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New York Hilton Midtown
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The New York Hilton Midtown is the largest hotel in New York City and worlds 101st tallest hotel. The hotel is owned and managed by Hilton Inc. The worlds first handheld cell phone call was made by hotel guest Martin Cooper in front of the hotel in 1973, donald Trump delivered his presidential election victory speech at the hotel on November 9,2016. The project was developed by Hilton Hotels Corporation, the Rockefeller Group, the original architect was Morris Lapidus and he proposed to build a curved Fontainebleau Hotel-style building. However, Lapidus had to withdraw since he was designing the competing Americana Hotel a block away. Tabler was then tapped to finish the project and he designed it with slabs and it opened June 26,1963, as the New York Hilton and offered 2,153 rooms, making it the largest in the city. In June,1972 Elvis Presley stayed here while performing four sold out concerts at nearby Madison Square Garden and he held a press conference before the first show at the Mercury Ballroom at the Hilton hotel. Hilton Hotels & Resorts asserts that the lyrics to John Lennons 1971 song Imagine were composed in the hotel. Martin Cooper made the worlds first handheld cellular phone call in public April 3,1973, Cooper, a Motorola inventor called his rival at Bell Labs to tell him about the invention. The cell phone base station was next door atop the 1345 Avenue of the Americas, the hotel owned the property immediately west of it which was the site of the Adelphi Theatre where episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed. The Adelphi was torn down in 1970, in 1989, an office tower,1325 Avenue of the Americas, was built on the site. The tower is connected to the Hilton with a walkway and keeps the Hiltons Sixth Avenue address even though it is midblock, exterior shots of Elaines workplace at the J. Peterman Company in Seinfeld show the building. In 1990, a $100 million renovation decreased the number of guest rooms to 1,980, around that time the name was changed to Hilton New York, as all Hilton hotels were rebranding the name Hilton to go before the city name at the time. In 2007, the hotel completed its fourth renovation and it now has 47 suites on floors 42 through 44. Each suite includes between 600 and 2,000 sq ft of space, in 2013, the hotel was renamed the New York Hilton Midtown in honor of its 50th anniversary. At that time, the management announced that it ended room service, the hotel is home to a number of award ceremonies, including the International Emmy Awards presented by the International Academy. Media related to Hilton New York at Wikimedia Commons New York Hilton Midtown official website
New York Hilton Midtown
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New York Hilton Midtown
New York Hilton Midtown
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Entrance to the New York Hilton Midtown
New York Hilton Midtown
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New York Hilton Midtown at 6th Avenue and 54th St
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
New York City
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
New York City
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
New York City
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
New York City
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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Bassem Youssef
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Bassem Raafat Muhammad Youssef is an Egyptian comedian, writer, producer, physician, media critic, and television host, who hosted Al-Bernameg, a satirical news program, from 2011 to 2014. The press has compared Youssef with American comedian Jon Stewart, whose satire program The Daily Show inspired Youssef to begin his career, in 2013, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. Youssefs current projects are Tickling Giants, The Democracy Handbook, Bassem Youssef graduated from Cairo Universitys Faculty of Medicine, majoring in cardiothoracic surgery, in 1998. He passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination and has been a member of the Royal College of Surgeons since February 2007, in January 2011, Youssef assisted the wounded in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution. Inspired by the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Youssef created his first satirical show in March 2011, the show was shot in Youssefs laundry room using a table, a chair, one camera, and a mural of amateur photos from Tahrir Square that cost $100. The show was a collaboration by Youssef with Tarek ElKazzaz, Amr Ismail, Mohamed Khalifa, Youssef used social media to showcase his talent and his show gave a voice to the millions of Egyptians who were seething with anger from the traditional medias coverage of the Egyptian Revolution. After the success of The B+ Show, Egyptian channel ONTV, owned by Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, with a budget of roughly half a million dollars, the series made him the first internet to TV conversion in the Middle East. The show, which consisted of 104 episodes, premiered during Ramadan 1432 with Egyptian-American engineer Muhammad Radwan as its first guest, the show became the platform for many writers, artists, and politicians to speak freely about the social and political scene. Al-Bernamegs success inspired a number of amateur initiatives on various media channels. In June 2012, Jon Stewart invited Youssef to The Daily Show for an extended interview, the segment was one of the highest in viewership on the Daily Shows website. This was done with the help of a big team that covered many disciplines including marketing, operations, legal and this all helped in developing both Bassem Youssef and Al-Bernameg show on all levels and create a global audience. The show Al Bernameg was renewed for a season after a contract with a second channel, CBC. Just three episodes into the show, several lawsuits were filed against Bassem Youssef and his show, mainly for insult and defamation. On the seasons premiere, Youssef made the owner and coworkers of his channel the subject of his show, as an assurance that he is granted freedom of expression. CBC did not, however, air his second episode, which featured further criticism of a TV show host who filed a lawsuit against Youssef. The show returned to its schedule for the third episode. In November 2012, Al-Bernameg moved from ONTVs smallest studio to Radio Theatre in Cairos downtown, following the move, Youssef succeeded in increasing the shows worth by eight times in one year. The second season, which premiered in November 2012 on CBC network, was the first real live show in Egypt
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Tarek ElKazzaz and Bassem Youssef holding the CPJ award
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Julian Fellowes
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Julian Alexander Kitchener-Fellowes, Baron Fellowes of West Stafford DL, is an English actor, novelist, film director and screenwriter, and a Conservative peer of the House of Lords. Fellowes was born in Cairo, Egypt, the youngest son of Canadian-born Peregrine Edward Launcelot Fellowes and his father was a diplomat and Arabist who campaigned to have Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, restored to his throne during World War II. Fellowes has three brothers, Nicholas Peregrine James, wordsmith David Andrew, and playwright Roderick Oliver. The house in Chiddingly, which had been owned by the whodunit writer Clifford Kitchin, was within reach of London where his father. Fellowes has described his father as one of that last generation of men who lived in a pat of butter without knowing it and my mother put him on a train on Monday mornings and drove up to London in the afternoon. At the flat shed be waiting in a snappy little cocktail dress with a delicious dinner, a decided influence to arise from this place was the friendship that developed with another family in the village, the Kingsleys. David Kingsley was head of British Lion Films, the responsible for many Peter Sellers comedies. Sometimes glamorous figures would visit the Kingsleys house, Fellowes said that he thinks he learnt from David Kingsley that you could actually make a living in the film business. Fellowes was educated at private schools in Britain including Wetherby School, St Philips School, and Ampleforth College. He read English Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights and he studied further at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Fellowes moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and played a number of small TV roles for the two years. Played a part in one of the Tales of the Unexpected and he believed that his breakthrough had come when he was considered to replace Hervé Villechaize as the butler on the TV series Fantasy Island, but the role went to actor Christopher Hewett instead. He was unable to get an audition for the Disney film Baby, Secret of the Lost Legend in Los Angeles, but was offered the role when he was visiting England. When he asked the director why he was not able to get an interview in Los Angeles. After this, Fellowes decided to back to England to further his career. Other notable acting roles included the part of Claud Seabrook in the acclaimed 1996 BBC drama serial Our Friends in the North and the 2nd Duke of Richmond in the BBC drama serial Aristocrats. He portrayed George IV as the Prince Regent for the time in the 1996 adaptation of Bernard Cornwells novel Sharpes Regiment. He also played the part of Kilwillie on Monarch of the Glen and he appeared as the leader of The Hullabaloos in the television adaptation of Arthur Ransomes Coot Club, called Swallows and Amazons Forever
Julian Fellowes
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Lord Fellowes at an event for
Downton Abbey at Paramount Studios, May 2014
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International Emmy Award
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The awards are presented at the International Emmy Awards Gala, held each year in November at the Hilton Hotel, New York City, which attracts over 1,200 television professionals. The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences organizes competitions in several areas, Kids categories, News categories. Organization or individual may submit a program, organizations or individuals who do not hold copyright ownership of a program must obtain consent from the rights owner before presenting a submission. This process is independent from Membership, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences presents International Emmy Awards in 20 categories over four ceremonies. Program—Performance Arts Programming Best Performance by an Actor Best Performance by an Actress Comedy Documentary Drama Series Non-English Language U. S
International Emmy Award
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TV producer
Bruce Kennedy holding an Emmy
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Actress
Dana Delany holding an Emmy, 1992
International Emmy Award
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TV producer and writer
Bradley Bell accepting Daytime Emmy Awards for his work on the daytime soap opera
The Bold and the Beautiful, 2010
International Emmy Award
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Brazilian actress and TV host
Fernanda Lima holding
Rede Globo 's six medals of nominations to the International Emmys in 2012
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Satirist
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Below is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for their involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth, also included is a list of modern satires. k. a. Kennedy Ephraim Kishon Erik Larsen Savage Dragon comic book from Image Comics Craig Lauzon Victor Lewis-Smith – TV Offal Ash Lieb Artist, author and comedian. Chris Lilley – Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes, Finding The Australian of the Year, Big Bite Daniele Luttazzi Seth MacFarlane – Family Guy, American Dad. Show, Saturday Night Live, The Larry Sanders Show John Oliver – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver George Ouzounian a. k. a, the Chasers War on Everything – Australian satire with an emphasis on attacking everyone. Seinfeld Royal Canadian Air Farce Air Farce Live Monty Pythons Flying Circus Phil Hendrie Family Guy, vaporwave, a satirical music genre with anarcho-capitalist and cyberpunk overtones dedicated to consumerism. Chumbawamba have consistently used satire to make political points throughout their musical career, pink Floyds albums Animals and The Dark Side of the Moon are conceptual and satirical albums. The Lonely Island is a music group known for their work on Saturday Night Live. Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stones Tony-sweeping Broadway show The Book of Mormon satirizes the applicability of first-world religion to third-world problems, the Dead Milkmen is a satirical punk rock/cowpunk band from the early 1980s. Ben Folds, a rock pianist, and his group, Ben Folds Five, have multiple songs including satirical elements, some of them being, Underground, Sports and Wine, and Rock Star. Dead Kennedys, an American punk band, often used satire in their songs, were only in it For the Money—Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Blazing Saddles, a 1974 comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks, satirizing racism. Casino Royale, a 1967 surrealistic satire on the James Bond series and this Is Spinal Tap, a satire on heavy metal culture and rockumentaries. The Very Same Munchhausen, a 1979 satire of the late Soviet society, clueless American Beauty, a 1999 satire of life in the suburbs. Thank You for Smoking Team America, World Police is a 2004 film satirizing Hollywood action flicks as well as post-9/11 American foreign policy, wag the Dog The Rules of Attraction Best in Show I Heart Huckabees Starship Troopers Scary Movie Dr. South Park, Bigger, Longer & Uncut, a film satirizing censorship, network Otaku no Video, a 1993 anime satirizing the otaku subculture. Election Not Another Teen Movie, a satire of the teen film genre, britannia Hospital Fight Club, a dark satire on consumerism, cults, and extremism. American Psycho Tropic Thunder Simon, satirical commentary on the effects of media in pop culture. American History X satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting and they Live Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration
Satirist
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1867 edition of
Punch, a ground-breaking
British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal of satire of the contemporary, social, and political scene.
Satirist
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"Le satire e l'epistole di Q. Orazio Flacco", printed in 1814.
Satirist
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The Satirical papyrus at the British museum
Satirist
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Satirical Ostraca showing a Cat guarding geese c1120 BC, Egypt.
