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Steve McGarrett
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Steve McGarrett is a fictional character from Hawaii Five-O and its remake Hawaii Five-0 who serves as the leader of the Hawaii Five-O crime task force. The character was played by Jack Lord and has been reprised by Alex OLoughlin. He is partner to Detective Danny Danno Williams, in the original show, Steve McGarrett was portrayed by Jack Lord from 1968 to 1980. He was portrayed as a driven cop and workaholic, often staying at his office until midnight. It was said that he takes orders from the Governor and God –. McGarrett had a sister Mary Ann and their father was murdered by criminals when they were young. It was revealed that this tragedy was what motivated McGarrett to become a police officer. McGarrett was an alcoholic but stops drinking by season 11 for unexplained reasons and he drove a 1974 Mercury Marquis. Australian actor Alex OLoughlin portrays Steve McGarrett in the 2010 remake, the current incarnation bears some similarities to Jack Lords character, such as their Navy Intelligence background and a long-standing nemesis in Wo Fat. In the pilot episode, Lieutenant Commander Steven J. McGarretts convoy was attacked by a helicopter of armed men trying to rescue Anton, when Victor finds out, he shoots John point blank with the younger McGarrett still on the line. McGarrett returns to Hawaii to bury his father and is asked by Governor Jameson to set up a force with full immunity and means to investigate. Despite his initial hesitation, he agrees and transfers to the United States Navy Reserve. He then recruits Newark PD transfer, Detective Sergeant Danny Danno Williams, his fathers former trainee Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly and these four make up the original members of the Governors Task Force, later renamed Five-0. When McGarrett assembles his task force, he partners with Williams, since returning to Hawaii, McGarrett has lived in his childhood home at Piikoi Street along the beach, where his father continued to live in after the break-up of his family and was murdered. Although technically a haole like Danny, Steve is accepted as kamaaina as he was not only born in Hawaii, in several episodes, he is shown to be conversant in bird. Based on McGarretts flashbacks and statements from other characters, he had a happy childhood and he inherited his fathers passion for antique cars and occasionally drove the Marquis after fixing it up himself. Steve was sent to boarding school while Mary went to live with Johns older sister Deb. Steve is said to be fifteen or sixteen in 1992, putting his birth year in 1976 or 1977, which roughly corresponds with the fact that he was in BUD/S in the year 2000
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Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)
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Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980. At the airing of its very last episode, it was the longest running cop show in history at that time. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, the head of a state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular, many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to Book em, Danno. sometimes specifying a charge such as murder one. The CBS television network produced Hawaii Five-O, which aired from September 20,1968, the program continues to be broadcast in syndication worldwide. Hawaii Five-O was named in honor of Hawaiis being the 50th state, although the shows name has always ended with the numeral 0, the soundtrack album, released in the late 1960s, used the letter O instead of the numeral zero. The letter O is sometimes used to differentiate the series and the remake which premiered in 2010. The show centers on a state police force led by former US naval officer Steve McGarrett, a detective captain. In the show, McGarrett oversees state police officers – the young Danny Williams, veteran Chin Ho Kelly, Honolulu Police Department Officer Duke Lukela joined the team as a regular, as did Ben Kokua, who replaced Kono beginning with season five. Occasionally, McGarretts Five-O team is assisted by officers as needed, medical examiner Doc Bergman, forensic specialist Che Fong. The first secretary was May, then Jenny, and later Malia, Lani, for 12 seasons, McGarrett and his team hounded international secret agents, criminals, and organized crime syndicates plaguing the Hawaiian Islands. With the aid of District Attorney and later Hawaiis Attorney General John Manicote, One such crime syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon, a character introduced in the fifth season. Most episodes of Hawaii Five-O ended with the arrest of criminals and McGarrett snapping, the offense occasionally was added after this phrase, for example, Book em, murder one. In many episodes, this was directed to Danny Williams and became McGarretts catchphrase, Book em, other criminals and organized crime bosses on the islands were played by actors such as Ricardo Montalbán, Gavin MacLeod, and Ross Martin as Tony Alika. By the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show, New characters Jim Kimo Carew, Lori Wilson, and Truck were introduced in season 12 alongside returning regular character Duke Lukela. The Five-O team consists of three to five members, and is portrayed as occupying a suite of offices in the Iolani Palace, Five-O lacks its own radio network, necessitating frequent requests by McGarrett to the Honolulu Police Department dispatchers. McGarretts tousled yet immaculate hairstyle, as well as his proclivity for wearing a suit and tie on all possible occasions
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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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Honolulu
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Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U. S. state of Hawaii. It is an part of and the county seat of the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu. The city is the gateway to Hawaii and a major portal into the United States. The city is also a hub for international business, military defense, as well as famously being host to a diverse variety of east-west and Pacific culture, cuisine. Honolulu is the most remote city of its size in the world and is both the westernmost and the southernmost major U. S. city. For statistical purposes, the U. S. Census Bureau recognizes the area commonly referred to as City of Honolulu as a census county division. Honolulu is a financial center of the islands and of the Pacific Ocean. The population of the city of Honolulu was 337,256 as of the 2010 census, while the Honolulu CCD was 390,738, Honolulu means sheltered harbor or calm port. The old name is said to be Kou, a district encompassing the area from Nuuanu Avenue to Alakea Street. The city has been the capital of the Hawaiian Islands since 1845, as of 2015, Honolulu was ranked high on world livability rankings, and was also ranked as the 2nd safest city in the U. S. It is also the most populated Oceanian city outside Australasia and ranks second to Auckland as the most populous city in Polynesia, evidence of the first settlement of Honolulu by the original Polynesian migrants to the archipelago comes from oral histories and artifacts. These indicate that there was a settlement where Honolulu now stands in the 11th century, however, after Kamehameha I conquered Oʻahu in the Battle of Nuʻuanu at Nuʻuanu Pali, he moved his royal court from the Island of Hawaiʻi to Waikīkī in 1804. His court relocated in 1809 to what is now downtown Honolulu, the capital was moved back to Kailua-Kona in 1812. In 1794, Captain William Brown of Great Britain was the first foreigner to sail into what is now Honolulu Harbor, more foreign ships followed, making the port of Honolulu a focal point for merchant ships traveling between North America and Asia. In 1845, Kamehameha III moved the permanent capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom from Lahaina on Maui to Honolulu and he and the kings that followed him transformed Honolulu into a modern capital, erecting buildings such as St. Andrews Cathedral, ʻIolani Palace, and Aliʻiōlani Hale. At the same time, Honolulu became the center of commerce in the islands, an economic and tourism boom following statehood brought rapid economic growth to Honolulu and Hawaiʻi. Modern air travel brings, as of 2007,7.6 million visitors annually to the islands, today, Honolulu is a modern city with numerous high-rise buildings, and Waikīkī is the center of the tourism industry in Hawaiʻi, with thousands of hotel rooms. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an area of 68.4 square miles
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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time
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Richmond Hill, Queens
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Richmond Hill is a racially and culturally integrated urban neighborhood in southwestern Queens County, a borough of New York City. It abuts Kew Gardens, Jamaica, Ozone and South Ozone Park, the neighborhood is split between Queens Community Board 9 and 10. Richmond Hill is known as Little Guyana, for its large Guyanese immigrant population, as well as Little Punjab, many residents own their own homes, and some rent out apartments in them. There are also some apartment buildings. Commercial strips along Jamaica and Liberty Avenue contain mixed use buildings, a Long Island Railroad spur and yard provides freight access for business at Jamaica Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard. The ZIP code for Richmond Hill is 11418 and for South Richmond Hill it is 11419. Richmond Hill is located between Kew Gardens and Forest Park to the north, Jamaica and South Jamaica to the east, South Ozone Park to the south, and Woodhaven and Ozone Park to the west. Its western boundary north of Atlantic Avenue is formed by the LIRRs abandoned Rockaway Beach Branch, south of Atlantic, the southern border extends to around 103rd Avenue or Liberty Avenue. The Van Wyck Expressway abuts the eastern end of the community, the portion of the neighborhood south of Atlantic Avenue is also known as South Richmond Hill. The hill referred to as Richmond Hill is a created by debris. Prior to European colonization, the land was occupied by the Rockaway Native American group, in 1660, the Welling family purchased land in what was then the western portion of the colonial town of Rustdorp. The land would become the Welling Farm, while Rustdorp would be renamed Jamaica under British rule in 1664. The Battle of Long Island, one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, was fought in 1776 along the ridge in present-day Forest Park, protected by its thickly wooded area, American riflemen used guerrilla warfare tactics to attack and defeat the advancing Hessians. One of the sites that would make up modern Richmond Hill, in January 1853, a Farming community was established on the south side of Jamaica Avenue between 110th and 112th Streets, known as Clarenceville. This land was purchased from the Welling estate, Richmond Hills name was inspired either by a suburban town near London or by Edward Richmond, a landscape architect in the mid-19th century who designed much of the neighborhood. The tract extended as far north as White Pot Road near modern Queens Boulevard, The area reminded Man of the London suburb, mans sons would later found the nearby Kew Gardens neighborhood from the northern portion of the land. Streets, schools, a church, and a railroad were built in Richmond Hill over the next decade, the streets were laid down to match the geography of the area. The development of area was facilitated by the opening of two railroad stations, by 1872, a post office was established in the neighborhood, while the Clarenceville neighborhood was merged into Richmond Hill
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Africa
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Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most-populous continent. At about 30.3 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earths total surface area and 20.4 % of its land area. With 1.2 billion people as of 2016, it accounts for about 16% of the human population. The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos and it contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states, nine territories and two de facto independent states with limited or no recognition. Africas population is the youngest amongst all the continents, the age in 2012 was 19.7. Algeria is Africas largest country by area, and Nigeria by population, afarensis, Homo erectus, H. habilis and H. ergaster – with the earliest Homo sapiens found in Ethiopia being dated to circa 200,000 years ago. Africa straddles the equator and encompasses numerous climate areas, it is the continent to stretch from the northern temperate to southern temperate zones. Africa hosts a diversity of ethnicities, cultures and languages. In the late 19th century European countries colonized most of Africa, Africa also varies greatly with regard to environments, economics, historical ties and government systems. However, most present states in Africa originate from a process of decolonization in the 20th century, afri was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of Africa, which in its widest sense referred to all lands south of the Mediterranean. This name seems to have referred to a native Libyan tribe. The name is connected with Hebrew or Phoenician ʿafar dust. The same word may be found in the name of the Banu Ifran from Algeria and Tripolitania, under Roman rule, Carthage became the capital of the province of Africa Proconsularis, which also included the coastal part of modern Libya. The Latin suffix -ica can sometimes be used to denote a land, the later Muslim kingdom of Ifriqiya, modern-day Tunisia, also preserved a form of the name. According to the Romans, Africa lay to the west of Egypt, while Asia was used to refer to Anatolia, as Europeans came to understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of Africa expanded with their knowledge. 25,4, whose descendants, he claimed, had invaded Libya, isidore of Seville in Etymologiae XIV.5.2. Suggests Africa comes from the Latin aprica, meaning sunny, massey, in 1881, stated that Africa is derived from the Egyptian af-rui-ka, meaning to turn toward the opening of the Ka. The Ka is the double of every person and the opening of the Ka refers to a womb or birthplace
