary (James Coburn), who meet during the turbulent Mexican Revolution Compared to Leone's previous films, the Clint Eastwood "man with no name" trilogy and Once Upon a Time in the West, his new work A Fistful of Dynamite gained lukewarm reviews and little notice. One reason could be Leone's insistence on using the Duck, You Sucker title, which gave potential movie-goers the mistaken impression that the film would be a comic western. (Duck, You Sucker is a fairly direct translation of the repeated phrase of the film, "Giù la Testa, coglione!" in the Italian version, where however the movie was titled just "Giù la Testa"). Leone was convinced the phrase "duck, you sucker" was a popular American expression, contrary to the advice of his American stars Rod Steiger and James Coburn that they had never heard of that phrase. When the film was edited for a re-release in 1972, it was re-titled A Fistful of Dynamite by the studio, hoping to capitalize on Leone's first hit, A Fistful of Dollars. Although the film is often overlooked in Leone's œuvre, many critics have praised its cinematography and its quirky score by Ennio Morricone. The film itself has gained greater stature over time. Category


Which country lies immediately to the south of Estonia?

Estonia U.S. Department of State Background Note Estonia Estonia GEOGRAPHY Between 57.3 and 59.5 degrees latitude and 21.5 and 28.1 degrees longitude, Estonia lies on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea on the level, northwestern part of the rising East European platform. Average elevation reaches only 50 meters (160 ft.). The climate resembles New England's. Oil shale and limestone deposits, along with forests that cover 47% of the land, play key economic roles in this generally resource-poor country. Estonia boasts more than 1,500 lakes, numerous bogs, and 3,794 kilometers of coastline marked by numerous bays, straits, and inlets. Tallinn's Muuga port offers one of Europe's finest warm water harbor facilities. Estonia's strategic location has precipitated many wars fought on its territory between other rival powers at its expense. In 1944, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) granted Russia the trans-Narva and Petseri regions on Estonia's eastern frontier. Russia and Estonia signed a border treaty in 2005 recognizing the current border. Estonia ratified the treaty in June 2005, but Russia subsequently revoked its signature to the treaty, due to a reference the Estonian Parliament inserted regarding the Peace Treaty of Tartu. PEOPLE Estonians belong to the Balto-Finnic group of the Finno-Ugric peoples, as do the Finns and the Hungarians. Archaeological research confirms the existence of human activity in the region as early as 8,000 BC, but by 3,500 BC the principal ancestors of the Estonians had arrived from the east. Estonians have strong ties to the Nordic countries today stemming from deep cultural and religious influences gained over centuries during Scandinavian colonization and settlement. This highly literate society places great emphasis upon education, which is free and compulsory until age 16. About 20% of the population belongs to the following churches registered in Estonia: Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, Estonian Orthodox Church subordinated to the Moscow Patriarchate, Baptist Church, Roman Catholic Church, and others. As of November 2006, 84.6% of Estonia's population held Estonian citizenship, 7.6% were citizens of other countries (primarily Russia), and 8.8% were of undetermined citizenship. Written with the Latin alphabet, Estonian is the language of the Estonian people and the official language of the country. Estonian is one of the world's most difficult languages to learn for English-speakers: it has fourteen cases, which can be a challenge even for skilled linguists. During the Soviet era, the Russian language was imposed for official use. HISTORY Ancient Estonians are one of the longest-settled European peoples and have lived along the Baltic Sea for over 5,000 years. The Estonians were an independent nation until the 13th century A.D. The country was then subsequently conquered by Denmark, Germany, Poland, Sweden, and finally Russia, whose defeat of Sweden in 1721 resulted in the Uusikaupunki Peace Treaty, granting Russia rule over what became modern Estonia. First Period of Independence Independence remained out of reach for Estonia until the collapse of the Russian empire during World War I. Estonia declared itself an independent democratic republic in November 1918. In 1920, by the Peace Treaty of Tartu, Soviet Russia recognized Estonia's independence and renounced in perpetuity all rights to its territory. The first constitution of the Republic of Estonia was adopted in 1920 and established a parliamentary form of government. Estonia's independence would last for 22 years, during which time Estonia guaranteed cultural autonomy to all minorities, including its small Jewish population, an act that was unique in Western Europe at the time. Soviet Period Leading up to World War II (WWII), Estonia pursued a policy of neutrality. However, the Soviet Union forcibly incorporated Estonia as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, in which Nazi Germany gave control of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the Soviet Union in return for cont


"Which TV series intro said, ""Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear""?"

RETURN WITH US NOW TO THE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR! CLAYTON MOORE AS THE LONE RANGER RIDES AGAIN! Click on the above button to hear "Hi Yo Silver, Away"


In which year was the University of Alaska Anchorage founded?

History of UAA | | University of Alaska Anchorage The population of Anchorage is 30,060. University of Alaska begins offering courses on Southcentral military bases. Dr. Terris Moore, President of the University of Alaska (UA), and Regents Elmer Rasmuson and Earl Albrecht worked to expand the University from Fairbanks campus by bringing courses to military bases and developing community colleges.  1953 Territorial Community College Act establishes a framework for cooperation between school districts and the University                          of Alaska.  1954 The first community colleges are formed at Anchorage and Ketchikan. Anchorage Community College (ACC), a joint venture of the Anchorage Independent School                            District and the University of Alaska, opens the second floor of what is now West                            High School.  It offers primarily academic and business related courses, 385 students enrolled in the first semester.  LeVake Renshaw, local consulting engineer, was the first student to enroll, and went on to earn                            a degree from UAF. Dr. LeRoy Good named the first ACC Director. 1956   First graduation from ACC.  One graduate, Vincent Earl Demarest, receives an Associate of Arts Degree in Business Administration. 1957 Melvin Huden named ACC Director. 1958  Founding of the first student newspaper, the “Campus Courier”. 1959 Alaska enters the Union as the 49th state. Eugene Short named ACC Chief Executive Officer. 1960   The population of Anchorage is 82,833.  William R. Wood named University of Alaska president.  He played a strong role in the expansion of                          UA into Anchorage. 1961   UA offers graduate courses in Anchorage leading to Masters in Education and Masters of Science in Engineering degrees - the first graduate programs in Southcentral Alaska.  The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) opens as the first public policy research center in Alaska. 1962   Alaska legislature incorporates the state's community colleges into the University                          of Alaska higher education system. 1964   Palmer Community College renamed Matanuska-Susitna Community College.  1966   The Anchorage Regional Center (ARC) is established to consolidate public higher education programs in the Anchorage                          area, including ACC and courses offered at local military bases.  Dr. Donald DaFoe, formerly superintendent of schools in Anchorage, named first provost of the ARC. 1968   Kodiak Community College founded.  Anchorage Regional Center expands to become Southcentral Regional Center administering community colleges, military education, upper division and graduate                          programs for the entire region.  This institution foreshadowed the current structure                          of UAA.  Construction begins near Goose Lake on the outskirts of Anchorage for a permanent                          campus for ACC. 1969   Dr. Lewis Haines named provost of Southcentral Regional Center. 1969 - 1971    Formation of Anchorage Higher Education Consortium between Alaska Methodist University (now Alaska Pacific University) and UA, allowing                          for ease of transfer credit and sharing of library resources. 1970  The population of Anchorage is 126,385. ACC dedicates its present campus on Providence Ave. and moves from West High School                          into the five new buildings later named in honor of Eugene Short, Beatrice McDonald, Lucy Cuddy, Gordon Hartlieb and Sally Monserud. University of Alaska, Anchorage is formed in November, composed of ACC and Anchorage Senior College. 1971   The Anchorage Senior College is created from existing upper-division and graduate c