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New York Hilton Hotel
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The New York Hilton Midtown is the largest hotel in New York City and worlds 101st tallest hotel. The hotel is owned and managed by Hilton Inc. The worlds first handheld cell phone call was made by hotel guest Martin Cooper in front of the hotel in 1973, donald Trump delivered his presidential election victory speech at the hotel on November 9,2016. The project was developed by Hilton Hotels Corporation, the Rockefeller Group, the original architect was Morris Lapidus and he proposed to build a curved Fontainebleau Hotel-style building. However, Lapidus had to withdraw since he was designing the competing Americana Hotel a block away. Tabler was then tapped to finish the project and he designed it with slabs and it opened June 26,1963, as the New York Hilton and offered 2,153 rooms, making it the largest in the city. In June,1972 Elvis Presley stayed here while performing four sold out concerts at nearby Madison Square Garden and he held a press conference before the first show at the Mercury Ballroom at the Hilton hotel. Hilton Hotels & Resorts asserts that the lyrics to John Lennons 1971 song Imagine were composed in the hotel. Martin Cooper made the worlds first handheld cellular phone call in public April 3,1973, Cooper, a Motorola inventor called his rival at Bell Labs to tell him about the invention. The cell phone base station was next door atop the 1345 Avenue of the Americas, the hotel owned the property immediately west of it which was the site of the Adelphi Theatre where episodes of The Honeymooners were filmed. The Adelphi was torn down in 1970, in 1989, an office tower,1325 Avenue of the Americas, was built on the site. The tower is connected to the Hilton with a walkway and keeps the Hiltons Sixth Avenue address even though it is midblock, exterior shots of Elaines workplace at the J. Peterman Company in Seinfeld show the building. In 1990, a $100 million renovation decreased the number of guest rooms to 1,980, around that time the name was changed to Hilton New York, as all Hilton hotels were rebranding the name Hilton to go before the city name at the time. In 2007, the hotel completed its fourth renovation and it now has 47 suites on floors 42 through 44. Each suite includes between 600 and 2,000 sq ft of space, in 2013, the hotel was renamed the New York Hilton Midtown in honor of its 50th anniversary. At that time, the management announced that it ended room service, the hotel is home to a number of award ceremonies, including the International Emmy Awards presented by the International Academy. Media related to Hilton New York at Wikimedia Commons New York Hilton Midtown official website
New York Hilton Hotel
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New York Hilton Midtown
New York Hilton Hotel
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Entrance to the New York Hilton Midtown
New York Hilton Hotel
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New York Hilton Midtown at 6th Avenue and 54th St
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France
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France, officially the French Republic, is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. The European, or metropolitan, area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, Overseas France include French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. France spans 643,801 square kilometres and had a population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017. It is a unitary republic with the capital in Paris. Other major urban centres include Marseille, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Toulouse, during the Iron Age, what is now metropolitan France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The area was annexed in 51 BC by Rome, which held Gaul until 486, France emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years War strengthening state-building and political centralisation. During the Renaissance, French culture flourished and a colonial empire was established. The 16th century was dominated by civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. France became Europes dominant cultural, political, and military power under Louis XIV, in the 19th century Napoleon took power and established the First French Empire, whose subsequent Napoleonic Wars shaped the course of continental Europe. Following the collapse of the Empire, France endured a succession of governments culminating with the establishment of the French Third Republic in 1870. Following liberation in 1944, a Fourth Republic was established and later dissolved in the course of the Algerian War, the Fifth Republic, led by Charles de Gaulle, was formed in 1958 and remains to this day. Algeria and nearly all the colonies became independent in the 1960s with minimal controversy and typically retained close economic. France has long been a centre of art, science. It hosts Europes fourth-largest number of cultural UNESCO World Heritage Sites and receives around 83 million foreign tourists annually, France is a developed country with the worlds sixth-largest economy by nominal GDP and ninth-largest by purchasing power parity. In terms of household wealth, it ranks fourth in the world. France performs well in international rankings of education, health care, life expectancy, France remains a great power in the world, being one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council with the power to veto and an official nuclear-weapon state. It is a member state of the European Union and the Eurozone. It is also a member of the Group of 7, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Trade Organization, originally applied to the whole Frankish Empire, the name France comes from the Latin Francia, or country of the Franks
France
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One of the
Lascaux paintings: a horse –
Dordogne, approximately 18,000 BC
France
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Flag
France
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The
Maison Carrée was a temple of the
Gallo-Roman city of Nemausus (present-day
Nîmes) and is one of the best preserved vestiges of the
Roman Empire.
France
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With
Clovis ' conversion to Catholicism in 498, the
Frankish monarchy,
elective and
secular until then, became
hereditary and of
divine right.
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Spiral (TV series)
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Spiral is a French television police and legal drama series set in Paris. The show follows the lives and work of Paris police officers and it was created by Alexandra Clert for the TV production company Son et Lumière. The first series of started on Canal+ in France on 13 December 2005. The series was shown in the UK on BBC Four during the summer of 2006 and it was the channels first French-language drama series, attracting a modest but loyal audience and firm critical approval. On 13 September 2009, BBC Four started showing the series, another eight-part series. The third series was shown from 2 April 2011, and the series from 9 February 2013. Series 5 was filmed in 2013 and broadcast in France in late 2014, the sixth series has been ordered. Spiral has been a success, with sales to broadcasters in more than 70 countries including, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Switzerland. In Australia, the first series was broadcast in 2008 on SBS One, the series on SBS Two from September 2009. Spiral debuted in North America via Netflix in September 2012, all five seasons are currently available on Hulu. Spiral has received wide-ranging critical acclaim throughout its run, and has been nominated and it has been nominated at the Globes de Cristal Awards four times, winning once. It has also nominated for Best Drama at the BAFTA Awards. The original French title is Engrenages and this word carries various meanings in French. The body of a young Romanian woman is discovered on a Parisian rubbish dump, Series 1 was broadcast on BBC Four during April and May 2009. The story begins with a man burnt to death in the boot of a car on a housing estate, BBC Four showed the series in November and December 2009. Moreover, the prestigious Criminal Brigade, led by Commissionner Vincent Brémont, Berthauds former supervisor when she was a police intern. Upon Cléments refusal, Machard is determined to get rid of this uncooperative subordinate, meanwhile Joséphine Karlsson and Szabo continue with their shady transactions. Subtitled The Butcher of La Villette, the series was aired on BBC Four in April, Tintin is slightly grazed in the head by a bullet during a raid, is in a coma for a short period and later suffers from PTSD
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Spiral
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Anneke von der Lippe
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Anneke von der Lippe is a Norwegian actress. She made history as the first Norwegian actress – and Nordic - to win an International Emmy Award. She has won the Amanda – the main Norwegian film award – for best actress twice, for Krigerens hjerte in 1992 and she was named one of European films Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion in 1998. In 2005, she was, as the first Norwegian actor ever, in 2015 Anneke won an International Emmy Award for her role in the NRK tv-drama Øyevitne. Von der Lippe lives in Oslo, and is married to director Morten Cranner, with two children
Anneke von der Lippe
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Anneke von der Lippe on a Faroe stamp
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Downton Abbey
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Downton Abbey is a historical period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece. It first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2010, the sixth and final series introduces the rise of the working class during the interwar period and hints towards the eventual decline of the British aristocracy. It was recognised by Guinness World Records as the most critically acclaimed English-language television series of 2011 and it earned the most nominations of any international television series in the history of the Primetime Emmy Awards, with twenty-seven in total. It was the most watched series on both ITV and PBS, and subsequently became the most successful British costume drama series since the 1981 television serial of Brideshead Revisited. By the third series, it had one of the most widely watched television drama shows in the world. On 26 March 2015, Carnival Films and ITV announced that the series would be the last. It aired on ITV between 20 September 2015 and 8 November 2015, the final episode, serving as the annual Christmas special, was broadcast on 25 December 2015. The storyline centres on the fee tail or entail governing the titled elite, as part of the backstory, the main character, Robert, Earl of Grantham, had resolved past financial difficulties by marrying Cora Levinson, an American heiress. Her considerable dowry is contractually incorporated into the comital entail in perpetuity, Robert and Cora have three daughters and no sons. As the eldest daughter, Lady Mary Crawley was to marry her second cousin, the first episode begins as news reaches Downton Abbey that both Grantham heirs perished in the sinking of the Titanic. A distant male cousin, solicitor Matthew Crawley, is from an upper-middle-class family - as his mother reminds him in one of series one. Matthew Crawley becomes the new heir, the plot centres on the relationship between Lady Mary and Matthew, who resists embracing an aristocratic lifestyle. A subplot involves John Bates, Lord Granthams new valet, and Thomas Barrow, Bates and Thomas remain at odds in subsequent series. Barrow works to sabotage Bates after learning he was released from jail for theft. In the story line, Barrow, a gay man in late Edwardian England, aided by Miss OBrien, Lady Granthams personal maid, Barrow is caught stealing, but he joins the British army as a medic. Matthew eventually falls in love with Lady Mary, but she rejects his proposal. Cora becomes pregnant, possibly with an heir, but falls and miscarries after OBrien, mistakenly believing she was to be fired. The series ends just after the Archduke Franz Ferdinands assassination and the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914, the second series comprises eight episodes and runs from the Battle of the Somme in 1916 to the 1918 flu pandemic
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The original cast image
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Highclere Castle, used for interior and exterior filming of Downton Abbey
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Byfleet Manor in Surrey is portrayed as the
dower house
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
HBO
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The RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite launched on December 13, 1975, spurred the
cable television industry to unprecedented heights – with the assistance of HBO.
HBO
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Filmmaker
Alexandra Pelosi and former
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey at the New York City premiere of Pelosi's HBO documentary about McGreevey,
Fall to Grace, in March 2013.
HBO
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Example of Festival's monthly guide provided to subscribers (January 1988).