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Mediterranean Sea
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The sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean, although it is usually identified as a separate body of water. The name Mediterranean is derived from the Latin mediterraneus, meaning inland or in the middle of land and it covers an approximate area of 2.5 million km2, but its connection to the Atlantic is only 14 km wide. The Strait of Gibraltar is a strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Gibraltar. In oceanography, it is called the Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea or the European Mediterranean Sea to distinguish it from mediterranean seas elsewhere. The Mediterranean Sea has a depth of 1,500 m. The sea is bordered on the north by Europe, the east by Asia and it is located between latitudes 30° and 46° N and longitudes 6° W and 36° E. Its west-east length, from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Iskenderun, the seas average north-south length, from Croatia’s southern shore to Libya, is approximately 800 km. The Mediterranean Sea, including the Sea of Marmara, has an area of approximately 2,510,000 square km. The sea was an important route for merchants and travelers of ancient times that allowed for trade, the history of the Mediterranean region is crucial to understanding the origins and development of many modern societies. In addition, the Gaza Strip and the British Overseas Territories of Gibraltar and Akrotiri, the term Mediterranean derives from the Latin word mediterraneus, meaning amid the earth or between land, as it is between the continents of Africa, Asia and Europe. The Ancient Greek name Mesogeios, is similarly from μέσο, between + γη, land, earth) and it can be compared with the Ancient Greek name Mesopotamia, meaning between rivers. The Mediterranean Sea has historically had several names, for example, the Carthaginians called it the Syrian Sea and latter Romans commonly called it Mare Nostrum, and occasionally Mare Internum. Another name was the Sea of the Philistines, from the people inhabiting a large portion of its shores near the Israelites, the sea is also called the Great Sea in the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer. In Ottoman Turkish, it has also been called Bahr-i Sefid, in Modern Hebrew, it has been called HaYam HaTikhon, the Middle Sea, reflecting the Seas name in ancient Greek, Latin, and modern languages in both Europe and the Middle East. Similarly, in Modern Arabic, it is known as al-Baḥr al-Mutawassiṭ, in Turkish, it is known as Akdeniz, the White Sea since among Turks the white colour represents the west. Several ancient civilisations were located around the Mediterranean shores, and were influenced by their proximity to the sea. It provided routes for trade, colonisation, and war, as well as food for numerous communities throughout the ages, due to the shared climate, geology, and access to the sea, cultures centered on the Mediterranean tended to have some extent of intertwined culture and history. Two of the most notable Mediterranean civilisations in classical antiquity were the Greek city states, later, when Augustus founded the Roman Empire, the Romans referred to the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum
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China
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China, officially the Peoples Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the worlds most populous country, with a population of over 1.381 billion. The state is governed by the Communist Party of China and its capital is Beijing, the countrys major urban areas include Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Hong Kong. China is a power and a major regional power within Asia. Chinas landscape is vast and diverse, ranging from forest steppes, the Himalaya, Karakoram, Pamir and Tian Shan mountain ranges separate China from much of South and Central Asia. The Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, the third and sixth longest in the world, respectively, Chinas coastline along the Pacific Ocean is 14,500 kilometers long and is bounded by the Bohai, Yellow, East China and South China seas. China emerged as one of the worlds earliest civilizations in the basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, Chinas political system was based on hereditary monarchies known as dynasties, in 1912, the Republic of China replaced the last dynasty and ruled the Chinese mainland until 1949, when it was defeated by the communist Peoples Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War. The Communist Party established the Peoples Republic of China in Beijing on 1 October 1949, both the ROC and PRC continue to claim to be the legitimate government of all China, though the latter has more recognition in the world and controls more territory. China had the largest economy in the world for much of the last two years, during which it has seen cycles of prosperity and decline. Since the introduction of reforms in 1978, China has become one of the worlds fastest-growing major economies. As of 2016, it is the worlds second-largest economy by nominal GDP, China is also the worlds largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods. China is a nuclear weapons state and has the worlds largest standing army. The PRC is a member of the United Nations, as it replaced the ROC as a permanent member of the U. N. Security Council in 1971. China is also a member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the WTO, APEC, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the BCIM, the English name China is first attested in Richard Edens 1555 translation of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa. The demonym, that is, the name for the people, Portuguese China is thought to derive from Persian Chīn, and perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit Cīna. Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata, there are, however, other suggestions for the derivation of China. The official name of the state is the Peoples Republic of China. The shorter form is China Zhōngguó, from zhōng and guó and it was then applied to the area around Luoyi during the Eastern Zhou and then to Chinas Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing
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Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Church (Queens)
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Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish is a historic Roman Catholic parish church complex in the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 94-40 118th Street in Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, New York. The complex consists of the church, rectory / parsonage, school, the church was designed in 1916 by noted architect Thomas Henry Poole and completed in 1919. It is a large brick Romanesque-style building in the basilican plan and it features a standing seam copper-roofed dome and a bell tower. The rectory is a 2 1⁄2-story brick building built in 1939, the cloister also dates to 1939 and connects the rectory to the sanctuary. It features a 1938 statue of the patron Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, the brick school building was built in 1912 and substantially enlarged in 1938–1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007, the History of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Parish in Richmond Hill
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John Adams High School (Queens)
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John Adams High School is a public high school in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, New York City. Planning for the school began in 1927 and classes commenced in September 1930, as of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,622 students and 169.7 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 15.5,1. There were 2,061 students eligible for free lunch and 251 eligible for reduced-cost lunch, John Adams has three floors and a basement. The basement contains the cafeteria, locker rooms, weight-training room, a pool, numerous classrooms. The campus of John Adams is roughly six by three city blocks, with baseball, tennis, track, and football fields behind the school, the school also has three gymnasiums. There is also a library, an auditorium, a Virtual Enterprise Room which is a business class. Grade levels,9 to 12 Ethnicity, 4% White 28% Black 37% Hispanic 28% Asian/Pacific Islander, gender %,52.8 Male,47.2 Female Attendance,79. 9% Graduation rate,53. 6%. 6-year graduation rate,67. 2% as of 2009-2010, College enrollment,42. 8% Current School Grade, John Adams recently received a from the Board of Education. The school offers specialized programs in vision care as well as medical and dental technology, taking single sessions of math and English also frees up more time for students to enjoy electives and Advanced Placement courses. The school offers College Now, a run by CUNY offering accredited college courses on site at the high school. The school has collaborative team teaching classes, where two teachers work with a group of special- and general education students. All incoming freshman may take classes the summer before and after the 9th grade, for older students who are at risk of dropping out, there is the PM program—an afternoon session designed to deliver instruction of core subjects in a single classroom environment. The school offers day and nighttime GED programs and vocational training, the school offers special ed for those with learning challenges. Eddie Buczynski, prominent Wiccan and gay activist and he attended from 1962 till dropping out in 1964, largely because of the bullying that he had faced at the school. Jimmy Breslin, acclaimed columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, the Daily News, the New York Journal American, Newsday and he is also the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Steve Cangialosi, play-by-play voice of the New Jersey Devils on MSG Plus, mortimer Caplin, Internal Revenue Service commissioner, law professor and tax attorney Jackie Gleason, American actor. Bernadette Peters, American actress Jason Wingreen, American actor who was the voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back. Nick Santamaria, Mike Mincelli and Vinnie Narcardo, founding members of The Capris vocal group and their most famous Doo Wop recording was Theres A Moon Out Tonght. nyc. gov
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Ozone Park, Queens
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Ozone Park is a urban neighborhood located in the southwestern section of the borough of Queens, in New York City, New York, United States. It borders Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, Howard Beach, and City Line, different parts of the neighborhood are covered by Queens Community Board 9 and 10. The neighborhood is located in the Sixth congressional district, and is represented by Democrat Gregory Meeks, the northern border is Atlantic Avenue, the southern border is South Conduit Avenue, and the eastern border is 108th Street. The western border is the county line with Brooklyn and it is the home of the Aqueduct Racetrack, a popular spot for Thoroughbred racing. The neighborhood is known for its large Italian-American population, the current ground level of Ozone Park is about four feet higher than the original ground level. Initially the avenues and cross streets were raised above ground level and then all of the basements were set on ground level and the land was back filled around the houses. The older houses that were at the ground level now appear sunken. An area now part of Ozone Park that pre-dated that community was called Centreville and it was founded in the 1840s and was centered around Centreville Street and the Centreville Community Church. Part of Ozone Park is still called Centreville and it was completed for Christmas 1958. The old church and the property that surrounded it were sold to Aqueduct Racetrack, the lot is still vacant as of 2013. During the 1870s, a depression caused residents of New York City to look for better housing opportunities in the suburbs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Two partners, Benjamin W. Hitchcock and Charles C, denton, first began carving farmland into building lots. They were able to do this because of their wealth and substantial capital, housing was first developed in the area after the Long Island Rail Road began service through the area in 1880 as part of its route from Long Island City to Howard Beach. Ozone Park was created and settled in 1882, before the turn of the 20th century, there was an attempt to develop up to nine neighborhoods with the park title. Ozone Park was the one of these neighborhoods that continues to exist. The name persisted because of the commuters who passed through the Ozone Park station. The final improvement to the transit system was the Fulton Street Elevated train line at Liberty Avenue in 1914. In addition to this railroad came the nickel fare, which was another major factor in the development of Ozone Park
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United States Merchant Marine Academy
