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Kenosha, Wisconsin
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Kenosha /kɛˈnoʊˌʃɑː/ is a city in and the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States. Kenosha is on the shore of Lake Michigan. With an estimated population of 99,889 as of July 1,2013, it is the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin, the city is part of the United States Census Bureaus Chicago Combined Statistical Area. Early archaeological sites have been discovered in the Kenosha vicinity, the discoverer of two sites believes they antedate the Clovis culture, making them contemporaneous with the ice age, paleo Indians settled in the area at least 13,500 years ago. The Potawatomi originally named the area ginoozhe place of the pike, the early name by the Ojibwa Indians is reported as Masu-kinoja. This describes the place of spawning trout as trout come all at same time, thousands of fish were entering the rivers from Lake Michigan. Harvesting these fish provided food for the coming months, the first white settlers, part of the Western Emigration Company, arrived in the early 1830s from Hannibal and Troy, New York, led by John Bullen, Jr. who sought to purchase enough land for a town. Thwarted in Milwaukee and Racine, the arrived at Pike Creek on 6 June 1835, building log homes at first and, later, homes of frame, native stone. The first school and churches followed by 1835, with platting completed in 1836, as more settlers arrived and the first post office was established, the community was first known as Pike Creek in 1836. In 1850, another change brought the city its current title. Between 1902 and 1988, Kenosha produced millions of automobiles and trucks under marques such as Jeffery, Rambler, Nash, Hudson, LaFayette, a prototype steam car was built in Kenosha by the Sullivan-Becker engineering firm in 1900. Two years later, the Thomas B, Jeffery Company, builders of the Sterling bicycle, began production of the Rambler runabout. In 1902, Rambler and Oldsmobile were the first cars to employ mass-production techniques, the 1902 Rambler was also the first automobile to use a steering wheel, rather than the then-common tiller-controlled steering. Auto executive Charles W. Nash purchased Jeffrey in 1916 and the new company became Nash Motors, in May 1954, Nash acquired Detroit-based Hudson and the new firm was named American Motors Corporation. A 47-acre west side park and a school are named for Charles W. Nash. In partnership with French automaker Renault, AMC manufactured several models in Kenosha in the early 1980s, including the Alliance, two decades earlier, AMCs 1963 Rambler Classic had also received the award. In 1987, Renault sold its controlling interest in AMC to Chrysler Corporation, the AMC Lakefront plant, a smaller facility, was demolished in 1990 and was redeveloped into upscale HarborPark. Kenosha has 21 locations and three districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places including the Library Park, Third Avenue, matthew Episcopal Church at 5900 Seventh Avenue, the Washington Park Clubhouse at 2205 Washington Road, and the Justin Weed House at 3509 Washington Road
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Kenosha's Lakefront
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Seal
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Harborpark
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Big Star Drive-In Restaurant
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Scottsdale, Arizona
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Scottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, adjacent to the Greater Phoenix Area. The New York Times described downtown Scottsdale as a version of Miamis South Beach and as having plenty of late night partying. Its slogan is The Wests Most Western Town, Scottsdale,31 miles long and 11.4 miles wide at its widest point, shares boundaries with many other municipalities and entities. On the west, Scottsdale is bordered by Phoenix, Paradise Valley, carefree is located along the western boundary, as well as sharing Scottsdales northern boundary with the Tonto National Forest. To the south Scottsdale is bordered by Tempe, the area which would include what would become Scottsdale was originally inhabited by the Hohokam, from approximately 300 BC to 1450 AD. This ancient civilization farmed the area and developed a network of canals for irrigation which was unsurpassed in pre-Columbian North America. At its peak, the canals stretched over 250 miles, many of which remains extant today, some having been renovated. Under still-mysterious circumstances, the Hohokam disappeared around 1450 or 1500, the areas later occupants, the Pima and Oodham, are thought to be the direct descendants of the Hohokam people. Before European settlement, Scottsdale was a Pima village known as Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ, some Pima remained in their original homes well into the 20th century. For example, until the late 1960s, there was a traditional dwelling on the southeast corner of Indian Bend Road. Currently, those Pima who live within Scottsdale reside in homes rather than traditional dwellings. Many Pima and Maricopa people continue to reside on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, in the early to mid 1880s, U. S. Army Chaplain Winfield Scott visited the Salt River Valley and was impressed with the region and its potential for agriculture. Returning in 1888 with his wife, Helen, he purchased 640 acres for $3.50 an acre for a stretch of land where downtown Scottsdale is now located. Many of the original settlers, recruited by Scott from the East and Midwest, were educated and had an appreciation for cultural activities. The towns name was changed to Scottsdale in 1894, after its founder, while not in its original building, Cavallieres has been in continuance operation since that time. Between 1908 and 1933, due to the construction of the Granite Reef and Roosevelt dams, Scottsdales population experienced a boom, Scottsdale became a small market town providing services for families involved in the agricultural industry. Although cotton is grown in southern Arizona, Scottsdales cotton boom ended with the loss of government contracts at the end of the war. In 1920, a resort was opened on 12 acres of the property owned by the artist Jessie Benton Evans
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Downtown Scottsdale Waterfront
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Winfield & Helen Scott, 1900
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First Schoolhouse in Scottsdale
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Jokake Inn, Scottsdale, AZ
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Asbury, Iowa
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Asbury is a city in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, and a suburb of the city of Dubuque. It is part of the Dubuque, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 4,357 at the 2010 census. Asbury is the second-largest city in Dubuque County, surpassing Dyersville, the city is largely a bedroom community, made up of spacious, new subdivisions whose residents work in Dubuque or Peosta, Iowa. Asbury was settled beginning in the 1830s, at first by Methodists, the city is named after British-born Bishop Francis Asbury, one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. The city was incorporated in 1933, following the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, the city incorporated to gain the legal standing necessary to sell alcohol, as liquor licenses were still forbidden in rural areas. For most of its history, Asbury was very small, much like hundreds of towns in rural Iowa. In the 1960 census, Asbury still had only 71 residents, during this time, the City of Dubuque grew immensely, and the sprawl reached the Asbury area beginning in the 1960s. By 1970, Asbury had 410 residents and had grown fast enough to become the fastest growing city in the state of Iowa, Asbury continues to grow at a rapid pace today, expanding over 50% since the year 2000, and currently counts 4,357 residents. This number is certain to increase, as a number of new subdivisions are being built or planned for the area. Asbury has a form of government, employing a full-time city administrator. The city administrator is Beth Bonz, the current mayor is Jim Adams, the city council meets at 7 P. M. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month at Asbury City Hall. In addition, Asbury sends commissioners to the Eastern Iowa Housing Authority, Asbury has 3 city departments, Public Safety, Public Works, and Parks. In the Iowa General Assembly, Asbury is represented by Senator Tom Hancock in the Iowa Senate, at the federal level, it is within Iowas 1st congressional district, represented by Bruce Braley in the U. S. House of Representatives. Asbury, and all of Iowa, are represented by U. S, senators Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin. Asbury is located at 42°30′56″N 90°45′48″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.66 square miles, all of it land. The city operates three parks and a pedestrian trail, the parks include, Althaus Wetland & Nature Preserve, Asbury Park, and Maple Hills Park. The trail runs from Asbury Rd. to Maple Hills Park, serving primarily as a bedroom community, Asbury has only a small local economy. Most of its residents commute to work in Dubuque, only a handful of businesses operate within the City of Asbury, however, this number has grown in recent years, along with an expanding population
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Population history of Asbury, Iowa (1940-2005).
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Location in the State of
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the state university of Wisconsin. It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state and it became a land-grant institution in 1866. The 933-acre main campus includes four National Historic Landmarks, the University employs over 21,600 faculty and staff. Its comprehensive academic program offers 136 undergraduate majors, along with 148 masters degree programs and 120 doctoral programs, the UW is one of Americas Public Ivy universities, which refers to top public universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. UW–Madison is also categorized as a Doctoral University with the Highest Research Activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, in 2012, it had research expenditures of more than $1.1 billion, the third highest among universities in the country. Wisconsin is a member of the Association of American Universities. The Wisconsin Badgers compete in 25 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference and have won 28 national championships, however, this body never actually accomplished anything before Wisconsin was incorporated as a state in 1848. The Wisconsin Constitution provided for the establishment of a state university, and directed by the state legislature to be governed by a board of regents and administered by a Chancellor. On July 26,1846, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsins first governor, John H. Lathrop became the universitys first chancellor, in the fall of 1849. With John W. Sterling as the universitys first professor, the first class of 17 students met at Madison Female Academy on February 5,1849. The regents building plans called for a main edifice fronting towards the Capitol and this building, University Hall, now known as Bascom Hall, was finally completed in 1859. On October 10,1916, a fire destroyed the buildings dome, North Hall, constructed in 1851, was actually the first building on campus. In 1854, Levi Booth and Charles T. Wakeley became the first graduates of the university, the Wisconsin Idea permeates the universitys work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students, and the states industries and government. Over time, additional campuses were added to the university, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was created in 1956, and UW–Green Bay and UW–Parkside in 1968. Ten freshman-sophomore centers were added to this system. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, UW–Madison was shaken by a series of student protests, the first major demonstrations protested the presence on campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company, which supplied the napalm used in the Vietnam War. Authorities used force to quell the disturbance, the struggle was documented in the book, They Marched into Sunlight, as well as the PBS documentary Two Days in October
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An early illustration of the campus, from the 1885 edition of the
Wisconsin Blue Book.
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University of Wisconsin – Madison
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Bascom Hall fire that destroyed the dome in 1916
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Bascom hall at dusk
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Vaudeville
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Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was especially popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s, a typical vaudeville performance is made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. A vaudeville performer is often referred to as a vaudevillian, Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary American burlesque. Called the heart of American show business, vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades, the origin of this term is obscure, but is often explained as being derived from the French expression voix de ville. A second speculation is that it comes from the songs on satire by poet Olivier Basselin. Some, however, preferred the term variety to what manager Tony Pastor called its sissy. Thus, vaudeville was marketed as variety well into the 20th century, with its first subtle appearances within the early 1860s, vaudeville was not initially a common form of entertainment. The form gradually evolved from the saloon and variety hall into its mature form throughout the 1870s and 1880s. This more gentle form was known as Polite Vaudeville, in the years before the American Civil War, entertainment existed on a different scale. Certainly, variety theatre existed before 1860 in Europe and elsewhere, in the US, as early as the first decades of the 19th century, theatregoers could enjoy a performance consisting of Shakespeare plays, acrobatics, singing, dancing, and comedy. As the years progressed, people seeking diversified amusement found a number of ways to be entertained. Vaudeville was characterized by traveling companies touring through cities and towns, a significant influence also came from Dutch minstrels and comedians. Vaudeville incorporated these various itinerant amusements into a stable, institutionalized form centered in Americas growing urban hubs, pastors experiment proved successful, and other managers soon followed suit. B. F. Keith took the step, starting in Boston. Later, E. F. Albee, adoptive grandfather of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, circuits such as those managed by Keith-Albee provided vaudevilles greatest economic innovation and the principal source of its industrial strength. They enabled a chain of allied vaudeville houses that remedied the chaos of the booking system by contracting acts for regional and national tours. These could easily be lengthened from a few weeks to two years, Albee also gave national prominence to vaudevilles trumpeting polite entertainment, a commitment to entertainment equally inoffensive to men, women and children. Acts that violated this ethos were admonished and threatened with expulsion from the remaining performances or were canceled altogether
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A promotional poster for the Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles (1894), showing dancers, clowns, trapeze artists and costumed dogs
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Typical provincial venue on the circuit: "The Opera" in
Kirksville, Missouri
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This 1913 how-to booklet for would-be vaudevillians was recently republished.
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As the genre declined, most performers left the theatre; here the kid
hoofer Ray Wollbrinck (cousin of
Louis Wollbrinck), once called "the cleverest buckdancer on the vaudeville stage"; he later became a bandleader and ended his days as a
bank teller.
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20th Century Fox
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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox. It is one of the Big Six major American film studios and is located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, the studio was formerly owned by News Corporation. 20th Century Fox is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, in 2015, 20th Century Fox celebrated its 80th anniversary as a studio. Spyros Skouras, then manager of the Fox West Coast Theaters, the studios biggest star, Will Rogers, died in a plane crash weeks after the merger. Its leading female star, Janet Gaynor, was fading in popularity and promising leading men James Dunn, at first, it was expected that the new company was originally to be called Fox-20th Century, even though 20th Century was the senior partner in the merger. However, 20th Century brought more to the bargaining table besides Schenck and Zanuck, the new company, 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation, began trading on May 31,1935, the hyphen was dropped in 1985. Schenck became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, while Kent remained as President, Zanuck became Vice President in Charge of Production, replacing Foxs longtime production chief Winfield Sheehan. The company established a training school. The contracts included an option for renewal for as long as seven years. For many years, 20th Century Fox claimed to have founded in 1915. For instance, it marked 1945 as its 30th anniversary, however, in recent years it has claimed the 1935 merger as its founding, even though most film historians agree it was founded in 1915. The companys films retained the 20th Century Pictures searchlight logo on their credits as well as its opening fanfare. Also on the Fox payroll he found two players who he built up into the studios leading assets, Alice Faye and seven-year-old Shirley Temple, favoring popular biographies and musicals, Zanuck built Fox back to profitability. Thanks to record attendance during World War II, Fox overtook RKO, while Zanuck went off for eighteen months war service, junior partner William Goetz kept profits high by going for light entertainment. The studios—indeed the industrys—biggest star was creamy blonde Betty Grable, in 1942, Spyros Skouras succeeded Kent as president of the studio. Together with Zanuck, who returned in 1943, they intended to make Foxs output more serious-minded. During the next few years, with pictures like The Razors Edge, Wilson, Gentlemans Agreement, The Snake Pit, Boomerang, and Pinky, Zanuck established a reputation for provocative, adult films. Fox also specialized in adaptations of best-selling books such as Ben Ames Williams Leave Her to Heaven, starring Gene Tierney and they also made the 1958 film version of South Pacific
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Logo used as of 2013
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Entrance to 20th Century Fox studio lot.
