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Copenhagen
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Copenhagen, Danish, København, Latin, Hafnia) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark. Copenhagen has an population of 1,280,371. The Copenhagen metropolitan area has just over 2 million inhabitants, the city is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand, another small portion of the city is located on Amager, and is separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the strait of Øresund. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road, originally a Viking fishing village founded in the 10th century, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century it consolidated its position as a centre of power with its institutions, defences. After suffering from the effects of plague and fire in the 18th century and this included construction of the prestigious district of Frederiksstaden and founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Theatre and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Later, following the Second World War, the Finger Plan fostered the development of housing, since the turn of the 21st century, Copenhagen has seen strong urban and cultural development, facilitated by investment in its institutions and infrastructure. The city is the cultural, economic and governmental centre of Denmark, Copenhagens economy has seen rapid developments in the service sector, especially through initiatives in information technology, pharmaceuticals and clean technology. Since the completion of the Øresund Bridge, Copenhagen has become integrated with the Swedish province of Scania and its largest city, Malmö. With a number of connecting the various districts, the cityscape is characterized by parks, promenades. Copenhagen is home to the University of Copenhagen, the Technical University of Denmark, the University of Copenhagen, founded in 1479, is the oldest university in Denmark. Copenhagen is home to the FC København and Brøndby football clubs, the annual Copenhagen Marathon was established in 1980. Copenhagen is one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in the world, the Copenhagen Metro serves central Copenhagen while the Copenhagen S-train network connects central Copenhagen to its outlying boroughs. Serving roughly 2 million passengers a month, Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup, is the largest airport in the Nordic countries, the name of the city reflects its origin as a harbour and a place of commerce. The original designation, from which the contemporary Danish name derives, was Køpmannæhafn, meaning merchants harbour, the literal English translation would be Chapmans haven. The English name for the city was adapted from its Low German name, the abbreviations Kbh. or Kbhvn are often used in Danish for København, and kbh. for københavnsk. The chemical element hafnium is named for Copenhagen, where it was discovered, the bacterium Hafnia is also named after Copenhagen, Vagn Møller of the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen named it in 1954. Excavations in Pilestræde have also led to the discovery of a well from the late 12th century, the remains of an ancient church, with graves dating to the 11th century, have been unearthed near where Strøget meets Rådhuspladsen
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From upper left:
Christiansborg Palace,
Frederik's Church,
Tivoli Gardens and
Nyhavn.
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Reconstruction of Copenhagen c. 1500
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The
Tøjhus Arsenal (
1604)
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The
Børsen, former stock exchange (completed
1640)
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Hollywood, California
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the
Hollywood Boulevard –
La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of
Hollywood and Highland, 1907
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Dr. Christian
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Dr. Christian is a long-running radio series with Jean Hersholt in the title role. It aired on CBS Radio from November 7,1937, to January 6,1954, in 1956, the series was adapted for television where it aired in syndication until 1957. He wanted to do the role on radio but could not get the rights. He decided to create his own character for radio, and since he was a Hans Christian Andersen enthusiast. Dr. Christian practiced in the Midwest town of Rivers End with the assistance of Nurse Judy Price. Christian Award, among the winners were Rod Serling and Earl Hamner, Jr. Produced by Dorothy McCann. Hersholt was so identified with the role that he received mail asking for medical advice. There were various spin-offs as Hersholt co-wrote a Dr. Christian novel, Jean Hersholt appeared for the last time as Dr. Christian in the first episode, officially turning his medical practice over to his nephew. Shortly after filming the episode, Hersholt died on June 2,1956, among the series guest stars was Mason Alan Dinehart, who played Danny Martin in the 1957 episode entitled Typhoid. Stacy Harris appeared in the segment as Warren. Free OTR, Dr. Christian Jean Hersholt, The Complete Andersen Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs, Dr. Christian Dr. Christian at the Internet Movie Database
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Rosemary DeCamp as Judy Price and Jean Hersholt as Dr. Christian, 1953.
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Ad for Seattle station
KIRO.
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Shirley Temple
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Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman and diplomat who was most notable as Hollywoods number one box-office star from 1935 to 1938. As an adult, she was named United States ambassador to Ghana and to Czechoslovakia, Shirley Temple began her film career in 1932 at age 3. In 1934, she found fame in Bright Eyes, a feature film designed specifically for her talents. Licensed merchandise that capitalized on her image included dolls, dishes. Her box-office popularity waned as she reached adolescence and she appeared in a few films of varying quality in her mid-to-late teens, and retired from films in 1950 at the age of 22. Temple returned to business in 1958 with a two-season television anthology series of fairy tale adaptations. She made guest appearances on shows in the early 1960s. She sat on the boards of corporations and organizations including The Walt Disney Company, Del Monte Foods, in 1988, she published her autobiography, Child Star. Temple was the recipient of awards and honors, including the Kennedy Center Honors. She is 18th on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest female American screen legends of Classic Hollywood cinema, Shirley Temple was born on April 23,1928, in Santa Monica, California. She was the child of Gertrude Amelia Temple, a homemaker, and George Francis Temple. The family was of English, German, and Dutch ancestry and she had two brothers, George Francis, Jr. and John Stanley. The family moved to Brentwood, Los Angeles and her mother supported her young daughters singing, dancing, and acting talents, and in September 1931, enrolled her in Meglins Dance School in Los Angeles. About this time, her mother began styling her daughters hair in ringlets, while at Meglins, she was spotted by Charles Lamont, a casting director for Educational Pictures. Although Shirley hid behind the piano while in the studio, Lamont took a shine to her, invited her to audition, Educational Pictures were about to launch their Baby Burlesks, multiple short films satirizing recent film and political events, using preschool children in every role. Baby Burlesks was a series of one-reelers, another series of two-reelers called Frolics of Youth followed, with Shirley playing Mary Lou Rogers, to underwrite production costs at Educational, she and her child co-stars modeled for breakfast cereals and other products. She was lent to Tower Productions for a role in her first feature film in 1932 and, in 1933, to Universal, Paramount. After Educational Pictures declared bankruptcy in 1933, her father purchased her contract for $25, while walking out of the viewing of her last Frolics of Youth picture, Fox Film songwriter Jay Gorney saw the little girl dancing in the movie theater lobby
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Shirley Temple in 1944
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Shirley Temple
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In
Glad Rags to Riches, 1933
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Temple's hand and foot prints at
Grauman's Chinese Theater
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Heidi (1937 film)
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Heidi is a 1937 American musical drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Shirley Temple. The screenplay by Julien Josephson and Walter Ferris was based on the 1880 childrens story of the name by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. The film is about an orphan named Heidi who is taken from her grandfather to live as a companion to Klara, the film was a success and Temple enjoyed her third year in a row as number one box office draw. The film is available on DVD, which features the original black and white. Adelheid, called Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather. When Klaras body and spirits mend under Heidis cheerful companionship, the housekeeper tries to get rid of Heidi by selling her to the gypsies, Heidi is rescued and reunited with her grandfather. Shirley Temple as Heidi, an orphan living with her hermitted grandfather in an Alpine hut. She is very happy, optimistic and adventurous and she loves her very much. Jean Hersholt as Adolph Kramer, Heidis grandfather who is grumpy at first, marcia Mae Jones as Klara Sesemann, a kind and crippled rich girl but very caring, polite and happy towards Heidi. Sidney Blackmer as Herr Sesemann, Klaras doting and busy father who wants nothing, thomas Beck as Pastor Schultz, the pastor of the village who talks to Adolph about Heidis future. Arthur Treacher as Andrews, a butler in the Sesemann household who is nice to Heidi. Mary Nash as Fräulein Rottenmeier, the châtelaine of the Sesemann household who is mean, delmar Watson as Peter, the goat general of Adolph Kramers and a good friend of Heidis. Mady Christians as Detie, Heidis self-interested aunt who has care of her for 6 years. Helen Westley as Blind Anna, Peters grandmother, the Alpine scenes were filmed at Lake Arrowhead, California with cast and crew staying in the Lake Arrowhead Hotel or in private chalets. Temple lived in a trailer parked on a hillside and only left it at the very last moment to do her scenes – after her stand-in had finished with lights, Temple had at least eight bodyguards who escorted her to and from the trailer and about the area when necessary. Midway through the shooting of the movie, the sequence was added into the script. There were reports that Temple was behind the sequence and that she was enthusiastically pushing for it
