Oliver Reed - Biography - IMDb Oliver Reed Biography Showing all 114 items Jump to: Overview  (5) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (4) | Trivia  (65) | Personal Quotes  (35) | Salary  (2) Overview (5) 5' 11" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (1) Oliver Reed was born on February 13, 1938 in Wimbledon, London, England as Robert Oliver Reed. He was an actor, known for Gladiator (2000), Oliver! (1968) and Tommy (1975). He was married to Josephine Burge and Kate Byrne. He died on May 2, 1999 in Valletta, Malta. Spouse (2) Outspoken views a trademark especially his opinions of his co-stars or women in general. Marvellous speaking voice Often sported a thick handle-bar moustache Ocean blue eyes Trivia (65) Shared the same dentist as horror star Christopher Lee Needed 36 stitches to repair cuts on his face after a bar fight in 1963. The incident left him with a permanent scar, which he initially feared would put an end to his screen career. He had two brothers. David Reed became his business manager and his half-brother Simon Reed became his press agent. Nephew of the film director Sir Carol Reed , who directed him in one of his best roles, as the villainous Bill Sikes in Oliver! (1968). Father of Mark Thurloe Reed (born January 21, 1961) with his first wife Kate Byrne and of Sarah Reed (born 1970) from his 12-year relationship to dancer Jacqueline Daryl . He died of a heart attack in a bar after downing three bottles of Captain Morgan's Jamaica rum, eight bottles of German beer, numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey and Hennessy cognac, and beating five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling. His bar bill for that final lunch time totaled 270 Maltese lira, almost £450, about $594.72. He was severely injured and almost died during the filming of The Three Musketeers (1973) when he was stabbed in the throat during the windmill duel scene. Grandson of actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree , who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1904. His first job (at the age of 17) was as a bouncer at a Soho nightclub. Was dyslexic. Cousin of actress Tracy Reed and of the actor David Tree . He was related by marriage to fellow actor Edward Fox , who was once married to his cousin, Tracy Reed , daughter of director Sir Carol Reed . Narrowly missed out on playing superspy James Bond because of his love of alcohol and fighting. A new biography of the star uncovered a letter from Bond mastermind Albert R. Broccoli outlining how close he came to replacing Sean Connery in the role. Broccoli wrote, "With Reed we would have had a far greater problem to destroy his image and re-mold him as James Bond. We just didn't have the time or money to do that." According to Cliff Goodwin , author of the book "Evil Spirits", "Oliver was probably within a sliver of being cast as Bond." He adds, "But by 1968 his affairs were public and he was already drinking and fighting - as far away from the refined Bond image as you could get.". By the mid-1970s he was considered by many to be Britain's biggest movie star. He declined roles in The Sting (1973) and Jaws (1975) because he didn't want to relocate to Los Angeles. Both of these roles were taken by fellow British hellraiser Robert Shaw . However, a Hollywood executive claimed, "Reed didn't turn us down. We turned him down. We like our stars to have respect - Oliver Reed didn't respect anyone and he showed it." The actor he admired most was Errol Flynn . He was a close friend of The Who 's drummer Keith Moon . In 1973 Steve McQueen flew to England to meet Reed and discuss a possible film collaboration. "Reed showed me his country mansion and we got on well," recalled McQueen. "He then suggested he take me to his favorite London nightclub." The drinking, which started at Reed's home, Broome Hall, continued into the night until Reed could hardly stand. Suddenly, and with no apparent warning, he vomited over McQueen's shirt and trousers. "The staff rushed around and found me some new clothes, but they couldn't get me any shoes," said McQueen. "I had to spend the rest of the night smelling of Oliver


Which country does the airline Sansa come from?

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Harper Valley P.T.A. by Jeannie C. Riley Songfacts Harper Valley P.T.A. by Jeannie C. Riley Songfacts Songfacts The country singer Margie Singleton asked Tom T. Hall to write her a song similar to " Ode To Billie Joe ," which she had covered the previous year. After driving past a school called Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Bellevue, Tennessee, he noted the name and wrote "Harper Valley P.T.A." about a fictional confrontation between a young widow Stella Johnson and a local PTA group who objected to her manner of dress, social drinking, and friendliness with town's men folk. Jeannie C. Riley, who was working as a secretary in Nashville for Jerry Chesnut, got to hear the song and recorded it herself and it became a massive hit for her. A "PTA" is a Parent Teacher Association. Popular in small towns of the United States, the organizations work to improve school conditions and encourage communication between parents and teachers. In some cases, the members of PTAs can be righteous and petty, and the characters in this song are depicted as such. The song struck a nerve with many women who felt some empathy with the character Stella Johnson. Tom T. Hall is known as a Country music storyteller and he has racked up a number of solo hits, including 7 #1 Country singles. In 1974 he had a #12 pop hit in the States with "I Love," a sentimental list of things he likes. He recalled to The Boot in a 2011 interview that the song was based on a true story. Said the songwriter: "I chose the story to make a statement but I changed the names to protect the innocent. There were 10 kids in our family. We'd get up in the morning and my mother and father would get bored with us running around and we'd go terrorize the neighbors up and down this little road we lived on. After we had done our chores, of course. I was just hanging around downtown when I was about nine years old and heard the story and got to know this lady. I was fascinated by her grit. To see this very insignificant, socially disenfranchised lady - a single mother - who was willing to march down to the local aristocracy and read them the riot act so to speak, was fascinating." This won the 1968 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Vocal Performance. It was also voted the Single of the Year by the Country Music Association. This had the then biggest chart leap in American history, going from #81 to #7 in one week. This topped both the Pop and Country charts in America, the first song by a female country artist to achieve this feat. This proved to be Riley's only major Pop hit single, though she had further success on the Country charts. In the mid-'70s Riley became a Christian and began recording on the God's Country label. In 1981, she recorded the Gospel album From Harper Valley To The Mountain Top. Throughout the '80s and '90s, she continued to be a popular contemporary Christian recording and performing artist. This hit inspired a 1978 film and a 1981 spin-off television series, both starring Barbara Eden playing Stella Johnson. Tom T. Hall, who wrote this song, had planned a career as a journalist or novelist until the success of this song threw him into the spotlight. He told The Boot: "That song was my novel. I had been reading Sinclair Lewis. As a young man I read Lewis' novels Babbitt and Elmer Gantry, which is about hypocrisy. Babbitt is, of course, about the social structure of the small town. So being a big Sinclair Lewis fan, when I wrote 'Harper Valley' I incorporated elements of Elmer Gantry into the song."


What was Elvis's last No 1 in his own lifetime?

Elvis faithful can't visit site of his last No. 1 - USATODAY.com Elvis faithful can't visit site of his last No. 1 Posted   Enlarge Handout Elvis Presley's last No. 1 hit, "Suspicious Minds," was recorded at American Sound Studio in Nashville, Tenn. The studio folded in 1972, and the building was later torn down. MEMPHIS (AP)  Elvis Presley fans flocking to Memphis this weekend to remember the day he died are being encouraged to also celebrate the 40th anniversary of his final No. 1 hit single, " Suspicious Minds ." While they can tour Graceland , the estate where he died 32 years ago, or Sun Studio , which helped make him the King of Rock 'n' Roll, the Elvis faithful can't see the place where that hit record was made. There's nothing left, not even a historical marker, to remind people of the sessions that produced the "From Elvis in Memphis" album. MOVIE MARATHON: TCM honors Elvis American Sound Studio folded in 1972 and the building was later torn down. In its place is a beauty shop and a crumbling parking lot. "I haven't been back there to see," said Chips Moman, who ran the studio and produced the 1969 Elvis sessions. "I put it out of my mind." But in 1969, American Sound Studio was at the top of its game, in the middle of a three-year span that would yield more than 100 hit records for artists that included B.J. Thomas, Neil Diamond and Dusty Springfield . Presley, meanwhile, had spent much of the previous years filming and recording soundtracks to his largely forgettable movies. He hadn't recorded in Memphis since leaving the Sun label in 1955. But he was also coming off the roaring success of his televised comeback special in December 1968 and proved willing to take some risks in hopes of charting his first No. 1 hit in six years. "All of us had always liked Elvis, his early stuff," Moman, 72, said in a telephone interview from his home in LaGrange, Ga. "We didn't like all that movie stuff, so when we got our chance we wanted to cut some stuff that we liked." Initially, it didn't appear Presley was going to want to move in a different direction. He arrived at the studio in January 1969 with his sizable entourage of friends and handlers, and some potential songs were presented to Moman and the band. "And of course all those guys were boogalooing to all those terrible songs," recalled Bobby Wood, 68, piano player for the 827 Thomas Street Band. "And we were just standing around wondering, 'What in the world is going on here?"' Wood said he was approached by Elvis confidant George Klein and asked what he thought about the songs. He answered frankly that he thought "they were a bunch of crap" and was shocked when Klein carried that message back to Presley. "I didn't know whether Elvis was going to say 'Get out of here,' or what," Wood said. "But he just started laughing, and he was laughing to the top of his voice. So I knew he was all right after that." The entourage began melting away as Presley began to gel with Moman and the house band in overnight recording sessions. He agreed to record "In the Ghetto," unusual in Elvis' repertoire for its social commentary on the cycle of crime and poverty, and "Suspicious Minds," which became a centerpiece of his live Las Vegas performances that would begin that year. "I knew that he was only a good song away from being as big as he ever was," Moman said. "I knew Elvis had what it takes. "We just gave him something new, and a new kind of groove." Four years later and well into his jumpsuit-and-cape era, Elvis returned to Memphis to record at Stax Records in an effort to recapture the feel from the American sessions. Wood and several other members of the band — now known as the Memphis Boys since moving to Nashville — were brought in to back him up. "The whole scenario had changed, and even Elvis didn't seem like he was that interested anymore," Wood said. The studio was teeming with people and there were too many distractions to record quality music, he said. "If you're not in control of the recording and getting it done with a small group of people, it's just not the same,"


Who choreographed the first performance of Copland's Rodeo?

