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Idaho
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Idaho is a state in the northwestern region of the United States. It borders the state of Montana to the east and northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, to the north, it shares a small portion of the Canadian border with the province of British Columbia. With a population of around 1.7 million people and an area of 83,569 square miles, Idaho is the 14th largest, the states capital and largest city is Boise. Idaho prior to European settlement was inhabited solely by Native American peoples, in the early 19th century, Idaho was considered part of the Oregon Country, an area disputed between the U. S. and the United Kingdom. Idaho was eventually admitted to the Union on July 3,1890, forming part of the Pacific Northwest, Idaho is divided into several distinct geographic and climatic regions. In the states north, the relatively isolated Idaho Panhandle is closely linked with Eastern Washington, the states south includes the Snake River Plain, while the south-east incorporates part of the Great Basin. Idaho is quite mountainous, and contains several stretches of the Rocky Mountains, additionally, around 38 percent of Idahos land is held by the United States Forest Service, the most of any state. Industries significant for the economy include manufacturing, agriculture, mining, forestry. Idahos agricultural sector supplies a number of different products, but the state is best known for its potato crop, the official state nickname is the Gem State, which references Idahos reputation for gemstones and, more broadly, its many wilderness areas. The exact origin of the remains a mystery. Willing later claimed that he had invented the name. Congress ultimately decided to name the area Colorado Territory when it was created in February 1861, thinking they would get a jump on the name, locals named a community in Colorado Idaho Springs. However, the name Idaho did not fall into obscurity, the same year Congress created Colorado Territory, a county called Idaho County was created in eastern Washington Territory. The county was named after a steamship named Idaho, which was launched on the Columbia River in 1860 and it is unclear whether the steamship was named before or after Willings claim was revealed. Regardless, a portion of Washington Territory, including Idaho County, was used to create Idaho Territory in 1863. Despite this lack of evidence for the origin of the name, the name Idaho may be derived from the Plains Apache word ídaahę́, which means enemy. The Comanches used this word to refer to the Idaho Territory, a 1956 Idaho history textbook says, Idaho is a Shoshoni Indian exclamation. The word consists of three parts, the first is Ee, which in English conveys the idea of coming down
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Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
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Coeur dAlene is the largest city and county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the city of the Coeur dAlene Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population of Coeur dAlene was 44,137, the city is about 30 miles east of the larger Spokane, Washington, of which it is a satellite. The two cities, are the key components of the Spokane-Coeur dAlene Combined Statistical Area, of which Coeur dAlene is the third largest city, Coeur dAlene is the largest city in northern Idaho Panhandle. The city is situated on the shore of Lake Coeur dAlene. Locally, Coeur dAlene is known as the Lake City, or simply called by its initials, the city of Coeur dAlene has grown significantly in recent years, in part because of a substantial increase in tourism, encouraged by several resorts in the area. Broadcaster and media figure Barbara Walters called the city a little slice of Heaven, on November 28,2007, Good Morning America broadcast the citys Christmas lighting ceremony because its display is among the largest in the United States. The Coeur dAlene Resort takes up a prominent portion of the citys downtown and it is also near two major ski resorts, Silver Mountain Resort to the east in Kellogg, and Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort to the north in Sandpoint. The Coeur dAlene people called themselves by the autonym Schitsuumsh in Coeur dAlene, one of the Salishan languages and this area was extensively explored by David Thompson of the North West Company starting in 1807. The Oregon boundary dispute arose as a result of competing British, the British had trading ties extending from Canada and had started settlements in present-day British Columbia and at Fort Astoria on the Pacific coast near the mouth of the Columbia River. The Oregon Treaty of 1846 ended the joint occupation of the area in present-day Idaho when Britain ceded all rights to land south of the 49th parallel to the United States. When General William T. Sherman ordered a fort constructed on the lake in the 1870s, he gave it the name Fort Coeur dAlene, the name of the fort was later changed to Fort Sherman to honor the general. North Idaho College, a community college, now occupies the fort site. The lake was named for the Coeur dAlene. Miners and settlers came to the region after silver deposits were found and it became the second-largest silver mining district in the country, generating both great wealth and extensive environmental contamination and damages. In the 1890s, two significant miners uprisings took place in the Coeur dAlene Mining District, where the workers struggled with high risk and he later confessed to dynamiting a $250,000 mill belonging to the Bunker Hill Mining Company near Wardner during another miners uprising in 1899. He returned later to Idaho to assassinate former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg in 1905, Coeur dAlene is located at 47°41′34″N 116°46′48″W, at an elevation of 2,180 ft above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 16.08 square miles
