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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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Clockwise, from top:
Midtown Manhattan,
Times Square, the
Unisphere in
Queens, the
Brooklyn Bridge,
Lower Manhattan with
One World Trade Center,
Central Park, the
headquarters of the United Nations, and the
Statue of Liberty
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New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual
Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year
England took control and renamed it "New York".
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The
Battle of Long Island, the largest battle of the
American Revolution, took place in
Brooklyn in 1776.
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Broadway follows the Native American Wickquasgeck Trail through Manhattan.
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New York State
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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British general
John Burgoyne surrenders at
Saratoga in 1777.
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1800 map of New York from
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The
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Beverly Hills, California
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Beverly Hills is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, surrounded by the cities of Los Angeles and West Hollywood. By 2013, its population had grown to 34,658, sometimes referred to as 90210, one of its primary ZIP codes, it was home to many actors and celebrities throughout the 20th century. The city includes the Rodeo Drive shopping district and the Beverly Hills Oil Field, gaspar de Portolá arrived in the area that would later become Beverly Hills on August 3,1769, travelling along native trails which followed the present-day route of Wilshire Boulevard. The area was settled by Maria Rita Quinteros de Valdez and her husband in 1828 and they called their 4,500 acres of property the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas. in 1854, she sold the ranch to Benjamin Davis Wilson and Henry Hancock. By the 1880s, the ranch had been subdivided into parcels of 75 acres and was being bought up by anglos from Los Angeles. Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker acquired most of it, at this point, the area was known as the Hammel and Denker Ranch. By 1888, Denker and Hammel were planning to build a town called Morocco on their holdings and they did not find enough to exploit commercially by the standards of the time, though. In 1906, therefore, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company, renamed the property Beverly Hills, subdivided it, the development was named Beverly Hills after Beverly Farms in Beverly, Massachusetts and because of the hills in the area. The first house in the subdivision was built in 1907, although sales remained slow, Beverly Hills was one of many all-white planned communities started in the Los Angeles area around this time. Restrictive covenants prohibited non-whites from owning or renting property unless they were employed as servants by white residents and it was also forbidden to sell or rent property to Jews in Beverly Hills. Burton Green began construction on The Beverly Hills Hotel in 1911, the hotel was finished in 1912. The visitors drawn by the hotel were inclined to purchase land in Beverly Hills and that same year, the Rodeo Land and Water Company decided to separate its water business from its real estate business. The Beverly Hills Utility Commission was split off from the company and incorporated in September 1914, buying all of the utilities-related assets from the Rodeo Land. In 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought land on Summit Drive and built a mansion, finished in 1921, the glamor associated with Fairbanks and Pickford as well as other movie stars who built mansions in the city contributed to its growing appeal. By the early 1920s the population of Beverly Hills had grown enough to make the water supply a political issue, in 1923 the usual solution, annexation to the city of Los Angeles, was proposed. There was considerable opposition to annexation among such famous residents as Pickford, Fairbanks, Will Rogers, the Beverly Hills Utility Commission, opposed to annexation as well, managed to force the city into a special election and the plan was defeated 337 to 507. In 1925, Beverly Hills approved an issue to buy 385 acres for a new campus for UCLA. The cities of Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Venice also issued bonds to pay for the new campus
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Beverly Hills at the corner of Rodeo Drive & Via Rodeo
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Aerial view, 3D computer generated image
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Hammel and Denker ranch, c. 1905
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Miami Dade College
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Miami Dade College, or simply Miami Dade or MDC, is a state college located in Miami, Florida. Miami Dade has eight campuses and twenty-one outreach centers located throughout Miami-Dade County, founded in 1959, Miami Dade is the largest college in the Florida College System with over 165,000 students. Additionally, MDC is also the largest institution of education in Florida. Miami Dade Colleges main campus, the Wolfson Campus, is in Downtown Miami, Miami Dade College was established in 1959 and opened in 1960 as Dade County Junior College. The original campus was located at the recently built Miami Central High School, the campus consisted of a portion of the school and an adjacent farm. In 1960, a facility was built on an old air station near Opa-locka Airport. The College enrolled African American students and Cuban exiles who could not afford other schools, as the college grew, a temporary satellite campus opened in what is today Pinecrest at Miami Palmetto High School until the new South Campus was built in Kendall. Later renamed Miami-Dade Junior College, its two flagship campuses expanded and enrolled students, eventually outgrowing the University of Florida and Florida State University. After some time, college board of directors chairman Mitchell Wolfson envisioned a campus at the heart of Downtown Miami, and in 1973, the College changed its name to Miami-Dade Community College around the same time. The College initially implemented an open policy, meaning anyone who could afford classes was allowed to enroll. Because of this, the focus of the College became strengthening its academics, as a result, the Medical Center was built near Miamis Civic Center adjacent to the University of Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital to train students in Allied Health and nursing programs. With the Mariel exile community arriving in 1980, the College created a center in Hialeah to give incoming refugees educational opportunities. Another outreach center, the InterAmerican center, was built to accommodate bilingual education, the Homestead Campus was built in 1990 in Homestead to relieve the concerns of students having to drive to the Kendall Campus In Miami. In the mid-1990s, the College made use of new media, as the Florida legislature reduced the education budget, the College began to rely heavily on the Miami Dade College Foundation, consisting mainly of Alumni, for financial support. Beginning in 2001, the College implemented a plan to revamp the College. In 2002, the College disbanded its Honors Program and created The Honors College for talented high school graduates, the Honors College is a representation of Miami Dade Colleges most academically-gifted students in different fields and was originally based in the three larger campuses. In 2007, The Honors College expanded into the InterAmerican Campus with The Honors College Dual Language Honors Program, the Dual Language Honors Program opened its doors to bilingual students who wish to continue their careers with professional fluency in the English and Spanish languages. In 2003, the College was granted the right to award degrees in education to meet future education needs
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Construction of a new student union wellness center and food court across from the
Downtown Miami campus in March 2011
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Miami Dade College
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Broward College
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University of Miami
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The University of Miami is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2015, the university enrolls 16,848 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, the university offers 116 undergraduate,105 masters, and 63 doctoral degree programs, of which 59 are research/scholarship and four professional areas of study. Over the years, the students have represented all 50 states. With more than 14,000 full and part-time faculty and staff, uM’s main campus in Coral Gables has 239 acres and over 5.7 million square feet of buildings. In the 2017 U. S. News and World Report study of colleges and universities, Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM offers a library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage. UM also offers a range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities. UMs intercollegiate athletic teams, collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes, UMs football team has won five national championships since 1983 and its baseball team has won four national championships since 1982. They believed that a university would benefit their community. They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM because the South Florida land boom was at its peak, the university began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres and nearly $5 million, to the effort. These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had sold in the city. The university was chartered on April 18,1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM, the boom had collapsed. For the next 15 years the university barely remained solvent, the construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, in 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UMs plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open, a reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UMs first president Bowman Foster Ashe. The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E. B, douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C, in 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest
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Walkway leading to the Otto G. Richter Library on the campus of the University of Miami
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Seal of the University of Miami
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The
John C. Gifford Arboretum on the University of Miami campus
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The Applied Marine Physics Building at UM's
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on
Virginia Key
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Republican Party (United States)
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The Republican Party, commonly referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The party is named after republicanism, the dominant value during the American Revolution, there have been 19 Republican presidents, the most from any one party. The Republican Partys current ideology is American conservatism, which contrasts with the Democrats more progressive platform, further, its platform involves support for free market capitalism, free enterprise, fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, deregulation, and restrictions on labor unions. In addition to advocating for economic policies, the Republican Party is socially conservative. As of 2017, the GOP is documented as being at its strongest position politically since 1928, in addition to holding the Presidency, the Republicans control the 115th United States Congress, having majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The party also holds a majority of governorships and state legislatures, the main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas. The Northern Republicans saw the expansion of slavery as a great evil, the first public meeting of the general anti-Nebraska movement where the name Republican was suggested for a new anti-slavery party was held on March 20,1854, in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin. The name was chosen to pay homage to Thomas Jeffersons Republican Party. The first official party convention was held on July 6,1854, in Jackson and it oversaw the preserving of the union, the end of slavery, and the provision of equal rights to all men in the American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861–1877. The Republicans initial base was in the Northeast and the upper Midwest, with the realignment of parties and voters in the Third Party System, the strong run of John C. Fremont in the 1856 United States presidential election demonstrated it dominated most northern states, early Republican ideology was reflected in the 1856 slogan free labor, free land, free men, which had been coined by Salmon P. Chase, a Senator from Ohio. Free labor referred to the Republican opposition to labor and belief in independent artisans. Free land referred to Republican opposition to the system whereby slaveowners could buy up all the good farm land. The Party strove to contain the expansion of slavery, which would cause the collapse of the slave power, Lincoln, representing the fast-growing western states, won the Republican nomination in 1860 and subsequently won the presidency. The party took on the mission of preserving the Union, and destroying slavery during the American Civil War, in the election of 1864, it united with War Democrats to nominate Lincoln on the National Union Party ticket. The partys success created factionalism within the party in the 1870s and those who felt that Reconstruction had been accomplished and was continued mostly to promote the large-scale corruption tolerated by President Ulysses S. Grant ran Horace Greeley for the presidency. The Stalwarts defended Grant and the system, the Half-Breeds led by Chester A. Arthur pushed for reform of the civil service in 1883. The Republicans supported the pietistic Protestants who demanded Prohibition, nevertheless, by 1890 the Republicans had agreed to the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Interstate Commerce Commission in response to complaints from owners of small businesses and farmers
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Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican U.S. President (1861–1865).