The Dead (1987) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Gabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC a list of 48 titles created 12 Sep 2011 a list of 25 titles created 23 Jul 2014 a list of 39 titles created 03 Oct 2014 a list of 39 titles created 02 Jan 2015 a list of 37 titles created 22 Aug 2015 Search for " The Dead " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Nominated for     2     Oscars. Another    9 wins & 14 nominations. See more awards  » Photos The last 24 hours in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a lonely, depressed English consul who retreats to alcohol for solace. Director: John Huston Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum. Director: John Huston A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love. Director: John Huston A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias. Director: John Huston A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church. Director: John Huston A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. Director: John Huston A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life. Director: John Huston Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle. Director: John Huston Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post. Director: John Huston Two British soldiers in India decide to resign from the Army and set themselves up as deities in Kafiristan--a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander. Director: John Huston On their way to Africa are a group of rogues who hope to get rich there, and a seemingly innocent British couple. They meet and things happen... Director: John Huston In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love. Director: John Huston Edit Storyline John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors, James Joyce; a love letter to the land of his ancestors and the country where his children grew up; and the chance to work with his screenwriter son Tony and his actress daughter Anjelica. The film is delicate and unhurried, detailing an early January dinner at the house of two spinster musician sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-century Ireland, attended by friends and family. Among the visiting attendees are the sisters' nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta. The evening's reminiscences bring up melancholy memories for Gretta concerning her first, long-lost love when she was a girl in rural Galway. Her recounting of this tragic love to Gabriel brings him to an epiphany: he learns the difference between mere existence and living. The all-Irish cast and careful period detail give the piece richness... Written by Russ W. <russwlkr@ix.netcom.com>


Super Bowl III: The True Story The Luckiest Football Game Ever Won: The True Story of Super Bowl III INTRODUCTION On January 12, 1969, in Miami's     Orange Bowl, the New York Jets met the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts     in Super Bowl III, the championship game of professional football for     the 1968 season. The Jets, winners of the American Football League playoffs,     sought to avenge the drubbings AFL teams had taken in the two previous     meetings between their upstart mickeymouse* league and the establishment     National Football League. In those two contests, the AFL champion had     been so thoroughly dominated by its NFL counterpart that cracks began     appearing in the proposed merger of the two leagues. If the AFL didn't     prove it could compete soon, the merger would be in serious jeopardy.     A 26-team league with ten "last-place" teams would hardly seem credible     to the ticket-buying public. The NFL Colts'     1968 season had been spectacular, by any measure, even though their legendary     quarterback, John Unitas, had missed the entire regular season due to     injury. Their 13-1 record was the best in football, they had scored 402     points and yielded only 144, and they had avenged their only loss, to     Cleveland, by destroying the self-same Browns in the NFL championship     game, 34-0. Some analysts called the Colts "the best team ever." Meanwhile,     the AFL Jets paled in comparison, having been fortunate to become the     champion of their league. Their only hope against the Colts seemed to     be their loud-mouthed quarterback, Joe Namath, whose passing ability gave     them at least some chance to score against the Colt defense. Nonetheless,     the Jets were 18-point underdogs at game time. ANALYSIS OF THE TEAMS The Colts finished     1968 with a 13-1 record and a point-scoring differential of +258, a number     reached by only a handful of teams to this day. Eleven of their 13 wins     could be described as "crushing." The Jets' record, meanwhile, was just     11-3 and their scoring differential was only +139; their mediocre defense     yielded 280 points, almost twice as many as Baltimore. It should be noted     that the second best team in the Jets' division had a record of just 7-7,     and the Jets benefited from a soft schedule. The other teams in their     division had a feeble combined record of 17-37-2, and they played four     games against teams with truly pitiful defenses. Nonetheless, the Jets     had still managed to lose to hapless Buffalo (1-12-1) early in the season,     35-37. The score was typical of the AFL's "wide-open" (i.e., no defense)     style of play. The Colts, meanwhile,     had to play both their arch-rival Rams (10-3-1) and a tough 49er team     (7-6-1) twice, as both were in their division. The Colts won all four     games, and nine others (including a hard-fought win over defending Super     Bowl champ Green Bay), losing only to the Cleveland Browns (10-4), whom     they whipped 34-0 in the NFL championship game. The three other teams     in Baltimore's division had a combined record of 19-21-2 -- fairly typical     -- and a much better record than the teams in the Jets' division. Two other AFL teams, the Chiefs and Raiders, had better regular season     records than New York and were statistically superior. Additionally, the     Jets were fortunate to win their championship game against Oakland, recovering     a lateral at game's end which their opponents ignored -- apparently believing     it to be an incomplete forward pass. While the two Super Bowl III teams appear statistically similar (without     factoring in the Jets' easier schedule and the obvious overall     inferiority of the AFL itself*), the Colt defensive unit was clearly superior     where it counted -- keeping opponents' points off the scorebo


Marie Osmond - Biography - IMDb Marie Osmond Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (3) | Trivia  (29) | Personal Quotes  (3) Overview (3) 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mini Bio (1) Marie Osmond was born on October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah, USA as Olive Marie Osmond. She is a producer and actress, known for Donny and Marie (1975), Marie (2012) and The Talk (2010). She was previously married to Brian Blosil and Steve Craig . Spouse (3) Was on Broadways "Anna and the King". She appeared in The Muppets ' "She Drives Me Crazy" music video. Has five adopted children. Children: Stephen Blosil (aka Stephen James Craig) (b. 1983 - father is first husband Steve Craig ), Jessica Marie (b. 1987), Rachael Lauren (b. 1989), Michael Brian (b. 1991 - February 26, 2010), Brandon Warren (b. 1996), Brianna Patricia Lynne (b. 1997), Matthew Richard (b. 1999) and Abigail Olive May (b. 2002). Sister of Alan Osmond , Donny Osmond , Jay Osmond , James A. Osmond , Merrill Osmond , Virl Osmond , Tom Osmond and Wayne Osmond . All nine Osmond siblings studied karate under Chuck Norris . Turned down the starring role in the movie, Grease (1978) on "moral grounds". In October, 1999 she disclosed her treatment for severe bout of postpartum depression, following the birth of her 7th child, Matthew, on July 6, 1999. She became so despondent that she left her husband and kids planning never to return. Osmond said she basically gave the baby, and credit card, to her babysitter, got in her car and drove off believing her kids would be better off without her. She reconsidered later when her husband reached out to her by cell phone. In addition to being an international celebrity, Marie is also a businesswoman. In 1991, she launched the "Marie Osmond Fine Porcelain Collector Dolls" line on QVC and at Disney theme parks. It has become QVC's top selling doll line, has been nominated for Trendsetter of the Year in the collectibles industry, and has moved into the retail and direct response markets. She began sculpting a number of her own dolls in 1993, and she received three Dolls of Excellence award nominations during the 1997 International Toy Fair. In 1998, she reached a hallmark achievement by selling her 1,000,000th doll on QVC. Co-founder/co-host, with John Schneider , of Children's Miracle Network, a project of The Osmond Foundation. The largest annual broadcast in fund raising history, it has raised in excess of 1.8 billion dollars since 1983, 100 percent of which has stayed in the local area in which it was raised for medical treatment, research and assistance, benefiting children's hospitals throughout the U.S. and Canada. In 1989, the Country Music Foundation presented Marie with the prestigious Roy Acuff Award in recognition of her efforts on behalf of children. She is a close childhood friend of Shawn Southwick .


Who sang a solo at Prince Charles and Lady Di's wedding?

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - Royal Wedding 1981 - "LIVE RECORDING" - YouTube Dame Kiri Te Kanawa - Royal Wedding 1981 - "LIVE RECORDING" Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Jan 3, 2008 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sings "Let the Bright Seraphim" from the oratorio "Samson" by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). It's a "LIVE RECORDING" from the "Royal Wedding" for Prince Charles and Princess Diana at St. Paul Cathedral London UK in 1981, converted from an old LP. With John Wallance(trumpetist), Bach Choir and the Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks / conductor. Category


Calabar international airport is in which country?

Calabar Margaret Ekpo International Airport Home  /  World Airport Directory  /  Nigeria  / Calabar Margaret Ekpo International Airport Calabar Margaret Ekpo International Airport Country: Nigeria Airport serving the Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria Local time GMT (winter/summer): +1/+1 Geographic coordinates:  Latitude (4.98), Longitude (8.35) IATA code: CBQ


"Who said, ""A man is only as old as the woman he feels?"""

A man's only as old as the woman he feels. - Groucho Marx - BrainyQuote A man's only as old as the woman he feels. Find on Amazon: Groucho Marx Cite this Page: Citation


Which country did Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki set sail from on its journey to Eastern Polynesia?

Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Voyage - History in the Headlines Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Voyage October 6, 2014 By Christopher Klein The Kon-Tiki voyage, 1947 Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Voyage Author Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki Voyage URL Google Born on October 6, 1914, in Larvik, Norway, Thor Heyerdahl was no armchair anthropologist. He gained worldwide fame in 1947 when he crossed the Pacific Ocean on a primitive balsawood raft to prove his theory that South Americans could have originally populated Polynesia. On the 100th anniversary of Heyerdahl’s birth, look back at his historic Kon-Tiki voyage. In 1937, fledgling Norwegian zoological researcher Thor Heyerdahl traveled to the South Pacific with his newlywed wife to study the flora and fauna of the isolated Marquesas Islands. As he collected a menagerie of specimens on the tiny Polynesian island of Fatu Hiva, however, Heyerdahl’s curious mind drifted from thoughts of living creatures to those of ancient civilizations. Aware of the prevailing scholarly wisdom that people from Southeast Asia had arrived from the west to first populate Polynesia, the Norwegian couldn’t help but notice the trade winds and breakers rolling across the Pacific Ocean from the east. Heyerdahl noted the presence of South American plants such as the sweet potato in Polynesia and the similarities between stone figures on Fatu Hiva and the monoliths erected by ancient South American civilizations. He saw parallels in the physical appearances, rituals and myths of Polynesians and South Americans, and around the glow of a fire, he listened as an elder spoke of a demigod named Tiki who brought his ancestors to the island from a big country beyond the eastern horizon. Heyerdahl on board Kon-Tiki. (Credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images) Heyerdahl returned to Norway with fish, jars of beetles and a new dream—to challenge conventional wisdom and demonstrate that the first people who settled Polynesia came from the east, not the west. He abandoned his zoology studies and developed an ethnological theory that two waves of people from the Americas populated the South Pacific. The first wave, Heyerdahl said, arrived around A.D. 500 from pre-Incan Peru by way of Easter Island on rafts that drifted on the currents of the Pacific Ocean; the second came approximately 500 years later from the coast of British Columbia by way of Hawaii. Critics thought the theory impossible and said the open rafts of South America’s pre-Incan civilizations were hardly seaworthy enough to make an oceanic crossing. Heyerdahl, however, was determined to prove that such a voyage was possible—even if it meant risking his life. Although the Norwegian had no sailing experience and couldn’t even swim, he announced plans to make the perilous crossing on a log raft built only with tools available to pre-Columbian South Americans. “Your mother and father will be very grieved when they hear of your death,” one skeptical diplomat told Heyerdahl when hearing of his plan. Promising “nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back,” Heyerdahl recruited a five-man crew who built a 30-by-15-foot raft made of nine balsawood logs harvested from the Ecuadorian jungle lashed together with hemp ropes. An open bamboo cabin with overlapping banana leaves covering the roof provided the only protection from the elements. With a smash of a coconut against the bow, the vessel was christened Kon-Tiki after the legendary Peruvian sun god who had vanished westward across the sea, a mythical figure who served as the mirror image to the Polynesian demigod Tiki who had arrived from the east. On April 28, 1947, Kon-Tiki departed Callao, Peru, with six men and a Spanish-speaking green parrot aboard. Borne along by the northeast-east trade winds that billowed the massive square sail bearing the image of the bearded Kon-Tiki, the raft groaned and creaked as it drifted across the vast blue desert of water. Although the vessel carried a radio that the crew used to provide daily meteorological and oceanographic observations, a rescue would have been nearly imp


Donna Gaines is better known by which name?

About: Donna Summer About: Donna Summer An Entity of Type : person ,   from Named Graph : http://dbpedia.org ,   within Data Space : dbpedia.org LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Property abstract دونا سمر (31 ديسمبر 1948 - 17 مايو 2012)، مغنية وشاعرة وفنانة أمريكية. ولدت باسم «لا دونا أدريان جانيس»، اكتسبت شهره واسعة في السبعينات، ولقبت (بملكة الديسكو). وتعتبر من أهم الفنانات التي أسسن الديسكو، وهي حققت نجاحاً في فترة السبعينات والثمانينات.ومن المعروف أنها الفنانة الوحيدة التي امتلكت ولا زالت تملك الرقم القياسي في أمتلاك ثلاثة ألبومات مُضاعفة، مُتتالية تضرب المرتبة الأولى في سنة واحدة على مُخطط لوحة الأغاني، وأصبحت الفنانة الأولى والوحيدة التي تمتلك أربع أغاني مُنفرده تضرب المرتبة الأولى لمُدة 12 شهر أي سنة كاملة.[بحاجة لمصدر] وتجاوزت مبيعاتها الـ130 مليون نسخة حول العالم.[بحاجة لمصدر]32x28pxبوابة السينما الأمريكية32x28pxبوابة سينما32x28pxبوابة أعلام32x28pxبوابة الولايات المتحدة32x28pxبوابة موسيقى (ar) LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter. She gained prominence during the disco era of the late-1970s. A five-time Grammy Award winner, she was the first artist to have three consecutive double albums reach No. 1 on the United States Billboard album chart and charted four number-one singles in the U.S. within a 12-month period. Summer has reportedly sold over 140 million records, making her one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. While influenced by the counterculture of the 1960s, she became the front singer of a psychedelic rock band named Crow and moved to New York City. Joining a touring version of the musical Hair, she left New York and spent several years living, acting, and singing in Europe, where she met music producers, Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Summer returned to the U.S., in 1975 with commercial success of the song 'Love to Love You Baby', followed by a string of other hits, such as "I Feel Love", "Last Dance", "MacArthur Park", "Heaven Knows", "Hot Stuff", "Bad Girls", "Dim All the Lights", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (duet with Barbra Streisand), and "On the Radio". She became known as the "Queen of Disco", while her music gained a global following. Summer died on May 17, 2012, at her home in Naples, Florida. In her obituary in The Times, she was described as the "undisputed queen of the Seventies disco boom" who reached the status of "one of the world's leading female singers." Moroder described Summer's work with him on the song 'I Feel Love' as "really the start of electronic dance" music. In 2013, Summer was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (en) LaDonna Adrian Gaines, conocida como Donna Summer (Boston, Massachusetts, 31 de diciembre de 1948 - Naples, Florida, 17 de mayo de 2012) fue una cantante, compositora, pianista y actriz estadounidense, mundialmente famosa por sus géneros de disco y pop durante los años '70 y comienzos de los años ochenta.Ganó en cinco ocasiones los premios Grammy. Fue la primera artista en tener tres álbumes consecutivos en alcanzar el número #1 en los Estados Unidos en el Billboard Hot 100. A lo largo de su carrera vendió más de 150 millones de copias en todo el mundo, lo que la convierte en uno de los músicos con mayores ventas de todos los tiempos. Sus canciones más conocidas a lo largo de su carrera son, «Last Dance», «Hot Stuff», «On the Radio», «She Works Hard for the Money», «Love to Love you Baby», «I Feel Love», «Bad Girls» y «No More Tears (Enough is Enough)», un dúo que grabó con Barbra Streisand. Summer se invol


Which element is named after Pierre and Marie Curie?

Elements Named for People - Element Eponyms bohrium (Bh, 107) – Niels Bohr curium (Cm, 96) – Pierre and Marie Curie einsteinium (Es, 99) – Albert Einstein fermium (Fm, 100) – Enrico Fermi gallium (Ga, 31) – both named after Gallia (Latin for France) and its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran (le coq, the French word for 'rooster' translates to gallus in Latin) hahnium (105) – Otto Hahn (Dubnium, named for Dubna in Russia, is the IUPAC-accepted name for element 105) lawrencium (Lr, 103) – Ernest Lawrence meitnerium (Mt, 109) – Lise Meitner mendelevium (Md, 101) – Dmitri Mendeleev continue reading below our video 10 Best Universities in the United States nobelium (No, 102) – Alfred Nobel roentgenium (Rg, 111) – Wilhelm Roentgen (formerly Ununumium) rutherfordium (Rf, 104) – Ernest Rutherford seaborgium (Sg, 106) – Glenn T. Seaborg


