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Baltimore
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Baltimore is the largest city in the U. S. state of Maryland, and the 29th-most populous city in the country. It was established by the Constitution of Maryland and is not part of any county, thus, it is the largest independent city in the United States, with a population of 621,849 as of 2015. As of 2010, the population of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area was 2.7 million, founded in 1729, Baltimore is the second largest seaport in the Mid-Atlantic. Baltimores Inner Harbor was once the leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States. With hundreds of identified districts, Baltimore has been dubbed a city of neighborhoods, in the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner, later the American national anthem, in Baltimore. More than 65,000 properties, or roughly one in three buildings in the city, are listed on the National Register, more than any city in the nation. The city has 289 properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the historical records of the government of Baltimore are located at the Baltimore City Archives. The city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore, of the Irish House of Lords, Baltimore Manor was the name of the estate in County Longford on which the Calvert family lived in Ireland. Baltimore is an anglicization of the Irish name Baile an Tí Mhóir, in 1608, Captain John Smith traveled 210 miles from Jamestown to the uppermost Chesapeake Bay, leading the first European expedition to the Patapsco River. The name Patapsco is derived from pota-psk-ut, which translates to backwater or tide covered with froth in Algonquian dialect, a quarter century after John Smiths voyage, English colonists began to settle in Maryland. The area constituting the modern City of Baltimore and its area was first settled by David Jones in 1661. He claimed the area today as Harbor East on the east bank of the Jones Falls stream. In the early 1600s, the immediate Baltimore vicinity was populated, if at all. The Baltimore area had been inhabited by Native Americans since at least the 10th millennium BC, one Paleo-Indian site and several Archaic period and Woodland period archaeological sites have been identified in Baltimore, including four from the Late Woodland period. During the Late Woodland period, the culture that is called the Potomac Creek complex resided in the area from Baltimore to the Rappahannock River in Virginia. It was located on the Bush River on land that in 1773 became part of Harford County, in 1674, the General Assembly passed An Act for erecting a Court-house and Prison in each County within this Province. The site of the house and jail for Baltimore County was evidently Old Baltimore near the Bush River. In 1683, the General Assembly passed An Act for Advancement of Trade to establish towns, ports, one of the towns established by the act in Baltimore County was on Bush River, on Town Land, near the Court-House
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Sixth Regiment fighting railroad strikers, July 20, 1877
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The
Battle Monument commemorates the
Battle of Baltimore.
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The
Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, looking west from
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Maryland
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The states largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, the state is named after Henrietta Maria of France, the wife of Charles I of England. George Calvert was the first Lord of Baltimore and the first English proprietor of the colonial grant. Maryland was the state to ratify the United States Constitution. Maryland is one of the smallest U. S. states in terms of area, as well as one of the most densely populated, Maryland has an area of 12,406.68 square miles and is comparable in overall area with Belgium. It is the 42nd largest and 9th smallest state and is closest in size to the state of Hawaii, the next largest state, its neighbor West Virginia, is almost twice the size of Maryland. Maryland possesses a variety of topography within its borders, contributing to its nickname America in Miniature. The mid-portion of this border is interrupted by Washington, D. C. which sits on land that was part of Montgomery and Prince Georges counties and including the town of Georgetown. This land was ceded to the United States Federal Government in 1790 to form the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state and the counties east of the bay are known collectively as the Eastern Shore. Close to the town of Hancock, in western Maryland, about two-thirds of the way across the state. This geographical curiosity makes Maryland the narrowest state, bordered by the Mason–Dixon line to the north, portions of Maryland are included in various official and unofficial geographic regions. Much of the Baltimore–Washington corridor lies just south of the Piedmont in the Coastal Plain, earthquakes in Maryland are infrequent and small due to the states distance from seismic/earthquake zones. The M5.8 Virginia earthquake in 2011 was felt moderately throughout Maryland, buildings in the state are not well-designed for earthquakes and can suffer damage easily. The lack of any glacial history accounts for the scarcity of Marylands natural lakes, laurel Oxbow Lake is an over one-hundred-year-old 55-acre natural lake two miles north of Maryland City and adjacent to Russett. Chews Lake is a natural lake two miles south-southeast of Upper Marlboro. There are numerous lakes, the largest of them being the Deep Creek Lake. Maryland has shale formations containing natural gas, where fracking is theoretically possible, as is typical of states on the East Coast, Marylands plant life is abundant and healthy. Middle Atlantic coastal forests, typical of the southeastern Atlantic coastal plain, grow around Chesapeake Bay, moving west, a mixture of Northeastern coastal forests and Southeastern mixed forests cover the central part of the state
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Western Maryland: known for its heavily forested mountains. A panoramic view of
Deep Creek Lake and the surrounding
Appalachian Mountains in
Garrett County.
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Flag
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Dramatic example of Maryland's
fall line, a change in rock type and elevation that creates waterfalls in many areas along the Southwest to Northeast geological boundary that crosses the state.
Great Falls, cliffs and rapids.
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Typical freshwater river above the tidal zone. The
Patapsco River includes the famous
Thomas Viaduct and is part of the
Patapsco Valley State Park. Later, the river forms the
Inner Harbor as it empties into the
Chesapeake Bay.
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Oakland University
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Oakland University is a public university located in the cities of Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Situated on a 1, 443-acre campus, it was co-founded by Matilda Dodge Wilson and it is the only major research university in Oakland County, from which the school derives its name, and it serves much of the Metro Detroit region. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified OU as a Doctoral Research University, Oakland University was initially under the banner of Michigan State University as Michigan State University–Oakland, or MSU-O. It opened in 1959 with 570 students and three buildings, in 1963, it became known as Oakland University. The universitys athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are known as the Golden Grizzlies. They are members of the Horizon League, in 1908, John Francis Dodge and his wife Matilda purchased a farmhouse and 320 acres of land known as Meadow Brook Farms, located in central Oakland County. Matilda inherited Johns fortune upon his death in 1920 and soon remarried to a lumber baron, the couple then built Meadow Brook Hall on the land between 1926 and 1929. Main campus buildings were completed on Squirrel Road in Pontiac Township, originally known as Michigan State University–Oakland, the university enrolled its first students in 1959 and was renamed Oakland University in 1963. The university has been independent since 1970. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield to let the university use a Rochester, Michigan mailing address, after Wilson reminded him that she had contributed to his administration, Summerfield granted her request. Rochester is five miles and two away from the main campus buildings. In September 2009, tenured faculty members represented by the OU chapter of the AAUP went on strike, the salary freeze was in contrast to OU president Gary Russi, who had just received a $100,000 raise. The University Board of Trustees maintained that the strike was illegal, after a weeks strike, the faculty and administration came to an agreement on a three-year contract, which was implemented. In January 2012, 56-year-old student Joseph Corlett was suspended for a year from Oakland University after writing “Hot for Teacher” in his Advanced Critical Writing class and he referred to the course instructor as ‘stacked’ and graphically compared her to a sitcom character he fetishized in a 33-page essay. On March 15,2013, Joseph Corlett filed a $2.2 million federal lawsuit against Oakland University alleging violations of his 1st, the lawsuit was dismissed by U. S. District Judge Patrick J. Duggan. During the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, Oakland University hosted a debate between Republican presidential candidates on November 9,2011, CNBC televised the debate nationally, and the Michigan Republican Party co-sponsored the debate with CNBC. Eight candidates participated, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, on February 12,2013, the Oakland University Board of Trustees approved a $65 million investment in campus expansion and improvement projects. The Board appointed George W. Hynd president of the university in July 2014 and he replaced Dr. Gary Russi, who retired in August 2013
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Meadow Brook Hall
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Elliott Tower, completed in 2014
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The
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California Institute of the Arts