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Spokane, Washington
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Spokane is a city in the state of Washington, in the northwestern United States. It is the seat of Spokane County, and the economic and cultural center of the Spokane Metropolitan Area, the Greater Spokane Area, the city, along with the whole Inland Northwest, is served by Spokane International Airport,5 miles west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second largest city in Washington and the 102nd largest city in the United States. The first humans to live in the area, the Spokane people, known as the birthplace of Fathers Day, Spokane is officially nicknamed the Lilac City. David Thompson explored the area with the expansion and establishment of the North West Companys Spokane House in 1810. This trading post was the first long-term European settlement in Washington, completion of the Northern Pacific Railway in 1881 brought settlers to the Spokane area, and that same year it was officially incorporated as a city with the name of Spokan Falls. In the late 19th century, gold and silver were discovered in the Inland Northwest, the local economy depended on mining, timber, and agriculture until the 1980s. Spokane hosted the first environmentally themed Worlds Fair at Expo 74, many of the older Romanesque Revival-style buildings in the downtown area were designed by architect Kirtland Kelsey Cutter after the Great Fire of 1889. The city also features Riverfront and Manito parks, the Smithsonian-affiliated Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, the Davenport Hotel, and the Fox and Bing Crosby theaters. The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes serves as the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist represents the Anglican community. Gonzaga University was established in 1887 by the Jesuits, and the private Presbyterian Whitworth University opened three years later in north Spokane, in sports, the Gonzaga Bulldogs collegiate basketball team competes at the Division I level. Professional and semi-professional sports teams include the Spokane Indians in Minor League Baseball, Spokane Empire in arena football, as of 2010, Spokanes only major daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, has a daily circulation of over 76,000. The first humans to live in the Spokane area arrived between 13,000 and 8,000 years ago and were hunter-gatherer societies that lived off plentiful game. The Spokane tribe, after which the city is named, are believed to be either their direct descendants, when asked by early white explorers, the Spokanes said their ancestors came from up North. Early in the 19th century, the Northwest Fur Company sent two white fur trappers west of the Rocky Mountains to search for fur. These were the first white men met by the Spokanes, who believed they were sacred, the explorer-geographer David Thompson, working as head of the North West Companys Columbia Department, became the first European to explore the Inland Empire. Crossing what is now the Canada–US border from British Columbia, Thompson wanted to expand the North West Company further south in search of furs, after establishing the Kullyspell House and Saleesh House trading posts in what are now Idaho and Montana, Thompson then attempted to expand further west. He sent out two trappers, Jacques Raphael Finlay and Finan McDonald, to construct a fur trading post on the Spokane River in Washington and trade with the local Indians
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YouTube
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YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005, Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, YouTube now operates as one of Googles subsidiaries. Unregistered users can watch videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos deemed potentially offensive are available only to registered users affirming themselves to be at least 18 years old, YouTube earns advertising revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to site content and audience. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, Hurley and Chen said that the original idea for YouTube was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. YouTube began as a venture capital-funded technology startup, primarily from an $11.5 million investment by Sequoia Capital between November 2005 and April 2006, YouTubes early headquarters were situated above a pizzeria and Japanese restaurant in San Mateo, California. The domain name www. youtube. com was activated on February 14,2005, the first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23,2005, and can still be viewed on the site, YouTube offered the public a beta test of the site in May 2005. The first video to reach one million views was a Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho in November 2005. Following a $3.5 million investment from Sequoia Capital in November, the site grew rapidly, and in July 2006 the company announced that more than 65,000 new videos were being uploaded every day, and that the site was receiving 100 million video views per day. The site has 800 million unique users a month and it is estimated that in 2007 YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000. The choice of the name www. youtube. com led to problems for a similarly named website, the sites owner, Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, filed a lawsuit against YouTube in November 2006 after being regularly overloaded by people looking for YouTube. Universal Tube has since changed the name of its website to www. utubeonline. com, in October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google stock, and the deal was finalized on November 13,2006. In March 2010, YouTube began free streaming of certain content, according to YouTube, this was the first worldwide free online broadcast of a major sporting event. On March 31,2010, the YouTube website launched a new design, with the aim of simplifying the interface, Google product manager Shiva Rajaraman commented, We really felt like we needed to step back and remove the clutter. In May 2010, YouTube videos were watched more than two times per day. This increased to three billion in May 2011, and four billion in January 2012, in February 2017, one billion hours of YouTube was watched every day