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Carmen Miranda in
The Gang's All Here. In 1946, she was the highest-paid actress in the United States.
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Alice Faye,
Don Ameche, and
Carmen Miranda in
That Night in Rio, produced by Fox in 1941.
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Walter Brennan was the first winner of award for his role in Come. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 72 actors. Brennan has received the most awards in this category with three awards, Brennan, Jeff Bridges, Robert Duvall, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Nicholson, and Claude Rains were nominated on four occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Mahershala Ali is the most recent winner in category for his role as Juan in Moonlight. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-1-55002-574-3. org The Academy Awards Database Oscar. com Complete Downloadable List of Academy Award Nominees
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Walter Brennan was the first winner in this category for 1936's
Come and Get It; He would also win for his roles in
Kentucky (1938) and
The Westerner (1940).
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Van Heflin won in 1942 for his performance in
Johnny Eager.
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George Sanders won for his role in 1950's
All About Eve.
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Karl Malden won in 1951 for
A Streetcar Named Desire.
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Cocoon (film)
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Cocoon is a 1985 American science-fiction fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard about a group of elderly people rejuvenated by aliens. The movie stars Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn, Brian Dennehy, Jack Gilford, Steve Guttenberg, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Gwen Verdon, Herta Ware, Tahnee Welch, the film is loosely based on the novel of the same name by David Saperstein. The film was shot in and around St. Petersburg, Florida, locations included the St Petersburg Shuffleboard Club, Sunny Shores Rest Home, The Coliseum, the film earned two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and for Best Visual Effects. A sequel, Cocoon, The Return, was released in 1988 in which almost all of the original cast reprised their roles. About 10,000 years ago, peaceful aliens from the planet Antarea set up an outpost on the planet Earth, when Atlantis sank, twenty aliens were left behind, kept alive in large rock-like cocoons at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Now a group of Antareans have returned to Earth to collect them, disguising themselves as humans, they rent a house with a swimming pool, and charge the water with life force to give the cocooned Antareans energy to survive the trip home. They charter a boat from a captain named Jack, who helps them retrieve the cocoons. Jack likes Kitty, a woman from the team who chartered his boat. When he spies on her while she undresses in her cabin, after the aliens reveal themselves to him and explain whats going on, he decides to help them. Next door to the house the Antareans are renting is Sunny Shores, three of its residents, Ben, Arthur, and Joe, often trespass to swim in the pool next door, thinking the house to be unoccupied. They absorb some of the force, making them feel younger and stronger. Eventually caught in the act, they are given permission to use the pool by the Antarean leader, Walter, rejuvenated with youthful energy, the three men begin to let the advantages of the pool take hold as they are relieved of their ailments. Meanwhile, Kitty and Jack grow closer and decide to make love in the pool, since she cannot do so in the human manner, she introduces him to the Antarean equivalent, in which she shares her lifeforce energy with him. The other retirement home residents become suspicious of the men after witnessing Bens wife Mary climb a tree with their grandson, in a mad frenzy after overhearing Bernies slip-up, all the other elderly residents go to the pool to swim in its waters. When Walter finds them damaging one of the cocoons, he is infuriated and ejects them from the property, later that evening, Bernie finds his wife Rose has stopped breathing and she is unable to wake up. Walter explains that the cocoons cannot now survive the trip back to Antarea, with the help of Jack, Ben, Arthur and Joe, the Antareans return the cocoons to the sea. The Antareans offer to them and 30 other residents of the retirement home with them to Antarea. Most of them accept the offer, but Bernie chooses to remain on Earth, upon leaving, Ben tells his grandson, David, that he and Davids grandma are leaving for good
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Theatrical release poster
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Italian American
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Italian Americans are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Italy, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. Italian Americans are the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States, about 5.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States from 1820 to 2004. Immigration began in earnest during the 1870s, when more than twice as many Italians immigrated than during the five previous decades altogether. The 1870s were followed by the greatest surge of immigration, which occurred in the period between 1880 and 1914 and brought more than 4 million Italians to America. This period of large scale immigration ended abruptly with the onset of the First World War in 1914 and, except for one year, further immigration would be greatly limited by a number of restrictive laws passed by Congress in the 1920s. Approximately 84% of the Italian immigrants came from Southern Italy and Sicily, after unification, the Italian government initially encouraged emigration to relieve economic pressures in the South. After the American Civil War, which resulted in over a million killed or wounded, immigrant workers were recruited from Italy. In the United States, most Italians began their new lives as manual laborers in Eastern cities, mining camps, Italian Americans gradually moved from the lower rungs of the economic scale in the first generation to a level comparable to the national average by 1970. By 1990, more than 65% of Italian Americans were managerial, professional, the Italian-American communities have often been characterized by strong ties with family, the Catholic Church, fraternal organizations and political parties. Today, over 17 million Americans claim Italian ancestry, third only to Brazil with 31 million, and Argentina, Italians and their descendants in America have helped to shape the country and, in turn, have adapted to it. They have gained prominence in politics, sports, the media, the arts, the culinary arts. Italian navigators and explorers played a key role in the discovery, exploration, christopher Columbus, the explorer who first reached the Americas in 1492–1504, was Italian. Another notable Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, who explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502, is the source of the name America. Englands claims in North America were based on the voyages of the Italian explorer John Cabot, in 1524 the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano was the first European to map the Atlantic coast of todays United States, and to enter New York Bay. In 1539, Marco da Nizza, explored the territory later became the states of Arizona. In the 17th century, Henri de Tonti, together with the French explorer LaSalle, De Tonti founded the first European settlement in Illinois in 1679, and in Arkansas in 1683. With LaSalle, he co-founded New Orleans, and was governor of the Louisiana Territory for the next 20 years and his brother Alphonse de Tonty, with French explorer Antoine Cadillac, was the co-founder of Detroit in 1701, and was its acting colonial governor for 12 years. Spain and France were Catholic countries and sent many missionaries to convert the native population, included among these missionaries were numerous Italians
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Amadeo Giannini
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Fiorello LaGuardia
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Vincent R. Capodanno
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Province of Ascoli Piceno
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The province of Ascoli Piceno is a province in the Marche region of Italy. There are 73 comuni in the province, see Comunes of the Province of Ascoli Piceno, the first settlers of the province were located on the banks of River Tronto by the Picentes tribe. It was later conquered by the Romans and became known as Asculum Picenum by 268 BCE, from 91-88 BCE the Picentes revolted against the Romans and attempted to re-claim the land, but Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo besieged and sacked the city. The town of Ascoli Piceno managed to revive, but after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, king of the Ostrogoths Totila invaded the town in 545. Ascoli Piceno was then under control from the church and was made free in 1185. Official website Wines and recipes from Ascoli Piceno
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Map highlighting the location of the province of Ascoli Piceno in Italy
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Marche
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Marche, or The Marches /ˈmɑːrtʃᵻz/, is one of the twenty regions of Italy. The name of the region derives from the name of marca, originally referring to the medieval March of Ancona and nearby marches of Camerino. Marche is well known for its tradition, with the finest and most luxurious Italian footwear being manufactured in this region. Except for river valleys and the very narrow coastal strip. A railway from Bologna to Brindisi, built in the 19th century, inland, the mountainous nature of the region, even today, allows relatively little travel north and south, except by twisting roads over the passes. Most of the region is mountainous or hilly, the features being the Apennine chain along the internal boundary. With the sole exception of Monte Vettore,2,476 metres high, the hilly area covers two-thirds of the region and is interrupted by wide gullies with numerous – albeit short – rivers and by alluvial plains perpendicular to the principal chain. The parallel mountain chains contain deep river gorges, the best known being those of the Furlo, the Rossa and the Frasassi. The coastal area is 173 kilometres long and is relatively flat, inland, in the mountainous areas, is more continental with cold and often snowy winters, by the sea is more mediterranean. Precipitation varies from 1000-1500 mm. per year inland and 600-800 mm. per year on the Adriatic coast, Marche was known in ancient times as the Picenum territory. The Picens or Picentes were the Italic tribe who lived in Picenum during the Iron Age, in the fourth century BC the northern area was occupied by the Senones, a tribe of Gauls. In Marche was fought the Battle of Sentinum in 295 BC, after it, the Romans founded numerous colonies in the areas, connecting them to Rome by the Via Flaminia, Ascoli was a seat of Italic resistance during the Social War. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the region was invaded by the Goths, after the Gothic War, it was part of the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. After the fall of the Exarchate it was briefly in the possession of the Lombards, in the ninth to eleventh centuries the marches of Camerino, Fermo and Ancona were created, hence the modern name. Marche was nominally part of the Papal States, but most of the territory was under local lords, in the twelfth century, the commune of Ancona resisted both the imperial authority of Frederick Barbarossa and the Republic of Venice, and was a maritime republic on its own. An attempt to restore Papal suzerainty by Gil de Albornoz in the century was short-lived. During the Renaissance, the region was fought over by rival aristocratic families, such as the Malatesta of Rimini, Pesaro, Fano and the house of Montefeltro of Urbino. The last independent entity, the Duchy of Urbino, was dissolved in 1631, after Napoleons defeat, Marche returned to Papal rule until 4 November 1860, when it was annexed to the unified Kingdom of Italy by a plebiscite
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View of Marche countryside
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Marche
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A view of
Monte Conero
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The Renaissance town of
Urbino
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Scottish American
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Scottish Americans or Scots Americans are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans, descendants of Ulster Scots, in the 2013 American Community Survey 5,310,285 were identified as Scottish and 2,976,878 of Scotch-Irish descent. Large scale emigration from Scotland to America began in the 1700s after the Battle of Culloden where the Clan structures were broken up, the Scots went in search of a better life and settled in the thirteen colonies, mainly around South Carolina and Virginia. The table shows the ethnic Scottish population in the United States from 1700 to 2013, in 1700 the total population of the American colonies was 250,888, of whom 223,071 were white and 3. 0% were ethnically Scottish. In the 2000 census,4.8 million Americans self-reported Scottish ancestry,1. 7% of the total US population, another 4.3 million self-reported Scotch-Irish ancestry, for a total of 9.2 million Americans self-reporting some kind of Scottish descent. Americans of Scottish descent outnumber the population of Scotland, where 4,459,071 or 88. 09% of people identified as ethnic Scottish in the 2001 Census. A Christian bard from the Hebrides accompanied Bjarni Herjolfsson on his voyage around Greenland in 985/6 which sighted the mainland to the west. The first Scots recorded as having set foot in the New World were a man named Haki, the Scottish couple were runners who scouted for Thorfinn Karlsefnis expedition in c. 1010, gathering wheat and the grapes for which Vinland was named, the controversial Zeno letters have been cited in support of a claim that Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney, visited Nova Scotia in 1398. In the early years of Spanish colonization of the Americas, a Scot named Tam Blake spent 20 years in Colombia and he took part in the conquest of New Granada in 1532 with Alonso de Heredia. He arrived in Mexico in 1534-5, and joined Coronados 1540 expedition to the American Southwest, Scottish-American naturalist John Muir is perhaps best known for his exploration of Californias Sierra Nevada mountains during the 19th century. After the Union of the Crowns of Scotland and England in 1603, King James VI, a Scot, promoted joint expeditions overseas, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, Jamestown, was thus named for a Scot. The earliest Scottish communities in America were formed by traders and planters rather than farmer settlers, the hub of Scottish commercial activity in the colonial period was Virginia. Regular contacts began with the transportation of indentured servants to the colony from Scotland, trade between Scotland and the American colonies was finally regularized by the parliamentary Act of Union of Scotland and England in 1707. Scots arriving in Florida and the Gulf Coast traded extensively with Native Americans, American bluegrass and folk music styles have roots in the Appalachian ballad culture of Scottish and the Scotch-Irish Americans. There has also been a tradition of influences between Scottish American and African American communities. Psalm-singing and gospel music are a mainstay of African American churchgoers, the great influx of Scots Presbyterians into the Carolinas introduced African slaves to this form of worship. The style of gospel-singing was also influenced by Scottish Gaelic-speaking settlers from the Western Isles, the first foreign tongue spoken by some slaves in America was Scottish Gaelic picked up from Gaelic-speakers from the Western Isles
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James VI and I, c. 1604.
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The
Americas in the reign of James VI, 1619.
