Billy Durant and the Founding of General Motors [Mackinac Center] By Dr. Burton W. Folsom , published on Sept. 8, 1998 On September 16, 1908, one of Americas best known companies was born. That was the day that Billy Durant founded General Motors. When the local gossips heard what he had done, some were shocked because Durant actually made his first fortune betting against cars: he was the largest maker of carriages in the U. S. The recent UAW strike against GM has been hard on all parties, but both labor and management have good reason to come together and celebrate the man who started it all, ninety years ago this month. Most carriage makers avoided the auto, but not Billy Durant. He was one of the most remarkable entrepreneurs Michigan has ever produced. Friends said Durant could sell sand to the Arabs and then sell them sieves to sift it. Walter Chrysler once said of Durant, "He could coax a bird right down out of a tree." After a successful stint as a cigar salesman in Flint, Durant moved to carriages. In 1886, he started the Flint Road Cart Company and, after fifteen years traveling the country hawking a variety of carriages in all sizes and colors, he had transformed $2,000 in start-up capital into a $2 million business with sales around the world. By 1900, several mechanics had been tinkering with gas-powered horseless carriages, but costs were high and quality was low. Durant thought cars were smelly, noisy, and dangerous. He had even refused to let his daughter ride in one. But instead of calling for government safety regulations, he thought about improving the Buick, a local car with few sales and large debts. In 1904, after test-driving a Buick over the potholes in Flint and the mud of the countryside, he took the challenge of building the car industry almost from scratch. Durant the salesman sprang into action. He entered the Buick in a New York auto showand came home with orders for 1,108 cars: not bad considering that only 37 Buicks had ever been made. In 1908, after just four years making cars, he had the best-selling car in the business. The carriage king had become the auto genius. Durant and his main rival, Henry Ford, both envisioned mass appeal for the car. Ford, however, thought his company should be built around one standard car, his low-priced, no frills Model T. Durant, from his years in the carriage business, knew that if he were to prevail as the auto leader he needed many different types of vehicles to cater to different incomes and tastes. He scoured the country with the idea of having Buick merge with other companies that could carve out a niche in the auto market. He bought Cadillac for its luxury cars. He formed General Motors in 1908 by consolidating thirteen car companies and ten parts-and-accessories manufacturers. By 1911, however, General Motors was losing money and Ford was selling more cars, prompting a group of Boston stockholders to oust Durant from leadership at General Motors. Thinking that the losses were due to Durants risk-taking brashness, they tried to run the company more cautiously. Durant was resilient, however. With capital and expertise he mustered from friends, he started making the Chevrolet, a new economy car that quickly captured a large share of the market. Durant then cleverly traded much of his Chevrolet stock for GM stock, and soon held a controlling interest in both companies. In 1916, he triumphantly returned to GM for a final four-year term in the drivers seat. During his second presidency, Durant bought Fisher Body and Frigidaire to add to his Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and Buick. Joining the GM team were Charles Kettering, who invented the self-starter, and Alfred Sloan, a brilliant organizer who wanted annual model changes. The problem was that GM began to receive less and less of Durants time while the stock market on Wall Street captured more and more. The gambling bug bit him hard and he lost touch with the company. In 1920, Pierre du Pont, chairman of the board, helped oust Durant again and worked out an arrangement to buy his GM stock. Whe


Nicoletta Mantovani hit the headlines through her relationship with which big figure in the entertainment world?

Nicoletta Mantovani, Pavarotti's second wife, reveals the truth about their marriage | Daily Mail Online comments Nicoletta Mantovani was studying natural sciences at university in her home city of Bologna when she first met operatic titan Luciano Pavarotti. She was 23. He was 58. To earn some money in the holidays, she’d applied for a job at an international equestrian competition. A keen horseman, Pavarotti happened to be in the offices that day in 1993 and fell into conversation with Nicoletta. Over the ensuing weeks, he’d turn up on numerous occasions. ‘And I didn’t understand why at the time,’ she says now. When he finally asked her to accompany him on tour around the world, she declined. He was more than twice her age and besotted with her. But by the time he died it was said he hated her. Now Nicoletta Mantovani, Pavarotti's second wife, reveals the truth... ‘Then he asked if I’d at least come to the airport to wave him off. When I got there, I somehow couldn’t resist going with him. I said it could only be for two or three weeks. But I never came back because, of course, we’d fallen in love by then.’ So what made him special? ‘His charm, his voice, his charisma but, most of all, his gift for happiness. Everyone remembers his smile. He was such a positive man, so full of joy, so happy to be in this world. And it was contagious.’ The fact that he was well over twice Nicoletta’s age was of no concern, she says. ‘The soul has no age. Anyway, Luciano always said he was much younger than me. And he was right. You cannot be a great artist unless you’re a child inside.’ RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share There was, however, the small matter of Pavarotti already having a wife, Adua, and three daughters, Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana, all of them older than Nicoletta. She smiles. ‘He had not lived as a family man for some time,’ she says. ‘You can’t fall in love if you’re already in love, can you?’ Six months after they met, Nicoletta was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. For weeks at a time, she would lose the vision in her right eye or have little or no feeling below her waist. ‘I was 24 and it felt like the end of the world. I told Luciano I would have to leave him.’ He wouldn’t hear of it. ‘He said, “Up until this point, I loved you. Now I adore you.” This sickness, he said, wasn’t bad luck; it was a great thing for me. It would help me to sort out what really mattered in life. I could properly appreciate the sunset now and so on.’ A keen horseman, Pavarotti happened to be in the offices that day in 1993 and fell into conversation with Nicoletta. Over the ensuing weeks, he'D turn up on numerous occasions Then in 2003, Nicoletta gave birth at 31 weeks to twins. Daughter Alice struggled to survive but is now ten and the apple of her mother’s eye, as she was of her father’s. Sadly, her brother Riccardo died in infancy as a result of the complications of his premature birth. ‘Such a mix of emotions,’ she says now. ‘Both a miracle and a tragedy. But it forged an even stronger bond between me and Luciano.’ The couple married in December 2003, but in September 2007 Pavarotti succumbed to pancreatic cancer. He was 71. Just days later, a highly coloured interview appeared in the Italian newspaper La Stampa. Written by its respected opera critic Alberto Mattioli, it quoted conductor Leone Magiera and his wife, Lidia, who claimed that Nicoletta had made her husband’s life a misery, that Pavarotti had wanted the world to know this after his death and that, if he survived his illness, he was purported to have said, ‘I will shoot myself or we will separate.’ Nicoletta, now 43, turns not one hair when reminded of this. ‘There are always wild stories,’ she says, ‘when a man like that dies. And they said these things when he was no longer alive and couldn’t reply for himself. He didn’t deserve that. But I know the truth. And certainly, I have a good relationship with Luciano’s elder daughters. We’re a united family.’ Yet there was the thorny question of dividing up Pavarotti’s fortune on his death. Valued at £250 million, it i


What was Clive Sinclair's personal transport vehicle called?

January 10, 1985: The C5, Clive Sinclair's battery-powered tricycle, hits the road - BT   January 10, 1985: The C5, Clive Sinclair's battery-powered tricycle, hits the road The Sinclair C5 was hailed by its creator as the future of personal transport but at £399, the lightweight trike didn't have many takers. Share this Print this story The Sinclair C5, a battery-operated electric tricycle invented by computing tycoon Sir Clive Sinclair, was launched on this day in 1985. Advertised as “a new power in personal transport”, the C5 was expected to revolutionise the electric vehicle market by the man who had created the ZX Spectrum, the best-selling British computer of all time. It was driven in the sitting position, with legs outstretched, and controlled by a handlebar located between the knees. Designed for short journeys around town, its electric motor could manage a top speed of 15mph. Sinclair had envisaged the C5, which retailed at £399, as appealing to both drivers and cyclists, but it soon became apparent that its shortcomings pleased neither group. Standing only 2ft 6ins high, the vehicles suffered from poor visibility on the road, and their 12-volt battery offered a range of just 20 miles. Drivers were also uncovered and open to the elements. It also raised a number of safety concerns: the body was lightweight and offered little protection in a crash, and drivers were not required to have a licence or even wear a helmet. The British Safety Council issued a highly critical report on the vehicle. Sinclair’s expectations were soon shown to be wildly over-optimistic. By the end of July, only 5,000 had been sold. Production was halted the following month, with most of the other 7,000 of the tricycles built remaining unsold. Did you ever own or drive a Sinclair C5? Could you see yourself using one today? Let us know in the Comments section below. The Sinclair C5 – Did you know? Sir Clive Sinclair was a well-established and highly-successful inventor and businessman, having created and sold the world’s first pocket calculator as well as the hugely successful ZX range of home computers. He first made enquiries about the possibility of electronic personal vehicles while still at school and working in a holiday job at an electronics company. He started his first company, Sinclair Radionics, in 1961, five days before his twenty-first birthday, Sinclair launched his first kit computer, the ZX80, in February 1980, and the ZX Spectrum was introduced the following April.  Sinclair was knighted in 1983, and sold the computer arm of his business to Amstrad for £5 million in 1985. Final design modifications on the C5 were carried out by 23-year-old Gus Desbarats, who had won a Sinclair-sponsored electric vehicle design competition at the Royal College of Art.  One of his modifications was to add a small luggage compartment. The contract to assemble the C5 was given to the Hoover Company, who carried out manufacture at their washing machine factory in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales – leading to the spurious rumour that the vehicle was powered by a washing machine motor. Despite safety concerns and questions over its usefulness, the C5 was actually praised for its handling and control, being called "stable, comfortable and easy to handle" and “very easy to master” in the British press. The company created by Sinclair to manufacture and sell the C5 was placed in receivership in October 1985 and liquidated the following month. Share this


"Who designed Posh ""Spice Victoria Adam's wedding dress?"