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Patina Miller
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Patina Renea Miller is an American actress and singer. Miller is best known for originating the role of disco diva wannabe Deloris Van Cartier in the 2009 West End and 2011 Broadway productions of Sister Act. She also starred as the Leading Player in the 2013 revival of Pippin for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She is also known for her role as Commander Paylor in The Hunger Games, Mockingjay films, and her starring role as Daisy Grant in the CBS political drama Madam Secretary. Born in Pageland, South Carolina, and raised in a single parent home, she was introduced to music at an early age and sang with the gospel choir at her local church. She has credited her time at Carnegie Mellon as a big part of her life, saying, It was there that I studied, im so thankful to all my teachers who helped me to become the performer I am today. Im so proud of my school and feel so blessed to have such a wonderful education. In 2005, Miller was one of three finalists for the role of Effie White in the musical drama Dreamgirls, which ultimately won Jennifer Hudson the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2007, she was cast as Pam Henderson in the soap opera All My Children. She performed in a Central Park production of Hair in the summer of 2008 and was featured in the musical Romantic Poetry at the Manhattan Theatre Club that fall. The London production opened on June 2,2009 at the London Palladium, for this role Miller won the whatsonstage. com Theatregoers Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical and was also nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. She remained with the production till it closed on October 30,2010, Miller reprised the role of Deloris Van Cartier in the Broadway production of Sister Act, which began performances on March 24,2011, at the Broadway Theatre and officially opened April 20,2011. Miller also made her Broadway debut in this production and she played her final performance in the Broadway company on March 18,2012 and was replaced by Raven-Symoné on March 27. Miller also starred as Linda in the City Center Encores, production of Lost in the Stars, which ran from February 3–6,2011. She performed as the Leading Player in the American Repertory Theater production of Pippin from December 5,2012 to January 20,2013. Miller recently reprised the role in the Broadway revival, which began performances on March 23,2013, at the Music Box Theatre and she won the Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical at the 67th Tony Awards for this role. Miller played Commander Paylor in The Hunger Games, Mockingjay – Part 1, in May 2014, it was announced that she was cast as Daisy Grant, press coordinator to Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord in the CBS political drama Madam Secretary. The show premiered on Sunday, September 21,2014, on CBS as part of the 2014–15 television season, on June 14,2014, Miller married venture capitalist David Mars in New York City
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Miller in 2011
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Miller during a performance of Sister Act on the West End, 2010
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Michael Urie
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Michael Lorenzo Urie is an American actor, presenter, director, and producer. He is known for his portrayal of Marc St. James on the ABC dramedy television series Ugly Betty, Urie was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Plano. He is of Scottish and Italian descent and he graduated from Plano Senior High School in 1998. Urie then studied at Collin County Community College before being accepted at the Juilliard School in New York City, there he was a member of the Drama Divisions Group 32, which also included Jessica Chastain. Urie graduated from Juilliard in 2003, in addition to this, he appeared in student productions of Sylvia and Locked Away at Quad C Theatre. Urie played the character in the stage play WTC View as well as in the film adaptation. He is finishing a short film, Two Down that centers on high school speech and debate tournaments. He is on the board of Plum Productions and serves as its casting director, with the same company he has produced and appeared in Prachtoberfest and lowbrow. As a freelance producer, he has worked on Like The Mountains and he also directed the latter production. His first time directing The Fantasticks was as a school student at Plano Senior High. Starting in 2006, Urie began appearing in ABC dramedy Ugly Betty, appearing as Marc St. James and he and the cast were nominated for Screen Actors Guild awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2007 and 2008. The role earned Urie a Ewwy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2009 and he remained with Ugly Betty until the shows cancellation in 2010. Patti LuPone appeared with Urie to play Marcs mother in one episode, during the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, Urie hosted TLCs reality-based series Miss America Reality Check. The program followed the contestants participating in the 2008 Miss America Pageant, Urie has returned often to his theater roots, including his recent direction of a one-night celebrity performed staging of Howard Ashmans unproduced musical Dreamstuff. The musical was re-imagined by Howards partners Marsha Malamet and Dennis Green, eden Espinosa starred in the show along with Fred Willard, Vicki Lewis, David Blue and Luke Macfarlane. He has also been on Live With Regis and Kelly and has starred in the 2008 Disney blockbuster production Beverly Hills Chihuahua as the voice of Sebastian. On October 29,2008, he appeared as a guest presenter on the British National Television Awards, Urie originated the role of Rudi Gernreich in the 2009 off-Broadway play The Temperamentals, about the foundation of the early LGBT rights organization the Mattachine Society. Urie received a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, in January 2012, Urie made his Broadway debut, joining the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Tryings second revival
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Urie in 2012
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Miss Dirty Martini, Urie and
Michael Musto at Musto's
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International Emmy Award for Best Actor
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The International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor is a category of the International Emmy Awards, held since 2005 and which awards actors outside the United States. The first actor awarded the International Emmy was Frenchman Thierry Frémont for her performance in the television movie Dans la tête du tueur, in 2006, the British Ray Winstone was awarded the statuette for his role as Vincent Gallagher in Vincent, an ITV drama seriesseries. At the 2007 awards ceremony, the British Jim Broadbent won the award with the Dutch Pierre Bokma, David Suchet won the Emmy in 2008 for his performance as Robert Maxwell in Maxwell, a telefilm directed by Colin Barr. In 2009, Ben Whishaw was awarded for his role in Criminal Justice, in 2010, the award winning Bob Hoskins won the International Emmy for his performance in The Street, a British television drama series created by Jimmy McGovern and directed by David Blair. This was the work of Hoskins on TV. Christopher Eccleston won the award the year for his role in Accused. In 2012, Darío Grandinetti became the first actor in Latin America awarded an Emmy Award, sean Bean won in 2013 for his work in BBC One drama series Accused. In 2014, Stephen Dillane wins for his role as a veteran British detective in the Anglo-French crime drama The Tunnel, in 2016, Dustin Hoffman snagged the best actor award for playing Mr. Hoppy in the BBCs Roald Dahls Esio Trot, an adaptation of the Dahl novel. Best Performance by an Actor, A male individual’s performance in a fiction program. Only performances from a program entered into the competition are eligible, the same performer may be submitted for different productions, as separate submissions. More than one male performance from the production may be submitted. The performer must appear in at least 10% of the running time of the submitted episode in order to be eligible. If the performance is part of a series, only one episode that had its first broadcast within the eligibility dates listed in Section I - Eligibility,2013 Emmy Awards International Emmy Awards
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Stephen Dillane, winner in 2014.
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Sean Bean, winner in 2013.
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Darío Grandinetti, winner in 2012.
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Bob Hoskins, winner in 2010.
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Robin Lord Taylor
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Robin Lord Taylor is an American film and television actor and director, known for Accepted, Another Earth and Would You Rather. He stars in the drama series Gotham as Oswald Cobblepot. Born in Shueyville, Iowa to Robert Harmon Taylor and Mary Susan Taylor and he attended Solon High School and Northwestern University, earning his Bachelor of Science degree in theatre in 2000. While at Northwestern, his roommate was actor Billy Eichner, Taylor has appeared in several television series, such as The Walking Dead, Law & Order, Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife and Person of Interest. He had a role as Darrell, the Late Show page with the fake British accent on Late Show with David Letterman. He played Abernathy Darwin Dunlap in Accepted and he appeared in such independent films as Would You Rather, Cold Comes the Night, and Another Earth, the last of which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Taylor was cast as Oswald Cobblepot in February 2014 and his performance as Cobblepot has been described by Esquire as a standout performance of the first episode disarming and multilayered, by The Wall Street Journal as a passionate performance. Steals the show, and as spectacularly cast as the Penguin, since 2000, he has lived in New York, where Gotham is filmed. In a November 2014 Glamour interview, Taylor was asked, I notice you are wearing a ring on your ring finger. To which he responded, I am married, I like to keep it private, but Ive been married for over three years, and weve been together for 10 1/2. In March 2015, Slate noted Taylor in an article discussing Several actors who are gay or who have been cast in multiple gay or bisexual roles. Taylor, himself, added, I feel like the landscape has totally changed, regardless of sexual preference, its more that as a character actor, the less I reveal about myself, the better. My favorite actors are the ones I know least about, in October 2016, Taylor openly identified as gay. Robin Lord Taylor at the Internet Movie Database Robin Lord Taylor at TVGuide. com Robin Lord Taylor at TV. com Robin Lord Taylor on Twitter Robin Lord Taylor on Instagram
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Taylor at the 2014 NY PaleyFest for
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International Emmy Award for Best Actress
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The International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actress is a category of the International Emmy Awards, held since 2005 and which awards actresses outside the United States. The award ceremony takes place in New York City, the first awarded with the trophy was He Lin by the his role in Slave Mother, a telefilm produced by CCTV6 channel. Dutch Maryam Hassouni won in 2006 for her performance as Laila al Gatawi in Offers, in 2007, the International Emmy for best actress went to French Muriel Robin for her role as Marie Besnard in the Belgian-French telefilm The Poisoner. The first Emmy for best actress for Latin America was won by Argentinas Cristina Banegas for her role in the miniseries Televisión por la Inclusion, followed by Brazils Fernanda Montenegro in 2013. In 2015, Dutch Bianca Krijgsman wins for his performance in De Nieuwe Wereld, germanys Christiane Paul won as best actress for the German show Unterm Radar. Best Performance by an Actress, A female individual’s performance in a fiction program. Only performances from a program entered into the competition are eligible, the same performer may be submitted for different productions, as separate submissions. More than one female performance from the production may be submitted. The performer must appear in at least 10% of the running time of the submitted episode in order to be eligible. If the performance is part of a series, only one episode that had its first broadcast within the eligibility dates listed in Section I - Eligibility,2013 Emmy Awards International Emmy Awards
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Fernanda Montenegro, winner in 2013.
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Cristina Banegas, winner in 2012.
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Julie Walters, winner in 2011.
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Helena Bonham Carter, winner in 2010.
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Anke Engelke
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Anke Christina Fischer is a German comedian, actress and voice-over actress born in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Engelke moved to Cologne in 1971 with her German parents, early on, she exhibited singing talent, and was discovered in 1978 by Georg Bossert at a performance of her schools choir. From 1979 to 1986, she was the presenter of the childrens television show broadcast from the Funkausstellung. From 1978 to 1980, she hosted the show Moment mal on RTL, sWF3 first brought her on board in 1986 as an editor, later on, she was the presenter there until 1998. She has sung with Fred Kellner und die famosen Soul Sisters since 1989, since 1993, she has been part of the SWF3-Comedy-Ensemble Gagtory. From 1994 to 2000, Engelke was married to the keyboardist Andreas Grimm with whom she has a daughter, currently she is married to musician Claus Fischer with whom she has two sons. From 1996 to 2000, she was part of Die Wochenshow on Sat.1, in 2003, Anke Engelke and Olli Dittrich were awarded the Grimme-Preis for the improv show Blind Date 2 - Taxi nach Schweinau. In December 2003, Engelke provided the voice of the fish Dory in the German dubbing of the computer-animated film Finding Nemo and she also provided the voice of Jane Porter in the German dubbing of the Disney movie Tarzan, who is voiced by Minnie Driver in the original version. Engelke can also be seen in the sketch comedy show Ladykracher on Sat.1. Engelke is the German voice of Marge Simpson on The Simpsons since her predecessor Elisabeth Volkmann died in the summer of 2006, Elisabeth Volkmann was Marges German voice for 15 years until her death. Engelkes first episode was My Fair Laddy, which aired in Germany on January 21,2007, in December 2009 she hosted the European Film Awards ceremony, a role she would repeat in 2010,2011 and 2012. In May 2011, she hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf alongside Stefan Raab, the following year, Engelke served as the spokesperson for Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Before presenting the votes, she gave a live statement on the human-rights issues in the hosting country, saying. But it is good to be able to vote, and it is good to have a choice. Good luck on your journey, Azerbaijan and she was the only spokesperson to articulately address human rights during the event. She had also served as one of Germanys national juries for the contest during that year, in February 2013, her involvement with the Eurovision Song Contest continued as she hosted Unser Song für Malmö, the German national final. Brainpools Anke Engelke page Article on sbznet
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Anke Engelke at the
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Lea DeLaria
