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San Diego Comic-Con International
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San Diego Comic-Con International is a multi-genre entertainment and comic convention held annually in San Diego, California. The name, as given on its website, is Comic-Con International, San Diego and it is a four-day event held during the summer at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego. On the Wednesday evening prior to the opening of the event, there is a preview for professionals, exhibitors. Comic-Con International also produces two other conventions, WonderCon, held in Los Angeles, and the Alternative Press Expo and it is also the home of the Will Eisner Awards. In 2010, it filled the San Diego Convention Center to capacity with more than 130,000 attendees, the convention was founded in 1970 by Shel Dorf, Richard Alf, Ken Krueger, Mike Towry, Barry Alfonso, Bob Sourk, and Greg Bear. Detroit, Michigan-born, comics fan Shel Dorf, had, in the mid-1960s, mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions. When he moved to San Diego, California, in 1970, he organized a convention on March 21,1970. Dorf went on to be associated with the convention as president or manager, variously, Alf co-chaired the first convention with Krueger and became chairman in 1971. Following the initial gathering, Dorfs first three-day San Diego comics convention, other locations in the conventions early years included the El Cortez Hotel, the University of California, San Diego, and Golden Hall, before being moved to the San Diego Convention Center in 1991. I was quietly walking the floor stunned and in awe of just how much bigger it really was, the convention is organized by a panel of 13 board members,16 to 20 full-time and part-time workers, and 80 volunteers who assist via committees. Comic Con International is an organization, and proceeds of the event go to funding it, as well as the Alternative Press Expo. The convention logo was designed by Richard Bruning and Josh Beatman in 1995, in September 2010, the convention announced that it would stay in San Diego through 2015. In 2015, working with Lionsgate, a channel was created to host Comic-Con related content. According to the San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau, the convention has a regional economic impact of $162.8 million. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, there are previews of upcoming feature films, like most comic-book conventions, Comic-Con features a large floorspace for exhibitors. These include media companies such as studios and TV networks, as well as comic-book dealers. And like most comics conventions, Comic-Con includes an area, as well as the Artists Alley where comics artists can sign autographs. Despite the name, artists alleys can include writers and even models, academics and comic industry professionals annually hold the Comics Arts Conference at Comic-Con, presenting scholarly studies on comics as a medium
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Signs outside Hall H
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Comic Con crowds in 2011 as seen from a helicopter – Panorama.
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Comic-Con crowd inside the second floor of the convention center in 2011 awaiting the exhibition hall to open.
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Peckham
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Peckham is a district of south-east London, England,3.5 miles south-east of Charing Cross. At the 2001 Census the Peckham ward of the London Borough of Southwark had a population of 11,381. Peckham was originally part of the parish of Camberwell, which became the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell, and also included Camberwell, Dulwich, Nunhead. Peckham is a Saxon place name meaning the village of the River Peck, archaeological evidence indicates earlier Roman occupation in the area, although the name of this settlement is lost. Peckham appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Pecheham and it was held by the Bishop of Lisieux from Odo of Bayeux. Its Domesday assets were,2 hides and it had land for 1 plough,2 acres of meadow. The manor was owned by King Henry I, who gave it to his son Robert, when Robert married the heiress to Camberwell the two manors were united under royal ownership. King John probably hunted at Peckham and local anecdotes suggest that the right to a fair was granted to celebrate a particularly good days sport. The fair grew to be a major event lasting three weeks until its abolition in 1827. Peckham became popular as a residential area by the 16th century. By the 18th century the area was a commercial centre. Peckham also boasted extensive market gardens and orchards growing produce for the markets of London. Local produce included melons, figs and grapes, the formal gardens of the Peckham Manor House, rebuilt in 1672 by Sir Thomas Bond were particularly noticeable and can be seen on the Rocque map of 1746. The manor house was sacked in 1688, as its then owner Sir Henry Bond was a Roman Catholic, the house was finally demolished in 1797 for the formation of Peckham Hill Street, as the Shard family developed the area. Today Shards Terrace, the block that contains Manzes Pie and Mash shop, the village was the last stopping point for many cattle drovers taking their livestock for sale in London. The drovers stayed in the local inns while the cattle were safely secured overnight in holding pens, most of the villagers were agricultural or horticultural workers but with the early growth of the suburbs an increasing number worked in the brick industry that exploited the local London Clay. In 1767 William Blake visited Peckham Rye and had a vision of an angel in a tree, in 1993, at the request of the Dulwich Festival, artist Stan Peskett painted a mural of Blakes vision next to the Goose Green playground in East Dulwich. At the beginning of the 19th century, Peckham was a small, quiet, since 1744 stagecoaches had travelled with an armed guard between Peckham and London to give protection from highwaymen
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Peckham Rye railway station entrance off Rye Lane
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Manze's Eel and Pie House, Peckham.
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London Borough of Southwark
Blue Plaque awarded to famous motorbike designer
Edward Turner unveiled in 2009 at his former residence, 8 Philip Walk, Peckham. Turner had run a motorbike shop, Chepstow Motors on Peckham High Street.
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University of Greenwich
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The University of Greenwich is a British, United Kingdom-based university. It has three campuses in London and Kent, England and these are located at Greenwich, in the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, and in Avery Hill and Medway. It is the greenest university in the UK in 2012 as assessed by The People & Planet Green League, the university has ranked well in terms of student satisfaction across all 20 listed universities in London – with it topping lists of 2010,2011,2012 and 2013 consecutively. It has not left the top five since its entry in 2010, the university’s range of subjects includes architecture, business, computing, mathematics, education, engineering, humanities, maritime studies, natural sciences, pharmacy and social sciences. It has a research focus and well-established links to the scientific community. The university dates back to November 1891, when Woolwich Polytechnic opened in Woolwich, in 1970, Woolwich Polytechnic merged with Hammersmith College of Art and Building to form Thames Polytechnic. In the following years, Dartford College, Avery Hill College, Garnett College and parts of Goldsmiths College, in 1992, Thames Polytechnic was granted university status by the Major government and renamed University of Greenwich in 1993. In 2001, the university gave up its main campus in the Bathway Quarter in Woolwich. Avery Hill Campus comprises two sites, Mansion Site and Southwood Site, both are situated in the 86-acre Avery Hill Park in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, south-east London. University of Greenwich cooperates with New York College in Athens, through New York College students in Greece have the chance to graduate from University of Greenwich without the need to attend classes in London. Both bachelors and masters degrees are provided, the campus is home to the Faculty of Education & Health. Facilities include computer laboratories, a library and a TV studio, as well as a sports and teaching centre with a sports hall, Southwood Site also has a number of clinical skills laboratories. These replicate NHS wards, enabling trainee health professionals to gain hands-on experience, the Village complex provides student accommodation, a general shop and a launderette. The Dome, in the centre of the complex, houses a food outlet, rugby, football, indoor pitches, netball and tennis courts, a dance studio and soon to be built astroturfs are on Avery Hill campus. Greenwich Campus is located in the old Royal Naval College, which it moved into in the 1990s when the premises were sold by the Royal Navy, the campus is home to, the Business School and the Faculty of Architecture, Computing & Humanities. The campus is home to the university’s Greenwich Maritime Institute. The campus has a library at Stockwell Street which houses an extensive collection of books and journals, language labs. Other facilities include specialist computer laboratories including one at Dreadnought center, the Faculty of Engineering and Science is based here, as is the Natural Resources Institute, a centre for research, consultancy and education in natural and human resources
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The Old Royal Naval College with
Queen's House (behind the statue).