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The United States Merchant Marine Academy is one of the five United States service academies, located in Kings Point, New York. It is charged with training officers for the United States Merchant Marine, branches of the military, between 1874 and 1936, diverse federal legislation supported maritime training through school ships, internships at sea, and other methods. Originally — and in cooperation with the State of New York — the U. S. government planned to establish a large-scale Merchant Marine Academy at Fort Schuyler, New York, nothing came of these plans. Congress passed the landmark Merchant Marine Act in 1936, and two later, the U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps was established, in that year, the USTS Nantucket was transferred from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy to Kings Point and renamed the USTS Emory Rice. The first training was given at temporary facilities until the Academys permanent site in Kings Point, the Kings Point campus was originally Walter Chryslers twelve-acre waterfront estate, named Forker House. Construction of the Academy began immediately, and 15 months later the task was virtually completed, the Academy was dedicated on 30 September 1943, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who noted the Academy serves the Merchant Marine as West Point serves the Army and Annapolis the Navy. World War II required the Academy to forgo its normal operation and its enrollment rose to 2,700 men, and the planned course of instruction was reduced in length from four years to 18 months. In spite of the war, shipboard training continued to be a part of the Academy curriculum. One hundred and forty-two midshipmen gave their lives in service to their country, from 1942–1945, the Academy graduated 6,895 officers. As the war drew to a close, plans were made to convert the Academys wartime curriculum to a four-year, in 1948, such a course was instituted. Authorization for awarding the degree of bachelor of science to graduates was granted by Congress in 1949, the Academy became fully accredited as a degree-granting institution in the same year. It was made a permanent institution by an Act of Congress in 1956, the Academy accelerated graduating classes during the Korean War and the Vietnam War. It was involved in programs as training U. S. officers for the nuclear-powered merchant ship. Midshipmen training at sea also participated in the humanitarian sealift to Somalia during Operation Restore Hope, in 1992, the Academy acquired its largest campus-based training vessel, the T/V Kings Pointer. After 20 years at the Academy, MARAD transferred the ship to the Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston to serve as its new training vessel. In June 2014, the vessel was rechristened the T/V Kings Pointer, the rechristening followed the earlier dedication of the Academy’s newly replaced Mallory Pier. In the 1990s, the Academy’s future came into question when it was included in the National Performance Review, chaired by Vice President Albert Gore, the report recommended halving the federal subsidy and requiring students to pay half of tuition to reduce costs
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Fort Trumbull
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Fort Trumbull was a fort named for Governor Jonathan Trumbull first completed in 1777 near the mouth of the Thames River on Long Island Sound at New London, Connecticut. The present fortification was built between 1839 and 1852, the site lies adjacent to Coast Guard Station New London and is managed as 16-acre Fort Trumbull State Park by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. In 1775, Governor Jonathan Trumbull recommended building a fortification at the port of New London to protect the seat of the government of Connecticut. The fort was built on a point of land near the mouth of the Thames River on Long Island Sound, it was completed in 1777 and named for Governor Trumbull. It was attacked in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War, and was captured by British forces under the command of Benedict Arnold. The infamous traitor Benedict Arnold was serving as a general in the British Army when he led a raid on Groton and New London. Two bodies of troops were landed on side of the mouth of the Thames River and marched towards Fort Trumbull in New London. Fort Trumbull fell after little resistance, but about 150 Connecticut militiamen made a gallant stand at Fort Griswold, according to contemporaneous accounts, Bromfield took the sword from Ledyard and drove it through him, and the British then proceeded to massacre the surviving defenders. Eighty five of the militiamen were killed and the others were severely wounded, taken prisoner. After the capture of forts, the British proceed to burn New London and then returned to their ships. An account of the published in a Philadelphia newspaper follows, - Extract of a letter from New London. He however arrived the 6th inst. about five o, and at seven o’ landed about 2500 men, col. Ledyard, with about 76 other brave fellows, retreated to the fort on Groton side, which they determined resolutely to defend. The next assault was upon this fort, where they were repulsed several times by a bravery unequalled, a flag was then sent, demanding a surrender of the fort, accompanies by a threat of giving no quarters in case of refusal. The commandant consulted with his garrison, who refused to submit. At this time there were but four of the garrison killed, the officer who at this time commanded the assailants, enquired who commanded the garrison. The inhuman banditti, taking this as a signal, drove their bayonets up to the muzzles of their pieces into the breasts of all that were taken, except one or two who made their escape. Never was there more distress in any place than there is here at present, – The Pennsylvania Gazette, September 26,1781 The fort was redesigned and rebuilt circa 1809 to meet changing military needs under the second system of US fortifications. First a redoubt was built at the site to react to threat of British attack, the present fortification replaced the older fort, and was built between 1839 and 1852 as a five-sided, four-bastion coastal defense fort
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New London, Connecticut
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New London is a seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States. It is located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, for several decades beginning in the early 19th century, New London was one of the worlds three busiest whaling ports, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts. The wealth that whaling brought into the city furnished the capital to fund much of the present architecture. New London subsequently became home to shipping and manufacturing industries. New London is now known in Connecticut for its wealth of art. The city is home to the United States Coast Guard Academy, Connecticut College, Mitchell College, the Coast Guard Station New London and New London Harbor is home port to the U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Chinook and the Coast Guards tall ship Eagle. New London had a population of 27,620 at the 2010 census, the Norwich-New London metropolitan area includes twenty-one towns and 274,055 people. The area was called Nameaug by the Pequot Indians, John Winthrop, Jr. founded the first English settlement here in 1646, making it about the 13th town settled in Connecticut. Inhabitants informally referred to it as Nameaug or as Pequot after the tribe, in the 1650s, the colonists wanted to give the town the official name of London after London, England, but the Connecticut General Assembly wanted to name it Faire Harbour. The citizens protested, declaring that they would prefer it to be called Nameaug if it couldnt be officially named London, the legislature relented, and the town was officially named New London on March 10,1658. The harbor was considered to be the best deep water harbor on Long Island Sound, famous New Londoners during the American Revolution include Nathan Hale, William Coit, Richard Douglass, Thomas & Nathaniel Shaw, Gen. Samuel Parsons, printer Timothy Green, and Samuel Seabury. It is often noted that this raid on New London and Groton was intended to divert General Washington, the main defensive fort for New London was Fort Griswold, located across the Thames River in Groton. It was well known to Arnold, who sold its secrets to the British fleet so that they could avoid its artillery fire, after overrunning New Londons Fort Trumbull, Ft. All told, more than 52 British soldiers and 83 militia were killed, New London suffered over 6 militia killed and 24 wounded, while Arnold and the British and Hessian raiding party suffered an equal amount. Connecticuts independent legislature made New London one of the first two cities brought from de facto to formalized incorporations in its January session of 1784, along with New Haven, during the War of 1812, torpedoes were employed in attempts to destroy British vessels and protect American harbors. In fact, a torpedo was used in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy HMS Ramillies while in New Londons harbor. Hardy to warn the Americans to cease efforts with the use of any boat in this cruel and unheard-of warfare. For several decades beginning in the early 19th century, New London was one of the three busiest whaling ports in the world, along with Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Ensign (rank)
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Ensign is a junior rank of a commissioned officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy. As the junior officer in a regiment was traditionally the carrier of the ensign flag. This rank has generally replaced in army ranks by second lieutenant. Ensigns were generally the lowest ranking commissioned officer, except where the rank of subaltern existed. In contrast, the Arab rank of ensign, لواء, liwa, derives from the command of units with an ensign, not the carrier of such a units ensign, and is today the equivalent of a major general. Ensign is enseigne in French, and chorąży in Polish, each of which derives from a term for a flag, the Spanish alférez and Portuguese alferes is a junior officer rank below lieutenant associated with carrying the flag, and so is often translated as ensign. Unlike the rank in other languages, its etymology has nothing to do with flags, in the German Landsknecht armies, the equivalent rank of a Cornet existed for those men who carried the troop standard. It is still used in the artillery and cavalry divisions of the Netherlands, the NATO rank code is OF-1. In Argentina, the rank of ensign is used by both the air force and the gendarmerie and it is, however, used differently in the two services. The air force uses the rank for newly qualified officers, while the gendarmerie uses ensign ranks as an equivalent for the armys lieutenant ranks, the other armed forces of Argentina have ranks equivalent to ensign, subteniente in the army and guardiamarina in the navy. In the army, the most junior sublieutenant in a regiment is also the flag carrier, during the Ancien Régime in France, as in other countries, the ensign was the banner of an infantry regiment. As in other countries, the name began to be used for the officers who carried the ensign and it was renamed sub-lieutenant at the end of the 18th century. The Navy used a rank of ensign, which was the first officer rank. It was briefly renamed ship-of-the-line sub-lieutenant in the end of the 18th century, nowadays, the rank is still used in the Marine Nationale, Ship-of-the-line ensign is the name of the two lowest officer ranks Both ranks of ensign use the style lieutenant. However, French-Canadian sub-lieutenants use the form of enseigne instead of lieutenant. The rank ensign is used to refer to second lieutenants in household regiments of the Canadian Army. Fähnrich which has a parallel etymology to ensign, containing the corresponding German word stem of flag in it, is a German, the word Fähnrich comes from an older German military title, Fahnenträger, and first became a distinct military rank on 1 January 1899. The German Fähnrich is a non-commissioned officer promoted from the rank of Fahnenjunker or Seekadett, Fähnrich is equivalent to Feldwebel, but with additional responsibilities as an officer cadet
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Third mate
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A third mate or third officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship. The third mate is a watchstander and customarily the ships safety officer, the position is an apprenticeship to become a second mate, and has been for centuries. Other duties vary depending on the type of ship, its crewing, duties related to the role of safety officer focus on responsibility for items such as firefighting equipment, lifeboats, and various other emergency systems. International Maritime Organization regulations require the officer be fluent in the English language and this is required for a number of reasons. Emergencies can happen at any time, the officer must be ready at all times to safeguard passengers and crew. The officer must understand distress signals and know the IMO Merchant Ship Search, the officer has special responsibilities to keep the ship, the people on board and the environment safe. This includes keeping the ship seaworthy during fire and loss of stability, and providing aid and maintaining safety during man overboard, abandoning ship, understanding ships stability, trim, stress, and the basics of ships construction is a key to keeping a ship seaworthy. The mate must know what to do in cases of flooding, fire is also a constant concern. Knowing the classes and chemistry of fire, fire-fighting appliances and systems prepares the officer to act fast in case of fire, in case it is necessary to abandon ship, it is important to be expert in the techniques for survival at sea techniques. Officers are trained to perform tasks and to follow instructions given by radio or obtained from guides. This training includes what to do in case of common shipboard accidents, at sea, the mate on watch has three fundamental duties, to navigate the ship, to safely avoid traffic, and to respond to any emergencies that may arise. Mates generally stand watch with able seamen who act as helmsman, the helmsman executes turns and the lookout reports dangers such as approaching ships. These roles are combined to a single helmsman/lookout and, under some circumstances. The ability to handle a ship is key to safe watchstanding. A ships draught, trim, speed and under-keel clearance all affect its turning radius, other factors include the effects of wind and current, squat, shallow water and similar effects. Ship handling is key when the need arises to rescue a person overboard, the officer must also be able to transmit and receive signals by Morse light and to use the International Code of Signals. Celestial, terrestrial, electronic, and coastal navigation techniques are used to fix a position on a navigational chart. Accounting for effects of winds, tides, currents and estimated speed, safety demands the mate be able to quickly solve steering control problems and to calibrate the system for optimum performance