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The California Institute of the Arts is a private university located in the Valencia neighborhood of the municipality of Santa Clarita in the California county of Los Angeles. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the performing arts. It is authorized by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges to grant Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in the visual, performing, the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts was accredited in 2009 to grant a Doctor of Musical Arts. The school was first envisioned by many benefactors in the early 1960s, the institute was started as an interdisciplinary Caltech of the arts, with all schools under one roof. CalArts provides an environment for a diversity of artists. Students are free to develop their own work in a workshop atmosphere, CalArts was originally formed in 1961 as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Both of the existing institutions were going through financial difficulties around the same time. The professional relationship between Madame Chouinard and Walt Disney began in 1929 when Disney had no money and Madame Chouinard agreed to train his first animators on a pay-later basis. He never forgot and over the years watched the Chouinard Art Institute grow into the finest art school on the West Coast, joining him were his brother Roy O. Disney, Lulu Von Hagen and Thornton Ladd, of the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. In 1965, the Alumni Association was founded as an organization and was governed by a 12-member board of directors to serve the best interests of the institute. Members included leading professional artists and musicians, who contributed their knowledge, experience, the ground-breaking for CalArts current campus took place May 3,1969. However, construction of the new campus was hampered by rains, labor troubles. So the new school began its first year in the buildings of Villa Cabrini Academy, CalArts moved to its present campus in the Valencia section of the city of Santa Clarita, California in November 1971. The founding board of trustees originally planned on creating CalArts as a school in an entertainment complex, a destination like Disneyland, such a model is exemplified in the 1941 Disney film The Reluctant Dragon. In an ironic turn of fate, they appointed Dr. Robert W. Corrigan as the first president of the Institute. Corrigan, former dean of the School of Arts at New York University, was attempting to create a mix of artistic disciplines as those that were going to be attempted at CalArts. Corrigan fired almost all the artists and teachers from Chouinard in his attempt to remake CalArts into his personal vision and he was joined the following year by his friend Herbert Blau, hired as the Institutes provost and dean of the School of Theater and Dance. Corrigan held his position until 1972, when he was replaced by William S. Lund, a Disney son-in-law, within a month of Lunds tenure as president,55 of CalArts 325 faculty and staff were fired
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CalArts
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Pamela Bach
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Pamela Bach, also known as Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff, is an American actress. Bach is from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the second of three daughters and her mother was a model, and she also modeled as a teenager. She attended Tulsa East Central High School and studied engineering at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and she moved to Los Angeles in 1985. This is a given by the German teen magazine Bravo. She worked together with her husband on the long-running series Baywatch and she participated in the 2011 UK reality TV show/competition Celebrity Big Brother and was in the house from August 18–31,2011. She was the celebrity to be evicted from the house. Bach met David Hasselhoff on the set of a Knight Rider episode They married in December 1989 and their divorce was finalized in August 2006. Bach was given custody of one daughter and Hasselhoff custody of the other, both appeared on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless, though not at the same time, Pamela as Mari Jo Mason #1 and David as Dr. Snapper Foster #2
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Bach at the premiere of the movie YOU on May 13, 2009
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Guinness World Records
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The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book of all time. As of the 2017 edition, it is now in its 63rd year of publication, the international franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums. On 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford. After missing a shot at a golden plover, he involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. That evening at Castlebridge House, he realised that it was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europes fastest game bird. Beaver knew that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland and abroad and he realised then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful. Beavers idea became reality when Guinness employee Christopher Chataway recommended University friends Norris and Ross McWhirter, the twin brothers were commissioned to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records in August 1954. A thousand copies were printed and given away, after the founding of The Guinness Book of Records at 107 Fleet Street, the first 198-page edition was bound on 27 August 1955 and went to the top of the British best seller lists by Christmas. The following year, it launched in the US, and sold 70,000 copies, since then, Guinness World Records has become a household name and the global leader in world records. Because the book became a hit, many further editions were printed, eventually settling into a pattern of one revision a year, published in September/October. The McWhirters continued to compile it for many years, Ross McWhirter was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1975. Following Ross assassination, the feature in the show where questions about records posed by children were answered was called Norris on the Spot, Guinness Superlatives Limited was formed in 1954 to publish the first book. Sterling Publishing owned the rights to the Guinness book in the US for decades, and, under their management, the group was owned by Guinness PLC and subsequently Diageo until 2001, when it was purchased by Gullane Entertainment. Gullane was itself purchased by HIT Entertainment in 2002, with offices in New York City and Tokyo, Guinness World Records global headquarters remain in London, while its museum attractions are based at Ripley headquarters in Orlando, Florida, US. Recent editions have focused on record feats by person competitors, many records also relate to the youngest person who achieved something, such as the youngest person to visit all nations of the world, being Maurizio Giuliano. Each edition contains a selection of the records from the Guinness database, as well as new records. The majority of records are no longer listed in the book or on the website. For those unable to wait the 4–6 weeks for a reply, the Guinness Book of Records is the worlds most sold copyrighted book, earning it an entry within its own pages
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Guinness World Records certificate
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The Guinness World Records logo
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Lucky Diamond Rich is "the world's most tattooed person", and has tattoos covering his entire body. He holds the Guinness world record as of 2006, being 100 percent tattooed.
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Sultan Kösen (Turkey) is the tallest living person since 17 September 2009, as verified by Guinness World Records. Turkey has 80 records in the book.
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The Young and The Restless
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The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, first broadcast on March 26,1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4,1980, in 2006, the series began airing encore episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when Y&R moved to TVGN. Pop still airs the episodes on weeknights, starting July 1,2013. The series is syndicated internationally. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two families, the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the characters except Jill Foster. Bell replaced them with the new families, the Abbotts. Over the years, other such as the Newmans, Winters. Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the entire run is the feud between Jill Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and it is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12,2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young, on January 15,2014, the series was in the middle of its final year of its 2010 contract, and was renewed by CBS through 2017. Y&R is also a show to the Bells other soap opera The Bold. To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children, One Life to Live, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years. We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence, innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist. They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it reflected the youth, the Young and the Restless began airing on March 26,1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, Where the Heart Is. Bell worked as writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998
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The Young and the Restless
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Knight Rider (1982 TV series)
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Knight Rider is an American television series created and produced by Glen A. Larson. The series was originally broadcast on NBC from 1982 to 1986, the show stars David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, a high-tech modern crime fighter assisted by KITT, an advanced artificially intelligent, self-aware and nearly indestructible car. This was the last series Larson devised at Universal Television before he moved to 20th Century Fox, self-made billionaire Wilton Knight rescues police Detective Lieutenant Michael Arthur Long after a near fatal shot to the face, giving him a new identity and a new name, Michael Knight. Wilton selects Michael to be the field agent in the pilot program of his public justice organization. Michael and KITT are brought in during situations where direct action might provide the only feasible solution, heading FLAG is Devon Miles, who provides Michael with directives and guidance. Dr. Bonnie Barstow is the engineer in charge of KITTs care. The car used as KITT in the series was a customized 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am sports model, nose, dash and other interior of the car were designed by the design consultant Michael Scheffe. David Hasselhoff as Michael Knight, an undercover Los Angeles police detective who, while on a case in Las Vegas, is shot in the face, Wilton Knight, founder of Knight Industries and creator of FLAG, directs his doctors to save Longs life and reconstruct his face. With his new identity, Michael Knight, Long is provided with high tech crime-fighting equipment, William Daniels as the voice of KITT, for Knight Industries Two Thousand, the autonomous, artificially intelligent car, with whom Michael Knight is partnered. Daniels, who starred on St. Elsewhere, requested not to be credited for his role as KITTs voice. Edward Mulhare as Devon Miles, the leader of FLAG, who appeared in every episode to provide mission details to Knight. He was also the spokesman for FLAG whenever it came under scrutiny, Patricia McPherson as Dr. Bonnie Barstow, KITTs chief technician and romantic tension for Michael. Rebecca Holden as April Curtis, chief technician for KITT, the character was written out when Patricia McPherson returned. The connection between the two was never established in any installments, peter Parros as Reginald Cornelius III aka RC3, driver of the FLAG mobile unit and occasional sideman for Michael and KITT. Richard Basehart as Wilton Knight, the creator of FLAG, who dies in the pilot episode, baseharts voice, however, is heard throughout the series, narrating over the intro and outro. Peter Cullen/Paul Frees as the voice of KARR, the evil autonomous artificially intelligent car, Frees took over the role for KARRs second appearance, but as he was also closely associated with Disney, he requested not to be credited for the role. The Knight Rider Theme was composed by Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson. The series DVD bonus material contains an interview about this lead music, where Glen A. Larson says he remembers a theme out of a classic piece from which he took pieces for the Knight Rider Theme
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A black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am built to mimic
KITT from the TV series Knight Rider.