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The University of Greenwich from the
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Medway campus buildings
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Star Wars, The Force Awakens is a 2015 American epic space opera film directed, co-produced, and co-written by J. J. Abrams. The Force Awakens was announced after The Walt Disney Companys acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012 and it was produced by Abrams, his longtime collaborator Bryan Burk, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of the trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. John Williams, composer for the six films, returned to compose the films score. Lucas served as consultant during the films early production. Filming began in April 2014 in Abu Dhabi and Iceland, with photography also taking place in Ireland and Pinewood Studios in England. It is the first live-action film in the franchise since Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars, The Force Awakens was widely anticipated, and Disney backed the film with extensive marketing campaigns. It premiered in Los Angeles on December 14,2015, four days before its release worldwide. It received five Academy Award nominations and four British Academy Film Award nominations, two sequels, Star Wars, The Last Jedi and Episode IX, are scheduled for release in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Three decades after the destruction of the second Death Star, the First Order has risen from the fallen Galactic Empire, the Resistance, backed by the Republic and led by General Leia Organa, opposes them while searching for her brother, Luke Skywalker, to enlist his aid. Resistance pilot Poe Dameron meets village elder Lor San Tekka on the planet Jakku to obtain a map to Lukes location, stormtroopers commanded by Kylo Ren destroy the village and capture Poe, while Ren kills Tekka. Poes droid, BB-8, escapes with the map and encounters a scavenger named Rey near a junkyard settlement, Ren tortures Poe using the Force, and learns of BB-8. Stormtrooper FN-2187, unwilling to kill, frees Poe, and they escape in a stolen TIE fighter and they crash on Jakku, and Finn survives, but Poe is believed to have been killed in the crash. Finn encounters Rey and BB-8, but the First Order tracks them, Finn, Rey, and BB-8 flee the planet in the Millennium Falcon, which they steal from a junkyard. The Falcon is captured by a ship piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca. Two rival gangs, seeking to settle debts with Han, board and attack, the gangs inform the First Order. At the First Orders Starkiller Base – a planet converted into a superweapon that harnesses energy from stars – Supreme Leader Snoke orders General Hux to use the weapon for the first time. Snoke questions Rens ability to deal with emotions relating to his father, Han Solo, the Falcon crew views BB-8s map and determines it is incomplete
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Theatrical release poster
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(L-R) Producer
Kathleen Kennedy, writer and director
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The cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con International (L–R:
John Boyega,
Daisy Ridley,
Oscar Isaac,
Adam Driver,
Domhnall Gleeson,
Gwendoline Christie,
Carrie Fisher,
Mark Hamill and
Harrison Ford)
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Star Wars
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Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas. It depicts the adventures of characters a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The franchise began in 1977 with the release of the film Star Wars and it was followed by the successful sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, these three films constitute the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy was released between 1999 and 2005, which received mixed-to-negative reactions, a sequel trilogy began in 2015 with the release of Star Wars, The Force Awakens. All seven films were nominated for Academy Awards and have been successes, with a combined box office revenue of over $7.5 billion. Spin-off films include Star Wars, The Clone Wars and Rogue One, Star Wars also holds a Guinness World Records title for the Most successful film merchandising franchise. In 2015, the value of the Star Wars franchise was estimated at USD $42 billion. In 2012, The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm for $4.06 billion and earned the rights to all subsequent Star Wars films. Walt Disney Studios owns digital distribution rights to all the Star Wars films, the events depicted in the Star Wars franchise take place in an unnamed fictional galaxy at an undetermined point in the distant past. Many species of creatures are depicted. Robotic droids are also commonplace and are built to serve their owners. Space travel is common, and many planets in the galaxy are members of a single galactic government. In the prequel trilogy, this is depicted in the form of the Galactic Republic, at the end of the trilogy and throughout the original trilogy. Preceding and during the trilogy, this government is the New Republic. One of the prominent elements of Star Wars is the Force and it is described in the first produced film as an energy field created by all living things surrounds us, penetrates us, binds the galaxy together. While the Force can be used for good, known as the side, it also has a dark side that, when pursued, imbues users with hatred, aggression. The sequel trilogy introduces the Knights of Ren, an order of practitioners of the side of the Force aligned with the First Order. The first film in the series, Star Wars, was released on May 25,1977 and this was followed by two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21,1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25,1983
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A street performer in costume as
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Amsterdam. Vader is one of the most iconic characters of the Star Wars franchise.
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The Star Wars logo as seen in all films
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George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars
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John Williams, composer of the musical
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Attack the Block
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Attack the Block is a 2011 British science fiction horror comedy film written and directed by Joe Cornish and starring Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Nick Frost and Luke Treadaway. It is notable for being the debut for both Cornish, Boyega, and future Academy Award-winning composer Steven Price. The film centres on a street gang who have to defend themselves from predatory alien invaders on a council estate in South London on Guy Fawkes Night. Released on 11 May 2011, it achieved significant popularity, favourable critical reviews, Attack The Block has been listed as a cult film in the making by a significant number of websites. The attack is interrupted when a meteorite falls from the sky into a nearby car, as Moses searches the wreck of the car for valuables, his face is scratched by a pale, hairless, eyeless dog-sized creature, the object which fell from the sky was its cocoon. The creature runs away, but the chase and kill it. Hoping to gain fame and fortune, they take the corpse to their acquaintance, cannabis dealer Ron and he lives at the top of their tower block, Wyndham Tower. Moses asks Ron and his boss, Hi-Hatz, to keep the creature in their fortified weed room while he decides how to proceed, more objects fall from the sky. Eager to fight the creatures, the gang arm themselves and go to the nearest crash site, however, they find these aliens are much larger, gorilla-sized, with spiky fur which is so black it reflects no light, huge claws and rows of glowing fangs. Fleeing the aliens, the gang are intercepted by two policemen and Moses is arrested, identified as a mugger by Samantha, the aliens, following Moses, maul the police to death and attack their van, leaving Samantha and Moses trapped inside. Dennis reaches the vehicle and drives the van away, only to crash into Hi-Hatzs car, Samantha runs away while the rest of Mosess gang catch up and confront Hi-Hatz. Enraged by the damage to his car, Hi-Hatz threatens them with a gun, refusing to believe their story of aliens, until his henchman is attacked by one, allowing the gang to escape. The gang try to flee to Wyndham Tower but are followed and attacked en route by the aliens. They find that Samantha lives in their building, force their way into her flat, an alien bursts in and Moses kills it with a samurai sword through the head. Understanding that the group was not lying about the creatures being extraterrestrial, Samantha reasons that it is safer to stay with the gang than on her own and joins them. The gang moves upstairs to the flat owned by Tia, Dimples, Dionna, the aliens instead attack from outside, climbing up the side of the tower block and smashing through the windows, one of whom decapitates Dennis. After Samantha saves Moses life from one of the aliens, the girls believe them to be the focus of the creatures, in the hall, the gang is attacked by Hi-Hatz and more henchmen. The gang escapes while an alien chases Hi-Hatz and his henchmen into a lift, Hi-Hatz kills the alien, though his henchmen perish, and continues his search for Moses
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Theatrical release poster
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24: Live Another Day
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24, Live Another Day is a 24 limited event television series that premiered on May 5,2014, and concluded on July 14,2014, airing on Fox. Sky 1 simulcast the premiere on May 6 in the United Kingdom and Ireland and it began airing in Australia on Network Ten on May 12,2014. Set four years after the events of season 8, it adheres to the time concept of covering the events of a 24-hour period and begins. However, there is a 12-hour time jump within the final episode, Live Another Day takes place four years after the events of season 8. James Heller, now President, is negotiating a treaty in London, Jack Bauer, who has been tracking the activities of Chloes group while living in exile, resurfaces when he hears of an imminent attempt on Hellers life. There are two main acts in Live Another Day, Margot Al-Harazi gains control of six US drones and uses them to attack London, Cheng Zhi attacks his former country China with hijacked American weapons bringing the two countries to the brink of war. Jack Bauer disapproves of the group Chloe OBrian has joined, Margot Al-Harazi grows suspicious of where her daughters loyalties lie. James Heller tries to manage a crisis amid the onset of Alzheimers disease, Mark Boudreau opens himself up to blackmail by forging Hellers signature. Kate Morgan has been led to believe that her husband committed treason by selling state secrets, circumstances reunite Jack and Audrey after nearly a decade. Americas plans for a treaty are derailed when they control of their own weapons. Cheng Zhi partners with the Russians who are looking for Jack, while anti-drone protesters gather outside the American embassy where James Heller is staying, officers at a CIA outpost in London find and apprehend Jack Bauer. Due to her husbands conviction, Kate Morgan is being forced to hand in her badge, however, she gets herself reinstated when she realizes that Jack is infiltrating the CIA to gain access to Chloe OBrian. Kate is too late to intervene and Jack breaks Chloe out of interrogation with the help of his friend Belcheck, still distrustful of Chloe, Jack follows her to Open Cell, an organization that specializes in leaking government documents. He explains that he is on the trail of Derrick Yates, the attempt is revealed to involve drones when he programs an unmanned aerial vehicle to fire on British and American troops. The pilot, Chris Tanner, is arrested on murder charges. Jack and Chloe learn that Yates device has been taken by Margot Al-Harazi, when their attempt to capture her daughter Simone fails, Jack breaks into the American embassy to analyze Tanners flight key and prove that the threat is imminent. Jack locks himself in a room with three hostages and tries to upload the data to Open Cells leader, Adrian Cross, marines break in before the upload finishes but Kate Morgan is able to place him in CIA custody instead. In the Presidents quarters, Chief of Staff Mark Boudreau expresses concerns that Bauer is a terrorist, suspecting that dementia has clouded Hellers judgement, he forges the Presidents signature and vows to protect his wife Audrey from any further pain related to Bauer
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Promotional poster
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24: Live Another Day main cast: (from left to right)
Michael Wincott,
Mary Lynn Rajskub,
Giles Matthey,
Benjamin Bratt,
Yvonne Strahovski,
Gbenga Akinnagbe,
Kiefer Sutherland,
William Devane,
Kim Raver, and
Tate Donovan
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Imperial Dreams