Bonds test 10 the 20th century ch. 49-60 - Exam 1) Ruth Crawford was the Bonds test 10 the 20th century ch. 49-60 Bonds test 10 the 20th century ch. 49-60 - Exam 1) Ruth... SCHOOL View Full Document Exam • 1 ) • Ruth Crawford was the first woman ever to be awarded a prestigious:  (2.5pts) •   Fibonacci Fellowship in numerical based composition. •   Grammy Award in composition. •   Guggenheim Fellowship in composition. •   Emmy Award in performance. Answer : Corre ct Points: 2.5 • 2 ) • Ruth Crawford was the mother of:  (2.5pts) •   Taylor Dane. •   Bob Dylan. •   Pete Seeger. •   John Lennon. Answer : Corre ct Points: 2.5 • 3 ) • William Grant Still's "A Black Pierrot" is based upon the poetry of:  (2.5pts) •   Robert Frost. •   Langston Hughes. •   Edgar Allen Poe. This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version. View Full                             Document •   the unknown poet. Answer : Corre ct Points: 2.5 • 4 ) • In "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo,  Aaron Copland orchestrates his music in an extremely open fashion, which means he:  (2.5pts) •   composes in a public area where all can see him working. •   uses the full range of registers from highest to lowest and  leaves much space between groups. •   leaves some parts unwritten and "open" for improvisation. •   uses no cadences or final sounds, keeping the movements open for  additions and improvements. Answer : Corre ct Points: 2.5 • 5 ) • The American dancer who danced the role of the Cowgirl in the premiere of Copland's Rodeo in 1942 was:  (2.5pts) •   Agnes de Mille, who also choreographed this production and is  one of the most influential figures in American ballet. •   Martha Graham, who barely beat out her friend Agnes de Mille for  the role. •   Bob Fosse, who choreographed many Broadway shows won  numerous awards throughout his career. •   Ginger Rogers, who also danced in many classic American films  with Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. Answer Corre : ct Points: 2.5 • 6 ) • Aaron Copland received:  (2.5pts) •   The Congressional Gold Medal award in 1986. •   no awards during his lifetime. •   the modern ballet Composer d'excellence award immediately after  the premiere of Rodeo. •   This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version.


Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey | PenguinRandomHouse.com Add to Cart About Riders of the Purple Sage Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane’s grounds. “[Zane Grey’s] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved,” wrote Nye. “Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey’s skill at supplying it.” About Riders of the Purple Sage Told by a master storyteller who, according to critic Russell Nye, “combined adventure, action, violence, crisis, conflict, sentimentalism, and sex in an extremely shrewd mixture,” Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will. Lassiter is on his own quest, one that ends when he discovers a secret grave on Jane’s grounds. “[Zane Grey’s] popularity was neither accidental nor undeserved,” wrote Nye. “Few popular novelists have possessed such a grasp of what the public wanted and few have developed Grey’s skill at supplying it.” Get the news you want from Penguin Random House Praise “[Zane Grey is] an amazingly significant literary phenomenon.”—Hamlin Garland About Zane Grey Zane Grey was an American author best know for his influential work in the early days of the Western genre. About Zane Grey Zane Grey was an American author best know for his influential work in the early days of the Western genre. Product Details


D.W. Griffith - Biography - IMDb D.W. Griffith Biography Showing all 78 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (1) | Trivia  (43) | Personal Quotes  (18) | Salary  (9) Overview (4) 5' 11" (1.8 m) Mini Bio (1) David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War hero. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually mold his black-and-white view of human existence and history. In 1897 Griffith set out to pursue a career both acting and writing for the theater, but for the most part was unsuccessful. Reluctantly, he agreed to act in the new motion picture medium for Edwin S. Porter at the Edison Company. Griffith was eventually offered a job at the financially struggling American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., where he directed over four hundred and fifty short films, experimenting with the story-telling techniques he would later perfect in his epic The Birth of a Nation (1915). Griffith and his personal cinematographer G.W. Bitzer collaborated to create and perfect such cinematic devices as the flash-back, the iris shot, the mask and cross-cutting. In the years following "Birth", Griffith never again saw the same monumental success as his signature film and, in 1931, his increasing failures forced his retirement. Though hailed for his vision in narrative film-making, he was similarly criticized for his blatant racism. Griffith died in Los Angeles in 1948, one of the most dichotomous figures in film history. His films depict the cruelty of humankind. Trivia (43) He has been called "the father of film technique," "the man who invented Hollywood," and "the Shakespeare of the screen". In 1920, he established United Artists with Charles Chaplin , Douglas Fairbanks , Mary Pickford . Interred at Mount Tabor Methodist Church Graveyard, Centerfield, Kentucky, USA. (30 mins North of Louisville). In 1975, the U.S. Postal Service honored Griffith with a postage stamp. 15 December 1999: Declaring that Griffith "helped foster intolerable racial stereotypes," The Directors Guild of America's National Board - without membership consultation - announced it would rename the D.W. Griffith Award, the Guild's highest honor. First given in 1953, its recipients included Stanley Kubrick , David Lean , John Huston , Woody Allen , Akira Kurosawa , John Ford , Ingmar Bergman , Alfred Hitchcock , and Griffith's friend Cecil B. DeMille . He produced and directed the first movie ever made in Hollywood, In Old California (1910) which was produced by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. which is still in existence today and the oldest movie company in America. The film was rediscovered by Biograph and shown on the 6th of May 2004 at the Beverly Hills Film Festival attended by the President of Biograph Company Thomas R. Bond II and Mikhail Vartanov . On the same day, a monument was erected near the site where the film was made (Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. However, almost a year later in 2005, the 2.8 ton monument was stolen overnight, under mysterious circumstances and is no longer there, but was found almost one year after its disappearance near a garbage bin not far from where the monument stood on Vine Street in Hollywood. His first sound film was Abraham Lincoln (1930). He was said to be a imperious, humorless man. Was voted the 15th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 415-427. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. He tried to sell a story to The Edison Company. They hired him as an actor instead. He went from being a bit player to being the industry's leading director in a period of only five years. The film America (1924) is regarded as a major turning point in his career. Its failure ended his tenure as the industry's preeminent director. Same date of death, 21st of July, as the legendary Sergei Parajanov After The Birth of a Nation (1915) was


"Who created the line, ""Happiness is a warm puppy?"

Happiness is a Warm Puppy (Peanuts): Charles M. Schulz: 9781933662077: Amazon.com: Books Happiness is a Warm Puppy (Peanuts) Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Next Special Offers and Product Promotions Editorial Reviews About the Author Charles M. Schulz is a legend. He was the hand and heart behind fifty years of Peanuts, which featured one of the world’s most beloved and recognizable casts of cartoon characters, until his death in 2000. Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here , or download a FREE Kindle Reading App . New York Times best sellers Browse the New York Times best sellers in popular categories like Fiction, Nonfiction, Picture Books and more. See more Product Details Publisher: Cider Mill Press; Gift edition (May 27, 2006) Language: English Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 5.5 inches Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces Write a customer review Top Customer Reviews By Bobbie Redington on July 25, 2016 Format: Hardcover Verified Purchase Charlie Brown holds a special place in my heart as my Dad absolutely loved the cartoons and we never missed the television productions. He even nicknamed my brother Charlie Brown when he was little. My Dad has been gone for many years but I came across this book in an old second hand store and instantly thought to buy it for my Mom. The copy in the store was too damaged to be enjoyed so I purchased this used book online and was very pleased to receive a "like new" copy. We can all use a little more Happiness in our lives these days - I highly recommend this book!


Who directed The Big Sleep and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?

Howard Hawks - IMDb IMDb 17 January 2017 4:34 PM, UTC NEWS a list of 40 people created 09 Dec 2010 a list of 30 people created 31 Mar 2011 a list of 23 people created 13 Oct 2012 a list of 41 people created 16 Apr 2014 a list of 21 people created 09 Oct 2015 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Howard Hawks's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for     1     Oscar. Another    4 wins & 7 nominations. See more awards  » Known For  |  Edit Filmography  1925 The Light of Western Stars (production manager - uncredited)  1925 Adventure (production manager - uncredited)  1924 Open All Night (production manager - uncredited) Hide   2014/II Dark Hearts (special thanks)  2003 The Dreamers (acknowledgment: director of "Scarface" (1932)  1980 Hollywood (TV Mini-Series documentary) Himself  1977 Hollywood Greats (TV Series documentary) Himself  1970 Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo (TV Movie documentary) Himself  1967 Cinema (TV Series documentary) Himself  1925 1925 Studio Tour (Documentary short) Himself - a Writer  2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (TV Movie documentary) Himself  2001-2008 American Masters (TV Series documentary) Himself / Himself - Interviewee  2003 Cary Grant and Howard Hawks (TV Movie documentary) Himself  1993-2001 Biography (TV Series documentary) Himself  1997 Howard Hawks: American Artist (TV Movie documentary) Himself  1967 The Great Professional: Howard Hawks (TV Movie documentary) Himself Personal Details Other Works: Story: "The Chariot of the Gods" (filmed as The Road to Glory (1926), The Road to Glory (1936)) See more » Publicity Listings: 4 Biographical Movies | 10 Print Biographies | 5 Portrayals | 6 Articles | 2 Pictorials | See more » Height:


In which year was the talkie The Jazz Singer released?