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Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe' | Film | The Guardian Meryl Streep Meryl Streep praises Margaret Thatcher as 'figure of awe' Awarded an Oscar for her portrayal of the former PM in The Iron Lady, actor pays tribute to her 'grit' and model as a female leader, while Arnold Schwarzenegger adds to chorus of praise and Ken Loach calls for her funeral to be privatised 'A pioneer for women in politics' … Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) in The Iron Lady. Photograph: Weinstein/Everett/Rex Tuesday 9 April 2013 05.19 EDT First published on Tuesday 9 April 2013 05.19 EDT Close This article is 3 years old Meryl Streep, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the 2011 biopic The Iron Lady , has described the late former prime minister as a "figure of awe" . The actor issued a statement after Thatcher's death at the age of 87 on Monday, which followed a stroke. Streep said her subject had been a pioneer – "willingly or unwillingly" – for the role of women in politics, allowing females from across the globe to dare to dream of leadership. "It is hard to imagine a part of our current history that has not been affected by measures she put forward in the UK at the end of the 20th century," wrote Streep. "To me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit. To have come up, legitimately, through the ranks of the British political system, class-bound and gender-phobic as it was, in the time that she did and the way that she did, was a formidable achievement." The Iron Lady received criticism in some quarters for initially portraying Thatcher in her dotage as a forgetful old woman suffering from dementia. The film, directed by Mamma Mia's Phyllida Lloyd and written by Abi Morgan, then swept through the life of the Grantham grocer's daughter from her early years in politics to her 1980s heyday. The biopic received mixed reviews , but Streep was widely praised for her note-perfect turn as the former prime minister, a performance which saw her win her third Oscar, eighth Golden Globe and second Bafta. Jim Broadbent played Thatcher's husband, Dennis, and Anthony Head played her longest-serving cabinet member (and eventual deputy) Geoffrey Howe. The full text of Streep's statement following Thatcher's death is as follows: Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics. It is hard to imagine a part of our current history that has not been affected by measures she put forward in the UK at the end of the 20th century. Her hard-nosed fiscal measures took a toll on the poor, and her hands-off approach to financial regulation led to great wealth for others. There is an argument that her steadfast, almost emotional loyalty to the pound sterling has helped the UK weather the storms of European monetary uncertainty. But to me she was a figure of awe for her personal strength and grit. To have come up, legitimately, through the ranks of the British political system, class-bound and gender-phobic as it was, in the time that she did and the way that she did, was a formidable achievement. To have won it, not because she inherited position as the daughter of a great man, or the widow of an important man, but by dint of her own striving. To have withstood the special hatred and ridicule, unprecedented in my opinion, levelled in our time at a public figure who was not a mass murderer; and to have managed to keep her convictions attached to fervent ideals and ideas – wrongheaded or misguided as we might see them now – without corruption – I see that as evidence of some kind of greatness, worthy for the argument of history to settle. To have given women and girls around the world reason to supplant fantasies of being princesses with a different dream: the real-life option of leading their nation; this was groundbreaking and admirable. I was honoured to try to imagine her late life journey, after power; but I have only a glancing understanding of what her many struggles were, and how she managed to sail through to the other side. I wish to convey my respectful con


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Which rock star featured in Marvel's 50th issue of Marvel Premiere in 1979?

Marvel Premiere (série VO) - Comics VF Comics VF Creative team Writer(s) Marvel Premiere is an American comic book anthology series published by American company Marvel Comics . It ran for 61 issues from April 1972 to August 1981. [1] Contents Publication history[ edit ] The series introduced new characters and reintroduced characters who no longer had their own titles. Writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane revamped Him as the allegorical Messiah Adam Warlock in Marvel Premiere #1 (April 1972). [2] Doctor Strange took over the series with issue #3 [3] and writer Steve Englehart and artist Frank Brunner began a run on the character with issue #9. [4] The two killed Dr. Strange's mentor, the Ancient One , and Strange became the new Sorcerer Supreme. Englehart and Brunner created a multi-issue storyline in which a sorcerer named Sise-Neg ("Genesis" spelled backward) goes back through history, collecting all magical energies, until he reaches the beginning of the universe, becomes all-powerful and creates it anew, leaving Strange to wonder whether this was, paradoxically, the original creation. Stan Lee , seeing the issue after publication, ordered Englehart and Brunner to print a retraction saying this was not God but "a" god, so as to avoid offending religious readers. The writer and artist concocted a fake letter from a fictitious minister praising the story, and mailed it to Marvel from Texas; Marvel unwittingly printed the letter, and dropped the retraction order. [5] In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Englehart and Brunner's run on the "Doctor Strange" feature ninth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". [6] Iron Fist first appeared in issue #15, written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Gil Kane. [7] Other introductions include the Legion of Monsters, the Liberty Legion , [8] Woodgod , the 3-D Man , [9] and the second Ant-Man ( Scott Lang ). [10] The series also featured the first comic book appearance of rock musician Alice Cooper . [11] Later in the title's run, Marvel Premiere was used to finish stories of characters who had lost their own series including the Man-Wolf in issues #45–46 [12] [13] and the Black Panther in issues #51–53. [14] [15] [16] [17] #1–2 - Adam Warlock (moved to his own series) #3–14 - Doctor Strange (moved to his own (second) series) #15–25 - Iron Fist (moved to his own series) Collected editions[ edit ] Marvel Masterworks Warlock Vol. 1 includes Marvel Premiere #1–2, 288 pages, February 2007, ISBN 978-0785124115 Essential Doctor Strange Vol. 2 includes Marvel Premiere #3–14, 608 pages, December 2007, ISBN 978-0785116684 Essential Iron Fist Vol. 1 includes Marvel Premiere #15–25, 584 pages, October 2004, ISBN 978-0785115465 Essential Marvel Horror Vol 1 includes Marvel Premiere #27, 648 pages, October 2006, ISBN 978-0785121961 Essential Werewolf by Night Vol. 2 includes Marvel Premiere #28, 576 pages, November 2007, ISBN 978-0785127253 Invaders Classic Vol. 1 includes Marvel Premiere #29–30, 248 pages, July 2007, ISBN 978-0785127062 The Chronicles Of Solomon Kane includes Marvel Premiere #33–34, 200 pages, December 2009, ISBN 978-1595824103 Weirdworld includes Marvel Premiere #38, 312 pages, April 2015, ISBN 978-0785162889 Dominic Fortune: It Can Happen Here and Now includes Marvel Premiere #56, 184 pages, February 2010, ISBN 978-0785140429 See also[ edit ] Marvel Premiere Classic — a line of hardcovers collecting "classic" (pre-2000) storylines in the Marvel and related Universes. ^ Marvel Premiere at the Grand Comics Database ^ Sanderson, Peter ; Gilbert, Laura, ed. (2008). "1970s". Marvel Chronicle A Year by Year History. London, United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley . p. 155. ISBN   978-0756641238 . Roy Thomas and artist Gil Kane allowed 'Him' to meet another [Stan] Lee-[Jack] Kirby character, the godlike High Evolutionary.   ^ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 156: "Dr. Strange began a new series of solo adventures. He got off to an impressive start with this story scripted by Stan Lee and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith." ^ Sanderson "1970s" in Gilbert (2008), p. 160 ^ Cronin, Brian


Who was runner-up when Jody Scheckter won motor racing's Formula One Championship?