Victoria (Posh Spice) and David Beckham Wedding   Victoria        and David Beckham (pictured) were guest presenters at the 2003 MTV        Movie Awards. PICTURE CREDIT ©JON FURNISS; photo courtesy papicselect.com Who: Singer Victoria Adams (Posh     Spice) and footballer David Beckham When: July 4, 1999 Where: Luttrellstown Castle, near Dublin, Ireland The     Dress: The former Spice Girl wore a champagne colored satin dress     designed by Vera Wang. The     Ceremony: Although the reception was enjoyed by hundreds, the     wedding ceremony itself was held in a small, private room of the castle     and witnessed only by family and closest friends. The     Reception: Wedding guests drank rose champagne by Laurent Perrier     and enjoyed an elaborate spread of food, a reception that required over     400 attendants. One of the top dishes was sticky toffee pudding, Beckham's     favorite. Special     Moments: The guests at the wedding were asked to dress in either     black or white, lending an elegant air to a very elegant ceremony. To     celebrate the wedding, the couple released doves and later lit the skies     with a fireworks show. The Honeymoon: According to New Zealand's Sunday Times, the couple took a     short honeymoon in a villa in the south of France, just the two of them     and their infant son, Brooklyn. Add         some starlit touches of your own... If         you liked Victoria and David Beckham's nuptials, consider how         you can add some stellar touches to your own ceremony. For example:  consider a color scheme for your guests. It doesn't cost a cent         and not only does it make for great wedding photos of the whole         group but it also serves as a conversation starter for all the         guests.  surprise your new husband with his favorite dish at the reception   Read about other celebrity     weddings; search by the celebrity's last name:


Julian Lennon - Biography - IMDb Julian Lennon Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Trivia  (30) | Personal Quotes  (31) Overview (4) 5' 8" (1.73 m) Mini Bio (1) Julian Lennon was born on April 8, 1963 in Liverpool, England as John Charles Julian Lennon. Trivia (30) Half-brother of Sean Lennon and step brother of Kyoko Ono Cox . Father John Lennon 's song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was inspired by a drawing Julian had made at school. Was the inspiration for Paul McCartney 's song "Hey Jude", and was mentioned in father John Lennon 's song "Mother.". Was engaged to Lucy Bayliss; however, the relationship ended in early 2007. Has admitted he actually prefers Paul McCartney 's work in The Beatles to his father John Lennon 's, while he especially admires John's "Isolation", among his solo material. When 11-year-old Julian visited John Lennon in the recording studio during the "Walls and Bridges" sessions, the two played an impromptu version of "Ya Ya", with John on piano and Julian on drums. John surprised Julian afterwards by revealing there'd been tape rolling--and their performance was going on the album. It turned out to be their only collaboration. Julian's inheritance from father John Lennon 's estate was a small one--a $250,000 trust fund set up when he was a toddler, which he refused to touch when he received it at age 25. Was given several large cash gifts from Yoko Ono years later; nonetheless, he has said he'd rather have had some of John Lennon 's song copyrights and other possessions of his to share with his Lennon relatives in England. Claimed early in his career to be looking for a mystical sign John Lennon had promised to send him if he died; a white feather floating evenly across the room. His song "Well I Don't Know" mentions his "feeling the presence of the dead", a reference to sensing John's presence in a house (which he later learned John had visited in life), when he was writing material for his first album. Years later in Australia, an Aboriginal native presented Julian with a white feather, causing him to re-examine his feelings toward his father, and toward promoting peace. After the relative failure of "Help Yourself", he took a five-year break from recording, to do some soul-searching and especially to come to terms with being John Lennon 's son; he realized he'd been very angry with John, who had publicly preached about peace and love while privately being rather harsh and neglectful toward his own family. His comeback album "Photograph Smile" was dedicated to his stepfather Roberto Bassanini, who'd "really raised me.". Had a rough time growing up, with schoolmates who automatically assumed that being the son of a pop star meant he was rich and snobbish; in fact, he and his mother lived in a modest house on a small income, and he had a hard time persuading father John Lennon to buy him things, or send him money - even when he related tales of what he was expected to live up to. Fought a long battle in the late 1990s, to acquire the Internet domain name "johnlennon.com" from its registered owner. Has also spent the last several years (and thousands of dollars) collecting items that once belonged to his father. When Julian decided to pursue a music career, he submitted demo tapes to record companies without his name on them, wanting to be signed on the strength of his own talents, rather than the Lennon name. Charisma Records in the UK offered his band a recording contract, not knowing until the signing who the lead singer was. Had a "bad boy" period in his teen years, forming and dissolving bands overnight with names like "The Lennon Drops" and "The Lennon Kittens", and letting himself be photographed washing dishes in a hotel, much the same as his grandfather "Freddy" Lennon had in the Sixties. Mother Cynthia Lennon finally made him move out of her house, tired of his bringing would-be collaborators home at all hours, while stepmother Yoko Ono gave him a $100 a week allowance to stop him working menial jobs. Along with receiving a birthday card every year from Paul McCartney , Julian als


Which American contralto was the first black singe to appear at the Metropolitan Opera?

1000+ images about Marion Anderson - Contralto Opera Singer on Pinterest | Carnegie hall, Philadelphia and Blackest person Forward Marian Anderson - Brief Summary - An African American operatic and concert singer that was renowned thoughtout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice. The first African American to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. The following web resource has related information: Marian Anderson - A Voice of Hope See More


Which American was the first ever person to retain an Olympic springboard diving title?

USAdiver.com - The Best Site for Springboard Divers and Coaches On to the Games (A good USD Article) Twenty years ago, the results of the U.S. Olympic diving trials would have all but foretold the results of the Olympics. .... "It used to be that sports added something to the rest of your life," O'Brien said. "Now they're what you do instead of the rest of your life." more Controversy at diving trials ...U.S. diving's glory days are graying alongside four-time gold medalist Greg Louganis, who worked the trials crowd one day last week with a signing pen and a handshake...That reality has U.S. diving officials trying to maximize the U.S. team's medal potential, even at the cost of some trials controversy. HIS Olympic dream will have to wait Thomas Finchum ended up making American diving history after all...Except it wasn't history with a storybook ending....For the first time, someone finished second at the Olympic Trials and did not qualify for the Olympics. That someone was Finchum, 14, of Indianapolis, who has become big in the sport despite his 5-3, 92-pound dimensions. Garcia nearly perfect in surreal men’s 10m platform trial Fearful Ruiz abruptly pulls out; Soldati onto 1st Games with win in women’s springboard Mark Ruiz climbed to the next-to-last ledge of the 33-foot-high tower — and couldn’t go any farther. It was still bright red as he prepared to compete in the evening. He broke down in tears during in the introductions, unsure if he even wanted to compete. more


Which university did Tony Blair and Bill Clinton both attend in their younger days?

Bill Clinton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running!     Bill Clinton Baptist Signature William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19 , 1946 ) was the 42nd President of the United States , serving from 1993 to 2001. Before his election as President, Clinton served nearly 12 years as the 50th and 52nd Governor of Arkansas . His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton , is the junior United States Senator from New York , where they both reside. Clinton founded and heads the William J. Clinton Foundation . Contents 14 Related miscellanea Early life William Jefferson Blythe III was born in Hope , Arkansas, and raised in Hot Springs , Arkansas. He was named after his father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. , a traveling salesman who died in a car accident three months before he was born. [1] His mother, born Virginia Dell Cassidy (1923–1994), remarried in 1950 to Roger Clinton . Roger Clinton owned an automobile dealership business with his brother, Raymond. The young Billy, as he was called, was raised by his mother and stepfather, assuming his last name "Clinton" throughout elementary school but not formally changing it until he was 14. Clinton grew up in a traditional, albeit blended, family; however, according to Clinton, his stepfather was a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused Clinton's mother and sometimes Clinton's half-brother Roger, Jr. Bill Clinton as a child went to St. John's Catholic School and Ramble Elementary School. While at Hot Springs High School , Clinton was an excellent student and a talented saxophonist . He considered dedicating his life to music, but a visit to the White House to meet then-President John F. Kennedy following his election as a Boys Nation Senator led him to pursue a career in politics. Clinton was a member of Youth Order of DeMolay but never actually became a Freemason . [1] Clinton received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service (B.S.F.S.) degree from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. , where he became a brother of Alpha Phi Omega , worked for Senator J. William Fulbright , was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford . While at Oxford, he played rugby union as a lock , and later in life he played for the Little Rock Rugby club in Arkansas. There he also participated in the Vietnam War protest movement . After Oxford, Clinton obtained a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Yale Law School in 1973. While at Yale, he began dating classmate Hillary Rodham . They married in 1975 and their only child, Chelsea , was born in 1980. Clinton is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, Inc. Arkansas political career Politician In 1974, his first year as a University of Arkansas law professor, Clinton ran for the House of Representatives . The incumbent, John Paul Hammerschmidt , defeated Clinton with 52% of the vote. In 1976, Clinton was elected Attorney General of Arkansas without opposition in the general election. In 1978, Bill Clinton was first elected Governor of Arkansas , the youngest to be elected governor since 1938. His first term was fraught with difficulties, including an unpopular motor vehicle tax and popular anger over the escape of Cuban prisoners (from the Mariel boatlift ) detained in Fort Chaffee in 1980. In the 1980 election, Clinton was defeated in his bid for a second term by Republican challenger Frank D. White . As he once joked, he was the youngest ex-governor in the nation's history. But in 1982, Clinton won his old job back, and over the next decade he helped Arkansas transform its economy. He became a leading figure among the New Democrats, a branch of the Democratic Party that called for welfare reform and smaller government, a policy supported by both Democrats and Republicans alike. Clinton's approach mollified conservative criticism during his terms as governor. However, personal and business transactions made by the Clintons during this period became the basis of the Whit


What is the name of Paul and Linda McCartney's only son?