Jazz Singer Movie - The First Talkie By Jennifer Rosenberg Updated November 22, 2015. When The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was released as a feature-length movie on October 6, 1927, it was the first movie that included dialogue and music on the filmstrip itself. Adding Sounds to Film Before The Jazz Singer, there were silent films. Despite their name, these films were not silent for they were accompanied by music. Often, these films were accompanied by a live orchestra in the theater and from as early as 1900, films were often synchronized with musical scores that were played on amplified record players. The technology advanced in the 1920s, when Bell Laboratories developed a way to allow an audio track to be placed on the film itself. This technology, called Vitaphone, was first used as a musical track in a film titled Don Juan in 1926. Although Don Juan had music and sound effects, there were no spoken words in the film. Actors Talking on Film When Sam Warner of the Warner Brothers planned The Jazz Singer, he anticipated that the film would use silent periods to tell the story and the Vitaphone technology would be used for the singing of music, just as the new technology had been used in Don Juan. continue reading below our video 4 Tips for Improving Test Performance However, during the filming of The Jazz Singer, superstar of the time Al Jolson ad-libbed dialogue in two different scenes and Warner liked the end result. Thus, when The Jazz Singer was released on October 6, 1927 it became the first feature-length film (89 minutes long) to include dialogue on the filmstrip itself. The Jazz Singer made way for the future of "talkies," which is what movies with audio soundtracks were called. So What Did Al Jolson Actually Say? The first words Jolson recites are: “Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” Jolson spoke 60 words in one scene and 294 words in another. The rest of the film is silent, with words written on black, title cards just like in silent movies. The only sound (besides the few words by Jolson) are the songs. The Storyline of the Jazz Singer The Jazz Singer is a movie about Jakie Rabinowitz, the son of a Jewish cantor who wants to be a jazz singer but is pressured by his father to use his God-given voice to sing as a cantor. With five generations of Rabinowitz men as cantors, Jakie's father (played by Warner Oland) is adamant that Jakie has no choice in the matter. Jakie, however, has other plans. After being caught singing "raggy time songs" at a beer garden, Cantor Rabinowitz gives Jakie a belt whipping. That's the last straw for Jakie; he runs away from home. After setting off on his own, adult Jakie (played by Al Jolson) works hard to become a success in the field of jazz. He meets a girl, Mary Dale (played by May McAvoy), and she helps him improve his act. As Jakie, now known as Jack Robin, becomes increasingly successful, he continues to crave the support and love of his family. His mother (played by Eugenie Besserer) supports him, but his father is disgusted that his son wants to be a jazz singer. The climax of the movie revolves around a dilemma. Jakie must choose between starring in a Broadway show or returning to his deathly ill father and singing Kol Nidre at the synagogue. Both occur on the very same night. As Jakie says in the film (on a title card), "It's a choice between giving up the biggest chance of my life -- and breaking my mother's heart." This dilemma resonated with audiences for the 1920s were full of such decisions. With the older generation holding tight to tradition, the newer generation were rebelling, becoming flappers , listening to jazz , and dancing the Charleston . Ultimately, Jakie couldn't break his mother's heart and so he sang Kol Nidre that night. The Broadway show was cancelled. There is a happy ending though -- we see Jakie starring in his own show just a few months later. Blackface In the first of two scenes where Jakie is struggling with his choice, we see Al Jolson applying black makeup all over his face (except for near his lips) and then co


Alborg Roedslet international airport is in which country?

Aalborg International Airport information. Flights and air companies flying to Aalborg International Airport in Aalborg, Denmark - Flight tickets, charter and private flights. - Flight tickets, charter and private flights - BulgariaFlights.com Airports Aalborg Alborg Airport (IATA code AAL) is a civilian and military airport situated in Denmark. It is the third largest airport in the country and serves at about 1.4 million passengers each year. The airport works from 5 a.m. to 12 p.m. and has a duty free shop open to all passengers that depart from here. The Alborg Airport could be reached by bus, car and taxi. There are eight airlines that operate here, offering flights to total of seventeen airports Including domestic flights and international long-distance flights. The airport serves many charter airlines as well.


What was Elton John's first US No 1 hit?

Elton John: 10 of the best | Music | The Guardian 10 of the best Elton John: 10 of the best From the gentle whimsy of Your Song to the R&B of Bennie and the Jets, Elton John was at his world-conquering best in the 1970s and 80s Eye catching … Elton John in the 1970s. Photograph: BBC/Redferns Wednesday 25 May 2016 07.17 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 25 May 2016 13.50 EDT 1. Your Song Sir Elton Hercules John might be considered a balladeer, but in 1970 there was surprise at his label, DJM, that his breakthrough song was a slow, whimsical serenade. Those who’d followed his fledgling career perceived the Elton John Band to be a rocking affair, incorporating gospel, honky-tonk and elements of psychedelic folk. In the US, the pretty Your Song, with a naively romantic lyric by Bernie Taupin, was the B-side to the more uptempo Take Me to the Pilot, but it was promoted to the lead track after radio stations persisted in plugging it. It made the Top 10 on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the beginning of a run of bestselling singles and superstardom (especially Stateside) that would make John the biggest pop star on the planet for five years. He went on to sell more than 100m singles, but his first hit is still one of his defining moments, and its opening line – “It’s a little bit funny / This feeling inside” – remains instantly recognisable. 2. Rocket Man John’s 11th single, taken from the album Honky Château, is arguably his best-loved. The 1972 track didn’t quite make it to No 1 in the US – he’d have to wait until Crocodile Rock later that year for that – but it has endured as one of the key songs of the early 70s, thanks in part to its wonderful production. With Gus Dudgeon on board, it’s not hard to see where inspiration for the space epic might have come from. Dudgeon had produced Space Oddity by David Bowie in 1969. (Bowie’s regular producer Tony Visconti had refused to work on the track, calling it a “cheap shot”.) Dudgeon repeated the trick with John, imbuing a song about space travel with an otherworldly ambience. (There’s also a druggy subtext: lines include “And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then.”) Bowie and John might have seemed destined to become kindred spirits, but the former said they had little in common. In a Playboy interview, Bowie made some catty comments, referring to John as “the Liberace … the token queen of rock”, adding: “I’m responsible for a whole new school of pretension. They know who they are, don’t you, Elton?” John would bide his time before hitting back. 3. Bennie and the Jets As with Your Song, it was radio play that turned Bennie and the Jets into a smash hit – against John’s will (he thought the song was too strange to succeed). CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, aired it first, then Detroit radio stations and Top 40 stations across the US followed suit. Bennie (Benny on the single sleeve, Bennie on the album) was not only a No 1 in America, but it also became John’s first crossover hit, landing him on the R&B chart for the first time. An invitation to appear on Soul Train followed, and John became the first white British artist to be accepted on black radio a good year before Bowie and the Bee Gees. At this point in his career – the song came from the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – John could do no wrong. Nor could his producer: Dudgeon bookended the track with whistles from a live concert and vocal loops to give it a vitality that still stands up. The slow staccato tension of the grand piano and Taupin’s bombastic lyric about a fictional glam-rock band combine to stunning effect on one of their most inspired collaborations. 4. Philadelphia Freedom John needed a suitable number to back his performance of Bennie and the Jets on Soul Train in 1975. He opted to perform a song he hadn’t yet released. Philadelphia Freedom was inspired – in name at least – by Billie Jean King’s Philadelphia Freedoms tennis team, even if the Bernie Taupin lyric had little to do with tennis and everything to do with emancipation; there’s also a line about flag waving, which tapped into the US bicentennial cel


In which decade was the Oral Roberts University founded at Tulsa?

Oral Roberts | Wheaton Oral Roberts John Wimber (Granville) Oral Roberts (1918- 2009), healing evangelist and televangelist, was born in Pontonoc County, Oklahoma, the son of a poor farmer and itinerant preacher in the Pentecostal Holiness denomination. At the age of seventeen Roberts believed he had been miraculously healed of tuberculosis and a speech impediment. At age eighteen he received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and was ordained into the Pentecostal Holiness ministry. By the mid-1940s he was serving as the pastor of a church in Enid, Oklahoma, but left to undertake a full-time healing revival ministry in 1947. Based in Tulsa, Roberts became the most successful of the healing evangelists of the 1950s. He founded his own magazine, Abundant Life, and cobbled together a radio network of over 500 stations. It was in television, however, that Roberts truly found his calling, beginning weekly broadcasts from his crusades in 1955. Buoyed by the financial gifts of his Pentecostal followers, Roberts was able to maintain and grow his own independent network of television stations which reached every part of the United States. The impact of Roberts’s broadcasts on the burgeoning charismatic movement among mainline Protestants and Catholics in the 1960s cannot be overestimated. Such was his success that by 1965 he was able to open his own four year-liberal arts college, Oral Roberts University (ORU) in Tulsa. 1968 marked a watershed year in Roberts’s career. Sensing the “moving of the Spirit” within mainline denominations, Roberts startled both his friends and foes as he discontinued his crusades and television broadcasts. Giving up his ordination in the Pentecostal Holiness Church, he sought ordination in, and joined, the Methodist Church. In 1969 he vaulted back into television with a series of hour-long, prime-time specials featuring celebrity guests, a variety show format, and a talented musical ensemble all under the seasoned eye of a top-flight Hollywood producer. Over the next decade, these specials attracted comparatively huge audiences for religious television and made Roberts a household name. Financially they proved a boon and jump-started his vision to expand ORU with a law school and a medical school replete with its own hospital, clinic, and research center–”The City of Faith.” This marked the beginning of a new phase of escalating financial burdens, aggressive fundraising campaigns, and virulent criticism from the medical, legal, and academic establishments. Coming as it did in the midst of media publicity surrounding a growing corpus of financial and sexual misdeeds among other televangelists, Roberts’ ministry and image began to suffer. The subsequent sexual indiscretions of his son and televangelist heir, Richard, only served to further erode Roberts’s image. In the early 1990s Roberts was forced to sell his City of Faith and his law school, although ORU remained as a stable Christian liberal arts college. Overall, the thrust of Roberts’s overall career made a great impact upon the evangelical subculture, raising the image and self-respect of Pentecostals, enabling the spread of the charismatic movement, and leaving a lasting legacy in evangelical media and education. For further reading see David Edwin Harrell, Jr., Oral Roberts: An American Life (Indiana, 1985), and Oral Roberts, Expect a Miracle: My Life and Ministry (Nelson, 1995).