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Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, actress, and jazz musician. The famously controversial DeLaria was the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier with her 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show and she is best known for her portrayal of inmate Big Boo on Netflix original series Orange is the New Black. DeLaria was born in Belleville, Illinois, the daughter of Jerry Jean, a homemaker, and Robert George DeLaria and she attended kindergarten through eighth grade at St. Marys Elementary School in Belleville, and has referenced her Catholic upbringing in her performances. DeLarias stand-up career began in 1982 when she moved to San Francisco, discussing her stand up, Delaria says, This is who I am, when Im up there. Im a big butch dyke with a smile on my face, in 1986, DeLaria directed Ten Percent Revue, a musical revue with songs related to homosexuality and most of which reflect pride in being gay. Ten Percent Revue was performed in Boston, San Francisco, Provincetown, Philadelphia, in 1988, DeLaria starred in Dos Lesbos, a musical comedy about two lesbians dealing with the issues of living together. The show received favorable reviews nationwide. DeLaria starred in Girl Friday, Were Funny That Way, a musical comedy, when DeLaria appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1993, she was the first openly gay comic to appear on a late-night talk-show. While appearing on the show, DeLaria said, Hello everybody, my name is Lea DeLaria, DeLaria later said she had been told that she should not have used the term dyke on the air. Hall later defended her, saying, If she wants to call herself a dyke, in December 1993, DeLaria hosted Comedy Centrals Out There, the first all-gay stand-up comedy special. DeLaria has released two CD recordings of her comedy, Bulldyke in a China Shop and Box Lunch and she has also written a humorous book entitled Leas Book of Rules for the World. DeLaria appeared as Jane in the 1998 Off Broadway production of Paul Rudnicks The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, entertainment Weekly said a star is born with Lea DeLaria of her showstopping performance as Hildy Esterhazy in the 1998 Broadway revival of On the Town. DeLaria subsequently played Eddie and Dr. Scott in the 2000 Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show, DeLaria has also appeared in a number of films, including Edge of Seventeen and The First Wives Club. DeLaria integrates musical performance into her comedy, focusing on traditional. She has even said at her shows It is my goal to bring be-bop jazz back into the gay. In 2001 she released a CD of jazz standards called Play It Cool and this was followed by the album Double Standards in 2003, and by The Very Best of Lea DeLaria in 2008. In 2001, DeLaria was the voice of Helga Phugly on the short-lived, animated sitcom, in 1999 DeLaria played the recurring role of Madame Delphina on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, returning in 2008 as both Delphina and Professor Delbert Fina. She continued to portray Delphina on a basis until 2011
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DeLaria in 2013
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Michael Cudlitz
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Cudlitz was born on Long Island, New York and grew up in Lakewood Township, New Jersey. He is a 1982 graduate of Lakewood High School and he holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated in 1990. While a student at California Institute of the Arts until he landed the role in Band of Brothers, Cudlitz worked in TV, Cudlitz was a construction coordinator on Beverly Hills,90210. His first acting role was in the 1989 film Crystal Ball and he guest starred on Over There. He played Bob Destepello in the 1997 film Grosse Pointe Blank and he also played a 30-second role as a bartender in the movie Forces of Nature in 1999. His breakout role came in 2001 with his portrayal of Sgt, denver Bull Randleman in the World War II miniseries, Band of Brothers. Cudlitz starred on the acclaimed, five-season television drama Southland as patrol officer John Cooper. It was picked up by TNT, who aired the episodes of its first season. The character struggled with back pain, addiction to pain medication. Prior to the start of shooting for the show, Cudlitz had a mole removed from his right upper lip. The show was cancelled in 2013, Cudlitz won the Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role in 2013. In 2009, Cudlitz appeared in the fiction film Surrogates as Colonel Brendon. In 2013, Cudlitz played opposite Melanie Griffith in the movie, from February 2014 until October 2016, he appeared in the AMC TV show The Walking Dead as Sergeant Abraham Ford, a character from the comic series of the same name. His first appearance was in the episode of Season 4. Cudlitzs character was killed off in the episode of the shows seventh season entitled The Day Will Come When You Wont Be. Due to his portrayal of Abraham, Cudlitz has quickly become a fan favorite since his introduction, with many fans paying homage to his quirky, Cudlitz supplied the voice of Sgt. Glenn Hawk Hawkins in the video game Call of Duty 2 and he voiced Corporal Griffen in the video game Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare and its sequel, Call of Duty, Modern Warfare 3. 2013, Critics Choice Awards, Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Southland 2013, Entertainment Industries Council PRISM Awards and they met while students at California Institute of Arts
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Cudlitz at the 2014
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Cudlitz at the
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Karla Mosley
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Karla Cheatham Mosley is an American actress and singer. She starred on the Emmy-nominated childrens show Hi-5, she has starred in plays and also had minor roles in several other TV shows. She regularly appeared as Christina Moore Boudreau in the soap opera Guiding Light and can currently be seen as Maya Avant in The Bold, Karla Cheatham Mosley was born and raised in Westchester, New York. She graduated from New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts, with honors, at a young age, Mosley performed in Sugar Beats, a childrens rock group, where she sang such hits as Rockin Robin. In 2003, while still in college, Mosley joined the American counterpart of the Australian childrens TV show Hi-5 and her segment was called Body Move, where she led viewers in stretching, exercising, and silly dances. She was usually the member of the group, performing her skits in between other cast members acts. She also provided the voice of Chatterbox on the show and she was the American counterpart of Charli Robinson. In 2006, Mosley left the cast of Hi-5 in order to other interests. Mosley played the role of Christina Moore Boudreau on the now defunct soap opera Guiding Light, Christina is a pre-med student who married Remy Boudreau. In 2013, Mosley joined the cast of The Bold and the Beautiful as ex-con turned actress Maya Avant, Karla completed a website series titled Room 8 The Series with her co-star from The Bold and the Beautiful, Lawrence Saint-Victor. The web series was part of the B&B storyline, Karlas character has recently been revealed to be a transgender woman. In 2015 Karlas character became the first transgender bride to be married on daytime television when she married Rick Forrester, Mosley also appears in many local New York City venues, sometimes as singer, sometimes actor. In 2007, Mosley starred in the production of Dreamgirls at the TUTS Theater in Houston. Mosley appeared in the childrens production, Max and Ruby in 2007–2008. Additionally, she had a part in the Coen Brothers film, Burn After Reading, Mosley will also be seen in the indy film, Red Hook. In 2008, Mosley starred with Lenelle Moise in Expatriate, a gritty off-Broadway show at the Culture Project. Her performance earned rave reviews from the New York Times, Time Out New York and Variety, in 2008 she also nabbed parts in Law & Order and Gossip Girl and appeared in Museum Pieces at the West End Theater in New York City. In 2013, Mosley appeared in episodes of Hart of Dixie
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Mosley performs at a Hi-5 concert.
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Piolo Pascual
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Piolo Jose Nonato Pascual is a Filipino film and television actor, musician, model, and producer. Piolo Pascual, born at 8,46 PM on January 12,1977 at Ospital ng Maynila Medical Center in Malate, Manila, is the youngest son of Amelia Amy Nonato Pascual and Philip Victoriano Pascual. While growing up, Pascual enjoyed a close bond with his siblings—Chiqui, Paulette, Pam, Choi, and Patricia—despite their own fathers early death. His father was a director for international films that are shot in the Philippines, though Pascual cant recall if it affected his ambition on becoming an actor. He lived a life, he went to school and spent time on outings. Pascual attended elementary and high school at St. Francis School in Santa Ana, when he was in 5th Grade, Piolo joined the school theater group, Teatro Ni Kiko, where he was introduced to the world of theater and acting. While he was in third year high school, Pascual started appearing in Thats Entertainment and he eventually left Thats Entertainment, however, to get into college full-time, studying at the University of Santo Tomas, where he studied AB General Education. He later shifted to Physical Therapy in preparation for his immigration to the U. S. Around 1996, however, Piolo had to put his studies and they lived in Los Angeles, where he worked as an ER representative in a hospital where his mother worked. When Pascual turned 21, he decided to return to Manila in order to pursue his career once again. In 1994, Pascual started his career in Thats Entertainment, then he appeared in some TV shows including Mara Clara, and Gimik. His loveteam with Judy Ann Santos became phenomenal in early 2000s and their four movies, Kahit Isang Saglit, Bakit Di Totohanin, Till There Was You, and Dont Give Up on Us, earned more than P100 million in the box office. His movie with Claudine Barretto, Milan, became his top-grossing film up to date, in 2002, Pascual played the role of Jules in the award-winning film, Dekada 70. In 2003, Pascual ventured into music with his debut album Piolo which went platinum and his second album My Gift hit Platinum status as well. His 5th solo album Timeless hit Triple Platinum status, Pascual is a member of ABS-CBNs Star Magic. He celebrated his 10th year anniversary in 2007 with a coffee table book, a solo album. In 2008, he starred in a fantasy TV series Lobo together with Angel Locsin, the show gained accolades from Banff World Media Festival and International Emmy Awards. In 2009, Pascual became a producer for Manila, an independent twinbill film under Bicycle Pictures
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Pascual at the Star Magic Concert Tour in Ontario, CA, June 2009
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George Takei
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George Hosato Takei is an American actor, director, author, and activist of Japanese descent. Takei is best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek and he also portrayed the character in six Star Trek feature films and one episode of Star Trek, Voyager. Takeis involvement in media has brought him fresh attention. As of February 2017, his Facebook page has over 10 million likes since he joined in 2011, Takei is a proponent of LGBT rights and is active in state and local politics. He has won awards and accolades in his work on human rights and Japan–United States relations. His father was an Anglophile, and named him George after King George VI of the United Kingdom, whose coronation took place in 1937, shortly after Takeis birth. In 1942, the Takei family was forced to live in the horse stables of Santa Anita Park before being sent to the Rohwer War Relocation Center for internment in Rohwer. The family was transferred to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. George Takei had several relatives living in Japan during World War II, among them, he had an aunt and infant cousin who lived in Hiroshima who were both killed during the atomic bombing that destroyed the city. In Takeis own words, my aunt and baby cousin found burnt in a ditch in Hiroshima, at the end of World War II, Takei and his family returned to Los Angeles. He attended Mount Vernon Junior High School, where he served as student body president at Los Angeles High School and he was a member of Boy Scout Troop 379 of the Koyasan Buddhist Temple. Upon graduation from school, Takei enrolled in the University of California. Later he attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in theater in 1960 and he attended the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon in England, and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. In Hollywood, he studied acting at the Desilu Workshop, Takei began his career in Hollywood in the late 1950s, providing voiceover for characters in the English dub of the Japanese monster films Godzilla Raids Again a. k. a. Gigantis the Fire Monster, for the latter of which he recalled, here was one word that we had difficulty getting the meaning of. The Japanese word was bakayaro, which means stupid fool, the director, Takei said, had him use the phrase banana oil. He went on to appear in the television series Playhouse 90. He guest starred in the season fifth episode of Hawaiian Eye Thomas Jefferson Chu
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Takei at the 2013 Florida SuperCon
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Takei as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu
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Takei with his husband, Brad Altman (right), posing with a fan at
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Takei at the
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Leandra Leal
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Leandra Rodrigues Leal Braz e Silva is a Brazilian actress. She is the granddaughter of the cultural producer Américo Leal and daughter of actress Ângela Leal and she started in drama at the age of seven, and eight on television, when participated in the last chapter of the soap opera Pantanal, in which her mother also worked. In 2000 she co-starred in the miniseries A Muralha and then the sopa opera O Cravo e a Rosa, in 2002 she participated in the Pastores da Noite miniseries, and in 2003, she was present in a season of childrens series Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. She also came to participate in some episodes of A Grande Família, in 2004 she served in the soap opera Senhora do Destino, getting the sympathy of the audience by clashing with the villain Nazaré, played by Renata Sorrah. Later that year, she served in the film Cazuza - O Tempo Não Pára, as Bebel. In 2008 she co-starred in the remake of Ciranda de Pedra as Elzinha, at the end of the year, she debuted as a director in the Mercadorias e Futuro goods and theatrical spectacle, with José Paes de Lira. Shes flagship holder of the largest block of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, in 2012, he was in the episode A Sexóloga de Floripa in series As Brasileiras. And the soap opera is Cheias de Charme, playing Maria do Rosário, in 2013 was cast in the remake of Saramandaia, which give life to veterinary Zélia, one of the central characters of trama. 2008 - Participated in the song Certeza from the album Na Confraria das Sedutoras by 3 na Massa, leandra Leal at the Internet Movie Database
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Leandra Leal 2014
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Elizabeth McGovern
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Elizabeth Lee McGovern is an American film, television, and theater actor, and musician. She received an Academy Award nomination for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the 1981 film Ragtime. She is also known for her performance as Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham in the British drama series Downton Abbey, for which she has been nominated for an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award. The McGovern family moved to Los Angeles, where her father accepted a position with the law school at UCLA. Her younger sister is the novelist Cammie McGovern, agent Joan Scott saw her performance in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, was impressed by her talent, and recommended she take acting lessons. McGovern studied at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, then at The Juilliard School in New York City. In 1980, while studying at Juilliard, McGovern was offered a part in what became her first film, Ordinary People, in which she played the girlfriend of troubled teenager Conrad Jarrett. The following year she completed her education at the American Conservatory Theatre and Juilliard. In 1981 she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the film Ragtime, in 1984, she starred in Sergio Leones gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America as Robert De Niros romantic interest Deborah Gelly. She teamed with Michael Caine in 1990s A Shock to the System, in a 1994 comedy, The Favor, McGovern played a woman who cheats on her boyfriend by becoming her married best friends proxy in a tryst with a man the friend has fantasized about. McGovern appeared in a number of films in the 2000s, including Woman in Gold, McGovern has appeared in several television productions, mostly in the UK. In 1999 and 2000 McGovern played Marguerite St, just in a BBC television series loosely based on the novel The Scarlet Pimpernel. On American TV, she appeared in a 2006 episode of Law & Order, Special Victims Unit titled Harm, in which her character of Dr. Faith Sutton was a psychiatrist accused of complicity in detainee abuse. In May 2007, she played Ellen Doubleday, Daphne du Mauriers paramour, in Daphne, in December 2008, McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in Appointment with Death, an episode of Agatha Christies Poirot. In the same year, she appeared in the three-part BBC comedy series Freezing, written by James Wood, first broadcast on BBC Four, it was also shown on BBC2 in February 2008. McGovern played an American expatriate actress named Elizabeth, living in Chiswick with her husband, played by Hugh Bonneville. From 2010 to 2015, she portrayed Cora, Countess of Grantham, wife of Robert, in 2008 she began fronting the band Sadie and the Hotheads at The Castle pub venue in Portobello Road, London. The band released an album of songs she developed with The Nelson Brothers, the album also includes Ron Knights on bass and Rowan Oliver, borrowed from Goldfrapp, as drummer for the recording sessions