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"Uncle Sam" Wilson was based on
Samuel Wilson
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From left: William A. Davidson, Walter Davidson, Sr.,
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Irish American
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Irish Americans are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33.3 million Americans—10. 5% of the total population—reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U. S. Census Bureau and this compares with a population of 6.4 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people identified as Scots-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. An estimated 250,000 migrated to the United States during the colonial era, only 20,000 immigrants of these immigrants from Ireland were Catholics—English, Irish or a few Germans. Catholics numbered 40,000 or 1. 6% of the population of 2.5 million in 1775. The Scots-Irish settled mainly in the back country of the Appalachian Mountain region. Irish Americans signed the documents of the United States—the Declaration of Independence. The early Ulster immigrants and their descendants at first usually referred to simply as Irish. However, most descendants of the Scots-Irish continued to consider themselves Irish or American rather than Scots-Irish, however, beginning in the early 19th century, many Irish migrated individually to the interior for work on large-scale infrastructure projects such as canals and, later in the century, railroads. During the colonial period, Scots-Irish settled in the southern Appalachian backcountry, by the 19th century, through intermarriage with settlers of English and German ancestry, the descendants of the Scots-Irish lost their identification with Ireland. This generation of pioneers. was a generation of Americans, not of Englishmen or Germans or Scots-Irish, in 1820 Irish-born John England became the first Catholic bishop in the mainly Protestant city of Charleston, South Carolina. During the 1820s and 30s, Bishop England defended the Catholic minority against Protestant prejudices, in 1831 and 1835, he established free schools for free African American children. Inflamed by the propaganda of the American Anti-Slavery Society, a mob raided the Charleston post office in 1835, England led Charlestons Irish Volunteers to defend the school. Soon after this, however, all schools for blacks were closed in Charleston. The Irish Catholics concentrated in a few medium-sized cities, where they were visible, especially in Charleston, Savannah. After secession in 1861, the Irish Catholic community supported the Confederacy and 20,000 served in the Confederate Army, civilian leaders of the Irish and the South did embrace the Confederate national project and most became advocates of a hard-war policy. Although most began as unskilled laborers, Irish Catholics in the South achieved average or above average economic status by 1900, the large Erie Canal project was one such example where Irishmen were many of the laborers. Small but tight communities developed in growing such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York
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Charles Carroll, signer of the
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Matthew Thornton,
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"Leacht Cuimhneacháin na nGael",
Irish famine memorial located in
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Gravestone in
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The Orange riot of 1871 as depicted in
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German American
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The German American ethnic group consists of Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. With an estimated size of approximately 46 million in 2014, German Americans are the largest of the groups reported by the US Census Bureau in its American Community Survey. The group accounts for about 1⁄3 of the total ethnic German population in the world, none of the German states had American colonies. In the 1670s the first significant groups of German immigrants arrived in the British colonies, settling primarily in New York, immigration continued in very large numbers during the 19th century, with eight million arrivals from Germany. Between 1820 and 1870 over seven and a half million German immigrants came to the United States — more than doubling the population of the country. By 2010, their population grew to 49.8 million immigrants, there is a German belt that extends all the way across the United States, from eastern Pennsylvania to the Oregon coast. The state of Pennsylvania has 3.5 million people of German ancestry and they were pulled by the attractions of land and religious freedom, and pushed out of Europe by shortages of land and religious or political oppression. Many arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, the arrivals before 1850 were mostly farmers who sought out the most productive land, where their intensive farming techniques would pay off. After 1840, many came to cities, where Germania—German-speaking districts—soon emerged, German Americans established the first kindergartens in the United States, introduced the Christmas tree tradition, and introduced popular foods such as hot dogs and hamburgers to America. The great majority of people with some German ancestry have become Americanized and hardly can be distinguished, traditional Oktoberfest celebrations and the German-American Day are popular festivities. There are major events in cities with German heritage including Chicago, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, San Antonio. The Germans included many quite distinct subgroups with differing religious and cultural values and they generally opposed womens suffrage but this was used as argument in favor of suffrage when German Americans became pariahs during World War I. The first English settlers arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and he was followed in 1608 by five glassmakers and three carpenters or house builders. The first permanent German settlement in what became the United States was Germantown, Pennsylvania, large numbers of Germans migrated from the 1680s to 1760s, with Pennsylvania the favored destination. They migrated to America for a variety of reasons, often immigrants paid for their passage by selling their labor for a period of years as indentured servants. Large sections of Pennsylvania and upstate New York attracted Germans, most were Lutheran or German Reformed, many belonged to small religious sects such as the Moravians and Mennonites. German Catholics did not arrive in number until after the War of 1812, in 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of hardship, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America, the trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus
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Dr. Seuss
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John Jacob Astor, in an oil painting by
Gilbert Stuart, 1794, was the first of the
Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and New York City real estate.
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A chart of the top ancestries in the US, as provided by the 2000 census.
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Carl Schurz was the first German born US Senator (Missouri, 1868) and later US Secretary of the Interior
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Jim Ameche
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Jim Ameche was a familiar voice on radio, including his role as radios original Jack Armstrong on Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy. Ameche was born James Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when Ameches older brother, Don Ameche, left his position as the host and announcer for The Chase and Sanborn Hour in the early 1940s, Jim took over for the remainder of the shows run. He also was heard as mountie Jim West on ABCs Silver Eagle, other shows Ameche was heard on included Grand Hotel, Hollywood Playhouse, and Big Sister. In the 1940s, he had several programs on WGN radio in Chicago and he was heard on stations in Los Angeles and Palm Springs in the late 1950s and early 60s. For many years he was a local radio personality in the New York City area. By the late 1960s, he was working as an announcer on New Yorks WHN, for many years, he was the afternoon announcer on WQXR, the classical radio station of The New York Times, and was a familiar and beloved voice. He also did radio ads in Phoenix, Arizona in his later years. He portrayed Alexander Graham Bell in the 1957 film The Story of Mankind, the two brothers faces and voices were a close match. Jim Ameche was married to the former Betty A. Harris of Oak Park and they had six children, James Peter Ameche Jr. Patrick Anthony Ameche, Bettejean Ameche, Timothy Joseph Ameche, Terry Michael Ameche and Bridget Denise Ameche. Alan Ameche, the football player, was Jims cousin. Jim Ameche died February 4,1983, of cancer at Tucson Medical Center. Jim Ameche at the Internet Movie Database Video clip featuring Jim Ameches ad campaign for the Remembering the Golden Days of Radio LP set
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Jim Ameche in 1940.
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Marquette University
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Marquette University /mɑːrˈkɛt/ is a private, coeducational Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the central United States. Established by the Society of Jesus as Marquette College on August 28,1881, it was founded by John Martin Henni, initially an all-male institution, Marquette became the first coed Catholic university in the world in 1909, when it began admitting its first female students. Marquette is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the university is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and currently has a student body of about 12,000. Marquette is one of the largest Jesuit universities in the United States, the university also administers classes in suburbs around the Milwaukee area and in Washington, DC. While most students are pursuing degrees, the university has over 50 doctoral. The universitys varsity teams, known as the Golden Eagles, are members of the Big East Conference. In 2014, U. S. News & World Report ranked Marquette 75th among national universities, forbes ranked Marquette 87th among American research universities in 2013. Marquette University was founded 136 years ago on August 28,1881 as Marquette College by John Martin Henni, with funding from Belgian businessman Guillaume Joseph DeBuey, the university was named after 17th-century missionary and explorer Father Jacques Marquette. The highest priority of the newly established college was to provide an affordable Catholic education to the areas emerging German immigrant population, the first five graduates of Marquette College received their bachelor of arts degrees in 1887. Between 1891 and 1906, the college employed one full-time lay professor, by 1906, Marquette had awarded 186 students the bachelor of arts,38 the Master of Arts, and one student with a bachelor of science. Marquette College officially became a university in 1907, after it affiliated with a local medical school. Johnston Hall, which now houses the universitys College of Communication, was the first building erected on the new campus grounds, Marquette University High School, formerly the preparatory department of the university, became a separate institution the same year. In 1908, Marquette opened a college and purchased two law schools, which would ultimately become the foundation of its current law program. Initially an all-male institution, Marquette University became the first coed Catholic university in the world, by 1916 its female students had increased to 375, many other Catholic institutions began adopting similar approaches in their enrollments during the 1910s and 1920s. Marquette acquired the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1913, during the 1920s and again during the post-World War II years, Marquette rapidly expanded, opening a new library, athletics facilities, classroom buildings and residence halls. The student population increased markedly as well, met by the construction of buildings for the schools of law, business, dentistry, Marquette is credited with offering the first degree program specializing in hospital administration in the United States, and graduated the first two students in 1927. Despite the promising growth of the university, financial constraints led to the School of Medicine separating from Marquette in 1967 to become the Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquettes Golden Avalanche football team was disbanded in December 1960, and basketball became the leading spectator sport at the university. Graduate programs in the arts and sciences, for which planning had begun in the preceding decade, were officially opened in the 1970s
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Father Jacques Marquette, the university's namesake
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Johnston Hall, the oldest academic building at Marquette
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Marquette Hall, which houses the College of Arts & Sciences' offices
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Loras College
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Loras College is a four-year Catholic college in Dubuque, Iowa, with an enrollment of approximately 1,600 students. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It is one of four four-year post-secondary institutions in the City of Dubuque, Loras College, a liberal arts college, was founded in 1839 by the Most Rev. Loras later became President of the college. The present name was adopted during the centennial in 1939. That same year, the national Catholic honor society, Delta Epsilon Sigma was founded at the college, from the time of its founding, the college has devoted its faculty and facilities to an undergraduate program, it conferred the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. The College became coeducational in the fall of 1971, in 1973, the Associate of Arts and the Associate of Science degrees were introduced. The Division of Community Education was initiated in 1975, both the Undergraduate College and the Graduate Division of Loras College are accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The teacher education program, both at the graduate and undergraduate level, is accredited by the Iowa Department of Education, the undergraduate teacher education program is also accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. The American Chemical Society has approved the chemistry program. Loras College is also approved by the Association of American Universities, the Council of Social Work Education has accredited the social work major at the baccalaureate level. Loras offers forty-nine majors, eleven stand-alone minors, and nine pre-professional programs for undergraduates, undergraduates can also participate in summer classes, internships, field experience, study abroad, and much more. Loras’ athletic teams are known as the Duhawks, a name bestowed upon the team by a Detroit Free Press scribe in 1924 converging Dubuque. The school fields 23 men’s and women’s varsity teams in the NCAA Division III and they are a member of the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, Midwest Womens Lacrosse Conference, and the Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League. Loras’ colors are Purple, Rah Rah Gold, and Metallic Gold, the mens soccer team has advanced to the NCAA Division III Final Four five times since 2007, and once to the NCAA Division III Championship game in 2015. Denise Udelhofen serves as the Director of Athletics for the Duhawks and is assisted by head mens coach and Director of Soccer Operations. Jim Naprstek serves as the Director of Athletic Communications for the Duhawks after his hiring in March 2014, Loras sits on a 65-acre campus located atop several hills in Dubuque. The grounds are bounded by Loras Boulevard on the south, Kirkwood Street on the north, Henion Street on the east, the campus is surrounded by residential neighborhoods on all sides, some of which are among the most historic in the city. The college consists of 23 buildings,2 athletic fields, a stadium, because of its high location, several of the buildings provide excellent views of Downtown Dubuque and the Mississippi River
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Keane Hall at Loras College
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The Rock Bowl (September 2004)
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The Loras Athletic and Wellness Center (November 2007)
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University of Wisconsin
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The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a public research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison is the state university of Wisconsin. It was the first public university established in Wisconsin and remains the oldest and largest public university in the state and it became a land-grant institution in 1866. The 933-acre main campus includes four National Historic Landmarks, the University employs over 21,600 faculty and staff. Its comprehensive academic program offers 136 undergraduate majors, along with 148 masters degree programs and 120 doctoral programs, the UW is one of Americas Public Ivy universities, which refers to top public universities in the United States capable of providing a collegiate experience comparable with the Ivy League. UW–Madison is also categorized as a Doctoral University with the Highest Research Activity in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, in 2012, it had research expenditures of more than $1.1 billion, the third highest among universities in the country. Wisconsin is a member of the Association of American Universities. The Wisconsin Badgers compete in 25 intercollegiate sports in the NCAA Division I Big Ten Conference and have won 28 national championships, however, this body never actually accomplished anything before Wisconsin was incorporated as a state in 1848. The Wisconsin Constitution provided for the establishment of a state university, and directed by the state legislature to be governed by a board of regents and administered by a Chancellor. On July 26,1846, Nelson Dewey, Wisconsins first governor, John H. Lathrop became the universitys first chancellor, in the fall of 1849. With John W. Sterling as the universitys first professor, the first class of 17 students met at Madison Female Academy on February 5,1849. The regents building plans called for a main edifice fronting towards the Capitol and this building, University Hall, now known as Bascom Hall, was finally completed in 1859. On October 10,1916, a fire destroyed the buildings dome, North Hall, constructed in 1851, was actually the first building on campus. In 1854, Levi Booth and Charles T. Wakeley became the first graduates of the university, the Wisconsin Idea permeates the universitys work and helps forge close working relationships among university faculty and students, and the states industries and government. Over time, additional campuses were added to the university, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was created in 1956, and UW–Green Bay and UW–Parkside in 1968. Ten freshman-sophomore centers were added to this system. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, UW–Madison was shaken by a series of student protests, the first major demonstrations protested the presence on campus of recruiters for the Dow Chemical Company, which supplied the napalm used in the Vietnam War. Authorities used force to quell the disturbance, the struggle was documented in the book, They Marched into Sunlight, as well as the PBS documentary Two Days in October
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An early illustration of the campus, from the 1885 edition of the
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University of Wisconsin – Madison
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Bascom Hall fire that destroyed the dome in 1916
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Bascom hall at dusk