In which English city is the Burrows Toy Museum?

Burrows Toy Museum. - UNKNOWN, Author: UNKNOWN, Title: Burrows Toy Museum. Description: London, Unichrome (BATH) Limited, nd. VG PB. Booklet shows fashion dolls of about 1870 made of bisque with their bodies covered in kid and toys in different settings. Keywords:


On which label did the Beach boys record most of their 60s hits?

The Official 60's Site-The Beach Boys     The Beach Boys were inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.  This American sold more singles and LPs then any other American band in history.  They placed 36 hits in the Top 40, more than any other American band and had a total of 56 songs make the Hot 100 hits, once again more than any other American band.     Brian Wilson was born in Hawthorne, California in 1942. At the age of sixteen, Brian shared a bedroom with his two brothers, Dennis and Carl. He watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano and listened intently to the harmonies of vocal groups like The Four Freshmen. One night he taught his brothers a song called "Ivory Tower" and how to sing the background harmonies. "We practiced night after night, singing softly, hoping we wouldn't wake our Dad."  For his sixteenth birthday, Brian had received a reel-to-reel tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl and his mother. He would play piano and later added Carl playing the Rickenbacker guitar he got as a Christmas present.   Soon Brian was avidly listening to Johnny Otis on his KFOX radio show, a favorite station of Carl's. Inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, he changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his music studies at school. He failed to complete a twelfth-grade piano sonata, but did submit an original composition, called "Surfin'".   Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love. Brian taught Love's sister Maureen and a friend harmonies. Later, Brian, Mike and two friends performed at Hawthorne High School (Hawthorne, California), drawing tremendous applause for their version of The Olympics' (doo-wop group) "Hully Gully". Brian also knew Al Jardine, a high school classmate, who had already played guitar in a folk group called The Islanders. One day, on the spur of the moment, they asked a couple of football players in the school training room to learn harmony parts, but it wasn't a success — the bass singer was flat.   Brian suggested to Jardine that they team up with his cousin and brother Carl. It was at these sessions, held in Brian's bedroom, that "the Beach Boys sound" began to form. Brian says: "Everyone contributed something. Carl kept us hip to the latest tunes, Al taught us his repertoire of folk songs, and Dennis, though he didn't  play anything, added a combustible spark just by his presence." It was Love who encouraged Brian to write songs and he also gave the fledgling band its first name: The Pendletones.   The Pendletones name was derived from the Pendleton woolen shirts popular at that time. In their earliest performances, the band wore the heavy wool jacket-like shirts, which were favored by surfers in the South Bay. In 1962, the Beach Boys began wearing blue/gray-striped button-down shirts tucked into white pants as their touring "uniforms." This was the band's signature look through to 1966.   Although surfing motifs were very prominent in their early songs, Dennis was the only member of the group who surfed. He suggested that his brothers compose some songs celebrating his hobby and the lifestyle which had developed around it in Southern California.   Jardine and a singer friend, Gary Winfrey, went to Brian's to see if he could help out with a version of a folk song they wanted to record - "Sloop John B." In Brian's absence, the two spoke with his father, Murry, who was a music industry veteran of modest success. In September 1961, Murry arranged for The Pendletones to meet publishers Hite and Dorinda Morgan at Stereo Masters in Hollywood. The group performed a straightforward rendition of "Sloop John B.", but failed to impress the Morgans. After an awkward pause, Dennis mentioned they had an original song, called "Surfin'". Brian was taken aback — he had not finished writing the song — but Hite Morgan was interested and asked them to call back when the song was complete. With help from Mike, Brian finished the song and the group


Whose musical works included Composition For Orchestra and Philomel?

Milton Babbitt, Composer Who Gloried in Complexity, Dies at 94 - The New York Times The New York Times Music |Milton Babbitt, a Composer Who Gloried in Complexity, Dies at 94 Search Continue reading the main story Milton Babbitt , an influential composer, theorist and teacher who wrote music that was intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse, died on Saturday. He was 94 and lived in Princeton, N.J. Paul Lansky, a composer who studied with Mr. Babbitt and was a colleague at Princeton University , where Mr. Babbitt remained an emeritus professor of composition, said that Mr. Babbitt died at a hospital in Princeton. Mr. Babbitt, who had a lively sense of humor despite the reputation for severity that his music fostered, sometimes referred to himself as a maximalist to stress the musical and philosophical distance between his style and the simpler, more direct style of younger contemporaries like Philip Glass, Steve Reich and other Minimalist composers. It was an apt description. Although he dabbled early in his career with theater music, his Composition for Orchestra (1940) ushered in a structurally complex, profoundly organized style that was rooted in Arnold Schoenberg’s serial method. Continue reading the main story But Mr. Babbitt expanded on Mr. Schoenberg’s approach. In Mr. Schoenberg’s system, a composer begins by arranging the 12 notes of the Western scale in a particular order called a tone row, or series, on which the work is based. Mr. Babbitt was the first to use this serial ordering not only with pitches but also with dynamics, timbre, duration, registration and other elements. His methods became the basis of the “total serialism” championed in the 1950s by Pierre Boulez, Luigi Nono and other European composers. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Babbitt began exploring this path in Three Compositions for Piano (1947) and Composition for Four Instruments (1948), and adhered to it through his entire career. He composed prolifically for chamber ensembles and instrumental soloists and created a substantial and varied catalog of vocal works. He also composed a compact but vital group of orchestral pieces and an enduring series of works for synthesizer, often in combination with voices or acoustic instruments. Mr. Babbitt liked to give his pieces colorful titles, often with puns (“The Joy of More Sextets,” for example), and said that in selecting titles he tried to avoid both the stale and the obscure. Yet when Mr. Babbitt explained his compositional approach in essays, lectures and program notes, they could be as difficult to understand as his music. In one program note, he spoke of “models of similar, interval-preserving, registrally uninterpreted pitch-class and metrically durationally uninterpreted time-point aggregate arrays.” He often said in interviews that every note in a contemporary composition should be so thoroughly justified that the alteration of a tone color or a dynamic would ruin the work’s structure. And although colleagues who worked in atonal music objected when their music was described as cerebral or academic, Mr. Babbitt embraced both terms and came to be regarded as the standard-bearer of the ultrarational extreme in American composition. That reputation was based in part on an article published by High Fidelity magazine in February 1958 under the title “Who Cares if You Listen?” The headline was often cited as evidence of contemporary composers’ disregard for the public’s sensibilities, and Mr. Babbitt objected that it had been added by an editor, without his permission. But whatever his objections, the article did argue that contemporary composition was a business for specialists, on both the composing and listening end of the transaction, and that the general public’s objections were irrelevant. “Why refuse to recognize the possibility that contemporary music has reached a stage long since attained by other forms of activity?” Mr. Babbitt wrote. “The time has passed when the normally well-educated man without special preparation could understand the mos


Where were the 2004 Summer Olympic Games held?

The Olympic Games - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com The Olympic Games A+E Networks Introduction The Olympic Games, which originated in ancient Greece as many as 3,000 years ago, were revived in the late 19th century and have become the world’s preeminent sporting competition. From the 8th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D., the Games were held every four years in Olympia, located in the western Peloponnese peninsula, in honor of the god Zeus. The first modern Olympics took place in 1896 in Athens, and featured 280 participants from 13 nations, competing in 43 events. Since 1994, the Summer and Winter Olympic Games have been held separately and have alternated every two years. Google The Olympics in Ancient Greece The first written records of the ancient Olympic Games date to 776 B.C., when a cook named Coroebus won the only event–a 192-meter footrace called the stade (the origin of the modern “stadium”)–to become the first Olympic champion. However, it is generally believed that the Games had been going on for many years by that time. Legend has it that Heracles (the Roman Hercules ), son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alcmene, founded the Games, which by the end of the 6th century B.C had become the most famous of all Greek sporting festivals. The ancient Olympics were held every four years between August 6 and September 19 during a religious festival honoring Zeus. The Games were named for their location at Olympia, a sacred site located near the western coast of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. Their influence was so great that ancient historians began to measure time by the four-year increments in between Olympic Games, which were known as Olympiads. Did You Know? The 1896 Games featured the first Olympic marathon, which followed the 25-mile route run by the Greek soldier who brought news of a victory over the Persians from Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. Fittingly, Greece's Spyridon Louis won the first gold medal in the event. In 1924, the distance would be standardized to 26 miles and 385 yards. After 13 Olympiads, two more races joined the stade as Olympic events: the diaulos (roughly equal to today’s 400-meter race), and the dolichos (a longer-distance race, possibly comparable to the 1,500-meter or 5,000-meter event). The pentathlon (consisting of five events: a foot race, a long jump, discus and javelin throws and a wrestling match) was introduced in 708 B.C., boxing in 688 B.C. and chariot racing in 680 B.C. In 648 B.C., pankration, a combination of boxing and wrestling with virtually no rules, debuted as an Olympic event. Participation in the ancient Olympic Games was initially limited to freeborn male citizens of Greece; there were no women’s events, and married women were prohibited from attending the competition. Decline and Revival of the Olympic Tradition After the Roman Empire conquered Greece in the mid-2nd century B.C., the Games continued, but their standards and quality declined. In one notorious example from A.D. 67, the decadent Emperor Nero entered an Olympic chariot race, only to disgrace himself by declaring himself the winner even after he fell off his chariot during the event. In A.D. 393, Emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, called for a ban on all “pagan” festivals, ending the ancient Olympic tradition after nearly 12 centuries. It would be another 1,500 years before the Games would rise again, largely thanks to the efforts of Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) of France. Dedicated to the promotion of physical education, the young baron became inspired by the idea of creating a modern Olympic Games after visiting the ancient Olympic site. In November 1892, at a meeting of the Union des Sports Athlétiques in Paris, Coubertin proposed the idea of reviving the Olympics as an international athletic competition held every four years. Two years later, he got the approval he needed to found the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which would become the governing body of the modern Olympic Games. The Olympics Through the Years The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in


What did Arthur Blessitt carry with him on an around-the-world walk taking in 277 nations?