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Elizabeth McGovern at the
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Michael Douglas
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Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer. Douglass career includes a range of films in independent and blockbuster genres, for which he has received a number of accolades. These awards include the Golden Globe Cecil B. Douglas is the son of Kirk Douglas. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Drama from the University of California and his early acting roles included film, stage, and television productions. Douglas first achieved prominence for his performance in the ABC police procedural television series The Streets of San Francisco, in 1975 Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, having acquired the rights to the Ken Kesey novel from his father. The film received critical and popular acclaim, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture, after leaving The Streets of San Francisco in 1976, Douglas went on to produce films including The China Syndrome and Romancing the Stone. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Romancing the Stone, in which he also starred and he reprised the role in the sequel Wall Street, Money Never Sleeps. Douglass subsequent film roles included, Black Rain, The War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, The American President, The Game, Traffic and Wonder Boys, Solitary Man, and Ant-Man. Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first child of actors Kirk Douglas and his parents met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Chavusy, and his father was born Issur Danielovitch and his mother was from Devonshire Parish, Bermuda, and had English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Belgian, and Dutch ancestry. Douglas has a brother, Joel Douglas, and two paternal half-brothers, Peter Douglas and Eric Douglas, from stepmother Anne Buydens. Douglas attended The Allen-Stevenson School in New York City, Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and he received his B. A. in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, where he was also the Honorary President of the UCSB Alumni Association. He studied acting with Wynn Handman at The American Place Theatre in New York City and his first TV breakthrough role came with a 1969 CBS-TV Playhouse special, The Experiment—and it was the only time he was billed as M. K. Douglas. Michael Douglas started his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s, appearing in little known films such as Hail. Adam at 6 A. M. and Summertree, earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Male Newcomer. His first significant role came in the TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976, Douglas later said that Malden became a mentor and someone he admired and loved deeply. After Douglas left the show, he had an association with his mentor until Maldens death on July 1,2009. In 2004, Douglas presented Malden with the Monte Cristo Award of the Eugene ONeill Theater Center in Waterford, in 1975, Douglas received from his father, Kirk Douglas, the rights to the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
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Douglas at the 2013
Deauville Film Festival
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Douglas in 1969 with
Tisha Sterling in the CBS Playhouse production,
The Experiment, Douglas's first television role
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Douglas in
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Douglas in June 2004
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Colombia
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Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a transcontinental country largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America. Colombia shares a border to the northwest with Panama, to the east with Venezuela and Brazil and to the south with Ecuador and it shares its maritime limits with Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It is a unitary, constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments, the territory of what is now Colombia was originally inhabited by indigenous peoples including the Muisca, the Quimbaya and the Tairona. The Spanish arrived in 1499 and initiated a period of conquest and colonization ultimately creating the Viceroyalty of New Granada, independence from Spain was won in 1819, but by 1830 the Gran Colombia Federation was dissolved. What is now Colombia and Panama emerged as the Republic of New Granada, the new nation experimented with federalism as the Granadine Confederation, and then the United States of Colombia, before the Republic of Colombia was finally declared in 1886. Since the 1960s the country has suffered from an asymmetric low-intensity armed conflict, Colombia is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse countries in the world, and thereby possesses a rich cultural heritage. Cultural diversity has also influenced by Colombias varied geography. The urban centres are located in the highlands of the Andes mountains. Colombian territory also encompasses Amazon rainforest, tropical grassland and both Caribbean and Pacific coastlines, ecologically, it is one of the worlds 17 megadiverse countries, and the most densely biodiverse of these per square kilometer. Colombia is a power and a regional actor with the fourth-largest economy in Latin America, is part of the CIVETS group of six leading emerging markets and is an accessing member to the OECD. Colombia has an economy with macroeconomic stability and favorable growth prospects in the long run. The name Colombia is derived from the last name of Christopher Columbus and it was conceived by the Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to all the New World, but especially to those portions under Spanish and Portuguese rule. The name was adopted by the Republic of Colombia of 1819. When Venezuela, Ecuador and Cundinamarca came to exist as independent states, New Granada officially changed its name in 1858 to the Granadine Confederation. In 1863 the name was changed, this time to United States of Colombia. To refer to country, the Colombian government uses the terms Colombia. Owing to its location, the present territory of Colombia was a corridor of early human migration from Mesoamerica, the oldest archaeological finds are from the Pubenza and El Totumo sites in the Magdalena Valley 100 km southwest of Bogotá. These sites date from the Paleoindian period, at Puerto Hormiga and other sites, traces from the Archaic Period have been found
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San Agustín Archaeological Park
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Muisca raft. The figure refers to the ceremony of the legend of
El Dorado. The legend and the gold would play a pivotal role in luring Europeans to New Granada during the 16th and 17th centuries.
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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Stonehenge, in
Wiltshire, was erected around 2500 BC.
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The
Bayeux Tapestry depicts the
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The
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South Korea
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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a sovereign state in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The earliest Korean pottery dates to 8000 BC, with three kingdoms flourishing in the 1st century BC and its rich and vibrant culture left 19 UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity, the third largest in the world, along with 12 World Heritage Sites. Annexed into Imperial Japan in 1910, Korea was divided after its surrender in 1945, peace has since mostly continued with the two agreeing to work peacefully for reunification and the South solidifying peace as a regional power with the worlds 10th largest defence budget. South Koreas tiger economy soared at an average of 10% for over 30 years in a period of rapid transformation called the Miracle on the Han River. A long legacy of openness and focus on innovation made it successful, today, it is the worlds fifth largest exporter with the G20s largest budget surplus and highest credit rating of any country in East Asia. It has free trade agreements with 75% of the economy and is the only G20 nation trading freely with China, the US. Since 1988, its constitution guarantees a liberal democracy with high government transparency, high personal freedoms led to the rise of a globally influential pop culture such as K-pop and K-drama, a phenomenon called the Korean Wave, known for its distinctive fashionable and trendy style. Home of the UN Green Climate Fund and GGGI, South Korea is a leader in low carbon growth, committed to helping developing countries as a major DAC. It is the third least ignorant country in the Index of Ignorance, ranking eighth highest for peaceful tolerance. It is the worlds largest spender on R&D per GDP, leading the OECD in graduates in science, the name Korea derives from the name Goryeo. The name Goryeo itself was first used by the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo in the 5th century as a form of its name. The 10th-century kingdom of Goryeo succeeded Goguryeo, and thus inherited its name, the modern spelling of Korea first appeared in the late 17th century in the travel writings of the Dutch East India Companys Hendrick Hamel. After Goryeo was replaced by Joseon in 1392, Joseon became the name for the entire territory. The new official name has its origin in the ancient country of Gojoseon, in 1897, the Joseon dynasty changed the official name of the country from Joseon to Daehan Jeguk. The name Daehan, which means great Han literally, derives from Samhan, however, the name Joseon was still widely used by Koreans to refer to their country, though it was no longer the official name. Under Japanese rule, the two names Han and Joseon coexisted, there were several groups who fought for independence, the most notable being the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. Following the surrender of Japan, in 1945, the Republic of Korea was adopted as the name for the new country. Since the government only controlled the part of the Korean Peninsula
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Balhae and
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Jikji, the first known book printed with movable metal type in 1377. Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris
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Korean Broadcasting System
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Korean Broadcasting System is the national public broadcaster of South Korea. It was founded in 1927, and operates radio, television and online services, KBS began as Kyeongseong Broadcasting Corporation that was established by the Governor-General of Korea on 16 February 1927. This second radio station started using the call sign HLKA in 1947 after the Republic of Korea got the call sign HL of the International Telecommunication Union, after doing a national broadcast, the radio was renamed Seoul Central Broadcasting Station in 1948. Television broadcasts in South Korea began on 12 May 1956 with the first television station HLKZ-TV and it was sold to KBS in 1961. KBS station status changed from government to public broadcasting station on 3 March 1973, construction of KBS headquarters in Yeouido started in 1976. In 1979, KBS radio began broadcasting on the FM wave with the launch of KBS Stereo, in 1981, KBS launched KBS 3TV and Educational FM, and on 27 December 1990, the channels split from KBS to form the Educational Broadcasting System. After a revision of the licensing fee system in 1994. KBS is a public corporation funded by the South Korean government and license fees, as part of the Constitution, the president of KBS is chosen by the President of South Korea, after being recommended by its board of directors. Political parties in South Korea also have the right to name members of the KBS board of directors, around 37. 8% of KBS revenue comes from a mandatory television licence fee of 2,200 won, with another 47. 6% coming from commercial advertisement sales. KBS international output such as KBS World, as well as specialised services such as KBS Radio 3 for the disabled, KBS1 - KBS flagship channel, it broadcasts news and current affairs, education, sports and culture. It launched in 1961 as HLKA-TV and is funded by the license fee. It is available nationally on channel 9, broadcasting via digital terrestrial television, KBS1 also airs public information films and minor entertainment programming, but the majority of which is on KBS2. KBS2 - KBS entertainment and drama channel, it was launched in 1980 as a replacement for the Tongyang Broadcasting Corporation and it is available on digital channel 7 via digital terrestrial television. KBS2 also airs public information films and less news and current affairs programming, KBS UHD - The Ultra High Definition channel. Airs music videos and re-runs of dramas and it is on national terrestrial digital channel 66. KBS1 and KBS2 phased out analogue services on December 31,2012 as part of the switchover to digital television, KBS Prime - A culture and drama channel, launched in 1995 as KBS Satellite 2. It was renamed as KBS Korea in 2002, before becoming Prime, KBS Drama - formerly KBS Sky Drama, it was launched in 2002. KBS N Sports - formerly KBS Sports/KBS Sky Sports, it was launched in 2002
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KBS headquarters in Seoul
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KBS Cool FM Radio studios.
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KBS regional broadcasting station in
Changwon
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Netherlands
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The Netherlands is the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a densely populated country located in Western Europe with three territories in the Caribbean. The European part of the Netherlands borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, sharing borders with Belgium, the United Kingdom. The three largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague, Amsterdam is the countrys capital, while The Hague holds the Dutch seat of parliament and government. The port of Rotterdam is the worlds largest port outside East-Asia, the name Holland is used informally to refer to the whole of the country of the Netherlands. Netherlands literally means lower countries, influenced by its low land and flat geography, most of the areas below sea level are artificial. Since the late 16th century, large areas have been reclaimed from the sea and lakes, with a population density of 412 people per km2 –507 if water is excluded – the Netherlands is classified as a very densely populated country. Only Bangladesh, South Korea, and Taiwan have both a population and higher population density. Nevertheless, the Netherlands is the worlds second-largest exporter of food and agricultural products and this is partly due to the fertility of the soil and the mild climate. In 2001, it became the worlds first country to legalise same-sex marriage, the Netherlands is a founding member of the EU, Eurozone, G-10, NATO, OECD and WTO, as well as being a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union. The first four are situated in The Hague, as is the EUs criminal intelligence agency Europol and this has led to the city being dubbed the worlds legal capital. The country also ranks second highest in the worlds 2016 Press Freedom Index, the Netherlands has a market-based mixed economy, ranking 17th of 177 countries according to the Index of Economic Freedom. It had the thirteenth-highest per capita income in the world in 2013 according to the International Monetary Fund, in 2013, the United Nations World Happiness Report ranked the Netherlands as the seventh-happiest country in the world, reflecting its high quality of life. The Netherlands also ranks joint second highest in the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, the region called Low Countries and the country of the Netherlands have the same toponymy. Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nether and Nedre and Bas or Inferior are in use in all over Europe. They are sometimes used in a relation to a higher ground that consecutively is indicated as Upper, Boven, Oben. In the case of the Low Countries / the Netherlands the geographical location of the region has been more or less downstream. The geographical location of the region, however, changed over time tremendously
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The Netherlands in 5500 BC
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The Netherlands in 500 BC
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An oak figurine found in
Willemstad, North Brabant (4500 BC).