Paul McCartney's son speaks of drugs, family rifts and his 'new mother' - Telegraph Celebrity news Paul McCartney's son speaks of drugs, family rifts and his 'new mother' Paul McCartney’s son James has spoken for the first time about the pair’s  former rift, his past drug habit and how he “didn’t like” stepmother Heather  Mills. Paul McCartney's son James McCartney at the New York City Ballet gala Photo: Photo by Gary Gershoff/WireImage By Hannah Furness 12:53PM BST 16 Jun 2013 James McCartney, a 35-year-old musician, has disclosed how he had slept in a bed with his father Paul, to cope with the grief of losing his mother Linda. He said he now considers Paul’s third wife Nancy Shevall as his “new mother”, admitting he “didn’t like” his second, Heather Mills. In an interview with the Daily Mail newspaper, he added he has now “re-bonded” with Paul after years of drug-taking, as he admits it was a “little bit hard” to watch the success of his fashion designer sister, Stella It is an unusually candid disclosure for McCartney, who is currently touring America as a musician and claims he has always been “naturally guarded” as a result of his upbringing. Saying he is now ready for people to know the real him, he has now confessed: “It’s hard to live up to The Beatles. Even Dad found it hard living up to The Beatles.” Related Articles Stars turn out for McCartney reception 10 Oct 2011 James McCartney, brother to Stella and Mary, a photographer, said he has spent years developing his music and “serving his time” before embarking on a career to “earn his own living”. His mother Linda McCartney died after a three-year battle with breast cancer in 1998, when he was 20 years old. Speaking of rumours he had slept in a bed with his father for “month” after her death, he told the newspaper: “We were both grieving together. “That first night, in Arizona, when she’d just died I thought it would be too sad for Dad to sleep on his own so I kept him company." He added he then went into a “rough” period where he “got more and more into drugs”. He is now “several months sober” and has “re-bonded” with his family after drifting apart. Speaking of his family life, with the new addition of stepmother Nancy Shevall, he said: “Nancy’s my new mother. I feel that. Definitely. She’s very genuine. She makes Dad very, very happy. We all adore her.” His opinion is in stark contrast to his thoughts on his father’s former wife Heather Mills, who had a daughter Beatrice in 2003. “My relationship with Heather was not very good,” said McCartney. “I didn’t like her. “But I wouldn’t want to say anything negative about her because she’s a good mother to Beatrice and that’s the most important thing.” McCartney has a new album, entitled Me, and is currently touring the US. He has previously disclosed he would consider forming a “next generation” Beatles with the offspring of other band members, saying: “"I'd be up for it. Sean [Lennon]seemed to be into it, Dhani [Harrison]seemed to be into it. I'd be happy to do it."


Who won the first men's US Tennis Open, in 1968?

U.S. Open - Tennis Topics - ESPN Past Winners The U.S. Open is the final Grand Slam tournament of each season, held in late August and early September at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. Having originated in 1881 as the United States National Championship -- a men's-only event -- the tournament now consists of championships in men's and women's singles, as well as men's, women's and mixed doubles. It also hosts junior, senior and wheelchair divisions. Currently held on hard courts, the U.S. Open had been played on grass and clay surfaces prior to the event's move to the USTA National Tennis Center (in 1978). In men's and women's singles at the U.S. Open, the final set is determined by a tiebreaker if it reaches six games all. That differs from the other three Grand Slam events in which the deciding set continues on indefinitely until a two-game lead is reached. The inaugural U. S. Open was held in 1881 in Newport, R.I. That year, only men's singles was featured, with Richard Sears capturing the championship after a 6-0, 6-3, 6-2 victory over William Glyn in the finals. Sears went on to win the singles championship in each of the first seven years the tournament was held. By the time of his last title, women had begun contesting a singles championship at the U. S. Women's National Singles Championship. (Various divisions were held separately as national championship events, before all five major divisions -- men's and women's singles and doubles, plus the mixed doubles -- were consolidated into one tournament in 1968.) Throughout its early years, the U. S. Open men's championship was dominated by several players. Oliver Campbell won three straight competitions from 1890 to 1892. Malcolm Whitman won it from 1898 to 1900. William Larned won five titles in a row from 1907 to 1911, while "Big Bill" Tilden -- one of the first American superstars in the sport -- won six straight from 1920 to 1925. Molla Bjurstedt of Norway captured four straight women's championships from 1915 to 1918. Helen Wills won six times in a seven-year span from 1923 to 1929, and Helen Jacobs claimed four straight during the 1930s. The 1930s also saw Fred Perry and Don Budge emerge as international stars, and the two combined to win five of six U.S. men's singles titles between 1933 and 1938. The two met in the 1936 final, an epic match won by Perry after a 10-8 fifth set. That year marked the last time a British man has won the U.S. Open. American players proved dominant in the following decade, with Frank Parker, Jack Kramer and Pancho Gonzalez each winning two men's titles during the 1940s. U.S. women won each year between 1938 and 1958, with Pauline Betz winning four times in that period and Margaret Osbourne-Dupont and Maureen Connolly taking three titles each. Australians came into prominence in the sport and at the U.S. open during the 1960s. Neale Fraser, Roy Emerson and Rod Laver won multiple men's titles in that decade, while Margaret Smith Court claimed four women's trophies. The start of the Open era of tennis in 1968 provided a couple of major surprises at the U.S. Open that year, when all championship divisions were played together at Forest Hills in New York. Arthur Ashe won the men's singles crown -- the first time it was officially termed the "U.S. Open" -- defeating Tom Okker of the Netherlands in the final, 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Because of his amateur status, the 25-year-old Ashe, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, was ineligible to receive the $14,000 first prize in the $100,000 event. (At the time, the Open was the richest tournament in tennis history.) Instead, Ashe received his $20 per diem. Ashe was the first American to win the U.S. men's singles title since 1955 and the first-ever African-American to win a men's singles title at a Grand Slam Championship. The women's tournament in 1968 also saw a shocker as Britain's Virginia Wade won the title, upsetting top-seed and heavy favorite Billie Jean King. King would rebound by winning three of four U.S. Open crowns between 1971 and 1974. Ch


Timothy McVeigh was convicted for which bombing?

McVeigh convicted for Oklahoma City bombing - Jun 02, 1997 - HISTORY.com McVeigh convicted for Oklahoma City bombing Share this: McVeigh convicted for Oklahoma City bombing Author McVeigh convicted for Oklahoma City bombing URL Publisher A+E Networks Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. On April 19, 1995, just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building, instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens more in the rubble. Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City from across the country, and when the rescue effort finally ended two weeks later, the death toll stood at 168 people, including 19 young children who were in the building’s day-care center at the time of the blast. On April 21, the massive manhunt for suspects in the worst terrorist attack ever committed on U.S. soil resulted in the capture of Timothy McVeigh, a 27-year-old former U.S. Army soldier who matched an eyewitness description of a man seen at the scene of the crime. On the same day, Terry Nichols, an associate of McVeigh’s, surrendered at Herington, Kansas, after learning that the police were looking for him. Both men were found to be members of a radical right-wing survivalist group based in Michigan, and on August 8, John Fortier, who knew of McVeigh’s plan to bomb the federal building, agreed to testify against McVeigh and Nichols in exchange for a reduced sentence. Two days later, a grand jury indicted McVeigh and Nichols on murder and conspiracy charges. While still in his teens, Timothy McVeigh acquired a penchant for guns and began honing survivalist skills he believed would be necessary in the event of a Cold War showdown with the Soviet Union. Lacking direction after high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and proved a disciplined and meticulous soldier. It was during this time that he befriended Terry Nichols, a fellow soldier who, though 13 years his senior, shared his survivalist interests. In early 1991, McVeigh served in the Persian Gulf War and was decorated with several medals for a brief combat mission. Despite these honors, he was discharged from the army at the end of the year, one of many casualties of the U.S. military downsizing that came after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Perhaps also because of the end of the Cold War, McVeigh shifted his ideology from a hatred of foreign communist governments to a suspicion of the U.S. federal government, especially as its new elected leader, Democrat Bill Clinton, had successfully campaigned for the presidency on a platform of gun control. The August 1992 shoot-out between federal agents and survivalist Randy Weaver at his cabin in Idaho, in which Weaver’s wife and son were killed, followed by the April 19, 1993, inferno near Waco, Texas, which killed some 80 Branch Davidians, deeply radicalized McVeigh, Nichols, and their associates. In early 1995, Nichols and McVeigh planned an attack on the federal building in Oklahoma City, which housed, among other federal agencies, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF)–the agency that had launched the initial raid on the Branch Davidian compound in 1993. On April 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of the disastrous end to the Waco standoff, McVeigh parked a Ryder rental truck loaded with a diesel-fuel-fertilizer bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and fled. Minutes later, the massive bomb exploded, killing 168 people. On June 2, 1997, McVeigh was convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy, and on August 14, under the unanimous recommendation of the jury, he was sentenced to die by lethal injection. In December 2000, McVeigh asked a federal judge to stop all appeals of his convictions and to set a date for his execution by lethal injection at the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Indiana. McVeigh’s execution, in June 2001, was


Who was Oliver North's secretary during the Irangate scandal?