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Women Women More WOMEN'S PROGRAM HISTORY The USA Softball Women’s National Team is the most decorated program in the sport’s history, owning an unmatched 26 Olympic, World Championship, Pan American or World Cup of Softball Gold Medals. Team USA won three consecutive Olympic Gold Medals (1996, 2000, 2004) and a silver medal at the 2008 Olympic Games. The Women’s National Team has captured the past seven Pan American Championships and have captured nine World Championship Gold Medals. AT THE PAN AMERICAN GAMES Since softball was introduced into the Pan American Games in 1979, the USA Softball Women's National Team has dominated, winning six of the seven gold medals and a silver in 1983. The USA will again be the odds-on favorite to capture the gold medal when in travels to Toronto, Ontario, Canada for the 2015 Pan American Games. In seven Pan American Games, the USA Softball Women's National Team has been nothing short of outstanding. The USA has won 72 of 75 games for a winning percentage of .960. In 75 games the USA has outscored their opponents 505 to 31. Since losing to Canada 5-4 in the gold medal game of the 1983 Pan American Games in Venezuela, the USA has put together a 51-game win streak in capturing gold medals in the last five Pan American Games. In 1987 in Indianapolis, IN the USA defeated Puerto Rico 4-1 in the gold medal game. In 1991 the USA routed Canada 14-1 for the gold medal and in 1995 the USA captured their third consecutive gold medal with a 4-0 win over Puerto Rico. At the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Canada the USA needed extra innings to defeat host Canada 1-0 in eight innings and capture its fourth consecutive title. The USA outscored its opponents 83-1. At the 2003 Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, the USA was as dominating as ever posting a perfect 9-0 record while outscoring its opponents 59-1. With the USA as the heavy favorite, Canada, Puerto Rico and Cuba are expected to battle the Red, White and Blue for the title in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2007. In 2011, with a Pan American Games roster full of 17 rookies, the USA Softball Women's National team recorded the program's eighth Pan American Games gold medal.  The U.S. completed the tournament with a perfect 9-0 record. AT THE WBSC WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The USA Softball Women’s National Team has participated in 13 WBSC Women’s World Championships and has finished out of the medals only once, the 1982 World Championships in Chinese Taipei. It took Australia, Chinese Taipei and an outbreak of stomach flu to make it happen. The USA Softball Women’s National Team program has brought home a total of nine gold medals,making them perhaps the most successful team sport on the Olympic program over the last three decades. They have also collected foursilver World Championship medals In World Championship play, the USA has amassed a lifetime record of 124-11. The USA offense has outscored its opponents collectively 812-56.  AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES The U.S. went 8-1 to capture the first ever gold medal at the 1996 Olympics. The U.S. defeated China 3-1 in the gold medal game. Its lone loss of the Games came to Australia (2-1) in round-robin play. At the 2000 Olympics the U.S. had its 112 game win streak snapped with a 2-1 11 inning loss to Japan in round-robin play. The U.S. proceeded to lose two more games (2-0 to China and 2-1 to Australia). It was the first time in the history of USA Softball that a Women’s National Team lost three games in a row.  The U.S. rebounded to win five consecutive games including wins in the playoffs over China (3-0 in 10 innings), Australia (1-0) and Japan (2-1 in eight innings) in the gold medal game to capture its second consecutive gold medal. In Athens at the 2004 Olympic Games, the U.S. Women’s National Team was anointed as the “Real Dream Team” by Sports Illustrated. The performance by the U.S. Olympic Softball Team will go down in history as one of the most dominant ever. The U.S. squad led by Mike Candrea was considered the best women’s softball team ever assembled and possibly the most dominan


In what year of the 1990s was baseball's World Series canceled?

1994 World Series is Canceled | World History Project Sep 14 1994 1994 World Series is Canceled The 1994 World Series was canceled on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which had begun on August 12. It was only the second time in the event's history (and the first time since 1904) that the Fall Classic was not played. The Associated Press writers, at the end of the aborted season, chose to name "unofficial" champions when naming their Managers of the Year as Felipe Alou and Buck Showalter, who were leading when the season abruptly ended. Traditionally, the next season's All-Star Game managers are the league champions. Because of the strike, the leagues chose to name their unofficial champion managers to the traditional honor. The 1994 World Series was supposed to have the NL champion open at home. Because it was canceled, the rotation was pushed back a year - which meant from 1995-2002, the NL champion had home field advantage in odd-numbered years, and AL in even-numbered years. Beginning in 2003, the league that won the All-Star Game had its champion open the World Series at home (as a consequence, since the AL has not lost the All-Star Game since 1996, the NL champ last opened at home in 2001). Source: Wikipedia Added by: Kevin Rogers The Major League Players Association rejected an owner's salary cap proposal, asking players to split all revenues 50-50. In addition, the citation stated that salary arbitration would be eliminated and free agency for players could be reached after four years in the majors instead of six. As negotiations continued to heat up, the owners decided to withhold $7.8 million that they were obligated to pay into the players' pension and benefit plans. The final straw fell after the Senate Judiciary Committee failed to approve an antitrust legislation that left the players with little choice but to strike. On September 14th, the remainder of the baseball season was canceled thirty-four days into the players' strike. As a result, the World Series was also called off for the first time since 1904. Three months later, the owners unilaterally implemented a salary cap as negotiations remained at a standstill. Source: baseball almanac Added by: Kevin Rogers The 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike was the eighth work stoppage in baseball history, as well as the fourth in-season work stoppage in 23 years. The 232-day strike, which lasted from August 12, 1994, to April 2, 1995, led to the cancellation of between 931 and 948 games overall, including the entire 1994 postseason and World Series (these numbers account for the fact that postseason series can be of varying lengths; in addition, 12 other games scheduled to be played prior to August 12, 1994 were cancelled for other reasons, mainly weather-related). The cancellation of the 1994 World Series was the first since 1904; meanwhile, Major League Baseball became the first professional sport to lose its entire postseason due to a labor dispute. Owners demanded a salary cap in response to the worsening financial situation in baseball. Ownership claimed that small-market clubs would fall by the wayside unless teams agreed to share local broadcasting revenues (to increase equity amongst the teams) and enact a salary cap, a proposal that the players adamantly opposed. On January 18, 1994, the owners approved a new revenue-sharing plan keyed to a salary cap, which required the players’ approval. The following day, the owners amended the Major League agreement by giving complete power to the commissioner on labor negotiations. The dispute was played out with a backdrop of years of hostility and mistrust between the two sides. What arguably stood in the way of a compromise settlement was the absence of an official commissioner ever since the owners forced Fay Vincent to resign in September 1992. Vincent described the situation this way: "The Union basically doesn’t trust the Ownership because collusion was a $280 million theft by Bud Selig and Jerry Reinsdorf of that money from the players. I


NPR's Morning Edition -- Giacometti Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art   Click to enlarge Dec. 17, 2001 -- To many, the sculptures of Alberto Giacometti have become icons of the anxious mood of the post-World War II era: Thin, solitary figures with long arms and legs, betraying just a hint of human form. The Swiss artist was one of the surrealists, but found fame with a style of sculpture that was completely original. Giacometti would have been 100 this year -- and in an appropriate gesture by the first museum to ever buy his work, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City is holding a commemorative exhibition with works from Giacometti's long career. David D'Arcy reports for Morning Edition that even now, what the artist's sculptures actually express is a matter of debate. Most art critics assumed that those thin figures were rising from the ashes of Europe after the Holocaust, embodiments of a worldview that came to be called existentialism. Spoon Woman, 1926-27   Click to enlarge Giacometti himself often said they were his homage to the ancient Greek and Egyptian art he saw and sketched at the Louvre Museum in Paris. But many critics say it is the very ambiguity of the images that give them such power. Giacometti did not intend to become a sculptor when he began his art career in Paris. A few years before he died in 1966, he told a French television interviewer that he took up the form because it wasn't easy: "I did not want to spend my whole life making sculpture. I started sculpting because it was the art that I understood the least about. I should have moved on to other things that suited me better, but I couldn't tolerate the fact that I wasn't suited for sculpture. So kept doing it, so I'd get it out of my system." In a famous encounter, the head of the surrealist movement, Andre Breton, asked Giacometti whether any artist cared what a human head looked like. Giacometti said, "I do." Point to the Eye, 1932 Mus�e national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.   Click to enlarge That ended his relationship with the surrealists -- but the thin sculptures that began taking shape in Giacometti's studio still have echoes of the surreal, said Tobias Bezzola of the Kunsthaus Zurich, which collaborated with MoMA on the show. The breadth of the MoMA exhibit, with about 200 works from all stages of the artist's career, proves Giacometti's skill as a painter, too. In the last decade of his life, Giacometti turned to nature, concentrating on portraits, when the trend in art was abstraction. Six decades of Alberto Giacometti's work are on view at the Museum of Modern Art through Jan. 8, 2002. Search for more broadcast coverage on art museums . Other Resources  The Museum of Modern Art, New York has an extensive Flash presentation with examples of the art in the Giacometti exhibit , along with extensive critical notes following the progression of his career.