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Alan Ameche
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Lino Dante Alan Ameche /əˈmiːtʃiː/, nicknamed The Iron Horse, or simply The Horse, was an American football player who played six seasons with the Baltimore Colts in the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and won the Heisman Trophy during his season in 1954. Ameche was elected to the Pro Bowl in each of his first four seasons in the league and he is famous for scoring the winning touchdown in overtime in the 1958 NFL Championship Game against the New York Giants, labeled The Greatest Game Ever Played. With colleague and former Colts teammate Gino Marchetti, Ameche founded the Ginos Hamburgers chain and he also founded the Baltimore-based Ameches Drive-in restaurants. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Ameches parents were Italian immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1930s, the family then returned to Kenosha, where he attended Kenosha High School. Ameche was a cousin of noted actors Don Ameche and Jim Ameche, Ameche earned All-America honors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he played linebacker as well as fullback in single-platoon days. In four years as a Badger, he gained 3,212 yards, then the NCAA record, scored 25 touchdowns and he played in the programs first bowl game, the 1953 Rose Bowl, as a sophomore, rushing for 133 yards on 28 carries. Ameche won the Heisman Trophy in 1954, the first player to do so in program history, Ameche was inducted into the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 1967, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1975, and the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2004. Ameche was the third selection of the 1955 NFL draft. Named NFL Rookie of the Year in 1955, he was a four-time Pro Bowler, Ameche averaged 4.2 yards per carry over his career, and held the record for rushing yards in his first three NFL games until Carnell Cadillac Williams passed it in 2005. Ameche may be best remembered for his role in the 1958 NFL Championship Game at Yankee Stadium, Ameche scored the winning touchdown for the Colts on a one-yard run with 6,45 left in overtime as the Colts beat the Giants, 23-17. It was his second touchdown of the day as he scored a TD on a 2-yard run in the second quarter. His touchdown was the last in championship history until Super Bowl LI, due to an Achilles tendon injury in December 1960, Ameche finished a relatively short six-season NFL career with 4,045 rushing yards,101 receptions for 733 yards and 44 touchdowns. He is one of five players named to the National Football League 1950s All-Decade Team not elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 2015, the Professional Football Researchers Association named Ameche to the PRFA Hall of Very Good Class of 2015 Ameche had undergone bypass surgery at age 46 in 1979. He died of an attack in 1988 at age 55 at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He is interred at Calvary Cemetery in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, Alan Ameche, The Story of The Horse
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Alan Ameche
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Heisman Trophy
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The Heisman Memorial Trophy, is awarded annually to the most outstanding player in college football in the United States whose performance best exhibits the pursuit of excellence with integrity. Winners epitomize great ability combined with diligence, perseverance, and hard work and it is presented by the Heisman Trophy Trust in early December before the postseason bowl games. The award was created by the Downtown Athletic Club in 1935 to recognize the most valuable football player east of the Mississippi. After the death in October 1936 of the Clubs athletic director, John Heisman, Heisman had been active in college athletics as a football player, a head football, basketball, and baseball coach, and an athletic director. It is the oldest of several awards in college football, including the Maxwell Award, Walter Camp Award. The most recent winner of the Heisman Trophy is University of Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson, the trophy itself, designed by sculptor Frank Eliscu, is modeled after Ed Smith, a leading player in 1934 for the now-defunct New York University football team. The trophy is made out of cast bronze, is 13.5 inches tall, Eliscu had asked Smith, his former George Washington High School classmate, to pose for a commissioned sculpture of a football player. Smith did not realize until 1982 that the sculpture had become the Heisman Trophy, the Downtown Athletic Club presented Smith with a Heisman Trophy of his own in 1985. From its inception in 1935, the statue was cast by Dieges & Clust in New York until 1980, for a time until at least 2008, the statues were cast by Roman Bronze Works in New York. There are 870 media voters,145 voters from each of six regions, according to Heisman. com there are currently 57 prior winners eligible to vote and, thus,57 potential votes. Fans, As the Premier Partner of the Heisman Trophy, Nissan has a vote, fan voting done through a survey collected by ESPN on NissanHeismanHouse. com. Each voter identifies three selections, ranking them in order, each first-place selection is awarded three points. Each second-place selection is awarded two points, each third-place selection is awarded one point. Voters must make three selections and cannot duplicate a selection, else the ballot is invalid and none of the selections count, the accounting firm Deloitte is responsible for the tabulation of votes, which has moved almost exclusively to online voting since 2007. Larry Kelley and Clint Frank of Yale were the first teammates to win the Heisman Trophy, nile Kinnick of Iowa was the only Heisman Trophy winner to have a stadium named after him. In 1972, the University of Iowa renamed its football complex Kinnick Stadium, Kinnick is also the only winner to die in military service of the United States, he went down piloting an F4F Wildcat from the deck of USS Lexington. His death in 1943 made him the first Heisman Trophy winner to die, Doc Blanchard was the first junior to win the Heisman Trophy when he led Army to the national title in 1945. Paul Hornung was the player to win the Heisman Trophy as a player for a losing team
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John Cappelletti 's 1973 Heisman Trophy
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Rashaan Salaam 's 1994 Heisman Trophy
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Bing Crosby
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Harry Lillis Bing Crosby, Jr. was an American singer and actor. The first multimedia star, from 1931 to 1954 Crosby was a leader in sales, radio ratings. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations such as the microphone and this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music, in 1963, Crosby received the first Grammy Global Achievement Award. He is one of only 33 people to have three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, in the categories of motion pictures, radio, Crosby influenced the development of the postwar recording industry. He became the first performer to pre-record his radio shows and master his commercial recordings onto magnetic tape. In addition to his work with early tape recording, he helped to finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, Crosby died at the age of 74 on October 14,1977, from a sudden heart attack in Alcobendas, Spain. Crosby was born on May 2,1903 in Tacoma, Washington, in 1906, Crosbys family moved to Spokane, and in 1913, Crosbys father built a house at 508 E. Sharp Avenue. The house now sits on the campus of Crosbys alma mater Gonzaga University and he was the fourth of seven children, brothers Larry, Everett, Ted, and Bob, and two sisters, Catherine and Mary Rose. His parents were Harry Lowe Crosby, Sr. a bookkeeper, Crosbys mother was a second generation Irish-American. In 1910, seven-year-old Harry Crosby Jr. was forever renamed, the Sunday edition of the Spokesman-Review published a feature called The Bingville Bugle. Written by humorist Newton Newkirk, The Bingville Bugle was a parody of a hillbilly newsletter filled with gossipy tidbits, minstrel quips, creative spelling, and mock ads. A neighbor, 15-year-old Valentine Hobart, shared Crosbys enthusiasm for The Bugle, and noting Crosbys laugh, took a liking to him, eventually, the last vowel was dropped and the nickname stuck. Crosby later described Jolsons delivery as electric, Crosby graduated from Gonzaga High School in 1920 and enrolled at Gonzaga University. He attended Gonzaga for three years, but did not earn a bachelors degree, as a freshman, he played on the universitys baseball team. The university granted him a doctorate in 1937. In 1923, Crosby was invited to join a new band composed of school students a few years younger than himself. Al Rinker, Miles Rinker, James Heaton, Claire Pritchard and Robert Pritchard, along with drummer Crosby, formed the Musicaladers, the group performed on Spokane radio station KHQ, but disbanded after two years
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Bing Crosby, c. 1930s
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Holiday Inn (1942)
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Crosby with Bob Hope in Road to Bali (1952)
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Crosby in Road to Singapore
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Bob Hope
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Bob Hope KBE, KC*SG, KSS was an American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, centenarian and author. With a career spanning nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in over 70 feature films and short films, in addition to hosting the Academy Awards 19 times, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles and was the author of 14 books. The song Thanks for the Memory is widely regarded as Hopes signature tune, born in Eltham, Kent, Hope arrived in America with his family at the age of four and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his career in business in the early 1920s, initially on stage. He was praised for his timing, specializing in one-liners and rapid-fire delivery of jokes. He also appeared in numerous specials for NBC television, starting in 1950, Hope participated in the sports of golf and boxing and owned a small stake in his hometown baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. He died at age 100 at his home in Toluca Lake, Hope was born in Eltham, Kent the fifth of seven sons. They married in April 1891 and lived at 12 Greenwood Street in Barry, before moving to Whitehall, Bristol, and then St George, Bristol. In 1908, the family emigrated to the United States aboard the SS Philadelphia and passed through Ellis Island on March 30,1908, before moving to Cleveland, from age 12, Hope earned pocket money by busking, singing, dancing, and performing comedy. He entered many dancing and amateur talent contests and won a prize in 1915 for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin, for a time, he attended the Boys Industrial School in Lancaster, Ohio. As an adult, he donated sizable sums of money to the institution, Hope had a brief career as a boxer in 1919, fighting under the name Packy East. He had three wins and one loss and participated in a few staged charity bouts later in life, Hope worked as a butchers assistant and a lineman in his teens and early twenties. Hope also had a stint at Chandler Motor Car Company. Deciding on a business career, he and his girlfriend signed up for dancing lessons. Encouraged after they performed in an engagement at a club, Hope formed a partnership with Lloyd Durbin. Silent film comedian Fatty Arbuckle saw them perform in 1925 and found work with a touring troupe called Hurleys Jolly Follies. Within a year, Hope had formed an act called the Dancemedians with George Byrne, Hope and Byrne had an act as a pair of Siamese twins as well and danced and sang while wearing blackface before friends advised Hope that he was funnier as himself. In 1929, Hope informally changed his first name to Bob, in one version of the story, he named himself after racecar driver Bob Burman
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Hope in 1978
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Hal Block (left) and Hope meet
George Patton in Sicily during World War II
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Bob Hope in
The Ghost Breakers trailer (1940)
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Bob Hope,
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Dorothy Lamour in
Road to Bali (1952)
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Los Angeles Dons
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The Los Angeles Dons were an American football team in the now defunct All-America Football Conference from 1946 to 1949 that played in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Dons were the first professional team to play a regular season game in Los Angeles, California. In 1946 a new football league was launched to do battle with the long-established National Football League. The AAFCs Southern California franchise, which was to compete directly with the newly relocated Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, was known as the Los Angeles Dons, the leader of the ownership group was Benjamin Lindheimer, a Chicago real estate and race track executive. Other owners included Hollywood notables Louis B, mayer, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Don Ameche. The Dons head coach was Dud DeGroot, a Stanford football player who had gone on to earn a PhD from that institution, DeGroot had served as head coach of the NFLs Washington Redskins in 1944 and 1945 before jumping over to the rival AAFC for its debut 1946 season. The Dons shared the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with the Rams for its home games. The Dons took a first quarter lead on a 55-yard pass from quarterback Chuckin Charlie ORourke to Bernie Nygren and never looked back, for most of their existence, the Dons compiled an average record, and never qualified for the AAFC playoffs. This was mainly because they were in the division as the leagues two most powerful teams, the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers. One Dons player, William Radovich, formerly of the NFL Detroit Lions and it led to the Supreme Court ruling, in the case of Radovich v. National Football League, that professional football, unlike baseball, was subject to antitrust laws. Los Angeles Dons Franchise Encyclopedia, pro-football-reference. com/
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The All-America Football Conference was a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League from 1946–1949. One of the NFLs most formidable challengers, the AAFC attracted many of the nations best players, However, the AAFC was ultimately unable to sustain itself in competition with the NFL. Three of its teams were admitted to the NFL, the San Francisco 49ers, the Cleveland Browns, the Cleveland Browns were the AAFCs most successful club, having won every annual championship in the leagues four years of operation. The AAFC was founded by Chicago Tribune sports editor Arch Ward on June 4,1944, Ward was also the originator of baseballs All-Star Game and footballs College All-Star Game. Ward brought together a number of pro football enthusiasts, some of whom had previously attempted to purchase NFL franchises. Ward had previously encouraged the NFL to expand, but now he hoped to bring about a permanent second league, on November 21,1944, the AAFC chose Jim Crowley, one of the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, as its commissioner. Not coincidentally, the NFL commissioner at this time was Elmer Layden, during the next months, the AAFCs plans solidified. The league initially issued franchises for Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, Brooklyn and Miami were later added. A group representing Baltimore was considered for admission, but could not secure a stadium, the league planned to begin play in 1945, but postponed its opening for a year as World War II continued. As the eight franchises built their teams, no move was more far-reaching than Clevelands choice of Paul Brown as its head coach, as coach of the Cleveland franchise, Brown would become one of American footballs greatest innovators. As might be expected, the NFL did not welcome its new rival, in 1945, Layden remarked that the AAFC, still a year from its first game, should first get a ball, then make a schedule, and then play a game. This insult, often paraphrased as Tell them to get a ball first, Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall was perhaps the NFLs hardest-liner regarding the AAFC. In 1945, he commented I did not realize there was another league, Later he declared, The worst team in our league could beat the best team in theirs. After the AAFC put a team in Baltimore, Marshalls opposition to it would be an obstacle to interleague peace. Not coincidentally, his team was badly hurt by the AAFC, a top team from 1936–1945, the Redskins began a decades-long title drought after coach Ray Flaherty and many key players defected in 1946. Laydens successor, Bert Bell, pursued a policy of official non-recognition, in 1947, Pro Football Illustrated previewed both leagues in its annual publication and was banned from NFL stadiums. The AAFC posed a formidable challenge, in most interleague sports wars, the established league has major advantages over the challenger in prestige, finance, size, and public awareness. The NFL-AAFC war differed in several respects, the NFL was just emerging from its wartime retrenchment
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National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games, the NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season, the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance of any sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. S. The NFLs executive officer is the commissioner, who has authority in governing the league. The team with the most NFL championships is the Green Bay Packers with thirteen, the current NFL champions are the New England Patriots, who defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI. Another meeting held on September 17,1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association, the league hired Jim Thorpe as its first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys and the Chicago Cardinals, remain, the first event occurred on September 26,1920 when the Rock Island Independents defeated the non-league St. Paul Ideals 48–0 at Douglas Park. On October 3,1920, the first full week of league play occurred, the following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. In 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League, in 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first in the league standings. This method had used since the leagues creation in 1920. The league quickly determined that a game between Chicago and Portsmouth was needed to decide the leagues champion. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the playing field, the Bears won the game 9–0. Fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL, beginning in 1933, the 1934 season also marked the first of 12 seasons in which African Americans were absent from the league. The de facto ban was rescinded in 1946, following public pressure, the NFL was always the foremost professional football league in the United States, it nevertheless faced a large number of rival professional leagues through the 1930s and 1940s. Rival leagues included at least three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, on top of regional leagues of varying caliber. Three NFL teams trace their histories to these leagues, including the Los Angeles Rams
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The headquarters of the National Football League at
345 Park Avenue,
Midtown Manhattan,
New York City, U.S.
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National Football League
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The
Akron Pros won the first APFA (NFL) Championship.