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Imperial Dreams is an American drama film written and directed by Malik Vitthal. The film had its premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 20,2014. It won the Audience Award at the festival, the film was released as a Netflix original film on February 3,2017. The title Imperial Dreams references a point in the movie where the nature of emperors of the projects is expounded upon. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 91% of 11 film critics have given the film a positive review, geoffrey Berkshire of Variety, in his review called the film Bighearted yet surprisingly nuanced. Justin Lowe by his review for The Hollywood Reporter praised the film in calling it An assured debut that stands to connect with a diverse audience, chase Whale of Indiewire graded the film B+ by saying that John Boyega first wowed audiences with his dynamite performance in Attack the Block. Once again playing the anti-hero, Imperial Dreams is another victory lap for this young actor, Imperial Dreams at the Internet Movie Database Imperial Dreams at Rotten Tomatoes
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It won the Audience Award: Best of NEXT at the
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British Nigerian
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British Nigerian is a term sometimes used to describe British people of Nigerian descent, or Nigerian people of British descent. This article is about residents and citizens of Nigerian descent living in Britain, many Nigerians and their British-born descendants in Britain live in South London. They are one of the immigrant groups in the country. Nigerians have formed long-established communities in London, Liverpool and other industrial cities, the earliest known Nigerian presence in London took place over 200 years ago as a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade. Olaudah Equiano, born in what is now Nigeria and a former slave, in the 1960s, civil and political unrest in Nigeria contributed to many refugees migrating to Britain, along with skilled workers. Nigerians immigrated in larger numbers in the 1980s, following the collapse of the petroleum boom and this wave of migration has been more permanent than the pre-independence wave of temporary migration. Asylum applications from Nigerians peaked in 1995, when the associated with the military dictatorship of Sani Abacha was at its height. In 2015, Britains Independent Anti-slavery Commissioner expressed concerns about the extent of contemporary slavery involving Nigerians smuggled to the UK, of more than 2,000 potential victims of human trafficking referred to the National Crime Agency in 2014,244 were from Nigeria. This represented a 31 per cent increase on 2013s figure, according to the BBC, Campaigners believe the real figure of potential trafficking victims from Nigeria could be much higher. The 2001 UK Census recorded 88,378 Nigerian-born people resident in the UK, more recent estimates by the Office for National Statistics put the figure at 181,000 in 2013. The 2011 Census recorded 191,183 Nigerian-born residents in England, the censuses of Scotland and Northern Ireland recorded 9,458 and 543 Nigerian-born residents respectively. Similarly, Nigerians with citizenship of another EU member state who then relocated to the UK are not necessarily included in this estimate, the report suggests to multiply the figure by between 3 and 8 to reflect the size of the Nigerian community in the UK. The UKs largest concentration of Nigerians is found in the capital city, Peckham is now home to the largest overseas Nigerian community in the UK, with 7 per cent of the population of the Peckham census tract at the time of the 2001 Census having been born in Nigeria. Many of the establishments are Yoruba owned. Nigerian churches and mosques can be found in the area, as immigrants have become assimilated, English has always been the predominant language of the local Nigerian British population as English is the main spoken language in Nigeria. The Yoruba language is declining in use in the Peckham area despite the growing Nigerian population, outside London and South East England, the largest Nigerian-born communities are found in the East of England and the North West. Below is a table showing how many Nigerians were granted British citizenship, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research, Nigerian pupils are among best performing student groups in the United Kingdom. This average was calculated using student data, where available, from local authorities in England
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Nicola Adams
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Sade
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John Amaechi
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Christine Ohuruogu
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Westminster City School
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Westminster City School is a Christian foundation secondary school for boys with a mixed sixth form in Westminster, London. The school has 700 pupils in the school with a further 120 students in the Sixth Form. It offers places each year to boys of Christian faith, other faiths. The current Headmaster is James Wilson, the school became an academy in 2012. In January 2013, Ofsted rated it good in all aspects, for some social and competitive purposes, pupils are grouped into houses. The names have also used for school buildings. They represent some of the charity schools in Westminster. Dacres, Commemorating the foundation of Lady Anne Dacre, who died in 1595 and whose executors established Emanuel Hospital, Hill, Retaining the name of the school established in 1647 by Mr Emery Hill, a churchwarden in the parish of St Margarets, Westminster. Kings, In 1633 Charles I granted a Charter of Incorporation for the education of poor boys, palmers, Continuing the tradition of the school provided in 1645 by Revd James Palmer of the parish of St Margarets Westminster. St Margaret’s, Arising from the St Margaret’s Hospital, established by the churchwardens of St Margaret’s in 1624,140 boys are admitted in each year group, arranged in six forms. Each form is named one of the six houses of the school and is known by the initial letter of the house name. A form tutor is assigned to group and will have oversight of each pupil’s well-being. The form tutor is the point of contact between parents and the school. The charters and foundations of several charity schools were by Act of Parliament in 1873 incorporated into the Grey Coat Hospital Foundation. UWS comprised the Westminster City School and Emanuel School, Wandsworth, The Grey Coat Hospital Foundation comprised the Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster and Queen Annes School, in 1910 The Worshipful Company of Clothworkers transferred the Sutton Valence School in Kent into UWS. The school is amalgamation of the former Brown Coat, Green Coat,1888, Pupil numbers increased to a maximum 8501890, School officially named Westminster City School 1900, London County Council placed a statue of Sir Sydney in Waterlow Park. 1901, The sculptor Frank Taubman placed a copy of the statue of Sir Sydney in front of the school, the school suffered bomb damage to its building in Palace Street during the Blitz. The student involved was sent to prison and the teacher eventually won compensatory damages,2008, The Trouble With You Boy Is You Don’t Like Latin
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Old school poster
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Wandsworth
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Wandsworth /ˈwɒnzwərθ/ is a district of southwest London within the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is situated 4.6 miles southwest of Charing Cross, the area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Wandsworth takes its name from the River Wandle, which enters the Thames at Wandsworth, Wandsworth appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Wandesorde and Wendelesorde. This means enclosure of Waendel, whose name is lent to the River Wandle. At the time of the Domesday Book, the manor of Wandsworth was held partly by William, son of Ansculfy and its Domesday assets were 12 hides, with 5½ ploughs and 22 acres of meadow. Between Wandsworth town centre and the river is the site of Young & Cos Ram Brewery, traditional draught beer was produced on the site for 425 years starting from 1581, making the Ram Brewery the oldest site in Britain at which beer had been brewed continuously. Shire horse-drawn brewery drays were used to deliver beer to local pubs. Whilst brewing by Youngs stopped in September 2006 when Young & Co merged its operations with Charles Wells of Bedford, a planning application to redevelop the site for residential and shopping/leisure mixed use was submitted in 2012. Wandsworth gas plant was built in 1834 against the River Thames near Wandsworth Bridge, the undertaking became the Wandsworth and Putney Gaslight and Coke Company in 1854 and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1856. Coal for making coal gas was brought by sea from North East England, the firm grew by a series of mergers and takeovers so that by 1936 it served a considerable area of south-west London. The companys name evolved each time it merged with or took over neighbouring gas companies, the company was nationalised in 1949 and became part of the South Eastern Gas Board. Wandsworth, home of Minibus Hinton, has a low foreign born population for London as a whole at 28. 1%, the former wharf area of the river-front is now lined with new apartment blocks, with several bars and restaurants. Notable pubs include the Ship Inn and the Waterfront, on the western and eastern side of Wandsworth Bridge respectively, also in the area is the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, which now contains flats, a theatre school and a restaurant. The Tonsleys/Old York Road is an area of old Wandsworth close to the river and town centre. It has a village feel with the Old York Roads cafes, the area has three notable pubs, the Royal Standard, the East Hill and the Alma. Bradys Fish Restaurant serves traditional fish and chips, the area was recently used as the location for the BBC TV series Outnumbered. East Hill is an area of large Victorian houses bordered by the west side of Wandsworth Common, Wandsworth High Street is dominated by the regenerated Southside shopping centre, cinema and restaurant complex. Behind the shopping centre, and following the River Wandle upstream towards Earlsfield, Wandsworth Museum occupies the former Victorian library in West Hill having been moved here in 2007
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St Anne's Church, Wandsworth
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Othello
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Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro by Cinthio, Roderigo is upset because he loves Desdemona and had asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago hates Othello for promoting a younger man named Cassio above him, whom Iago considers less capable a soldier than himself, Iago convinces Roderigo to wake Brabantio and tell him about his daughters elopement. Meanwhile, Iago sneaks away to find Othello and warns him that Brabantio is coming for him. Brabantio, provoked by Roderigo, is enraged and will not rest until he has beheaded Othello, but he finds Othellos residence full of the Duke of Venices guards, who prevent violence. News has arrived in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus, Brabantio has no option but to accompany Othello to the Dukes residence, where he accuses Othello of seducing Desdemona by witchcraft. Othello defends himself before the Duke of Venice, Brabantios kinsmen Lodovico and Gratiano, Othello explains that Desdemona became enamoured of him for the sad and compelling stories he told of his life before Venice, not because of any witchcraft. Iago, still in the room, takes note of Brabantios remark, the party arrives in Cyprus to find that a storm has destroyed the Turkish fleet. Othello orders a celebration and leaves to consummate his marriage with Desdemona. In his absence, Iago gets Cassio drunk, and then persuades Roderigo to draw Cassio into a fight, Montano tries to calm an angry and drunk Cassio down, but end up fighting one another. Montano is injured in the fight, Othello reenters and questions the men as to what happened. Othello blames Cassio for the disturbance and strips him of his rank, Iago persuades Cassio to importune Desdemona to convince her husband to reinstate Cassio. Iago now persuades Othello to be suspicious of Cassio and Desdemona, when Desdemona drops a handkerchief, Emilia finds it, and gives it to her husband Iago, at his request, unaware of what he plans to do with it. Othello reenters and vows with Iago for the death of Desdemona and Cassio, after which he makes Iago his lieutenant. Act III, scene iii, is considered to be the point of the play as it is the scene in which Iago successfully sows the seeds of doubt in Othellos mind. Iago plants the handkerchief in Cassios lodgings, then tells Othello to watch Cassios reactions while Iago questions him. Iago goads Cassio on to talk about his affair with Bianca, a local courtesan, later, Bianca accuses Cassio of giving her a second-hand gift which he had received from another lover. Othello sees this, and Iago convinces him that Cassio received the handkerchief from Desdemona, enraged and hurt, Othello resolves to kill his wife and asks Iago to kill Cassio
Othello
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The Russian actor and
theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski as Othello in 1896
Othello
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Desdemona and Othello, by
Antonio Muñoz Degrain
Othello
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Othello costume - illustration by Percy Anderson for Costume Fanciful, Historical and Theatrical, 1906
Othello
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Painting by
William Salter of Othello weeping over Desdemona's body. Oil on canvas, ca. 1857.