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Promotional Poster
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The Literary Digest
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The Literary Digest was an influential American general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls. Founded by Isaac Kaufmann Funk in 1890, it merged with two similar weekly magazines, Public Opinion and Current Opinion. Beginning with early issues, the emphasis was on opinion articles, established as a weekly newsmagazine, it offered condensations of articles from American, Canadian and European publications. Type-only covers gave way to illustrated covers during the early 1900s, after Isaac Funks death in 1912, Robert Joseph Cuddihy became the editor. In the 1920s, the covers carried full-color reproductions of famous paintings, by 1927, The Literary Digest climbed to a circulation of over one million. Covers of the final issues displayed various photographic and photo-montage techniques, in 1938, it merged with the Review of Reviews, only to fail soon after. Its subscriber list was bought by Time, a column in The Digest, known as The Lexicographers Easy Chair, was produced by Frank Horace Vizetelly. Ewing Galloway as assistant editor at the publication, the Literary Digest is best-remembered today for the circumstances surrounding its demise. As it had done in 1916,1920,1924,1928 and 1932, before 1936, it had always correctly predicted the winner. The 1936 poll showed that the Republican candidate, Governor Alfred Landon of Kansas, was likely to be the overwhelming winner, in November, Landon carried only Vermont and Maine, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt carried the 46 other states. Landons electoral vote total of eight is a tie for the low for a major-party nominee since the American political paradigm of the Democratic. The Democrats joked, As goes Maine, so goes Vermont, the magazine was so discredited by this discrepancy that it soon folded. In retrospect, the techniques employed by the magazine were to blame. Research published in 1972 and 1988 concluded that non-response bias was the source of this error. Gallups last poll before the election predicted Roosevelt would receive 56% of the popular vote, the official tally gave Roosevelt 61%. This debacle led to a refinement of public opinion polling techniques. History of opinion polls Freedman, David, Pisani, Robert, Purves, Roger. Digitized archives,2,037 Issues,73,776 Articles,115, 219pp January 2,1897 to January 22,1938, free access Landon in a Landslide, The Poll That Changed Polling
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Cover of the 19 February 1921 edition of The Literary Digest.
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Erich von Stroheim
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Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-American director, actor and producer, most notable as being a film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work. He died in 1957 in France, at age 71, Stroheim was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1885 as Erich Oswald Stroheim, the son of Benno Stroheim, a middle-class hat-maker, and Johanna Bondy, both of whom were observant Jews. Stroheim emigrated to America at the end of 1909, Jean Renoir writes in his memoirs, “Stroheim spoke hardly any German. He had to study his lines like a schoolboy learning a foreign language. ”Later, while living in Europe, in Renoirs movie la Grande Illusion, Stroheim speaks German with a strong American accent. By 1914 he was working in Hollywood and he began working in movies in bit-parts and as a consultant on German culture and fashion. His first film, in 1915, was The Country Boy in which he was uncredited and his first credited role came in Old Heidelberg. He began working with D. W. Griffith, taking uncredited roles in Intolerance, additionally, Stroheim acted as one of the many assistant directors on Intolerance, a film remembered in part for its huge cast of extras. Later, with Americas entry into World War I, he played sneering German villains in films as Sylvia of the Secret Service. In The Heart of Humanity, he tears the buttons from a uniform with his teeth. Following the end of the war, Stroheim turned to writing and he also starred in the film. As a director, Stroheim was known to be dictatorial and demanding and he is considered one of the greatest directors of the silent era, creating films that represent cynical and romantic views of human nature. His next directorial efforts were the lost film The Devils Pass Key and Foolish Wives, studio publicity for Foolish Wives claimed that it was the first film to cost one million dollars. In 1923, Stroheim began work on Merry-Go-Round and he cast the American actor Norman Kerry as Count Franz Maximilian von Hohenegg, a part written for himself, and newcomer Mary Philbin in the lead actress role. However studio executive Irving Thalberg fired Stroheim during filming and replaced him with director Rupert Julian, probably Stroheims best remembered work as a director is Greed, a detailed filming of the novel McTeague by Frank Norris. He originally started it as a project with Samuel Goldwyns Goldwyn Pictures, Stroheim had long wanted to do a film version of the book. He originally intended it to be a detailed reproduction of the original, shot mostly at the locations described in the book in San Francisco. Von Stroheim shot in San Francisco with his actors in period dress, automobiles can be seen in the background of some scenes and any extras or passersby are in modern clothing. When the production did move to Death Valley it was in the middle of summer, Greed is also considered by some film historians to be the first feature-length film shot on location
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Erich von Stroheim
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Erich von Stroheim as Sergius Karamzin in Foolish Wives
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Stroheim also participated in plays. He is seen here as Jonathan Brewster in the Broadway version of
Arsenic and Old Lace. Stroheim assumed the role from
Boris Karloff and was part of the cast from circa 1941 to 1943.
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Greed (film)
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Greed is a 1924 American silent film, written and directed by Erich von Stroheim and based on the 1899 Frank Norris novel McTeague. It stars Gibson Gowland as Dr. John McTeague, ZaSu Pitts as his wife Trina Sieppe and Jean Hersholt as McTeagues friend, the film tells the story of McTeague, a San Francisco dentist, who marries his best friend Schoulers girlfriend Trina. Shortly after their engagement, Trina wins a prize of $5,000. Schouler jealously informs the authorities that McTeague had been practicing dentistry without a license, while living in squalor, McTeague becomes a violent alcoholic and Trina becomes greedily obsessed with her winnings, refusing to spend any of them, despite how poor she and her husband have become. Eventually McTeague murders Trina for the money and flees to Death Valley, Schouler catches up with him there for a final confrontation. Stroheim shot more than 85 hours of footage and obsessed over accuracy during the filming, Two months were spent shooting in Death Valley for the films final sequence and many of the cast and crew became ill. Greed was one of the few films of its time to be entirely on location. Stroheim used sophisticated filming techniques such as deep-focus cinematography and montage editing and he considered Greed to be a Greek tragedy, in which environment and heredity controlled the characters fates and reduced them to primitive bête humaines. During the making of Greed, the company merged into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Thalberg had fired Stroheim a few years earlier at Universal Pictures, originally almost eight hours long, Greed was edited against Stroheims wishes to about two-and-a-half hours. Only twelve people saw the full-length 42-reel version, now lost, Stroheim later called Greed his most fully realized work and was hurt both professionally and personally by the studios re-editing of it. The uncut version has been called the holy grail for film archivists, in 1999 Turner Entertainment created a four-hour version of Greed that used existing stills of cut scenes to reconstruct the film. John McTeague is a miner working in Placer County, California, a traveling dentist calling himself Dr. Painless Potter visits the town, and McTeagues mother begs Potter to take her son on as an apprentice. Potter agrees and McTeague eventually becomes a dentist, practicing on Polk Street in San Francisco, Marcus Schouler brings Trina Sieppe, his cousin and intended fiancée, into McTeagues office for dental work. Schouler and McTeague are friends and McTeague gladly agrees to examine her, as they wait for an opening, Trina buys a lottery ticket. McTeague becomes enamored with Trina and begs Schouler for permission to court Trina, after seeing McTeagues conviction, Schouler agrees. Trina eventually agrees to marry McTeague and shortly afterwards her lottery ticket wins her $5,000, Schouler bitterly claims that the money should have been his, causing a rift between McTeague and Schouler. After McTeague and Trina wed, they continue to live in their apartment with Trina refusing to spend her $5,000
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Theatrical release poster
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Trina and McTeague have a relationship that moves from romance to tragedy.
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The
Death Valley scenes, including this final sequence, were filmed over two months during midsummer, in harsh conditions.
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The wedding scene made innovative use of
deep-focus cinematography despite challenges with the lighting.