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NFL Commissioner
Roger Goodell
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Coralville, Iowa
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Coralville is a city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States. It is a suburb of Iowa City and part of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area, the population was 18,907 at the 2010 census. Coralville is the location of the Edgewater Park Site, a 3, Edgewater is the oldest site in Iowa with evidence of domesticated plant use. Coralville incorporated as a city in June first,1857, the citys name comes from the fossils that are found in the limestone along the Iowa River. In 1864 Louis Agassiz, a Harvard University zoologist, gave a lecture at the nearby University of Iowa titled “The Coral Reefs of Iowa City”, during the lecture he presented local samples of fossilized Devonian period coral. The lecture was well received and helped raise public interest in the local fossils, in 1866, more corals were discovered at the site of a new mill, inspiring the citizens of the area to name the settlement Coralville. They built handcarts out of native woods during their encampment so that an adult could haul a 600–700 pound load, a historical marker commemorating the Mormon Handcart Brigade was erected in 1936 by the Iowa Society DAR, with members of the Pilgrim Chapter present. Originally placed just south of 5th Street and west of 10th Street, it was moved in 1998 to S. T. Morrison Park and rededicated by the Nathaniel Fellows Chapter, placed near the entrance, today, the Mormon Handcart Park and Nature Preserve commemorates the site. There is also a street, Mormon Trek Blvd, named for the Mormons who went through that area, after World War II Coralville began to grow as many university students began to make their homes there. It had only 433 people in 1940, but by 1970 Coralvilles population had jumped to 6,130, the construction of Interstate 80 in the 1960s brought several motels, fast-food restaurants, and gas stations to Coralville. By the mid-1960s, the independent school district of Coralville was annexed by the Iowa City Community School District, Junior and senior high school students rode buses into Iowa City. Elementary students attended Central Elementary School, Kirkwood Elementary school was opened in the fall of 1964, giving the growing town its second school. By the fall of 1968, all school students from Coralville began attending the newly opened West High School. In 1971 the district built Northwest Junior High on property just to the south of Kirkwood Elementary, in 1997 Wickham Elementary School was opened. In 1958 the United States Army Corps of Engineers completed Coralville Dam along the Iowa River four miles north of the city, except for the Great Flood of 1993 and the Great Iowa flood of 2008, the dam has helped prevent serious flooding in the city. From June through August 1993, all three of Coralvilles main transportation links with Iowa City were submerged, the economic impact that year was severe, but the city had almost fully recovered within two years. The 2008 flood proved to be costly as the Iowa River surpassed the 1993 record crest at over 31.5 feet. The First Methodist Church was built 1963 to the designs by architect Thomas Patrick Reilly of Crites & McConnell,860 17th Street S. E, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403
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City Center Square in downtown Coralville
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Seal
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Excavations at the Late Archaic
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Coralville mills in 1870.
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Carmen Miranda
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Carmen Miranda, GCIH • OMC was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. Nicknamed The Brazilian Bombshell, Carmen Miranda is noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in her American films, as a young woman, Miranda worked in a boutique designing hats before ultimately recording her first album with composer Josué de Barros in 1929. Throughout the 1930s, Miranda performed on Brazilian radio stations and appeared in five Brazilian sound films known as chanchadas, which celebrated Brazilian music, dance, and carnival culture. In 1939, Lee Shubert, a Broadway businessman, offered Carmen Miranda an eight-week contract to perform in The Streets of Paris on Broadway after seeing her at Cassino da Urca, in Rio de Janeiro. In 1940, she made her first Hollywood film, Down Argentine Way, with Don Ameche and Betty Grable, her exotic clothing and Latin accent became her trademark. In the same year, she was voted the third most popular personality in the United States and was invited to sing and dance for President Franklin Roosevelt, along with her group, Bando da Lua. In 1943, Miranda starred in Busby Berkleys The Gangs All Here, by 1945, she was the highest paid woman in the United States. Miranda made a total of fourteen Hollywood films between 1940 and 1953, though hailed as a talented performer, her popularity waned by the end of World War II. She later grew to resent the stereotypical Brazilian Bombshell image she cultivated and attempted to free of it with limited success. Carmen Miranda was the first Latin American star to be invited to imprint her hands and feet in the courtyard of Graumans Chinese Theatre and she became the first South American to be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is considered the precursor of Brazils Tropicalismo cultural movement of the 1960s, a museum was later constructed in Rio de Janeiro in her honor, and in 1995 she was the subject of the acclaimed documentary Carmen Miranda, Bananas is My Business. Carmen Miranda was born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha in Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada and she was the second daughter of José Maria Pinto da Cunha and Maria Emília Miranda. In 1909 when she was ten months old, her father emigrated alone to Brazil and settled in Rio de Janeiro and her mother followed in 1910 with their daughters Olinda and Maria do Carmo. Maria do Carmo, later Carmen, never returned to Portugal, in Brazil, her parents had four more children, Amaro, Cecília, Aurora and Óscar. She was christened Carmen by her father because of his love for the opera comique and this passion for opera influenced his children, and Mirandas love for singing and dancing at an early age. She went to school at the Convent of Saint Therese of Lisieux and her father did not approve of her plans to enter show business. However, her mother supported her and was beaten when her husband discovered Miranda had auditioned for a radio show and she had previously sung at parties and festivals in Rio. Her older sister Olinda contracted tuberculosis and was sent to Portugal for treatment, Miranda went to work in a tie shop at age 14 to help pay her sisters medical bills
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Miranda, published by
New York Sunday News (1941)
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Travessa do Comércio in
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a lively pedestrian street lined with bars, cafes and restaurants. Carmen Miranda lived at No. 13 during her youth.
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Carmen Miranda in 1930.
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That Night in Rio
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That Night in Rio is a 1941 Technicolor American musical comedy film directed by Irving Cummings and starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda. It is one of film adaptations of a play called The Red Cat by Rudolf Lothar. Others are Folies Bergère de Paris and On the Riviera, the original songs for the film were written by the musical partnership of Harry Warren and Mack Gordon. These include, Boa Noite, They Met in Rio, Chica Chica Boom Chic and I, Larry Martin is an American entertainer in the Casino Samba in Rio de Janeiro. He has a skit in his show, making fun of the womanizing Baron Manuel Duarte, on one particular evening, the Baron and his wife, Baroness Cecilia Duarte come to see Larrys impersonation. To the surprise of the couple, the act is amazingly realistic, backstage, the Baron meets Larrys girlfriend, Carmen, and invites her to a party he is going to hold. Later in the evening, Larry meets Cecilia and is attracted to her singing and he does an impersonation of the Baron for her. But the real Baron receives a telegram that his airline is in danger because a contract is not being renewed, needing money to repay the bank he borrowed it from, he flies down to Buenos Aires. Larry is hired to play the Baron to confuse his rival, Machado and that evening, at the party, Larry is hired again to play the Baron. He does not want the Baroness to know, but Cecilia is informed without his knowing and he sweeps her off her feet and they stay close to each other for the remainder of the evening. Meanwhile, Carmen is furious to discover that Larry is at the party and decides to go there as well, to make matter worse, the real Baron returns to his house, confusing all involved. Machado corners Larry instead and talks to him in French, which Larry cant understand, after the party, the Baron discovers that Cecilia was flirting with Larry for the evening and tries to play the joke on her. She, however, inadvertently turns the tables on him, to get back at his wife, the next morning, the Baron calls and tells Cecilia that his plane has just landed. Cecilia fears that she has been unfaithful to Manuel but Larry later tells her the truth, at the office, Machado gives the Baron a payment of $32 million for his airline, the topic of his conversation with Larry. The Baron heads home but Cecilia tries one more time to get back at him by pretending to make violent love to Larry and it turns out to be the Baron and all is soon resolved in the end. Don Ameche as Larry Martin / Baron Manuel Duarte Alice Faye as Baroness Cecilia Duarte Carmen Miranda as Carmen, Larrys girlfriend S. Z. Sakall as Arthur Penna J. This film marked the sixth and final pairing of Faye and Don Ameche, and the first film in which Carmen Miranda played a character with a name other than her own. A report in the MPAA/PCA filed noted that the picture was rejected for distribution in Ireland, although no reason was given. ”The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner described Miranda as “outfitted in smart, barbaric colors, waving articulate hips and rollicking through the most fun of her Hollywood career. ”The Washington Evening Star in its review of That Night in Rio commented, Torrid Carmen Miranda brightens new musical
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That Night in Rio
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Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche in scene in the film
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Excess Baggage
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Excess Baggage is a 1997 crime-comedy film written by Max D. The film stars Alicia Silverstone, Benicio del Toro, and Christopher Walken, Emily Hope stages her own kidnapping to get the attention of her father. She puts herself into the trunk of her own car, tapes her legs and mouth, handcuffs her hands, but then, unexpectedly, a car thief named Vincent Roche steals the car with her in it. Suddenly, Emily finds herself actually kidnapped, only the kidnapper doesn’t know what to do with her, Christopher Walken shows up as Emily’s Uncle Ray, Jack Thompson as Emily’s father, and Harry Connick, Jr. as Greg, Vincent’s car-stealing partner. Alicia Silverstone as Emily Hope, a girl with a black belt in karate. It is established that she burned down her school library, perhaps to get the attention of her father when she was younger. Her relationship with her father is cold, but she has a solid friendship with her Uncle Ray. Benicio del Toro as Vincent Roche, a successful and experienced car thief who supports himself with his work and he is referred to as an innocent thief who happens to steal the car with Emily in the trunk. After this his life is turned upside down as he gets implicated in several schemes and becomes dependent on his hostage to survive. Christopher Walken as Raymond Uncle Ray Perkins, Emilys uncle and cares for her much more than her own father. He also suspects that this situation is not a real kidnapping. His first encounters with Vincent are rather hostile, but the two form a camaraderie. Jack Thompson as Alexander T. Hope, Emilys father and a very rich and it is hinted that his business deals may be corrupt. Harry Connick, Jr. as Greg Kistler, Vincents partner-in-crime and they steal cars and sell them to people like Gus and Stick, which eventually lands them into trouble when their operation is burned down and Vincent is on the lam. Nicholas Turturro and Michael Bowen as Stick and Gus, two hoodlums who have had business transactions which Vincent and Greg but eventually turn on them, leland Orser and Robert Wisden as Detectives Bernaby and Sims, two detectives who are investigating Emilys kidnapping. Sally Kirkland as Louise Doucette, a bartender/waitress at a cafe near Vincents home, Ray gets information about Vincent from her during his investigation of the kidnapping. She only appears in two scenes, the film features cameo appearances by voice-actor David Kaye, April Telek and Matthew Robert Kelly, all of them uncredited. This was the first film produced by Alicia Silverstone under her production company First Kiss and was filmed in Vancouver and Victoria, the yellow leather jacket worn by Silverstones character was sold to actor/stand-up comic Paul Rawson for $890
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Theatrical release poster
30.
Texas Guinan
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Mary Louise Cecilia Texas Guinan was an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. Guinan was one of seven siblings born in Waco, Texas, to Irish-Canadian immigrants Michael and she attended parochial school at the Loretta Convent in Waco. When she was 16 years old, her moved to Denver, Colorado. Guinan married John Moynahan, a cartoonist for the Rocky Mountain News, moynahans career took them to Chicago, where Guinan studied music before divorcing him and starting her career as a professional singer. She toured regional vaudeville with some success, but became known less for her singing than for her entertaining Wild West-related patter. In 1906, she moved to New York City, where she found work as a girl before making a career for herself in national vaudeville. In 1917, Texas Guinan made her debut in a silent film called The Wildcat. She became the United Statess first movie cowgirl, nicknamed The Queen of the West and she claimed she had a sojourn in France, entertaining the troops during World War I. She was one of the first female emcees, upon the introduction of Prohibition, she opened a speakeasy called the 300 Club at 151 W. 54th Street in New York City. The club became famous for its troupe of 40 scantily clad fan dancers and for Guinans distinctive aplomb, Guinan maintained that she had never sold an alcoholic drink in her life. Ruby Keeler and George Raft were discovered as dancers at the club by Broadway, walter Winchell credited Guinan with opening the insider Broadway scene and cafe society to him when he was starting as a gossip columnist. Guinan capitalized on her notoriety, earning $700,000 in ten months in 1926, Guinan has been credited with coining a number of phrases. She was also friends with legendary illustrator J. C. They shared a building in the basement of which she had a speakeasy called Club Intime, the middle floor was Leyendeckers studio, and the top floor was where she hid the bar. Together, they held lavish parties which the elite of society would attend, during the Great Depression, she took her show on the road. She made a sally towards Europe, but her reputation preceded her and she turned this to her advantage by launching a satirical revue, Too Hot For Paris. Bandleader Paul Whiteman was a pallbearer along with two of her lawyers and writer Heywood Broun. She was survived by both of her parents and her mother died at age 101 in 1959 and her father was 79 years old at his death in 1935
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Texas Guinan
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The She Wolf (1919)
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The Boss of the Rancho (1919)
31.
Alexander Graham Bell
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Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. Bells father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech and his research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in Bell being awarded the first U. S. patent for the telephone in 1876. Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his work as a scientist. Many other inventions marked Bells later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils, and aeronautics. Although Bell was not one of the 33 founders of the National Geographic Society, he had a influence on the magazine while serving as the second president from January 7,1898. Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3,1847, the family home was at 16 South Charlotte Street, and has a stone inscription marking it as Alexander Graham Bells birthplace. He had two brothers, Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell, both of whom would die of tuberculosis and his father was Professor Alexander Melville Bell, a phonetician, and his mother was Eliza Grace. Born as just Alexander Bell, at age 10, he made a plea to his father to have a name like his two brothers. To close relatives and friends he remained Aleck, as a child, young Bell displayed a natural curiosity about his world, resulting in gathering botanical specimens as well as experimenting even at an early age. His best friend was Ben Herdman, a neighbour whose family operated a flour mill, young Bell asked what needed to be done at the mill. In return, Bens father John Herdman gave both boys the run of a workshop in which to invent. From his early years, Bell showed a sensitive nature and a talent for art, poetry, with no formal training, he mastered the piano and became the familys pianist. Despite being normally quiet and introspective, he revelled in mimicry and he also developed a technique of speaking in clear, modulated tones directly into his mothers forehead wherein she would hear him with reasonable clarity. Bells preoccupation with his mothers deafness led him to study acoustics and his family was long associated with the teaching of elocution, his grandfather, Alexander Bell, in London, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, in Edinburgh, were all elocutionists. His father published a variety of works on the subject, several of which are well known, especially his The Standard Elocutionist. The Standard Elocutionist appeared in 168 British editions and sold over a quarter of a million copies in the United States alone, in this treatise, his father explains his methods of how to instruct deaf-mutes to articulate words and read other peoples lip movements to decipher meaning. Bells father taught him and his brothers not only to write Visible Speech but to any symbol. Bell became so proficient that he became a part of his fathers public demonstrations, as a young child, Bell, like his brothers, received his early schooling at home from his father
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Portrait photo taken between 1914–19.