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New York University
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New York University is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City. Founded in 1831, NYU is considered one of the worlds most influential research universities, University rankings compiled by Times Higher Education, U. S. News & World Report, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities all rank NYU amongst the top 32 universities in the world. NYU is a part of the creativity, energy and vibrancy that is Manhattan, located with its core in Greenwich Village. Among its faculty and alumni are 37 Nobel Laureates, over 30 Pulitzer Prize winners, over 30 Academy Award winners, alumni include heads of state, royalty, eminent mathematicians, inventors, media figures, Olympic medalists, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and astronauts. NYU alumni are among the wealthiest in the world, according to The Princeton Review, NYU is consistently considered by students and parents as a Top Dream College. Albert Gallatin, Secretary of Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, declared his intention to establish in this immense, a system of rational and practical education fitting and graciously opened to all. A three-day-long literary and scientific convention held in City Hall in 1830 and these New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based upon merit rather than birthright or social class. On April 18,1831, an institution was established, with the support of a group of prominent New York City residents from the merchants, bankers. Albert Gallatin was elected as the institutions first president, the university has been popularly known as New York University since its inception and was officially renamed New York University in 1896. In 1832, NYU held its first classes in rented rooms of four-story Clinton Hall, in 1835, the School of Law, NYUs first professional school, was established. American Chemical Society was founded in 1876 at NYU and it became one of the nations largest universities, with an enrollment of 9,300 in 1917. NYU had its Washington Square campus since its founding, the university purchased a campus at University Heights in the Bronx because of overcrowding on the old campus. NYU also had a desire to follow New York Citys development further uptown, NYUs move to the Bronx occurred in 1894, spearheaded by the efforts of Chancellor Henry Mitchell MacCracken. The University Heights campus was far more spacious than its predecessor was, as a result, most of the universitys operations along with the undergraduate College of Arts and Science and School of Engineering were housed there. NYUs administrative operations were moved to the new campus, but the schools of the university remained at Washington Square. In 1914, Washington Square College was founded as the undergraduate college of NYU. In 1935, NYU opened the Nassau College-Hofstra Memorial of New York University at Hempstead and this extension would later become a fully independent Hofstra University. In 1950, NYU was elected to the Association of American Universities, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, financial crisis gripped the New York City government and the troubles spread to the citys institutions, including NYU
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
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The United States Army Corps of Engineers, also sometimes shortened to CoE is a U. S. Although generally associated with dams, canals and flood protection in the United States, the Corps of Engineers provides outdoor recreation opportunities to the public, and provides 24% of U. S. hydropower capacity. The corps mission is to Deliver vital public and military engineering services, partnering in peace and war to strengthen our Nations security, energize the economy and their most visible missions include, Planning, designing, building, and operating locks and dams. Other civil engineering projects include flood control, beach nourishment, design and construction of flood protection systems through various federal mandates. Design and construction management of military facilities for the Army, Air Force, Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve and other Defense and Federal agencies. The history of United States Army Corps of Engineers can be traced back to 16 June 1775, colonel Richard Gridley became General George Washingtons first chief engineer, however, it was not until 1779 that Congress created a separate Corps of Engineers. One of its first tasks was to build fortifications near Boston at Bunker Hill, the first Corps of Engineers was mostly composed of French subjects who had been hired by General Washington from the service of Louis XVI. that the said Corps. Shall be stationed at West Point in the State of New York, until 1866, the superintendent of the United States Military Academy was always an officer of engineer. During the first half of the 19th century, West Point was the major and, for a while, the General Survey Act of 1824 authorized the use of Army engineers to survey road and canal routes. Separately authorized on 4 July 1838, the U. S and it was merged with the Corps of Engineers on 31 March 1863, at which point the Corps of Engineers also assumed the Lakes Survey District mission for the Great Lakes. In 1841, Congress created the Lake Survey, the survey, based in Detroit, Mich. was charged with conducting a hydrographical survey of the Northern and Northwestern Lakes and preparing and publishing nautical charts and other navigation aids. The Lake Survey published its first charts in 1852, in the mid-19th century, Corps of Engineers officers ran Lighthouse Districts in tandem with U. S. Naval officers. The Army Corps of Engineers played a significant role in the American Civil War, many of the men who would serve in the top leadership in this institution were West Point graduates who rose to military fame and power during the Civil War. Some of these men were Union Generals George McClellan, Henry Halleck, George Meade, and Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, the versatility of officers in the Army Corps of Engineers contributed to the success of numerous missions throughout the Civil War. They were responsible for building pontoon and railroad bridges, forts and batteries, the destruction of supply lines. The Army Corps of Engineers served as a function in making the war effort logistically feasible. This method of building trenches was known as the zigzag pattern, from the beginning, many politicians wanted the Corps of Engineers to contribute to both military construction and works of a civil nature. During World War II the mission grew to more than 27,000 military, included were aircraft, tank assembly, and ammunition plants, camps for 5.3 million soldiers, depots, ports, and hospitals, as well as the Manhattan Project, and the Pentagon
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Iran
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Iran, also known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a sovereign state in Western Asia. Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km2, it is the second-largest country in the Middle East, with 82.8 million inhabitants, Iran is the worlds 17th-most-populous country. It is the country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline. The countrys central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran is the countrys capital and largest city, as well as its leading economic and cultural center. Iran is the site of to one of the worlds oldest civilizations, the area was first unified by the Iranian Medes in 625 BC, who became the dominant cultural and political power in the region. The empire collapsed in 330 BC following the conquests of Alexander the Great, under the Sassanid Dynasty, Iran again became one of the leading powers in the world for the next four centuries. Beginning in 633 AD, Arabs conquered Iran and largely displaced the indigenous faiths of Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism by Islam, Iran became a major contributor to the Islamic Golden Age that followed, producing many influential scientists, scholars, artists, and thinkers. During the 18th century, Iran reached its greatest territorial extent since the Sassanid Empire, through the late 18th and 19th centuries, a series of conflicts with Russia led to significant territorial losses and the erosion of sovereignty. Popular unrest culminated in the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1906, which established a monarchy and the countrys first legislative body. Following a coup instigated by the U. K. Growing dissent against foreign influence and political repression led to the 1979 Revolution, Irans rich cultural legacy is reflected in part by its 21 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the third-largest number in Asia and 11th-largest in the world. Iran is a member of the UN, ECO, NAM, OIC. Its political system is based on the 1979 Constitution which combines elements of a democracy with a theocracy governed by Islamic jurists under the concept of a Supreme Leadership. A multicultural country comprising numerous ethnic and linguistic groups, most inhabitants are Shia Muslims, the largest ethnic groups in Iran are the Persians, Azeris, Kurds and Lurs. Historically, Iran has been referred to as Persia by the West, due mainly to the writings of Greek historians who called Iran Persis, meaning land of the Persians. As the most extensive interactions the Ancient Greeks had with any outsider was with the Persians, however, Persis was originally referred to a region settled by Persians in the west shore of Lake Urmia, in the 9th century BC. The settlement was then shifted to the end of the Zagros Mountains. In 1935, Reza Shah requested the international community to refer to the country by its native name, opposition to the name change led to the reversal of the decision, and Professor Ehsan Yarshater, editor of Encyclopædia Iranica, propagated a move to use Persia and Iran interchangeably
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Able seaman
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An able seaman is a Naval rating of the deck department of a merchant ship with more than two years experience at sea and considered well acquainted with his duty. An AB may work as a watchstander, a day worker, once a sufficient amount of sea time is acquired, then the AB can apply to take a series of courses/examinations to become certified as an officer. At sea an AB watchstanders duties include standing watch as helmsman, a helmsman is required to maintain a steady course, properly execute all rudder orders and communicate utilizing navigational terms relating to heading and steering. A watchstander may be called upon to stand security-related watches, such as a watch or anchor watch while the ship is not underway. An AB day worker performs general maintenance, repair, sanitation and upkeep of material, equipment and this can include maintenance of the ships metal structures such as chipping, scraping, cleaning, priming, and painting. Areas frequently in need of such include the hull, decks, superstructure, cargo gear. Day workers also perform maintenance on lifeboats, rescue boats and liferafts. For many vessels, being a dayworker is a position granted to senior ABs, since it allows more time for rest. An AB may be called on to use emergency, lifesaving, damage control, Able seamen perform all operations connected with the launching of lifesaving equipment. An AB is expected to be able to operate machinery, such as the windlass or winches while mooring or unmooring. Able seamen require advanced training, including lifeboatman certification, the ships boatswain, if carried, is typically a senior AB. The boatswain is in charge of the seamen and ordinary seaman that comprise the unlicensed deck crew. The Code of Federal Regulations establishes in 46 CFR12.05 five categories of able seaman for the United States Merchant Marine, Able Seaman—Any Waters, requires three years service on deck on vessels operating on the oceans or the Great Lakes. Requires 18 months service on deck in vessels of 100 gross tons or more which operate in a service not exclusively confined to the rivers, requires 12 months service on deck on vessels operating on the oceans, or the navigable waters of the United States including the Great Lakes. Requires six months service on deck on vessels operating on the oceans, requires six months service on deck on sail or auxiliary sail vessels operating on the oceans or the navigable waters of the United States including the Great Lakes. Time served in training programs and school ships may be substituted for the time of service listed above. For the United States Merchant Marine, the Code of Federal Regulations establishes in 46 CFR12, the AB shall demonstrate ability to row by pulling an oar in the boat. The applicant shall also demonstrate knowledge of the knots, bends, splices