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Heidi
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It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfathers care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book for children and those who love children, Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. Heidi is an orphaned girl raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias. Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfathers house, up the mountain from Dörfli. He has been at odds with the villagers and embittered against God for years and this has earned him the nickname Uncle Alp. He briefly resents Heidis arrival, but the girls evident intelligence and cheerful yet unaffected demeanor soon earn his genuine, if reserved, Heidi enthusiastically befriends her new neighbors, young Peter the goatherd, his mother, Bridgget, and his blind maternal grandmother. With each season that passes, the mountaintop inhabitants grow more attached to Heidi, three years later, Dete returns to take Heidi to Frankfurt to be a hired ladys companion to a wealthy girl named Clara Sesemann, who is regarded as an invalid. The girl is charmed by Heidis simple friendliness, and delights in all the funny mishaps brought about by Heidis lack of experience with city life. However, the Sesemanns strict housekeeper, Fräulein Rottenmeier, views the household disruptions as wanton misbehavior, soon, Heidi becomes terribly homesick, and grows alarmingly pale and thin. Her one diversion is learning to read and write, motivated by her desire to go home, Claras paternal grandmother comes to visit the children and becomes a friend to Heidi. She teaches Heidi that she can seek relief from misery by praying to God. After months pass, the Frankfurt household is brought near hysteria by nightly sightings of what appears to be a ghost. When Claras father and his friend the doctor keep awake one night to find out what is causing the disturbances, they see that the ghost is actually just Heidi, the doctor sees that Heidis under a great deal of stress. He warns Mr. Sesemann that if Heidi is not sent home promptly, soon, a joyous Heidi returns to the mountains, where she teaches her grandfather about the comfort of prayer. She reassures him that its never too late to back to God. Her simple lesson prompts her grandfather to descend to the village and attend a service for the first time in years. Hes heartily welcomed back by the pastor and the villagers. Heidi and Clara continue to keep in touch and exchange letters, a visit by the doctor to Heidi leads him to eagerly recommend that Clara visit Heidi
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Aunt Dete hurrying away after leaving Heidi with the Alm-Uncle.
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Johanna Spyri
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Johanna Louise Spyri was a Swiss-born author of novels, notably childrens stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, an area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden. In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri, whilst living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. Heidi is the story of a girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Her husband and her child, named Bernard, both died in 1884. Alone, she devoted herself to charitable causes and wrote over fifty more stories before her death in 1901 and she was interred in the family plot at the Sihlfeld-A Cemetery in Zürich. An icon in Switzerland, Spyris portrait was placed on a stamp in 1951. In April 2010 a professor searching for childrens illustrations found a book written in 1830 by a German history teacher, Hermann Adam von Kamp, the 1830 story is titled Adelheide - das Mädchen vom Alpengebirge—translated, Adelaide, the girl from the Alps. The two stories share many similarities in plot line and imagery, Spyri biographer Regine Schindler said it was entirely possible that Johanna may have been familiar with the story as she grew up in a literate household with many books
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Johanna Spyri, about 1870
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Gravesite at Sihlfeld cemetery in Zurich
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Run for Cover (film)
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Run for Cover is a 1955 western film directed by Nicholas Ray and starring James Cagney, Viveca Lindfors, John Derek, and in his final film, Jean Hersholt. Distributed by Paramount Pictures, this film was made in VistaVision, Matt Dow meets young cowboy Davey Bishop for the first time. As they take turns shooting at a hawk, a train that has recently been robbed goes by, mistaking it for an attack by train robbers, a bag of money is tossed from the train toward the two men. Dow and Davey take the money to town, where they are presumed to have robbed the train, Davey is shot, wounded and taken to the Swenson farm to recover. Matt explains what happened and is welcome by Helga Swenson. The townspeople regret the shooting of Davey, whose limp will be permanent, Matt accepts a job as sheriff, trying to redeem himself for a shady past. He also begins to court Helga, outlaws led by a man named Morgan rob the towns bank. One recognizes Matt, which makes the townsfolk worry that he might be in on this, Matt sets out to capture one of the robbers, but Davey, now a deputy, fails to stop another thief from being lynched. And Helgas father is accidentally killed. A posse is formed, but after a ride, Matt. Bodies of most of the thieves are found dead with Comanche arrows in them, Davey double-crosses Matt, confessing that he was in on the robbery all along. Davey and Matt are trapped by Comanches and hide the money, a wounded Matt tries to make it across a river. Davey and Morgan discuss how to get the money back, Davey decides to do the right thing at last and shoots Morgan, but mistakenly Matt believes that Davey has drawn a gun on him and shoots in self-defense. Davey is dead and Matt rides back to Helga to explain, the title song Run for Cover is by Howard Jackson to lyrics by Jack Brooks. James Cagney as Matt Dow Viveca Lindfors as Helga Swenson John Derek as Davey Bishop Jean Hersholt as Mr
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Run for Cover
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KIRO (AM)
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KIRO-AM is a radio station based in Seattle, Washington on the shores of Lake Union with 2 towers on Maury Island, broadcasting on 710 kHz in the AM radio spectrum. The stations format is sports radio and it is affiliated with ESPN Radio, the stations studios are located on Eastlake Avenue in Seattles Eastlake district. KIRO began broadcasting on April 27,1927, as the 100-watt station KPCB650 and its founder was Moritz Thomsen of the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company. Among its announcers was Chet Huntley, later of televisions Huntley-Brinkley Report, in 1935 Saul Haass Queen City Broadcasting Company took over the station. He changed the letters to KIRO and increased its power to 500 Watts. Haas, who was connected in liberal politics and the business community, wanted a simple, pronounceable. KING, after King County, Washington, was not available at that time, in 1937, KIRO was assigned the 710 frequency and increased its power to 1,000 Watts. Soon after, the Seattle CBS affiliation moved to KIRO from KOL, known as The Friendly Station, KIRO personalities broke from the formal announcing style that was commonplace during the early days of radio. On June 29,1941, KIROs new,50, 000-Watt transmitter on Maury Island became operational, from the 1930s through the 1950s, KIRO recorded countless hours of CBS programming for time-delayed rebroadcast. These electrical transcriptions are, in cases, the only recordings made of World War II-era news coverage over the CBS network. The discs were donated to the University of Washington in the early 1960s and are now held at the National Archives as the Milo Ryan Phonoarchive Collection, in 1948, the original KIRO-FM took the air at 100.7 MHz, initially rebroadcasting its AM sisters programming. Preparing for a future television allocation, KIRO moved in 1952 from downtown studios to a building on Queen Anne Hill. This peak was home to the KING-TV transmitter and would soon be the site for KOMO-TV as well. Queen City Broadcasting was awarded Seattles last remaining VHF license in 1958, haas sold KIRO to Bonneville International Corporation, part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in 1963. He earned a return on his investment of 28 years earlier. Bonneville executives Lloyd Cooney and Ken Hatch arrived in Seattle to lead the combined broadcast group, like many network radio affiliates following the demise of full-time block programming, KIRO spent the 1960s playing Middle of the road music in addition to long-form news and interview shows. Morning host Jim French spent many years broadcasting from the restaurant atop the Space Needle and was live on the air from that perch during a 6. 7-magnitude earthquake in April,1965. Bonneville moved its Seattle radio and TV stations to the newly constructed Broadcast House at Third, in 1973, KIRO ended a 35-year affiliation with CBS and switched to the Mutual Broadcasting System
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KIRO
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Dionne quintuplets