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Sundance Film Festival
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The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, is an American film festival that takes place annually in Park City, Utah. With 46,660 attendees in 2016, it is the largest independent film festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the 2017 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 19 to January 29,2017. Sundance began in Salt Lake City in August 1978, as the Utah/US Film Festival in an effort to more filmmakers to Utah. It was founded by Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle, the 1978 festival featured films such as Deliverance, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight Cowboy, Mean Streets, and The Sweet Smell of Success. The festival also highlighted the work of filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system. The jury of the 1978 festival was headed by Gary Allison, and included Verna Fields, Linwood G. Dunn, Katharine Ross, Charles E. Sellier Jr. Mark Rydell, and Anthea Sylbert. More than 60 films were screened at the festival that year, also that year, the first Frank Capra Award went to Jimmy Stewart. The festival also made a profit for the first time, in 1980, Catania left the festival to pursue a production career in Hollywood. Several factors helped propel the growth of Utah/US Film Festival, first was the involvement of actor and Utah resident Robert Redford, who became the festivals inaugural chairman. By having Redfords name associated with the festival, it received great attention, secondly, the country was hungry for more venues that would celebrate American-made films as the only other festival doing so at the time was the USA Film Festival in Dallas. Response in Hollywood was unprecedented as major studios did all they could to contribute their resources, in 1981, the festival moved to Park City, Utah, and changed the dates from September to January. It was called the US Film and Video Festival, in 1984, the now well-established Sundance Institute, headed by Sterling Van Wagenen, took over management of the US Film Festival. The branding and marketing transition from the US Film Festival to the Sundance Film Festival was managed under the direction of Colleen Allen, Allen Advertising Inc. by appointment of Robert Redford. In 1991 the festival was renamed the Sundance Film Festival, after Redfords character The Sundance Kid from the film Butch Cassidy. The majority of the screenings, including the festivals premieres. The 2013 Sundance London Festival was held April 25–28,2013, Sundance London 2014 took place on April 25–27,2014 at the O2 arena. The Sundance London 2015 Festival was cancelled in an announcement on January 16,2015, Sundance London will return to London in 2016 from June 10–12 at Picturehouse Cinema in Londons West End
Sundance Film Festival
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Sundance Film Festival
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Josh Wiggins
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Josh Wiggins is an American child actor, best known for his role of Jacob Wilson in the drama Hellion and Justin Wincott in the adventure drama Max. Wiggins was born on November 2,1998 in Houston, Texas, in 2014, Wiggins made his feature film debut as the lead role of Jacob Wilson in the drama Hellion with Aaron Paul and Juliette Lewis, and directed by Kat Candler. The film got a premiere at Sundance Film Festival on January 17,2014 and his performance in the film was praised by several critics. In 2015, Wiggins starred as Justin Wincott in the adventure drama Max with Dejon LaQuake, Thomas Haden Church and Robbie Amell, about Max, the film was directed by Boaz Yakin and released domestically on June 26,2015 by Warner Bros. Wiggins co-starred as Louis in the action-thriller film Lost in the Sun with Josh Duhamel, Josh Wiggins at the Internet Movie Database
Josh Wiggins
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Josh Wiggins,
John Boyega,
Kodi Smit-McPhee and Sharon Swart (from the left to right)
15.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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Kodi Smit-McPhee is an Australian actor. He will also play Will Burrows in the film adaptation of the novel Tunnels. Smit-McPhee was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Sonja and his father is an actor and former professional wrestler. His sister is actress and singer Sianoa Smit-McPhee, smit-McPhees first feature film role was in Romulus, My Father, which garnered him the 2007 AFI Award for Best Young Actor as well as a Best Actor nomination. His appearance in 2009s The Road saw him receive a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Young Actor, in 2012, he filmed The Congress. The film premiered at the 2013 Directors Fortnight at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, Smit-McPhee then starred in ParaNorman, in which he lent his voice as the lead role of Norman. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature for the 2013 Academy Awards, later the same year, Smit-McPhee had a role in Dead Europe, which premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. His next role came in The Wilderness of James in the role of James. He also starred in A Birders Guide to Everything, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival and he co-starred in the 20th Century Fox film Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. The project reunited him with director Matt Reeves, with whom he worked with on the film Let Me In. In 2013, Smit-McPhee filmed the science fiction film Young Ones. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2014, soon after, he appeared in Slow West, which was released in 2015. In March 2014, he was cast in the Nine Networks seven-part drama series Gallipoli, which was broadcast in February and March 2015, the year that marks the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing. He plays 17-year-old Thomas Tolly Johnson, who ages himself up so that he can enlist with his brother Bevan, the series is produced by Endemol Australia and was shot over a three-month period starting in March 2014. Smit-McPhee played Nightcrawler in X-Men, Apocalypse, a role whose older version was played by Alan Cumming. Smit-McPhee lives in Los Angeles, California, with his sister, media related to Kodi Smit-McPhee at Wikimedia Commons Kodi Smit-McPhee at the Internet Movie Database Gallipoli star hates war even more
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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Smit-McPhee in 2014.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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Smit-McPhee at the 2012
San Diego Comic-Con International.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
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Viggo Mortensen, Smit-McPhee,
Joe Penhall,
John Hillcoat, and Steve Schwartz at the 2009 premiere of
The Road.
16.