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Sanford Meisner
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Sanford Meisner, also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. Meisner maintained an emphasis on the reality of doing, which was the foundation of his approach, born in Brooklyn, Meisner was the oldest of four children. Sanford, Jacob, Ruth, and Robert were the children of Hermann Meisner, a furrier, in an attempt to improve Sanfords health, the family took a trip to the Catskills, where Jacob was fed unpasteurized milk. As a result, Jacob contracted bovine tuberculosis and died shortly thereafter, in an interview many years later, Meisner later identified this event as the dominant emotional influence in my life from which I have never, after all these years, escaped. Blamed by his parents for Jacobs death, the young Meisner became isolated and withdrawn and he found release in playing the family piano and eventually attended the Damrosch Institute of Music where he studied to become a concert pianist. When the Great Depression hit, Meisners father pulled him out of school to help in the family business in New York Citys Garment District. Meisner believed this helped him develop an acute sense of sound. Later, as a teacher, he often evaluated his students scene work with his eyes closed. This trick was only partly for effect, the habit, he explained, actually helped him to more closely to his students work and to pinpoint the true. After graduation from school, Meisner pursued acting professionally, which had interested him since his youth. He had acted at the Lower East Sides Chrystie Street Settlement House under the direction of Lee Strasberg, at 19, Meisner heard that the Theatre Guild was hiring teenagers. After a brief interview, he was hired as an extra for They Knew What They Wanted, the experience deeply affected him and he realized that acting was what he had been looking for in life. He and Strasberg both appeared in the original Theatre Guild production of the Rodgers and Hart review The Garrick Gaieties, despite his parents misgivings, Meisner continued to pursue a career in acting, receiving a scholarship to study at the Theatre Guild of Acting. Here he encountered once again Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg, in 1931, Clurman, Strasberg, and Cheryl Crawford selected 28 actors to form the Group Theatre. This company exerted an influence on the art of acting in the United States. Meisner summered with the Group Theatre at their headquarters at Pine Brook Country Club in the countryside of Nichols. Meisner, along with a number of actors in the company. As a result, Meisner began to focus on a new approach to the art of acting, when the Group Theatre disbanded in 1940, Meisner continued as head of the acting program at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, at which he had taught since 1935
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Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre
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Neighborhood Playhouse had originally been founded as an off-Broadway theatre by philanthropists Alice Lewisohn and Irene Lewisohn in 1915, but closed in 1927. The following year, it re-opened as the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with the addition of Rita Wallach Morgenthau, sanford Meisner joined the faculty in 1935 from the Group Theatre. Meisner used his study of Russian theatre and acting innovator, Konstantin Stanislavskis System to develop his own technique, the Executive Director Emeritus of the Playhouse, Harold G. Baldridge, a graduate of the school himself, had been head of the school for 32 years. Pamela Moller Kareman serves as the current Executive Director, also a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, the school offers a Two Year Certificate Program, with admission to the second year dependent upon unanimous approval of the faculty. There is also a Six Week Summer Intensive, the Neighborhood Playhouse also offers Playhouse Juniors, a popular Saturday training program for children in grades 1–12. Children attend a fixed curriculum of singing, acting and dancing classes in a non-competitive environment, playwright Horton Foote met actor Robert Duvall at Neighborhood Playhouse when Duvall starred in a 1957 production of Footes play, The Midnight Caller. Foote recommended Duvall to play the part of Boo Radley in the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Cadillac
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Cadillac /ˈkædᵻlæk/, formally the Cadillac Motor Car Division, is a division of the U. S. -based General Motors that markets luxury vehicles worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States, Canada, and China, historically, Cadillac automobiles have always held a place at the top of the luxury field within the United States. In 2016, Cadillacs U. S. sales were 170,006 vehicles, Cadillac is among the oldest automobile brands in the world, second in America only to fellow GM marque Buick. The firm was founded from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company in 1902 and it was named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, who founded Detroit, Michigan. The Cadillac crest is based on his coat of arms, by the time General Motors purchased the company in 1909, Cadillac had already established itself as one of Americas premier luxury carmakers. The complete interchangeability of its parts had allowed it to lay the foundation for the modern mass production of automobiles. It was at the forefront of advances, introducing full electrical systems, the clashless manual transmission. The brand developed three engines, with its V8 setting the standard for the American automotive industry and it won the trophy again in 1912 for incorporating electric starting and lighting in a production automobile. Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company, after a dispute between Henry Ford and his investors, Ford left the company along with several of his key partners in March 1902. Instead, Leland persuaded the pair to continue manufacturing automobiles using Lelands proven single-cylinder engine, a new company called the Cadillac Automobile Company was established on 22 August 1902, re-purposing the Henry Ford Company factory at Cass Street and Amsterdam Avenue. It was named after French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, Cadillacs first automobiles, the Runabout and Tonneau, were completed in October 1902. They were two-seat horseless carriages powered by a 10 hp single-cylinder engine and they were practically identical to the 1903 Ford Model A. Cadillac displayed the new vehicles at the New York Auto Show in January 1903, Cadillacs biggest selling point was precision manufacturing, and therefore, reliability, a Cadillac was simply a better-made vehicle than its competitors. Runabout Rear-entrance tonneau Special bodies The Cadillac Automobile Company merged with Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing, forming The Cadillac Motor Company in 1905. From its earliest years, Cadillac aimed for precision engineering and stylish luxury finishes, Cadillac was the first volume manufacturer of a fully enclosed car in 1906. Cadillac participated in the 1908 interchangeability test in the United Kingdom, in 1912, Cadillac was the first automobile manufacturer to incorporate an electrical system enabling starting, ignition, and lighting. Cadillac was purchased by the General Motors conglomerate in 1909, Cadillac became General Motors prestige division, devoted to the production of large luxury vehicles. It was positioned at the top of GMs vehicle hierarchy, above Buick, Oldsmobile, Oakland, in 1915, Cadillac introduced a 90-degree flathead V8 engine with 70 horsepower at 2400 rpm and 180 pound force-feet of torque, allowing its cars to attain 65 miles per hour
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Actors Studio
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The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded October 5,1947, by Elia Kazan, [[Cheryl Crawford, lee Strasberg joined later and took the helm in 1951 until his death on February 17,1982. It is currently run by Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, the Studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. The approach was developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Konstantin Stanislavski. While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in an environment where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles. After an initial meeting held on October 5,1947, at the Labor Stage, before settling in its current location in 1955, the Studio moved regularly over an eight-year period, In January 1948, it was a dance studio on East 59th Street. In April of that year, a move to the CBS Building at 1697 Broadway, near 53rd Street, established some semblance of stability and this it did at the Malin Studios at 1545 Broadway, room 610. This arrangement would persist throughout the 1954-1955 theatrical season, even as the Studio was acquiring and renovating its current venue, in 1955 it moved to its current location in the former Seventh Associate Presbyterian Church, built in 1859. From September 1994 through May 2005, the Studio collaborated with The New School in the education of masters-level theatre students at the Actors Studio Drama School, after ending its contact with the New School, the Actors Studio established The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in 2006. ISBN 0-02-542650-8 Foster Hirsch, A Method to their Madness, The History of the Actors Studio, New York, WW Norton & Co Inc,1984. ISBN 0-393-01783-4 Shelly Frome, The Actors Studio, a History, david Garfield research files on the Actors Studio, 1947-2003, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
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Kim Stanley
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Kim Stanley was an American actress, primarily in television and theatre, but with occasional film performances. She began her career in theatre, and subsequently attended the Actors Studio in New York City. She received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her role in The Chase, Stanley was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her roles in A Touch of the Poet and A Far Country. In the 1950s, Stanley was a performer in television. She received an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Miniseries or a Movie for her performance as Big Mama in an adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1985. That same year, Kim Stanley was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and her father was of Irish or Scottish descent, born and raised in Texas, where he met her mother. She had three brothers, and a half-sister, Carol Ann Reid and she was a drama major at the University of New Mexico and later studied at the Pasadena Playhouse and adopted her maternal grandmothers surname as her stage name. Stanley was a successful Broadway actress with only a few film roles and she was singled out by The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson for her early work. She eventually attended the Actors Studio, studying under Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg and she received the 1952 Theatre World Award for her performance as Anna Reeves in The Chase, and starred in such Broadway hits as Picnic, playing Millie Owens and Bus Stop, playing Cherie. Stanley also portrayed Maggie The Cat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in the original London production of the play, Stanley was a leading lady of live television drama, which flourished in New York City during the 1950s. She was in the London performance of Masha in an Actors Studio production of Anton Chekhovs play The Three Sisters Her first film was The Goddess and she also played Pancho Barnes in The Right Stuff. Stanley was the narrator in the drama film To Kill a Mockingbird. As the narrator, she represents the character Jean Louise Finch as an adult, mary Badham portrays Scout as a child in the film. Stanley did not act during her years, preferring the role of teacher, in New York City, Los Angeles, California, and later Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was inducted into the New Mexico Entertainment Hall of Fame in 2012, Stanley was married four times – to Bruce Hall, Curt Conway, Alfred Ryder and Joseph Siegel – with all four marriages ending in divorce. She had three children, one by Conway, one by Brooks Clift while she was married to Conway, during her marriage to Ryder, Stanley converted to Judaism. Stanley died of cancer at a Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was survived by her brother Justin, her three children, and several nephews and nieces, a biography, Female Brando, the Legend of Kim Stanley, by Jon Krampner, was published by Back Stage Books, a division of Watson-Guptill
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Ben Gazzara