A Word From God by Becky Oswald pdf by Marilyn Orton - issuu issuu Issuu on Google+ Becky Oswald cannot remember a day in her life that she did not know that God was with her. She has been studying, teaching and ingesting the Word of God since she could read. And even before that when they were read to her. Her insights into the Word of God will help you: • • • lift your spirit up give a better understanding of God’s unconditional love for you and help you to become more like Him. Isn’t that what we all want? So, dig in and know Him more through His Word and through the knowledge of someone who has lived it for over 70 years! Copyright ©2014 Becky Oswald First Edition All rights reserved under all Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permissions from the author. Submit all requests for reprinting to: Peak Performance Publishers 28677 San Lucas Lane #201 Bonita Springs, FL 34135 Chris@DrZimmerman.com Published in the U. S. A. by Peak Performance Publishers Composition by Peak Performance Publishers Cover Design by McPherson Graphics DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this book to my children. They truly are in their own right, Women of Worth and a joy to my heart. To Kathy, my firstborn, who loves and cares for me and is such an encouragement by her own faithfulness to the Lord and to those who know her. To Vickie, who would bring joy to any Momâ€™s heart as she serves the Lord so faithfully in the role of a Pastorâ€™s wife for many years and has so much love for them as well as her family. To Karen, as she has so many times given me words of wisdom and insight when mine was sadly lacking. I never fail to be grateful for her life and loving concern. To Terry, I am so thankful for all the years the Lord gave her to raise a family she loved and is now with Jesus in all His glory. To Chris, who has lovingly supported me in some desperate times of my life and shown me love when I needed it the most. And, has worked tirelessly and endlessly to process this book. Having children who love and live for Jesus is the second desire of my heart, having a loving and close relationship with Jesus and to grieve not the Holy Spirit, being first. We all send forth this book with the prayer that God will use His Words to encourage hungry hearts! INTRODUCTION Spending some time with the Lord, reading the Bible and praying to God about the cares of my life and asking for His help has been a priority for many years. I began journaling in 1987. Most of what you will be reading in this book is a direct quote from one of those journals. The Ladies Class I taught at Coventry Baptist Church, Fort Wayne, IN gave me a small leather bound book which provided writing space for two days on each page. There was only room to write maybe three sentences for each day, but it was a start. In the beginning, I would write a scripture that was meaningful to me as I read the Bible that day. Then gradually, I begin to communicate my thoughts to the Lord and then state a brief prayer. Eventually, I wrote in between the lines, in the margins, above and below the printed scripture; the pages were a mess but I knew the Lord could read it. Let me encourage you, if you’ve never kept a journal, you need to! It is my prayer that as you read these daily readings that you too, will begin to record your thoughts and prayers each day. It’s hard to begin anything new but this is something you need to do! We can drop money in the offering plate, extend a helping hand, say an encouraging word, minister in so many great ways but when you give your first thoughts of the day to the Lord, He can cause the rest of it to be more fruitful. What God speaks to you through His Word is worth recording and can be so meaningful to you when you reread it. Every day, I read what I wrote a year ago on that day and it keeps me sober! Seriously, it lets me focus on where I’ve been and what I want to be. T


Where in the former Soviet Union was Yul Brynner born?

Yul Brynner Statue - Rock Brynner in the Russian Far East Rock Brynner in the Russian Far East Moscow Yul Brynner Park was opened on September 28th, 2012, when his statue was inaugurated in front of the house where he was born at 15 Aleutskaya St. in Vladivostok, Russia, in the garden where he played as a child. This project took six years of planning and preparation before the granite for the ten-foot statue was transported to Vladivostok from a quarry in China a thousand miles away; appropriate, since Yul spent much of his childhood in China after his family fled Soviet Russia. Sculptor Alexei Bokiy, with whom I had begun discussing the monument in 2006, understood well the enormous challenge confronting him in carving such a very famous face and figure out of a single block of stone. The City of Vladivostok that now owns the land in front of "Dom Bryner" contributed the grounds for the park, and financed the landscaping and architectural design. At night, along with the glow of the 1920s street lights, the statue is illuminated by spotlights as Yul Brynner himself was throughout his long career. VLADIVOSTOK AND MOSCOW, 2016 The Russian edition of my book "Empire and Odyssey: The Brynners in Far East Russia" was published in 2016. Setting out on the book tour. Book signing at the Far East Federal University. My book tour in May began in Vladivostok, Sidimi, and Dalnegorsk in Primorye. . . . . . with a formal event at the historic Vladivostok train station, last stop of the Trans-Siberian Express. The Patriarch honored and blessed the event with an Orthodox choir. The Vladivostok International Film Festival "Pacific Meridian,"        12-19 September 2015 This perspective of Vladivostok helps explain its unusual topography, from the large Amur Bay to the right and the inlet called the Golden Horn on the left, around which sits the heart of the city. The unique topography of the city is easier to understand from the view in Google Earth. I had the pleasure of meeting the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, John Tefft, who was visiting Vladivostok while I was there. He especially wanted to see the statue of my father in front of the Bryner residence, where Yul was born in 1920. Anbassador Tefft was determined to photograph me with the statue for his wife, a longtime fan. I'm the only person from outside Russia who has attended every Vladivostok film festival since the first in 2003. By now I lope up the blue carpet. Apparently, my dance moves were newsworthy. With actress Thuy Anh, from Hanoi, and film-maker Vanessa Danielson, who was presenting a brilliant short film, "Guests," directed by her husband. My job, as the official talisman for the Film Festival, includes welcoming the guests. It's hard work, but somebody has to do it. This year the luminous British actress Julia Ormond attended our Festival. The admirable and delightful Julia Ormond has made many films in Russia but never visited Vladivostok before. At the Gala night of the Festival I took a selfie from the stage of the Vladivostok Opera House. Julia Ormond is in the front row left. Amur Bay from my hotel window. The boardwalk in Vladivostok on a warm, autumn Sunday afternoon. I was guest of honor at a conference at the Far Eastern Federal University, at the very conference table where Russian President Putin and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Asian-Pacific Economic Conference in 2012. The Far East Federal University, with 20,000 students, is the only academic institution I know with its own bottled water. An officer of the Russian merchant navy. Local artist Roman Goloseev painted this beautiful canvass for me, with many of my favorite images of Vladivostok. Standing on the Sidimi peninsula across Amur Bay from Vladivostok, where the Bryner country estate was. In the background is one of the lighthouses that Jules Bryner built in the 1890s. With my "Russian brother" Sasha Doluda, who first invited me to Vladivostok in 2003. The date "1915" over our heads is on a structure at the estate where my father Yul first went swimming, a decade l


When she died how old was Karen Carpenter?

Karen Carpenter - Biography - IMDb Karen Carpenter Biography Showing all 119 items Jump to: Overview  (5) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (2) | Trivia  (100) | Personal Quotes  (10) Overview (5) 4 February 1983 ,  Downey, California, USA  (heart failure caused by chronic anorexia) Birth Name 5' 4" (1.63 m) Mini Bio (1) Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Karen Carpenter moved with her family to Downey, California, in 1963. Karen's older brother, Richard Carpenter , decided to put together an instrumental trio with him on the piano, Karen on the drums and their friend Wes Jacobs on the bass and tuba. In a battle of the bands at the Hollywood Bowl in 1966, the group won first place and landed a contract with RCA Records. However, RCA did not see a future in jazz tuba, and the contract was short-lived. Karen and Richard formed another band, Spectrum, with four other fellow students from California State University at Long Beach that played several gigs before disbanding. In 1969, Karen and Richard made several demo music tapes and shopped them around to different record companies; they were eventually offered a contract with A&M Records. Their first hit was a reworking of The Beatles hit "Ticket to Ride", followed by a re-recorded version of Burt Bacharach 's "Close to You", which sold a million copies. Soon Richard and Karen became one of the most successful groups of the early 1970s, with Karen on the drums and lead vocals and Richard on the piano with backup vocals. They won three Grammy Awards, embarked on a world tour, and landed their own TV variety series in 1971, titled Make Your Own Kind of Music! (1971). In 1975 the story came out when The Carpenters were forced to cancel a European tour because the gaunt Karen was too weak to perform. Nobody knew that Karen was at the time suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental illness characterized by obsessive dieting to a point of starvation. In 1976 she moved out of her parents' house to a condo of her own. While her brother Richard was recovering from his Quaalude addiction, Karen decided to record a solo album in New York City in 1979 with producer Phil Ramone. Encouraged by the positive reaction to it in New York, Karen was eager to show it to Richard and the record company in California, who were nonplussed. The album was shelved. In 1980, she married real estate developer Thomas J. Burris. However, the unhappy marriage really only lasted a year before they separated. (Karen was to sign the divorce papers the day she died). Shortly afterward, she and brother Richard were back in the recording studio, where they recorded their hit single "Touch Me When We're Dancing". However, Karen was unable to shake her depression as well as her eating disorder, and after realizing she needed help, she spent most of 1982 in New York City undergoing treatment. By 1983, Karen was starting to take control of her life and planning to return to the recording studio and to make public appearances again. In February of 1983, she went to her parents' house to sort through some old clothes she kept there when she collapsed in a walk-in closet from cardiac arrest. She was only 32. Doctors revealed that her long battle with anorexia nervosa had stressed her heart to the breaking point. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Matt Patay <pataygs@voicenet.com> Spouse (1) Trivia (100) In her mid 20s, she was still living with her parents. At age 30, she made a solo album with producer Phil Ramone in 1980, titled "Karen Carpenter". However, it was shelved by A&M executive Herb Alpert . 16 years later in 1996, it was finally released. Was married at the Beverly Hills Hotel in the Crystal Room. On Thursday, December 11, 2003 she, Agnes and Harold were exhumed from Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cypress, California and were moved to Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California. Agnes, Karen and Harold remained in their original caskets. At 12:30pm PST, they were all re-interred and entombed in a private family mausoleum in the Tranquility Gardens section of the cemetery. Ranked #2


"According to the modern Olympics founder Baron de Coubertin, ""The essential thing is not conquering but..."" what?"