7 Things You May Not Know About John Glenn - History in the Headlines 7 Things You May Not Know About John Glenn December 8, 2016 By Barbara Maranzani Share HISTORY honors astronaut and former Ohio senator John Glenn, who died on December 8, 2016 at the age of 95. Share this: 7 Things You May Not Know About John Glenn Author 7 Things You May Not Know About John Glenn URL Google On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn became the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth when he successfully completed three orbits aboard the space capsule “Friendship 7.” In the midst of Cold War tensions and amid the very real fear that the Soviet Union was winning the space race, Glenn’s accomplishment brought a sense of pride and relief to Americans and instantly made the 31-year-old Glenn a national hero. Glenn resigned from NASA in 1964, and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974, representing Ohio for 25 years. In October 1998, Senator Glenn returned to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery, making him the oldest person to fly in space. Glenn died on December 8, 2016, at the age of 95, following several years of declining health. John Glenn was a star before joining the Mercury program. John Glenn (Credit: NASA) Glenn had fallen in love with flying at an early age, building model airplanes while growing up in Ohio. In 1941, Glenn discovered a U.S. Department of Commerce program looking for students to train as pilots. Just six months after he received his license, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Glenn initially enlisted in both the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Navy aviation cadet program, but was eventually assigned to the U.S. Marine Corps. Glenn flew 59 missions in the South Pacific, where one of his wingmen was baseball legend Ted Williams. After serving in the Korean War, Glenn was appointed to a naval test pilot program, where he completed one of the world’s first supersonic transcontinental flights in 1957. Glenn received an enormous amount of publicity following this feat, which brought him to the attention of the NACA, the predecessor to NASA, who selected him to become one of the Mercury 7 astronauts. John Glenn gave his space capsule it’s famous nickname. Glenn inspecting the artwork design for “Friendship 7.” (Credit: NASA) The official name for Glenn’s mission was Mercury-Atlas 6. “Mercury” for the mission program itself (named after the Roman god of speed), and “Atlas 6” to indicate that this was the 6th mission to use the newer, faster Atlas rocket as a launch vehicle. As was common practice among most pilots, the astronauts selected for the Mercury program often gave their capsules personal nicknames—Glenn asked his children for suggestions on what he should name the vessel before finally deciding on the word “Friendship” and adding the number “7” to honor his fellow Mercury members. Glenn’s mission was delayed numerous times, leading to concern and anxiety. Guenter Wendt, the original pad leader for NASA’s manned programs, coaxes a smile from Glenn after a postponement of the mission. (Credit: NASA) Originally scheduled for December 1961 and then pushed to January 13, problems with the new Atlas rocket that would serve as the space capsule’s launching pad caused a two-week delay. On January 27, with television crews already set up to broadcast from both the launch site and Glenn’s home, where his wife, Annie, and his children were anxiously watching, poor weather conditions forced another postponement. When the mission was scrapped, the reporters, accompanied by none other than Vice President Lyndon Johnson, tried to gain access to Glenn’s home in hopes of interviewing his wife. Annie refused to speak to them, and when John heard about the pressure put on his wife, he backed her up, leading to a clash with government officials. The launch was delayed yet again on January 30 after a fuel leak was discovered, followed by yet another weather delay. Finally, with all mechanical issues solved and fair weather forecasted, Glenn was once again strapped into Friendship 7


The Annotated "Stagger Lee" "Delia whistled a different tune--what tune could that be?" The Annotated "Stagger Lee" Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission. 1940 Xmas evening with a full moon over town Staggerlee met Billy DeLyon and he blew that poor boy down Do you know what he shot him for? What do you make of that? Baio, Baio, tell me how can this be? You arrest the girls for turning tricks but you're scared of Staggerlee Staggerlee is a madman and he shot my Billy dead Baio you go get him or give the job to me Delia DeLyon, dear sweet Delia-D How the hell can I arrest him when he's twice as big as me? Don't ask me to go downtown - I wouldn't come back alive Not only is that mother big but he packs a .45 Baio Delia said just give me a gun He shot my Billy dead now I'm gonna see him hung She waded to DeLyon's Club through Billy DeLyon's blood Stepped up to Staggerlee at the bar Said Buy me a gin fizz , love As Staggerlee lit a cigarette she shot him in the balls Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall Baio, Baio, see you hang him high He shot my Billy dead and now he's got to die Delia went a walking down on Singapore Street A three-piece band on the corner played "Nearer, My God, to Thee" but Delia whistled a different tune...what tune could it be? The song that woman sung was Look out Staggerlee The song that Delia sung was Look out Staggerlee The song that woman sung was Look out Staggerlee The song that Delia sung was Look out Staggerlee Key: F (Bridge in G) Time signature: Cut time Chords used: F, C, B-flat, A A-flat, G7, A7, Em, D, G, Songbook availability: Shakedown Street First performance: August 30, 1978, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. "Stagger Lee" appeared in the first set, between "Mama Tried" and "Looks Like Rain." The show also featured the first "I Need A Miracle" and "If I Had the World to Give." The song has had a fairly consistent place in the repertoire over the years, disappearing now and then for extended periods. In Robert Hunter's Stagger Lee There are a number of tunes entitled "Stagger Lee" which have been recorded over the years. They all derive from a series of tales and songs in African- American folklore. See Tony Kullen's essay, available at Alex Allan's site: Stagger Lee: A Historical Look at the Urban Legend for a detailed look at the topic. One serious attempt to ascertain the possible historical existence of Stacker Lee was made, in an article by Richard E. Buehler, "Stacker Lee: a Partial Investigation into the Historicity of a Negro Murder Ballad," published in the Keystone Folklore Quarterly in the Fall, 1967 issue (pp. 187-191.) Buehler identifies a Stacker Lee who was a Confederate officer and subsequently an upstanding member of the community, and who is unlikely to have been the model for the badman of legend. And while Buehler suggests several lines for further research, no one seems to have taken up the task--notably the possibility that the key to the historicity of the ballad may lie in the name "Billy Lyons," rather than in Stacker Lee. This historical Stacker Lee unearthed by Buehler was the member of the Lee family of steamboat owners, and he points out that "Many of the Lee Line boats were named for members of the Lee family, and one of them was the Stacker Lee (hence the name of Miss Ferber's showboat [immortalized in her book, Show Boat ]). This boat was commissioned in 1906 and went down in 1916." (p. 188) Blair Jackson, in his magazine "Golden Road" said this about "Stagger Lee": ""Stagger Lee," who pops on the Shakedown album is a fabled character who some suggest dates back to the Civil War. Variously called "Stag-O-Lee," "Stack-O-Lee," and other names, the song is about a scoundrel who killed Billy Lyons because he stole Stag's Stetson hat. Stag-O-Lee was upset about the death, though--because he failed to shoot Billy right between the eyes. Songwriters over the years have elaborated on the story, bringing in the bad man's deals with the devil, etc. It's been recorded


Who wrote the novel Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Modernism Lab Essays Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Elyse Graham When James Joyce was nearly blind and working on the first draft of Finnegans Wake , the book he permitted himself during his daily reading window was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a best-selling satire by Anita Loos . 1 The book has the interest of biographical color rather than any usefulness for explaining the Wake. But Loos uses language in an interesting way; her book is a prime example of modernist techniques seeping into popular use. And the dialect humor is close to what Joyce worked for in certain chapters of his earlier books. (In fact, although Loos works against the background of modernism and name-checks Conrad, there is an important sense in which her book is a reminder of how much high modernism borrowed from popular culture. Emphasis on the material of language had characterized the main stream of American literary humor throughout the nineteenth century.) Loos grew up in California in a small family that ran a nickelodeon. She spent her spare hours at the library poring over magazines that arrived from back East. For extra income, her father enrolled his children as players in various stock troupes and touring companies, but Loos apparently didn’t care for acting. At six years old, she had won a children’s poetry contest, which left her intent, she later said, to become a famous writer (Carey, 15-20). 2 She struck the right kind of writing for her historical moment in 1916. That year she sketched out a film treatment—it was a short story laid out visually, since she didn’t know scriptwriting technique—and mailed it to Biograph, the production company that made reels for her family’s theater. An envelope returned bearing a check and a release form. She was twenty-three years old. Over the next several years, Loos wrote a number of scripts for Biograph and eventually moved to New York City-- where, she recalled later, she would be "breathing the same air as Henry Mencken" (Carey, 21-28). Loos befriended Mencken, and later claimed to have had a flirtatious relationship with him—not a distinction; he tried to charm most of the women he met. One day in 1924, while riding a train across the Midwest, Loos noticed that the men in her car ignored her but leaped to hoist luggage for the blonde beside her. She simmered and thought about a blonde who then had Mencken’s arm, undeservedly in Loos’s opinion. "There was some mystifying difference between us,” she later wrote of the train passenger. “Why did she so far outdistance me in feminine allure? Could her power, like that of Samson, have something to do with her hair?"  3 Loos took out a yellow pad and began to write. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes became the American best-seller of 1925 . When it first appeared in serial in the women's magazine "Harper's Bazaar," the story made circulation fly—and so increased male readership that makers of cigars, menswear, and sporting goods started to run ads (Loos, 80). Edith Wharton, tongue only a little in cheek, hailed it as "the great American novel." "Apparently," wrote a theater critic in 1926, "every present day musical show is compelled by law to include a song called 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.'" 4 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes masquerades as the diary of one Lorelei Lee, a flapper from Little Rock who lives well on the bounty of older men. With a brunette friend who, in the capacity of chaperone, eggs her on, Lorelei has various adventures in gold-digging and finally marries a Philadelphia millionaire, whom she convinces to move to Hollywood so she can be in pictures. The book had nothing new to say about sexual politics. Even ten years earlier, chorus girls and blondes were worn gags on the magazine circuit. 5 The richness of Blondes lies in its mastery—and it is mastery—of dialect and irony. Loos always said that she finished the manuscript on the train and forgot it in her suitcase for six months, but six months is just enough time to groom prose and leave a cover of indifference. If comedy is a rhetorical device, so is talent. Lorelei writ


Which country does the airline Gulf Air come from?