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Mitch Buchannon
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Mitchell Mitch Buchannon is a fictional character from the television series Baywatch. He was played by David Hasselhoff in every season of Baywatch and Baywatch Nights plus in the first season of Baywatch Hawaii and he also appeared in three films, Baywatch the Movie, Forbidden Paradise, Baywatch, White Thunder at Glacier Bay and Baywatch, Hawaiian Wedding. Mitch was the character from the series premiere of Baywatch in 1989 to the penultimate season of Baywatch Hawaii in 2000. Mitch was the youngest son of Al and Irene Buchannon,1954, though his age varies depending upon the episode. He had a brother named Buzz and the two got along quite well despite their very different personalities. While Buzz was the brother who did what he wanted. Buzz left home at an early age, leaving Mitch as the only child at home. When Mitch was 12, he received a Fender Mustang guitar that Buzz let him have, years later, Mitch recalled the guitar fondly and dreamed of what his life would be like if he were a musician. The episode cleverly used footage of David Hasselhoffs musical career to show Mitchs daydreams of stardom, in one episode, Mitch was invited onstage to sing alongside Little Richard during a performance of Good Golly, Miss Molly. In 1972, Mitch graduated from West Palisades High School, where he sang in a band, at his 20 year reunion, he was pressured into singing on stage. He later married his school sweetheart, Gayle, and they had a son, Hobie. While Mitch and Gayle loved each other, they eventually divorced, Gayle felt Mitch was too invested in his work and she couldnt handle all the time he had invested into his career. Mitch did not want to divorce, and he continued to love Gayle for a time, Mitch reunited with his brother Buzz in 1991, also meeting Buzzs son, Kyle. Buzz and Kyle stayed very briefly before relocating to San Diego, Mitch and Buzz reunited once more in 1994, when Mitch saved Buzzs life at sea after Buzz suffered a heart attack. Mitch did not always have a relationship with his father. He felt Al did not love him and was disappointed in him and this was due to Als wish that Mitch would follow in his footsteps and become an architect. For a while Mitch went along with his fathers requests and even earned an architectural degree, however, Mitch decided it wasnt for him and he decided to become a full-time lifeguard instead, something he had dreamed of doing since he was a young boy. After Als death, Mitch and Hobie made a trip to his grave each Memorial Day
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Mitchell "Mitch" Buchannon
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Baywatch
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Baywatch is an American action drama series about the Los Angeles County Lifeguards who patrol the beaches of Los Angeles County, California, starring David Hasselhoff. The show was canceled after its first season on NBC, but survived, the show ran in its original title and format from 1989 to 1999, except for the 1990–1991 season, during which it was not in production. From 1999 to 2001, with a change and large cast overhaul. Baywatch premiered on NBC in 1989, but was canceled after one season, when it placed 73rd out of 103 shows in the seasonal ratings. Hasselhoff was given the title of producer for his work on bringing the show back. The series was successful, especially internationally. The show led to a spin-off, Baywatch Nights, and three direct to video films, Baywatch the Movie, Forbidden Paradise, Baywatch, White Thunder at Glacier Bay, and Baywatch, Hawaiian Wedding. In 1999, with costs rising in Los Angeles, and the syndication market shrinking. A pilot was filmed, but the series was stopped when residents of Avalon put forth strong objections, pittwater Council permanently barred all future filming. This pilot finally aired as an episode of Baywatch. As an alternative to Australia, Hawaii offered the large financial incentives to move the show to the islands instead. Baywatch filmed for two seasons in Hawaii, from 1999 until 2001, the proposal to relocate Baywatch to Hawaii rather than Australia was initiated by April Masini in a telephone call to executive producer Greg Bonann. Everything from earthquakes and shark attacks to serial killers served as plot conflicts on the show, saving people from drowning tended to be one of the most typical situations used in the shows. The original NBC theme was Save Me, performed by Peter Cetera, with Bonnie Raitt on guitar and Richard Sterban, bass singer for The Oak Ridge Boys, the song is from Ceteras 1988 album One More Story. On some DVD releases of the first series Save Me was replaced with Above the Waterline by Kim Carnes, for the syndicated series, the new theme Im Always Here replaced Save Me. An instrumental version of Im Always Here was used as the theme of seasons 6 to 9. A different instrumental version was used as the theme for season 10, when the NBC episodes were added to the Baywatch syndication package, the opening theme was changed to a shorter version of Im Always Here, with some images of the original NBC opening retained. David Hasselhoff sang the Kevin Savigar-Todd Cerney tune Current of Love as the theme of Seasons 2–4
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David Hasselhoff as the character Mitch Buchannon.
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Pamela Anderson as C. J. Parker.
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Simmone Jade Mackinnon (L), Brooke Burns (C), and Stacy Kamano (R).
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Click (2006 film)
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Click is a 2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Frank Coraci, written by Steve Koren and Mark OKeefe, and produced by Adam Sandler, who also starred in the lead role. The film co-stars Kate Beckinsale as his wife Donna and Christopher Walken as Morty, the film was released in the United States on June 23,2006. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures, Sandler plays an overworked architect who neglects his family. Throughout the story, a man named Morty explains how the remote works, filming began in late 2005 and was finished by early 2006. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Makeup, making this the only Sandler film to be nominated for an Oscar, a man named Michael Newman is a hardworking architect who is married to his longtime sweetheart, Donna Newman with two children, Ben and Samantha. Michael is easily pushed around by his boss, John Ammer. On numerous occasions, Michael chooses working over family functions, while going in search of a universal remote control at the retail store Bed Bath & Beyond, Michael falls onto a bed and then proceeds to the section marked Beyond. There, he befriends a man named Morty, who gives him a universal remote control for free. To Michaels amazement, he finds that this remote can control time and space. He can revisit past memories, lower volume of surrounding noise, freeze, during a camping trip in Lake Winnipesaukee, his parents had a barbeque, but the other kids had declined his invitation in favor of another family who had more compared to his family. This shows an insight to Michaels adult personality, his determination to succeed in order to avoid raising his family in the same squalor his parents did. Later, Morty reveals that when Michael fast-forwards through time, his body is on auto-pilot, meaning his mind skips ahead while his body goes through the motions of everyday life. Michael finds out that, during the span of year, he entered marriage counseling, his children prefer to watch CSI instead of Dragon Tales. To make matters worse, the remote begins fast-forwarding on its own, Michaels various attempts to dispose of or destroy the remote fail, giving him the resolve to regain agency of his life. The next day, Ammer tells Michael he is retiring and suggests that one day Michael may end up CEO, momentarily forgetting his plan to outfox the remote, Michael says he would like to end up CEO, the remote reacts accordingly and fast-forwards to the year 2017. In the future Michael has achieved everything he wished, and is now the new CEO of the company after Ammer moves to Morocco with Donnas best friend, Michael has all the material wealth and luxuries he could ever want, albeit at the cost of his familys state. Michael has become very unhealthy over the ten years causing him to become obese, after discovering his new life, and unaware that he and Donna have been divorced, Michael wishes to go back to his house, and the remote fast forwards him there. However, when he returns to his old house Michael is resented by everyone in his family and he also discovers that Donna has married Bill, who coached Bens swim team
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Theatrical release poster
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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
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DodgeBall, A True Underdog Story is a 2004 American sports comedy film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber and starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller. The film follows friends who enter a tournament in order to win enough money to save their failing gym from being bought by a corporate fitness chain. DodgeBall received generally positive reviews, including a 70% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Peter LaFleur is the owner of Average Joes, a small gym with only a few members. When he defaults on the mortgage, it is purchased by his rival, the arrogant White Goodman. Unless Peter can raise $50,000 in thirty days, White will foreclose on Average Joes, attorney Katherine Kate Veatch is working on the transaction for White. White unsuccessfully attempts to seduce her and she develops a close friendship with Peter. Average Joes employees Dwight and Owen and members Steve the Pirate, Justin, Gordon suggests that they enter a dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas with a $50,000 prize. They form a team with Peter and watch a 1950s-era training video narrated by dodgeball legend Patches OHoulihan and they are soundly defeated by a Girl Scout troop in a local qualifying match but win by default when the Scouts are disqualified because of one members steroid and beaver tranquilizer use. White spies on Average Joes using a camera and forms his own dodgeball team to defeat them. Peter is approached by the aging, wheelchair-bound Patches, who volunteers to coach the team, Patches training regimen includes throwing wrenches at the team, forcing them to dodge oncoming cars and constantly roasting them with insults. Kate demonstrates skill at the game but declines to join the team as it would be a conflict of interest. Upon finding a loophole in the contract with Kate, White arranges for her to be fired from her law firm so that dating him would not be a conflict of interest and this enrages Kate and motivates her to join the Average Joes team. At the tournament in Las Vegas, Average Joes suffers early setbacks, the night before the match, Patches is killed by a falling sign. Peter expresses his anxiety that the team will lose and scolds Steve for his pirate persona. White offers Peter $100,000 for the deed to Average Joes, the day of the final round, Justin leaves to help his classmate Amber with a cheerleading competition, leaving the team without enough members to compete. Peter has an encounter with Lance Armstrong, who talks him into rejoining his team. Gordon finds a loophole in the rules, a majority of the judges can overturn the forfeiture, chuck Norris casts the tie-breaking vote allowing the team to play. After an intense game, Peter and White face off in a match to determine the winner
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Theatrical release poster
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a 2004 American animated adventure comedy film based on the Nickelodeon television series of the same name. It was produced by Hillenburgs production company United Plankton Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies and was distributed by Paramount Pictures, previous offers by Paramount Pictures for a film adaptation of SpongeBob SquarePants had been rejected by Stephen Hillenburg, but he eventually accepted one offer in 2002. The film was a box office success and grossed $85 million in the United States and $140 million worldwide, and received generally positive reviews from critics. A stand-alone sequel titled The SpongeBob Movie, Sponge Out of Water was released on February 6,2015, the film opens with SpongeBob SquarePants dreaming about managing the Krusty Krab restaurant and saving the day during a crisis. He wakes up and cheerfully prepares for the ceremony for The Krusty Krab 2. However, Krabs instead names Squidward Tentacles manager, believing SpongeBob is too immature to handle the role and that night, SpongeBob goes to his favorite restaurant, Goofy Goobers, where drowns his sorrows in ice cream with his best friend Patrick Star. The next morning, Neptune barges into the Krusty Krab 2, SpongeBob later arrives and chastises Krabs under the influence of an ice cream headache, but seeing his bosss life is at risk, he promises Neptune that he will retrieve the crown from Shell City. Neptune freezes Krabs and orders SpongeBob to return with the crown in six days for him to spare Krabs life, Neptunes sympathetic daughter, Princess Mindy, gives SpongeBob a Bag of Winds so that they can return from Shell City once they find the crown. SpongeBob and Patrick leave for Shell City in the Patty Wagon, as a contingency, he hires a hitman named Dennis to eliminate SpongeBob and Patrick. Squidward discovers the truth about Plankton stealing Neptunes crown and tries to alert Neptune, however, Plankton uses mind-controlling bucket helmets, disguised as souvenirs, to control Bikini Bottoms residents, including Squidward, and renames the city Planktopolis. As their journey continues, SpongeBob and Patrick reach a dangerous trench and they are stopped by Dennis, who tries to crush them with his spiked boots, but he is in turn stepped on by a seemingly massive hardhat diver they believe to be a Cyclops. The diver grabs SpongeBob and Patrick, and takes them to his beachside store, at the store, SpongeBob and Patrick find the crown, but are nearly killed when the diver attempts to dry them out using a heat lamp. Their tears short-circuit the lamps power cord, and its smoke activates the system, reviving their bodies. As the sea creatures attack the diver, SpongeBob and Patrick take the crown, at the Krusty Krab 2, King Neptune arrives to execute Mr. Krabs. SpongeBob and Patrick return with the crown just in time and confront Plankton, SpongeBob performs the song Goofy Goober Rock and transforms into an electric guitar-wielding wizard, freeing Neptune and Bikini Bottoms residents during of the song. Plankton is arrested, and Neptune thanks SpongeBob for his bravery and thaws Mr. Krabs, who makes SpongeBob manager of the Krusty Krab 2 in gratitude. Thats where the coming from, having these two naïve characters, SpongeBob and Patrick, a doofus and an idiot, on this incredibly dangerous heroic odyssey with all the odds against them. In 2002, Hillenburg and the staff stopped making episodes to work on the film after the shows third season
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Theatrical release poster
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SpongeBob and Patrick, pursued by Shell City's "
cyclops " diver
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The crew built an oversized replica of David Hasselhoff for visual effect.