The Iran-Contra Affair The Iran-Contra Affair Nicaraguan "Contra" rebels on Patrol, 1987 The foreign-policy scandal known as the Iran-contra affair came                 to light in November 1986 when President Ronald Reagan confirmed reports that                 the United States had secretly sold arms to Iran. He stated that the goal was                 to improve relations with Iran, not to obtain release of U.S. hostages held                 in the Middle East by terrorists (although he later acknowledged that the arrangement                 had in fact turned into an arms-for-hostages swap). Outcry against dealings                 with a hostile Iran was widespread. Later in November, Attorney General. Edwin Meese                 discovered that some of the arms profits had been diverted to aid the Nicaraguan "contra" rebels at a time when Congress had prohibited such aid.                 An independent special prosecutor, former federal judge Lawrence E. Walsh, was                 appointed to probe the activities of persons involved in the arms sale or contra                   aid or both. Reagan appointed a review board headed by former Republican senator John Tower.                   The Tower Commission's report in February 1987 criticized the president's passive                   management style. In a nationally televised address on March 4, Reagan accepted                   that judgment without serious disagreement. Reagan said: A few months ago I told the American people I did not  trade arms for  hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me  that's true,  but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. Fawn Hall testifying, 6/9/87 Congressional Hearings: May-August 1987 Select Congressional committees conducted joint televised hearings from May                  to August. They heard evidence that a few members of the NSC staff set Iran                  and Nicaragua policies and carried them out with secret private operatives,                  that the few officials who knew about these policies lied to congress and others,                  and that the contras received only a small part of the diverted money. Former                  national security advisor John Poindexter stated that he personally authorized                  the diversion of money and withheld that information from the president. William                  J. Casey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who died in May                  1987, was implicated in some testimony, but the extent of his involvement remained                  unclear. Most interesting to American viewers of the televised congressional hearings was the testimony of National Security                 Council staffer Marine Lieutenant Cololonel Oliver North, and his secretary Fawn Hall. Hall testified on June 8 and 9, 1987, and North testified from July 7 to July 14. Both became nationally known. So many viewers considered North's demeanor to be so professional and patriotic that he became somewhat of a national hero. Not all the popular culture about Oliver North, however, is supportive. Whenever President Reagan shows up in the Iran-Contra pop culture, it is always in the context of questioning the credibility of his stated knowledge of actions of his subordinates.   Walsh Findings and Penalties Following the hearings, Special Prosecutor Walsh continued his investigation. On March 11, 1988, Poindexter's                  predecessor as national security advisor, Robert McFarlane, pleaded guilty to                  criminal charges of withholding information from Congress on secret aid to the


Which singer married director Blake Edwards?

Blake Edwards - Biography - IMDb Blake Edwards Biography Showing all 41 items Jump to: Overview  (4) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (2) | Trade Mark  (2) | Trivia  (28) | Personal Quotes  (3) | Salary  (1) Overview (4) Blackie Mini Bio (1) Blake Edwards' stepfather's father J. Gordon Edwards was a silent screen director, and his stepfather Jack McEdward was a stage director and movie production manager. Blake acted in a number films, beginning with Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942) and wrote a number of others, beginning with Panhandle (1948) and including six for director Richard Quine . He created the popular TV series Peter Gunn (1958), Mr. Lucky (1959) and Dante (1960). He directed a diverse body of films, from comedies to dramas to war films to westerns, including such pictures as Operation Petticoat (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Experiment in Terror (1962), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), The Pink Panther (1963) and A Shot in the Dark (1964). After The Great Race (1965) he began fighting with studios. In England he surfaced again with The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), then went back to Hollywood and a real hit, 10 (1979). Victor Victoria (1982) won him French and Italian awards for Best Foreign Film. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu> Spouse (2) Grandson of silent screen director J. Gordon Edwards . Was the original writer and director on City Heat (1984). He stepped aside as director after creative differences with star Clint Eastwood . When asked, "If you could work with one actor for the rest of your career, who would it be?" he answered, in a heartbeat, " Jack Lemmon .". Met actor David Niven , when Edwards was writing and directing films for Four Star Television, a production company partly owned by Niven. The Honorary Oscar Award that he received in 2004 was presented to him by personal fan Jim Carrey . Met wife-to-be Julie Andrews after she'd heard that he once described her as being, "...so sweet she probably has violets between her legs." Andrews was so entertained by the remark she sent Edwards a bunch of violets accompanied by a note. They began dating and later married. As of 2007, he is one of six directors who has directed his wife to a Best Actress Oscar nomination ( Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria (1982)). The other five are Joel Coen directing Frances McDormand in Fargo (1996), John Cassavetes directing Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (1974) & Gloria (1980), Richard Brooks directing Jean Simmons in The Happy Ending (1969), Paul Czinner directing Elisabeth Bergner in Escape Me Never (1935) and Paul Newman directing Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel (1968). Jules Dassin also directed his future wife Melina Mercouri in an Oscar-nominated performance ( Never on Sunday (1960)), but they weren't married yet at the time of the nomination. He has two great-grandchildren, Shaely and Kaden, from granddaughter Kayti. Daughter, Amy Edwards , married rock musician Lauren Scheff on October 24, 2004. They are now divorced. His grandchildren are: Kayti and Hannah Schneider, from daughter Jennifer Edwards ; Isabelle and Hank, from son Geoffrey Edwards ; Max Scheff, from daughter Amy Edwards ; and Sam and Hope, from stepdaughter Emma Walton . His son, Geoffrey Edwards , was once married to Denise Crosby , Bing Crosby 's granddaughter. Was one of the first directors to employ video playback of shot film footage on set. He did this with The Party (1968). Stepfather-in-law of Steve Hamilton . Named the inaugural distinguished fellow in film writing directing and producing at Arizona State University's film school, August, 2005. [August 2005] Still an active writer and producer with several projects in various stages of development for film, stage, and television. [May 2007] Personal Quotes (3) Make 'em redecorate your office. That's primary, to let them know where you stand. Then, when you're shooting interior sequences, use your own interior decorator and set dresser. That way everything on the set will fit your house when you're finished. Peter Sellers became a monster.


"What relation was ""Waldorf Astor, who became a British member of Parliament, to US millionaire John Jacob Astor?"

John Jacob Astor and Waldorf Astor MP Passengers on the Titanic and Olympic | Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Learn More. John Jacob Astor and Waldorf Astor MP Passengers on the Titanic and Olympic Stuart Kelly Member Hi there, I saw from the Times of 21 September 1911 that one of the Olympic's passengers at the time of the collision with HMS Hawke in the Solent was a Mr Waldorf Astor, then a Conservative member of the House of Commons. I wonder if he is any relation to John Jacob Astor who, as we all know, went down with the Olympic's sister ship? With a name like Waldorf, I recokon it cannot be mere co-incidence. The Times report also, prophetically, says that the Olympic is insured for a million pounds and that her watertight compartments don't make her immune from loss. It remarks that the effect of the sinking of the Republic in 1909 to London's insurance markets would be: "a fleabite as compared with what would have happened had the Olympic seriously come to grief in the Atlantic" One wonders if someone somewhere had a crystal ball? Stuart Eliza 1801-1838), and an unnamed son (1802, died). Fourth child and second son William Backhouse Astor was the grandfather of John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the Titanic, and William Waldorf Astor, who founded the British line of Astors and was the father of the the member of Parliament Waldolf Astor. Here are the 7 children of William Backhouse Astor (1792-1875) and his wife Margaret Rebecca Armstrong: Emily (1819-1841), John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890), Laura (1824-1902), who married Franklin H. Delano, and became the aunt of Sarah Delano, the mother of FDR, Mary Alida (1826-1881), William Backhouse Astor, Jr (1830-1892), Henry Astor (1830-1918), and Sarah (1832, died). Their oldest son John Jacob Astor III married Charlotte Augusta Gibbes and they had one son, William Waldorf Astor (First Viscount). JJA III's brother William Backhouse Astor, Jr. married Caroline Webster Schermerhorn and they had five children: Emily (1854-1881), Caroline Schermerhorn (1861-1948), and John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912) who died on Titanic. William Waldorf Astor (First Viscount), cousin of JJA IV, married Mary Dahlgreen Paul and they had five children: Waldorf Astor (Second Viscount) (1879-1952), Pauline (1880-1972), John Rudolph Astor (1881, died), John Jacob Astor V (Baron Astor of Hever) (1886-1971), and Gwendolyn Enid (1889-1902). It was William Waldorf Astor who established the English line of Astors. After a bitter argument with his cousin Caroline (JJA IV's older sister), William moved his family to England in 1891. He became an English citizen in 1899. Son Waldorf Astor (Second Viscount), the nephew of JJA IV, was Oxford educated. He married the beautiful Nancy Langhorne in 1906. He became a member of the House of Commons from Plymouth in 1910 and in 1916 he was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Lloyd George. His political career soon stalled, however. In 1919 his wife Nancy ran for the Parliamnent from Plymouth and became the first woman in the House of Commons. The Astor line is often confusing. Note that JJA II had no children, while his brother William Backhouse Astor was the father of JJA III.  JJA III's son was William Waldorf Astor, while his brother William Backhouse Astor Jr's son was JJA IV. William Waldorf Astor had a son JJA V (younger brother of Waldorf), while the son born posthumously to JJA IV was named JJA VI. Later, Waldorf Astor (Second Viscount) would have a son named JJA VII, but none of his younger brother JJA VI's three sons would carry the JJA name. Instead, the grandson of JJA V would become JJA VIII.


For which movie did Meryl Streep win her first Oscar?