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Biagio Anthony Gazzarra, known as Ben Gazzara, was an American film, stage, and television actor and director. His best known films include Anatomy of a Murder, Voyage of the Damned, Inchon, Road House, The Big Lebowski, Happiness, The Thomas Crown Affair, Summer of Sam, Dogville and Paris, je taime. He was a collaborator with John Cassavetes, working with him on Husbands, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie. As the star of the television series Run for Your Life and he won his first, and only, Emmy Award for his role in the television film Hysterical Blindness. Gazzara grew up in New Yorks Kips Bay neighborhood, he lived on East 29th Street and participated in the program at Madison Square Boys. He attended New York Citys Stuyvesant High School, but finally graduated from Saint Simon Stock in the Bronx, years later, he said that the discovery of his love for acting saved him from a life of crime during his teen years. He went to City College of New York to study electrical engineering and he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator and afterward joined the Actors Studio. In 1954, Gazzara made several appearances on NBCs legal drama Justice and he joined other Actors Studio members in the 1957 film The Strange One. Then came a performance as a soldier on trial for avenging his wifes rape in Otto Premingers courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder. Contemporary screen credits included The Young Doctors, A Rage to Live, when I became hot, so to speak, in the theater, I got a lot of offers, he said. I wont tell you the pictures I turned down because youll say, You are a fool, gazarra returned to Broadway for a production of Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. with Colleen Dewhurst in 1976. Some of the actors most formidable characters were those he created with his friend John Cassavetes in the 1970s and they collaborated for the first time on Cassavetess film Husbands, in which he appeared alongside Peter Falk and Cassavetes himself. In The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Gazzara took the role of the hapless strip-joint owner. Also during this period he starred in the television miniseries QB VII, the six-and-a-half hour series was based on a book by Leon Uris and co-starred Anthony Hopkins. He also played gangster Al Capone in the biographical film Capone and appeared in Voyage of the Damned, High Velocity and he starred with Rowlands in the critically acclaimed AIDS-themed TV movie An Early Frost, for which he received his third Emmy nomination. Gazzara appeared in 38 films, many for television, in the 1990s and he worked with a number of renowned directors, such as the Coen brothers, Spike Lee, David Mamet, Walter Hugo Khouri, Todd Solondz, John Turturro, and John McTiernan. In his seventies, Gazzara continued to be active, in 2003, he was in the ensemble cast of the experimental film Dogville, directed by Lars von Trier of Denmark and starring Nicole Kidman, as well as the television film Hysterical Blindness. Several other projects have recently completed or are currently in production
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williamss best-known works and his favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, mendacity, decay, sexual desire, repression, dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the Southern United States. The original production starred Barbara Bel Geddes, Burl Ives, the play was adapted as a motion picture of the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, with Burl Ives and Madeleine Sherwood recreating their stage roles. Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974 and this has been the version used for most subsequent revivals, which have been numerous. The party is to celebrate the birthday of patriarch Big Daddy Pollitt, the Deltas biggest cotton-planter, all family members are aware of Big Daddys true diagnosis, he is dying of cancer. Maggie, determined and beautiful, has escaped a childhood of poverty to marry into the wealthy Pollitts, the family is aware that Brick has not slept with Maggie for a long time, which has strained their marriage. Brick, a football hero, infuriates her by ignoring his brother Goopers attempts to gain control of the family fortune. Bricks indifference and his drinking have escalated with the suicide of his friend Skipper, Maggie fears that Bricks malaise will ensure that Gooper and his wife Mae end up with Big Daddys estate. Through the evening, Brick, Big Daddy and Maggie—and the entire family—separately must face down the issues which they have bottled up inside, Big Daddy attempts a reconciliation with the alcoholic Brick. Brick explains to Big Daddy that Maggie was jealous of the friendship between Brick and Skipper because she believed it had a romantic undercurrent. He states that Skipper took Maggie to bed to prove her wrong, Brick believes that when Skipper couldnt complete the act, his self-questioning about his sexuality and his friendship with Brick made him snap. Brick also reveals that, shortly before he committed suicide, Skipper confessed his feelings to Brick, disgusted with the familys mendacity, Brick tells Big Daddy that the report from the clinic about his condition was falsified for his sake. Big Daddy storms out of the room, leading the party gathered out on the gallery to drift inside, Maggie, Brick, Mae, Gooper, and Doc Baugh decide to tell Big Mama the truth about his illness and she is devastated by the news. Gooper and Mae start to discuss the division of the Pollitt estate, Big Mama defends her husband from Gooper and Maes proposals. Big Daddy reappears and makes known his plans to die peacefully, attempting to secure Bricks inheritance, Maggie tells him she is pregnant. Gooper and Mae know this is a lie, but Big Mama, when they are alone again, Maggie locks away the liquor and promises Brick that she will make the lie true. Mendacity is a theme throughout the play
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The Red Menace (film)
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The Red Menace is a 1949 film noir drama film directed by R. G. Springsteen starring Robert Rockwell and Hannelore Axman. An ex-GI named Bill Jones becomes involved with the Communist Party USA, while in training, Jones falls in love with one of his instructors. At first true followers of communism, they realize their mistake when they witness party leaders murder a member who questions the partys principles, when they try to leave the party, the two are marked for murder and hunted by the partys assassins. Lally Lloyd G. Davies as Inspector OToole Norman Budd as Reachi Leo Cleary as Father OLeary Kay Riehl as Mrs. OFlaherty William Martell as Immigration Insp, riggs James Harrington as Martin Vejac Duke Williams as Sam Wright Napoleon Simpson as Tom Wright Robert H
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Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot
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On September 20,2002, it was seen by the 30 millionth viewer. As museum orientation films go, Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot is a landmark and it was filmed in May 1956 at Colonial Williamsburg. Whereas the usual 35mm flat-screen 1 and it was a unique VistaVision film in that it was shown with six-channel stereo sound, whereas most films in that process were either shown in mono or in Perspecta sound. The music for the film was composed and conducted by Bernard Herrmann, a pair of specially-designed theaters each seating 250 persons were built for showing the film, as part of the new visitors center being built at the time. It was previewed for an audience including the Governor of Virginia and members of the Virginia General Assembly on the evening of March 30, in the early 1960s, the film was translated into several languages for personal speakers that could be used by international visitors. By the 1990s, the film was showing its age, with severe fading problems in the original negatives, as a result, even new prints looked no better than a 16mm orientation film would have looked. In 2001, a digital restoration effort was begun, the result of which debuted in 2004. This is generally regarded as coming as close as present-day technology permits to replicate the clarity of the film as shown in the late 1950s. It is estimated that despite the 35 minute running-time of this film, as of 2007, Williamsburg, the Story of a Patriot has been released on DVD, available from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Jack Lord filmography Official website dedicated to the film Williamsburg, The Story of a Patriot at the Internet Movie Database
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God's Little Acre (film)
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Gods Little Acre is a 1958 American film of Erskine Caldwells 1933 novel of the same name. It was directed by Anthony Mann and shot in black and white by cinematographer Ernest Haller, although the film was not released until August 1958, its production schedule is indicated as September 11 to late October 1957. The film was as controversial as the novel, although unlike its source there was no prosecution for obscenity. Philip Yordan was officially given credit for the screenplay, but it was actually by Ben Maddow, after decades of neglect, the film was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive under the supervision of master restorer Robert Gitt. As part of Gitts restoration, Yordans name was replaced by Maddows in the title roll. Widower Ty Ty Walden and his two live in the backwoods of Georgia during the Great Depression. While Ty Ty searches for gold on his farm, his son-in-law Will cheats on his wife Rosamund with Griselda, Ty Ty has been digging for gold on his land for 15 years. Pluto Swint arrives to announce hes running for sheriff, Swint is invited to come around back where Darlin Jill is taking a bath in an outdoor bathtub positioned near a handpump and spigot. She asks him to some more water. Asked to keep his eyes closed, he sneaks a pleasurable peek, Ty Ty spends most of his time digging holes, constantly searching for the treasure his grandfather left him. Consequently, the farm has suffered years of neglect. He could have turned a profit any time by buying and planting seed in the fields, the seductive lure of easy gold a mere shovel or two away is actually leading him to squander his inheritance. If his real treasure lies in his daughters, the viewer is invited to gauge the depth of that genealogical reserve, Ty Ty reasons that it is not actually wrongful detainment, because at any time the albino could lead him to the treasure, thereby earning his release. In anticipation of a potential find he changes the location of a plot of land allocated to the church in a tithing relationship and he replants the marker farther away on the edge of a pond for it to be cooler. In the middle of the night Will leaves his house, followed by Griselda and he breaks open the mills gates and enters the property. At first she distracts him from his purpose and they kiss and he then escorts her back to the gates and asks the growing crowd to restrain her. He reenters and turns on the power, and the machines reactivate to the cheers of the crowd, hearing the rioters assembly and the mills power turned on, the caretaker comes from an inside office and shoots Will for trespassing. He staggers outside and the crowds cheers turn to silence and they carry his body back to his house
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Erskine Caldwell
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Erskine Preston Caldwell was an American novelist and short story writer. Caldwell was a supporter of eugenics at a time it was gaining in popularity in the United States, Caldwell was born on December 17,1903, in the small community White Oak in Coweta County, Georgia. He was the child of Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church minister Ira Sylvester Caldwell. Rev. Caldwells ministry necessitated moving the family throughout the South, including the states of Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, when he was 15 years old, his family settled in Wrens, Georgia. His mother Carrie was from Virginia and her ancestry included English nobility which held large land grants in eastern Virginia. Both her English ancestors and Scots-Irish ancestors fought in the American Revolution, Ira Caldwells ancestors were Scots-Irish and had also been in the country since before the revolution and had fought in it. Caldwell attended but did not graduate from Erskine College, a Presbyterian affiliated school nearby in South Carolina and his political sympathies lay with the working classes and he used his experiences with farmers and common workers to write stories portraying their lives and struggles. Later in life he presented public seminars on the conditions of tenant-sharecroppers in the South. His first and second published works were The Bastard and Poor Fool but the works for which he is most famous are his novels Tobacco Road, maxim Lieber was his literary agent during the 1930s and 40s. His first book was banned and copies were seized by authorities, with the publication of Gods Little Acre, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice instigated legal action against him in New York. Caldwell was arrested when he attended a book-signing there but was exonerated in trial, through the 1930s Caldwell and his first wife Helen managed a bookstore in Maine. Disillusionment with the anti-revisionist socialist government had led him to compose a short story. In this story, a woman journalist is executed by a firing squad after being tried in a court on charges of espionage. During World War II, Caldwell obtained papers from the USSR that allowed him to travel to Ukraine, after he returned from World War II, Caldwell took up residence in Connecticut, then in Arizona with third wife, June, then in San Francisco. During the last twenty years of his life, his routine was to travel the world for six months of each year, Caldwell died from complications of emphysema and lung cancer on April 11,1987, in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He is interred in Scenic Hills Memorial Park, Ashland, Oregon, although he never lived there, his stepson and fourth wife, Virginia Caldwell Hibbs, did, and wished him to be buried near his family. Caldwell wrote 25 novels,150 short stories, twelve nonfiction collections and he also edited the influential American Folkways series, a 28-volume series of books about different regions of the United States. McDonald Francis, Leila H. Erskine Caldwell, A Bibliography of Dissertations, stevens, C. J. Storyteller, A Life of Erskine Caldwell
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Felix Leiter