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
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The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. Its area became part of the London Borough of Hackney, the borough was one of twenty-eight metropolitan boroughs created by the London Government Act 1899. It was the successor to the vestry of the parish of Hackney, a further adjustment was made in 1908, when areas were exchanged with Tottenham Urban District, Middlesex. It had a border with Leyton Urban District in Essex to the east and to the north, the metropolitan borough included the districts of Hackney, Upper and Lower Clapton, Homerton, Dalston and Kingsland. It also included Stoke Newington Common, and the eastern side of Stoke Newington High Street. The metropolitan borough was almost coterminous with the ancient parish of Hackney, statistics were compiled by the London County Council in 1901 to show population growth in London over the preceding century. The area of the borough in 1901 was 3,289 acres.06 km² - approximately 4,710 acres, in 2005, in 1901 Hackney the population density was 16, 475/km². 1 or Stamford Hill, No.2 or West, No.3 or De Beauvoir Town, No.4 or Dalston, No.5 or Hackney, No.6 or Homerton and No.7 or South. The Hackney Vestry was controlled by the Progressive Party, the grouping linked with the parliamentary Liberal Party, opposition on the body was provided by the Conservative-backed Moderate Party. The vestry had 119 members, with one third elected annually, in 1894 as its population had increased the incorporated vestry was re-divided into eight wards, Stamford Hill, West, Kingsland, Hackney, Mare Street, South, Clapton and Homerton. The London Government Act 1899 replaced the incorporated vestries with borough councils consisting of a mayor, aldermen, all councillors were to be elected every three years. There was one alderman for every six councillors, and these were elected by the council itself, boundary commissioners were appointed under the London Government Act 1899 to divide the new boroughs into wards, and to apportion councillors to each ward. It was decided to continue to use the eight vestry wards, the Moderates claimed that Stamford Hill and West Hackney wards were under-represented and should be given nine councillors, with the remaining six wards having six each. With 10 aldermen, the borough council thus had 70 members, at the next election in 1903 the Progressives won control with 49 seats to 11 Conservatives. Three years later the Conservatives ran under the Municipal Reform label, Municipal Reformers won 18 seats and independents supported by them won 20, giving them a majority over the Progressives with 22 seats. The Progressives regained the council in 1909 with a narrow majority, the next elections, postponed until 1919 due to the First World War, were won by the Labour Party, Labour won 32 seats, Municipal Reform 15 and Progressives 13. At the next elections in 1922 a Progressive Reform anti-Labour alliance won all seats on the council, the 1928 election was partly run on party lines, the Municipal Reform party won control with 31 seats, other Anti-Labour candidates won 15, Labour won 12 and Progressives 1. In 1931 Municipal Reformers won all but one seat, which was held by Labour, Labour gained control of the borough council in 1934, and held power for the rest of the boroughs existence
Metropolitan Borough of Hackney
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Hackney Town Hall
17.
Royal National Theatre
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The Royal National Theatre in London is one of the United Kingdoms three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House. Internationally, it is known as the National Theatre of Great Britain, from its foundation in 1963 until 1976, the company was based at the Old Vic theatre in Waterloo. The current building is located next to the Thames in the South Bank area of central London, in addition to performances at the National Theatre building, the National Theatre company tours productions at theatres across the United Kingdom. Since 1988, the theatre has been permitted to call itself the Royal National Theatre, the theatre presents a varied programme, including Shakespeare and other international classic drama, and new plays by contemporary playwrights. Each auditorium in the theatre can run up to three shows in repertoire, thus widening the number of plays which can be put on during any one season. In June 2009, the theatre began National Theatre Live, a programme of simulcasts of live productions to cinemas, first in the United Kingdom, the programme began with a production of Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren, which was screened live in 70 cinemas across the UK. NT Live productions have since been broadcast to over 1,000 venues in 35 countries around the world, the NT had an annual turnover of approximately £87 million in 2012–13, of which earned income made up 80%. Support from Arts Council England provided 20% of income, and the remaining 7% came from a mixture of companies, individuals, trusts, in 1847, a critic using the pseudonym Dramaticus published a pamphlet describing the parlous state of British theatre. Production of serious plays was restricted to the patent theatres, at the same time, there was a burgeoning theatre sector featuring a diet of low melodrama and musical burlesque, but critics described British theatre as driven by commercialism and a star system. There was a demand to commemorate serious theatre, with the Shakespeare Committee purchasing the playwrights birthplace for the nation demonstrating a recognition of the importance of serious drama, the following year saw more pamphlets on a demand for a National Theatre from London publisher Effingham William Wilson. The situation continued, with a renewed call every decade for a National Theatre, attention was aroused in 1879 when the Comédie-Française took a residency at the Gaiety Theatre, described in The Times as representing the highest aristocracy of the theatre. This still left the capital without a national theatre and this work was interrupted by World War I. The play was part of the campaign to build a National Theatre. Still, the Government tried to apply unacceptable conditions to save money, attempting to force the amalgamation of the publicly supported companies. In July 1962, with agreements reached, a board was set up to supervise construction. The National Theatre Company opened on 22 October 1963 with Hamlet, the current building was designed by architects Sir Denys Lasdun and Peter Softley and structural engineers Flint & Neill and contains three stages, which opened individually between 1976 and 1977. The construction work was carried out by Sir Robert McAlpine, the Company was to remain at the Old Vic until 1977, when construction of the Olivier was complete. The National Theatre building houses three separate auditoria, additionally, a temporary structure was added in April 2013 and closed in May 2016
Royal National Theatre
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The National Theatre from Waterloo Bridge
Royal National Theatre
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Denys Lasdun's building for the National Theatre – an "urban landscape" of interlocking terraces responding to the site at King's Reach on the River Thames to exploit views of
St Paul's Cathedral and
Somerset House.
Royal National Theatre
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Laurence Olivier was the first artistic director of the Royal National Theatre, in 1963. Shown in a photograph by
Carl Van Vechten, 1939
Royal National Theatre
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Facing east; towards the
City of London, from
Waterloo Bridge. Showing
St. Paul's, and other major City buildings – to the right, the illuminated National Theatre.
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Tricycle Theatre
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The Tricycle Theatre is located on Kilburn High Road in Kilburn in the London Borough of Brent, England. Since 1980, the Tricycle has been presenting a range of plays reflecting the cultural diversity of the area, as well as political works. The current Artistic Director is Indhu Rubasingham, who succeeded Nicolas Kent in 2012, the Wakefield Tricycle Company had been started in 1972 by Ken Chubb and Shirley Barrie, performing initially in a room behind the Pindar of Wakefield pub in Kings Cross. The name Wakefield Tricycle Company was adopted as a pun on the Wakefield Cycle of mystery plays, the pubs name and the fact that the initial company had three members. The company commissioned new plays which it presented at arts centres around the country and then brought into small London theatres, such as The Bush, the Wakefield Tricycle produced over 60 plays including works by Sam Shepard, John Antrobus, Olwen Wymark and co-founder Shirley Barrie. The 235-seat auditorium, designed by architect Tim Foster and theatre consultant Iain Mackintosh, was modelled on the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond and it was built using free-standing system-scaffolding that supported padded benches rather than individual seats. In 1987 the theatre suffered a fire that spread from a neighbouring timber yard. However, after extensive fundraising, the theatre was rebuilt and reopened in 1989, in 1998, a 300-seat cinema was added to the complex, and in 2001 the Creative Space was built for the theatres extensive education and community work. All stages of the development were designed by Tim Foster Architects, Ken Chubb and Shirley Barrie returned shortly thereafter to their native Canada where they have continued working in theatre and education. In 2012 the role of director was taken over by Indhu Rubasingham. Rubasingham opened her 2012 inaugural season with Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti featuring Adrian Lester, the production received awards for Most Promising Playwright and Best Actor at the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Theatre Awards. The play is based on the story of Ira Aldridge, the first black actor to play Othello on a London stage in 1833, handbagged was nominated for an Olivier Award for ‘Best Comedy’ and went on National Tour in 2015. T. Rogers, Simon Stephens, Colin Teevan and Joy Wilkinson, in 1994 the Tricycle produced Half the Picture by Richard Norton-Taylor and John McGrath, which was the first play ever to be performed in the Houses of Parliament. This was the first of a series of plays that have become known as the Tricycle Tribunal Plays. It went on to play for two weeks at Theatre Royal, Stratford East and transferred to the Victoria Palace in the West End and it completed a national tour in 1999 which included the Belfast Festival and the National Theatre. In 2003 Justifying War – Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry opened at the Tricycle, in 2006 the Tricycle presented a performance of the play at the Houses of Parliament and also on Washingtons Capitol Hill. It has since been performed around the world, through the Guantanamo Reading Project there have been 25 community productions of readings of the play in the United States. Bloody Sunday, Scenes from the Saville Inquiry opened in 2005 and later transferred to Belfast, Derry, in 2006 the theatre was awarded an Evening Standard Special Drama Award for pioneering political work, and a Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement for Bloody Sunday
Tricycle Theatre
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The Tricycle Theatre
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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States
HBO
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The RCA Satcom domestic communication satellite launched on December 13, 1975, spurred the
cable television industry to unprecedented heights – with the assistance of HBO.
HBO
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Filmmaker
Alexandra Pelosi and former
New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey at the New York City premiere of Pelosi's HBO documentary about McGreevey,
Fall to Grace, in March 2013.
HBO
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Example of Festival's monthly guide provided to subscribers (January 1988).
20.