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The Flaming Lips recorded "SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy".
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Hop (film)
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The film was released on April 1,2011, in the United States and the United Kingdom. Hop stars the voice of Russell Brand as E. B and it was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on March 23,2012, in Region 1. On Easter Island, a rabbit named E. B. is intended to succeed his father as the Easter Bunny. Intimidated by the demands and ignoring his fathers orders, E. B. runs away to Hollywood to pursue his dream of becoming a drummer. So his father sends the Pink Berets out to find him, meanwhile, Carlos the Chick plots a coup détat against him to take over Easter. At Van Nuys, E. B. is hit by Fred OHare, feigning injury, E. B. persuades Fred to take him in as he recovers, but when E. B. causes trouble, Fred attempts to release him in the wilderness. E. B. persuades to help him by claiming to be the Easter Bunny, E. B. sees the Berets closing in on him and hides inside a business where Fred is having a job interview. E. B. enjoys a successful recording session with the Blind Boys of Alabama as their substitute drummer, in the process, E. B. gets a tip about a possible audition for David Hasselhoff, who invites him to perform on his show. Afterward, Fred attends his adoptive younger sister Alexs school Easter pageant with E. B. hiding in a satchel. E. B. alarmed that the Pink Berets have apparently found him due to the three bunny suit shadows on a wall and disgusted by Alexs awful rendition of Peter Cottontail, dashes out and disrupts the show. Fred feigns a ventriloquists act with E. B. s cooperation as his dummy and they lead the show in singing, both Freds father, Henry, and Alex, are angry about the upstaging, but Fred is inspired to be the Easter Bunny himself. E. B. is skeptical, but he agrees to train the human, as the Pink Berets close in on him, E. B. prepares a decoy to fake his death and leaves for Hasselhoffs show. The Berets see the decoy and, horrified that the human has apparently killed E. B. capture Fred, Fred is held captive and confronted by E. B. s father and Carlos about killing E. B. Carlos pretends to be upset about E. B. s death, silences Fred and seizes control of the Easter factory. Meanwhile, at the Hoff Knows Talent live show, E. B. is in his dressing room preparing for his performance but his reflection begins to berate him for acting selfish, just then a production assistant arrives to tell him that he is next to perform. E. B. leaves his room and begins to feel guilty about leaving Fred so he discusses the situation with Hasselhoff. E. B. finds evidence of Freds capture and races back to the factory and he confronts Carlos, but is immobilized in gummy candy and tossed into the chocolate bunny carving line. E. B. survives by dodging the blades, after being defeated, Carlos is made to pull the Egg Sleigh and Phil is made the new head of the Easter Chicks
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Theatrical release poster
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Chicago (musical)
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Chicago is an American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, the original Broadway production opened in 1975 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 936 performances until 1977. Bob Fosse choreographed the production, and his style is strongly identified with the show. Following a West End debut in 1979 which ran for 600 performances, Chicago was revived on Broadway in 1996, the Broadway revival holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. It is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, behind only The Phantom of the Opera, having played its 7, 486th performance on November 23,2014, surpassing Cats. The West End revival ran for nearly 15 years, becoming the longest-running American musical in West End history, the 2002 film version of the musical won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In the early 1920s, Chicagos press and public became riveted by the subject of homicides committed by women, several high-profile cases arose, which generally involved women killing their lovers or husbands. These cases were tried against a backdrop of changing views of women in the Jazz age, a lore arose that, in Chicago, feminine or attractive women could not be convicted. The Chicago Tribune generally took a pro-prosecution hang-them-high stance, while presenting the details of these womens lives. Regardless of stance, the press covered several of these women as celebrities, Annan, the model for the character of Roxie Hart, was 23 when she was accused of the April 3,1924, murder of Harry Kalstedt. The Tribune reported that Annan played the foxtrot record Hula Lou over and over for two hours before calling her husband to say she killed a man who tried to love to her. She was found not guilty on May 25,1924, Velma Kelly is based on Gaertner, who was a cabaret singer, and society divorcée. The body of Walter Law was discovered slumped over the wheel of Gaertners abandoned car on March 12,1924. Two police officers testified that they had seen a woman getting into the car, a bottle of gin and an automatic pistol were found on the floor of the car. Gaertner was acquitted on June 6,1924, lawyers William Scott Stewart and W. W. OBrien were models for a composite character in Chicago, Billy Flynn. Watkins sensational columns documenting these trials proved so popular that she decided to write a play based on them, the show received both popular and critical acclaim and even made it to Broadway in 1926, running for 172 performances. DeMille produced a silent film version, Chicago, starring former Mack Sennett bathing beauty Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart and it was later remade as Roxie Hart starring Ginger Rogers, but, in this version, Roxie was accused of murder without having really committed it
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Original Broadway poster art
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The Original Cast Recording
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Chicago: The Musical at the
Ambassador Theatre, New York, May 2010
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The Producers (musical)
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As in the film, the story concerns two theatrical producers who scheme to get rich by overselling interests in a Broadway flop. Complications arise when the show turns out to be successful. The humor of the draws on ridiculous accents, caricatures of homosexuals and Nazis. It spawned a successful London production running for just over two years, national tours in the US and UK, many productions worldwide and a 2005 film version, David Geffen persuaded Mel Brooks to turn his movie into a stage musical. When Brooks met with Jerry Herman to discuss their working together, Herman declined, telling Brooks that he should do the job himself, Brooks then asked Thomas Meehan to join him in writing the book for the stage. Brooks persuaded Mike Ockrent and his wife Susan Stroman to join the team as director. After Ockrents death in 1999, Stroman agreed to continue as director and choreographer. In New York in 1959, theatre producer Max Bialystock opens Funny Boy and it is terrible, and the show closes after one performance. Max, who was called the King of Broadway, tells a crowd of down-and-outs of his past achievements. The next day, Leo Bloom, an accountant, comes to Maxs office to audit his books. When one of Maxs little old lady investors arrives, Max tells Leo to wait in the bathroom until she leaves and she plays a sex game with Max, who eventually persuades her to give him a check to be invested in his next play, to be called Cash. Leo reveals his dream, hes always wanted to be a Broadway producer. After a panic attack when Max touches his blue blanket, Leo tells Max that he has found an error in his books, Max raised $100,000 for Funny Boy. Max begs Leo to cook the books to hide the discrepancy, after some calculations, he realizes that under the right circumstances, a producer could actually make more money with a flop than he can with a hit. You couldve raised a million dollars, put on your $100,000 flop, Max proposes a scheme, However, Leo refuses to help Max with his scheme. When he arrives at work six minutes late, Leos horrid boss, Mr. Marks, while he and his miserable co-workers slave over accounts, Leo daydreams of becoming a Broadway producer. He realizes that his job is terrible, quits, and returns to Max, the next day, they look for the worst play ever written. They go to the home in Greenwich Village to get the rights to the play
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Scene from the London production, April 2006
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Original Broadway Playbill
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The Producers at
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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Bremen
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The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. As a commercial and industrial city with a port on the River Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen/Oldenburg Metropolitan Region. Bremen is the second most populous city in Northern Germany and eleventh in Germany, Bremen is a major cultural and economic hub in the northern regions of Germany. Bremen is home to dozens of galleries and museums, ranging from historical sculptures to major art museums. Bremen has a reputation as a working class city, along with this, Bremen is home to a large number of multinational companies and manufacturing centers. Companies headquartered in Bremen include the Hachez chocolate company and Vector Foiltec, four-time German football champions Werder Bremen are also based in the city. Bremen is some 60 km south from the Weser mouth on the North Sea, with Bremerhaven right on the mouth the two comprise the state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. The marshes and moraines near Bremen have been settled since about 12,000 BC, burial places and settlements in Bremen-Mahndorf and Bremen-Osterholz date back to the 7th century AD. Since The Renaissance, some scientists have believed that the entry Fabiranum or Phabiranon in Ptolemys Fourth Map of Europe, written in 150 AD, but Ptolemy gives geographic coordinates, and by these dates Phabiranon is situated northeast of the mouth of river Visurgis. At that time the Chauci lived in the now called north-western Germany or Lower Saxony. By the end of the 3rd century, they had merged with the Saxons, during the Saxon Wars the Saxons, led by Widukind, fought against the West Germanic Franks, the founders of the Carolingian Empire, and lost the war. Charlemagne, the King of the Franks, made a new law, the Lex Saxonum which stated that Saxons were not allowed to worship Odin, in 787 Willehad of Bremen became the first Bishop of Bremen. The citys first stone walls were built in 1032, around this time trade with Norway, England and the northern Netherlands began to grow, thus increasing the importance of the city. The city was recognised as an entity with its own laws. Property was to be inherited without feudal claims for reversion to its original owner. This privilege laid the foundation for Bremens later status of imperial immediacy, since the city was the major taxpayer, its consent was generally sought. In this way the city wielded fiscal and political power within the Prince-Archbishopric, in 1260 Bremen joined the Hanseatic League. In 1350, the number of inhabitants reached 20,000, around this time the Hansekogge became a unique product of Bremen