How Meryl Streep Battled Dustin Hoffman, Retooled Her Role, and Won He | Vanity Fair Meryl Streep, photographed by Brigitte Lacombe in 1988. Photograph by Brigitte Lacombe. On March 12, 1978, the man Meryl Streep had been dating for nearly two years died as she sat at his hospital bed. She had met John Cazale, the crane-like character actor best known for playing Fredo Corleone in the Godfather films, when they starred together in a Shakespeare in the Park production of Measure for Measure in the summer of 1976. From the beginning, they were an unusual pair: a pellucid 27-year-old beauty just a year out of the Yale School of Drama and a 41-year-old oddball with a forehead as high as a boulder and a penchant for Cuban cigars. But the romance was tragically short-lived. Only months after she moved into his Tribeca loft, Cazale was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. When he was cast in the Vietnam epic The Deer Hunter, Meryl joined the film, in part, just to be with him. Cazale didn’t live to see the completed work. A few weeks after he died, Meryl’s brother helped her pack up her belongings. He brought along a friend she had met once or twice—a sculptor named Don Gummer, who lived a few blocks away, in SoHo. Only weeks after losing the love of her life, she had found the second love of her life, the man who would become her husband. It was this Meryl Streep—simultaneously grieving and infatuated, a theater actress new to movies—who got word from her agent, Sam Cohn, about a possible role in Kramer vs. Kramer, based on a novel by Avery Corman. Corman wanted to counteract the “toxic rhetoric” he had been hearing from feminists, who he felt lumped all men together as “a whole bunch of bad guys,” he says now. His protagonist was Ted Kramer, a thirtysomething workaholic New Yorker who sells ad space for men’s magazines. He has a wife, Joanna, and a little boy named Billy. In the early chapters, their marriage is portrayed as superficially content, with wells of ennui underneath. The problem is Joanna Kramer, who finds motherhood, by and large, “boring.” She starts taking tennis lessons. Sex with Ted is mechanical. About 50 pages in, Joanna informs Ted that she’s “suffocating.” She’s leaving him, and she’s leaving Billy. (“Feminists will applaud me,” she says.) Ted overcomes his shock and gets back into the swing of single life. More important, he learns how to be a good father. It is then that Joanna does the unthinkable: she returns from California and tells Ted she wants Billy back. The ensuing custody battle, which gives the novel its title, lays bare the ugliness of divorce proceedings and the wounds they allow people to inflict on each other. Before Kramer vs. Kramer even hit the bookstores, the manuscript fell into the hands of Richard Fischoff, a young film executive who had just accepted a job with the producer Stanley Jaffe. Ted and Joanna Kramer, Fischoff thought, were like Benjamin and Elaine in The Graduate 10 years later, after their impulsive union has collapsed from the inside. The movie would be a kind of generational marker, tracking the baby-boomers from the heedlessness of young adulthood to the angst of middle adulthood. No one was yet calling people like the Kramers “yuppies,” but their defining neuroses were already in place. Jaffe took the novel to the director Robert Benton, best known for co-writing Bonnie and Clyde. Everyone liked the idea of a spiritual sequel to The Graduate, which meant that the one and only choice for Ted Kramer was Dustin Hoffman. Midnight Cowboy and All the President’s Men had made the 40-year-old actor the era’s antsy Everyman, but he was now at one of the lowest points of his life. Amid contentious experiences filming Straight Time and Agatha, he was mired in lawsuits and countersuits, and was in the middle of an emotional separation from his first wife, Anne Byrne. Streep in New York City, 1979. Photo: By Theo Westenberger/Theo Westenberger Archives, 1974-2008, Autry Museum, Los Angeles. Previous Next The filmmakers offered the part of Joanna to Kate Jackson, of Charlie’s An


In the 1990s Babrak Karmal and Sultan Ali Keshtmond have been Prime Minister in which country?

Babrak Karmal - The Full Wiki The Full Wiki More info on Babrak Karmal   Wikis       Note: Many of our articles have direct quotes from sources you can cite, within the Wikipedia article! This article doesn't yet, but we're working on it! See more info or our list of citable articles . Related top topics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Babrak Karmal 27 December 1979 – 24 November 1986 Prime Minister 3rd Prime Minister of Democratic Republic of Afghanistan In office 27 December 1979 – 11 June 1981 Preceded by Afghanistan Portal  v • d •  e  Babrak Karmal (6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was the third President of Afghanistan (1979 - 1986) during the period of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan . He is the best known of the Marxist leadership. Having been restored to power with Soviet support, he was unable to consolidate his power and, in 1986, he was replaced by Dr. Mohammad Najibullah . He left Afghanistan for Moscow , where he died in 1996. Contents 7 External links Early years The son of a well-connected army general, although born into a wealthy family in the village of Kamari (east of Kabul ), Babrak Karmal lived in hardship following the death of his mother. He was an indifferent student in high school and in the law school of Kabul University , quickly gained a reputation as an orator and activist in the university’s student union in 1951. He became involved in Marxist political activities while a student at Kabul University , and was imprisoned for five years as a result. In prison, Karmal was befriended by a fellow inmate, Mir Akbar Khyber . A third inmate, Mier Mohammad Siddiq Farhang, initiated both to pro-Moscow leftist views. After graduation he entered the Ministry of Planning, keeping in close touch with those who had special knowledge on communism, among them Mier Mohammad Siddiq Farhang and Ali Mohammad Zahma, a professor at Kabul University. Political career On 1 January 1965 the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was founded in Kabul, with Karmal serving as one of its twenty-eight founding members in its founding congress. Karmal was appointed its Secretary. As a result, he was elected and served in the quasi-democratic National Assembly of Afghanistan from 1965 until 1973 during the constitutional monarchy of King Zahir Shah . Karmal is known for his revolutionary and open speeches in the parliament against the ruling classes. In most of his parliamentary speeches, Karmal urged the people of Afghanistan to unite and stand up against the ruling classes and fight the status quo. Karmal and a few of his other comrades in the National Assembly, represented the only leftist group at the time. In 1967, when the party split into the Khalq and the Parcham factions, Karmal became the leader of the more moderate Parcham faction. When Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrew the monarchy and instituted the Republic, Karmal was asked by President Daoud to share power with him. Karmal replied that he needed to consult his with comrades on this issue and inform Daoud later. However, he never returned and did not serve in Daoud's government, though some of the people who did serve eventually assumed important positions in Karmal's government. The factions reunited in 1977, and in April 1978 seized control of Afghanistan through a military coup. Karmal was initially Deputy Prime Minister but, following the rise of the rival Khalq faction, he and other important members of the Parcham faction such as Dr. Najibullah, Noor Ahmad Noor, Anaita Ratebzad, and Mahmood Baryalai, were essentially exiled by being appointed ambassadors to other countries, while others, such as Sultan Ali Keshtmand , were put in jail. Note may be taken of the fact that Karmal and his Parcham faction, arguing that the country was not yet ready for the socialist transformation of society, opposed any move that would result in the seizure of state power by the PDPA and did not support the military coup that resulted in the overthrow of Daoud's government. Keshtmand, one of the founding members of PDPA, emphasized this in


Which 60s pop band made an unsuccessful movie called Head?

Best Bands of the 60s - Top Ten List - TheTopTens® Best Bands of the 60s rock2metal The Top Ten 1 The Beatles The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The members consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They were soon known as the foremost and most influential act of rock era. Rooted in skiffle, beat, and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented ... read more . This guys totally deserve it. And yes they are what we call THE LEGENDS even till now in the 21st century. Their music is apart of my life. They're new awesome bands out there that is really good, but nothing can beat The Beatles. My dad always plays While my guitar gently weeps and hey jude on the radio in the car and it has been apart of my life ever since I was a little girl. All I want to say is this are real musician and that is it. Thanks guys The Beatles are the best! I love everything from Please Please Me to Rubber Soul to Sgt. Pepper to Abbey Road. John Paul George Ringo were the best thing ever! They are the only band from the 60s that continues to sell and inspire people. You can't say that about too many bands these days. Yay Beatles is number one This band totally deserves the top spot. They completely rule the sixties! I wanna see this band stay up here Only one word can describe them is: Amazing! V 68 Comments 2 The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Ian Stewart (piano), Mick Jagger (lead vocals, harmonica), Keith Richards (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass) and Charlie Watts (drums). ... read more . The Rolling Stones are my favorite band of the British Invasion and probably of all time. All the music now is nothing compared to bands like the Stones. I like their early music better than their older music though. My favorite songs that the stones released are satisfaction, wild horses, sympathy for the devil, paint it black, and especially gimme shelter. The Rolling Stones made a lot of good songs with other music artists and singers like Merry Clayton. The Rolling Stones will always be my favorites even though the Beatles are probably the greatest. How can the stones be behind Led Zeppelin here? Granted Led Zeppelin are amazing but they only really started at the end of the 60's where as the Stones were well established. The Stones should be second here with great albums such as beggars banquet and let it bleed and especially their legendary tours of 1969! To me the Rolling Stones represented the "bad guys" verse the Beatles being the "groomed and prepped good guys". I have always considered myself a rebel and that's why the Stones will always be the greatest band to me. Although the Beatles were a much broader and innovative band, the Stones still have the beat. You can always tell their music when you hear the riff from good ole Keith. I like them better than the beatles because they play hard rock while most beatles songs are soft and old timey. The stones are just a better band with better songs. V 17 Comments 3 The Doors The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore. Dark beautiful melodies, and a soft brooding voice unlike any other. The Doors music and Morrison's voice --- some of us are so grateful for having found this treasure. An unworldly trip. The doors are the most unique band and no one an ever be like them I was a child of the sixties and the DOORS were not that popular until Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix started their on stage bull antics. Those antics got the attention of the media and that is what made them popular. look them up on YouTube. both were lost souls that have become legends I say this not to down play them but to let you know that they were just kids that never had the chance to have a full life Influenced the current and generations to come all in four short years. No one can capture the transcendent feel like


Who was Anne Sullivan's most famous pupil?

Anne Sullivan - Bio, Facts, Family | Famous Birthdays Famous Birthdays Teacher who famously broke through to Helen Keller and taught her how to read and write. BEFORE FAME She studied at the Perkins School for the Blind. TRIVIA She lost most of her eyesight at age twenty, which made it easy for her to relate to her famous pupil, Helen Keller . FAMILY LIFE She married Harvard instructor John Albert Macy in May of 1905; the couple separated in 1914. ASSOCIATED WITH


Which actress was voted Miss Burbank 1948?