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New York Post
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New York Post is an American daily newspaper, primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area. It is the 13th-oldest and seventh-most-widely circulated newspaper in the United States, established in 1801 by federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. The modern version of the paper is published in tabloid format, in 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought Post for US$30.5 million. Since 1993, Post has been owned by News Corporation and its successor, News Corp and its editorial offices are located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. New York Post, established on November 16,1801 as New-York Evening Post, the Hartford Courant, believed to be the oldest continuously published newspaper, was founded in 1764 as a semi-weekly paper, it did not begin publishing daily until 1836. The New Hampshire Gazette, which has trademarked its claim of being The Nations Oldest Newspaper, was founded in 1756, moreover, since the 1890s it has been published only for weekends. Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as New-York Evening Post, the meeting at which Hamilton first recruited investors for the new paper took place in the then-country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion. Hamilton chose William Coleman as his first editor, the most famous 19th-century New-York Evening Post editor was the poet and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant. So well respected was New-York Evening Post under Bryants editorship, it received praise from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in the summer of 1829, Bryant invited William Leggett, the Locofoco Democrat, to write for the paper. There, in addition to literary and drama reviews, Leggett began to write political editorials, leggetts classical liberal philosophy entailed a fierce opposition to central banking, a support for voluntary labor unions, and a dedication to laissez-faire economics. He was a member of the Equal Rights Party, Leggett became a co-owner and editor at Post in 1831, eventually working as sole editor of the newspaper while Bryant traveled in Europe in 1834 through 1835. Another co-owner of the paper was John Bigelow, from 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of New York Evening Post. In 1881 Henry Villard took control of New-York Evening Post, as well as The Nation, with this acquisition, the paper was managed by the triumvirate of Carl Schurz, Horace White, and Edwin L. Godkin. When Schurz left the paper in 1883, Godkin became editor-in-chief, White became editor-in-chief in 1899, and remained in that role until his retirement in 1903. Villard sold the paper in 1918, after allegations of pro-German sympathies during World War I hurt its circulation. The new owner was Thomas Lamont, a partner in the Wall Street firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. Conservative Cyrus H. K. Curtis—publisher of the Ladies Home Journal—purchased New-York Evening Post in 1924, in 1934, J. David Stern purchased the paper, changed its name to New York Post, and restored its broadsheet size and liberal perspective. In 1939, Dorothy Schiff purchased the paper and her husband, George Backer, was named editor and publisher
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Nelson, British Columbia
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Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The city is the seat of the Regional District of Central Kootenay and it is represented in the provincial legislature by the riding of Nelson-Creston, and in the Parliament of Canada by the riding of Kootenay—Columbia. The West Kootenay region of British Columbia, where the city of Nelson is situated, is part of the territories of the Sinixt. Gold and silver were found in the area in 1867, following the discovery of silver at nearby Toad Mountain in 1886, the town boomed quickly, leading to incorporation in 1897. Two railways were built to pass through Nelson, due to its location near transportation corridors, Nelson grew to supply the local mining activity and soon became a transportation and distribution centre for the region. The town soon matured from a boom town to a sophisticated city. By the 1900s, Nelson boasted several hotels, a Hudsons Bay Company store. The local forestry and mining industries were well established, the town built its own hydroelectric generating system. English immigrants planted lakeside orchards, and Doukhobors from Russia, sponsored by Tolstoy, the Doukhobor museum is located nearby, close to the neighbouring town of Castlegar. During the Vietnam War, many American draft dodgers settled in Nelson and this influx of liberal, mostly educated young people had a significant impact on the areas cultural and political demographics. In the early 1980s, Nelson suffered an economic downturn when the local Kootenay Forest Products sawmill was closed. Downtown merchants were already suffering from the opening of a large, regional shopping centre on Nelsons