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Top:
Bremen town hall,
St. Peter's Cathedral, and parliament Left: The
Bremen Town Musicians statue. Upper right:
Main station (Hauptbahnhof) in Bremen. Lower right:
Werdersee
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Germania, in the early 2nd century (Harper and Brothers, 1849).
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View from the
Bremen Cathedral in the direction of the Stephani-Bridge.
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Jacksonville, Florida
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Jacksonville is a seaport city and the seat of Duval County, Florida, United States. With an estimated 868,031 residents as of 2015, Jacksonville is the most populous city in both the state of Florida and the southeastern United States. It is estimated to be the 12th most populous city in the United States and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area has a population of 1,603,497 and is the 34th largest in the United States and fourth largest in the state of Florida. The city is situated on the banks of the St. Johns River, in the First Coast region of North Florida, prior to European settlement, the Jacksonville area was inhabited by Native American people known as the Timucua. In 1564, the French established the colony of Fort Caroline at the mouth of the St. Johns River. In 1822, a year after the United States gained Florida from Spain, Jacksonville is the cultural, commercial and financial center of North Florida. A major military and civilian deep-water port, the citys riverine location supports two United States Navy bases and the Port of Jacksonville, Floridas third largest seaport. The two US Navy bases, Blount Island Command and the nearby Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Jacksonville is also home to several colleges and universities, including University of North Florida, Jacksonville University and Florida State College at Jacksonville. The area of the city of Jacksonville has been inhabited for thousands of years. In the 16th century, the beginning of the era, the region was inhabited by the Mocama. At the time of contact with Europeans, all Mocama villages in present-day Jacksonville were part of the powerful chiefdom known as the Saturiwa, centered around the mouth of the St. Johns River. One early map shows a village called Ossachite at the site of what is now downtown Jacksonville, French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River in 1562 calling it the River of May because he discovered it in May. Ribault erected a column near present-day Jacksonville claiming the newly discovered land for France. In 1564, René Goulaine de Laudonnière established the first European settlement, Fort Caroline, philip II of Spain ordered Pedro Menéndez de Avilés to protect the interest of Spain by attacking the French presence at Fort Caroline. On September 20,1565, a Spanish force from the nearby Spanish settlement of St. Augustine attacked Fort Caroline, the Spanish renamed the fort San Mateo, and following the ejection of the French, St. Augustines position as the most important settlement in Florida was solidified. The location of Fort Caroline is subject to debate but a reconstruction of the fort was established on the St. Johns River in 1964. Spain ceded Florida to the British in 1763 after the French and Indian War, the British introduced the cultivation of sugar cane, indigo and fruits as well the export of lumber
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Jacksonville was named after President
Andrew Jackson in 1832.
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Top, left to right:
Downtown Jacksonville, statue of
Andrew Jackson,
Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center,
EverBank Field,
Veterans Memorial Arena,
Florida Theatre
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Aftermath of the
Great Fire of 1901
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Downtown Jacksonville in 1914
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Atlanta
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Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U. S. state of Georgia, with an estimated 2015 population of 463,878. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, home to 5,710,795 people, Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County, and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County. In 1837, Atlanta was founded at the intersection of two lines, and the city rose from the ashes of the American Civil War to become a national center of commerce. Atlantas economy is considered diverse, with dominant sectors that include logistics, professional and business services, media operations, Atlanta has topographic features that include rolling hills and dense tree coverage. Revitalization of Atlantas neighborhoods, initially spurred by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has intensified in the 21st century, altering the demographics, politics. Prior to the arrival of European settlers in north Georgia, Creek Indians inhabited the area, standing Peachtree, a Creek village located where Peachtree Creek flows into the Chattahoochee River, was the closest Indian settlement to what is now Atlanta. As part of the removal of Native Americans from northern Georgia from 1802 to 1825, the Creek ceded the area in 1821. In 1836, the Georgia General Assembly voted to build the Western, the initial route was to run southward from Chattanooga to a terminus east of the Chattahoochee River, which would then be linked to Savannah. After engineers surveyed various possible locations for the terminus, the zero milepost was driven into the ground in what is now Five Points. A year later, the area around the milepost had developed into a settlement, first known as Terminus, and later as Thrasherville after a merchant who built homes. By 1842, the town had six buildings and 30 residents and was renamed Marthasville to honor the Governors daughter, later, J. Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad, suggested the town be renamed Atlantica-Pacifica, which was shortened to Atlanta. The residents approved, and the town was incorporated as Atlanta on December 29,1847, by 1860, Atlantas population had grown to 9,554. During the American Civil War, the nexus of multiple railroads in Atlanta made the city a hub for the distribution of military supplies, in 1864, the Union Army moved southward following the capture of Chattanooga and began its invasion of north Georgia. On the next day, Mayor James Calhoun surrendered Atlanta to the Union Army, on November 11,1864, Sherman prepared for the Union Armys March to the Sea by ordering Atlanta to be burned to the ground, sparing only the citys churches and hospitals. After the Civil War ended in 1865, Atlanta was gradually rebuilt, due to the citys superior rail transportation network, the state capital was moved from Milledgeville to Atlanta in 1868. In the 1880 Census, Atlanta surpassed Savannah as Georgias largest city, by 1885, the founding of the Georgia School of Technology and the citys black colleges had established Atlanta as a center for higher education. In 1895, Atlanta hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition, during the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. In three decades time, Atlantas population tripled as the city expanded to include nearby streetcar suburbs
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From top to bottom left to right: Atlanta skyline seen from
Buckhead, the
Fox Theatre, the
Georgia State Capitol,
Centennial Olympic Park,
Millennium Gate, the
Canopy Walk, the
Georgia Aquarium,
The Phoenix statue, and the
Midtown skyline
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Marietta Street, 1864
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Atlanta in ruins during the Civil War, 1864
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In 1907, Peachtree Street, the main street of Atlanta, was busy with streetcars and automobiles.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
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Georgia is a state in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1733, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies, named after King George II of Great Britain, Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2,1788. It declared its secession from the Union on January 19,1861 and it was the last state to be restored to the Union, on July 15,1870. Georgia is the 24th largest and the 8th most populous of the 50 United States, from 2007 to 2008,14 of Georgias counties ranked among the nations 100 fastest-growing, second only to Texas. Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South, Atlanta is the states capital, its most populous city and has been named a global city. Georgia is bordered to the south by Florida, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean and South Carolina, to the west by Alabama, the states northern part is in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains system. Georgias highest point is Brasstown Bald at 4,784 feet above sea level, Georgia is the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi River in land area. Before settlement by Europeans, Georgia was inhabited by the mound building cultures, the British colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12,1733. The colony was administered by the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America under a charter issued by King George II. The Trustees implemented a plan for the colonys settlement, known as the Oglethorpe Plan. In 1742 the colony was invaded by the Spanish during the War of Jenkins Ear, in 1752, after the government failed to renew subsidies that had helped support the colony, the Trustees turned over control to the crown. Georgia became a colony, with a governor appointed by the king. The Province of Georgia was one of the Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution by signing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the State of Georgias first constitution was ratified in February 1777. Georgia was the 10th state to ratify the Articles of Confederation on July 24,1778, in 1829, gold was discovered in the North Georgia mountains, which led to the Georgia Gold Rush and an established federal mint in Dahlonega, which continued its operation until 1861. The subsequent influx of white settlers put pressure on the government to land from the Cherokee Nation. In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law, sending many eastern Native American nations to reservations in present-day Oklahoma, including all of Georgias tribes. Despite the Supreme Courts ruling in Worcester v. Georgia that ruled U. S. states were not permitted to redraw the Indian boundaries, President Jackson and the state of Georgia ignored the ruling. In 1838, his successor, Martin Van Buren, dispatched troops to gather the Cherokee
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A girl spinner in a Georgia cotton mill, 1909.