Debbie Reynolds - Biography - IMDb Debbie Reynolds Biography Showing all 64 items Jump to: Overview  (5) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (3) | Trade Mark  (3) | Trivia  (41) | Personal Quotes  (10) | Salary  (1) Overview (5) 5' 2" (1.57 m) Mini Bio (1) Debbie Reynolds was born Mary Frances Reynolds in El Paso, Texas, the second child of Maxine N. (Harmon) and Raymond Francis Reynolds, a carpenter for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Her film career began at MGM after she won a beauty contest at age 16 impersonating Betty Hutton . Reynolds wasn't a dancer until she was selected to be Gene Kelly 's partner in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Not yet twenty, she was a quick study. Twelve years later, it seemed like she had been around forever. Most of her early film work was in MGM musicals, as perky, wholesome young women. She continues to use her dancing skills with stage work. She was 31 when she gave an Academy Award-nominated performance in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964). She survived losing first husband Eddie Fisher to Elizabeth Taylor following the tragic death of Michael Todd . Her second husband, shoe magnate Harry Karl , gambled away his fortune as well as hers. With her children as well as Karl's, she had to keep working and turned to the stage. She had her own casino in Las Vegas with a home for her collection of Hollywood memorabilia until its closure in 1997. She took the time to personally write a long letter that is on display in the Judy Garland museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and to provide that museum with replicas of Garland's costumes. The originals are in her newly-opened museum in Hollywood. Nearly all the money she makes is spent toward her goal of creating a Hollywood museum. Her collection numbers more than 3000 costumes and 46,000 square-feet worth of props and equipment. With musician/actor Eddie Fisher , she was the mother of filmmaker Todd Fisher and actress Carrie Fisher . Debbie died of a stroke on December 28, 2016, one day after the death of her daughter Carrie. She was survived by her son and granddaughter, up-and-coming actress Billie Lourd . Mother of Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher . She appeared as Dan's mother, fresh out of the mental ward, during an episode of the sitcom Roseanne (1988). When she later appeared on Roseanne Barr 's talk show, she revealed that during the filming of that episode, while she and Roseanne were wrestling in the back yard, Roseanne, quite unknowingly, accidentally broke one of her ribs. In 1984, with friends like Shelley Winters and Terry Moore , she made a rather restrained exercise video for "women of a certain age". Won the 1948 Miss Burbank contest and was offered a screen test by Warner Bros. the day after her win. She initially entered the contest because everyone who entered received a silk scarf, blouse and free lunch. Ex-mother-in-law of Paul Simon . She made her first appearance at the Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show on April 6th and 7th, 2002, at Beverly Garland 's Holiday Inn in North Hollywood, California. In 1975 she sold the Beverly Hills mansion she had lived in with Harry Karl . The house was reputed to be worth over $1,000,000. The buyer was Jim Randall , an industrialist who made aircraft rivets. When he married Marisa Berenson , the wedding was held in the redecorated home and his best man was his friend George Hamilton . Considers herself a "movie-oholic" and has an extensive collection of memorabilia, with over 4,000 costumes from the silent screen period to the 1970s. She has been known to gather posters from her collection of 3,000 and drive to homes of actor pals for autographs. In the 1990s she turned her collection into a Las Vegas movie museum, but had to shut it down in 1997 because of financial problems. Recently she has looked into the possibility of opening up a hall of fame museum in Hollywood near Grauman's Chinese Theatre. At one particularly low point in her career, she confessed to literally living in her car, a Cadillac. Opened the Hollywood Motion Picture Collection near the Kodak Theatre. The collection, which was coll


Which state did Amelia Earhart land in on her first solo Pacific flight?

Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart Famous Female Aviator Studio headshot portrait of American aviator Amelia Earhart, the first woman to complete a solo transatlantic flight, wearing a leather jacket. (circa 1932).  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) By Dani Alexis Ryskamp, Contributing Writer Updated November 02, 2015. Who Was Amelia Earhart? As a pilot, Amelia Earhart set many world flying records. She became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to make a solo flight across both the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Earhart also set several height and speed records in an airplane. Despite all these records, Amelia Earhart is perhaps best remembered for her mysterious disappearance, which has become one of the enduring mysteries of the 20th century. While attempting to become the first woman to fly around the world, she disappeared on July 2, 1937 while heading toward Howland's Island. Dates: July 24, 1897 -- July 2, 1937(?) Also Known As: Amelia Mary Earhart, Lady Lindy Amelia Earhart’s Childhood Amelia Mary Earhart was born in her maternal grandparents’ home in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897 to Amy and Edwin Earhart. Although Edwin was a lawyer, he never earned the approval of Amy’s parents, Judge Alfred Otis and his wife, Amelia. continue reading below our video What are the Seven Wonders of the World In 1899, two-and-a-half years after Amelia’s birth, Edwin and Amy welcomed another daughter, Grace Muriel, into the world. Amelia Earhart spent much of her early childhood living with her Otis grandparents in Atchison during the school months and then spending her summers with her parents. Earhart’s early life was filled with outdoor adventures combined with the etiquette lessons expected of upper-middle-class girls of her day. Amelia (known as “Millie” in her youth) and her sister Grace Muriel (known as “Pidge”) loved to play together, especially outdoors. After visiting the World’s Fair in St. Louis in 1904 , Amelia decided she wanted to build her own mini roller coaster in her backyard. Enlisting Pidge to help, the two built a homemade roller coaster on the roof of the tool shed, using planks, a wooden box, and lard for grease. Amelia took the first ride, which ended with a crash and some bruises – but she loved it. By 1908, Edwin Earhart had closed his private law firm and was working as a lawyer for a railroad in Des Moines, Iowa; thus, it was time for Amelia to move back in with her parents. That same year, her parents took her to the Iowa State Fair where 10-year-old Amelia saw an airplane for the very first time. Surprisingly, the airplane didn’t interest her. Problems at Home At first, life in Des Moines seemed to be going well for the Earhart family; however, it soon became obvious that Edwin had started to heavily drink alcohol. When his alcoholism got worse, Edwin eventually lost his job in Iowa and had trouble finding another. In 1915, with the promise of a job with the Great Northern Railway in St. Paul, Minnesota, the Earhart family packed up their belongings and moved. However, the job fell through once they got there. Tired of her husband’s alcoholism and the family’s increasing money troubles, Amy Earhart moved herself and her daughters to Chicago, leaving their father behind in Minnesota. Edwin and Amy eventually divorced in 1924. Due to her family’s frequent moves, Amelia Earhart switched high schools six times, making it hard for her to make or keep friends during her teen years. She did well in her classes, but preferred sports. She graduated from Chicago’s Hyde Park High School in 1916 and is listed in the school’s yearbook as “the girl in brown who walks alone.” Later in life, however, she was known for her friendly and outgoing nature. After high school, Earhart went to the Ogontz School in Philadelphia, but she soon dropped out to become a nurse for returning World War I soldiers and for victims of the influenza epidemic of 1918 . First Flights It wasn’t until 1920, when Earhart was 23 years old, that she developed an interest in airplanes. Whil


Billy Ocean - Biography - IMDb Billy Ocean Jump to: Overview  (2) | Mini Bio  (1) | Spouse  (1) Overview (2) Leslie Sebastian Charles Mini Bio (1) Billy Ocean was born on January 21, 1950 in Trinidad, British West Indies as Leslie Sebastian Charles. He has been married to Judy Bayne since October 1982. They have three children. Spouse (1)


How was writer William Sydney Porter better known?

O. Henry Short Story Writer born on September 11, 1862 – Discover Texas History RSS O. Henry Short Story Writer born on September 11, 1862 September 11, 1862 – Birthday of Austin resident and short story writer, William Sydney Porter better known as O. Henry. Porter was born North Carolina and moved to Austin, Texas in 1884. In Austin Porter worked as a draftsman for the general land office and later as a teller for the First National Bank. Porter left the bank a few years later and founded the Rolling Stone, a weekly humor newspaper. The newspaper was not successful and he became a columnist for the Houston Daily Post. In 1898 Porter was found guilty of embezzlement during his employment at the First National Bank in Austin and sentenced to five years in prison. While in prison Porter wrote dozens of short stories. On or about 1901, Porter was released from prison and changed his name to O. Henry to hide his true identity. Porter moved to New York City where he published over 300 short stories and was fondly thought to be America’s favorite short story writer. Porter was an alcoholic and penniless when he died on June 5, 1910 at the age of forty-seven.


What was The Zaire River called before 27th October 1971.