central waterfront, at the time, Victoria and Vancouver were experimenting with historical restorations of their oldest areas, with great success. To save downtown and Baker Street from blight, Nelson quickly followed suit, stripping aluminum facades, Local designer Bob Inwood, one of Nelsons many American immigrants, played a major role as a consultant. By 1985, Baker Street was completely transformed, more broadly, the transformation marked the beginning of Nelsons ongoing transition from a resource-based town to an arts and tourism town. A walk down Baker Street through the Historic District is now one of Nelsons promoted visitor activities, Nelson has a humid continental climate with four distinct seasons. Winters are cold and snowy while summers are warm and drier with cool temperatures during the night, Nelson has earned a reputation as a cultural centre. The downtown area is packed with restaurants, cafes, coffee houses, local shops, small art galleries. The city is about forty-five minutes away from the site of the annual Shambhala Music Festival and it is also home to the Whitewater Ski Resort and the Nelson Brewing Company
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Miami International Film Festival
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The Miami International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Miami, Florida, that showcases independent American and international films with a special focus on Ibero-American films. The stated mission of the Miami International Film Festival is to bridge cultural understanding, the Festival debuted in November 1978, under director J. Hunter Todd. It lasted 10 days and presented approximately 100 feature films and 300 shorter works, in 1983, it went under the Film Society of Miami, and under director Nat Chendiak held its first revamped edition in February 1984. Chendiak acted as director of the festival in the early years, control of the festival was assumed by Florida International University in 1999. Conflict emerged between Chendiak and Florida International University over the direction of the festival, and when his ran out on 2001 Chendiak chose to leave. Miami-Dade College took over in late 2003 after Florida International University lost $20 million in state funding, since 2006, the beginning of the ten-day festival has shifted to early March. The Festival has now grown to become a global festival with an annual attendance of over 70,000. The Festival is held for 10 consecutive days, opening annually on the first Friday of March, in 2014, the festival introduced MIFFecito, a fall presentation. The following year, the festival rebranded it to GEMS, a 4-day event held in October to present the jewels of the fall season, jaie Laplante became director of programming in 2011. The Film Festivals website Wissot, Lauren, the Miami International Film Festival 2011
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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment
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Creston, British Columbia
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Creston is a town of 5,306 people in the Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Due to its proximity to the U. S. border, similarly, Porthill, the nearby US border town, accepts Canadian currency and sells gasoline in litres. The Salmo-Creston highway, which is part of the Crowsnest Highway, Creston is one of the few towns in British Columbia that does not observe Daylight saving time. The Creston Valleys economy is largely resource-based with agriculture and forestry, many are employed in the service sector, and tourism is increasingly prominent, while government services and education comprise a large portion of the labour force. Since 1959, Kokanee beer has been brewed in Creston at the Columbia Brewery, the town is also home to two grain elevators. Many apple, and cherry grow in Erickson, British Columbia, an unincorporated area outside of Creston. The Creston Area produces the largest cherries grown in the Northern hemisphere, a primary market is Europe while Asia is second. A number of growers sell the product they export to Europe at their road side markets. The Skimmerhorn Winery is now producing award-winning wines, and the valley includes other growers cultivating vines, Creston is home to CIDO-FM, a volunteer-run, locally based, Community Radio station, which broadcasts in town, and in the Creston Valley at 97.7 FM. Creston has a climate or a humid continental climate which is often modified by air masses of the Pacific Ocean origin. Daily maximum temperatures are usually above freezing even in January except when air masses of Arctic origin move over the area, the worst cold outbreaks may send temperatures below −30 °C on rare occasions. Spring comes early by Canadian standards, trees usually start to leaf out before the end of April, a clear summer day is likely to have a daily maximum near or above 25 °C, the record maximum is 39.4 °C. The first fall frost usually holds off until October where air drainage is good, the mean annual precipitation is 662.4 mm in mid-town, but the area has a rather steep precipitation gradient which is reflected in regional ecosystems. The moisture-loving western hemlock grows near the northern boundary, another wet-belt indicator. The sun-loving ponderosa pine forms a proportion of the vegetation near Crestons southern boundary. Douglas-fir is the most common native tree throughout, other large conifers include grand fir, western larch, western white pine, large pines other than the ponderosa are seldom seen in town, but are common in some of the woods nearby. The only native deciduous tree which matches the conifers in size is the black cottonwood, white birch and trembling aspen grow to medium size, smaller trees include the Rocky Mountain maple and bitter cherry. Prominent among the trees are horsechestnut, Norway maple, silver maple and several species of walnut