Controversy within the Olympics | The MediaPlex Controversy within the Olympics By The MediaPlex November 22, 2013 14:48 By Courtney Turnbull Every four years people from around the world come together for the love of sports, and hope to see their country take home the gold. Whether sitting in front of a big screen stuffing your face with popcorn or getting a front row seat to the games itself, every four years we are assured there will be some sort of drama between nations. This is what we call the Olympics. The first-ever modern Olympics was held in Athens, Greece in 1896. The founder of the International Olympic Committee Baron Pierre de Coubertin once said “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part, the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.” But are we, as nations, fighting well? Being fair to all athletes? Controversy in the Olympics dates to the early 20th century. In 1916 the Summer Olympics were scheduled to be in Berlin but because of the outbreak of World War 1 they were cancelled. In 1936 Germany got another chance to welcome the world’s athletes and host the Olympics. With Hitler in power it was like stirring a pot of controversial soup. Hitler wanted all black athletes to be banned from competing. In the end African-American athlete Jesse Owens, stood first place on the podium refusing to do the Nazi salute, and went home with four gold medals. “I think with the Olympics we have kind of given those (Olympic countries) a pass through the years because it’s been such a joyous occasion,” said Australian Rennae Stubbs, a former Olympic tennis player. “A place where we hope that the quality of sports is an equalizer to all athletes.” In 1972, controversy became tragedy in Munich, when 11 Olympic athletes were held hostage and eventually killed. From black power salutes, to protests, to massacres and boycotting the event altogether, there is to inevitably  some sort of issue that detracts from the real focus of the games. The Olympics have turned a spotlight on worldwide human rights issues but the real focus should be on the athletes. The upcoming games will be in Sochi, Russia this February. There is already controversy and concern because of a law that was passed in late June.  The new law states that it is punishable to speak openly about gays and lesbians among young people. Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender athletes going to Sochi don’t just have to worry about competing, but also face a law that could potentially put them behind bars. Foreign citizens or people coming into the country displaying same-sex affection or distributing information on gay rights can also be fined and/or deported Stubbs, who has won several Grand Slam tennis titles and represented her country four times, is an openly gay athlete. She said her biggest complaint isn’t necessarily with Russia in particular but with the IOC. “I think the IOC really needs to look at themselves,” said Stubbs. “They need to be a little bit more accountable for the decisions that they are making. Maybe one way of being able to help them with the decision making is to make better decisions on where to put the Olympics.” According to the IOC’s Olympic Charter all segregation is prohibited, whether it “is on the grounds of race, religion, colour or other.” Josh Cameron, a championship boxer from the Border City Boxing Club in Windsor, believes  the Olympics was first created to end violence between nations and instead compete through sport. He thinks the law is discriminating towards athletes and that it could have an emotional affect on those of the LGBT community competing in Sochi 2014. “Sports are for those who have a passion for what they love and not who they are as a person,” said Cameron. “I feel that other countries should stand up for the gay community and promote sport over politics. Sports should bring people together, not apart.” No matter who takes home a medal, countries that stay true to sportsmanship and equality will be the real winners. The ultimate reward is for all countries


Charles M. Schulz Biography - Charles M. Schulz Museum Charles M. Schulz Museum For Store Charles M. Schulz Biography On the morning of Sunday, February 13, 2000, newspaper readers opened their comic pages as they had for nearly fifty years to read the latest adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts Gang.  This Sunday was different, though; mere hours before newspapers hit doorsteps with the final original Peanuts comic strip, its creator Charles M. Schulz, who once described his life as being “one of rejection,” passed away peacefully in his sleep the night before, succumbing to complications from colon cancer.  It was a poetic ending to the life of a devoted cartoonist who, from his earliest memories, knew that all he wanted to do was “draw funny pictures.” The poetry of Schulz’s life began two days after he was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, when an uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip.  Sparky’s father, Carl, was of German heritage and his mother, Dena, came from a large Norwegian family; the family made their home in St. Paul, where Carl worked as a barber.  Throughout his youth, father and son shared a Sunday morning ritual reading the funnies; Sparky was fascinated with strips like Skippy, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye.  In his deepest desires, he always knew he wanted to be a cartoonist, and seeing the 1937 publication of his drawing of Spike, the family dog, in the nationally-syndicated Ripley’s Believe it or Not newspaper feature was a proud moment in the young teen’s life.  He took his artistic studies to a new level when, as a senior in high school and with the encouragement of his mother, he completed a correspondence cartoon course with the Federal School of Applied Cartooning (now Art Instruction Schools). As Schulz continued to study and hone his artistic style from the late 1920s through the 1940s, the genre of comic art experienced a great shift.  The full-page comics of the 1920s and 30s afforded artists the space to reflect the Art Deco details and sensibilities of the day, including the highly-stylized illustrations of Dick Tracy and Little Nemo in Slumberland.  Newspaper editors in the late 1940s and 50s, however, promoted a post-War minimalist model, pushing their cartoonists to shrink strip size, minimize pen strokes, and sharpen their humor with daily gags and cerebral humor for an ever-increasingly educated audience.  Schulz’s dry, intellectual, and self-effacing humor was a natural fit for the evolving cultural standards of the mid-20th century comics. Two monumental events happened within days of each other in 1943 that profoundly affected the rest of Schulz’s life; his mother, to whom he was very close, passed away at age 50 from cervical cancer; and he boarded a troop train to begin his army career in Camp Campbell, Kentucky.  Though Schulz remained proud of his achievements and leadership roles in the army for the rest of his life, this period of time haunted him with the dual experiences of the loss of his mother and realities of war. After returning from the war in the fall of 1945, Schulz settled with his father in an apartment over Carl’s barbershop in St. Paul, determined to realize his passion of becoming a professional cartoonist.  He found employment at his alma mater, Art Instruction, sold intermittent one-panel cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post, and enjoyed a three-year run of his weekly panel comic, Li’l Folks, in the local St. Paul Pioneer Press.  These early published cartoons focused on concise drawings of precocious children with large heads who interacted with words and actions well beyond their years. Schulz was honing his skills for the national market.  The first Peanuts strip appeared on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers nationwide.  Although being a professional cartoonist was Schulz’s life-long dream, at 27-years old, he never could have foreseen the longevity and global impact of his seemingly-simple four-panel creation. The continuing popular appeal of Peanuts stems


"Who wrote, ""What is this life if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?"""

W H Davies "Leisure" - "No time to stand and stare" Poem animation - YouTube W H Davies "Leisure" - "No time to stand and stare" Poem animation 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 Jul 7, 2011 Heres a virtual movie of Welsh poet William Henry Davies or W H Davies (1871 - 1940) reading his much loved and universally well known poem "Leisure" . William Henry Davies or W H Davies (3 July 1871[1] 26 September 1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. William Henry Davies was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, the son of a publican. After an apprenticeship as a picture-frame maker and a series of labouring jobs, he travelled to America, first to New York and then to the Klondike. He returned to England after having lost a foot jumping a train in Canada, where he led a penurious life in London lodging houses and as a pedlar in the country. He married in 1923, Emma, who was much younger than he. His first poems were published when he was 34. Most of his poetry is on the subject of nature or life on the road and exhibits a natural simple, earthy style. He also wrote two novels and autobiographical works, his best known being Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. Brief biography 2 ........... William Henry Davies (1871-1940), poet and author, was born in Pillgwenlly, Newport, Monmouthshire. After leaving school he trained as a carver and gilder, but remained dissatisfied with his life. He left his work and spent a period working and begging his way across the United States of America and Canada, but in March 1899 he lost his foot while jumping from a train. He returned to Britain and resolved to make his mark as a poet. After experiencing many setbacks he eventually published his first book, 'The Soul's Destroyer and Other Poems' in March 1905. Subsequent volumes included 'New Poems' (1907), 'Nature Poems' (1908), 'Farwell to Poesy' (1910), 'Songs of Joy' (1911), 'Foliage' (1913), and 'The Bird of Paradise' (1914). He also wrote prose and his 'Autobiography of a Super-Tramp' (1908) was based on his experiences of living hand-to-mouth in England and north America. In 1923 he married Helen Payne, a prostitute who was thirty years his junior. They settled in Sussex and later Gloucestershire. He was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Wales in 1929 and a plaque in his honour was unveiled at the Church House Inn, Newport, in 1938. Kind Regards All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2011 Leisure WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?— No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows: No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass: No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night: No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance: No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began? A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare Category


In which decade was Charles Schulz born?