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The Dionne Quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical sisters were born in Canada, just outside Callander, Ontario, the Dionne girls were born two months premature. After four months with their family, they were made Wards of the King for the nine years under the Dionne Quintuplets Guardianship Act,1935. The government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction in Ontario and they lived just outside Corbeil, in a farmhouse in unregistered territory. Oliva, through his father, was a descendant of Zacharie Cloutier, the Dionnes were a French-speaking farming family with five older children, Ernest, Rose Marie, Thérèse, Daniel, and Pauline, who was only eleven months older than the quints. A sixth child, Léo, died of pneumonia shortly after birth, the Dionnes also had three sons after the quintuplets, Oliva Jr. Victor, and Claude. Elzire suspected she was carrying twins, but no one was aware that quintuplets were even possible, the quintuplets were born two months premature. In 1938, the doctors had a theory that was proven correct when genetic tests showed that the girls were identical. Elzire reported having had cramps in her third month and passing an object which may have been a sixth baby. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe is credited with ensuring the successful birth of the quintuplets. Originally, he diagnosed Elzire with a fetal abnormality and he delivered the babies with the help of two midwives, Aunt Donalda and Madame Benoit Lebel, who were summoned by Oliva Dionne in the middle of the night. Émilie and Marie shared an embryonic sac, Annette and Yvonne shared an embryonic sac, all but Émilie were later discoverd to be right-handed and all but Marie had a counter-clockwise whorl in their hair. The quintuplets total weight at birth was 13 pounds,6 ounces and their individual weights and measurements were not recorded. The quintuplets were immediately wrapped in sheets and old napkins. Elzire went into shock, but she recovered in two hours, the babies were kept in a wicker basket borrowed from the neighbours, covered with heated blankets. They were brought into the kitchen and set by the door of the stove to keep warm. One by one, they were out of the basket. Every two hours for the first twenty-four, they were fed water sweetened with corn syrup, by the second day they were moved to a slightly larger laundry basket and kept warm with hot-water bottles
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Ontario Premier
Mitchell Hepburn with the Dionne babies
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En route to
Toronto for presentation to
Queen consort Elizabeth in 1939
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Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen (/ˈhɑːnz ˈkrɪstʃən ˈændərsən/, Danish, often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersens popularity is not limited to children, his stories, called eventyr in Danish, express themes that transcend age and nationality. Some of his most famous fairy tales include The Emperors New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Nightingale, The Snow Queen, The Ugly Duckling, Thumbelina and his stories have inspired ballets, animated and live-action films and plays. Hans Christian Andersen was born in the town of Odense, Denmark, Andersens father, also Hans, considered himself related to nobility. His paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had in the past belonged to a social class. A persistent theory suggests that Andersen was a son of King Christian VIII. Andersens father, who had received an education, introduced Andersen to literature. Andersens mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was uneducated and worked as a washerwoman following his fathers death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen was sent to a school for poor children where he received a basic education and was forced to support himself, working as an apprentice for a weaver and, later. At 14, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor, having an excellent soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed. A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet, taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing. Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, felt a great affection for Andersen and sent him to a school in Slagelse. Andersen had already published his first story, The Ghost at Palnatokes Grave, though not a keen pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827. He later said his years in school were the darkest and most bitter of his life, at one school, he lived at his schoolmasters home. There he was abused and was told that it was to improve his character and he later said the faculty had discouraged him from writing in general, causing him to enter a state of depression. A very early fairy tale by Andersen, called The Tallow Candle, was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012, the story, written in the 1820s, was about a candle who did not feel appreciated. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to a benefactor, in 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story A Journey on Foot from Holmens Canal to the East Point of Amager. Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat, Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, Love on St. Nicholas Church Tower, and a short volume of poems
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Photograph taken by
Thora Hallager, 1869
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Andersen's childhood home in Odense
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Paper chimney sweep
cut by Andersen
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Painting of Andersen, 1836, by
Christian Albrecht Jensen
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women is a 1940 American film directed by William C. McGann, one of the series of six Dr. Christian films featuring Jean Hersholt, professor Kenneth Parker, a God-fearing physical culturist, arrives to work in the serene little town of River’s End. He claims to be a specialist and top authority on health matters, the town physician, Dr. Paul Christian, reacts to Parker’s promises to the women in town of dramatic weight loss, if they followed his advice. The head of the town club, Mrs. Browning, is charmed by the questionable professor. Parker and invites him to her home and to have a lecture when the club is meeting and he is welcome to use the club as his forum for his teachings. The professor starts teaching the women about strict diet being the best road to self-satisfaction, the professor’s teachings result in the disruption of the town womens eating routines. They also disrupt the peace and quiet in the Browning family life, causing Mrs. Browning and her husband to argue about the professor’s teachings and intrusions on the town life. The Browning’s daughter, Kitty, has taken an interest in the assistant, Bill Ferris. Dr. Christian claims the professor is a fraud and a charlatan, the town doesn’t listen to his warnings. Kitty’s condition gets worse and Dr. Christian, exhausted from an abnormal workload because of the professor’s teachings, while examining her he discovers that the professor has given the girl, and the other women, benzedrine. Dr. Christian finally discloses the professor and his cultist teachings as a public hazard, the heresies of the professor come to Bill’s knowledge, and he finally realizes that his boss is a fraud. He quits and runs to Kitty’s bedside, with the help of a blood transfusion he manages to save Kitty’s life. The town women are taken off their unhealthy diets and life in town returns to normal, after the professor is driven off, later, Bill and Kitty are married. Jean Hersholt as Dr. Paul Christian Dorothy Lovett as Judy Price Edgar Kennedy as George Browning Rod La Rocque as Prof
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Dr. Christian Meets the Women
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Gene Roddenberry
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Eugene Wesley Gene Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for creating the original Star Trek television series, born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, later, he followed in his fathers footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television. As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for Highway Patrol, Have Gun–Will Travel, in 1964, Roddenberry created Star Trek, which premiered in 1966 and ran for three seasons before being canceled. He then worked on projects, including a string of failed television pilots. The syndication of Star Trek led to its popularity, this, in turn, resulted in the Star Trek feature films, on which Roddenberry continued to produce. He continued to consult on the series until his death in 1991, years after his death, Roddenberry was one of the first humans to have his ashes carried into earth orbit. The popularity of the Star Trek universe and films has inspired films, books, comic books, video games, and fan films set in the Star Trek universe. Roddenberry was born on August 19,1921, in his parents rented home in El Paso, Texas, the family moved to Los Angeles in 1923 after Genes father passed the Civil Service test and was given a police commission there. During his childhood, Roddenberry was interested in reading, especially magazines, and was a fan of stories such as John Carter of Mars, Tarzan. Roddenberry majored in science at Los Angeles City College, where he began dating Eileen-Anita Rexroat. He obtained a license through the United States Army Air Corps-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program. He enlisted with the USAAC on December 18,1941, and he graduated from the USAAC on August 5,1942, when he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. He was posted to Bellows Field, Oahu, to join the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group, of the Thirteenth Air Force, which flew the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. On August 2,1943, while flying out of Espiritu Santo, the plane Roddenberry was piloting overshot the runway by 500 feet and impacted trees, crushing the nose, the official report absolved Roddenberry of any responsibility. Roddenberry spent the remainder of his career in the United States. He was involved in a plane crash, this time as a passenger. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal, in 1945, Roddenberry began flying for Pan American World Airways, including routes from New York to Johannesburg or Calcutta, the two longest Pan Am routes at the time
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Roddenberry in 1976.
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Gene Roddenberry, during his senior year at high school
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Roddenberry and Leonard Nimoy (pictured) first worked together on The Lieutenant.