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Theodore Roosevelt,
26th President of the United States (1901–1909)
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Dwight Eisenhower,
34th President of the United States (1953–1961)
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Richard Nixon,
37th President of the United States (1969–1974)
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Brigitte Nielsen
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She is also known for her marriage to Sylvester Stallone, with whom she starred in the 1986 film Cobra. She played Karla Fry in Beverly Hills Cop II, co-starring Eddie Murphy, Nielsens exploits were well-covered in the entertainment media in the 1980s, and the world press started referring to her as an Amazon because of her tall stature. She later built a career starring in B-movies and hosting TV shows, in 2008, she appeared on the reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, which depicted her and several other celebrities dealing with recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. In 2012 she won the 6th season of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus. the German version of Im a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here. And received the most calls from TV viewers throughout the entire show, Nielsen was born Gitte Nielsen in Rødovre, a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, as the daughter of Hanne, a librarian, and Svend Nielsen, an engineer. She is also the ex-sister-in-law of Drive director, Nicolas Winding Refn, at the beginning of the 1980s, Nielsen did some modelling work, and was photographed by Greg Gorman and Helmut Newton. Nielsen posed for Playboy magazine multiple times, garnering the cover in December 1987, in the late 1980s, Marvel Comics approached Nielsen to pose for photographs dressed as the comic book character She-Hulk. In 1985, Nielsen began her career in the fantasy film Red Sonja alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. That same year, she met and married Sylvester Stallone, the couple acted in two together before divorcing in 1987. Their marriage and divorce were both highly publicised by the tabloid press, in 1987, Nielsen played Karla Fry in the movie Beverly Hills Cop II, alongside Eddie Murphy. Subsequently, she starred in 976-Evil II, The Double 0 Kid, Chained Heat II, Galaxis and she starred as the villainess of the Italian TV fantasy film Fantaghirò2 and its sequels. In 2011, Nielsen voice acted for the Danish animated comedy film Ronal the Barbarian and she played in horror movie Eldorado, co-starred Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen and Kerry Washington. In 2013, she has featured in the art film The Key alongside Ray Stevenson. In 2014, she starred in the science-fiction film Exodus, in the TV series Raising Hope, and in the action film Mercenaries, alongside Cynthia Rothrock, Vivica A. Fox, Nielsen started a music career in 1987. She released an album, Im the One. Nielsen released a few songs under the pseudonym Gitta because producers wanted to see if she could succeed as a singer without her name on the cover. The first song No More Turning Back peaked at No.54 on the British Single Charts, No.63 on the Dutch Single Charts, other tracks recorded as Gitta were 2001s Tic Toc and 2002s Youre No Lady, a collaboration with Ru Paul. Nielsen appeared in Michael Jacksons Liberian Girl music video in 1989, in 2008, German record label Edel Music re-released her 1991 album Im the One
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Brigitte Nielsen at
London Fashion Week in September 2010
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Brigitte Nielsen with
Sylvester Stallone,
Ronald and
Nancy Reagan at the
White House, 1985
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Sage Stallone
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Sage Moonblood Stallone was an American actor, film director, film producer, and film distributor. He was the son of Sylvester Stallone, Sage Stallone was born in Los Angeles, California, the elder son of Sasha Czack and actor Sylvester Stallone. He was the brother of Seargeoh Stallone, and half-brother of Sistine, Sophia and he was the nephew of actor and singer Frank Stallone, and grandson of Jackie Stallone. He was stepson to Jennifer Flavin, Stallone attended Montclair College Preparatory School in Van Nuys, California, where he graduated in 1993. He later studied filmmaking at North Carolina School of the Arts for one year, as a child, Stallone made a guest appearance on Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, brought by his grandmother Jackie Stallone, who promoted the series. Stallone made his debut alongside his father in Rocky V. He did not, however, reprise the role in Rocky Balboa. He also appeared with his father in Daylight, after that, he acted in lesser profile films. From 1994-1995, he attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking, in 1996, Stallone and film editor Bob Murawski co-founded Grindhouse Releasing, a Los Angeles-based company dedicated to the restoration and preservation of exploitation films and B-movies. Stallone directed his first short film Vic, which won the 2006 Boston Film Festival Best New Filmmaker award and his last projects were appearances in Vincent Gallos last two films, Promises Written in Water and The Agent. Both films were shown in competition at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Since those screenings, Gallo has said neither film will be released or screened again as he has no interest in a relationship with the public. A photograph of Stallone as a young kid aside his father appears in the 2015 Creed, in 2007, Stallone married actress Starlin Wright. The marriage was annulled in 2008, on July 13,2012, Stallone was found dead in his Studio City, Los Angeles home. According to reports, he had not been heard from for four days prior to his death, at the time of his death, Stallone was reportedly engaged. Stallones funeral was held on July 21 at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Los Angeles and he is interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. On August 30,2012 the Los Angeles County Coroners Office announced that Stallone died of a heart attack, Sage was found dead on July 13,2012 at his home in Los Angeles. Empty prescription drug bottles were found at the scene, but after an autopsy and toxicology tests, Sage Stallone at the Internet Movie Database Sage Stallone at Find a Grave
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Sage Stallone in June 2003
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Jackie Stallone
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Jacqueline Frances Jackie Stallone is an American astrologer, former dancer, and promoter of womens wrestling. She is the mother of the actor Sylvester Stallone and singer Frank Stallone and she is also the mother of the late actress Toni DAlto and the grandmother of seven. Jackie Stallone was born Jacqueline Frances Labofish in Washington, D. C and her father, John Paul Labofish, was a Washington lawyer. Her mother, Jeanne Victoria Anne Adrienne Clerec, was French and her parents had met while her father was serving in the US Navy at Brest after the First World War. Her paternal grandparents, Rose and Charles Labofisz, were Jewish immigrants from Odessa and her family lived with Charles Atlas who was a world-famous body builder and trained the family in gymnastics, weight lifting and jogging. Jacqueline was the first woman to have a daily TV show on exercise and weight lifting in Washington, D. C. and later opened a gym, named Barbellas. During her youth, Stallone was a trapeze artist in a circus and her son Sylvesters father is Italian American Frank Stallone, Sr. She lived a quiet life for most of her years. Even after Sylvester starred in the film Rocky in 1976 she remained unknown to the general public, Stallone appeared on the 1980s wrestling program GLOW, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Stallone was shown rapping with Americana, Mt. Fiji and Susie Spirit behind her and she rapped about Aunt Kitties girls and making them kitty litter. She also invented the term rumpology, which, according to her, is an art similar to that of palm reading except that the procedure is done by examining pictures of peoples rear ends and she also claims that she can consult dogs to find out about the future. She also became involved in the industry, launching facial masks. On May 21,1992, Stallone appeared on The Howard Stern Show and engaged in a heated argument with Sylvesters dad. She accused him of being horrible in bed and wanting to have Sylvester aborted and she said that she faked the abortion and that Frank did not know about it until she gave birth. Several curses were said and some were not censored, in January 2005, she appeared in the UK TV series Celebrity Big Brother as a surprise contestant. She was brought onto the show to create tension within the house, as her former daughter-in-law Brigitte Nielsen, Stallone was the first contestant voted out by viewers after spending four days in the house. Stallone appeared on BBC TV show Through the Keyhole in March 2007, on the show, Stefanie Powers explored her LA home and then interviewed her. In 1994, Jackie Stallone was parodied in a Saturday Night Live skit in which Janeane Garofalo played Stallone, Stallone advertised a psychic hotline telling of her two sons Sylvester, the famous star and Frank, a struggling musician
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In
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Frank Stallone