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Turkey
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Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, parliamentary republic with a cultural heritage. The country is encircled by seas on three sides, the Aegean Sea is to the west, the Black Sea to the north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles, Ankara is the capital while Istanbul is the countrys largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Approximately 70-80% of the countrys citizens identify themselves as ethnic Turks, other ethnic groups include legally recognised and unrecognised minorities. Kurds are the largest ethnic minority group, making up approximately 20% of the population, the area of Turkey has been inhabited since the Paleolithic by various ancient Anatolian civilisations, as well as Assyrians, Greeks, Thracians, Phrygians, Urartians and Armenians. After Alexander the Greats conquest, the area was Hellenized, a process continued under the Roman Empire. The Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm ruled Anatolia until the Mongol invasion in 1243, the empire reached the peak of its power in the 16th century, especially during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent. During the war, the Ottoman government committed genocides against its Armenian, Assyrian, following the war, the conglomeration of territories and peoples that formerly comprised the Ottoman Empire was partitioned into several new states. Turkey is a member of the UN, an early member of NATO. Turkeys growing economy and diplomatic initiatives have led to its recognition as a regional power while her location has given it geopolitical, the name of Turkey is based on the ethnonym Türk. The first recorded use of the term Türk or Türük as an autonym is contained in the Old Turkic inscriptions of the Göktürks of Central Asia, the English name Turkey first appeared in the late 14th century and is derived from Medieval Latin Turchia. Similarly, the medieval Khazar Empire, a Turkic state on the shores of the Black. The medieval Arabs referred to the Mamluk Sultanate as al-Dawla al-Turkiyya, the Ottoman Empire was sometimes referred to as Turkey or the Turkish Empire among its European contemporaries. The Anatolian peninsula, comprising most of modern Turkey, is one of the oldest permanently settled regions in the world, various ancient Anatolian populations have lived in Anatolia, from at least the Neolithic period until the Hellenistic period. Many of these peoples spoke the Anatolian languages, a branch of the larger Indo-European language family, in fact, given the antiquity of the Indo-European Hittite and Luwian languages, some scholars have proposed Anatolia as the hypothetical centre from which the Indo-European languages radiated. The European part of Turkey, called Eastern Thrace, has also been inhabited since at least forty years ago. It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date, the settlement of Troy started in the Neolithic Age and continued into the Iron Age
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Some
henges at
Göbekli Tepe were erected as far back as 12,000 BC, predating those of
Stonehenge,
England by almost ten millennia.
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The Lion Gate in
Hattusa, capital of the
Hittite Empire. The city's history dates back to the 6th millennium BC.
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The
Library of Celsus in
Ephesus was built by the
Romans in 135 AD. The
Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, built by king
Croesus of
Lydia in the 6th century BC, was one of the
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Brazil
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Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. As the worlds fifth-largest country by area and population, it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language. Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to wildlife, a variety of ecological systems. This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, Brazil was inhabited by numerous tribal nations prior to the landing in 1500 of explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, who claimed the area for the Portuguese Empire. Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1808, when the capital of the empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, in 1815, the colony was elevated to the rank of kingdom upon the formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. Independence was achieved in 1822 with the creation of the Empire of Brazil, a state governed under a constitutional monarchy. The ratification of the first constitution in 1824 led to the formation of a bicameral legislature, the country became a presidential republic in 1889 following a military coup détat. An authoritarian military junta came to power in 1964 and ruled until 1985, Brazils current constitution, formulated in 1988, defines it as a democratic federal republic. The federation is composed of the union of the Federal District, the 26 states, Brazils economy is the worlds ninth-largest by nominal GDP and seventh-largest by GDP as of 2015. A member of the BRICS group, Brazil until 2010 had one of the worlds fastest growing economies, with its economic reforms giving the country new international recognition. Brazils national development bank plays an important role for the economic growth. Brazil is a member of the United Nations, the G20, BRICS, Unasul, Mercosul, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States, CPLP. Brazil is a power in Latin America and a middle power in international affairs. One of the worlds major breadbaskets, Brazil has been the largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years and it is likely that the word Brazil comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology red like an ember, formed from Latin brasa and the suffix -il. As brazilwood produces a red dye, it was highly valued by the European cloth industry and was the earliest commercially exploited product from Brazil. The popular appellation eclipsed and eventually supplanted the official Portuguese name, early sailors sometimes also called it the Land of Parrots. In the Guarani language, a language of Paraguay, Brazil is called Pindorama
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Megaliths in the
Solstice Archaeological Park, in
Amapá, erected between 500 and 2000 years ago, probably to carry out
astronomical observations.
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Representation of the landing of
Pedro Álvares Cabral in
Porto Seguro, 1500.
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Painting showing the arrest of
Tiradentes; he was sentenced to death for his involvement in the best known
movement for independence in Colonial Brazil.
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HBO Brasil
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HBO Brazil is the Brazilian version of HBO, a pay TV channel dedicated to feature films, series and other special content since 1994. As with its American counterpart, HBO Brazil has premium characteristics and it is also the flagship network on HBO Max, the channel package offered by its programmer, HBO Latin America Group, along with the movie-oriented Max channel. The first signs of a Latin American expansion of HBO came with the debut of Selecciones in 1989, up to the end of 1991, HBO already had a channel operating in Latin America, although not in Portuguese. The groups initial operations in the region happened with a partnership between Time Warner with Venezuelan-owned Omnivisión Latin Entertainment, forming HBO Olé Partners in that year, currently known as HBO Latin America Group, the company still maintains HBO and several other licensed channels. Afterwards, Sony Pictures joined, guaranteeing exclusivity on Columbia and TriStar Pictures releases, soon after the launch of the Latin American initiative, HBO Olé was seeking a partner for its Brazilian arrival. Two large media groups in Brazil, Organizações Globo and Grupo Abril, were looking for partnerships with major studios in order to acquire content for their movie channels. HBO was considered by Globo, but the deal never went forward because itd guarantee only Warner Bros. at the time, the definitive choice was Grupo Abril, which was starting TVA, its cable provider, to join as a minor shareholder. HBO Brazil went on the air on July 1,1994, HBO also established itself as a programmer of other networks in Brazil. Its first foray was on cable, with Sony Entertainment Television. Later, as passed, more channels and partnerships were accomplished by HBO Olé Partners. On TVA, HBO Brazil replaced movie channel Showtime, Abril also assured that HBO was distributed exclusively through TVA. Around the same time, Telecine, from Globosat, was establishing its operations in the country with 20th Century Fox, Paramount, MGM and Universal Pictures. In December 1994, HBO Brazil had its first experimental 3D broadcasts, distributing anaglyph glasses for subscribers, three-dimensional programming consisted of short movies between regular programs. The network was also the first to adopt multiplexing in Brazil by offering HBO2, with the channel programming tape-delayed by 6 hours. In 1997, another joined the network, Walt Disney Pictures. That same year, Cinemax, available in the rest of Latin America since 1994, launches in Brazil, totalling 3 premium channels offered. In October, now being run directly from abroad, another channel was added, Cinemax Prime – this time earlier than the rest of Latin America, which had HBO Plus. The package that had HBO Brazil was finally consolidated on December 18,2003, with this, it now had five channels, HBO, HBO Family, HBO Plus, Cinemax, and Cinemax Prime, each accompanied by its time-shifted companion, totalling 10 channels
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HBO (Brazil)
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Rafe Spall
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Rafe Joseph Spall is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in The Shadow Line, Pete versus Life, One Day, Anonymous, Prometheus, Life of Pi, Spall was born at Kings College Hospital in Camberwell, London, the second of three children of Shane and actor Timothy Spall. Named after the protagonist in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, having achieved poor grades at his school, Haberdashers Askes Hatcham College, he left to become an actor and joined the National Youth Theatre after failing to get into his chosen drama schools. Spall has frequently collaborated with Edgar Wright, appearing in his films Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Worlds End alongside Simon Pegg, Spall was also featured in Wrights segment in the 2007 Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse. In 2007 he performed for the first time with his father in the ITV adaptation of A Room with a View playing father and son. In 2012, Spall portrayed Canadian author Yann Martel in the Academy Award-winning drama film Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee and starring Suraj Sharma, the film was a critical and financial success, winning four Academy Awards and making over $600 million at the box office. In 2013, he played the husband in I Give It a Year. In 2014, Spall appeared in the coming-of-age drama X+Y, alongside Asa Butterfield and Sally Hawkins, also that year, Spall played Harry Price in Harry Price, Ghost Hunter, ITVs adaptation of Neil Springs debut novel, The Ghost Hunters. The film aired on ITV1 on 27 December, Spall is due to portray a new character in the fifth installment of Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park series, which is currently being helmed by The Impossible director J. A. Spall claims to have struggled with his weight, going up to 114 kg. Like his father, he is a keen supporter of Crystal Palace. He is a patron of the Actors Centre, in February 2008, Spall met actress Elize du Toit through friends at a bar in London. They were married on 14 August 2010 and live in West Kensington, London and they have two children, a daughter named Lena and a son named Rex. co
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Spall in 2011
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Channel 4
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Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter group in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services, BBC1, BBC2, and ITV. The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, after some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982. Indeed, television sets throughout the 1970s and early 1980s had a spare channel called ITV/IBA2. It was most likely politics which had the biggest impact in leading to a delay of almost three decades before the commercial channel became a reality. The campaign was taken so seriously by Gwynfor Evans, former president of Plaid Cymru, the result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by Sianel Pedwar Cymru. Operated by a specially created authority, S4C would air programmes in Welsh made by HTV, since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available. The first programme to air on the channel was the game show Countdown. The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second, the first woman on the channel, contrary to popular belief, was not Carol Vorderman and was a lexicographer only ever identified as Mary. Whiteley opened the show with the words, On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran until 2003. On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, Channel 4 co-commissioned Robert Ashleys ground-breaking television opera Perfect Lives, which it premiered over several episodes in 1984. The channel often did not receive mass audiences for much of period, however. Channel 4 for many years had a poorer quality signal compared to other channels, Channel 4 also began the funding of independent films, such as the Merchant-Ivory docudrama The Courtesans of Bombay, during this time. In 1992, Channel 4 also faced its first libel case by Jani Allan, a South African journalist, who objected to her representation in the documentary The Leader, His Driver and the Drivers Wife. After control of the station passed from the Channel Four Television Company to the Channel Four Television Corporation in 1993, instead of aiming for the fringes of society, it began to focus on the edges of the mainstream, and the centre of the mass market itself. It began to show many US programmes in peak viewing time and it gave such shows as Friends and ER their UK premières. In the early 2000s, Channel 4 began broadcasting reality formats such as Big Brother and obtained the rights to broadcast mass appeal sporting events like cricket and this new direction increased ratings and revenues. In addition, the corporation launched a number of new channels through its new 4Ventures offshoot, including Film4, At the Races, E4
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Norway
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The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land, until 1814, the kingdom included the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It also included Isle of Man until 1266, Shetland and Orkney until 1468, Norway has a total area of 385,252 square kilometres and a population of 5,258,317. The country shares a long border with Sweden. Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. King Harald V of the Dano-German House of Glücksburg is the current King of Norway, erna Solberg became Prime Minister in 2013, replacing Jens Stoltenberg. A constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the Parliament, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, as determined by the 1814 Constitution, the kingdom is established as a merger of several petty kingdoms. By the traditional count from the year 872, the kingdom has existed continuously for 1,144 years, Norway has both administrative and political subdivisions on two levels, counties and municipalities. The Sámi people have an amount of self-determination and influence over traditional territories through the Sámi Parliament. Norway maintains close ties with the European Union and the United States, the country maintains a combination of market economy and a Nordic welfare model with universal health care and a comprehensive social security system. Norway has extensive reserves of petroleum, natural gas, minerals, lumber, seafood, the petroleum industry accounts for around a quarter of the countrys gross domestic product. On a per-capita basis, Norway is the worlds largest producer of oil, the country has the fourth-highest per capita income in the world on the World Bank and IMF lists. On the CIAs GDP per capita list which includes territories and some regions, from 2001 to 2006, and then again from 2009 to 2017, Norway had the highest Human Development Index ranking in the world. It also has the highest inequality-adjusted ranking, Norway ranks first on the World Happiness Report, the OECD Better Life Index, the Index of Public Integrity and the Democracy Index. Norway has two names, Noreg in Nynorsk and Norge in Bokmål. The name Norway comes from the Old English word Norðrveg mentioned in 880, meaning way or way leading to the north. In contrasting with suðrvegar southern way for Germany, and austrvegr eastern way for the Baltic, the Anglo-Saxon of Britain also referred to the kingdom of Norway in 880 as Norðmanna land. This was the area of Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, and because of him
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The
helmet found at Gjermundbu near
Haugsbygd,
Buskerud, is the only
Viking Age helmet that has been found.