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Melville House, the Bells' first home in North America, now a
National Historic Site of Canada.
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Bell, top right, providing
pedagogical instruction to teachers at the Boston School for Deaf Mutes, 1871. Throughout his life he referred to himself as "a teacher of the deaf".
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Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent drawing, March 7, 1876.
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell is a somewhat fictionalized 1939 biographical film of the famous inventor. It was filmed in black-and-white and released by Twentieth Century-Fox, the film stars Don Ameche as Bell and Loretta Young as Mabel, his wife, who contracted scarlet fever at an early age and became deaf. The first half of the film concentrates on the romantic, financial. Most scenes are set in Boston and vicinity, a few scenes are in London. Henry Fonda is notable in a role as the “Mr. Watson” who hears the first words ever spoken over the telephone. In a pivotal scene, Bell, while working on the telephone, accidentally spills acid onto his lap and shouts in pain, “Mr. Watson, come here. Watson, barely able to contain his own excitement, rushes into the room, Bell has Watson repeat his own words to him to confirm it, and the two men begin hopping around the room, with Watson yelling out a war whoop. The last part depicts the struggle against Western Union over patent priority in the invention of the telephone. The final scene has the hero contemplating manned flight, under his wifes adoring gaze, the film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists,2006, AFIs 100 Years
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The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
33.
Groucho Marx
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Julius Henry Marx, known professionally as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian, stage, film and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and is considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators and he made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a solo career, most notably as the host of the radio. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar. Julius Marx was born on October 2,1890, in Manhattan, New York City. Marx stated that he was born in a room above a shop on East 78th Street in Manhattan, New York City, Between Lexington & 3rd. The Marx children grew up on East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City. The turn-of-the-century building that his brother Harpo called the first real home they ever knew was populated with European immigrants, just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the area, owned by people such as the well-connected Loew Brothers and William Orth. The Marx family lived at this location for about 14 years, Grouchos mother was Miene Minnie Schoenberg, whose family came from Dornum in northern Germany when she was 16 years old. His father was Simon Sam Marx, who changed his name from Marrix, minnies brother was Al Schoenberg, who shortened his name to Al Shean when he went into show business as half of Gallagher and Shean, a noted vaudeville act of the early 20th century. According to Groucho, when Shean visited he would throw the local waifs a few coins so that when he knocked at the door he would be surrounded by adoring fans, Marx and his brothers respected his opinions and asked him on several occasions to write some material for them. Minnie Marx did not have an entertainment industry career but had ambition for her sons to go on the stage like their uncle. While pushing her eldest son Leonard in piano lessons she found that Julius had a pleasant soprano voice, juliuss early career goal was to become a doctor, but the familys need for income forced him out of school at the age of twelve. By that time young Julius had become a reader, particularly fond of Horatio Alger. Marx would continue to overcome his lack of education by becoming very well-read. Marx reputedly claimed that he was hopelessly average as a vaudevillian, by 1909 Minnie Marx had assembled her sons into a forgettable-quality vaudeville singing group billed as The Four Nightingales. The brothers Julius, Milton and Arthur and another boy singer, Lou Levy, after exhausting their prospects in the East the family moved to La Grange, Illinois, to play the Midwest
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Groucho Marx, c. 1950
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An early photo of the Marx brothers with their parents in New York City, 1915; from left: Groucho, Gummo, Minnie (mother), Zeppo, Frenchie (father), Chico, and Harpo
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The Marx Brothers in 1931 (from top,
Chico,
Harpo, Groucho, and
Zeppo)
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Groucho and
Eve Arden in a scene from
At the Circus (1939)
34.
Gene Tierney
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Gene Eliza Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was born on November 19,1920 in Brooklyn, New York, the family owned a brownstone at 900 St. Marks Avenue, which was at the time a fashionable street in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. She was named after an uncle, who died young. She had a brother, Howard Sherwood “Butch” Tierney, Jr. Their father was an insurance broker of Irish descent, their mother a former physical education instructor. Tierney attended St. Margarets School in Waterbury, Connecticut, and she published her first poem, entitled Night, in the school magazine and wrote poetry occasionally throughout her life. Tierney played Jo in a student production of Little Women, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott, Tierney spent two years in Europe, attending Brillantmont International School in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak fluent French. She returned to the U. S. in 1938 and attended Miss Porters School in Farmington, on a family trip to the West Coast, she visited Warner Bros. studios, where a cousin worked as a producer of historical short films. Director Anatole Litvak, taken by the 17-year-old’s beauty, told her that she should become an actress. Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised against it because of the low salary. Tierneys society debut occurred on September 24,1938, when she was 17 years old, soon bored with society life, she decided to pursue an acting career. Her father said, “If Gene is to be an actress and she became a protégée of Broadway producer-director George Abbott. In Tierneys first role on Broadway, she carried a bucket of water across the stage in What a Life, a Variety magazine critic declared, Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier Ive ever seen. She also worked as an understudy in The Primrose Path, the following year, she appeared in the role of Molly ODay in the Broadway production Mrs. OBrien Entertains. The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote, As an Irish maiden fresh from the old country, Gene Tierney in her first stage performance is very pretty and that same year, Tierney appeared as Peggy Carr in Ring Two to favorable reviews. Theater critic Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, I see no reason why Miss Tierney should not have a theatrical career – that is
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Gene Tierney
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Gene Tierney in the film trailer for
Laura (1944)
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From the trailer for
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
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Pin-up photo in
World War II magazine Brief
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Ernst Lubitsch
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Ernst Lubitsch was a German American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywoods most elegant and sophisticated director, as his prestige grew, in 1946, he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture. Ernst Lubitsch was born on January 29,1892 in Berlin, Germany, the son of Anna and Simon Lubitsch and his family was Ashkenazi Jewish, his father born in Grodno in the Russian Empire and his mother from Wriezen, outside Berlin. He turned his back on his fathers tailoring business to enter the theater, in 1913, Lubitsch made his film debut as an actor in The Ideal Wife. He gradually abandoned acting to concentrate on directing and he appeared in approximately thirty films as an actor between 1912 and 1920. His last film appearance as an actor was in the 1920 drama Sumurun, opposite Pola Negri and Paul Wegener, in 1918, he made his mark as a serious director with Die Augen der Mumie Ma, starring Pola Negri. Lubitsch alternated between escapist comedies and large-scale historical dramas, enjoying international success with both. His reputation as a master of world cinema reached a new peak after the release of his spectacles Madame Du Barry. Both of these films found American distributorship by early 1921 and they, along with Lubitschs Carmen were selected by The New York Times on its list of the 15 most important movies of 1921. With glowing reviews under his belt, and American money flowing his way, Lubitsch formed his own production company, however, with World War I still fresh, and with a slew of German New Wave releases encroaching on American movie workers livelihoods, Lubitsch was not gladly received. He cut his trip short after little more than three weeks and returned to Germany, but he had already seen enough of the American film industry to know that its resources far outstripped the spartan German companies. Lubitsch finally left Germany for Hollywood in 1922, contracted as a director by Mary Pickford, settling in America, Lubitsch established his reputation for sophisticated comedy with such stylish films as The Marriage Circle, Lady Windermeres Fan, and So This Is Paris. But his films were only marginally profitable for Warner Brothers, and Lubitschs contract was dissolved by mutual consent, with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. His first film for MGM, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, was well regarded, the Patriot, produced by Paramount, earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Directing. Lubitsch seized upon the advent of talkies to direct musicals, with his first sound film, The Love Parade, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, Lubitsch hit his stride as a maker of worldly musical comedies. The Love Parade, Monte Carlo, and The Smiling Lieutenant were hailed by critics as masterpieces of the emerging musical genre. Lubitsch served on the faculty of the University of Southern California for a time and his next film was a romantic comedy, written with Samson Raphaelson, Trouble in Paradise. Later described as amoral by critic David Thomson, the cynical comedy was popular both with critics and with audiences
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Ernst Lubitsch, c. 1922
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Lubitsch, c. 1920
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Lubitsch and his wife, Helene Kraus
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Lubitsch in
The Merry Widow, 1934
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Heaven Can Wait (1943 film)
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Heaven Can Wait is a 1943 Technicolor American comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was by Samson Raphaelson based on the play Birthday by Leslie Bush-Fekete, the music score was by Alfred Newman and the cinematography by Edward Cronjager. The film tells the story of a man who has to prove he belongs in Hell by telling his life story and it stars Gene Tierney, Don Ameche and Charles Coburn. The supporting cast includes Marjorie Main, Laird Cregar, Spring Byington, Allyn Joslyn, Eugene Pallette, Signe Hasso, Louis Calhern, Tod Andrews, an aged Henry Van Cleve enters the opulent reception area of Hell, to be personally greeted by His Excellency. Henry petitions to be admitted, but there is doubt as to his qualifications. To prove his worthiness, he begins to tell the story of his dissolute life, born in Manhattan on October 25,1872, Henry is the spoiled only child of stuffy, clueless, wealthy parents Randolph and Bertha. His paternal grandmother is also doting and naive, although his down-to-earth grandfather Hugo Van Cleve, Henry grows up an idle young man, with a taste for attractive showgirls. One day, Henry overhears a woman lying to her mother on a public telephone. Intrigued, he follows her into a Brentanos and pretends to be an employee to get to know her better, despite learning that she is engaged, he begins making advances, finally confessing he does not work there, whereupon she hastily departs. Later, obnoxious cousin Albert introduces the family to his fiancée, Martha, and her feuding parents, Henry is shocked to find that his mystery woman and Martha are one and the same. It turns out that Albert was the first suitor of whom both her parents approved, fearful of spending the rest of her life as a spinster in Kansas City, Martha agreed to marry him. Henry convinces her to elope with him instead, though everyone is scandalized, eventually they are received back into the family. Henry and Martha enjoy a happy marriage and become the parents of a boy. On the eve of their anniversary, however, Martha finds out about Henrys continuing dalliances with other women. Henry and Grandpa follow her there, sneaking into the Strabel house, Henry begs her forgiveness and talks her into eloping a second time, much to Grandpas delight. Fifteen years later, Henry meets a chorus girl Peggy Nash in her room shortly before her performance. What begins as a courtship is soon revealed as an attempt by Henry to turn her away from his son, when Peggy reveals her knowledge of his true identity, Henry buys her off instead for $25,000. Martha passes away shortly after their twenty-fifth anniversary, Henry resumes an active social life much to the amusement of his son
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theatrical poster
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Fred Allen
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Roosevelt and novelists William Faulkner, John Steinbeck and Herman Wouk. Allen was honored with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for contributions to television, John Florence Sullivan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Irish Catholic parents. Allen barely knew his mother, Cecilia Herlihy Sullivan, who died of pneumonia when he was not quite three years old and his father was so shattered by his mothers death that, according to Allen, he drank more heavily. Eventually, Allens father remarried and offered his sons the choice between coming with him and his new wife or staying with Aunt Lizzie, Allens younger brother chose to go with their father, but Allen decided to stay with his aunt. I never regretted it, he wrote, Allen took piano lessons as a boy, his father having brought an Emerson upright along when they moved in with his aunt. He learned exactly two songs – Hiawatha and Pitter, Patter, Little Raindrops – and would be asked to play half or all my repertoire when visitors came to the house. He also worked at the Boston Public Library, where he discovered a book about the origin, enduring various upheavals at home, Allen also took up juggling while learning as much as possible about comedy. Some library co-workers planned to put on a show and asked him to do a bit of juggling and some of his comedy. When a girl in the crowd told him, Youre crazy to keep working here at the library, you ought to go on stage, in 1914 at the age of 20 he took a job with a local piano company, in addition to his library work. Eventually he became Freddy James, often billing himself as the worlds worst juggler, Allen refined the mix of his deliberately clumsy juggling and the standard jokes and one-liners, directing much of the humor at his own poor juggling abilities. During a ten-year world tour, his vaudeville act evolved towards more monologue comedy, the Allen came from Edgar Allen, a booker for the Fox theaters. In 1922, Allen commissioned comic-strip artist Martin Branner to cover a theater curtain with a mural painting depicting a cemetery with a punchline on each gravestone. This was the Old Joke Cemetery, where overworked gags go to die, in Allens act, the audiences would see the curtain before Allen made his entrance. Audiences typically would be laughing at the curtain before Allen even appeared, Robert Taylors biography of Allen includes an impressive full-length photo of Branners curtain painting, and many of the punchlines are clearly legible in the photo. Allen used a variety of gimmicks in his act, from a ventriloquist dummy to juggling to singing, but the focus was always on his comedy. One recurring bit was to read a letter from home with material such as the following, The man next door has bought pigs. Your father had a fight with him about it. It didnt bother your father, he is deaf in that ear
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Fred Allen circa 1940
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Fred Allen (right) with dummy, circa 1916.
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Allen playing the tuba, date unknown.
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Publicity photo for the premiere of Texaco Star Theater, 1940.