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Frank P. Stallone, Jr. is an American actor, singer/guitarist and songwriter. He is the brother of Sylvester Stallone. Stallone was born in New York City and he is the younger brother of actor Sylvester Stallone and the son of Jacqueline Jackie Stallone, an astrologer, former dancer, and promoter of womens wrestling, and Frank Stallone, Sr. a hairdresser. His father was an Italian immigrant, and his mothers family was from Brittany, in his teen years, he went to Lincoln High School in Northeast Philadelphia. Frank started his career around the time of high school singing on street corners, Stallone has worked as a singer in the tradition of American big band jazz and popular music, in a vocal style reminiscent of his idol Frank Sinatra. He tours with his own orchestra under conductor Paul Vesco, and has worked with conductors Sammy Nestico. Stallone has released a number of albums, including Day In Day Out with Sammy Nestico, Stallone wrote and performed Far from Over for the 1983 film Staying Alive. The song was released mid April 1983, the song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his only major pop hit. A self-titled album soon followed from RSO, in the style of 1980s pop, the album featured a slightly remixed version of Far from Over as well as the song, Darlin, which peaked at #81 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May 1984. In the mid-1990s, Stallone became the subject of a gag on Saturday Night Live. During each episode, Macdonald would read a news headline, then would propose a question asking the cause of that news. At that moment, a publicity photo of Stallone would appear on the screen behind Macdonald, example, In economic news, unemployment figures rose slightly for the month of October, with declines in the Dow Jones and NASDAQ. The reason for the sudden downturn, Stallone also played himself in a recurring role on the short-lived sitcom Movie Stars, alongside fellow celebrity siblings Don Swayze and Joey Travolta. Stallone is also a boxer and appeared as a boxing consultant on the NBC reality television series The Contender in 2005. Frank Stallone has appeared on the Howard Stern Radio and television show on several occasions, during one appearance on the Howard Stern Show, Frank Stallone had a boxing match with television reporter Geraldo Rivera, Frank Stallone won the bout. In 2007, he appeared as himself at a meeting of Siblings Anonymous in the film Fred Claus, in 2008, he embarked on a tour with his own Frank Stallone Band, which features himself on lead vocals and rhythm guitar. He was the second celebrity eliminated and was eliminated in the second episode. He performed a one off show, Let Me Be Frank With You at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, Australia, himself Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job
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Frank Stallone in May 2012
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Rocky Balboa
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Robert Rocky Balboa, Sr. is the title character of the Rocky series. The character was created by Sylvester Stallone, who portrayed him in all seven Rocky films. He is depicted as an everyman who started out by going the distance and overcoming obstacles that had occurred in his life, the character is widely considered to be Stallones most iconic role and is often considered the role that started his film career. He received critical acclaim for his performance in the first movie, earning Academy Award, Robert Rocky Balboa was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 6,1945. He was the child in a Roman Catholic Italian-American family. The surname Balboa/Valboa originates from a Galician-speaking town in Northwestern Spain and this encouraged him to take up boxing. He trained very hard so he could grow up to be like his idol Rocky Marciano. Unable to live on the pay of club fights, and being unable to find work anywhere else, Rocky got a job as a collector for Tony Gazzo. By late 1975, Rocky had fought in 64 fights, winning 44, Rocky was proud that he never had his nose broken in a professional fight. His nickname is The Italian Stallion, spawning from his Italian-American heritage, the film begins on November 25,1975, in the slums of the Kensington section of Philadelphia. Rocky Balboa is fighting Spider Rico in a boxing ring called the Cambria Fight Club inside a chapel. In the second round, Rico hits Balboa with a headbutt, enraged, Rocky delivers a vicious barrage of punches, knocking Rico out. The next day, Rocky stops by the pet store and tries to talk to the shy pet-shop worker Adrian Pennino. Adrian is very shy and scared of Rockys tough appearance, afterwards, Rocky goes to collect a loan for his boss Tony Gazzo. Even though the client didnt have all the money, Rocky didnt break his thumb, later, Rocky stops by the local boxing gym and finds that he lost his locker to a contender. Unknown to him, the owner and grizzled former boxer, Mickey Goldmill, doesnt hate him. When Rocky leaves for home that night, he sees a girl named Marie, hanging around a bad crowd. On the way, Rocky lectures her about staying away from the wrong people, however, once they get to her house she tells Rocky Screw you, creepo
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Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa
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Rocky Statue, situated just northeast of the
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Rocky (film series)
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Rocky is a series of boxing films based on the eponymous, fictional character Rocky Balboa, played in each film by Sylvester Stallone. The films by order of date are, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa. The film series has grossed more than US$1 billion at the box office. All of the films were written by Stallone except for Creed, the original film and the fifth installment were directed by John G. Avildsen, Creed was directed by Coogler, and Stallone directed the others. At the same time, Rocky successfully courts Adrian Pennino, a shy woman with an alcoholic brother. But when heavyweight champion of the world Apollo Creed chooses Rocky at random as his opponent in a title fight, with Adrians support and Mickey becoming his trainer and manager, Rocky fights for his self-respect. Soon after proving himself, even with a decision loss to Apollo Creed. He marries Adrian and begins spending the money he earned from the match, but after he fails at both endorsements and a series of low-wage jobs, Rocky realizes the only way he can survive is to begin boxing again. Creed on the hand, faces criticism from fans to overcome the fight. As a result, he taunts Rocky publicly into a rematch, in the fifteenth round, Rocky knocks Creed to the ground, falling to the canvas himself in the process. Both fighters struggle to get to their feet, but only Rocky is successful, for the first time, Rocky is declared the World Heavyweight Champion. After winning the title, Rocky takes advantage of his newfound wealth and fame, appearing in multiple advertisements and television programs. After defending the title multiple times, he is prepared to retire, Rocky, after dealing with Mickeys heart attack before the fight, is overpowered by the stronger, hungrier Lang and is knocked out in the second round. Mickey passes away after the fight, and former rival Apollo Creed steps in, training Rocky to fight more in Creeds old style and use more guile, in the rematch, Rocky outboxes Lang, tiring the stronger fighter out and eventually knocking him out in the third round. After the fight, Apollo calls in his favor for training Rocky, the film ends as they each throw their first punch. After winning back the title from Clubber Lang, Rocky decides to spend time with his family. However, destiny has other plans for him which doesnt allow him to leave the ring, a new fighter from the USSR, Ivan Drago, has emerged and challenges Rocky to an exhibition match. Apollo fights instead, and the beating he takes from Drago ends with Apollo dying in Rockys arms in the ring as Drago coldly watches, to avenge Apollo, Rocky challenges Drago to a match, which is to be held on Christmas Day in Moscow
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Rocky Anthology DVD set
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John Rambo
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John James Rambo is a fictional character in the Rambo saga. He first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, the portrayal of the character earned Stallone widespread acclaim and recognition. The character was nominated for American Film Institutes list 100 Years…100 Heroes, the term Rambo is used commonly to describe a person who is reckless, disregards orders, uses violence to solve problems, enters dangerous situations alone, and is exceptionally tough and aggressive. David Morrell says that in choosing the name Rambo he was inspired by the sound of force in the name of Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania. These apples, in turn, were named for Peter Gunnarsson Rambo who sailed from Sweden to New Sweden in the 1640s, the name Rambo was likely derived from a shortened form of Ramberget plus bo. Today, many of his descendants can still be found in region of the US. Furthermore, an Arthur J. Rambo was an actual U. S. soldier in Vietnam and his name can be seen on the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington, DC. By sheer coincidence, the Japanese word rambō means violent or rough and he was granted the first name John as a reference to the song When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again. In the novel and first film, Rambo appears as a soldier who suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and has difficulty adjusting to normal life. He is shown to be prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War. In the next films and novelizations he is displayed as a man who wants to stay away from conflict but is willing to do anything to save his friends, due to his violent nature, many civil people tend to fear him. Rambo has a muscular physique due to his time as a soldier in the army and he has a high amount of strength and stamina. Rambo is an expert in surviving in dense forests against a number of enemies due to his experiences in the Vietnam War. He is also an expert in guerrilla tactics, weapons, Rambo has black hair and brown eyes. In the DVD commentary for First Blood Morell remarks that the inspiration for Rambo was World War II hero Audie Murphy, according to the first film First Blood, Rambos full name is John Rambo. He was born on July 6,1947 in Bowie, Arizona, to a Navajo father, however, in Rambo, First Blood Part II, Marshall Murdock states that Rambo is of Native American and German descent. Rambo enlisted in the U. S. Army at the age of 18 on August 6,1964, after he graduated from Rangeford High School in 1965, his military service began in January 1966. Rambo was deployed to South Vietnam in September 1966 and he returned to the U. S. in 1967 and began training with the U. S. Army Special Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under Colonel Trautmans tutelage