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The
Gokstad ship at the
Viking Ship Museum in
Oslo, Norway
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The
Battle of the Sound between an allied Dano-Norwegian–
Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy, 8 November 1658 (29 October
O.S.)
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Fernanda Montenegro
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Also for this work, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. It is the highest award that a civilian can receive from the Presidency of the Republic, in 2013, she won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress, in the special television film Sweet Mother. She is commonly revered as one of Brazils finest actresses and referred to as The First Lady of Brazilian Theater, Montenegro was born Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Silva in Rio de Janeiro, of Portuguese and Italian descent, from the island of Sardinia. Regarding the adoption of a name, the actress has stated that she chose Fernanda simply because of its sonority. Montenegro was married to Fernando Torres from 1954 until his death in 2008 and they had two children, Fernanda Torres who won the Best Actress prize in Cannes Film Festival and film director Cláudio Torres. In late 1940s, Montenegro was adapting famous theatre plays to radio and she began her artistic life in the theatre with the play Alegres Canções nas Montanhas in 1950. Among her mates was Fernando Torres, who would become her husband. In the next years she worked with acclaimed actors like Sérgio Britto, Cacilda Becker, Nathalia Timberg, Cláudio Correa e Castro. In 1951 she became a TV pioneer in Brazil, working for Rio de Janeiros TV Tupi – the second TV station of South America and she played in several plays on TV between 1951 and 1970. Moving to São Paulo in the early 1960s, Montenegro initially worked solely on theatre, in 1963 she take her first role in a telenovela Pouco Amor Não é Amor. Throughout the 1970s Montenegro moved away from television, rather focusing on her theatre, still, a televised performance in Euripides’ classic play Medea, in 1973, was lauded by reviewers. The 1980s marked Montenegros return to television in full force, in the latter, Montenegro once again left a significant impression in Brazilian pop culture, starring in a now-immortalized food fight scene, opposite Paulo Autran. Throughout this decade, Montenegro won her second and third Best Actress in Television Awards, by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics, for her work in Brilhante and Guerra dos Sexos. After a series of changes in attempt to salvage it from failure, still facing overall rejection. Despite its being a considerable letdown, Zazá was soon eclipsed by the monumental success Montenegros film career witnessed with the release of Central Station, in 2001, another attempt was made in telenovela comedy with As Filhas da Mãe, which covered the backstage of Brazilian Fashion Industry. Short of a scene, early on, which featured Montenegros character winning an Oscar, the telenovela was, once more. Lackluster ratings and overall negative reviews led to its swift cancellation, nevertheless, Montenegro still managed to be nominated as Best Actress in the Contigo Awards, which laureates excellence in Brazilian telenovelas. The following year, Montenegro shifted towards primetime drama, opting for a role in the first stage of the telenovela Esperança
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Fernanda Montenegro in 2003
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The actress Fernanda Montenegro in a dramatic reading workshop in
Brasil Telecom 's headquarters in 2003.
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The actress Fernanda Montenegro is awarded with the medal Euvaldo Lodi, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI).
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Fernanda Montenegro during presentation of the play Viver sem tempos mortos in 2012.
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Rede Globo
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Rede Globo, or simply Globo, is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, launched by media proprietor Roberto Marinho on 26 April 1965. It is owned by media conglomerate Grupo Globo, being by far the largest of its holdings, Globo is headquartered in the Jardim Botânico neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, where its news division is based. The networks main studios are located at a complex dubbed Estúdios Globo. It is composed of 122 owned and affiliate stations throughout Brazil plus its own international networks, Globo TV International. In 2007, Globo moved its operations to high-definition television production for digital broadcasting. Rede Globo is one of the largest media companies in the world, through its network, the broadcaster covers 98. 6% of Brazils territory. Recognized for its quality, the company has already been presented with 14 international Emmys. In July 1957, Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek approved a request by Radio Globo to establish a television channel, on 30 December 1957, the National Council of Telecommunication published a decree which granted a channel in Rio de Janeiro to TV Globo Ltda. Globo then started preparing the beginning of its broadcasting operations. Globo began broadcasting on 26 April 1965 in Rio de Janeiro on channel four and that same day, at about 10,45 a. m. Rubens Amaral formally introduced Rede Globo to viewers in Rio de Janeiro, by May of that same year, the live telecast of the Holy Mass, which later became its longest running and oldest program, was seen for the first time. The following year, Globo purchased another television station, São Paulo-based TV Paulista, expanding its operations, in January 1966, Globo broadcast its first major news coverage on flooding in Rio. Jornal da Globo, another show for the network, was the successor to Ultranoticias. It featured a broadcast time of 15 minutes and was hosted by Hilton Gomez and, later, in 1967, Globo began to build its national network with the affiliation of Porto Alegre-based TV Gaúcha. TV Gaúcha would become Globos affiliate in Florianopolis in the late 1970s and it is one of Globo s oldest affiliates, active since 1962, three years before Globo was launched. Uberlândias TV Triângulo and Goiânias TV Anhanguera soon followed in 1967 and 1968, the now extinct TV Guajará, based in Belém, was launched in 1969, and was followed by TV Verdes Mares the following year. 1968 was also the year in which Globos branch station in Belo Horizonte, Rede Globo Minas, was launched, as well as the very first microwave broadcasts between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. On 1 September 1969, the country and national television broadcasting changed with the premiere of Jornal Nacional and its theme music, The Fuzz by Frank DeVol, became one of the shows trademarks, together with the program logo and the Boa Noite closing established by the hosts
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The third logo used by Rede Globo, from 1969 to 1975.
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The Brazilian journalist
William Bonner interviewed the then candidate for president,
Dilma Rousseff for the Jornal Nacional.
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Globo headquarters in
São Paulo
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Sheridan Smith
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Sheridan Smith, OBE is an English actress, singer and dancer. Smith came to prominence on television for her roles in comedy shows Two Pints of Lager and she went on to star in television dramas like Mrs Biggs, The 7.39 and Cilla. Her film credits include Tower Block, Quartet, Powder Room, Smith made her West End debut in a National Youth Music Theatre production of Bugsy Malone and has performed in musicals Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Legally Blonde and Funny Girl. In 2017, she was nominated for the Best Actress in a Musical award for her work in Funny Girl, Smith was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama. Smith was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Colin and Marilyn Smith and she studied dance at the Joyce Mason School of Dancing from an early age. She later attended South Axholme Community School, where she received the highest possible grade in GCSE performing arts and she completed further education at John Leggott College in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Her great-great-grandfather, Benjamin Doubleday, was a banjo player in Yorkshire. From 1999 to 2000, Smith played Emma in The Royle Family and she played Janet in the long-running series Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps from 2001 until her departure from the show in 2009. In February 2003, she appeared in Immediate Care, an episode of The Royal, where she played the part of Francesca Wheeler, a teenage girl who was suffering from leukemia. In 2004, she made a appearance in Mile High as Suzy. She also featured in The Comic Strips 2005 episode Sex Actually as Angie, Smith played Cleo Martin in Love Soup and starred as Michelle, a hypocritical nutritionist, in three series of the sitcom Grownups. She has also appeared on The Lenny Henry Show as M. E. Westmocott, in the 2009 Two Pints of Lager Comic Relief special, which crossed over with Grownups, she played her characters from both series. Smith has also appeared in a number of shows including the BBCs Eyes Down, in which she played Sandy. She featured as Rudi in the second and third series of the BBC Three sitcom Gavin & Stacey and she guest starred in the Christmas 2008 episode of Lark Rise to Candleford. Since 2009, she has played Joey Ross in special episodes of Jonathan Creek, namely The Grinning Man, The Judas Tree. She played Brandy in the series of Benidorm. During 2010, Smith acted as a mentor to the contestants of the BBC show Over the Rainbow, sky Arts Chekhov Comedy Shorts also featured Smith in 2010 when she starred as Natasha in The Proposal. She appeared in the 2011 film Hysteria, about the invention of the vibrator, for the factual hospital series Bizarre ER, she took over narration duties from Freema Agyeman
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Sheridan Smith
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Cilla (TV series)
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Cilla is a British drama television miniseries about the early career of Cilla Black. It was broadcast in three parts on ITV, and began on 15 September 2014 with Sheridan Smith playing the starring role, Smith was much praised for her performance. Following Cilla Blacks death in August 2015, the series was broadcast again on ITV between 4–6 August 2015, as well as repeats on ITV Encore. In 1960s Liverpool, young Priscilla Cilla White is working as a typist, but frequently performs at Liverpools famed Cavern Club, Mersey Beat, a local music publication, prints an article on Cilla in which she is mistakenly referred to as Cilla Black. However, young Cilla likes the sound of it and decides to use if for her stage name and it is arranged for her to audition for the Beatles manager Brian Epstein. However, she gets a bad case of nerves and the key is too low for her. Three years later, Cillas confidence returns after her disastrous audition, Bobby urges her to give singing another go, and Brian Epstein gives Cilla another chance to audition by inviting her into the studio to record what would become her debut single, Love of the Loved. The song fails to break the Top 30, but Brian then insists that Cilla change direction, the gamble pays off and Anyone Who Had a Heart shoots straight to the top of the charts. Cilla follows up Anyone Who Had a Heart with a consecutive number one. Epstein develops a dependency on sleeping pills with tragic repercussions as he overdoses on the pills, by his bed is a contract for Cilla to star in her own series. Cilla, distraught about Brians death, signs the contract and Cilla debuts on the BBC in January 1968, Cilla later marries Bobby, and the miniseries ends with a photo of the real Cilla and Bobby on their wedding day in 1969. ITV announced the series on 16 February 2014. Filming began in Liverpool in March 2014, several locations in Liverpool were used. The offices of Liverpool Film Office stood in for the Cavern Club interior, with the Caverns exterior represented by the Elude Bar, Cillas family home at 380 Scotland Road was filmed in Holt Road, Kensington, and the Belgrave pub in Bryanston Road in Aigburth. The family homes of Bobby Willis and Ringo Starrs mother were represented by houses on Southwood Road, the scene showing Bobby running late to work was filmed on Everton Brow, with the 1960s Liverpool skyline recreated by CGI. The cast was variously filmed wandering down Yates Street in Dingle, past the Cross Keys pub off Old Hall Street and drinking at Ye Cracke on Rice Street. Scenes filmed on the side of the Mersey on the Wirral included the marriage of Bobby’s brother Kenny in Wallasey Town Hall. Subsequently it represented the Persian Room of New Yorks Plaza Hotel, Oh Me, Oh My. in Water Street served as the location for the Scotch of St James club scenes and also a New York nightclub
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Third episode title card
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ITV (TV network)
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ITV is a commercial TV network in the United Kingdom. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990 its legal name has been Channel 3, to distinguish it from the analogue channels at the time, namely BBC1, BBC2. ITV is a network of channels that operate regional television services as well as sharing programmes between each other to be displayed on the entire network. In recent years, several of companies have merged so currently the fifteen franchises are in the hands of two companies. With the exception of Northern Ireland, the ITV brand is the used by ITV plc for the Channel 3 service in these areas. In Northern Ireland, ITV plc uses the brand name UTV, STV Group plc, uses the STV brand for its two franchises of central and northern Scotland. The origins of ITV lie in the passing of the Television Act 1954, the act created the Independent Television Authority to heavily regulate the industry and to award franchises. The first six franchises were awarded in 1954 for London, the Midlands, the first ITV network to launch was Londons Associated-Rediffusion on 22 September 1955, with the Midlands and North services launching in February 1956 and May 1956 respectively. Following these launches, the ITA awarded more franchises until the country was covered by fourteen regional stations. Following the 1993 changes, ITV as a network began to consolidate with several companies doing so to save money by ceasing the duplication of services present when they were all separate companies. The ITV Network is not owned or operated by one company, since 2016 the fifteen licences are held by two companies, with the majority held by ITV Broadcasting Limited, part of ITV plc. The network is regulated by the media regulator Ofcom who is responsible for awarding the broadcast licences, the last major review of the Channel 3 franchises was in 1991, with all operators licences having been renewed between 1999 and 2002 and again from 2014 without a further contest. However, due to amalgamation of several of companies since the creation of ITV Network Limited. Approved by Ofcom, this results in ITV plc commissioning and funding the network schedule, all licensees have the right to opt out of network programming, however many do not due to pressures from the parent company or because of limited resources. The network also needs to produce accessible output containing subtitles, signing, in exchange for this programming, the ITV network is available on all platforms free to air and can be found at the top of the EPG of all providers. Since the launch of the platform in 1998, all of the ITV licensees have received gifted capacity on the terrestrial television platform. At present, the companies are able to broadcast additional channels and all choose to broadcast the ITV plc owned ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV in their region. UTV and STV previously broadcast their own services – UTV2 in Northern Ireland and S2 in central and northern Scotland – until 2002, the broadcasters all make use of the Digital 3&4 multiplex, shared with Channel 4
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The London Studios near Waterloo was originally the base for the ITV London weekend contractor
LWT but is now ITV's main London headquarters.