Oliver Stone - Biography - IMDb Oliver Stone Biography Showing all 163 items Jump to: Overview  (3) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (3) | Trade Mark  (16) | Trivia  (71) | Personal Quotes  (68) | Salary  (1) Overview (3) 6' (1.83 m) Mini Bio (1) Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success. William Oliver Stone was born in New York City, to Jacqueline (Goddet) and Louis Stone, a stockbroker. His American father was from a Jewish family (from Germany and Eastern Europe), and his mother, a war bride, was French (and Catholic). After dropping out of Yale University, he became a soldier in the Vietnam War. Serving in two different regiments (including 1rst Cavalry), he was introduced to The Doors , drugs, Jefferson Airplane , and other things that defined the sixties. For his actions in the war, he was awarded a Bronze Star for Gallantry and a Purple Heart. Returning from the war, Stone did not return to graduate from Yale. His first film was a student film entitled Last Year in Viet Nam (1971), followed by the gritty horror film Seizure (1974) for which he also wrote the screenplay. The next seven years saw him direct two films: Mad Man of Martinique (1979) and The Hand (1981), starring Michael Caine . He also wrote many screenplays for films such as Midnight Express (1978), Conan the Barbarian (1982), and Scarface (1983). Stone won his first Oscar for Midnight Express (1978), but his fame was just beginning to show. 1986 was the year that brought him much fame to the U.S.A. and the world. He directed the political film Salvador (1986) starring Oscar-nominated James Woods . However, his big hit was the Vietnam war film Platoon (1986) starring Charlie Sheen , Willem Dafoe , Tom Berenger , and Francesco Quinn . Berenger and Dafoe received Oscar nominations for their roles as the polar opposite sergeants who each influence the tour of duty of Chris Taylor (Sheen). Stone won his first Oscar for directing this film, which won Best Picture and was a hit at the box office. After Platoon (1986), Stone followed up with the critically acclaimed Wall Street (1987). The movie, starring Charlie Sheen and Michael Douglas , focuses on the business world of tycoons and stock brokers. The film was well received and won an Oscar for Douglas' portrayal of the villainous Gordon Gekko. Stone returned immediately the following year with Talk Radio (1988), which talked of a foul-mouthed radio host (played by Eric Bogosian ) who never fails to talk about the serious issues. Although it was not as successful as his last three films, Stone did not slow down at all. He directed Tom Cruise into an Oscar-nominated role in Born on the Fourth of July (1989). The movie talked about the return of an embittered, crippled Vietnam soldier from the war. Although it failed to win Best Picture or Best Actor, Oliver Stone won an Academy Award for Directing, his third win to date. After Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Stone took a hand in producing several movies, including the Academy Award-winning film Reversal of Fortune (1990). He returned to the director's chair in 1991, once again with two films. Val Kilmer starred as the legendary and controversial Jim Morrison in Stone's psychedelic film The Doors (1991). Despised by former Doors member Ray Manzarek , the film is nevertheless a wonderful achievement, with Kilmer pulling off an almost flawless impersonation of Morrison. Regardless of opinion, The Doors (1991) was overshadowed by Stone's colossal film JFK (1991), which Stone himself considers the best of his films. In Stone's movie, Jim Garrison tackles the conspiracy behind the murder of America's president John F. Kennedy . The large cast featured such well-known names as Kevin Costner , Tommy Lee Jones , John Candy , Joe Pesci , Donald Sutherland , and Walter Matthau . This film represented a change in Stone's works, because it was wit


Axl Rose - Biography - IMDb Biography Showing all 57 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (2) | Spouse  (1) | Trade Mark  (9) | Trivia  (33) | Personal Quotes  (8) Overview (4) 5' 9" (1.75 m) Mini Bio (2) Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, W. Axl Rose is the pure embodiment of decadent late 1980s rockerdom. Brash, slightly misogynistic and notoriously wild, Rose grew up in a maniacally dysfunctional household - molested by his own father at age two; beaten by his abusive stepfather. When Axl was 17 he fled Indiana on a Greyhound bus destined for Los Angeles (the haven for all that embodies sinnin' and grinnin'). After auditioning for a lion's share of punk bands (many of which he was turned down for because of his uncanny vocal resemblance to Robert Plant ) he joined the seminal rock band L.A. Guns before ultimately forming Guns N' Roses. After Guns N' Roses met with the unprecedented success of their debut album "Appetite For Destruction", massive stadium tours soon became a reality, and Axl's status as a bona fide sex symbol was officially cemented. However, internal troubles with the band members and the heavy drug use among them eventually rendered Guns N' Roses obsolete until only recently. Comeback? We'll see. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Brenna (wazzagurl@yahoo.com) Born on February 6th, 1962 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He grew up with strict religious teaching, but at the age of seventeen, left his town and headed to Los Angeles. Some time after, his long time friend Izzy Stradlin' joined him in LA and they started playing in some bands like Hollywood Rose and LA Guns. Some time after Axl and his pals Izzy, Slash, Duff McKagan and Steven Adler formed Guns n' Roses. They released several albuns like "Live?! Like a Suicide" (86, EP), "Appetite for Destruction" (87), "Gn'R Lies" (88), Use Your Illusion I and II" (91), "Spaghetti Incident?!" (93- cover album) and "Live Era 87 93" (99-live). In 1990 Steve Adler is out and Matt Sorum is in. In 1991 Guns 'n' Roses gets a sixth member, keyboarder Dizzy Reed. in November 1991 Izzy leaves and Gilby Clarke joins the band. Between 1994 and 1999 all the other members of the band leave, except Dizzy Reed. In 2000/2001 New Year night Guns n' Roses play live in Las Vegas with a new line up: Axl Rose (vocals), Paul Huge Tobias (guitar), Buckethead (guitar), Robin Finck (guitar), Tommy Stinson (bass), Chris Pitman (keyboards), Dizzy Reed (keyboards), Brian "Brain" Mantia (drums). John Freese (drums), Ricahrd Fortus (guitar) and some others have also worked in Guns n' Roses. Between 2002 and 2003 Guns n' Roses had a world tour. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Emerenciano Spouse (1) Well known for his onstage rants often directed at fans Outspoken and confrontational attitude Long red hair Trivia (33) Has been arrested over 30 times for various offenses, mostly drunk and disorderly and assault charges. Is manic depressive. Was born William Bruce Rose, but when his parents split his mother changed his name to William Bruce Bailey, taking his step-father's last name. Axl claims that when he was 17 he learned of his real father and changed it back to William Bruce Rose, but this is disputed. One of Rose's first music managers in L.A. claims that in the early 1980s Rose was still legally William Bailey. Upon signing with Geffen Records in 1986 he had his name legally changed to W. Axl Rose. His mother, Sharon E. Bailey died on May 28th, 1996. Younger sister Amy and younger brother Stuart. Attended high school with former longtime Guns N' Roses bandmate Izzy Stradlin . When compiling song selections for the 1999 Guns N' Roses live album "Live Era", he communicated with Slash and Duff McKagan only through intermediaries. "Axl Rose" is an anagram for "oral sex". Was found guilty in November 1992 of property damage and assault at a 1991 Guns N' Roses concert in Maryland Heights, Missouri. Was given two years probation and ordered to pay $50,000 to community groups. Has served as his own lawyer and defended himself at his innumerable trials. Grew up in a strict Pentecostal (fundamentalist Chr


What disability did singer Al Hibbler have?

Al Hibbler - Hollywood Star Walk - Los Angeles Times Hollywood Star Walk Died                  April 24, 2001 in Chicago, Ill. Al Hibbler, a singer with an idiosyncratic baritone style, was known for his work with the Duke Ellington Orchestra in the 1940s and early '50s. A versatile singer who could handle ballads, standards and, at times, an earthy blues number, Hibbler also used a style that Ellington called "tonal pantomime." In this style, Hibbler affected a Cockney accent, which he would often punctuate with odd tonal distortions and growls. And while tonal pantomime was popular with audiences, Leonard Feather expressed the view of many jazz critics that the affectation did little to enhance Hibbler's ability to sing a first-rate blues song or a vibrant unmannered ballad. Born in Little Rock, Ark., and blind from birth, Hibbler attended the Conservatory for the Blind in his hometown and sang in the school's choir. After winning an amateur talent contest in Memphis, Hibbler started his own band in San Antonio before joining Jay McShann's big band in 1942. A year later, Hibbler started an eight-year association with Ellington. During the Ellington years, he won the Downbeat magazine award as best band vocalist and the New Star Award from Esquire magazine. Appearing on several Ellington recordings, he was known for his renditions of songs such as "Do Nothing Til You Hear From Me" and "I'm Just a Lucky So and So." Hibbler left the Ellington organization in 1951 in an apparent dispute over his desire to freelance. He went on to record with Ellington's son, Mercer, as well as with Billy Taylor, Count Basie, Gerald Wilson and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. His versions of "The Very Thought of You," "Stardust" and "Unchained Melody" became popular favorites, with "Unchained Melody" hitting No. 3 on the record charts. In the early 1960s, Hibbler was one of the first artists signed by Frank Sinatra to record on his new label, Reprise. Active in the civil rights movement, Hibbler led demonstrators in desegregation marches in 1963 in downtown Birmingham, Ala. But while others in the protest march were jailed by the city's public safety commissioner, Eugene "Bull" Conner, Hibbler was detained briefly and released because he was blind. Hibbler was disappointed at the police response, saying: "I went downtown simply to be arrested, but they even segregated me. . . . That is segregation at its highest level." In 1971, Hibbler performed "When the Saints Go Marching In" at the funeral of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong. — Jon Thurber in the Los Angeles Times April 28, 2001 Related


"Which writer said, "" An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support?"""