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Rambo (film series)
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The series consists of the films First Blood, Rambo, First Blood Part II, Rambo III, and Rambo. Upon returning to the United States, Vietnam veteran John Rambo has difficulty adjusting to civilian life, in December 1981, Rambo travels to the fictional town of Hope, Washington, in search of a U. S. Army Special Forces buddy named Delmore Barry. Rambo arrives at Delmores supposed residence and finds Delmores little daughter, Rambo, attempting some cold comfort, gives Mrs. Barry the photograph of Delmores unit. He is left with a sense of survivors guilt as he is now the last man still living of his once-proud unit. He then travels to Hope in the attempt to find a diner, the overconfident town sheriff Will Teasle, does not welcome Rambo, judging the military hero negatively because of his long hair and scruffy look. Rambo fights his way out of the department with his bare hands. The sheriff and his deputies cannot win against Rambo in the forest, Rambo deals with them efficiently and although capable of doing so, he doesnt kill any of them. He does unintentionally kill an officer in self-defense by throwing a rock at a helicopter, causing the pilot to lose control. The Washington State Patrol and about 200 members of the Washington Army National Guard are called in to assist, at this point, Colonel Samuel Trautman, the former commanding officer of Rambos old Special Forces unit, arrives in Hope. Trautman warns that continuing the manhunt is dangerous to the authorities and he instead suggests giving Rambo a chance to escape, if Rambo is allowed to slip away, hell be given time to calm down and he can be arrested without incident. The authorities reject Trautmans recommendation and continue the manhunt, and Rambos subsequent rampage culminates in the destruction of the sheriffs office, Rambo stands poised to eliminate the sheriff, but Trautman finally confronts Rambo face-to-face, and ultimately convinces his former soldier to surrender to the authorities. Between the first and second films, Rambo is convicted and remanded to a civilian maximum-security prison where heavy duty labor is the norm. In the second installment of the series in 1985, Trautman offers Rambo his freedom if Rambo will return to Vietnam to search for American prisoners of war remaining in Vietnamese captivity. Marshall Murdock, the official in charge of the mission, is portrayed as a political figure who doesnt want to expose the truth. Rambo is sent to a part of the jungle where Murdock receives confirmation that no POWs were being held at the time, Rambo works with anti-communist Vietnamese female rebel Co Bao, who is serving as an intelligence agent. Rambo discovers that there is a POW camp where he was dropped, Rambo breaks one POW out of the camp and attempts to escape, only to be refused access to the base by Murdock and to have himself and the POW recaptured by the Vietnamese soldiers. Rambo is immobilized in a pit of sewage and leeches, then tortured by Soviet soldiers, Co enters the base under the guise of a prostitute for hire, where she aids Rambo in escaping. After Rambo expresses his deepest gratitude for his rescue, the two share a kiss, after Co implores him to take her back to America with him, as they prepare to move on, Co is shot down by surprise gunfire
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Stallone in
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The Expendables (film series)
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The Expendables is an American series of action films written by and starring Sylvester Stallone and originally created by David Callaham. The series consists of three films, The Expendables, The Expendables 2 and The Expendables 3, with a fourth film scheduled to be released in 2018. The series has received mixed reception, in regard to its plots. The films have been box office successes, however, the team leader, Barney Ross, soon realises that Garza is merely a puppet being controlled by a ruthless rogue CIA officer, James Monroe, who is Mr. Churchs real target. A while after the first film, the Expendables accept another mission from Mr, the Expendables come face to face with the teams co-founder Conrad Stonebanks. Ross was forced to kill Stonebanks after he became an arms trader. Ross resorts to recruiting a new and younger generation of Expendables to help the team overcome his old adversary, Stallone revealed his first choice for the villain was Jack Nicholson. The Expendables 4 might receive an R rating, in December 2016, Stallone announced in a interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the fourth film will be the last film in the series and is set for a 2018 release date. In March 2017, it was announced Stallone would be leaving the franchise due to disagreements over the script, in October 2012, Millennium Films, the studio behind The Expendables, announced plans for an all-female version of the film titled The ExpendaBelles. On October 28,2013, Lerner was negotiating with actresses Meryl Streep, Cameron Diaz, on February 6,2014, Deadline reported that Robert Luketic was set to direct. The only way in, some of the world’s deadliest female operatives must pose as high-class call-girls shipped in by plane to satisfy a dictator–and instead save the scientist. In July 2016, Stallone made it clear that he is not involved with the female-centered spin-off, the Expendables 2 Videogame is a downloadable four-player cooperative shoot em up video game. It was published by Ubisoft for PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade and released on July 31,2012 for PSN and August 20 for PC and XBLA. The games plot is a prequel to The Expendables 2, with Barney Ross, Gunner Jensen, Yin Yang, lundgren and Crews voiced their respective characters. According to review aggregators Metacritic and GameRankings, the game received negative reviews. The Expendables 2, Deploy & Destroy is a tower defense. Published by Roadshow Films and Soap Creative, the game was released on July 13,2012 and its plot was derived from village scenes in the film, where players can choose their squad from the cast, set up defenses and battle the enemy. A standalone expansion of the game Broforce was based on The Expendables 3, entitled The Expendabros, it was released in August 2014
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Sylvester Stallone in August 2014, at the French premiere of de
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Rocky
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Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. Rocky starts out as a club fighter, and later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrians brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rockys trainer Mickey Goldmill, the film received many positive reviews and turned Stallone into a major star. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Rocky is considered to be one of the greatest sports films ever made and was ranked as the second-best in the genre, after Raging Bull, the film has spawned six sequels, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky Balboa, and Creed. Stallone portrays Rocky in all six sequels, wrote the first five, in late 1975, the heavyweight boxing world champion, Apollo Creed, announces plans to hold a title bout in Philadelphia during the upcoming United States Bicentennial. However, he is informed five weeks from the date that his scheduled opponent is unable to compete due to an injured hand. With all other potential replacements booked up or otherwise unavailable, Creed decides to spice things up by giving a local contender a chance to face him. He settles on Rocky Balboa, a failed Southpaw boxer from an Italian neighborhood of Philadelphia, Rocky meets with promoter Miles Jergens, presuming Creed is seeking local sparring partners. Rocky reluctantly agrees to the match, which will pay him $150,000, at the same time, Rocky begins a relationship with Adrian, a clerk at the local pet store. He gradually gains the shy Adrians trust, culminating in a kiss and her alcoholic brother Paulie becomes jealous of Rockys success, but Rocky calms him by agreeing to advertise his meatpacking business at the fight. The night before the match, Rocky starts to lose confidence after touring the arena and he confesses to Adrian that he does not expect to win, but is content to go the distance against Creed and prove himself to everyone. On New Years Day, the boxing match begins, with Creed making a dramatic entrance dressed as George Washington. Taking advantage of his overconfidence, Rocky knocks him down in the first round—the first time that Creed has ever knocked down. Humiliated, Creed takes Rocky more seriously for the rest of the fight, as the match progresses, Creeds superior skill is countered by Rockys apparently unlimited ability to absorb punches, and his dogged refusal to be knocked out. As the final round bell sounds, with both locked in each others arms, they promise to each other that there will be no rematch. As Jergens declares Creed the winner by virtue of a decision, Adrian and Rocky embrace and profess their love to each other. Wepner was TKOd in the 15th round of the match by Ali, despite the fact that the match motivated Stallone to begin work on Rocky, he has subsequently denied that Wepner provided any inspiration for the script
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Theatrical release poster
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Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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The statue, situated just northeast of the steps.