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ITV
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Granada Studios was the oldest TV studios in the UK, having been built in 1954 to house the broadcaster of the
same name. The studios were closed in June 2013. Granada is the only franchise to remain an ITV contractor since creation in 1954.
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The Leeds Studios, used by
ITV Yorkshire. Each ITV region originally had its own studios, however the rise of publisher-broadcasters like
Carlton Television and the takeover of regions caused several studios to be closed.
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France 2
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France 2 is a French public national television channel. It is part of the state-owned France Télévisions group, along with France 3, France 4, France 5, France Télévisions also participates in ARTE, EuroNews, several cable/satellite thematic channels, and Mediamétrie. Since 03,20 CET on 7 April 2008, all France 2 programming has been broadcast in 16,9 widescreen format over the analog SECAM air frequencies and the French DVB-T multiplex frequencies. An HD version of France 2 has been broadcasting via DVB-S Service CanalSat since 1 July 2008, originally under the ownership of the RTF, the channel went on the air for the first time on 1 January 1964 as RTF Télévision 2. Within a year, ORTF was rebranded as La Deuxième Chaîne, originally, the network was broadcast on 625-line transmitters only in preparation for the discontinuation of 819-line black & white transmissions and the introduction of color. The switch to color occurred at 14,15 CET on 1 October 1967, La Deuxième Chaîne became the first color television channel in France although TF1 would not commence color broadcasting on 625-lines until 20 December 1975. Such technology later allowed the network to air programming in NICAM stereo, the present channel is the direct successor of Antenne 2, established under a 1974 law that mandated the breakup of ORTF into seven distinct organisations. Antenne 2 and the corporations were constituted as limited companies with the state controlling 100% of their capital. Although the three channels were set up as competitors vying for advertisers, they retained a monopoly over television broadcasting in France that was not repealed until 1981. Privately owned channels such as Canal+ and La Cinq soon became major competitors to the channels after the state monopoly was lifted. TF1 was privatised in 1987, radically affecting the balance of the French television market, the remaining state-owned channels came under severe pressure from their private competitors and lost 30% of their market share between 1987 and 1989. In an effort to save them, a single director-general was appointed to manage both Antenne 2 and FR3 and the two merged to form the France Télévisions group. They were renamed in 1992 as France 2 and France 3 respectively, the focus on ratings led to strong rivalry with TF1, for instance prompting the two channels to broadcast popular shows and news programmes in the same timeslots. TF1 and France 2 compete for the demographics, dramas, game shows. Since 11 December 2006, France 2 was again made available across Italy on Digital terrestrial television until 7 June 2007, France 2 is now only available in Aosta Valley due to Italian self-government laws, and in the border zones because of natural spillover. In March 1986, an Antenne 2 news team was kidnapped in Beirut while reporting on the Lebanese Civil War, Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Cornéa and Jean-Louis Normandin were four of many Western hostages held by terrorists during the conflict. Within a year, most of the team had been released and returned to France. On 30 September 2000 France 2 aired the footage of the shooting of Muhammad al-Durrah in the Gaza Strip
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France 2 HD logo used from 2008-2012
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Fox Telecolombia
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Fox Telecolombia S. A. is a major Colombian television production company in Spanish, founded in 1995 as the programadora Producciones Bernardo Romero Pereiro. Its president is Samuel Duque Rozo and it changed its name to Telecolombia in 1999. In 2007 a 51% share in the company was bought by News Corporation, in 2009 Fox produced Mental, the first American TV series produced in Latin America for international markets. The series was filmed at the Fox Telecolombia complex in Bogotá, tiempo Final Tabú Latinoamérica Fox Telecolombia Official Web Site MundoFox Colombia Official Web Site
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Fox Telecolombia Logo
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ZANEWS
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ZANEWS is a South African satirical puppet show first produced in 2008 by Both Worlds, a Cape Town based production company. The show is a daily and weekly news programme in the form of a mock puppet television newscast. ZANEWS features key local and international figures and celebrities. For eight seasons, ZANEWS has been using its puppet cast as mouthpieces for satirical commentary on South Africa’s public space, the show’s motto of Make Laugh. Not War’ has perpetuated the show’s portrayal of South African and international politicians, the show is the only South African satirical puppet show, but is somewhat similar to the Kenyan produced The XYZ Show. In September 2016 it was announced that Puppet Nation ZA is a nominee for Best TV Comedy in the 44th International Emmy Awards, shapiro was invited to a farewell garden party and sneaked the Mandela puppet in. He approached Mandela, much to the mirth of the members of government and politicians present, Mandela didn’t miss a beat of course and shook the puppet’s hand saying, ‘Oh, I believe I have met this gentleman before’. The show launched its first season on the ZANEWS website and YouTube with the assistance of low cost airline Kulula. com, cassuto and Zapiro spent years trying to shop ZANEWS to a variety of broadcasters. The show was commissioned by the national broadcaster but when they demanded editorial control the deal fell apart, “People aren’t ready for this, ” was the message they got time and time again. And this was incorporated into the script and the slogan of ‘Why are we doing this. The storylines of Season 1 to 8 have developed along the lines of current news stories and events, the eighth season of ZANEWS was launched in November 2014. The shows YouTube channel has over 4 million hits to date, in 2012 the show began airing on TopTVs channel Top One, a South African satellite TV service. Hey also launched a website, ‘ZANEWS Network’, meant to be the online portal for quality South African satire. The site hosts their weekly episodes and daily shows as well as the best satirical columns, fake news, cartoons. In the same year the co-creator of Spitting Image, Roger Law made a documentary for BBC Radio 4, Law visited ZANEWS in South Africa to find out just how colourful comedy can get in the Rainbow Nation. In November 2013, the show launched its sixth season on StarSat under the new title Puppet Nation ZA Shows are recorded and produced at the Both World’s studios in Cape Town. All departments, from management, writers, crew, and fabrication along with post-production, Justice Malala and Debora Patta host the show. He was joined in Season 5 by firebrand reporter Debora Patta then by popular political analyst Justice Malala in season 6, on a number of occasions, the puppet cast has been joined by well known comedians along with their real-life counterparts
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Behind the scenes of a Tata & Tutu shoot with puppets of Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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South Africa
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is the southernmost country in Africa. South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the world by land area and it is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere. About 80 percent of South Africans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, divided among a variety of ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages, the remaining population consists of Africas largest communities of European, Asian, and multiracial ancestry. South Africa is a multiethnic society encompassing a variety of cultures, languages. Its pluralistic makeup is reflected in the recognition of 11 official languages. The country is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup détat, however, the vast majority of black South Africans were not enfranchised until 1994. During the 20th century, the black majority sought to recover its rights from the dominant white minority, with this struggle playing a role in the countrys recent history. The National Party imposed apartheid in 1948, institutionalising previous racial segregation, since 1994, all ethnic and linguistic groups have held political representation in the countrys democracy, which comprises a parliamentary republic and nine provinces. South Africa is often referred to as the Rainbow Nation to describe the multicultural diversity. The World Bank classifies South Africa as an economy. Its economy is the second-largest in Africa, and the 34th-largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, South Africa has the seventh-highest per capita income in Africa. However, poverty and inequality remain widespread, with about a quarter of the population unemployed, nevertheless, South Africa has been identified as a middle power in international affairs, and maintains significant regional influence. The name South Africa is derived from the geographic location at the southern tip of Africa. Upon formation the country was named the Union of South Africa in English, since 1961 the long form name in English has been the Republic of South Africa. In Dutch the country was named Republiek van Zuid-Afrika, replaced in 1983 by the Afrikaans Republiek van Suid-Afrika, since 1994 the Republic has had an official name in each of its 11 official languages. Mzansi, derived from the Xhosa noun umzantsi meaning south, is a name for South Africa. South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological and human fossil sites in the world, extensive fossil remains have been recovered from a series of caves in Gauteng Province. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has termed the Cradle of Humankind
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Mapungubwe Hill, the site of the former capital of the
Kingdom of Mapungubwe
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Arrival of
Jan van Riebeeck, the first European to settle in South Africa, with
Devil's Peak in the background
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Depiction of a
Zulu attack on a Boer camp in February 1838
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Austria
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Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, the territory of Austria covers 83,879 km2. The terrain is mountainous, lying within the Alps, only 32% of the country is below 500 m. The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects of German as their native language, other local official languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene. The origins of modern-day Austria date back to the time of the Habsburg dynasty, from the time of the Reformation, many northern German princes, resenting the authority of the Emperor, used Protestantism as a flag of rebellion. Following Napoleons defeat, Prussia emerged as Austrias chief competitor for rule of a greater Germany, Austrias defeat by Prussia at the Battle of Königgrätz, during the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, cleared the way for Prussia to assert control over the rest of Germany. In 1867, the empire was reformed into Austria-Hungary, Austria was thus the first to go to war in the July Crisis, which would ultimately escalate into World War I. The First Austrian Republic was established in 1919, in 1938 Nazi Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss. This lasted until the end of World War II in 1945, after which Germany was occupied by the Allies, in 1955, the Austrian State Treaty re-established Austria as a sovereign state, ending the occupation. In the same year, the Austrian Parliament created the Declaration of Neutrality which declared that the Second Austrian Republic would become permanently neutral, today, Austria is a parliamentary representative democracy comprising nine federal states. The capital and largest city, with a population exceeding 1.7 million, is Vienna, other major urban areas of Austria include Graz, Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck. Austria is one of the richest countries in the world, with a nominal per capita GDP of $43,724, the country has developed a high standard of living and in 2014 was ranked 21st in the world for its Human Development Index. Austria has been a member of the United Nations since 1955, joined the European Union in 1995, Austria also signed the Schengen Agreement in 1995, and adopted the euro currency in 1999. The German name for Austria, Österreich, meant eastern realm in Old High German, and is cognate with the word Ostarrîchi and this word is probably a translation of Medieval Latin Marchia orientalis into a local dialect. Austria was a prefecture of Bavaria created in 976, the word Austria is a Latinisation of the German name and was first recorded in the 12th century. Accordingly, Norig would essentially mean the same as Ostarrîchi and Österreich, the Celtic name was eventually Latinised to Noricum after the Romans conquered the area that encloses most of modern-day Austria, around 15 BC. Noricum later became a Roman province in the mid-first century AD, heers hypothesis is not accepted by linguists. Settled in ancient times, the Central European land that is now Austria was occupied in pre-Roman times by various Celtic tribes, the Celtic kingdom of Noricum was later claimed by the Roman Empire and made a province
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First appearance of the word "ostarrichi", circled in red. Modern Austria honours this document, dated 996, as the founding of the nation.
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Venus of Willendorf, 28,000 to 25,000 BC.
Museum of Natural History Vienna
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"Heidentor" – Remains of the
Roman military city of
Carnuntum
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HBO Latin America Group
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HBO Latin America Group is a company which owns several cable networks in the region of Latin America. It is owned by Time Warner, Latin America Telemundo Internacional Universal Channel Studio Universal Syfy Sony Pictures Entertainment, Sony Entertainment Television AXN Fellow Time Warner division Warner Bros. HBO Family *e HBO HD Locomotion Sony Spin Turner Broadcasting System Time Warner Official Website Template, HBO Latin America Group
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