Quotations Quotations Assembled quotations about science, anti-science, evolution, creationism, religion, atheism, agnosticism, skepticism, mathematics, computer science, politics, censorship, law, academia, etc. Send corrections or suggestions to the address at the end of the list. Note that inclusion of a quotation does not necessarily imply agreement with the point of view expressed therein. In fact, some quotes are deliberately included for their fatuousness. It is up to the reader to discover which quotes they are. I assembled this page because of my dissatisfaction with well-known compendiums of quotations such as Bartlett's and The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. Neither of these, it seems to me, captures the kinds of quotations that appeal to the skeptical and scientific mind. Howard Aiken American computer pioneer. Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. Said to a graduate student worried about others stealing the results in his thesis. Quoted in Robert Slater, Portraits in Silicon , page 88. Richard D. Alexander Biologist. The answer to the age-old riddle that even ordinary humans ask themselves [Are people basically selfish, or basically altruistic?] appears to be that we are selfish individualists in the sense and to the extent that this maximizes the survival by reproduction of the genes residing in our own bodies, and we are group altruists in the sense and to the extent that this maximizes the survival by reproduction of the copies of our genes residing in the bodies of others--that is, in the bodies of our genetic relatives, both descendant and non-descendant. Darwinism and Human Affairs , University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1979, pages xii-xiii. Ethan Allen (1738-1789) American revolutionary. Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle that they are laboring to dethrone: but if they argue without reason (which, in order to be consistent with themselves they must do), they are out of reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument. Cited in Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, Ballantine Books, 1996, p. 255. Gordon W. Allport (1897-1967) Professor of psychology, Harvard University. College professors are suspect because whenever emotion is in control, anti-intellectualism prevails. From The Nature of Prejudice, Doubleday Anchor Books, 1958, p. 246. Alphonso the Wise (1221-1289) If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Quoted in J. D. Murray, Mathematical Biology, Springer-Verlag, 1989. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences. 1860. From Lynn Sherr, Failure is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words (1995). The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. A defense of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman's Bible at a meeting of the National-American Woman Suffrage Association 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), p. 263. Isaac Asimov Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. 1966. From Stanley Asimov, ed., Yours, Isaac Asimov, Doubleday, 1995, p. 316. I am prejudiced against religion because I know the history of religion, and it is the history of human misery and of black crimes. 1976. From Stanley Asimov, ed., Yours, Isaac Asimov, Doubleday, 1995, p. 319. My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He


Which country does the airline Ansett come from?

The other 10th anniversary: Ansett's demise The other 10th anniversary: Ansett's demise Sep 12 2011 It has been 10 years since Ansett collapsed.  Photo: Dallas Kilponen Share on Google Plus If you want the exact date, this Wednesday, September 14, will be the 10th anniversary of the greatest crisis the Australian travel industry has ever faced, which was masked by the other great disaster America is commemorating today. Nine eleven, as it has come to be known, collapsed the American domestic air travel business into a hole from which it did not re-emerge for years. See Also Australia travel guide On the other side of the world, the bankruptcy of Ansett – mismanaged in the 1990s by its lazy Australian management, then taken over by greedy New Zealand raiders in 2000 – not only collapsed the Australian domestic market, but initially gifted more than 90 per cent of what was left to Qantas, whose domestic division in the 1990s had more often than not been the straggler to Ansett’s market leader. SHARE The end ... a tearful Ansett employee during the final days of the airline.  Photo: Craig Abraham Qantas eventually drew “a line in the sand” at 65 per cent of the domestic market as the little backpackers’ budget airline, Virgin Blue, grew to become its only viable opposition. The fact that the renamed Virgin Australia did not even have a business-class product until three months ago gave Qantas a 10-year free ride as the airline of choice for corporate Australia, a goldmine that still subsidises the disaster that Qantas International has become. Ansett was not quite a carbon copy, but similar to what became of some of travel’s greatest names in America, when the US deregulated the airline industry in 1978. Ansett had had more than a decade to get its sky-high operating costs under control after the Australian industry was deregulated in 1989. It cost Ansett and Australian Airlines (the government-owned domestic carrier taken over by Qantas in 1993) hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to outlast Australia’s first generation of budget carriers, Compass Mark I and II between 1990 and 1993. After the first raiders were seen off, Qantas and Ansett continued to behave like the born-to-rule: the cheapest fare between Melbourne and Sydney was $239 return and if you didn’t like it, you could walk. It cost the incumbents around $120 to fly a Melbourne-Sydney seat compared with around half that for today’s low-cost carriers like Tiger and Jetstar, even with the astronomical airport fees they are forced to pay. When the aggressive Brierley Investments had control of Ansett in the last days, there was massive cost-cutting as a New Zealand razor gang went through Ansett headquarters in Franklin Street, Melbourne. Ansett’s 16,000 staff were demoralised and fearful of the future. The cost-cutting is thought to have caused defective book-keeping in the maintenance records department, which led to the grounding of Ansett’s Boeing 767 fleet in April 2001, barely a day before the busy Easter holidays. Ansett lost public confidence and never regained it. It was a coincidence that air travel on the other side of the world would also be decimated by unrelated events in September 2001. What are you memories of Ansett? Do you remember them as the bad old days when flying was much more expensive, or something more benign? Were you one of many who caught the bus or train instead of the plane?


Where is New York's Empire State College located?

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Spear of the Nation was an armed wing of which group?

Nelson Mandela's Spear of the Nation: the ANC's armed resistance - Telegraph South Africa Nelson Mandela's Spear of the Nation: the ANC's armed resistance Nelson Mandela set up the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), in 1961 when he lost hope that passive and non-violent resistance to the apartheid government would bear fruit. Nelson Mandela outside Westminster Abbey in 1962 Photo: REX Follow It was launched on December 16, the same day as the Afrikaners defeated the Zulus at the Battle of the Blood River 100 years earlier, not long after the massacre in Sharpeville of 69 unarmed protesters by the security police. With no military training himself, and in hiding from the government, Mr Mandela travelled abroad where he was offered financial and practical help by countries including Ethiopia and Algeria. Mr Mandela was adamant that MK, as the armed unit was called, would not kill people but its tactics would be aimed at sabotage. In his own words, the aim was to "hit back by all means within our power in defence of our people, our future and our freedom". On his return to South Africa, Mr Mandela and his colleagues set up regional command units and set about training their army in bomb making and clandestine operations. MK carried out numerous bombings during the next 20 years and the pledge not to kill became redundant – in the whole campaign, at least 63 people died and 483 people were injured. Related Articles


Where in Italy did a US military aircraft slice through the steel wire of a cable car in 1998?

20 Die in Italy As U.S. Jet Cuts A Ski Lift Cable - The New York Times The New York Times World |20 Die in Italy As U.S. Jet Cuts A Ski Lift Cable Search Continue reading the main story A low-flying United States military jet on a training flight over the craggy Dolomite mountains here cut the cable of a ski lift today, sending a cable car plunging 260 feet into a snowy meadow and killing everyone aboard. The authorities said 20 bodies had been recovered from the wreckage on a slope just south of this Alpine hamlet. The Marine Corps plane made an emergency landing safely, and none of the four crew members were injured, a Marine spokesman said. Local officials said they had complained repeatedly of low-flying military aircraft -- stunt-flying, some called it -- near these mountain cable systems, including instances when pilots flew below the cable lines on their way back to a NATO air base at Aviano, in northern Italy. In nearby Trento, the President of the regional government, Carlo Andreotti, was quoted by the Italian news agency ANSA as saying, ''The military aircraft must stop playing war games, putting people's safety in grave danger.'' Advertisement Continue reading the main story ''Many people say the military planes even play games by actually passing under the cables of the ski lifts,'' said Mr. Andreotti, who was among officials who arrived here this afternoon. The Pentagon's spokesman, Kenneth H. Bacon, said, ''There will have to be a full investigation.'' He added that it was premature to discuss the cause of the accident or any complaints about previous flights. A Marine Corps spokesman in Washington, Maj. David LaPan, said tonight that reports of civilian complaints would be considered by an accident investigation team that was to leave the Marine Corps air station at Cherry Point, N.C., this evening. The accident was the third involving cable cars here in little more than 20 years. The last incident, in 1987, involved a low-flying civilian plane that also sliced a cable and left 24 passengers hanging in a stranded car. That time, no one was killed. The aircraft involved in today's accident, a sophisticated electronic surveillance jet known as an EA-6B ''Prowler,'' ordinarily used to patrol the skies over Bosnia to the east, returned to the Aviano base. The plane was only slightly damaged, the authorities said. Italian television reported that 14 of the 20 dead had been identified. They included Italian, German, Belgian and Polish vacationers. Soldiers of the Italian Army who carried the first bodies from the site of the crash described a scene of horror inside the crushed and overturned cable car. Bodies were twisted, they said, and the faces of the dead were described as contorted in terror. Several rescuers, who worked with the help of a hydraulic crane, broke down during the work. A local Catholic priest blessed the bodies as they were taken away. Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up Privacy Policy The crash occurred at about 3:30 P.M. local time, when residents of Cavalese said they heard a enormous boom at about the time the plane was thought to have hit the cable. Some people said the force of the boom was strong enough to shake light vehicles, much like a sonic boom. Advertisement Continue reading the main story With cranes and helicopters, rescue teams worked to remove bodies from the wreckage of the cable car. By late this evening, scraps of yellow steel lay scattered over a snowy meadow amidst fir and larch trees. Pools of blood could be seen in the light of floodlights that illuminated the site. A pile of twisted and broken skis, ski poles, boots goggles and gloves, some smeared with blood, had been collected by rescuers. At the time of the accident, a second cable car was brought to a halt by an emergency braking system, and its sole passenger, an operator, was removed by helicopter. He was taken to a local hospital and treated for shock. The site of the accident is wedged into a corn