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National Film Registry
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The National Film Registry is the United States National Film Preservation Boards selection of films for preservation in the Library of Congress. The NFPB, established by the National Film Preservation Act of 1988, was reauthorized by acts of Congress in 1992,1996,2005, and again in October 2008. The NFPBs mission, to which the NFR contributes, is to ensure the survival, conservation, the 1996 law also created the non-profit National Film Preservation Foundation which, although affiliated with the NFPB, raises money from the private sector. To be eligible for inclusion, a film must be at least ten years old, for the first selection in 1989, the public nominated almost 1,000 films for consideration. Members of the NFPB then developed individual ballots of possible films for inclusion, the ballots were tabulated into a list of 25 films which was then modified by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and his staff at the Library for the final selection. Since 1997, members of the public have been able to nominate up to 50 films a year for the NFPB, the NFR includes films ranging from Hollywood classics to orphan films. A film is not required to be feature-length, nor is it required to have been released in the traditional sense. As of the 2016 listing, there are 700 films preserved in the Registry, currently, the earliest listed film is Newark Athlete, and the most recent is 13 Lakes. Counting the 11 multi-year serials in the NFR once each by year of completion, the years with the most films selected are 1928,1939, the time between a films debut and its selection varies greatly. The longest span is 119 years, Newark Athlete was originally released in 1891, the shortest span is the minimum 10 years, this distinction is shared by Raging Bull, Do the Right Thing, Goodfellas, Toy Story, Fargo and 13 Lakes. For purposes of this list, multi-year serials are counted once by year of completion
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Logo for the National Film Registry
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The 47-second long
The Kiss (1896) was one of the first films shown commercially to the public.
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The Great Train Robbery (1903) used a variety of editing techniques that were becoming popular at the time of its release.
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Although not the first animated film,
Gertie the Dinosaur became the first popular cartoon.
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Smithsonian Museum
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The Smithsonian Institution, established in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States. Originally organized as the United States National Museum, that ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967. Additional facilities are located in Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York City, Texas, Virginia, more than 200 institutions and museums in 45 states, Puerto Rico, and Panama are Smithsonian Affiliates. The Institutions thirty million annual visitors are admitted without charge and its annual budget is around $1.2 billion with 2/3 coming from annual federal appropriations. Other funding comes from the Institutions endowment, private and corporate contributions, membership dues, and earned retail, concession, Institution publications include Smithsonian and Air & Space magazines. The British scientist James Smithson left most of his wealth to his nephew Henry James Hungerford, Congress officially accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation, and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1,1836. The American diplomat Richard Rush was dispatched to England by President Andrew Jackson to collect the bequest, Rush returned in August 1838 with 105 sacks containing 104,960 gold sovereigns. Once the money was in hand, eight years of Congressional haggling ensued over how to interpret Smithsons rather vague mandate for the increase, unfortunately, the money was invested by the US Treasury in bonds issued by the state of Arkansas which soon defaulted. The United States Exploring Expedition by the U. S. Navy circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842, in 1846, the regents developed a plan for weather observation, in 1847, money was appropriated for meteorological research. The Institution became a magnet for young scientists from 1857 to 1866, the Smithsonian played a critical role as the U. S. partner institution in early bilateral scientific exchanges with the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. The Smithsonian Institution Building began construction in 1849, designed by architect James Renwick Jr. its interiors were completed by general contract Gilbert Cameron and the building opened in 1855. The Smithsonians first expansion came with construction of the Arts and Industries Building in 1881, Congress had promised to build a new structure for the museum if the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition generated enough income. It did, and the building was designed by architects Adolf Cluss and Paul Schulze, meigs of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The National Zoological Park opened in 1889 to accommodate the Smithsonians Department of Living Animals and this structure was designed by the D. C. architectural firm of Hornblower & Marshall. More than 40 years would pass before the museum, the Museum of History. It was designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White. That same year, the Smithsonian signed an agreement to take over the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened in the Old Patent Office Building on October 7,1968. The first new building to open since the National Museum of Natural History was the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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The
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Aircraft on display at the
National Air and Space Museum, including a
Ford Trimotor and
Douglas DC-3 (top and second from top)
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The Smithsonian Castle doorway
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The main museum building was completed in 1928 on Fairmount, a located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval. The museum administers collections containing over 240,000 objects including major holdings of European, American and Asian origin, the various classes of artwork include sculpture, paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, armor and decorative arts. The attendance figure for the museum was 751,797 in 2015, the museum is also one of the largest art museums in the world based on gallery space. The museum also administers the historic houses of Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove. The museum and its annexes are owned by the City of Philadelphia, as of 2017, the standard adult admission price is $20 which allows entrance to the main building and all annexes for two consecutive days. The museum is closed on Mondays except on some holidays, several special exhibitions are held in the museum every year, including touring exhibitions arranged with other museums in the United States and abroad. Special exhibitions may have a charge for entrance. Philadelphia celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with the 1876 Centennial Exposition and its art building, Memorial Hall, was intended to outlast the Exhibition and house a permanent museum. The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art opened on May 10,1877 and its permanent collection began with objects from the Exhibition and gifts from the public impressed with the Exhibitions ideals of good design and craftsmanship. European and Japanese fine and decorative art objects and books for the Museums library were among the first donations, the location outside of Center City, however, was fairly distant from many of the citys inhabitants. Admission was charged until 1881, then was dropped until 1962, starting in 1882, Clara Jessup Moore donated a remarkable collection of antique furniture, enamels, carved ivory, jewelry, metalwork, glass, ceramics, books, textiles and paintings. The Countess de Brazzas lace collection was acquired in 1894 forming the nucleus of the lace collection, in 1893 Anna H. Wilstach bequeathed a large painting collection, including many American paintings, and an endowment of half a million dollars for additional purchases. Works by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and George Inness were purchased within a few years, in the early 1900s, the Museum started an education program for the general public, as well as a membership program. Fiske Kimball was the director during the rapid growth of the 1920s. After World War II the collections grew with gifts, such as the John D. McIlhenny, early modern art dominated the growth of the collections in the 1950s, with acquisitions of the Louise and Walter Arensberg and the A. E. Gallatin collections. The gift of Philadelphian Grace Kellys wedding dress is perhaps the best known gift of the 1950s, extensive renovation of the building lasted from the 1960s through 1976. Major acquisitions included the Carroll S. Tyson, Jr. and Samuel S. White III and Vera White collections,71 objects from designer Elsa Schiaparelli, in 1976 there were celebrations and special exhibitions for the centennial of the Museum and the bicentennial of the nation
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East entrance
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"Plan for the Fairmount Parkway" (1917), by
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The western pediment features polychrome sculpture by Jennewein
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Henry Ossawa Tanner 's Annunciation, acquired in 1899
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Rocky Steps