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Gene Roddenberry appearing in an advertisement for MONY in 1961
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Macdonald Carey
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Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBCs soap opera Days of Our Lives. For almost three decades, he was the central cast member. He first made his starring in various B-movies of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He was known in many Hollywood circles as King of the Bs, sharing the throne with his queen, a successful radio actor, Careys work included playing Dick Grosvenor on the soap opera Stella Dallas and Ridgeway Tearle in Johns Other Wife, both in the early 1940s. As a stage performer, his credits include the hit Broadway show Lady in the Dark, Carey also appeared in the 1942 films Wake Island and Take a Letter, Darling, and Alfred Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt in 1943. Later that year, he joined the United States Marine Corps, in 1947 Carey returned to Paramount in Suddenly, Its Spring. In 1949 he co-starred as Nick Carraway in Alan Ladds version of The Great Gatsby and he continued with Paramount into the 1950s, slipping into more noticeable character roles in Westerns, including Copper Canyon, Comanche Territory, The Great Missouri Raid, and Man or Gun. In 1955 he appeared as Fred Gaily in The 20th Century-Fox Hour remake of the 1947 film classic, Miracle on 34th Street, starring Maureen OHara, Carey played patriot Patrick Henry in John Paul Jones. He appeared in Blue Denim, The Damned, Tammy and the Doctor, in 1956 Carey took over the role of the kindly small-town physician Dr. Christian, a character created in the late 1930s by actor Jean Hersholt on radio and in films. Carey portrayed Dr. Christian on syndicated television for one season, Carey also starred as crusading Herb Maris in the 1950s syndicated series Lock-Up. A total of episodes were made between 1959 and 1961. In 1957 Carey appeared on NBCs The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, on February 7,1958 Carey appeared in the episode License to Kill of CBSs Dick Powells Zane Grey Theater. Carey appeared on CBSs Appointment with Adventure, and in the episode The Incident of the Golden Calf of CBSs Rawhide and he appeared in The Bill Tawnee Story of NBCs Wagon Train with Ward Bond. He guest starred in the 1964-1965 sitcom The Bing Crosby Show on ABC and he appeared as Mr. Edwards in the 1963 episode Pay the Two Dollars of the NBC education drama series, Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus. In 1961 Carey played a starving artist in The Devils Ticket, in the first season of The Outer Limits, Carey starred in the episode titled The Special One. He later appeared in many all-star television miniseries, such as Roots, The Rebels, Top of the Hill and Condominium. For the remainder of his career, Carey played Tom Horton on Days of Our Lives, from 1965 until his death from cancer in Beverly Hills, California in 1994. During this time, Carey suffered from a problem
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Carey in 1969
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Neil Reagan
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John Neil Reagan was an American radio station manager, CBS senior producer, and senior vice president of McCann Erickson. He was the brother of Ronald Reagan. Neil Reagan was born in Tampico in 1908 and he was baptized as a Roman Catholic, the faith of his father. As an infant, he attended his mothers church, but later affiliated with his fathers religion. His younger brother was baptized and raised in their mothers Disciples of Christ church, Neil was described as a boisterous and gregarious personality in his youth. In 1933, Neil graduated from Eureka College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and he followed his brother to California and established a career as a television producer and advertising executive. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Neil Reagan directed the radio series Dr. Christian, in between he launched a brief Hollywood career as a supporting actor in films such as Tugboat Annie Sails Again and Doughboys in Ireland. Neil Reagan directed Ronald Reagan in the television series Death Valley Days and he was an alternate delegate to the 1972 Republican National Convention from California, and a delegate to the 1980 Republican National Convention. Neil Reagan served two terms as trustee of Eureka College before his death in December 1996, Reagan died on December 11,1996 in San Diego, California. The Reagan Physical Education Center on the Eureka College campus was dedicated in 1970 in honor of both Ronald and Neil Reagan. Twelve years later, Ronald Reagan would return to the Reagan Center to make one of his most important foreign policy speeches of his first term known as the START speech, or Eureka speech. His wife, Ruth Elizabeth Bess Reagan, whom he wed in 1935, died in 2010 at the age of 102
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Neil with his baby brother, Ronald, c. 1912
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Life and politics
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Ronald Reagan
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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who was the 40th President of the United States, from 1981 to 1989. Before his presidency, he was the 33rd Governor of California, from 1967 to 1975, after a career as a Hollywood actor and union leader. Raised in a family in small towns of northern Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932. After moving to Hollywood in 1937, he became an actor, Reagan was twice elected President of the Screen Actors Guild, the labor union for actors, where he worked to root out Communist influence. In the 1950s, he moved into television and was a speaker at General Electric factories. Having been a lifelong Democrat, his views changed and he became a conservative and in 1962 switched to the Republican Party. In 1964, Reagans speech, A Time for Choosing, in support of Barry Goldwaters foundering presidential campaign, Building a network of supporters, he was elected Governor of California in 1966. Entering the presidency in 1981, Reagan implemented sweeping new political, in his first term he survived an assassination attempt, spurred the War on Drugs, and fought public sector labor. During his re-election bid, Reagan campaigned on the notion that it was Morning in America, foreign affairs dominated his second term, including ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the Iran–Contra affair. Publicly describing the Soviet Union as an empire, and during his famous speech at the Brandenburg Gate. Jack, a salesman and storyteller, was the grandson of Irish Catholic immigrants from County Tipperary, Reagan had one older brother, John Neil Reagan, who became an advertising executive. As a boy, Reagans father nicknamed his son Dutch, due to his fat little Dutchman-like appearance and Dutchboy haircut, Reagans family briefly lived in several towns and cities in Illinois, including Monmouth, Galesburg, and Chicago. In 1919, they returned to Tampico and lived above the H. C, Pitney Variety Store until finally settling in Dixon. After his election as president, residing in the upstairs White House private quarters, for the time, Reagan was unusual in his opposition to racial discrimination, and recalled a time in Dixon when the local inn would not allow black people to stay there. Reagan brought them back to his house, where his mother invited them to stay the night and have breakfast the next morning, after the closure of the Pitney Store in late 1920 and the familys move to Dixon, the midwestern small universe had a lasting impression on Reagan. Reagan attended Dixon High School, where he developed interests in acting, sports and his first job was as a lifeguard at the Rock River in Lowell Park in 1927. Over a six-year period, Reagan reportedly performed 77 rescues as a lifeguard and he attended Eureka College, a Disciples-oriented liberal arts school, where he became a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, a cheerleader, and studied economics and sociology. While involved, the Miller Center of Public Affairs described him as an indifferent student and he majored in economics and sociology, and graduated with a C grade
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Ronald Reagan (with "Dutch" haircut), his elder brother Neil, and their parents Jack and Nelle Reagan. Photograph circa 1916–17.
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Ronald Reagan as a teenager in
Dixon, Illinois.
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With wife
Jane Wyman in 1942
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Woodland Hills, California
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Woodland Hills is a neighborhood bordering the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando Valley region of the city of Los Angeles, California. Woodland Hills is an affluent neighborhood in the region of the San Fernando Valley which is located east of Calabasas. On the north it is bordered by West Hills, Canoga Park, and Winnetka, some neighborhoods are in the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains. Running east–west through the community are U. S. Route 101 and Ventura Boulevard, the first Europeans to enter the San Fernando Valley were the Portola Expedition in 1769, exploring Alta California for Spanish missions and settlements locations. Seeing it from present-day Sepulveda Pass, the oak savanna inspired them to call the area El Valle de Santa Catalina de Bononia de Los Encinos, the Mission San Fernando Rey de España was established in 1797 and controlled the Valleys land, including future Woodland Hills. Ownership of the half of the valley, south of present-day Roscoe Boulevard from Toluca Lake to Woodland Hills. Moses Sherman and others in 1910, victor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres in the area from Chandlers group and founded the town of Girard in 1922. He sought to attract residents and businesses by developing an infrastructure, advertising in newspapers and his 300 pepper trees formed a canopy over Canoga Ave. between Ventura Boulevard and Saltillo St. became Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #93 in 1972. The community of Girard was eventually incorporated into Los Angeles, Woodland Hills has a firmly subtropical mediterranean climate. Within the San Fernando Valley, Woodland Hills generally experiences some of the extreme temperature changes season to season than other regions. During the summer, temperatures are very hot, while during the winter. On July 22,2006, Woodland Hills recorded the highest temperature ever in Los Angeles County, the climate is classified as a Csa in the Köppen climate classification, which is characterized by mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers. This climate is referred to as mediterranean. Precipitation in Woodland Hills averages much the same as most other regions of the west San Fernando Valley, in 2008 the population of Woodland Hills was approximately 63,000. The median age in 2000 was 40, considered old when compared to city and county jurisdictions. As of the 2000 census, and according to the Los Angeles Almanac, there were 67,006 people and 29,119 households residing in Woodland Hills. The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 79. 90% White,6. 97% Asian,0. 13% Pacific Islander,3. 34% African American,0. 33% Native American,4. 80% from other races, and 4. 52% from two or more races. 11. 94% of the population were Hispanic of any race, in population, it is one of the least dense neighborhoods in Los Angeles, and the percentage of white people is high for the county
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Woodland Hills, California in the foreground, including
Warner Center, from the Top of Topanga Overlook
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William Howard Taft High School
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Orr Barouch
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Ryan Lavarnway
21.