Which Is The Safest Airline In The Middle East? Which Is The Safest Airline In The Middle East? {{article.article.images.featured.caption}} Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Full Bio The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer. Loading ... This story appears in the {{article.article.magazine.pretty_date}} issue of {{article.article.magazine.pubName}}. Subscribe Threat Of Anti-Chinese Riots Grows In An Angry Indonesia Planes from Emirates Airline (left) and Iraqi Airlines on the tarmac at Rafik Hariri International airport in Beirut, on November 21, 2015. (Photo: ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images) In the wake of the EgyptAir crash on May 19, the safety record of Middle East airlines is again under scrutiny. So if you’re flying in the region, which carrier might give you the greatest peace of mind? EgyptAir is probably not the answer. It has one of the worst fatality records among Middle East airlines. Some 502 people have lost their lives on board its planes in 11 separate fatal incidents, according to the Aviation Safety Network (ASN). That isn’t the highest figure though. Some 549 people have died on Iran Air planes and 645 have died on Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) flights. These are absolute numbers, of course, and don’t take into account the number of flights or the number of passengers carried. Overall, there have been 93 fatal accidents involving major Middle East carriers, with a total death toll of 4,692, according to the ASN. 14 images The high death toll for some airlines is often due to a small number of horrific incidents. In 1988, for example, an Iran Air Airbus A300 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile fired by the US Navy’s cruiser, the USS Vincennes. All 290 passengers and crew were killed. An even more deadly accident happened in November 1996, when a Saudia Boeing 747 that had just taken off from New Delhi airport collided in mid-air with a Kazakhstan Airlines cargo jet. All 312 passengers and crew on board the Saudia flight were killed, as were the 37 people on the Kazakh plane. Other airlines which have suffered high tolls include Royal Jordanian (464 deaths), Libyan Airlines (324), Air Algeria (309) and Bahrain’s Gulf Air (255). On the other hand, some airlines have never suffered a fatality, including Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways and Tunisair. Of course, the past is not necessarily a good indicator of where things might go wrong in the future. Training, maintenance and security standards continue to improve in most countries, which lessens the chance of accidents happening. But the political turmoil in the region does increase the risk of terrorism and the authorities have not always been equal to the challenge. In October 2015, a MetroJet plane was blown up soon after it left Sharm el-Sheikh airport in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Some international airlines have avoided the airport ever since. So which airline is the safest? The AirlineRatings site grades carriers on a seven-star scale, with seven being the safest. Those with the top score include two of the three big Gulf carriers, Emirates and Etihad. Others such as Kuwait Airways, Saudia, Jazeera Airways, and Air Arabia also score the full seven stars, as does Israeli flag carrier El Al.


What is Alistair Cooke's real first name?

Leader: Cooke's compliments | Media | The Guardian Cooke's compliments Thursday 1 April 2004 01.17 EST First published on Thursday 1 April 2004 01.17 EST Share on Messenger Close It was at the prompting of friends, revealed Nick Clarke in our obituary columns yesterday, that the then Alfred Cooke changed his name to the "more artistic" Alistair in 1930. But could there have been something other than artistic impression involved in this rebranding? It seems possible. For our late and revered Guardian colleague was not the first or last of that ilk to feel the need for a new first name. The soul singer Sam Cooke, for instance, once favoured the name Dale rather than Sam, and was born without the "e" that he later added to his surname. The future foreign secretary was born Robert Cook, but has long preferred to be known as Robin. And Gloucestershire's legendary slow left-arm bowler, so celebrated in the writings of Frank Keating, may have been known to all as Sam Cook from Tetbury; his real name, however, was Cecil. So what is it about all these Cooks (or all those Cookes) that makes them yearn for this tweak of identity? Beryl, Roger, Charlie and Thomas Cook may all have found their fame and fortune with the name. But even the greatest Cook of them all has gone down in history as plain Captain rather than James Cook. The immortal Peter, meanwhile, sometimes seemed more at ease as one of his many aliases, such as EL Wisty, Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling or even the mournful Norwegian fisherman Sven. Would that incomparable prose have been any less celebrated for being delivered by Alfred Cooke? Would Robert Cook have climbed the Labour party's greasy pole any less successfully? And would Cecil Cook have gained more than that solitary test cap (at Trent Bridge against South Africa in 1947) or have returned better match figures than 0-127? All are unlikely. Cooks should, we feel, be more confident. All that can be said with any certainty is that only in the kitchen can there ever be too many of them.


How is seriously rich Percy Miller better known?

stumbleupon More StatsView More About Master P American rapper, entertainer, investor and entrepreneur, Percy Robert “Master P” Miller, has an estimated net worth of $350 million. Percy Miller, best known in the hip hop world as Master P is the president-CEO , founder of No Limit Records, also the founder of P. Miller Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate and Better Black Television.Like Jay-z, Master P got superb business skills, he built a well diversified empire that includes several rap labels, a clothing line, a management company, a high end travel agency, a film production company, a video game company and even a phone sex line.His most notable and likely most successful endeavor was his No Limit record company which pioneered the Southern Rap sound. Once a top company, housing the likes of Mystikal, Silk the Shocker and even Snoop Dogg at one point, the label has since fallen on hard times. Numerous lawsuits forced P to shut the label down and file for bankruptcy in 2003, but it appears as if No Limit is looking to bounce back, announcing a relaunch in 2011, helmed by Master P’s oldest son, Romeo. The young rapper revealed to the Boombox that he has been working on his solo project as well as cultivating new talent for the label. Miller’s financial status has been brought to light as the rapper and his ex-wife are engaged in a heated battle over child support. The millionaire mogul, whose net worth was once estimated at $600 million, has only been ordered to pay $271 a month in child support for each of his four minor children. Master P with son,Rapper Romeo Miller and daughter, singer Cymphonique Miller and father rapperattend the 10th Annual BMI Urban Awards at the Pantages Theatre on September 10, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. Earnings & Financial Data The below financial data is gathered and compiled by TheRichest analysts team to give you a better understanding of Master P's net worth by breaking down the most relevant financial events such as yearly salaries, contracts, earn outs, endorsements, stock ownership and much more. ?


How old was Laurel and Hardy producer Hal Roach when he died in 1992?

Jay Leno chats to 100 year old Laurel & Hardy Producer Hal Roach - 1992 - YouTube Jay Leno chats to 100 year old Laurel & Hardy Producer Hal Roach - 1992 Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jun 24, 2014 http://twitter.com/stan_and_ollie . Harold Eugene "Hal" Roach, Sr. (January 14, 1892 -- November 2, 1992) was an American film and television producer, director, and actor from the 1910s to the 1990s, best known today for producing the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang (later known as The Little Rascals) film comedy series. Category


Who was West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974? Willy Brandt.