Boxing
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Boxing is a combat sport in which two people wearing protective gloves throw punches at each other for a predetermined set of time in a boxing ring. Amateur boxing is both an Olympic and Commonwealth Games sport and is a fixture in most international games—it also has its own World Championships. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of one- to three-minute intervals called rounds, in the event that both fighters gain equal scores from the judges, the fight is considered a draw. In Olympic boxing, due to the fact that a winner must be declared, in the case of a draw - the judges use technical criteria to choose the most deserving winner of the bout. While people have fought in combat since before the dawn of history. The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete, in Ancient Greece boxing was a well developed sport and enjoyed consistent popularity. In Olympic terms, it was first introduced in the 23rd Olympiad,688 B. C, the boxers would wind leather thongs around their hands in order to protect them. There were no rounds and boxers fought until one of them acknowledged defeat or could not continue, weight categories were not used, which meant heavyweights had a tendency to dominate. It was the head of the opponent which was primarily targeted, Boxing was a popular spectator sport in Ancient Rome. In order for the fighters to protect themselves against their opponents they wrapped leather thongs around their fists, eventually harder leather was used and the thong soon became a weapon. The Romans even introduced metal studs to the thongs to make the cestus which then led to a more sinister weapon called the myrmex, Fighting events were held at Roman Amphitheatres. The Roman form of boxing was often a fight until death to please the spectators who gathered at such events, however, especially in later times, purchased slaves and trained combat performers were valuable commodities, and their lives were not given up without due consideration. Often slaves were used against one another in a circle marked on the floor and this is where the term ring came from. In AD393, during the Roman gladiator period, boxing was abolished due to excessive brutality and it was not until the late 17th century that boxing re-surfaced in London. Records of Classical boxing activity disappeared after the fall of the Western Roman Empire when the wearing of weapons became common once again, however, there are detailed records of various fist-fighting sports that were maintained in different cities and provinces of Italy between the 12th and 17th centuries. There was also a sport in ancient Rus called Kulachniy Boy or Fist Fighting, as the wearing of swords became less common, there was renewed interest in fencing with the fists. The sport would later resurface in England during the early 16th century in the form of bare-knuckle boxing sometimes referred to as prizefighting. The first documented account of a fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury
Boxing
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Two
Royal Navy men boxing for charity. The modern sport was codified in
England.
Boxing
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Minoan youths boxing,
Akrotiri (Santorini) fresco. Earliest documented use of 'gloves'.
Boxing
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A straight right demonstrated in Edmund Price's The Science of Defense: A Treatise on Sparring and Wrestling, 1867
Boxing
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Tom Cribb vs
Tom Molineaux in a re-match for the heavyweight championship of England, 1811
21.
Mike Tyson
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Michael Gerard Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. He held the world heavyweight championship and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years,4 months. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout,12 of them in the first round and he won the WBC title in 1986 after stopping Trevor Berbick in two rounds. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and this made him the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them. In 1988, Tyson became the champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds of the first round. Tyson successfully defended the heavyweight championship nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes. In 1990, he lost his titles to underdog Buster Douglas, attempting to regain the titles, Tyson defeated Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991, but pulled out of a fight with then-undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield due to a rib injury. In 1992, Tyson was convicted of rape and sentenced to six years in prison, after his release in 1995, he engaged in a series of comeback fights. He won the WBC and WBA titles in 1996, after defeating Frank Bruno, after being stripped of the WBC title in the same year, Tyson lost the WBA title to Evander Holyfield by an eleventh-round stoppage. Their infamous 1997 rematch ended when Tyson was disqualified for biting Holyfields ears, in 2002, Tyson fought for the world heavyweight title at the age of 35, losing by knockout to Lennox Lewis. Tyson retired from boxing in 2006, after being knocked out in consecutive matches against Danny Williams. Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003, despite having received over $30 million for several of his fights, at the time it was reported that he had approximately $23 million of debt. Tyson was well known for his ferocious and intimidating boxing style as well as his controversial behavior inside and outside the ring. Nicknamed Iron, and Kid Dynamite in his career, and later known as The Baddest Man on the Planet. He was ranked No.16 on The Rings list of 100 greatest punchers of all time, sky Sports rated him as the scariest boxer ever, and described him as perhaps the most ferocious fighter to step into a professional ring. He has been inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 30,1966. He has a brother named Rodney and had an elder sister named Denise. Tysons biological father is listed as Purcell Tyson on his birth certificate, Kirkpatrick was from Grier Town, North Carolina, where he was one of the neighborhoods top baseball players
Mike Tyson
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Tyson at
SXSW, 2011
Mike Tyson
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The
Lewis -Tyson fight that took place on June 8, 2002, was one of the most anticipated heavyweight fights in years.
Mike Tyson
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Tyson in the ring at Las Vegas in October 2006
Mike Tyson
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WWE Hall of Fame in 2012
22.
Youth detention center
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Juveniles go through a separate court system, the juvenile court, which sentences or commits juveniles to a certain program or facility. Once processed in the court system there are many different pathways for juveniles. If a juvenile is sent by the courts to a detention center there are two types of facilities, secure detention and secure confinement. Secure detention means that juveniles are held for usually short periods of time in facilities in order to await current trial hearings, by holding juveniles in secure detention, it ensures appearance in court while also keeping the community safe and risk-free of the juvenile. This type of facility is called a juvenile hall, which is a holding center for juvenile delinquents. Juvenile detention is not intended to be punitive, rather, juveniles held in secure custody usually receive care consistent with the doctrine of parens patriae, i. e. the state as parent. Generally speaking, secure detention is reserved for juveniles considered to be a threat to safety or the court process, though in many cases. The reason for the variety in placement options of juveniles is that there does not currently exist a uniform definition of residential treatment programs. As a result, this creates a lack of uniformity across states, many services are supposed to be provided to the youth at both detention centers and confinement facilities. Services vary from facility to facility, but in general the programs, at the core, juvenile facilities function as rehabilitative institutions for youth. Education is seen by many as the primary rehabilitative service that must be provided to detained youth, despite state and federal requirements, there are many problems with the educational systems in juvenile detention centers. Some facilities do not have designated classrooms, libraries, or even books, and the teachers are poorly trained. There is a long-standing connection found in research between youth who commit crimes and mental health concerns, there has been found to be a surprisingly high population of juveniles who present serious mental health illness within juvenile facilities. Being that juvenile detention facilities operate on the foundation of rehabilitating the youth and it is the expectation that juvenile detention centers and juvenile institutions provide mental health services to their residents. The incarcerated youth population requires careful and structured intervention, which must be provided by the facilities, many different mental health treatment strategies exist for juveniles. It is the responsibility of management to decide what type of intervention strategy works best for each youth in his or her mental health treatment plan. Mental health services that can be provided to the include, individual counseling, group counseling, crisis counseling, family intervention, medication management. Education is seen by many as the cornerstone of youth rehabilitation, many landmark court cases, such as the 1981 case of Green v. Johnson, have given way to juveniles receiving their educational rights while incarcerated
Youth detention center
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Harris County Juvenile Detention Center,
Houston, Texas.
23.
John Ridley
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John Ridley IV is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the creator and showrunner of the acclaimed anthology series American Crime. He has two sisters and is the middle sibling, Ridley graduated from Homestead High School in Mequon, Wisconsin in 1982. He enrolled in Indiana University but transferred to New York University, following college, Ridley performed standup comedy in New York City, with appearances on a David Letterman late-night talk show and The Tonight Show. Moving to Los Angeles in 1990, he began writing for television sitcoms as Martin, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Ridley went on to write the novels Love Is a Racket and his novel Spoils of War was adapted into the 1999 David O. Russell-directed Three Kings. His other novels are The Drift, Those Who Walk in Darkness and he also wrote the graphic novel The American Way. His work as screenwriter also includes 12 Years a Slave, Red Tails and his script for 12 Years a Slave won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, making Ridley the second African-American to win the award after Geoffrey S. Fletcher. As of April 2015, he was developing an ABC television series involving an existing Marvel Comics character, Love Is a Racket, A Novel. New York, Alfred A. Knopf,1999, a Conversation with the Mann, A Novel. ISBN 978-0-446-53093-4 Ridley, John, and Patricia R. Floyd, Prince Frederick, MD, Recorded Books,2011,2007. ISBN 978-1-456-10151-0 Ridley, John, and Ben Oliver, the Authority, Human on the Inside. La Jolla, CA, WildStorm Productions,2004, Ridley, John, Georges Jeanty, and Karl C. La Jolla, Calif, WildStorm/DC Comics,2007, the Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American Nigger. Esquire, December 2006, Volume 146, Issue 6, Ridley is married to wife Gayle, a former script supervisor. Gennusa, Chris R. John Ridley, Burnt Noir. Winter 1997, v.4 n.4, pp. 33–38 Archived pages of official site, December 1,2006 – March 1,2007, January 8 – April 12,2007. John Ridley at the Internet Movie Database
John Ridley
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John Ridley at the
Stockholm Film Festival in 2013.
24.