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Tourists often mimic Rockys famous climb, a metaphor for an underdog or an everyman rising to a challenge. A bronze Rocky statue was briefly situated at the top of the steps for the filming of Rocky III and this statue, now located at the bottom right of the steps, is a popular photo opportunity for visitors. The top of the steps offers a view of Eakins Oval, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Stallone first thought Rocky should carry his dog Butkus up the steps, still, the view from the top of the stairs inspired him to reshoot the scene without the dog. Also in Rocky Balboa, Rocky lifts his dog Punchy when he reaches the top of the steps, the closing credits of Rocky Balboa shows a montage of dozens of people running up the steps. This scene was one of the first uses in a film of the Steadicam. Before Rocky III, released in 1982, Stallone commissioned A. Thomas Schomberg to create a statue of Rocky. Three 2-ton, 10-foot-tall copies were cast, one was installed atop the steps for the filming of Rocky III, and was ultimately relocated at the bottom of the steps. The second Rocky is in the San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum in San Diego, the third was planned, but was not cast. It is unknown if Schomberg ever cast the third Rocky statue, after filming was complete, a debate arose between the Art Museum and Philadelphias Art Commission over the meaning of art. City officials, who argued that the Rocky statue was not art but a movie prop and it was later returned to the Art Museum for the filming of Rocky V, Mannequin and Philadelphia, then brought back to the Spectrum. The statue was replaced with an inlay of Converse sneaker footprints with the name Rocky above them. On September 8,2006, the Rocky statue was returned to the Art Museum, the unveiling ceremony included live music, the debut of the first full trailer for Rocky Balboa, and a free showing of the first Rocky movie. At the ceremony, Philadelphia Mayor John Street said that the steps were one of Phillys biggest tourist attractions, and that Stallone, the Rocky film scene has become a cultural icon. Many tourists visit the steps to recreate the scene themselves, channel ranked it No.13 in its 101 Most Awesome Moments in Entertainment. During the 1996 Olympic Torch Relay, Philadelphia native Dawn Staley was chosen to run up the museum steps, the steps are the backdrop for the annual Independence Day celebration, and have often been featured in large concerts such as Live 8. The 2017 NFL Draft will be held from the steps, the first time the NFL draft will be held outdoors, the scene has inspired homages and parodies since Rocky was released in 1976. In The Simpsons episode Im Spelling as Fast as I Can, in the film In Her Shoes, Toni Collettes character, Rose Feller, runs up the steps with four dogs
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The front entrance and steps to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Sylvester Stallone,
Tessa Thompson, and
Michael B. Jordan promoting
Creed atop the Rocky Steps in November 2015.
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The statue, situated just northeast of the steps
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View of the Ben Franklin Parkway from the top of the steps
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International Boxing Hall of Fame
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The modern International Boxing Hall of Fame, located in Canastota, New York, United States, honors boxers, trainers and other contributors to the sport worldwide. The International Boxing Hall of Fame is one of two recognized international boxing halls of fame, with the other being the World Boxing Hall of Fame in Riverside, CA. The first Boxing Hall of Fame was sponsored by Ring magazine, multiple-award-winning artist Richard T. Slone was named the official artist of the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997 and remains so to this day. There are ceremonies conducted every year to honor the inductees and the ceremonies are attended by former world boxing champions, boxing celebrities. Professional boxers have to wait five years retirement to be eligible for election into the Hall of Fame. Inductions are handled by members of the Boxing Writers Association of America, each year inductees are selected in five different categories, Modern, Retired boxers whose last bout was no earlier than 1943. Old Timers, Boxers whose last bout was no earlier than 1893, pioneers, Boxers whose last bout was in or prior to 1892. Observers, Journalists, historians, writers and artists, non-Participants, People who made contributions to the sport of boxing apart from their roles as boxers or observers. Bare Knuckle Boxing Hall of Fame IBHOF official website
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Some of the exhibits at the International
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Academy Awards
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The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname Oscar. The awards, first presented in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, are overseen by AMPAS, the awards ceremony was first broadcast on radio in 1930 and televised for the first time in 1953. It is now live in more than 200 countries and can be streamed live online. The Academy Awards ceremony is the oldest worldwide entertainment awards ceremony and its equivalents – the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for theater, and the Grammy Awards for music and recording – are modeled after the Academy Awards. The 89th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the best films of 2016, were held on February 26,2017, at the Dolby Theatre, in Los Angeles, the ceremony was hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and was broadcast on ABC. A total of 3,048 Oscars have been awarded from the inception of the award through the 88th, the first Academy Awards presentation was held on May 16,1929, at a private dinner function at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people. The post-awards party was held at the Mayfair Hotel, the cost of guest tickets for that nights ceremony was $5. Fifteen statuettes were awarded, honoring artists, directors and other participants in the industry of the time. The ceremony ran for 15 minutes, winners were announced to media three months earlier, however, that was changed for the second ceremony in 1930. Since then, for the rest of the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11,00 pm on the night of the awards. The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and he had to return to Europe before the ceremony, so the Academy agreed to give him the prize earlier, this made him the first Academy Award winner in history. With the fourth ceremony, however, the system changed, for the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years. At the 29th ceremony, held on March 27,1957, until then, foreign-language films had been honored with the Special Achievement Award. The 74th Academy Awards, held in 2002, presented the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, since 1973, all Academy Awards ceremonies always end with the Academy Award for Best Picture. The Academy also awards Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, see also § Awards of Merit categories The best known award is the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. The five spokes represent the branches of the Academy, Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers. The model for the statuette is said to be Mexican actor Emilio El Indio Fernández, sculptor George Stanley sculpted Cedric Gibbons design. The statuettes presented at the ceremonies were gold-plated solid bronze
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31st Academy Awards Presentations,
Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, 1959
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81st Academy Awards Presentations,
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Pantages Theatre, 2008
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Academy Award for Best Actor
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The Academy Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered a performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with Emil Jannings receiving the award for his roles in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh. Currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the branch of AMPAS. In the first three years of the awards, actors were nominated as the best in their categories, at that time, all of their work during the qualifying period was listed after the award. The following year, this unwieldy and confusing system was replaced by the current system in which an actor is nominated for a performance in a single film. Starting with the 9th ceremony held in 1937, the category was officially limited to five nominations per year, since its inception, the award has been given to 79 actors. Daniel Day-Lewis has received the most awards in this category with three Oscars, spencer Tracy and Laurence Olivier were nominated on nine occasions, more than any other actor. As of the 2017 ceremony, Casey Affleck is the most recent winner in category for his role as Lee Chandler in Manchester by the Sea. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. For the first five ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned twelve months from August 1 to July 31, for the 6th ceremony held in 1934, the eligibility period lasted from August 1,1932 to December 31,1933
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Emil Jannings (center) was the first winner in this category for his roles in 1928's
The Last Command and 1927's
The Way of All Flesh.
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Warner Baxter won in 1928 for his performance in
In Old Arizona.
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George Arliss won in 1929 for his performance in
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Lionel Barrymore won in 1930 for his performance in
A Free Soul.