BBC - History - Willy Brandt z Willy Brandt, May 1971    © Brandt was a German politician, and chancellor from 1969 to 1974. He won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1971. Willy Brandt was born Karl Herbert Frahm on 18 December 1913 in Lübeck, northern Germany. He became a socialist in the late 1920s. In 1933, he changed his name and fled to Norway to avoid arrest by the Nazis. After the German occupation of Norway in 1940, he escaped to Sweden where he lived until 1945. Brandt returned to Germany after World War Two. In 1948, he started his political career, holding various offices within the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and becoming a member of the German parliament. Brandt first became well known outside Germany when he took the position of mayor of West Berlin, which he held from 1957 until 1966. This was a particularly tense time for the city with the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. By the early 1960s, Brandt was the leading figure in the Social Democratic Party and its candidate for chancellor. He was unsuccessful in the 1961 and 1965 elections, but became vice chancellor and foreign minister in the coalition government of 1966. In 1969, Brandt was elected chancellor and retained the post in the general election of 1972. His main policy was that of 'Ostpolitik', as he tried to create closer ties between West and East Germany and improve relations with Poland and the Soviet Union. In Germany, Brandt's 'Ostpolitik' was controversial, but in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work. In April 1974, one of Brandt's personal assistants was arrested for being an East German spy. Brandt took responsibility and resigned the following month. Brandt remained head of the SPD until 1987 and was honorary chairman until his death. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1983. In 1977, he was appointed chair of an international commission that produced the Brandt Report, calling for drastic changes in the international community's attitude to development in the Third World. In late 1989, Brandt was one of the first leaders on the left in German politics to publicly favour reunification of the two halves of Germany. Brandt died near Bonn on 8 October 1992.


What sort of Menace was the 1999 Star Wars movie?

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) - IMDb (New York City) – See all my reviews I love the original films, probably ANH most of all. If you saw it on it's original release you had a cinema experience unlike any other. There just weren't films like this being made. Sure, it drew on films and books of the past, but nothing had looked or sounded like this. You have to remember the world we lived in then. Video games were very rudimentary. Even ASTEROIDS was several years in our future. And 2001 was one of the few films to show us convincing views of space travel. STAR WARS was something new with a capital "N". Audiences loved it. And it changed movies. By 1999, we'd seen numerous Science Fiction movies, lots of space battles, lots of special effects. And video games had developed a realism that was shocking compared to what we'd had in 1977. Enter THE PHANTOM MENACE. Not only did this film have to live up to memories of the originals, it also had to compete in an entertainment world that had caught up. Lucas could never create an experience as mind-blowing as he had in the original. But he was going to try. And he was also going to try to do a few other different things. The nexus of this new thought was Jar Jar Binks. A CGI creation that was also a character. And a type of character never before seen in the SW Universe, a comic relief character. But more than that, a slapstick comic relief character. In many of the movies that inspired STAR WARS there are such characters. And Lucas wanted to try one in his films. Well, for most, he failed. Many, or at least the most vocal, hated Jar Jar Binks. And few of these people even credited him for trying something new. They didn't want Lucas' STAR WARS. They wanted their STAR WARS. A STAR WARS, it is important to note, that only exists in their minds. In addition, he decided to make Anakin a small boy. Another new decision. STAR WARS had never featured a boy character. Again, the fans whined. They didn't like it. They didn't want Lucas to try new things. But he also gave them what they came to expect. A truly great action set-piece: The pod race. One of the best action set-pieces in the entire series. And he gave them a lightsaber duel unlike any they'd ever seen. But that wasn't enough. Sadly, had Lucas made a film that was little more than a remake of STAR WARS with Anakin in the Luke role, fans would have been happy. And I think that says more about the limited scope of STAR WARS fans than it does about the talents of George Lucas. THE PHANTOM MENACE, like all the films in the series, has it's own unique tone and flavor. And though these flavors may not be to everyone's taste, I think in the coming years more and more fans will come to appreciate this film for what it is, rather than what they wish it would be. 542 of 996 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you? Yes


What was the name of Drew Barrymore's character in E.T.?

Drew Barrymore's Baby: Potential Girl Names Tweets Her due date is just days away, but Drew Barrymore — who, along with hubby Will Kopelman, is expecting a baby girl — has kept her daughter’s name under lock and key, despite going public with her first child’s gender way back in April. So what’s a gossip-loving entertainment writer to do? Come up with a list of potential baby names for Barrymore’s first child. The Contenders Charlie – Sure, it’s technically a boy’s name, but Charlie ranked 376th on the Social Security Administration ‘s list of top 1,000 baby names of 2011. Barrymore starred in the 2000 and 2003 Charlie’s Angels films; she also played a character named Charlie in one of her first movie roles (1984’s Firestarter) Blyth – Not only is this old-fashioned name Barrymore’s middle name, but it’s also a family name; Drew’s great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore actually changed his last name from Blyth to Barrymore. Ethel – Another family name, Ethel Barrymore is one of the most famous members of the Barrymore clan … she’s also Drew’s great-aunt Elliott – It’s unlikely Barrymore would choose Gertie — the name of the character she played in her first hit, E.T. — but she could opt to steal the name of her on-screen brother, Elliott; when spelled with just one “t,” the name ranks 875th on the SSA’s 2011 girl names list Sophia – Drew’s Godmother is actress Sophia Loren, and with Sophia reaching the top spot on the SSA’s 2011 rankings for girl names, it would be an obvious choice Chanel – Naming children after products is all the rage (ever met a Mercedes?), but naming her daughter after this world famous designer would be appropriate, given her father-in-law is a former Chanel CEO Casey – Barrymore has been in three movies in which her character was named Casey: 1984’s Irreconcilable Differences, 1995’s Mad Love, 1996’s Scream Josie – When Barrymore took on the role of Josie Geller in 1999’s Never Been Kissed, it not only marked her return to blockbuster movies, but also her debut as an executive producer for a film Arielle – In honor of her new father-in-law, Arielle — or Ariella — are female versions of Arie; the girl names also are of Hebrew origin, harkening to Kopelman’s Jewish faith Do you have any predictions for baby names for Drew Barrymore’s daughter?


Which ER star played opposite Jenny Seagrove in Don' Go Breaking My Heart?

BBC - Drama - People Index Jenny Seagrove Jenny Seagrove Jenny Seagrove Jenny's career has spanned theatre, film and television. Her credits include Local Hero, A Woman of Substance, and Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Jenny's now best known for playing Jo Mills in Judge John Deed. What's she been in? Jenny first found fame in 1983, with the film Local Hero, and the TV mini-series A Woman of Substance, which achieved Channel 4's highest ever viewing figures of 13.8 million. A year earlier she had made her movie debut in Jerzy Skolimowski's Moonlighting. Her other movie roles include Appointment With Death, A Chorus Of Disapproval, Miss Beatty's Children, and Don't Go Breaking My Heart with ER's Anthony Edwards. After a 15 year break from regular television work, Jenny landed the part of Jo Mills in the pilot episode of Judge John Deed, broadcast in January 2001. She's now a regular in the series. On TV she's also appeared in Hold The Dream, a follow-up to A Woman Of Substance guested in programmes such as The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense, and Peak Practice. As well as TV and film, Jenny's an accomplished stage actress, whose recent credits include Brief Encounter with Judge John Deed co-star Christopher Cazenove, The Constant Wife, and a female twist on The Odd Couple, with Paula Wilcox. Did you know? Now playing a TV barrister, Jenny once fell foul of the law herself. She was caught for speeding and lost her licence for the month. Jenny told the Mail on Sunday, "I was speeding because I was desperate to deliver a curry to my mother before it went cold." Her life and career were celebrated in a March 2002 edition of This Is Your Life. Jenny developed anorexia in her late teens, but successfully conquered the eating disorder. "The spectre of it is always there but I've got it under control," she revealed in an interview with The Express newspaper. "I eat sensibly and eat organic food but that's because I'm appalled by what is done to the environment." Jenny's a vegetarian and an animal rights campaigner. She played an eco-warrior in the Casualty episode, Sympathy For The Devil, broadcast in October 2000. She's a huge fan of Everton Football Club. Personal Details


Who played Rick Deckard in Blade Runner?

Rick Deckard | Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Harrison Ford Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Ridley Scott 's 1982 science-fiction film, Blade Runner . The character originally appeared in Philip K Dick 's novel, " Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? " on which the movie is based. Rick Deckard was played by Harrison Ford. Biography Edit Rick Deckard is a Blade Runner , a special member of the L.A police department who is employed to hunt down and "retire" replicants (genetically manufactured humanoids). Since they were declared illegal on Earth , it is up to the Blade Runners to "retire" any that find their way to Earth. At the beginning of the film, Deckard is called out of retirement after a group of six clever and brutal replicants hijack a shuttle to Earth, intending to pass themselves off as normal humans. Deckard is reluctant to resume work, but is told he has no choice and must use some of "the old blade runner magic" to succeed. There are lengthy debates among the movie's fandom on whether Deckard is a replicant himself. The Director's Cut DVD of the movie seems to lean towards the fact that Deckard is a replicant, as new footage was added that supports that side of the argument.