A brief history of the Congo later to be known as Zaire 1600's to 1700's The British, Dutch, Portuguese and French merchants exploited the slave trade. 1870s The Belgian King Leopold II set up a private venture to colonise the Congo.   1874-77 The British explorer Henry Stanley navigated the Congo river to the Atlantic Ocean. 1879-87 King Leopold II commissioned Henry Stanley to establish the King's authority in the Congo basin. 1884-85  European countries at a Conference in Berlin recognised King Leopold's claim to the Congo basin.   1885 King Leopold II announced the establishment of the ‘Congo Free State’, to be headed by himself. 1891-92 Belgian troops conquered the state of Katanga.   1892-94 The Eastern Congo is taken from the control of East African Arabs and Swahili-speaking traders.   1908  The Belgian state annexed the Congo amid protests over killings and atrocities carried out on a mass scale by Leopold's agents. Millions of Congolese were said to have been killed or worked to death during Leopold's control of the territory.   1955 Belgian Professor Antoin van Bilsen published a "30-Year Plan" for granting the Congo increased self-government.   1959 Belgium begins to lose control over events in the Congo following serious nationalist riots in Leopoldville by now renamed  Kinshasa. 15th March 1960 Martial Law is proclaimed. 30th June 1960 The Republic of Congo gained its independence from Belgium. Patrice Lumumba became the countries first prime minister while Joseph Kasavubu was made  president. 11th July 1960 The copper rich state of Katanga secedes from the rest of the country. 15th July1960 The Congolese army mutinies and Moise Tshombe declared Katanga to be independent. Belgian troops were sent in to protect Belgian citizens and mining interests. The United Nations Security Council voted to send troops to help establish law and order in the country, however the troops were not allowed to intervene in internal affairs (they left in 1964).   14th September 1960 Colonel Joseph Desire Mobutu, the army's 29-year-old chief of staff, lead a coup to break up a power struggle between President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Patrice Lumumba, and arrested Lumumba after President Kasavubu had dismissed him as prime minister. November 1960 Congolese and United Nations troops clashed.   January 1961 Colonel Joseph Desire Mobutu returned power of the country to Joseph Kasavubu. 17th January 1961 Patrice Lumumba was handed over to the Katanga rebels and murdered. Fierce fighting broke out between the United Nations troops and pro Lumumba supporters. Evidence later emerged connecting Colonel Joseph Desire Mobutu  and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to Lumumba's murder. However, Belgium also played a part in Lumumba’s death. 22nd January 1961 Belgian paratroops flew into Stanleyville to rescue European settlers. February 1961 A federation was formed of all the sovereign states, replacing the existing republic. August 1961 Cyrille Adoula was appointed prime minister of the country. August 1961 United Nation troops began disarming Katangese soldiers. September 1961 United Nations troops for the second time tried to crush the Katangan rebels. 18th September 1961 Dag Hammarskjold Secretary General of the United Nations, died in an air crash as he flew out of the country. 31st October 1961 A third attempt was mounted by United Nation troops to once again try and crush the Katangan rebels. 29th December 1962 United Nation troops occupied the Katangan capital city Elizabethville. 1st January 1963 President Tshombe appealed to the United Nations to declare a cease fire. 8th January 1963 President Tshombe was placed under house arrest by the United Nations. 15th January1963 Moise Tshombe bowed to United Nations pressure and agreed to end Katanga's secession. 1964  President Joseph Kasavubu appointed Moise Tshombe as prime minister. Early 1964 A minor Communist inspired revolt took place in the Kwilu Provence. Within five months this minor revolt would become a major uprising that would involve


What was the profession of Thomas Eakins?

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins Biography Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins Biography Youth Self portrait Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was born and lived most of his life in Philadelphia. He was the first child of Caroline Cowperthwait Eakins, a woman of English and Dutch descent, and Benjamin Eakins, a writing master and calligraphy teacher of Scots-Irish ancestry. Benjamin Eakins grew up on a farm in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, the son of a weaver. He was successful in his chosen profession, and moved to Philadelphia in the early 1840s to raise his family. Thomas Eakins observed his father at work and by twelve demonstrated skill in precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid to lay out a careful design, skills he later applied to his art. He was an athletic child who enjoyed rowing, ice skating, swimming, wrestling, sailing, and gymnastics-activities he later painted and encouraged in his students. Eakins attended Central High School, the premier public school for applied science and arts in the city, where he excelled in mechanical drawing. He studied drawing and anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts beginning in 1861, and attended courses in anatomy and dissection at Jefferson Medical College from 1864-65. For a while, he followed his father's profession and was listed in city directories as a "writing teacher". His scientific interest in the human body led him to consider becoming a surgeon. Eakins then studied art in Europe from 1866 to 1870, notably in Paris with Jean-Leon Gerome, being only the second American pupil of the French realist painter famous as a master of Orientalism. He also attended the atelier of Leon Bonnat, a realist painter who emphasized anatomical preciseness, a method adapted by Eakins. While studying at L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he seems to have taken scant interest in the new Impressionist movement, nor was he impressed by what he perceived as the classical pretensions of the French Academy. A letter home to his father in 1868 made his aesthetic clear: "She [the female nude] is the most beautiful thing there is in the world except a naked man, but I never yet saw a study of one exhibited ... It would be a godsend to see a fine man model painted in the studio with the bare walls, alongside of the smiling smirking goddesses of waxy complexion amidst the delicious arsenic green trees and gentle wax flowers & purling streams running melodious up & down the hills especially up. I hate affectation." Already at age 24, "Nudity and verity were linked with an unusual closeness in his mind." Yet his desire for truthfulness was more expansive, and the letters home to Philadelphia reveal a passion for realism that included, but was not limited to, the study of the figure. A trip to Spain for six months confirmed his admiration for the realism of artists such as Diego Velazquez and Jusepe de Ribera. In Seville in 1870 he painted Carmelita Requena, a portrait of a seven year old gypsy dancer more freely and colorfully painted than his Paris studies. That same year he attempted his first large oil painting, A Street Scene in Seville, wherein he first dealt with the complications of a scene observed outside the studio. Although he failed to matriculate and showed no works in the salons, Eakins succeeded in absorbing the techniques and methods of French and Spanish masters, and he began to formulate his artistic vision which he demonstrated in his first major painting upon his return to America. "I shall seek to achieve my broad effect from the very beginning," he declared. Early career Elizabeth at the Piano 1875 Eakins's first works upon his return from Europe included a large group of rowing scenes, eleven oils and watercolors in all, of which the first and most famous is The Champion Single Sculling, known also as Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871). Both his subject and his technique drew attention. His selection of a contemporary sport was "a shock to the artistic conventionalities of the city". Eakins placed himself in the painting, in a scull behind Schmitt, his name inscribed on the


Who is credited with the discovery of galaxies outside of our own?

Top 10 Most Important Astronomers - Listverse Top 10 Most Important Astronomers Eduardo Jaramillo September 8, 2011 Since the very dawn of humankind, our species has looked out upon the cosmos in awe of the glory of the heavens above. While the spectacular views offered by our night sky haven’t changed a great deal over the eons, our understanding of them has. Knowledge of our universe has gradually expanded over the last few thousand years thanks to the efforts of astronomers through the ages. We know what we do about the universe today thanks to the discoveries of all of these astronomers, the ten most important of whom are listed here. 10 Charles Messier Charles Messier was a French astronomer who was obsessed with discovering and studying comets and their orbits. However, his search for the elusive comets ended up leading him to create one of the most famous catalogues of deep sky objects. He realized these deep sky objects could distract other comet-chasers, and so he decided to distinguish them as immobile objects in the night sky. The resulting catalogue, published in 1774 when the astronomer was 44 years old, contains over one hundred deep sky objects, including nebulae and galaxies. Being among the most beautiful objects in the night sky, you most likely have seen images of many of them taken by high aperture telescopes, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. Along with being among the first to catalogue these wonderful objects, Messier was also successful in discovering thirteen comets. 9 Ptolemy Ptolemy was an Egyptian astronomer, geographer and mathematician of Greek ancestry. He lived from 90 to 168 AD, and was the last great astronomer before the known world’s descent into the Dark Ages. He is important for preserving the Greek astronomer Hipparchus’ star catalogue, which he included in his astronomical magnum opus, Amalgest. The Amalgest was the most important astronomical text in existence for close to fifteen hundred years after the death of Ptolemy, and because of this, its author gained a near legendary status. He also included in his work a set of tables (known almost comically as the Handy Tables), which made it much easier to calculate the positions of the planets, the sun and the moon, the rising and setting of the stars, and the dates of lunar and solar eclipses. Without Ptolemy’s preservation of Hipparchus’ work, and his own advances in the field of astronomy, much of the astronomical work done during the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution may not have been possible. 8 Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe, whose defining physical characteristic was no doubt his metallic nose (he lost his real one in a duel), was a famed Danish astronomer. Up until his observations, which occurred largely in the late 1500s, no other astronomer had tallied as many, or as accurate of observations as Brahe. He catalogued hundreds of objects, and aspired to a level of accuracy such that each star was catalogued within one arc-minute of its real celestial location. To put that into perspective, hold your little finger at arms length – it is 1 degree in width. Now divide it into 60 parts; take one of those parts, and you have an arc-minute. While he didn’t always achieve this level of accuracy, the fact that he set the standard so high with the technology available at that point in history is commendable. Brahe is probably best known for his work with new stars, or novae, which in his day was cutting-edge astronomy. In 1572, he observed a bright star that appeared to be a newcomer onto the celestial scene. While some argued that this was an atmospheric phenomenon, Brahe showed through use of parallax that the object was much too far away to be inside the Earth’s atmosphere. Although other supernova events had been observed in the past, Brahe was the first to scientifically observe and acknowledge one. This was a strong argument against the, then, predominant belief that the heavens were fixed on colossal dome-like structures, the idea of which Brahe openly contradicted. 7 Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson These two astronomers come


Who was the defending champion when Andre Agassi first won Wimbledon singles?