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Ralph Bellamy
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Ralph Rexford Bellamy was an American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, screen and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, ralph Rexford Bellamy was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of Lilla Louise, a native of Canada and he ran away from home when he was 15 and managed to get into a road show. He toured with road shows before landing in New York City. He began acting on stage there and by 1927 owned his own theater company, in 1931, he made his film debut and worked constantly throughout the decade both as a lead and as a capable supporting actor. He co-starred in five films with Fay Wray and his film career began with The Secret Six starring Wallace Beery and featuring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable. By the end of 1933, he had appeared in 22 movies, most notably Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. He played in seven films in 1934 alone, including Woman in the Dark, based on a Dashiell Hammett story, in which Bellamy played the lead. He portrayed detective Ellery Queen in a few films during the 1940s, but as his career did not progress, he returned to the stage. Bellamy appeared in movies during this time, including Dance, Girl, Dance with Maureen OHara and Lucille Ball. The lead role was taken by Frank Lovejoy in 1956, who starred in NBCs Meet McGraw detective series. Bellamy appeared on television in numerous roles over the following years and he was a regular panelist on the CBS television game show To Tell the Truth during its initial run. Bellamy starred as Willard Mitchell, along with Patricia Breslin and Paul Fix, about this same time, he also appeared on the NBC anthology series, The Barbara Stanwyck Show. In December 1961, he portrayed the part of Judge Quince in the episode Judgement at Hondo Seco on CBSs Rawhide, during the 1963–1964 television season, Bellamy co-starred with Jack Ging in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, in the role of a psychiatrist in private practice. Wendell Corey had appeared in the first season of the series, Bellamy appeared on Broadway in one of his most famous roles, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. He later starred in the 1960 film version, in the summer of 1961, Bellamy hosted nine original episodes of a CBS Western anthology series called Frontier Justice, a Dick Powell Four Star Television production. In 1950 Bellamy became a member of The Lambs, a club located in New York. Highly regarded within the industry, Bellamy served as a four-term President of Actors Equity from 1952–1964, among many roles in numerous shows, sometimes as a series regular, Bellamy portrayed Adlai Stevenson in the 1974 TV-movie The Missiles of October, a treatment of the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cary Grant,
Rosalind Russell and Bellamy in a publicity shot for
His Girl Friday (1940)
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Gloria McGhee and Ralph Bellamy in
Man Against Crime (1953)
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As
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1960)
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John Landis
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John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his films, his horror films. He directed National Lampoons Animal House, An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, Michael Jacksons music video Thriller, The Blues Brothers, and Beverly Hills Cop III. Landis was born into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Shirley Levine and Marshall Landis, Landis and his parents relocated to Los Angeles when he was four months old. Though spending his childhood in California, Landis still refers to Chicago as his hometown, and is a big fan of the Chicago White Sox baseball team. When Landis was a boy, he watched The 7th Voyage of Sinbad which inspired him to become a director, I had complete suspension of disbelief—really, I was eight years old. I was on that beach running from that dragon, fighting that Cyclops and it just really dazzled me, and I bought it completely. And so, I actually sat through it twice and when I got home, I asked my mom, Landis began his film career working as a mailboy at 20th Century Fox. He worked as a go-fer and then as an assistant director during filming MGMs Kellys Heroes in Yugoslavia in 1969, he replaced the original assistant director. During that time Landis became acquainted with actors Don Rickles and Donald Sutherland, following Kellys Heroes, Landis worked on several films that were shot in Europe, including Once Upon a Time in the West, El Condor and A Town Called Bastard. Landis also worked as a stunt double, Landis made his feature debut in 1971 as a director in the US with Schlock. The film, which he wrote and appeared in, is a tribute to monster movies. The gorilla suit for the film was made by Rick Baker—the beginning of a collaboration between Landis and Baker. Schlock was a failure, and Landis was not offered another directing job for some time, in 1977, Landis directed Kentucky Fried Movie. The film was inspired by the sketch comedy of shows like Monty Python, Free the Army, The National Lampoon Radio Hour. In 1978 Landis directed his first film for Universal Studios, National Lampoons Animal House, in 1980 he co-wrote and directed The Blues Brothers, a comedy starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. It featured musical numbers by R&B and soul legends James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and it was, at the time, one of the most expensive films ever made, costing almost $30 million. It is speculated that Spielberg and Landis engaged in a rivalry, the rivalry might have been a friendly one, as Spielberg makes a cameo appearance in Blues Brothers and Landis had made a cameo in 1941 as a messenger
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John Landis at The Blues Brothers 25th Anniversary
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Trading Places
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Trading Places is a 1983 American comedy film directed by John Landis, starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy. It tells the story of a commodities broker and a homeless street hustler whose lives cross paths when they are unknowingly made part of an elaborate bet. Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, and Jamie Lee Curtis also star, the storyline is often called a modern take on Mark Twains classic 19th-century novel The Prince and the Pauper. The film was written by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod and was produced by Aaron Russo and it was released to theaters in North America on June 10,1983, where it was distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film earned over US $90 million during its run in the United States, finishing as the fourth highest earning film of the year. Denholm Elliott and Jamie Lee Curtis won the awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role, respectively, the film was nominated for several additional awards including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 41st Golden Globe Awards. Brothers Randolph and Mortimer Duke own a successful commodities brokerage in Philadelphia, Winthorpe is publicly framed as a thief, drug dealer, and philanderer by Clarence Beeks, who works for a security company hired by the Dukes. Winthorpe is fired from Duke & Duke, his accounts are frozen, he is denied entry to his Duke-owned home. He befriends prostitute Ophelia, who agrees to him in exchange for a financial reward once he is exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dukes bail Valentine out of jail, install him in Winthorpes former job, Valentine learns the business quickly, using his street smarts to achieve success, and begins to act well-mannered. During the firms Christmas party, Winthorpe is caught planting drugs in Valentines desk in a attempt to get his job back. The Dukes discuss their experiment in the bathroom, and settle their wager of the usual amount. They plot to return Valentine to the streets, Valentine overhears the conversation and seeks out Winthorpe. Winthorpe attempts suicide by overdosing on pills, Valentine, Ophelia and Coleman nurse him back to health, and inform him of the Dukes experiment. On television, they learn that Beeks is transporting a secret USDA report on orange crop forecasts, Winthorpe and Valentine recall large payments made to Beeks by the Dukes, and realize that the Dukes plan to obtain the report to corner the market on frozen orange juice. On New Years Eve, the four board Beeks Philadelphia-bound train, Beeks uncovers their scheme and attempts to kill them, but he is knocked unconscious by a gorilla who is being transported on the train. The four disguise Beeks with a costume and lock him up with the real gorilla. The fake report, which says the years orange crop will be low, is delivered to the Dukes, Valentine and Winthorpe travel to New York City with Colemans and Ophelias life savings to carry out their part of the plan
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Theatrical release poster
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Larry King Live
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Larry King Live is an American talk show that was hosted by Larry King on CNN from 1985 to 2010. It was CNNs most watched and longest-running program, with one million viewers nightly. Every night, King interviewed one or more prominent individuals, usually celebrities, politicians, the one-hour show was broadcast three times a day in some areas, and was seen all over the world on CNN International. On June 29,2010, King announced that the program would be coming to an end, the final edition of the program aired on December 16, but a new episode on the war against cancer aired two days later on December 18. Larry King mainly conducted interviews from the studio, but he also interviewed people on-site in the White House, their cells, their homes. Critics have claimed that Larry King asks soft questions in comparison to other interviewers and his reputation for asking easy, open-ended questions has made him attractive to important figures who want to state their position while avoiding being challenged on contentious topics. When interviewed on Late Night with Conan OBrien, King said that the secret to an interview is to get the guest to talk about him- or herself. A1996 interview in the Washington Post had King note that he sometimes slips hard questions in between softballs and he said that he tries to project an image of earnestness and sincerity in each interview, and the format of the show reinforces that. In response to softball questions accusations, King says, Ive never understood that, all Ive tried to do is ask the best questions I could think of, listen to the answers, and then follow up. I dont attack anybody – thats not my style – but I follow up, Ive asked people who say this, Whats a softball question. Theyll say, You say to some movie star, whats your next project, to me, thats not a softball. To me, thats interesting – what are you doing next, King accepted call-in questions on some nights. Callers were identified only by city and state/province, and generally not by name, occasionally, surprise guests telephoned the show and comment, like governors, royalty, and celebrities. At times, prank calls came in, during major election coverage, the program may center on political analysis and commentary, as the shows airing generally coincides with the closing of polls in many states. One of Kings recurring topics is the paranormal, a frequent guest is John Edward of the popular television show Crossing Over with John Edward. Edward comes on the show and gives callers a free chance to communicate, via him. King also had alleged psychics such as Sylvia Browne and James Van Praagh on from time to time to do readings, King sometimes allows skeptics such as James Randi to debate the psychics. In an April 2005 episode, King hosted a discussion regarding Evangelical, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim
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Larry King Live
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King interviewing
Vladimir Putin, September 8, 2000.
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Jamie Lee Curtis
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Lady Haden-Guest is an American actress and author. She made her debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenters Halloween. Curtis other notable films include Blue Steel and Freaky Friday, for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress - Musical or Comedy. For her role in the television series Anything But Love, Curtis received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy. Curtis received her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance in the television film, Curtis currently stars in the comedy horror series Scream Queens on FOX. Curtis is the daughter of the actress Janet Leigh and actor Tony Curtis and she is married to actor, screenwriter, and director Christopher Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest. Her 1998 book Today I Feel Silly, and Other Moods That Make My Day made the best-seller list in The New York Times and she has appeared in advertisements and is a blogger for The Huffington Post. Curtis was born in Santa Monica, California, to actor Tony Curtis and her paternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants and two of her maternal great-grandparents were Danish. Curtiss parents divorced in 1962, after which her mother married Robert Brandt, Curtis has an older sister, Kelly Curtis, who is also an actress, and several half-siblings, Alexandra, Allegra, Benjamin, and Nicholas Curtis. Curtis attended Westlake School in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills High School, returning to California in 1976, she attended the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She considered majoring in social work, but quit after one semester to pursue an acting career, curtiss film debut occurred in the 1978 horror film Halloween, in which she played the role of Laurie Strode. The film was a success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time. Curtis was subsequently cast in several films, garnering her the title. Her next film was the horror film The Fog, which was helmed by Halloween director John Carpenter, the film opened in February 1980 to mixed reviews but strong box office, starting Curtis as a horror film starlet. Her next film, Prom Night, was a low-budget Canadian slasher film released in July 1980 and that year, Curtis also starred in Terror Train, which opened in October and was met with negative reviews akin to Prom Night. Both films performed well at the box office. Curtis had a function in both films - the main character whose friends are murdered, and is practically the only protagonist to survive. Curtis later appeared in Halloween II, Halloween H20,20 Years Later and Halloween, Resurrection, as well as giving a voice role in Halloween III
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Jamie Lee Curtis at the 2015
San Diego Comic-Con International
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Curtis at the 1989
Emmy Awards
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Curtis in 2011
43.