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Flag
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Road to
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Jekyll Island
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Marist School (Georgia)
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Marist School is an independent private Roman Catholic college preparatory school located in Brookhaven, Georgia, United States, north of the city of Atlanta. Founded in 1901, it is operated independently of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, Marist School was founded by the Society of Mary in 1901, opening its doors on October 2 of that year. The school originated as the military school Marist College High School. A Marist science teacher received the 2007 Outstanding Biology Teacher Award for Georgia from the National Association of Biology Teachers. A Marist social studies teacher was named the 2009 Distinguished Educator of the year by the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust for his excellence in the teaching of a course on that topic. Since 2000, Marist has been one of the few schools to offer an Advanced Placement Summer Institute using its own faculty exclusively as consultants, seven Marist teachers, six of whom are currently certified by the College Board, consult in the AP Summer Institute. In the period 2007-2009,1768 Advanced Placement examinations were taken, students received an average score of 4.3 on the AP exams in the same time period Juniors and seniors are limited to three AP courses per year. The most rigorous curriculum usually contains 5-7 AP courses over four years, Advanced degrees are held by 84% of the faculty. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11,1, and the class size is 18. In 2004, Sports Illustrated ranked Marist #15 on its list of the best athletic programs in the country, more than 80 percent of the schools students participate in at least one of the school’s 70 interscholastic athletic teams. Marist was ranked number five in high school programs in the nation. The school has won either the AAA or AAAA Georgia Directors Cup every year since the creation of the award in 1999, in 2009, Marist won nine Georgia state championships breaking the Georgia state and Marists previous record. Marist was also the Georgia state runner-up in Football and Volleyball, Marist School provides students with a wide variety of activities relating to and outside of the academic and athletic realms. School programs, which are sponsored by a staff or faculty member, student organizations include those centered around classes and languages, sports, arts and performance and service. The campuss ministry program fosters retreat programs, student orientation leaders, Eucharistic ministers and community service outreach trips, the Marist uniform is a tradition that has changed little over the decades. Boys wear gray trousers with a belt, a blue, yellow or white oxford shirt, girls wear a Marist plaid skirt with the oxford shirt and saddle shoes. During the winter, all wear a navy blazer or letter jacket. Since its inception, approximately 25% of the Marist student body have been students from other faith traditions, events include St. Peter Chanel Day, an outdoor field day in the spring, as well as Holiday Traditions, an arts and crafts fair held in October
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Marist School
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The original school building was located next to
Sacred Heart Basilica
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Peter Pan (musical)
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Peter Pan, his fellow characters, and the setting of Neverland have appeared in many works since the original books and play by J. M. Barrie. The earliest were the productions of the play, and an adaptation to silent film, done with Barries involvement. When dramatized, the character of Peter has usually—but not always—been played by an adult woman, later adaptations have often followed this example, for reasons that include tradition, the performance demands of the role, and the marketing advantages of star actresses. The roles of Captain Hook and George Darling happened to be played by the actor in the original production. 1904 - Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldnt Grow Up, Peter brings Wendy and her brothers to Neverland and this play was adapted as a novel by Barrie. Variations and adaptations have been produced in various media,1906 - Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, an origin story where the infant Peter flies away from his home, takes up residence in Kensington Gardens and makes friends with the fairies. It is a book-within-a-book that was first published in Barries The Little White Bird in 1902,1908 - When Wendy Grew Up - An Afterthought, a short sequel play first staged in 1908, but only published in book form in 1957. 1911 - Peter and Wendy, later published as Peter Pan and Wendy, adapted as a novel from the play, the Peter Pan Picture Book, retold by Daniel OConnor, illustrated by Alice B. Woodward, based on the stage production of 1904. The text was published as Peter Pan Keepsake but illustrated with photographs from the first productions. This story differs from Barries own 1911 novelisation because he had several changes to his play. Peter Pan and the Only Children by Gilbert Adair, an unauthorised sequel/prequel novel and this book is written and presented in a format similar to Peter and Wendy, with bound-in color illustrations by Jenny Thorne. It has Peter living with a different gang of Lost Boys under the ocean, recruiting only children who jump from passing ships as new members, including the newest and they have adventures under the sea, including a duel with Captain Hook which ends indecisively. The narrator suggests at the end that perhaps this is a prequel to the adventure with Wendy Darling, adairs previous novel was Alice through the Needles Eye, a sequel to the Alice in Wonderland stories. Neverland by Toby Forward, where Peter Pan, Captain Hook etc. are brought back to life through a computer game, published by Simon & Schuster when Peter Pan first entered the public domain in the UK, before the copyright was revived in 1995. Hook by Terry Brooks, a novelization of the Spielberg film, after the Rain, A New Adventure for Peter Pan by J. E. Somma, an unauthorised sequel novel. Set in modern times, telling of Peters reaction to a world that has grown to neglect him and they eventually settled out of court. Wendy by Karen Wallace, a prequel novel for young adults
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Original Teaser Poster
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Return to Never Land
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Zena Dare as Peter, 1907
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Mary Martin as Peter
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Broadway (Manhattan)
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Broadway /ˈbrɔːdweɪ/ is a road in the U. S. state of New York. It is the oldest north–south main thoroughfare in New York City, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement, the name Broadway is the English language literal translation of the Dutch name, Brede weg. Broadway is known widely as the heart of the American theatre industry, Broadway was originally the Wickquasgeck Trail, carved into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants. Wickquasgeck means birch-bark country in the Algonquian language and this trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail became the main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at the southern tip. The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David Pietersz. de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642, the Dutch named the road Heerestraat. Although current street signs are simply labeled as Broadway, in a 1776 map of New York City, in the mid-eighteenth century, part of Broadway in what is now lower Manhattan was known as Great George Street. An 1897 City Map shows a segment of Broadway as Kingsbridge Road in the vicinity of what is now the George Washington Bridge. In the 18th century, Broadway ended at the town north of Wall Street, where traffic continued up the East Side of the island via Eastern Post Road. The western Bloomingdale Road would be widened and paved during the 19th century, on February 14,1899, the name Broadway was extended to the entire Broadway/Bloomingdale/Boulevard road. Broadway once was a street for its entire length. The present status, in which it runs one-way southbound south of Columbus Circle, on 6 June 1954, Seventh Avenue became southbound and Eighth Avenue became northbound south of Broadway. On 3 June 1962, Broadway became one-way south of Canal Street, with Trinity Place, northbound traffic on Broadway now needs to take Amsterdam Avenue to 73rd Street, make a sharp turn on the very narrow 73rd and then right turn on Broadway. Otherwise, and effectively, the traffic on Broadway has been diverted into Amsterdam Avenue. In August 2008, two lanes from 42nd to 35th Streets were taken out of service and converted to public plazas. Additionally, bike lanes were added on Broadway from 42nd Street down to Union Square, the city decided that the experiment was successful and decided to make the change permanent in February 2010. Additionally, portions of Broadway in the Madison Square and Union Square have been dramatically narrowed, Broadway runs the length of Manhattan Island, roughly parallel to the North River, from Bowling Green at the south to Inwood at the northern tip of the island. South of Columbus Circle, it is a southbound street
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A daytime scene on Broadway Broadway through Manhattan, the Bronx and lower
Westchester County is highlighted in red
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Broadway in 1860
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In 1885 the Broadway commercial district was overrun with telephone, telegraph, and electrical lines. This view was north from Cortlandt and
Maiden Lane.