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Ron Perlman
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Ronald N. Ron Perlman is an American actor and voice actor. His mother, Dorothy, was an employee, and his father, Bertram Bert Perlman, was a jazz drummer. Perlman said in 1988, It was not a bad childhood, I was terribly overweight as a young kid, and it was sort of a low self image. He cited this experience as one thing that attracts him to roles where he portrays these sorts of deformed people who are very endearing, Perlman is of Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent. His parents are Jewish, and he had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony, Perlman attended George Washington High School and Lehman College in 1971, which did not have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre available at that time. He has said that he and his father were close and that it was his father, after seeing Perlman in a college production of Guys and Dolls. Perlman later said, So, he gave me permission to be an actor, Perlman attended the University of Minnesota, where he graduated with a masters degree in theater arts in 1973. Perlman started his career as a actor, appearing in various productions. Annaud later revealed that when he contacted Perlman to ask him about playing Salvatore in The Name of the Rose and this earned him a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series in 1989. He went on to roles in many films and television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s as well as the 2000s. His appearances in television series include Highlander, The Series, The Outer Limits, The Magnificent Seven, and Hand of God and he played his first leading film role in 1995, when he played One in Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caros French-language The City of Lost Children. In 2003, Perlman starred in a commercial for Stella Artois beer and this commercial, which was called Devils Island, won a Silver Award at the 2003 British Advertising Awards. He got another leading role in 2004 when he played the title role in the comic book adaptation Hellboy. Perlman reprised his role as Hellboy in the straight to DVD animated features Hellboy, Sword of Storms and Hellboy, Blood and Iron as well as Hellboy II, The Golden Army, released on July 11,2008. In 2008, Perlman joined the cast of the TV show Sons of Anarchy on FX playing Clay Morrow, Perlman is known for playing roles that require extensive make-up, some to the point where his entire body is covered or his face requires full facial prosthetics. Moreau where he plays a half man/half animal, Star Trek, Nemesis in which he is the Reman viceroy. He even gave his Beauty and The Beast co-star Armin Shimerman advice when Shimerman was going to be in full-facial prosthetics guest-starring as a Ferengi on Star Trek, The Next Generation. Perlman also has a career as a voice actor in addition to his onscreen acting, having portrayed characters in numerous video games
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Amanda Tapping
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Amanda Tapping is an English-born Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and she also starred as Helen Magnus in the science fiction-fantasy television series Sanctuary. Born in Rochford, Essex, England, she moved with her family to Ontario, Canada and she attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where she excelled in Environmental Science and Drama. However, when she finished in 1984, she decided to focus her attention on Drama, attending the University of Windsor School of Dramatic Arts in Windsor, after graduation, Tapping continued to study Theatrical Arts while performing in several stage productions. She appeared in television commercials and played a variety of roles in television and film productions, such as The Outer Limits. She also formed a troupe, the Random Acts, with collaborators Katherine Jackson and Anne Marie Kerr. Tapping is best known for her portrayal of Samantha Carter in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, after SG-1 aired its final episode, Tapping reprised the role of Samantha Carter on Stargate Atlantis as the new commander of the Atlantis expedition. The show expanded on a series of eight webisodes released on the internet in 2007. The bulk of the scenery and characters were entirely green screen, Tapping served as both star and Executive Producer of the show. Tapping was reportedly working with William Shatner on a 2011 animated webisode series The Zenoids, Tapping and Shatner voice characters, and Tapping is Executive Producer. In 2007, she won a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Actress for her role in the short film Breakdown, on 18 September 2012, she was cast as an angel named Naomi on Season 8 of the TV series Supernatural. She was a character who appeared in seven episodes. Tappings first directing experience was during the season of Stargate SG-1 on an episode titled Resurrection. She directed the episode of Sanctuary season two titled Veritas. She has directed three episodes of Primeval, New World, three episodes of Continuum, and four episodes of Olympus and more recently directed episodes of Dark Matter and she also directed Season 1 Episode 12 of Netflix 2016 Original Show Travelers, Tapping married Alan Kovacs in 1994. As of 2004, she lives with her husband in Vancouver, Tapping has one daughter, Olivia, born on 22 March 2005. She has two living brothers, Richard and Christopher, a third brother, Steven, died in December 2006. Official website Amanda Tapping at the Internet Movie Database Amanda Tapping at AllMovie Amanda Tapping at the TCM Movie Database