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Charles Chaplin
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Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame during the era of silent film. Chaplin became an icon through his screen persona the Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, Chaplins childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. As his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine, when he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor. At 19 he was signed to the prestigious Fred Karno company, Chaplin was scouted for the film industry, and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios. He soon developed the Tramp persona and formed a fan base. Chaplin directed his own films from a stage, and continued to hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual. By 1918, he was one of the best known figures in the world, in 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists, which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length was The Kid, followed by A Woman of Paris, The Gold Rush and he refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing City Lights and Modern Times without dialogue. Chaplin became increasingly political, and his film, The Great Dictator. The 1940s were a decade marked with controversy for Chaplin, and he was accused of communist sympathies, while his involvement in a paternity suit and marriages to much younger women caused scandal. An FBI investigation was opened, and Chaplin was forced to leave the United States and he abandoned the Tramp in his later films, which include Monsieur Verdoux, Limelight, A King in New York, and A Countess from Hong Kong. Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in and he was a perfectionist, and his financial independence enabled him to spend years on the development and production of a picture. His films are characterised by slapstick combined with pathos, typified in the Tramps struggles against adversity, many contain social and political themes, as well as autobiographical elements. In 1972, as part of an appreciation for his work. He continues to be held in regard, with The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times. Charles Spencer Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889 to Hannah Chaplin, there is no official record of his birth, although Chaplin believed he was born at East Street, Walworth, in South London
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Publicity portrait,
circa 1920
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Seven-year-old Chaplin (centre) at the
Central London District School for
paupers, 1897.
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A teenage Chaplin in the play
Sherlock Holmes, which he appeared in between 1903 and 1906
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Advertisement from Chaplin's American tour with the
Fred Karno comedy company, 1913
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Orson Welles
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George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film. In 1937 he and John Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre, an independent repertory company that presented a series of productions on Broadway through 1941. It reportedly caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was actually occurring, although some contemporary sources claim these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to notoriety. His first film was Citizen Kane, which he co-wrote, produced, directed, Welles was an outsider to the studio system and directed only 13 full-length films in his career. He has been praised as the ultimate auteur, Welles followed up Citizen Kane with critically acclaimed films including The Magnificent Ambersons in 1942 and Touch of Evil in 1958. Although these three are his most acclaimed films, critics have argued other works of his, such as The Lady from Shanghai and Chimes at Midnight, are underappreciated. Known for his voice, Welles was an actor in radio and film, a Shakespearean stage actor. George Orson Welles was born May 6,1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, son of Richard Head Welles and he was named after his paternal great-grandfather, influential Kenosha attorney Orson S. Head, and his brother George Head. Despite his familys affluence, Welles encountered hardship in childhood and his parents separated and moved to Chicago in 1919. His father, who made a fortune as the inventor of a bicycle lamp, became an alcoholic. Beatrice died of hepatitis in a Chicago hospital May 10,1924, the Gordon String Quartet, which had made its first appearance at her home in 1921, played at Beatrices funeral. After his mothers death Welles ceased pursuing music and it was decided that he would spend the summer with the Watson family at a private art colony in Wyoming, New York, established by Lydia Avery Coonley Ward. There he played and became friends with the children of the Aga Khan, Welles briefly attended public school before his alcoholic father left business altogether and took him along on his travels to Jamaica and the Far East. When they returned they settled in a hotel in Grand Detour, Illinois, when the hotel burned down, Welles and his father took to the road again. During the three years that Orson lived with his father, some observers wondered who took care of whom, in some ways, he was never really a young boy, you know, said Roger Hill, who became Welless teacher and lifelong friend. Welles briefly attended school in Madison, Wisconsin, enrolled in the fourth grade. At Todd School, Welles came under the influence of Roger Hill, Hill provided Welles with an ad hoc educational environment that proved invaluable to his creative experience, allowing Welles to concentrate on subjects that interested him. Welles performed and staged theatrical experiments and productions there, Todd provided Welles with many valuable experiences, wrote critic Richard France
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Welles on March 1, 1937 (age 21), photographed by
Carl Van Vechten
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Welles's birthplace in
Kenosha, Wisconsin (2013)
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Macbeth (1936)
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Macbeth opening night at the
Lafayette Theatre (April 14, 1936)
26.
Golden Globe Award
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Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a part of the film industrys awards season. The 74th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film, the 1st Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best achievements in 1943 filmmaking, was held in January 1944, at the 20th Century-Fox studios. Subsequent ceremonies were held at venues throughout the next decade, including the Beverly Hills Hotel. In 1950, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association made the decision to establish an honorary award to recognize outstanding contributions to the entertainment industry. Recognizing its subject as a figure within the entertainment industry. The official name of the award became the Cecil B. In 1963, the Miss Golden Globe concept was introduced, in its inaugural year, two Miss Golden Globes were named, one for film and one for television. The two Miss Golden Globes named that year were Eva Six and Donna Douglas, respectively, in 2009, the Golden Globe statuette was redesigned. It was unveiled at a conference at the Beverly Hilton prior to the show. The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, generally ranks as the third most-watched awards show each year, behind only the Oscars, gervais returned to host the 68th and 69th Golden Globe Awards the next two years. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted the 70th, 71st and 72nd Golden Globe Awards in 2015, the Golden Globe Awards theme song, which debuted in 2012, was written by Japanese musician and songwriter Yoshiki Hayashi. On January 7,2008, it was announced due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was faced with a threat by striking writers to picket the event, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association was forced to adopt another approach for the broadcast. In acting categories, Meryl Streep holds the record for the most competitive Golden Globe wins with eight, however, including honorary awards, such as the Henrietta Award, World Film Favorite Actor/Actress Award, or Cecil B. DeMille Award, Barbra Streisand leads with nine, additionally, Streisand won for composing the song Evergreen, producing the Best Picture, and directing Yentl in 1984. Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda and Shirley MacLaine have six awards each, behind them are Rosalind Russell and Jessica Lange with five wins. Meryl Streep also holds the record for most nominations with thirty, at the 46th Golden Globe Awards an anomaly occurred, a three way-tie for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
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The Golden Globe statuette
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Ryan Coogler
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Ryan Kyle Coogler is an American film director and screenwriter. His first feature film, Fruitvale Station, won the Grand Jury Prize and he also wrote and directed the seventh film in the Rocky film saga, Creed. Coogler was born on May 23,1986 in Oakland, California and his mother, Joselyn, is a community organizer, and his father, Ira Coogler, is a juvenile hall probation counselor. Both parents graduated from California State University, Hayward and he has two brothers, Noah and Keenan. His uncle, Clarence Thomas, is a third-generation Oakland longshoreman, Coogler lived in Oakland, California until age eight, when he moved to Richmond, California. During his youth, he ran track and played football and he went to Saint Marys College High School, a private Catholic school in Berkeley, California, and was good at math and science. He started his journey at Saint Marys College of California on a football scholarship as a redshirt wide receiver his freshman semester intending to study chemistry. While he was there, his English professor Rosemary Graham encouraged him to pursue a career in screenwriting, at Sacramento he majored in finance and took as many film classes as he could fit in with the rigors of college football. He then attended USC School of Cinematic Arts, where he made a series of short films, the film was developed and produced by Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker. Ive worked with a number of truly unique voices, true auteurs, Whitaker said of Coogler, the film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film. Time named him with Michael B. Jordan one of 30 people under 30 who are changing the world, Fruitvale Station grossed over $17 million worldwide after its theatrical run, and earned a score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. In July 2013, it was reported that MGM had offered Coogler to direct Creed, a spin-off-sequel of the Rocky films and this film, which was released on November 25,2015 in the United States, reunited Coogler with Michael B. Jordan, who played Apollo Creeds son Adonis, the film was praised across the board by critics. For the film, Coogler won the New Generation Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, in January 2013, Coogler said he was working on a graphic novel and a young adult novel about undisclosed subject matter. Coogler will also work with frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan for a time in the upcoming film Wrong Answer. Coogler has worked since age 21 as a counselor with incarcerated youth at San Franciscos Juvenile Hall, following in the footsteps of his father and he is married to Zinzi Evans. Fruitvale Station Creed Black Panther Locks Fig Gap The Sculptor Ryan Coogler at the Internet Movie Database
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Ryan Coogler at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
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Coogler accepts the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic with the crew of Fruitvale Station at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.