Library of Congress
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The Library of Congress is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the United States, the Library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C. it also maintains the Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, which houses the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. The Library of Congress claims to be the largest library in the world and its collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 450 languages. Two-thirds of the books it acquires each year are in other than English. The Library of Congress moved to Washington in 1800, after sitting for years in the temporary national capitals of New York. John J. Beckley, who became the first Librarian of Congress, was two dollars per day and was required to also serve as the Clerk of the House of Representatives. The small Congressional Library was housed in the United States Capitol for most of the 19th century until the early 1890s, most of the original collection had been destroyed by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812. To restore its collection in 1815, the bought from former president Thomas Jefferson his entire personal collection of 6,487 books. After a period of growth, another fire struck the Library in its Capitol chambers in 1851, again destroying a large amount of the collection. The Library received the right of transference of all copyrighted works to have two copies deposited of books, maps, illustrations and diagrams printed in the United States. It also began to build its collections of British and other European works and it included several stories built underground of steel and cast iron stacks. Although the Library is open to the public, only high-ranking government officials may check out books, the Library promotes literacy and American literature through projects such as the American Folklife Center, American Memory, Center for the Book, and Poet Laureate. James Madison is credited with the idea for creating a congressional library, part of the legislation appropriated $5,000 for the purchase of such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress. And for fitting up an apartment for containing them. Books were ordered from London and the collection, consisting of 740 books and 3 maps, was housed in the new Capitol, as president, Thomas Jefferson played an important role in establishing the structure of the Library of Congress. The new law also extended to the president and vice president the ability to borrow books and these volumes had been left in the Senate wing of the Capitol. One of the only congressional volumes to have survived was a government account book of receipts and it was taken as a souvenir by a British Commander whose family later returned it to the United States government in 1940. Within a month, former president Jefferson offered to sell his library as a replacement
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Construction of the
Thomas Jefferson Building, from July 8, 1888, to May 15, 1894.
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The West façade of the Library of Congress in 1898
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The Library of Congress inside the
U.S. Capitol Building c. 1890
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Fairy tale
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Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. The term is used for stories with origins in European tradition and, at least in recent centuries. In less technical contexts, the term is used to describe something blessed with unusual happiness. Colloquially, a tale or fairy story can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale, it is used especially of any story that not only is not true. Legends are perceived as real, fairy tales may merge into legends, Fairy tales are found in oral and in literary form, the name fairy tale was first ascribed to them by Madame dAulnoy in the late 17th century. Many of todays fairy tales have evolved from stories that have appeared, with variations. The history of the tale is particularly difficult to trace because only the literary forms can survive. Still, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon, such stories may date back thousands of years, Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today. Folklorists have classified fairy tales in various ways, the Aarne-Thompson classification system and the morphological analysis of Vladimir Propp are among the most notable. Other folklorists have interpreted the significance, but no school has been definitively established for the meaning of the tales. It moves in a world without definite locality or definite creatures and is filled with the marvelous. In this never-never land, humble heroes kill adversaries, succeed to kingdoms, a fairy tale with a tragic rather than a happy end is called an anti-fairy tale. Although the fairy tale is a genre within the larger category of folktale. The term itself comes from the translation of Madame DAulnoys conte de fées, Vladimir Propp, in his Morphology of the Folktale, criticized the common distinction between fairy tales and animal tales on the grounds that many tales contained both fantastic elements and animals. Were I asked, what is a fairytale, I should reply, Read Undine, that is a fairytale. of all fairytales I know, I think Undine the most beautiful. As Stith Thompson points out, talking animals and the presence of magic seem to be common to the fairy tale than fairies themselves. However, the presence of animals that talk does not make a tale a fairy tale, especially when the animal is clearly a mask on a human face. Steven Swann Jones identified the presence of magic as the feature by which fairy tales can be distinguished from other sorts of folktales, davidson and Chaudri identify transformation as the key feature of the genre
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1865 illustration of
Tom Thumb and the
Giant
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From
The Facetious Nights of Straparola by
Giovanni Francesco Straparola
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A picture by
Gustave Doré of
Mother Goose reading written (literary) fairy tales
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Ivan Bilibin 's illustration of the Russian fairy tale about
Vasilisa the Beautiful
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Order of the Dannebrog
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The Order of the Dannebrog is an Order of Denmark, instituted in 1671 by Christian V. In 1808, the Order was reformed and divided into four classes, the Grand Commander class is reserved to persons of princely origin. It is only awarded to royalty with close ties with the Danish Royal House. The statute of the Order was amended in 1951 by a Royal Ordinance so that men and women could be members of the Order. The badge of the Order is a white enamelled Dannebrog cross with a red enamelled border, for the Knights in silver and for everyone else in gold or silver gilt. On its reverse are found the crowned royal cyphers of Valdemar II Sejr, Christian V and Frederik VI, as well as the years 1219,1671 and 1808, in each of the four angles of the cross is found a small Danish royal crown. The Grand Cross can, as an honor, be awarded with diamonds. There is also a Cross of Honour, when the collar is worn the sash is not worn. The star of the Order is a silver star with straight rays with an enamelled Dannebrog cross at the centre. The breast cross of the Order is similar to the cross on the star but larger and with faceted silver instead of white enamel, the ribbon of the Order is white silk moiré with red borders, the national colours of Denmark. The Order originally had a distinctive habit worn by the knights on very solemn occasions, over this red mantle was worn a short white shoulder cape with a standing collar embroidered in gold, upon which was worn the collar of the Order. The habit also had a hat with a plume of white. This habit was almost identical to that worn by the knights of the Order of the Elephant, each Danish ministry has a quota of Knights and Knights 1st class that they may use at their discretion. It is most often given to high-ranking officers of the police, armed forces, also used for politicians in Folketinget after 8 years of elected service. Ministers are given the rank of Knight 1st Class, the rank of Commander is given to Colonels, ministers and other high-ranking officials as a retirement-decoration after long service. Commander 1st class is given for Admirals, Generals, Supreme-court judges, ambassadors, Grand Cross is most often used for admirals, generals, Supreme-court judges, ambassadors and similar as a reward for very meritorious service to Denmark. Grand Cross with Breaststar with Diamonds is most often given to high-ranking officers of the Royal Court, finally, the Grand Commander grade is only given to 8 people. The reigning monarch is always a Grand Commander, and he/she may give the grade to 7 others - most often close family, the Order of the Dannebrog is often used as a tool of diplomacy
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Order of the Dannebrog, Breast Star with Grand Cross, unofficial model
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Leslie Nielsen
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Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian actor, comedian, and producer. He appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and later worked as a jockey before receiving a scholarship to study theatre at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Making his acting debut in 1950, appearing in 46 live television programs a year, Nielsen made his film debut in 1956, with supporting roles in several drama, western, and romance films produced between the 1950s and the 1970s. In his routines, Nielsen specialized in his portrayal of characters oblivious to and complicit in their absurd surroundings, Airplane. in which he also starred. Nielsen received a variety of awards and was inducted into the Canada, Leslie William Nielsen was born on 11 February 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan. His mother, Mabel Elizabeth, was a British immigrant from Wales, Nielsen had two brothers, the elder, Erik Nielsen, was Deputy Prime Minister of Canada from 1984 to 1986. Nielsens half-uncle Jean Hersholt was a known for his portrayal of Dr. Christian in a radio series of that name. In a 1994 Boston Globe article, Nielsen explained, I did learn very early that when I would mention my uncle, people would look at me as if I were the biggest liar in the world. Then I would take home and show them 8-by-10 glossies. So I began to think that maybe this acting business was not a bad idea, much as I was very shy about it and my uncle died not too long after I was in a position to know him. I regret that I had not a chance to him better. Nielsen lived for years in Fort Norman in the Northwest Territories where his father was with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His father was a man who beat his wife and sons. When he graduated high school at 17, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force even though he was legally deaf. Following graduation from Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts in Edmonton, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and he was too young to be fully trained or sent overseas. He worked briefly as a jockey at a Calgary, Alberta, radio station. While studying in Toronto, Nielsen received a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse
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Nielsen in 1982
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Nielsen's half-uncle
Jean Hersholt (pictured here in the 1936 film His Brother's Wife) inspired him to become an actor
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Nielsen, along with co-star
Anne Francis, in his second film,
Forbidden Planet (1956). Nielsen: "Supposedly a science fiction version of
Shakespeare 's
The Tempest, it was all about the
id, or something like that. Who knows? The
Trekkies today regard it as the forerunner of
Star Trek. I just had to wear a tight uniform and make eyes at Anne Francis. I was pretty thin back then."