Cocoon: The Return
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Cocoon, The Return is a 1988 American science fiction fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Daniel Petrie and written by Stephen McPherson. The film serves as the sequel to the 1985 film Cocoon, all of the starring actors from the first film reprised their roles in this film, although Brian Dennehy only appears in one scene at the end of the film. Unlike its predecessor, the film was neither a commercial nor a success at the time of release. Five years after they left, the Antareans return to Earth to rescue the cocoons that were left behind, before they can be retrieved, one of the cocoons is discovered by a science research team and taken to a secure laboratory for testing. Joe learns that his leukemia has returned, but he knows it will be cured again as soon as he, when Alma is hit by a car while saving a child, Joe gives up the last of his lifeforce, saving her life but sacrificing his. Before dying, he tells Alma to take the job and that he loves her, Art and Bess learn that Bess is pregnant, and decide to raise the child on Anterea so they will live long enough to see him grow up. Ben and Mary reconnect with their family and friends, including Bernie who is shown to have love with Ruby. And although a lovelorn Jack once again attempts to woo Kitty, she grants him a vision of his future, showing him children. The next night, before Ben, Mary, Art and Bess leave to meet the Antareans, Art, Kitty, Ben and his grandson David then rescue the Antarean from the Oceanographic Institute. Sara, one of the scientists working at the institute becomes aware of the plans to hand the alien over to the military. Unhappy about this, when she discovers the rescuers she allows them to escape, back at port after he has said his goodbyes to Ben, Mary and David, Jack is approached by Sara asking if he knows of a place where she could get some gas. They walk and talk for a bit, where Sara tells him she just quit her job and he eventually notices the small heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. The score to Cocoon, The Return was composed and conducted by James Horner who had scored Cocoon, the score mostly consisted of recycled themes and material from the first film. The soundtrack was released on 23 November 1988 through Varèse Sarabande, returning Home Taking Bernie to the Beach Joes Gift Remembrances/The Break-In Basketball Swing Jacks Future Growing Old Good Friend Rescue/The Ascension The film had a generally negative reception. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the two and a half out of four stars saying Yes, the performances are wonderful, and, yes. For someone who has seen Cocoon, the sequel gives you the opportunity to see everybody saying goodbye for the second time, Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 36% positive reviews based on 36 reviews. The film brought $25 million worldwide, far less than the first films $85 million worldwide gross, Cocoon, The Return at the Internet Movie Database Cocoon, The Return at Box Office Mojo Cocoon, The Return at Rotten Tomatoes
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Promotional poster
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Things Change
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Things Change is a 1988 comedy and drama film directed by David Mamet. It was co-written by Mamet and Shel Silverstein, and stars Joe Mantegna, Gino, a humble shoe-shiner in Chicago, is approached by a Mafia don who offers him a large sum of money to take the rap for a murder committed by another gangster. Gino agrees, planning to buy a boat with the money he will earn after a three-year sentence. While preparing for his confession, Gino is watched over by Jerry. During a short and boring stay at a hotel, Jerry decides to give Gino one last weekend to remember in Lake Tahoe before he goes to prison. After arriving at the resort and casino, Jerrys tall tales and Ginos quiet dignity quickly get Gino mistaken for a wealthy and powerful mafioso, leading to complications for both men. He is summoned to the Nevada home of crime boss Vincenzo, Vincenzo takes a liking to Gino, however, and the two elderly men bond. Narrowly escaping after the Chicago don turns up at Vincenzos home, on the day Gino is to confess in court, however, Jerry discovers that his superiors were merely stalling for time. Gino is to be killed, and Jerry is to be the one who does the killing, Things Change was Mamets directorial follow-up to House of Games and also takes place in the world of crime. The two films share many cast members, including Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, Mike Nussbaum, William H. Macy, co-stars Mantegna and Ameche received Volpi Cups at the Venice Film Festival for their performances in the film. The film carries an 82% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with a score of 6. 9/10. List of American films of 1988 Things Change at the Internet Movie Database Things Change at AllMovie
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Theatrical release poster
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The Golden Girls
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The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris that originally aired on NBC from September 14,1985, to May 9,1992, with a total of 180 half-hour episodes spanning over seven seasons. The show stars Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and it was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers. The Golden Girls received critical acclaim throughout most of its run and won several awards and it also won three Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Each of the four received a Emmy Award, making it one of only three sitcoms in the awards history to achieve this. The series also ranked among the top-10 highest-rated programs for six of its seven seasons, in 2013, TV Guide ranked The Golden Girls number 54 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. In 2014, the Writers Guild of America placed the sitcom at number 69 in their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, the series revolves around four older, single women sharing a house in Miami, Florida. In the pilot episode, the three were joined by Dorothys 80-year-old mother, Sophia Petrillo, after the retirement home where she lived burned down. The pilot episode featured a gay character named Coco, who worked as a cook for the women, after six consecutive seasons in the top 10, and the seventh season at number 30, The Golden Girls came to an end when Bea Arthur chose to leave the series. In the hour-long series finale, which aired in May 1992, Dorothy meets and marries Blanches Uncle Lucas, Sophia was to join her, but in the end, Sophia stays behind with the other women in Miami, leading into the spin-off series, The Golden Palace. The series finale was watched by 27.2 million viewers, as of 2016, it was the 17th-most watched television finale. Stan and Dorothy eventually moved to Miami, but divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a flight attendant. According to the timeline presented, Dorothy and Stan would have had three children, with their oldest son or daughter near 40 by the beginning of the series. However, due to a lack of continuity in the writing, Michael and Kate were repeatedly shown as being in their 20s during the run of the show, thus not being old enough to be the child with whom Dorothy got pregnant in high school. In the series episode, Dorothy marries Blanches uncle, Lucas Hollingsworth. Arthur also played Dorothys grandmother, Sophias mother, in an episode to when they lived in Brooklyn. Upon Charlies death, she moved to Miami and she eventually found work at a grief counseling center, though she later ended up as the assistant to a consumer reporter at a local TV station. In later seasons, Rose became romantically involved with college professor Miles Webber, during season six, Miles was placed into the Witness Protection Program, but returned later in the season. Their relationship continued throughout the series, and shortly into the sequel series, in season one, Rose is stated to be 55
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Main characters in the final scene from the season two episode "Big Daddy's Little Lady" (from left): Estelle Getty as Sophia, Rue McClanahan as Blanche, Betty White as Rose, and Beatrice Arthur as Dorothy
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Rue McClanahan in 2007
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Miami skyline as used for the season one title card
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The Golden Girls
Disney Legends plaque at
Walt Disney Studios
46.
Rose Nylund
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Rose Nylund is a fictional character featured on the popular 1980s situation comedy The Golden Girls, and its spin-off The Golden Palace. She was portrayed by Betty White for 8 years, totaling 208 episodes, Rose was originally supposed to be played by Rue McClanahan, whereas Blanche Devereaux, one of Roses roommates, was to be played by White. However, Jay Sandrich, the director of the show, suggested that Betty, Rose Nylund was built on Scandinavian dialect comedy and stereotypes, a good-natured but often naive and dumb character not unlike the humor of William F. Kirk. Rose was born in St. Olaf, Minnesota to a monk named Brother Martin and a 19-year-old girl named Ingrid Kerklavoner, Brother Martin claimed to have not known about Roses existence until after she had been given up for adoption. Rose spent the first eight years of her life at the St and it was stated that she was valedictorian in her high school graduation, fourth out of nineteen, and was chosen valedictorian because she drew the longest straw. It is also stated that Rose attended St. Paul Business School, Rockport Community College, and St. Gustaf University, nevertheless, she was voted most likely to get stuck in a tuba by one of her graduating classes. Her parents did not allow her to date until she was a school senior. Rose fell in love with Charlie Nylund, a salesman, Rose met Charlie when she was seven and he was eight, and he sold her an insurance policy on her red wagon. She and Charlie had a long and happy marriage, and an active sex life. Of her children, only Brigit and Kirsten appeared on the show, Charlie died of a heart attack while he and Rose were making love and this gave Rose a fear of sexual intimacy for several years thereafter. Years later, another boyfriend of Roses died in a similar fashion, Charlie and Roses marriage length is unclear. In the same episode, Rose is 55 years old in 1985 and this would make her 55 when the series begins and 62 when The Golden Palace goes off the air in 1993. Charlie is the spouse of the four women on The Golden Girls that the audience never sees. In an episode of The Golden Palace, a man said to bear a strong resemblance to Charlie makes an appearance. Later on in the series, Rose suffers financial difficulties when her husbands employer files for bankruptcy. She suffers from age discrimination in her attempts to get a new job and his former employer, The Cheese Man, begins dating Rose in order to get information on Miless whereabouts. Eventually The Cheese Man is apprehended, Rose and Miles resume their lives together, in season 7, Rose and Miles consider marriage, but ultimately decide against rushing into anything. Their relationship later ends permanently during an episode of The Golden Palace when Rose discovers that Miles loves, Rose frequently tells the other women various stories of her hometown, St. Olaf, which they find to be annoying
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Rose Nylund
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Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
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Homeward Bound, The Incredible Journey is a 1993 American adventure comedy film and a remake of the 1963 film The Incredible Journey, which was based on the novel of the same name by Sheila Burnford. Directed by Duwayne Dunham, it was released on February 3,1993 and it grossed $41,833,324 in the United States and was followed in 1996 by Homeward Bound II, Lost in San Francisco. This film is dedicated to producer Franklin R. Levy, who died during production of the film. Chance, a disobedient American Bulldog and narrator of the film, opens by explaining that he is the pet of Jamie Burnford, but expresses no interest in his owner or being part of a family. He shares his home with Shadow, an older and wiser Golden Retriever owned by Peter Burnford, and Sassy and that morning, Bob Seaver marries Laura Burnford, and Chance manages to cause chaos by digging into the wedding cake in front of all the guests. Shortly after the wedding, the family has to move to San Francisco because Bob must temporarily relocate there for his job and they leave the pets at a ranch belonging to Kate, a family friend. Shadow and Sassy start missing their owners immediately, but Chance sees it as an opportunity to explore and have some fun, later in the week, Kate goes on a cattle drive, leaving the animals at the ranch to be looked after by her neighbor Frank. He does not see her message, and thinks that she has taken them along, worried by the disappearance of their host, the animals come to the conclusion that theyve been abandoned. Shadow in particular is worried about Peter, as he is adamant that Peter would never abandon him, therefore, he decides to go find his owners, as he fears Peter may be in danger. Not wanting to be alone on the ranch, Chance and Sassie determine that they have no choice. They head into the rocky, mountainous wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas with Shadow leading by instinct, after a night spent in fear of the woodland noise, the group stops to catch breakfast at a river. Two black bear cubs steal Chances fish, and when Chance barks at them in protest, they leave the fish and he cockily assumes that he has scared them off, but then a huge brown bear appears, causing the group to quickly flee. At another river, Sassy refuses to swim across to follow the dogs, therefore, halfway across, it breaks apart and she falls in the water. Shadow jumps in to try to save her, but she goes over a waterfall, Shadow and Chance search for her along the bank, but as night falls, they mourn their loss and continue on without her. Meanwhile, a half-drowned Sassy is rescued from the river and nursed back to health by Quentin, with Sassy recuperating from her injuries, the dogs struggle to catch fish from the river. Unbeknownst to the dogs, a mountain lion begins stalking them, while Chance is fishing, he spots the mountain lion and tells Shadow about it. The mountain lion chases them to the edge of a cliff, Chance assumes he is about to die, so he blurts his dark secrets to Shadow by telling him where he has buried everything at home. When Chance mentions that the control is buried under the seesaw
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Corrina, Corrina (film)
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Corrina, Corrina is a 1994 American feature film set in 1959 about a widower who hires a housekeeper/nanny to care for his daughter. It was written and directed by Jessie Nelson, in her film directing debut. It was the film in which Don Ameche starred, he died shortly after filming was completed. The film opens and a scene of black-heeled shoes are seen, voices are discussing food and recipes when the search for Molly ensues. She is located under the table, by her grandfather who joins her. It is then understood that Mollys mother, Annie, has suddenly died, grandfather Harry stays under the table with Molly as they are slowly joined by the other main cast including Mannys mother, the old world Eva. As his friends and family leave after the gathering, it is apparent that this new situation is going to be trying. A newly-widowed man and his old girl, who will no longer speak. There is a need for a housekeeper/nanny so that Manny can return to work (and to also crank out selling jingles for a living lest his job becomes shaky—per his best friend and boss, Sid. After a failed trial run with a nanny of sorts, Corrina Washington interviews for the position, since her mothers death, Molly has not only refused to speak but does not even acknowledge people. She responds to Corrina and Manny hires her as a housekeeper, very quickly a strong bond is formed between them. Corrina works out a system to talk with her making her speak. Corrina watches the early struggles of life after Annie and she asks about an unfinished grocery list and Manny admits to being unable to erase Annies handwriting from the board. Late one evening a distraught Manny lies and says Annie is in the bathtub, upon hearing this lie, Molly runs to the tub hoping to see her. Corrina sees the lonely Molly sit quietly in the empty tub while Manny buries his head in his hands as he sits in the chair Annie purchased for their home, as Corrina adjusts to her new role, Manny and Molly adjust to her ways too. Manny, overhearing her discussing Heaven, asks that she avoid the topic and he and Annie were atheists and he does not want Molly to believe in a god he does not believe in. Corrina does not disobey but notes that she too will just have to explain to Molly that her mother is in the bathtub instead of facing reality, meanwhile, while watching TV, Molly sees a commercial that notes how deadly cigarettes are and watching her father smoke scares her. While Corrina is making Mannys bed, Molly speaks for the first time noting the spot where her mother used to sleep
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Edgar Bergen
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Edgar John Bergen was an American actor, comedian and radio performer, best known for his proficiency in ventriloquism and his characters Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. He is also the father of actress Candice Bergen, Bergen was born in Chicago, Illinois, one of five children and the youngest of two sons of Swedish immigrants Nilla Svensdotter and Johan Henriksson Berggren. He lived on a farm near Decatur, Michigan until he was 4 when his family returned to Sweden where he learned the language and he taught himself ventriloquism from a pamphlet called The Wizards Manual when he was 11 after his family returned to Chicago. He attended Lake View High School, after his father died when he was just 16, he went out to work as an apprentice accountant, a furnace stoke, a player piano operator, and a projectionist in a silent-movie house. The famous ventriloquist Harry Lester was so impressed by Edgar that he gave the teenager almost daily lessons for three months in the fundamentals of ventriloquism. In the fall of 1919, Edgar paid Chicago woodcarver Theodore Mack $36 to sculpt a likeness of a rascally red-headed Irish newspaperboy he knew, the head went on a dummy named Charlie McCarthy, which became Bergens lifelong sidekick. He had created the body himself, using a length of broomstick for the backbone. For college he attended Northwestern University where he was enrolled in the program to please his mother. He switched to Speech & Drama but never completed his degree and he gave his first public performance at Waveland Avenue Congregational Church located on the northeast corner of Waveland and Janssen. He lived across the street from the church and he cut out an R and a G from his family name and went from Berggren to Bergen on the showbills. Between June 1922 and August 1925, he performed every summer on the professional Chautauqua circuit, Bergen had an interest in aviation, becoming a private pilot. His first performances were in vaudeville, at which point he changed his last name to the easier-to-pronounce Bergen. He worked in one-reel movie shorts, but his success was on the radio. He and Charlie were seen at a New York party by Elsa Maxwell for Noël Coward and it was there that two producers saw Bergen and Charlie perform. They then recommended them for a guest appearance on Rudy Vallées program and their initial appearance was so successful that the following year they were given regular cast rolls as part of The Chase and Sanborn Hour. Under various sponsors, they were on the air from May 9,1937 to July 1,1956, the popularity of a ventriloquist on radio, when one could see neither the dummies nor his skill, surprised and puzzled many critics, then and now. Even knowing that Bergen provided the voice, listeners perceived Charlie as a genuine person, thus, in 1947, Sam Berman caricatured Bergen and McCarthy for the networks glossy promotional book, NBC Parade of Stars, As Heard Over Your Favorite NBC Station. Bergens skill as an entertainer, especially his characterization of Charlie, Bergens success on radio was paralleled in the United Kingdom by Peter Brough and his dummy Archie Andrews
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Bergen with his ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy in
Stage Door Canteen (1943)
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Sam Berman 's caricature of Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen for NBC's 1947 promotion book
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Bergen and Charlie with an NBC-produced comic book On the Air, 1947.
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In the film
Stage Door Canteen (1943) with Mortimer Snerd