Half of a Yellow Sun (film)
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Half of a Yellow Sun is a 2013 Nigerian historical fiction drama film directed by Biyi Bandele and based on the novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The film is a story that follows two sisters who are caught up in the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Onyeka Onwenu, Anika Noni Rose, Genevieve Nnaji, OC Ukeje, the film premiered in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. During the mid-to-late sixties, twin sisters Olanna and Kainene return to Nigeria after their education in England, Bandele lists malaria and typhoid as one of the major challenges of the shoot, with several members of the cast and crew becoming ill, including star Thandie Newton. Adichie was happy about the product of the film as she thought it was beautiful. She also said the acting is good and she loved the fact that it was filmed in Nigeria. In February 2014, it was announced that Dbanj would release a track titled Bother You, Dbanj was inspired to record Bother You after watching the film. The music video for the song includes images from the film, half of a Yellow Sun received mixed reception from critics. It currently has a 52% aggregate rating on Rotten Tomatoes with a 5, nollywood Reinvented says the film is no where as good as the book, but points out that Even though the movie does not recreate the emotions of the book it creates its own emotions. It also says The movie builds on amazing sets, actors, supporting actors and music, at other times, it looks more like a filmed theatrical piece
Half of a Yellow Sun (film)
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Theatrical poster
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, and nonfiction. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant, Adichie, who was born in the city of Enugu, grew up the fifth of six children in an Igbo family in the university town of Nsukka. Nsukka is in Enugu State, southeast Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father, James Nwoye Adichie, was a professor of statistics at the university and her familys ancestral village is in Abba in Anambra State. Adichie studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year, during this period, she edited The Compass, a magazine run by the universitys Catholic medical students. At the age of 19, Adichie left Nigeria for the United States to study communications and she soon transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University to be near her sister, who had a medical practice in Coventry. She received a degree from Eastern, with the distinction of summa cum laude in 2001. In 2003, she completed a degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, she received a Master of Arts degree in African studies from Yale University, Adichie was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005–06 academic year. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and she was also awarded a 2011–12 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Adichie divides her time between Nigeria, where she teaches writing workshops, and the United States, in 2016 she was conferred an honorary degree - Doctor of Humane letters, honoris causa, by Johns Hopkins University. In a 2 July 2016 interview with the Financial Times she said that she had a baby daughter, Adichie published a collection of poems in 1997 and a play in 1998. She was shortlisted in 2002 for the Caine Prize for her short story You in America, in 2003, her story That Harmattan Morning was selected as a joint winner of the BBC Short Story Awards, and she won the O. Henry prize for The American Embassy. She also won the David T. Wong International Short Story Prize 2002/2003 and her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, received wide critical acclaim, it was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, named after the flag of the nation of Biafra, is set before. It received the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and her third book, The Thing Around Your Neck, is a collection of 12 stories that explore the relationships between men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States. In 2010 she was listed among the authors of The New Yorker′s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue, Adichies story Ceiling, was included in the 2011 edition of The Best American Short Stories. Her third novel, Americanah, an exploration of a young Nigerian encountering race in America, was selected by the New York Times as one of The 10 Best Books of 2013
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Adichie in 2008
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Adichie,
Fairfax, 2013
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published in 2006 by Knopf/Anchor, the tells the story of the Biafran War through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu. The novel takes place in Nigeria prior to and during the Nigerian Civil War, the effect of the war is shown through the dynamic relationships of five people’s lives including twin daughters of an influential businessman, a professor, a British citizen, and a houseboy. After Biafras declaration of secession, the lives of the main characters changed and were torn apart by the brutality of the civil war. The book jumps between events that took place during the early and late 1960s, when the war took place, in the early 1960s, the main characters are introduced, Ugwu, a 13-year-old village boy who moves in with Odenigbo, to work as his houseboy. Odenigbo frequently entertains intellectuals to discuss the political turmoil in Nigeria, life changes for Ugwu when Odenigbo’s girlfriend, Olanna, moves in with them. Ugwu forms a bond with both of them, and is very loyal. Olanna has a sister, Kainene, a woman with a dry sense of humor. Her lover Richard is an Englishman who has come to Nigeria to explore Igbo-Ukwu art, jumping four years ahead, trouble is brewing between the Hausa and the Igbo people and hundreds of people die in massacres, including Olannas beloved auntie and uncle. A new republic, called Biafra, is created by the Igbo and they finally end up in the refugee town of Umuahia, where they suffer as a result of food shortages and the constant air raids and paranoid atmosphere. There are also allusions to a conflict between Olanna and Kainene, Richard and Kainene and Olanna and Odenigbo, when the novel jumps back to the early 1960s, we learn that Odenigbo slept with a village girl, who then had his baby. Olanna is furious at his betrayal, and sleeps with Richard in a moment of liberation and she goes back to Odenigbo and when they later learn that Amala refused to keep her newborn daughter, Olanna decides that they would keep her. Back during the war Olanna, Odenigbo, Baby, and Ugwu were living with Kainene, the situation is hopeless as they have no food or medicine. Kainene decides to trade across enemy lines, but does not return, the book ends ambiguously, with the reader not knowing if Kainene lives. Ugwu – The novel starts and ends with Ugwu and he is a village boy from Opi who later becomes a servant in Odenigbo’s house. Under Odenigbo and Olanna’s guidance, Ugwu is able to continue his education and he tries to maintain contact with his mother and sister, Anulika, back in his home village, and is constantly looking out for his mother’s health and wellbeing. His free time is dominated by his love interests, which include Nnesinachi, Eberechi. His life is interrupted when he is forcibly conscripted into the Biafrain Army
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First edition
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Stormtrooper (Star Wars)
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A stormtrooper is a fictional soldier in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. In The Force Awakens, the upgraded stormtroopers serve the First Order, under the leadership of Supreme Leader Snoke and his commanders, most notably Kylo Ren, General Hux, the order of battle of the Stormtrooper Corps is unspecified in the Star Wars universe. They are shown in collective groups of varying organizational sizes ranging from squads to legions and for some, their armor and training are modified for special operations and environments. Introduced in Star Wars, the Imperial stormtroopers serve as the army of the Galactic Empire, establishing Imperial authority and putting down any revolts. In the prequel film Star Wars, Episode II – Attack of the Clones, in Star Wars, Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Chancellor Palpatine orders them to slay their Jedi generals in the Great Jedi Purge. As established in Star Wars, The Force Awakens, after Palpatines death the stormtroopers continue to serve under the factions that broke apart from the Empire, with redesigned armor, they eventually serve under the leadership of the First Order. In this film, it is established that an undisclosed number of stormtroopers were conscripted as young children, given serial numbers for names. Stormtrooper FN-2187, later known as Finn, plans his escape when his resistance to this conditioning puts him in line to be reprogrammed, Star Wars Legends expanded universe media such as games and comics feature a number of specialized stormtrooper units. The Marvel-produced comics of the late 1970s and early 1980s featured Shadow Troopers, others, such as the Beach Troopers, are for comical effect. Appearing only briefly in Lego Star Wars II, The Original Trilogy, they are clad in a Speedo, in Lego Star Wars, The Complete Saga, they also wear life jackets. Shadowtroopers appear in Star Wars Jedi Knight II, Jedi Outcast wearing black armour made from a lightsaber-resistant metal called cortosis and this armour has a green synthetic gem set into the breastplate which gives the wearer Force powers. Their armour can also render them invisible, with only a small area of blue discoloration giving them away. They use this ability to lie in wait and ambush the enemy, most often the games protagonist and these troopers also possess the invisible feature and use this tactic to ambush their enemies, but only if stormtrooper officers call out for support. Disloyalty or failures were heavily punished and individualism was discouraged, command structure was sacred and this meant Imperial Stormtroopers lacked improvisation and were highly ineffective when cut off from command, but also allowed the best trained soldiers who prefer death over retreat. First Order Stormtroopers are regularly put through mental indoctrination and propaganda programs, to make sure that they remain fanatically loyal, being taken from their families at birth, these soldiers are not even given individual names for themselves but merely serial numbers, such as FN-2187. Based on conceptual drawings by Ralph McQuarrie, Liz Moore and Nick Pemberton sculpted designs for the helmet, Muir, who was also responsible for sculpting the Darth Vader costume, worked out of the Art Department at Elstree Studios. The suit was molded and initially cast in plaster, with Muir sharpening the detail at the plaster stage, the plaster casts were then remolded and cast in fiberglass to use as the tools for the vacuum forming process. The suits were produced in house by Tashy Baines, the resident vacuum former, as Shepperton Design Studios had already been used to vacuum form the helmets, the fiberglass molds for the armor were then sent to them for vacuum forming the suits
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Stormtrooper at the
Elf Fantasy Fair
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Shadow Trooper at
Dragon Con
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Stormtrooper standing guard outside the London Star Wars exhibition
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Marvel Comics
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Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc. formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, an American publisher of comic books and related media. In 2009, The Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment, Marvel Worldwides parent company, Marvel started in 1939 as Timely Publications, and by the early 1950s had generally become known as Atlas Comics. Marvels modern incarnation dates from 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. Most of Marvels fictional characters operate in a reality known as the Marvel Universe. Martin Goodman founded the later known as Marvel Comics under the name Timely Publications in 1939. Martin Goodman, a magazine publisher who had started with a Western pulp in 1933, was expanding into the emerging—and by then already highly popular—new medium of comic books. The issue was a success, with it and a second printing the following month selling, combined. While its contents came from an outside packager, Funnies, Inc, Timely had its own staff in place by the following year. It, too, proved a hit, with sales of one million. Goodman formed Timely Comics, Inc. beginning with comics cover-dated April 1941 or Spring 1941, Goodman hired his wifes cousin, Stanley Lieber, as a general office assistant in 1939. Lee wrote extensively for Timely, contributing to a number of different titles, Goodmans business strategy involved having his various magazines and comic books published by a number of corporations all operating out of the same office and with the same staff. One of these companies through which Timely Comics was published was named Marvel Comics by at least Marvel Mystery Comics #55. As well, some covers, such as All Surprise Comics #12, were labeled A Marvel Magazine many years before Goodman would formally adopt the name in 1961. The post-war American comic market saw superheroes falling out of fashion and this globe branding united a line put out by the same publisher, staff and freelancers through 59 shell companies, from Animirth Comics to Zenith Publications. Atlas also published a plethora of childrens and teen humor titles, including Dan DeCarlos Homer the Happy Ghost, Atlas unsuccessfully attempted to revive superheroes from late 1953 to mid-1954, with the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Atlas did not achieve any hits and, according to Stan Lee, Atlas survived chiefly because it produced work quickly, cheaply. During this time, the Comic Code Authority made its debut in September 1954, Wertham published the book Seduction of the Innocent in order to force people to see that comics were impacting American youth. He believed violent comics were causing children to be reckless and were turning them into delinquents, in September 1954, comic book publishers got together to set up their own self-censorship organization—the Comics Magazine Association of America—in order to appease audiences
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Marvel Comics #1 (Oct. 1939), the first comic from Marvel precursor
Timely Comics. Cover art by
Frank R. Paul.