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Leslie Nielsen (right) in the role that established him as a comedic actor: Dr. Rumack in 1980 movie
Airplane!
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Hollywood is an ethnically diverse, densely populated neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. It is notable as the home of the U. S. film industry, including several of its studios, and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry. Hollywood was a community in 1870 and was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910, in 1853, one adobe hut stood in Nopalera, named for the Mexican Nopal cactus indigenous to the area. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished, the area was known as the Cahuenga Valley, after the pass in the Santa Monica Mountains immediately to the north. According to the diary of H. J. Whitley, known as the Father of Hollywood, along came a Chinese man in a wagon carrying wood. The man got out of the wagon and bowed, the Chinese man was asked what he was doing and replied, I holly-wood, meaning hauling wood. H. J. Whitley had an epiphany and decided to name his new town Hollywood, Holly would represent England and wood would represent his Scottish heritage. Whitley had already started over 100 towns across the western United States, Whitley arranged to buy the 500-acre E. C. Hurd ranch and disclosed to him his plans for the land. They agreed on a price and Hurd agreed to sell at a later date, before Whitley got off the ground with Hollywood, plans for the new town had spread to General Harrison Gray Otis, Hurds wife, eastern adjacent ranch co-owner Daeida Wilcox, and others. Daeida Wilcox may have learned of the name Hollywood from Ivar Weid, her neighbor in Holly Canyon and she recommended the same name to her husband, Harvey. In August 1887, Wilcox filed with the Los Angeles County Recorders office a deed and parcel map of property he had sold named Hollywood, Wilcox wanted to be the first to record it on a deed. The early real-estate boom busted that year, yet Hollywood began its slow growth. By 1900, the region had a post office, newspaper, hotel, Los Angeles, with a population of 102,479 lay 10 miles east through the vineyards, barley fields, and citrus groves. A single-track streetcar line ran down the middle of Prospect Avenue from it, but service was infrequent, the old citrus fruit-packing house was converted into a livery stable, improving transportation for the inhabitants of Hollywood. The Hollywood Hotel was opened in 1902 by H. J. Whitley who was a president of the Los Pacific Boulevard, having finally acquired the Hurd ranch and subdivided it, Whitley built the hotel to attract land buyers. Flanking the west side of Highland Avenue, the structure fronted on Prospect Avenue, the hotel was to become internationally known and was the center of the civic and social life and home of the stars for many years. Whitleys company developed and sold one of the residential areas
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The Four Ladies installation at the
Hollywood Boulevard –
La Brea Avenue Gateway
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Glen-Holly Hotel, first hotel in Hollywood, at the corner of what is now Yucca Street. It was built in the 1890s.
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Hollywood Hotel, 1905
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The intersection of
Hollywood and Highland, 1907
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
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Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the location of Forest Lawn, a chain of six cemeteries in Southern California. Forest Lawn Glendale was founded in 1906 as a cemetery by a group of businessmen from San Francisco. Dr. Hubert Eaton and C. B. Sims entered into a contract with the cemetery in 1912. Eaton took over the management of the cemetery in 1917, Eaton was a firm believer in a joyous life after death. A number of plaques which state Eatons intentions are signed The Builder, frederick Llewellyn, Eatons nephew, became CEO of Forest Lawn in 1966. In 1987 he was succeeded by his son, John Llewellyn, for many decades the cemetery refused black, Jewish, and Chinese burials. The Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale was founded in 1957 and displays art, artifacts, the museum has hosted solo exhibitions for Henri Matisse, Winslow Homer, Ian Hornak, Francisco Goya, Rembrandt, Marc Davis and Reuben Nakian among many others. The objects in Forest Lawns permanent collection represent specific locations and peoples from around the world, there are sections for India, Africa, the Middle East, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, South America, Australia and Europe. D. The stained glass collection includes portions of William Randolph Hearsts former collection and owns the work of Albrecht Dürer, all of these precious art pieces are put in storage or hidden behind temporary walls when a special display is on site. The six Forest Lawn cemeteries contain about 1,500 statues, about 10% of which are reproductions of works of art. On display in the Hall of the Crucifixion is the painting by the Polish artist Jan Styka entitled The Crucifixion. It is the largest permanently mounted religious painting in the world, the main gates of Forest Lawn – Glendale are claimed to be the worlds largest wrought iron gates. Over 60,000 people have actually been married here, including Ronald Reagan, more than 250,000 people are buried at Forest Lawn, and over a million people visit it each year, including thousands of schoolchildren on field trips. Many commentators have considered Forest Lawn to be a unique American creation, the Great Mausoleum was fashioned after Campo Santo in Genoa, Italy and contains many of the most highly sought after interment places within Forest Lawn, Glendale. Within the portion of the Great Mausoleum accessible to the public is the Court of Honor where individuals are inducted as Immortals by Forest Lawns Council of Regents, the rest of the structure is protected by guards and is closed to the public. Time magazine described it as the New Worlds Westminster Abbey, in 2009 the cemetery became the focus of intense media interest surrounding the private interment of Michael Jackson in the privacy of Holly Terrace in the Great Mausoleum. List of United States cemeteries Providencia Ranch The Loved One – a satirical novel inspired by Forest Lawn, official website Evelyn Waughs witty essay, Half in love with easeful death, imagines archaeologists in 1000 years coming upon Forest Lawn
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Forest Lawn's Great Mausoleum
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Song of the Angels by
William Bouguereau, 1881.
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A copy of
Michelangelo 's
David
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Mosaic of
Trumbull's Declaration of Independence
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Glendale, California
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Glendale /ˈɡlɛndeɪl/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Its estimated 2014 population was 200,167, making it the third largest city in Los Angeles County and it is located about 8 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. Glendale lies on the end of the San Fernando Valley, bisected by the Verdugo Mountains. The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city, Glendale has one of the largest communities of Armenian descent in the United States. In 2013, Glendale was named LAs Neighborhood of the Year by the readers and editors of Curbed. com, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery contains the remains of many noted celebrities and local residents. Grand Central Airport was the point for the first commercial west-to-east transcontinental flight flown by Charles Lindbergh. The area was inhabited by the Tongva people, who were later renamed the Gabrieleños by the Spanish missionaries. Rancho San Rafael was a Spanish concession, of which 25 were made in California, unlike the later Mexican land grants, the concessions were similar to grazing permits, with the title remaining with the Spanish crown. In 1860, his grandson Teodoro Verdugo built the Verdugo Adobe, the property is the location of the Oak of Peace, where early Californio leaders including Pio Pico met in 1847 and decided to surrender to Lieutenant Colonel John C. Verdugos descendants sold the ranch in various parcels, some of which are included in present-day Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, in 1884, residents gathered to form a townsite and chose the name Glendale. Residents to the southwest formed Tropico in 1887, the Pacific Electric Railway brought streetcar service in 1904. Glendale incorporated in 1906, and annexed Tropico 12 years later, Brand loved to fly, and built a private airstrip in 1919 and hosted fly-in parties, providing a direct link to the soon-to-be-built nearby Grand Central Airport. The grounds of El Miradero are now city-owned Brand Park and the mansion is the Brand Library, Brand partnered with Henry E. Huntington to bring the Pacific Electric Railway, or the Red Cars, to the area. Today, he is memorialized by one of the main thoroughfares. The citys population rose from 13,756 in 1920 to 62,736 in 1930, the Forest Lawn Cemetery opened in 1906 and was renamed Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in 1917. Pioneering endocrinologist and entrepreneur Henry R. Harrower opened his clinic in Glendale in 1920, the American Green Cross, an early conservation and tree preservation society, was formed in 1926. In 1964, Glendale was selected by George Lincoln Rockwell to be the West Coast headquarters of the American Nazi Party and its offices, on Colorado Street in the downtown section of the city, remained open until the early 1980s. In 1977 and 1978,10 murdered women were found in, the murders were the work of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, the latter of whom resided at 703 East Colorado Street, where most of the murders took place
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View of Glendale from
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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The Glendale area in the 1870s.