Ranking the 10 Most Unlikely Wimbledon Winners in History | Bleacher Report Ranking the 10 Most Unlikely Wimbledon Winners in History By Jake Curtis , Featured Columnist Jul 6, 2013 Use your ← → (arrow) keys to browse the slideshow Dennis Grombkowski/Getty Images Sabine Lisicki (left) and Marion Bartoli 10.7K 16 Comments Marion Bartoli's victory in the women's singles final at the All England Club raises an obvious question: Was she the most unlikely Wimbledon winner in history? Before the tournament began, few would have picked the 15th-seeded Bartoli, who, at 28, had never won a Grand Slam singles event and seemed to be past her prime. However, a number of other men and women have defied expectations, logic or past performances to win singles titles at Wimbledon. Sometimes, upsets produced unanticipated winners. Other times, circumstances yielded unlikely champions. After taking a look at the paths taken by all the champions, we composed a countdown of the 10 most unlikely Wimbledon winners in history.  10. Bob Falkenburg, 1948 Wimbledon.com Bob Falkenburg's 1948 Wimbledon triumph barely edged out Michael Stich's 1991 title and Petra Kvitova's 2011 championship for the final spot on our list. Falkenburg advanced past the quarterfinals at Wimbledon only once, and that was the year he won it. His Wimbledon victory as a No. 7 seed in 1948 was the only time he got past the semifinals of any Grand Slam event. However, it was the way Falkenburg won the final against John Bromwich that earned him a place among the most unlikely champions. Bromwich, the 1946 Australian Open champion and the No. 2 seed at Wimbledon in 1948, had three match points against Falkenburg at 5-3 in the fifth set, according to a The New York Times obituary on Bromwich. But Falkenburg fought off all three match points, won four straight games and beat Bromwich 7-5, 0-6, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Falkenburg's career took another unlikely turn when he passed on a $100,000-a-year professional tennis contract so he could introduce soft ice cream and American fast food in Brazil, according to the Wimbledon website , it became a highly successful business. 9. Arthur Ashe, 1975 Getty Images/Getty Images The fact that Arthur Ashe got to the 1975 Wimbledon final was a mild surprise. That he then beat Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in the final was a shocker. Connors was an overwhelming 3-to-20 betting favorite against Ashe, according to an ESPN.com  article. In fact, he was a 9-to-10 favorite to win in straight sets.   Ashe, then 31, was in the Wimbledon final for the first time, making it as the No. 6 seed following a five-set victory over Tony Roche in the semifinals. The 22-year-old, top-seeded Connors had not lost a set en route to the final and had lost only six games while beating Ken Rosewall in the 1974 Wimbledon final. But against Connors, Ashe took the pace off his shots, relying on angles and finesse to frustrate Connors' powerful groundstrokes. Ashe's insightful strategy made it a memorable match and resulted in one of the biggest upsets in a Wimbledon final. A 2011 The New York Times article  extolled the brilliance of Ashe's strategy, while questioning whether such an approach would work today. 8. Andre Agassi, 1992 Bob Martin/Getty Images Andre Agassi would win eight Grand Slam titles, but when he began the 1992 Wimbledon tournament, he had not won any. With a No. 14 ranking at the time and the knowledge that grass was Agassi's worst surface, few figured the 1992 event at the All England club would produce his first major title. In his two previous Wimbledons, Agassi had lost in the first round in 1990 and in the quarterfinals (against David Wheaton) in 1991. Agassi's 1992 season before Wimbledon had been mediocre. He had lost four matches to players ranked outside the Top 50, and his only good results had come at Atlanta and the French Open on clay, Agassi's best surface. He did not play a grass-court warmup event before Wimbledon, where he was seeded 12th. Agassi pulled off a shocker in the quarterfinals when he knocked off No. 4-seeded Boris Becker, a


Boukhalef International airport is in which country?

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What was the 70s No 1 hit for Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds?

Greatest Hits - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds google+ AllMusic Review               by Stewart Mason It's tempting to say that "Greatest Hit" would be a more appropriate title for this quickie budget collection, but even that would be a misnomer; bizarrely, Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds ' biggest hit, 1975's number-one smash ""Fallin' in Love (Again),"" isn't included. (Yes, 1971's ""Don't Pull Your Love (Out)"" is present and accounted for. None of the other songs have unnecessary parentheses in them.) The other nine tracks are failed singles and album tracks, including unimpressive versions of ""Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)"" and the Grass Roots ' ""Annabella,"" and a tiresome medley of ""Bridge Over Troubled Water"" and ""You've Got a Friend."" ""Don't Pull Your Love (Out)"" and ""Fallin' in Love (Again)"" are both available on volumes of Rhino's superlative Super Hits of the 70s: Have a Nice Day series. Buy those, skip this. Track Listing


In what year was the Kellogg Company set up to manufacture cornflakes?

Our History | Kellogg's Our History Environmental Initiatives Our Best Days Are Yours From one great day over 100 years ago all the way to today, Kellogg's has continued to fuel better days for American families. From going to the moon to feeding the U.S. Army to making your days great, some of our best days have been in your home country, the United States. Discover our best days in the U.S. 1898 — In a fortunately failed attempt at making granola, our company’s founder, W.K. Kellogg, and his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, changed breakfast forever when they accidentally flaked wheat berry. W.K. kept experimenting until he flaked corn, and created the delicious recipe for Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. 1906 — W.K. Kellogg opened the “Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company” and carefully hired his first 44 employees. Together they created the initial batch of Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes® and brought to life W.K.’s vision for great-tasting, better-for-you breakfast foods. 1914 — Kellogg’s® Corn Flakes® was introduced to a new country: Canada. (Later the Kellogg Company will spread the goodness of grain around the world by opening factories in Australia, England, Mexico, Japan, India and more. Today Kellogg brightens breakfast in over 180 countries around the world). 1915 — Kellogg introduced Bran Flakes, the first high-fiber cereal, promptly followed by the introduction of Kellogg’s® All-Bran™ one year later. 1923 — The Kellogg Company made another bold move and become the first in the food industry to hire a dietitian. Mary Barber started the Kellogg’s Home Economics Department and began defining the roles different foods played in proper diets. 1930 — As the United States sunk into the Depression, W.K. Kellogg declared, “I’ll invest in people.” He split shifts and hired new employees to work them. He also founded the W.K. Kellogg Foundation , whose mission — to help children realize their potential — complements that of the Kellogg Company to this day. To further our commitment to people, Kellogg became one of the first companies to proudly display our cereals’ recipes and nutritional info on our boxes — so our consumers knew exactly what they were eating. 1942-1945 — Kellogg’s employees proudly produced K-rations for the U.S. armed forces overseas during World War II, and our engineering teams helped manufacture supplies in Kellogg machine shops. We continued to help America get nutrition by bringing new, whole-grain cereal to life when we introduced Kellogg’s® Raisin Bran® . 1969 — The Kellogg Company was honored to provide breakfast for the legendary Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins during their groundbreaking Apollo 11 trip to the moon. 1997 — We opened the W.K. Kellogg Institute for Food and Nutrition Research — where food scientists, nutritionists and engineers transform wholesome grains and other ingredients into great-tasting and good-for-your-family foods. 2006 — The Kellogg Company celebrated our 100-year commitment to nutrition, health and quality. We also celebrated our future — by creating new Kellogg’s® Special K® Bars and other innovative ways of giving your family the delicious nutrition you need to make the most of every day. 2009-2010 — After discovering that many people in the U.S. don’t get enough fiber, Kellogg increased the fiber in many of our most popular cereals — including Kellogg’s® Froot Loops®. Now, in the U.S., Kellogg Company offers more ready-to-eat cereals that provide at least one good source of fiber (3 grams) and one-half serving of whole grains (8 grams) than any other U.S. food company. Today — We’re proudly upholding the values W.K. Kellogg instilled more than 100 years ago — but now we’re doing it in 180 countries across the world. We still provide you and your family with better breakfasts that lead to better days, and we flake corn the same way W.K. Kellogg did back in 1898. It just tastes better that way.


Which wartime classic was the title of a 1980 film with Hanna Schygulla & Mel Ferrer?

Rainer Werner Fassbinder | German Director | Rainer Werner Fassbinder Biography | Filmmaker | New German Cinema | Douglas Sirk | Melodramas | Race and Sexual Prejudice Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rainer Werner Fassbinder was one of the most important representatives of the New German Movement as he was known to film at a frenetic pace. In a professional career that lasted less than fifteen years, Fassbinder completed 40 feature-length films, three short films, two television film series, four video productions, twenty-four stage plays, four radio plays and 36 acting roles in his own and others’ films. He also worked as an author, cameraman, composer, designer, editor, producer and theater manager. Fassbinder’s phenomenal creative energy, when working, coexisted with a wild, self-destructive libertinism that earned him a reputation as the ‘enfant terrible’ of the New German Cinema, as well as being its central figure. He had tortured personal relationships with various actors and technicians around him who formed a surrogate family. However, his films demonstrate his deep sensitivity to social outsiders and his hatred of institutionalized violence. He ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeoisie society and the larger limitations of humanity. Fassbinder probably felt he was an outsider to society, being open with his homosexuality at a time when that was not considered acceptable. After starting out in theatre and eventually moving into films many critics originally thought his stories were exploitative on a persons sexuality. But over time Fassbinder’s work is now looked at as some of the most important and poetic films of the early 70’s to the late 80’s. There are three distinct phases to Fassbinder’s film career. His first ten movies, most famously Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) and A Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) were an extension of his work in the theater, shot usually with a static camera and with deliberately unnaturalistic dialogue. He was strongly influenced by Brecht’s ‘alienation effect’ and the French New Wave cinema, particularly the works of Godard. The second phase brought him international attention, with films modeled, to ironic effect, on the melodramas Douglas Sirk made in Hollywood in the 1950s. In films such as The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Fassbinder explored how deep-rooted prejudices about race, sex, sexual orientation, politics and class are inherent in society, while also tackling his trademark subject of the everyday fascism of family life and friendship. The final films, from around 1977 until his death became increasingly more idiosyncratic in terms of plot, form and subject matter in movies. He also articulated his themes in the bourgeois milieu with his BRD trilogy about women in post-fascist Germany: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), Lola (1981), and Veronica Voss (1982). By the time he made his last film, Querelle (1982), Fassbinder was consuming heavy doses of drugs and alcohol to sustain his unrelenting work schedule. Tragically he died on June 10, 1982 at the young age of 37 from heart failure resulting from a lethal interaction between sleeping pills and cocaine. Rainer Werner Fassbinder « Previous1 2 3 4 5 ... 8 9 Next » Products previously bought from this site: querelle dvd out of print rare rainer werner fassbinder dvd oop, querelle rainer werner fassbinder brad davis franco nero movie poster, in a year with 13 moons 1978 dvd new rainer werner fassbinder, despair region a bluray disc rainer werner fassbinder dirk bogarde, rainer werner fassbinder 7382 new pal 8dvd set, irm hermann signed autograph in person 8x10 20x25 cm rainer werner fassbinder, 2 films rainer werner fassbinder beware of a holy whore and gods of the plague, hanna schygulla signed autograph in person 8x10 rainer werner fassbinder, margit carstensen signed autograph in person 8x10 rainer werner fassbinder, despair new classic bluray disc rainer werner fassbinder dirk bogarde germany, world on a wire bluray disc the criterion collection rainer we