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Plan of 1868 for an "arcade railway"
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La Grange, Illinois
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La Grange, a suburb of Chicago, is a village in Cook County, in the U. S. state of Illinois. The population was 15,550 at the 2010 census, the area around La Grange was first settled in the 1830s, when Chicago residents moved out to the west due to the rapid population increase in the city in the decade since its incorporation. The first settler, Robert Leitch, came to the area in 1830, the village was officially incorporated on June 11,1879. It was founded by Franklin Dwight Cossitt, who was born in Granby, Connecticut, and raised in Tennessee, in 1870, Cossitt purchased several hundred acres of farmland in Lyons Township, along the Chicago-Dixon Road, known today as Ogden Avenue. Ogden Avenue, on the site of a defunct Native American trail, was referred to as the Old Plank Road. Planks were often stolen by settlers to be used as building material, when the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad came to town, La Grange was a milk stop called Hazel Glen. Cossitt set out to build the ideal suburban village - laying out streets, planting trees, donating property for churches and schools and he also placed liquor restrictions in the land deeds he sold to prevent the village from becoming a saloon town. When Cossitt began his development, the area was served by a post office known as Kensington, however, today Kensington remains the name of one of the villages major avenues. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed much of city, thousands of its citizens sought new homes and opportunities far from the citys ills. La Grange was ideally situated to accommodate them, La Grange is located at 41°48′29″N 87°52′24″W, about 13 miles west of Chicago. According to the 2010 census, La Grange has an area of 2.52 square miles. Two major railroad tracks run through the village, including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe, some 14,000 years ago, the land under La Grange sat on the western shore of Lake Chicago, predecessor to Lake Michigan. The prehistoric shoreline today is delineated by Bluff Avenue, a street on the villages east side. As of the census of 2000, there were 15,608 people,5,624 households, the population density was 6,220.7 people per square mile. There were 5,781 housing units at a density of 2,304.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 91. 02% White,6. 02% African American,1. 00% Asian,0. 09% Native American,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 99% from other races, and 0. 86% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race comprised 3. 66% of the population, the top five ancestries reported in La Grange as of the 2000 census were Irish, German, Polish, Italian and English. 24. 5% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.23
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La Grange
Village Hall
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The downtown district of La Grange
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Metra train stop on the
BNSF Railway Line
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The Fantasticks
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The Fantasticks is a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones. The fathers hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically seem to save Luisa, when the children discover the deception, they reject the arranged love match and separate. Each then gains disillusioning experiences of the world, seen in parallel fantasy sequences. They return to each other bruised but enlightened, and they renew their vows with more maturity, the shows original off-Broadway production ran a total of 42 years and 17,162 performances, making it the worlds longest-running musical. The musical was produced by Lore Noto and it was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 1991. The poetic book and breezy, inventive score, including familiar songs as Try to Remember. Many productions followed, as well as television and film versions, the Fantasticks has also become a staple of regional, community, and high school productions virtually since its premiere, with approximately 250 new productions each year. It is played with a small cast, two- to three-person orchestra, among many revivals, the show re-opened off-Broadway in 2006. As of 2010, its original investors have earned 240 times their original investments, the musical has played throughout the U. S. and in at least 67 foreign countries. The 1954 Marc Blitzstein adaptation of The Threepenny Opera, which ran for six years, showed that musicals could be profitable off-Broadway in a small-scale, small orchestra format. This was confirmed in 1959 when a revival of Jerome Kern, an early version of the play was produced under the title Joy Comes to Deadhorse at the University of New Mexico in 1956. It was set in the American West, and featured a half-breed Apache as the shows antagonist and it was substantially rewritten, with the character of Mortimer now not really an Indian but playing one during the Rape Ballet sequence. The Wild West setting was abandoned, as was most of the script, all but a few songs in the score were also jettisoned, and the staging of the play was changed to a thrust stage. Tom Jones says that the name of the came from George Flemings 1900 adaptation of the Rostand play. Harley Granville-Barkers book, On Dramatic Method, provided the idea of using a series of images to help weave a theme to the play. The song Try to Remember was added at this time, Harvey Schmidt says he wrote it in a single afternoon, after it emerged in almost complete form after a fruitless afternoon attempting to compose other songs. The revamped play appeared on a bill of new plays at Barnard College for one week in August 1959. The sparse set and semicircular stage created an intimate and immediate effect, the play is highly stylized and combines old-fashioned showmanship, classic musical theatre, commedia dellarte and Noh theatrical traditions
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Original Off-Broadway cast album cover
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The Young and the Restless
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The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, first broadcast on March 26,1973, The Young and the Restless was originally broadcast as half-hour episodes, five times a week. The show expanded to one-hour episodes on February 4,1980, in 2006, the series began airing encore episodes weeknights on SOAPnet until 2013, when Y&R moved to TVGN. Pop still airs the episodes on weeknights, starting July 1,2013. The series is syndicated internationally. The Young and the Restless originally focused on two families, the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family. After a series of recasts and departures in the early 1980s, all the characters except Jill Foster. Bell replaced them with the new families, the Abbotts. Over the years, other such as the Newmans, Winters. Despite these changes, one storyline that has endured through almost the entire run is the feud between Jill Abbott and Katherine Chancellor, the longest rivalry on any American soap opera. Since its debut, The Young and the Restless has won nine Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series and it is also currently the highest-rated daytime drama on American television. As of 2008, it had appeared at the top of the weekly Nielsen ratings in that category for more than 1,000 weeks since 1988. As of December 12,2013, according to Nielsen ratings, The Young, on January 15,2014, the series was in the middle of its final year of its 2010 contract, and was renewed by CBS through 2017. Y&R is also a show to the Bells other soap opera The Bold. To compete with the youthful ABC soap operas, All My Children, One Life to Live, William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell created The Young and the Restless in 1972 for the network under the working title, The Innocent Years. We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence, innocence as we had known and lived it all our lives had, in so many respects, ceased to exist. They changed the title of the series to The Young and the Restless because they felt it reflected the youth, the Young and the Restless began airing on March 26,1973, replacing the canceled soap opera, Where the Heart Is. Bell worked as writer from the debut of the series until his retirement in 1998
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The Young and the Restless
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Starcrash
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Starcrash is a 1978 American science fiction adventure film directed by Luigi Cozzi and written by Cozzi and Nat Wachsberger. The cast included Marjoe Gortner, Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff and it was filmed in Technicolor with Dolby sound, and has a runtime of 94 minutes. The US release is 92 minutes, and received an MPAA rating of PG, in a distant galaxy, a starship searches for the evil Count Zarth Arn. Closing in on a planet, the ship is attacked by a weapon which drives the crew insane. Three escape pods launch during the attack, but the ship crashes into the atmosphere of the planet and is destroyed, meanwhile, smugglers Stella Star and her sidekick Akton run into the Imperial Space Police, led by robot sheriff Elle. Akton and Stella escape by jumping into hyperspace, when they emerge, they discover an escape pod from the attacked starship, and in it, a sole disoriented survivor. Before they can escape, they are apprehended by the police, tried and convicted of piracy, they are each sentenced to life in prison on separate prison planets. When a riot breaks out at Stellas prison, she uses the diversion to escape the prison, Elle and Police Chief Thor recapture her, only to inform her the authorities have cancelled her sentence, she is taken to an orbiting ship, where she is reunited with Akton. With Chief Thor and Elle accompanying them, Stella and Akton set off on their quest, using hyperspace, which massively cuts the time they have to travel through space, they quickly arrive at the location Akton computes for the first escape pod. Stella and Elle take a shuttle from the spaceship and land near the pod on a sandy, Stella meets an Amazonian warrior tribe and is escorted to their underground fortress. On arrival, Elle is ambushed, shot and left for dead, Stella is taken before Corelia, Queen of the Amazons, who is in league with Zarth Arn. Elle doesnt actually die, and he makes his way to the throne room and they escape, but the queen mentally activates a giant female robot which chases them until they are rescued by Akton and Thor, in the spaceship. On a desolate and uninhabited snow-covered frozen planet, Stella and Elle investigate the ship crash site. Upon their return to the ship, Thor, who has ambushed and apparently knocked out Akton, reveals that he is an agent of Zarth Arn, meanwhile, Akton revives himself and battles Thor, killing him. When morning comes, Akton brings Elle and frozen Stella back onto the ship, approaching the planet of the third escape pod, their ship comes under attack from the same red blobby field, but Akton steers the ship through it, saving them. He is revealed to be the Emperors son, Prince Simon and they are again attacked and overpowered by the cavemen, but Akton appears and fights them off with his light saber, he then reveals that they are standing on the Counts weaponized planet. Arriving at a laboratory, the three are captured by the guards. The Count appears and reveals his plan to use them as bait to bring the Emperor to the planet, and then have his weapon self-destruct, destroying the planet, the Emperor and he leaves, ordering his two robot golems to keep the group there