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Glendale, 1910.
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Looking south on Brand Blvd, 1915.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame
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The Walk of Fame is administered by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and maintained by the self-financing Hollywood Historic Trust. It is a popular tourist destination, with a reported 10 million visitors in 2003, as of 2017, the Walk of Fame comprises over 2,600 stars, spaced at 6-foot intervals. The monuments are coral-pink terrazzo five-point stars rimmed with brass inlaid into a charcoal-colored terrazzo background, in the upper portion of each star field the name of the honoree is inlaid in brass block letters. Below the inscription, in the half of the star field. Approximately 20 new stars are added to the Walk each year, special category stars recognize various contributions by corporate entities, service organizations, and special honorees, and display emblems unique to those honorees. The moons are silver and grey terrazzo circles rimmed in brass on a square pink terrazzo background, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce credits E. M. Stuart, its volunteer president in 1953, with the original idea for creating a Walk of Fame. Stuart reportedly proposed the Walk as a means to maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamor, Harry Sugarman, another Chamber member and president of the Hollywood Improvement Association, receives credit in an independent account. A committee was formed to flesh out the idea, and a firm was retained to develop specific proposals. By 1955 the basic concept and general design had been agreed upon, multiple accounts exist for the origin of the star concept. By another account, the stars were inspired, by Sugarmans drinks menu, which featured celebrity photos framed in gold stars. In February 1956 a prototype was unveiled featuring a caricature of an example honoree inside a star on a brown background. The committees met at the Brown Derby restaurant, and included such prominent names as Cecil B, deMille, Samuel Goldwyn, Jesse L. Lasky, Walt Disney, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett, and Walter Lantz. A requirement stipulated by the audio recording committee specified minimum sales of one million records or 250,000 albums for all music category nominees. The committee soon realized that many important recording artists would be excluded from the Walk by that requirement, as a result, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences was formed for the purpose of creating a separate award system for the music business. The first Grammy Awards were presented in Beverly Hills in 1959, construction of the Walk began in 1958 but two lawsuits delayed completion. The first was filed by local property owners challenging the legality of the $1.25 million tax assessment levied upon them to pay for the Walk, along with new street lighting, in October 1959 the assessment was ruled legal. The second lawsuit, filed by Charles Chaplin, Jr. sought damages for the exclusion of his father, chaplins suit was dismissed in 1960, paving the way for completion of the project. Woodwards name was one of eight drawn at random from the original 1,558, the other seven names were Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence
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6801 Hollywood Boulevard near
Dolby Theatre
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A typical Walk of Fame star in the phonograph record category. The charcoal terrazzo contrasts with the pink terrazzo star and brass surround, emblem and lettering.
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The Walk of Fame at the 6800 block of Hollywood Boulevard, looking eastward. The Dolby Theatre is in the foreground at left. In the upper left quadrant is the famous intersection of
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Joanne Woodward 's star, contrary to popular belief, was not the first.
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Hollywood Boulevard
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West of Laurel Canyon, it continues as a residential street and ending at Sunset Plaza Drive. The eastern end of Hollywood Boulevard passes through Little Armenia and Thai Town, parts of the boulevard are popular tourist destinations. Prior to Hollywood Boulevard, the street was named Prospect Avenue until 1910, after annexation, the street numbers changed from 100 Prospect Avenue, at Vermont Avenue, to 6400 Hollywood Boulevard. In the early 1920s, real estate developer Charles E. Toberman envisioned a thriving Hollywood theatre district, Toberman was involved in 36 projects while building the Max Factor Building, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and the Hollywood Masonic Temple. With Sid Grauman, he opened the three themed theatres, Egyptian, El Capitan, and Chinese, and was inspired to write Here Comes Santa Claus with Oakley Haldeman. In 1958, the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which runs from Gower Street to La Brea Avenue, was created as a tribute to artists working in the entertainment industry, the El Capitan Theatre was refurbished in 1991 then damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The full El Capitan building was restored and upgraded in December 1997. The Hollywood Entertainment District, a business improvement district, was formed for the properties from La Brea to McCadden on the boulevard. The Hollywood extension of the Metro Red Line subway was opened in June 1999, stops on Hollywood Boulevard are located at Western Avenue, Vine Street, and Highland Avenue. Metro Local lines 180,181, and 217, and Metro Rapid line 780 also serve Hollywood Boulevard, an anti-cruising ordinance prohibits driving on parts of the boulevard more than twice in four hours. Beginning in 1995, then Los Angeles City Council member Jackie Goldberg initiated efforts to clean up Hollywood Boulevard, central to these efforts was the construction of the Hollywood and Highland Center and adjacent Dolby Theatre in 2001. In early 2006, the city made revamping plans on Hollywood Boulevard for future tourists, the three-part plan was to exchange the original streetlights with red stars into two-headed old-fashioned streetlights, put in new palm trees, and put in new stoplights. The renovations were completed in late 2006, in the few years leading up to 2007, more than $2 billion was spent on projects in the neighborhood, including mixed-use retail and apartment complexes and new schools and museums. A popular event that takes place on the Boulevard is the transformation of the street to a Christmas theme. Shops and department stores attract customers by lighting their stores and the street with decorated Christmas trees. The street essentially becomes Santa Claus Lane, list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
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Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District
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The Aryan
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The Aryan is an American silent era western motion picture starring William S. Hart, Gertrude Claire, Charles K. French, Louise Glaum, and Bessie Love. Directed by William S. Hart and produced by Thomas H. Ince, although Hart was assisted by Reginald Barker and Clifford Smith, he mostly directed the movie by himself. Harts salary as both actor and director was $150 per week, prints of the film survive in the Library of Congress and at the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A hard working miner, Steve Denton, has become rich from years of prospecting and he takes his fortune and leaves to visit his ill mother, Mrs. Denton. In the town of Yellow Ridge, however, he is detained by a dance hall girl named Trixie. Also known as the firefly, Trixie not only cheats him out of his gold, learning the next day that his mother is dead, Denton is infuriated about being cheated and betrayed by Trixie, who pretended to be good, and other false friends. In his rage, he kills Trixies lover, Chip Emmett, dragging her by the hair of her head, he takes her into the desert. Enslaving Trixie in his hideaway, Denton turns his back on white civilization. He hates all men and women and assumes the leadership of a band of Indian and Mexican bandits. Two years later, a wagon-train of Mississippi farmers who are lost and he is secretly visited that night by Mary Jane Garth, an innocent and virtuous young woman among the migrants who bravely confronts the Indians and Mexicans. She pleads their cause and expresses her belief that no man would refuse to protect a woman in distress. He guides the wagon-train out of the desert and then resumes his wanderings, William S. Hart as Steve Denton Gertrude Claire as Mrs. Denton Charles K. Gardner Sullivan in which the hero had, according to Hart, no motive for his hardness. He argued that the audience needed an explanation, Sullivan preferred the idea that his ruthless personality was simply a given, but eventually accepted Harts wishes. Hart wanted Mae Marsh for the role as Mary Jane, Griffith recommended a new actress, Bessie Love. The movie was made at the height of Harts career, but was unusual because he played an individual described as hard as flint. As the title suggests, the draws on racial ideologies of the era. Hart stated that the character, Steve Denton, was a white man. Hart believed this movie to be one of the best westerns ever made, the Aryan at the Internet Movie Database The Aryan at AllMovie The Aryan at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Theatrical Poster
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Scene from the film.