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The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). Cover art by
Jack Kirby (penciler) and unconfirmed inker.
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The Avengers #4 (March 1964), with (from left to right), the
Wasp,
Giant-Man,
Captain America,
Iron Man,
Thor and (inset) the
Sub-Mariner. Cover art by
Jack Kirby and
George Roussos.
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Howard the Duck #8 (Jan. 1977). Cover art by
Gene Colan and
Steve Leialoha
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Black Panther (comics)
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The Black Panther is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and penciller and co-plotter Jack Kirby, the character is usually depicted as the king and protector of Wakanda, a fictional African nation. Chadwick Boseman portrays the Black Panther in Captain America, Civil War and is set to return in Black Panther and he is the first black superhero in mainstream comic books, virtually no black heroes were created before him, and none with actual superpowers. Previous non-caricatured black supporting characters in comics include U. S. Army infantry private Gabriel Jones of Sgt, co-creator Stan Lee recounted that the name was inspired by a pulp adventure hero who has a black panther as a helper. Jack Kirbys original concept art for Black Panther used the concept name, during his time with the Avengers, he made solo guest-appearances in three issues of Daredevil, and fought Doctor Doom in Astonishing Tales #6–7, in that supervillains short-lived starring feature. He received his first starring feature with Jungle Action #5, a reprint of the Panther-centric story in The Avengers #62, the critically acclaimed series ran in Jungle Action #6–24. One now-common format McGregor pioneered was that of the self-contained, multi-issue story arc, the first, Panthers Rage, ran through the first 13 issues. Critic Jason Sacks has called the arc Marvels first graphic novel, here were real character arcs in Spider-Man, Panthers Rage is the first comic that was created from start to finish as a complete novel. The second and final arc, Panther vs. the Klan, ran as mostly 17-page stories in Jungle Action #19–24, except for issue #23, a reprint of Daredevil #69, in which the Black Panther guest-starred. The subject matter of the Ku Klux Klan was considered controversial in the Marvel offices at the time, if you can get your hands on it. Sit down and read the whole thing and its damn-near flawless, every issue, every scene, a functional, necessary part of the whole. Okay, now go back and read any individual issue, thats what we should all be delivering, every single month. Don and company did it in only 17 story pages per issue, however, Kirby wanted to work on new characters and was unhappy at being assigned a series starring a character he had already worked with extensively. He left the series after only 12 issues and was replaced by Ed Hannigan, Jerry Bingham, due to the seriess cancellation, the contents of what would have been Black Panther #16–18 were published in Marvel Premiere #51–53. A four-issue miniseries, Black Panther vol,2, was written by Peter B. Gillis and penciled by Denys Cowan, McGregor revisited his Panther saga with Gene Colan in Panthers Quest, published as 25 eight-page installments within the bi-weekly anthology series Marvel Comics Presents. He later teamed with artist Dwayne Turner in the square-bound miniseries Black Panther, McGregor conceived a fifth arc in his Black Panther saga, titled Panthers Vows, but it failed to get off the ground. Writer Christopher Priests and penciller Mark Texeiras 1998 series The Black Panther vol, the Priest-Texeira series was under the Marvel Knights imprint in its first year
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Cover detail,
The Avengers #52 (May 1968): Debut of the short-lived cowl mask. Art by
John Buscema.
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Jungle Action #23 (Sept. 1976) Cover art by
John Byrne and
Dan Adkins.
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Promotional art for Ultimate Captain America Annual #1 (Dec. 2008), by
Brandon Peterson.
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The Black Panther in the 1994
Fantastic Four animated series.
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Pacific Rim (film)
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The screenplay is by Travis Beacham and del Toro, with a story by Beacham. The film is set in the future, when Earth is at war with the Kaiju, to combat the monsters, humanity unites to create the Jaegers, gigantic humanoid mechas each controlled by at least two pilots, whose minds are joined by a neural bridge. Principal photography began on November 14,2011, in Toronto, the film was produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. It was released on July 12,2013, including in 3D and IMAX 3D, receiving positive reviews, the visual effects, action sequences. While it underperformed at the box office in the United States and it earned a worldwide total of more than $411 million—$114 million in China alone, its largest market—becoming Del Toros most commercially successful film to date. A sequel titled Pacific Rim, Uprising, directed by Steven S. DeKnight and produced by Del Toro, and with Kikuchi, Day, in 2013, alien monsters called Kaiju emerge from an interdimensional portal called “The Breach” at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Over the course of 2 years, the kaiju wreak havoc upon coastal cities along the ring of fire, such as San Francisco, San José del Cabo, Sydney, Manila, humanity responds by constructing giant mecha called Jaegers, to combat the alien threat. Each Jaeger is co-piloted by two or more people, who share a link via a process called “Drifting” to share the mental stress of piloting the machine. In 2020, Gipsy Danger, piloted by brothers Raleigh and Yancy Becket, the Kaiju ambushes them, wrecks the Jaeger and drags Yancy out of the cockpit. Raleigh manages to pilot Gipsy Danger alone, killing Knifehead, traumatised by Yancy’s death, Raleigh quits the Jaeger Program. The remaining Jaegers are relocated to Hong Kong under the command of Marshal Stacker Pentecost, Pentecost tracks down Raleigh to a wall construction site to re-recruit him. Traveling to the Hong Kong base, the Shatterdome, Raleigh is introduced to Mako Mori, director of the Jaeger restoration program, to find a new co-pilot, Raleigh participates in tryouts, deciding Mako is Drift-compatible, despite Pentecosts protests. During their first test, Raleigh is distracted by the memory of Yancy’s death, Mako, in turn, is lost in the memory of the Kaiju attack on Tokyo that orphaned her, and nearly fires Gipsy’s plasma cannon. Mako is promptly relieved of piloting duties, and Raleigh confronts Pentecost, Pentecost consults Kaiju experts Newton Geiszler and Herman Gottlieb. Hermann claims the Breach will stabilize and the Kaiju will increase in number, Newton goes ahead with his plan and discovers Kaiju are bioweapons grown by alien colonists. With Pentecosts permission, Newton looks for black market dealer Hannibal Chau to obtain a fresher Kaiju brain to drift with, however, he soon figure out that since Drifting is a two-way link, the Kaiju hive mind can gain access to his knowledge. Soon after, two new Kaiju, Leatherback and Otachi, emerged simultaneously to find Newton, all Jaegers save Gipsy Danger are dispatched to intervene. The Kaiju destroy Crimson Typhoon and Cherno Alpha with their pilots, out of options, Pentecost allows Mako and Raleigh to pilot Gipsy Danger
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Theatrical release poster
Pacific Rim (film)
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Top to bottom:
Charlie Hunnam,
Idris Elba, and
Rinko Kikuchi star in the film as Raleigh Becket, Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori respectively.
Pacific Rim (film)
Pacific Rim (film)
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