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Felix Leiter is a fictional character created by Ian Fleming in the James Bond series. The character is an operative for the CIA and Bonds friend, after losing a leg and his hand to a shark attack, Leiter joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The name Felix comes from the name of Flemings friend Ivar Bryce, while the name Leiter was the surname of Flemings friend Marion Oates Leiter Charles. Leiter has also appeared in the video game 007 Legends, Fleming named the character after two of his American friends, Felix was Ivar Bryces middle name, whilst Tommy Leiter was a mutual friend. Academic Kerstin Jütting describes Leiter as a cool and quiet character who knows 007s strengths. Physically, Fleming describes Leiter in Casino Royale, a mop of straw-coloured hair lent his face a look which closer examination contradicted. Leiter is Bonds saviour in Casino Royale, providing him with 32 million francs when Bond has been cleaned out by SMERSH paymaster Le Chiffre, calling it Marshall Aid. Academic Jeremy Black agrees, although points out that the Bond and he, the American, takes orders from Bond, the Britisher, and that Bond is constantly doing better than he. Bond scholars Bennett and Woollacott note that although the two men share adventures, it is Bond who leads, not Leiter, Leiters role is to suppl Bond with technical support and hardware, add. Flemings second novel, Live and Let Die shows that in his early twenties, Leiter wrote a few pieces on Dixieland jazz for the New York Amsterdam News. Espionage scholar Rupert Allason, writing as Nigel West, noted that Leiters involvement in a domestic US matter was a breach of the CIAs charter, as laid out in the National Security Act of 1947. According to Bond scholar Henry Chancellor, the speed and comfort of it impressed Ian, for the post-Fleming continuation Bond authors, Leiter has also appeared on a periodic basis. Raymond Benson also included Leiters character in some of his novels, including The Facts of Death, similarly the more recent continuation Bond novels—the 2008 Sebastian Faulks novel Devil May Care and the 2011 novel Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver—both contained the character. Leiter, who was an agent for Station S, was a combination of the novels Felix Leiter, Jack Lord was the first Felix Leiter, appointed into the role for the first Bond film, Dr. No. Eon Productions started filming the series out of the written by Fleming. Leiter was not present in the Fleming novel, but the added the character to the film. Jeremy Black agrees, although points out that the inclusion of Leiter was a sign of American influence in the Caribbean, Lord played Leiter in a swaggering fashion, according to Smith and Lavington, and they considered him excellent, an effective American version of James Bond. Bond scholars Pfeiffer and Worrall agree, stating that Lords was one of the most satisfying portrayals of Leiter, the producers instead decided to recast the role, initially with Austin Willis
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James Bond in film
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The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond,007, who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. It is one of the longest continually-running film series in history, in that time Eon Productions has produced 24 films, most of them at Pinewood Studios. With a combined gross of over $7 billion to date, the produced by Eon constitute the fourth-highest-grossing film series. Six actors have portrayed 007 in the Eon series, the latest being Daniel Craig, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman co-produced most of the Eon films until 1975, when Broccoli became the sole producer. The single exception during this period was Thunderball, on which Broccoli, from 1984 Broccoli was joined by his stepson Michael G. Wilson as producer and in 1995 Broccoli stepped aside from Eon and was replaced by his daughter Barbara, who has co-produced with Wilson since. Broccolis family company, Danjaq, has ownership of the series through Eon. The Eon series has seen continuity both in the actors and in the production crews, with directors, writers, composers, production designers. No to For Your Eyes Only, the films were distributed solely by United Artists, when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer absorbed United Artists in 1981, MGM/UA Entertainment Co. was formed and distributed the films until 1995. MGM solely distributed three films from 1997 to 2002 after United Artists was retired as a mainstream studio, Feldman, and a 1983 remake of Thunderball entitled Never Say Never Again, produced by Jack Schwartzman, who had obtained the rights to the film from McClory. It was adapted for the screen by Anthony Ellis and Charles Bennett, Bennett was well known for his collaborations with Alfred Hitchcock, including The 39 Steps and Sabotage. Due to the restriction of a play, the adapted version lost many of the details found in the book, although it retained its violence. The hour-long Casino Royale episode, which starred American actor Barry Nelson as Bond and Peter Lorre as the villain Le Chiffre, in 1959 producer Albert R. Cubby Broccoli at Warwick Films expressed interest in adapting the Bond novels, but his colleague Irving Allen was unenthusiastic. Towards the end of Saltzmans option period, screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz introduced him to Broccoli, a number of Hollywood studios did not want to fund the films, finding them too British or too blatantly sexual. Eventually the two signed a deal with United Artists for 100 per cent financial backing and distribution of seven films, Saltzman and Broccoli also created the company Danjaq, which was to hold the rights to the films which Eon Productions was to produce. Eon had originally intended to film Flemings novel Thunderball first, but Kevin McClory took Fleming to the High Court in London for breach of copyright over the book, and so Eon decided to film Dr. Eon asked several directors—Bryan Forbes, Guy Green, Val Guest and Guy Hamilton—to helm the film, Eon had originally hired Wolf Mankowitz and Richard Maibaum to write Dr. Nos screenplay, partly because of Mankowitzs help in brokering the deal between Broccoli and Saltzman. An initial draft of the screenplay was rejected because the scriptwriters had made the villain, Dr. No, a monkey, and Mankowitz left the film. To play the role of Bond, Sean Connery was not Broccoli or Flemings first choice, but he was selected after Patrick McGoohan had turned down the role
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Goldfinger (film)
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Goldfinger is a British spy film, the third in the James Bond series and the third to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the novel of the name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fröbe as the title character Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The films plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger was the first Bond blockbuster, with a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Principal photography took place from January to July 1964 in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the release of the film led to a number of promotional licensed tie-in items, including a toy Aston Martin DB5 car from Corgi Toys which became the biggest selling toy of 1964. The promotion also included an image of gold-painted Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson on the cover of Life, Goldfinger was the first Bond film to win an Academy Award and opened to largely favourable critical reception. The film was a success, recouping its budget in two weeks, and is hailed as the Bond canons quintessential episode. After destroying a drug laboratory in Latin America, James Bond—Agent 007—travels to Miami Beach to receive instructions from his superior, M and he is to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel there. Bond sees Goldfinger cheating at gin rummy and stops him by distracting his employee, Jill Masterson, after Bond and Jill consummate their new relationship, Bond is knocked out by Goldfingers Korean manservant, the hulking giant Oddjob. When Bond awakens, he finds Jill dead, covered in gold paint, in London, Bond learns his objective is determining how Goldfinger smuggles gold internationally. The chancellor of the exchequer and M explain that prices vary across the world. Bond arranges to meet Goldfinger socially at his club in Kent. Bond follows him to Switzerland, where Tilly, Jills sister, Bond sneaks into Goldfingers plant and discovers Goldfinger smuggles gold by melting it down and incorporating it into the bodywork of his car, which he takes with him whenever he travels. Bond also overhears Goldfinger talking to Chinese agent Mr. Ling about Operation Grand Slam, leaving, Bond encounters Tilly as she tries to kill Goldfinger again, but trips an alarm in the process, Oddjob kills Tilly with his hat. Captured, Bond is tied to a cutting table underneath an industrial laser, Bond lies to Goldfinger that MI6 knows about Grand Slam, causing Goldfinger to spare Bonds life to mislead MI6 into believing Bond has things in hand. Bond is transported by Goldfingers private jet, piloted by Pussy Galore, to his farm near Fort Knox. Bond escapes and witnesses Goldfingers meeting with US mafiosi, who have brought the materials he needs for Operation Grand Slam. Although they are each promised $1 million, Goldfinger tempts them that they could have the million today, or $10 million tomorrow and he then kills them using some of the neurotoxin he plans to release over Fort Knox
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Cec Linder
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Cec Linder was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films, in television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit. In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bonds friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, another well-known film in which he appeared was Lolita, as Doctor Keegee. Cec Linder grew up in Timmons and his sister Anna Linder is still living. Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of Quatermass, Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series Seeing Things, playing Crown Attorney Spenser. During his time in Canada, Linder worked as an announcer at CKGB in Timmins, linders last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series Sweating Bullets. He died the year at home in Toronto, Ontario. Cec Linder at the Internet Movie Database Cec Linder at FelixLeiter. com
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Stoney Burke (TV series)
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Stoney Burke was an American Western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1,1962 until May 20,1963. Jack Lord starred in the title role, Stoney Burke was a rodeo rider competing for the Golden Buckle, the award given to the world champion saddle bronc rider. During his quest for the Golden Buckle, Stoney became entangled in the lives of numerous people and he was accompanied on the rodeo circuit by his friends Ves Painter, Cody Bristol, and E. J. Stocker. Dick Clark of American Bandstand was cast as Sgt, andy Kincaid in the 1963 episode Kincaid. Rodeo performer Casey Tibbs appeared as himself in this episode. James Coburn was cast as Jamison in the 1963 episode The Test, J. Pat OMalley, Richard Eyer, and Ivan Dixon were also featured in this episode. The same year that Stoney Burke premiered, NBC aired its own drama about rodeo performers, The Wide Country, starring Earl Holliman and Andrew Prine. Both series were Westerns that debuted at the end of the time when Western programs--a fixture of 1950s, both rodeo series were canceled after one season. On April 16,2013, Timeless Media Group released Stoney Burke - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the first time, the six disc set includes all 32 episodes of the series. New York, Penguin Books ISBN 0-14-024916-8 Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network, new York, Ballantine Books ISBN 0-345-42923-0 Stoney Burke at the Internet Movie Database Stoney Burke at TV. com
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Warren Oates
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Warren Mercer Oates was an American actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah including The Wild Bunch and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. He starred in films during the early 1970s which have since achieved cult status including The Hired Hand, Two-Lane Blacktop. Oates also portrayed John Dillinger in the biopic Dillinger and Sgt, Oates was born and reared in Depoy, a tiny rural community west of Greenville in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He was the son of Sarah Alice and Bayless Earle Oates, on his fathers side, he was of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. He attended Louisville Male High School in Louisville, Kentucky, until 1945 and he later earned a high school equivalency diploma. After high school he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for two years serving in the air wing as an aircraft mechanic and he became interested in theater at the University of Louisville and starred in several plays there in 1953 for the Little Theater Company. He got an opportunity in New York City to star in a production of the television series. Oates first met Peckinpah when he played a variety of guest roles on The Rifleman and he also played a supporting role in Peckinpahs short-lived series The Westerner in 1960. The collaboration continued as he worked on Peckinpahs early films Ride the High Country, There were 40 series, and I went from one to the other. I started out playing the bad guy on a horse and worked my way up to the No.1 bad guy. In the episode Subterranean City of the syndicated Rescue 8, Oates played a member, Pete. In the story line, rescuers Johnson and Wes Cameron search for a lost girl in the sewer tunnels, Pete soon breaks with his gang companions and joins the firemen Wes and Skip in locating the missing child. In 1961 Oates guest-starred in the episode Artie Moon in NBCs The Lawless Years crime drama about the 1920s, in 1962 he appeared as Ves Painter in the short-lived ABC series Stoney Burke, co-starring Jack Lord, a program about rodeo contestants. Oates also played in a number of guest roles on The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Combat. during the 1960s and 1970s, he guest-starred on such shows as Twelve OClock High, Lancer, and The Virginian. Mankiewicz in There Was a Crooked Man, John Milius in Dillinger, Terrence Malick in Badlands, Philip Kaufman in The White Dawn, William Friedkin in The Brinks Job, and Steven Spielberg in 1941. He appeared in the Sherman Brothers musical version of Tom Sawyer as Muff Potter, Oates co-starred three times with friend Peter Fonda in The Hired Hand, Race with the Devil and 92 in the Shade. After a long day of filming, he headed over and set his footprints in cement along with all the stars who appeared at Apacheland Movie Ranch. It was during this time that In the Heat of the Night was a blockbuster summer flick, Oates played Officer Sam Wood, a peeping-tom policeman and possible killer in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning film