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Creed (film)
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Creed is a 2015 American sports drama film, directed by Ryan Coogler and written by Coogler and Aaron Covington. A spin-off and sequel to the Rocky film series, the film stars Michael B. Jordan as Adonis Johnson Creed, Apollo Creeds son and it also features Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashād, Tony Bellew and Graham McTavish. The film reunites Jordan with Fruitvale Station writer/director Coogler, as well as Wood Harris, filming began on January 19,2015 in Liverpool, and later also took place in Philadelphia, Rockys hometown. Creed was released in the United States on November 25,2015, the seventh installment of the series and sequel to 2006s Rocky Balboa, the film received acclaim from critics, who called it the best Rocky film in many years. For his performance, Stallone was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, seventeen years later, Donnie walks away from his job at a securities firm to pursue his dream of becoming a professional boxer. Mary Anne vehemently opposes this, remembering how her husband was killed in the thirty years earlier against Ivan Drago. He tries to get a slot at Los Angeless elite Delphi Boxing Academy, managed by Creeds legitimate son and Johnsons half-brother, undaunted, Donnie travels to Philadelphia in hopes of getting in touch with his fathers old friend and rival, former heavyweight champion Rocky Balboa. Donnie tracks down Rocky at Rockys Italian restaurant, Adrians, named in honor of his deceased wife, Rocky is reluctant to get back into boxing, having already made a one-off comeback at a very advanced age despite having suffered brain trauma during his career as a fighter. Donnie asks him about the third fight between him and Apollo just after Apollo helped Rocky regain the heavyweight title, and Rocky reveals that Apollo won. Donnie trains at the Front Street Gym, with several of Rockys longtime friends as cornermen and he also finds a love interest in Bianca, an up-and-coming singer and songwriter. Donnie, now known as Hollywood Donnie, defeats a local fighter, Rocky gets a call from the handlers of world light heavyweight champion Pretty Ricky Conlan, who is due to be forced into retirement by an impending prison term. He offers to make Donnie his final challenger—provided that he change his name to Adonis Creed, Donnie balks at first, wanting to forge his own legacy. While helping Donnie train, Rocky learns he has non-Hodgkins lymphoma and he is unwilling to undergo chemotherapy, remembering that it was not enough to save Adrian when she had ovarian cancer. Seeing Rocky shaken, Donnie urges him to seek treatment, Donnie fights Conlan at Goodison Park in Conlans hometown of Liverpool, and many parallels emerge between the bout that ensues and Apollo and Rockys first fight 40 years earlier. First, before going into the ring, Donnie receives a present from Mary Anne — new American flag trunks similar to the ones Apollo, additionally, to the surprise of nearly everyone, Donnie gives Conlan all he can handle. Conlan knocks Donnie down, but Donnie recovers to knock Conlan down for the first time in his career, Donnie goes the distance, but loses to Conlan wins on a split decision. However, Donnie has won the respect of Conlan and the crowd, as Max Kellerman puts it while calling the fight for HBO, Conlan won the fight, Conlan tells Donnie that he is the future of the light heavyweight division. The film ends with Donnie and a frail but improving Rocky climbing the Rocky Steps at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Teaser poster
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Stallone, Thompson, and Jordan promoting the film atop the
Rocky Steps in November 2015.
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Wrestling
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Wrestling is a combat sport involving grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. The sport can either be theatrical for entertainment, or genuinely competitive, a wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. There are a range of styles with varying rules with both traditional historic and modern styles. Wrestling techniques have incorporated into other martial arts as well as military hand-to-hand combat systems. The term wrestling is attested in late Old English, as wræstlunge, Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. The origins of wrestling go back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France, babylonian and Egyptian reliefs show wrestlers using most of the holds known in the present-day sport. Literary references to it occur as early as in the ancient Indian Vedas, the Iliad contains references, in which Homer recounts the Trojan War of the 13th or 12th century BC. Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata contain references to martial arts including wrestling, in ancient Greece wrestling occupied a prominent place in legend and literature, wrestling competition, brutal in many aspects, served as the focal sport of the ancient Olympic Games. The ancient Romans borrowed heavily from Greek wrestling, but eliminated much of its brutality, during the Middle Ages wrestling remained popular and enjoyed the patronage of many royal families, including those of France, Japan and England. Early European settlers in America brought a strong wrestling tradition with them if they came from England, the settlers also found wrestling to be popular among Native Americans. Amateur wrestling flourished throughout the years of the North American colonies and served as a popular activity at country fairs, holiday celebrations. The first organized national wrestling tournament took place in New York City in 1888, the international governing body for the sport, United World Wrestling, was established in 1912 in Antwerp, Belgium as the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. The 1st NCAA Wrestling Championships were also held in 1912, in Ames, USA Wrestling, located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, became the national governing body of amateur wrestling in 1983. It conducts competitions for all age-levels, some of the earliest references to wrestling, can be found in wrestling mythology. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh established his credibility as a leader, after wrestling Enkidu, Greek mythology celebrates the rise of Zeus as ruler of the earth after a wrestling match with his father, Cronus. Both Heracles and Theseus were famous for their wrestling against man, the Mahabharata describes a malla-dwandwa between the accomplished wrestlers Bhima and Jarasandha. Rustam of the Shahnameh is regarded by Iranian pahlevans as the greatest wrestler, in Pharaonic Egypt, wrestling has been evidenced by documentation on tombs and Egyptian artwork. Greek wrestling was a form of martial art, at least in Ancient Greece
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Ancient Greek wrestlers (
Pankratiasts)
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An
Egyptian mural from a tomb of at
Beni Hasan dating to around 2000 BC, showing wrestlers in action.
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Detail of the wrestling scenes in tomb 15 (
Baqet III) at Beni Hasan.
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Jacob Wrestling with the Angel illustration by
Gustave Doré (1855)
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Gioia del Colle
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Gioia del Colle is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. The town is located on the Murge plateau at 360 metres above sea level, the earliest evidence of human settlement in the area now known as Gioia del Colle dates back to the 7th century BC. Archaeological excavations have revealed that at time a Peucetian village was located in the area of Monte Sannace. The current town developed around an old Byzantine fortress, the placename, in fact, seems to derive from Joha, short for the surname Joannakis, a Byzantine family living in the area during the Middle Ages. However, there are theories regarding the origin of this placename. The town grew further in the 12th century, during the time of Norman Count Richard of Hauteville, in the 13th century the fief was under the rule of Frederick II of Swabia, who rebuilt the castle. Gioia del Colle was part of the principality of Taranto and a fief of the princes De Mari of Acquaviva delle Fonti until the abolition of feudalism. The Castle of Gioia del Colle was built in the 12th century, during the time of Norman Count Riccardo Siniscalco dAltavilla, destroyed by William I of Sicily, the castle was rebuilt in 1230 by Emperor Frederick II after his return from the Crusades. The castle was completed by the Angevins, who created windows in the curtain wall. According to Bonaventura da Lama Bianca Lancia was confined in this castle while pregnant with Manfred of Sicily, on suspicion of having been unfaithful to Frederick II. In fact, on the wall of a cell are carved shapes, which, according to a legend, are intended to represent her breasts. After giving birth, she sent the alleged illegitimate child to the emperor on a silver platter together with her breasts, the later owners between 1600 and 1800 changed the castle appearance into a residential one. Mother church, built in the late 11th century and initially dedicated to St. Peter, in 1764 it was destroyed by a fire, and rebuilt in the current Baroque style. Boschi Romanazzi, a natural preserve managed by WWF Italia, the economy of Gioia del Colle is centred on agriculture, dairy farming and commerce. The town is famous for its Fior di latte mozzarella and its Gioia del Colle Primitivo wine, red, white, rose, sweet dolce and fortified liquoroso wines are permitted in the Italian wine DOC of the area. Red and rose grapes are limited to a harvest yield of 12 tonnes/ha while white wine grapes are limited to a yield of 13 tonnes/ha. The reds and roses are a blend of 50-60% Primitivo, a 40-50% blend component of Montepulciano, Sangiovese, Negroamaro, the whites are composed of 50-70% Trebbiano with other permitted local grape varieties, such as Pampanuto, making up the remainder. A varietal Primitivo wine is permitted, provided the wine is 100% composed of the grape with yields limited to 8 tonnes/ha and a minimum alcohol level of 13%
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Monument to Sergeant Romano
$400 million (2015)[1]
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