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Theatrical poster by John Solie
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Kids Incorporated
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Kids Incorporated, is an American childrens television program. It is largely a youth-oriented program with performances as an integral part of each. The pilot episode was shot on September 1,1983, the show aired in syndication from September 1,1984 to May 25,1986, and on the Disney Channel from November 3,1986 to February 9,1994. Reruns aired on the Disney Channel until May 30,1996, the series revolves around a group of children and teenagers who performed in their own rock group, Kids Incorporated. They struggled to deal with issues ranging from schoolyard crushes to peer pressure to child abuse and it had originally been named The Palace and had been a theater where, supposedly, the biggest names in entertainment, such as Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra, had once performed. But the first a in the neon sign burned out and was never replaced and it was never explained how the group funded or profited from their performances, but the show did not aim for strict realism. The action took place on abstract stagey sets and the plots involved many elements, such as the group meeting a robot. In addition to their performances on stage, the group would break into song when they were off-stage, the city in which the P*lace was located was never disclosed. The school depicted on the set had signage reading P. S. and later, in one episode in the first season, The P*lace was expected to be torn down, but was saved as a National Historical Landmark. The cast was mainly children and teenagers, the only recurring adult cohost members were Moosie Drier, Sean ORiordan and Dena Burton, who played staff of The P*lace. Michael Lewis played the manager of The Malt Shop in the pilot, parents rarely appeared on the show nor figured directly into episode plots. The cast of all nine seasons is listed as follows, The group members ranged in age from eight to seventeen, from Seasons 4 to 5 there were six members, in Seasons 1 to 3 and 6 to 9, it always consisted of three girls and two boys. The characters on the show usually carried the names of the actors who played them, however, in some cases, the names were shortened, and in other cases they were completely replaced. For example, Marta Martika Marreros character was named Gloria while Jerry Sharells was named Mickey, Rahsaan Patterson was called Kid and his real name was not revealed as Rahsaan until well into the series although scripts continued to refer to him as Kid regardless. Actors left the show when they aged out of their roles on Kids Incorporated or if they wanted to work on other things. The disappearances of some actors, such as Jerry Sharell, Martika, Renee Sands, Rahsaan Patterson, and Moosie Drier, were written into the script. However, many of the characters were replaced without comment such as the disappearances of Robin, Kenny, Devyn, Connie, Stacy, Richie, Eric, Jared, Flip, and Ryan. While she was on the show Stacy eventually went from being the youngest to the oldest and holds the record for the longest run on the series having been on for six seasons, Moosie Drier was part of the cast for five seasons
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The seasons 0-8 (1983-1992) logo.
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Santa Barbara (soap opera)
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Santa Barbara is an American television soap opera that aired on NBC from July 30,1984 to January 15,1993. The show revolves around the lives of the wealthy Capwell family of Santa Barbara. Other prominent families featured on the soap were the rival Lockridge family, the serial was produced by Dobson Productions and New World Television, which also served as distributor for the show in international markets. Santa Barbara was New World Televisions first series, Due to the buyout of New World by News Corporation in 1997, current rights to the series reside with the old News Corps successor, 21st Century Fox, and its syndication arm, 20th Television. Santa Barbara aired in the United States at 3,00 PM Eastern on NBC in the time slot as General Hospital on ABC and Guiding Light on CBS. Santa Barbara aired in over 40 countries around the world and it became the longest-running television series in Russia, being aired there from 1992 to 2002. Santa Barbara won 24 Daytime Emmy Awards and was nominated 30 times for the same award, the show also won 18 Soap Opera Digest Awards, and won various other awards. In 1993, NBC replaced Santa Barbara with game shows Scrabble, shortly before the program was canceled by NBC, New World Television tried to shop Santa Barbara to other broadcast and cable networks, but failed to find one that would air the show. Santa Barbara is notable for having a plot around which many of the others revolve. Santa Barbara began on an unsteadily with one reviewer deeming the series the worst program on television, mark Dawidziak claimed in August 1984 that Santa Barbara was a serial full of hammy acting, predictable story lines and atrocious dialogue. The original plotline surrounded conflicts between the wealthy Capwell and Lockridge families, when the Lockridges staged a comeback in the early 1990s, the much younger Broadway and movie veteran Janis Paige assumed the part. She would return later on a basis and signed a contract when the Lockridges were written back in as regular characters. When a major earthquake hit Santa Barbara, core character Danny Andrade slept through the whole thing, Minx Lockridge was unfazed, saying that the 1984 Santa Barbara earthquake was nothing like the one in 1925. She was later locked in an empty sarcophagus, luckily, her grandchildren were around to let her out and she escaped with merely a bruised ego. By concentrating on such characters as Eden Capwell and Cruz Castillo. The show was famous for its style and offbeat writing. Despite an irate letter-writing campaign by the fans, Kozak was reported as saying that she had no desire to return to SB, or in fact. Another example from 1989 involved Greg Hughes having a dream while unconscious about Mason and Julia being aliens, in 1988, the Dobsons were locked out of NBC studios after repeated attempts to fire the head writer
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Santa Barbara
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The supercouple,
Eden Capwell (
Marcy Walker) and
Cruz Castillo (
A Martinez).
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Cast on Christmas 1989 Cruz Castillo, Mack Blake, Eden Capwell, Julia Wainwright, Mason Capwell, Sasha Schmidt, Augusta Lockridge, C.C. Capwell, Kelly Capwell
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The show's popularity in France spun off a storyline in which Eden Capwell (
Marcy Walker), Cruz Castillo (
A Martinez), Kelly Capwell (
Carrington Garland) and Ric Castillo (Peter Love) went to Paris to search after Eden's and Cruz's child.
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Brandon Tartikoff
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Brandon Tartikoff was an American television executive who was the president of NBC from 1980 to 1991. Tartikoff also helped develop the 1984 sitcom Punky Brewster, he named the character after a girl he had a crush on in school. Punky Brewsters pet dog Brandon was named after Tartikoff and he was also involved in the creation of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine and Beggars and Choosers. Born to a Jewish family in Freeport, New York, Tartikoff was a graduate of the Lawrenceville School and Yale University, while attending Yale, Tartikoff worked as an account executive and sales manager for WNHC-TV in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as in Hartford, Connecticut. Tartikoff spent vacations in Los Angeles looking for a job in network television, after graduating from Yale, he took a series of jobs in advertising and local television, including WLS-TV in Chicago, Illinois. Tartikoff was hired as an executive at ABC in 1976. One year later, he moved to NBC, Tartikoff took over programming duties at NBC from Fred Silverman in 1981. At age 32, Tartikoff became the youngest president of NBCs entertainment division, when Tartikoff took over, NBC was in last place behind ABC and CBS, and the very future of the network was in doubt. A writers strike was looming, affiliates were defecting, mostly to ABC, johnny Carson was reportedly in talks to move his landmark late-night talk show to ABC. The entire cast and writers of Saturday Night Live had left that late-night sketch-comedy series, by 1982, Tartikoff and his new superior, the highly regarded former producer Grant Tinker, slowly but surely turned the networks fortunes around. Tartikoff wrote a memo that simply read MTV cops, and later presented the memo to series creator Anthony Yerkovich. The result was Miami Vice, which became an icon of 1980s pop culture, knight Rider was inspired by a perceived lack of leading men who could act, with Tartikoff suggesting that a talking car could fill in the gaps in any leading mans acting abilities. During the casting process of Family Ties, Tartikoff was unexcited about Michael J. Fox for the role of Alex P. Keaton, however, the shows producer, Gary David Goldberg, insisted until Tartikoff relented, saying, Go ahead if you insist. But Im telling you, this is not the kind of face youll ever see on a lunch box, love and Kisses, Michael J. Tartikoff kept the lunch box on display in his office. Jerry Seinfeld credited Tartikoff with saving Seinfeld from cancellation during its first four years of struggling ratings, johnny Carson broke the news of his retirement in February 1991 to Tartikoff at the Grille in Beverly Hills. For several days only Tartikoff and NBC Chairman Bob Wright knew of the planned retirement, during his time at NBC, he made appearances in several of the networks shows. During his 1983 appearance on Saturday Night Live, one skit featured Tartikoff in a leather ensemble. Be There was NBCs slogan during the 1983–84 season, Tartikoff appeared as himself on episodes of Night Court, Night Stand with Dick Dietrick and ALF, and in the background of one of the final episodes of Cheers
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Tartikoff at the 1988 Emmy Awards
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