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Bruce Dern
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Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home and he also won the 1983 Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season, and the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska. His other film appearances include The Cowboys, Black Sunday, Monster, Dern was born in Chicago, the son of Jean and John Dern, a utility chief and attorney. He grew up in Kenilworth, Illinois and his paternal grandfather, George, was a former Utah governor and Secretary of War. Derns godfather was former Illinois governor and two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II and his ancestry includes Dutch, English, German and Scottish. He attended The Choate School and the University of Pennsylvania and he starred in the Philadelphia premiere of Waiting for Godot. Dern made an uncredited role in Wild River, as Jack Roper who is so upset with his friend for hitting a woman that he punches himself, in 1964, he played the sailor in a few flashbacks with Marnies mother for Alfred Hitchcocks Marnie. Dern played a murderous rustler in Clint Eastwoods Hang Em High and he also played Asa Watts, a serial killer of Wil Andersen in The Cowboys. John Wayne warned Dern, America will hate you for this, and Dern replied, Yeah, but theyll love me in Berkeley. In 1983, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival for That Championship Season. In 2013, Dern won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Alexander Paynes Nebraska, and was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor
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Gary Cooper
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Gary Cooper was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances. His career spanned thirty-five years, from 1925 to 1960, and he was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres. Coopers ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his appearing natural, the screen persona he sustained throughout his career represented the ideal American hero. Cooper began his career as an extra and stunt rider. After establishing himself as a Western hero in his silent films, Cooper became a movie star in 1929 with his first sound picture. In the early 1930s, he expanded his heroic image to include more characters in adventure films and dramas such as A Farewell to Arms. In the postwar years, he portrayed more mature characters at odds with the world in such as The Fountainhead. In his final films, Cooper played non-violent characters searching for redemption in films such as Friendly Persuasion and he married New York debutante Veronica Balfe in 1933, and the couple had one daughter. Their marriage was interrupted by a three-year separation precipitated by Coopers love affair with Patricia Neal, Cooper received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in Sergeant York and High Noon. He also received an Academy Honorary Award for his achievements in 1961. He was one of the top ten film personalities for twenty-three consecutive years, the American Film Institute ranked Cooper eleventh on its list of the twenty five greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Frank James Cooper was born on May 7,1901, at 730 Eleventh Avenue in Helena, Montana to English immigrants Alice and his father emigrated from Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire and became a prominent lawyer, rancher, and eventually a Montana Supreme Court justice. His mother emigrated from Gillingham, Kent and married Charles in Montana, in 1906, Charles purchased the 600-acre Seven-Bar-Nine cattle ranch about fifty miles north of Helena near the town of Craig on the Missouri River. Frank and his older brother Arthur spent their summers there and learned to ride horses, hunt, in April 1908, the Hauser Dam failed and flooded the Missouri River valley along portions of the Cooper property, but Cooper and his family were able to evacuate in time. Cooper attended Central Grade School in Helena, at Dunstable, Cooper studied Latin and French, and took several courses in English history. While he managed to adapt to the discipline of an English school and learned the requisite social graces, he never adjusted to the class structure. After completing confirmation classes, Cooper was baptized into the Anglican Church on December 3,1911, Coopers mother accompanied her sons back to the United States in August 1912, and Cooper resumed his education at Johnson Grammar School in Helena
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The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
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The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. The book was made into a film in 1987 by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet. A powerful, dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a crime series. This squad was nicknamed The Untouchables, because of their courage and honesty, Eliot Ness himself had died suddenly in May 1957, shortly before his memoir and the subsequent TV adaptation were to bring him fame beyond any he experienced in his lifetime. The pilot for the series was an episode entitled The Untouchables originally aired on Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27,1959. CBS, which had broadcast most of Desilus television output since 1951 beginning with I Love Lucy, was offered the new series following the success of the pilot film, chairman William S. Paley rejected it on the advice of network vice president Hubbell Robinson. ABC agreed to air the series, and The Untouchables premiered on October 15,1959, in the pilot movie, the mobsters generally spoke with unrealistic pseudo-Italian accents, but this idiosyncratic pronunciation was dropped when the series debuted. The weekly series first followed the premise of a struggle to establish a new boss in Capones absence. The show drew criticism from some Italian-Americans, including Frank Sinatra. The Capone family unsuccessfully sued CBS, Desilu Productions, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation for their depiction of the Capone family. In the first episode of the first season, the character of Agent Rossi and they expressed displeasure with the program, which to them vilified Italian-Americans, stereotyping them as the singular criminal element. The boycott and the attendant firestorm of publicity had the effect Anastasio, there will be more stress on the law-enforcement role of Rico Rossi, Nesss right-hand man on the show. The second episode of the series, for example, depicted Ness and his crew involved in the capture of the Ma Barker gang, the producers agreed to insert a spoken disclaimer on future broadcasts of the episode stating that the FBI had primary responsibility for the Barker case. The series had 118 episodes which ran 50 minutes each, the television episodes were broadcast in no chronological timeline, but were set mostly in the early 1930s. The gripping theme music was by Nelson Riddle, quinn Martin produced the shows first season, which contained elements that could be found in future TV series produced by Martin. ** The character of Untouchable William Youngfellow, portrayed by Abel Fernandez, has been referred to by Saturday Night Live actor Dan Aykroyd as Youngblood. The Untouchables was notable for the number of past and future motion picture and television stars, and cult actors. Johnsons wife and manager rejected the deal, and demanded double the salary offer, Arnaz refused and signed Stack, instead
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Robert Stack
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Robert Stack was an American actor, sportsman, and television host. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind, Robert Stack was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his childhood growing up in Europe. He became fluent in French and Italian at an early age and his parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth. His father, James Langford Stack, an advertising agency owner, later remarried his mother. He had always spoken of his mother with the greatest respect, when he collaborated with Mark Evans on his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a picture of himself and his mother. He captioned it, Me and my best girl and his maternal grandfather, the opera singer Charles Wood, studied voice in Italy and performed there under the name Carlo Modini. On the paternal side of his family, Stack had another opera-singer relative, the American baritone Richard Bonelli, by the time he was 20, Stack had achieved minor fame as a sportsman. He was a polo player and shooter. His brother and he won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy and he set two world records in skeet shooting and became National Champion. In 1971, he was inducted into the National Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame, Stack took drama courses at Bridgewater State College. His deep voice and good looks attracted producers in Hollywood, when Stack visited the lot of Universal Studios at age 20, producer Joe Pasternak offered him an opportunity to enter the business. Recalled Stack, He said, Howd you like to be in pictures, well make a test with Helen Parrish, a little love scene. Helen Parrish was a beautiful girl, gee, that sounds keen, I told him. Stacks first film, which teamed him with Deanna Durbin, was First Love and he was the first actor to give Durbin an on-screen kiss. Stack won acclaim for his role, The Mortal Storm starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart. He played a man who joins the Nazi party. As a youth, Stack mentioned that he had a crush on Carole Lombard and he admitted he was terrified going into this role, but he credited Lombard with giving him many tips on acting and with being his mentor
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Twelve O'Clock High (TV series)
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12 OClock High is an American drama series set in World War II. This TV series was originally broadcast on ABC-TV for two-and-one-half TV seasons from September 18,1964, through January 13,1967, the series was a co-production of 20th Century Fox Television and QM Productions. The series follows the missions of the fictitious 918th Bombardment Group of the U. S. Army Air Forces, equipped with B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, stationed at Archbury Field, England. In addition to characters, several other infrequently reappearing characters were introduced, including Captain Joseph Joe Gallagher. At the end of the first season, the executives decided a younger-looking lead actor was needed. In the first episode of the season, General Savage, played by Robert Lansing, was killed in action and replaced by Colonel Joe Gallagher. The decision proved unpopular and the ratings began to drop, the character Joe Gallaghers father was Lt. General Maxwell Gallagher, played by Barry Sullivan. Burke and Sullivan had previously worked together in the TV series Harbormaster, in an interview given by Lansing on The Mike Douglas Show in 1965, Lansing mentioned that had he known what a boost to his career 12 OClock High was, he never would have fired himself. Savage was killed off in a way so as not to require Lansings participation, according to TV Guide, ABC moved the show from a 10,00 pm Friday time slot to a 7,30 pm Monday time slot for the second season to capture a younger audience. It was hoped that TV viewers would identify more with a rather than an Army Air Corps general. Lansing, had he remained, would have received limited air time with Burkes addition, for the second season, most of the supporting cast from the first season was replaced, with the exception of Major Stovall, Doc Kaiser, and an occasional appearance by General Pritchard. Other actors who did reappear after the first season played other characters, edward Mulhare appeared twice – as different Luftwaffe officers. Bruce Dern appeared four times as three different characters, tom Skerritt appeared five times, each time in a different role. S. Air Force and the library of 20th Century Fox movies, the inclusion of combat footage was often obvious, as it was often quite degraded. Limited usable combat footage often resulted in the shot being reused in multiple episodes. For the third season, the TV series was filmed in color, some of the combat footage used for the third season seemed to be in black-and-white footage tinted blue. Film footage from the 1940s was also used for take-offs and landings since the one B-17 to which the show had access could only taxi, to simulate different aircraft, it was frequently repainted. In later episodes, Gallagher flew as mission control in a North American P-51 Mustang and this plot scheme was added to cut production costs
