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was an influential early 20th century Russian mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent.[2]method foawakening one's consciousness unites the methods of the fakir, monk or yogi, and thus he referred to it as the "Fourth Way".[6]
George gurdjieff
He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists.[
Shepard fairey
popular streetwear producing company founded in 2001 by street artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey as an extension to his work in activism.[1]
Obey
May 25, 1921 - September 1, 2012) was an American lyricist. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. He was best known for his collaborations with composer Burt Bacharach and his association with Dionne Warwick.
Hal David
second only to Aretha Franklin as the most-charted female vocalist of all time,
Dionne warwick
eventually recorded a total of 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 entries, 17 top ten pop singles, 100 R&B entries and twenty number-one R&B singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the chart's history.
Aretha franklin
There are two possible answers to this question; one is a male forename (X), the other is a female forename (Y). In a classic Burt Bacharach and Hal David song, depending on whether the singer is male or female, a "Kentucky Bluebird" is asked to "take a message to ..." WHO? Note - the name of the song also varies according to the gender of the singer, being titled 'Message to X' or 'Message to Y'.
Michael Martha
26 October 1759 - 5 April 1794) was a leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution and the first President of the Committee of Public Safety. role in the onset of the Revolution has been disputed; many historians describe him as "the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic".[1] A moderating influence on the Jacobins, he was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror after accusations of venality and leniency to the enemies of the Revolution.
George Danton
French terror years
1793-4
campaigned for the end of the monarchy but then resisted the spiraling momentum of the Revolution. They came into conflict with The Mountain (Montagnards), a radical faction within the Jacobin Club. This conflict eventually led and their mass execution, the beginning of the Reign of Terror.
Girondins
15 January 1754 - 31 October 1793), who assumed the name of de Warville, was a leading member of the Girondist movement during the French Revolution.
Jacques Pierre brissot
They were the most radical group and opposed the Girondists. The term, which was first used during a session of the Legislative Assembly, came into general use in 1793. Led by Maximilien Robespierre, unleashed the Reign of Terror in 1794.
Mountain Montagnards
was the most famous and influential political club in the development of the French Revolution. Initially founded by anti-Royalist deputies from Brittany, the Club grew into a nationwide republican movement, with a membership estimated at a half million or more.[1] was heterogeneous and included both prominent parliamentary factions of the early 1790s, the radical Mountain and the more moderate Girondists.
Jacobins
was a coup d'état within the French Revolution against the leaders of the Jacobin Club who had dominated the Committee of Public Safety. It was triggered by a vote of the National Convention to execute Maximilien Robespierre, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, and several other leading members of the revolutionary government. This ended the most radical phase of the French Revolution.
Thermidorean reaction

25 August 1767 - 28 July 1794) was a military and political leader during the French Revolution. The youngest of the deputies elected to the National Convention in 1792, rose quickly in their ranks and became a major leader of the government of the French First Republic. He spearheaded the movement to execute King Louis XVI and later drafted the radical French Constitution of 1793.

Louis Saint just
was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon, the ruling dynasty of France. He actively supported the French Revolution and adopted the name
Philippe egalite
1977) was the last person to be executed in Western Europe,[1] and the last person executed by beheading in the Western world. He was a Tunisian agricultural worker who had been convicted of the torture and murder of 21-year-old Elisabeth Bousquet in Marseille.
Hamida djandoubi
was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was in part responsible, through his role as a politician and journalist, for the more radical course the Revolution had taken.
Charlotte Corday
two-wheeled cart or wagon typically designed to be hauled by a single horse or ox. Their original use was for agricultural work; in particular they were associated with carrying manure. Their most notable use was taking prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.[1][2]
Tumbril
French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment. He is famous for his articulation of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world. He is also known for doing more than any other author to secure the place of the word despotism in the political lexicon.[2]
Montesquieu
The invasion of France in 1795 or the Battle of
Quiberon
was an extreme radical newspaper during the French Revolution, edited by Jacques Hébert, who published 385 issues from September 1790 until eleven days before his death by guillotine, which took place on March 24, 1794. The title was used again hundreds of times afterwards, mainly during revolutionary periods, for publications with no direct connection to the original: for example, during the July Revolution of 1830, the Revolution of 1848, and during the Paris Commune (1871).
La pere duchesne
Year of revolutions
1848
It ruled in France as the House of from the ascension of Hugh in 987 until the death of Charles IV in 1328.
Capet
The family consolidated its power in the late 8th century, eventually making the offices of mayor of the palace and dux et princeps Francorum hereditary and becoming the de facto rulers of the Franks as the real powers behind the throne.
Carolingian
Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia in Latin, beginning in the middle of the 5th century. Their territory largely corresponded to ancient Gaul as well as the Roman provinces of Raetia, Germania Superior and the southern part of Germania
Merovingian
December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers of Arabic literature, along with Tawfiq el-Hakim, to explore themes of existentialism.[1] He published 34 novels, over 350 short stories, dozens of movie scripts, and five plays over a 70-year career. Many of his works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films.
Naguib Mahfouz
Last two Mars rovers 2004
Opportunity spirit
descended all the way to the surface of Venus in 1982 and managed to stay alive for 127 minutes—long enough to snap these two photos, the only images we have of Venus's surface:
Venera 13
Ppi stands for
Payment protection insurance
Barney Fife from what show
Andy Griffith show
Played young anakin sky walker
Jake Lloyd
1812 - 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at.
Johan galle
11 March 1811 - 23 September 1877) was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
Urbain le verrier
Discovered Phobos and Deimos
Asaph hall
Mathematician predicted Neptune existence
Le verrier
very compact quasar (quasi-stellar radio source) associated with a presumed supermassive black hole at the center of an active, giant elliptical galaxy.
Blazar
born 11 November 1961[3]) is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He founded investment firms Digital Sky Technologies (DST),[4] now called Mail.ru Group and DST Global.
Yuri milner
What kind of star is Proxima Centauri
Red dwarf
by far the most common type of star in the Milky Way, at least in the neighborhood of the Sun
Red dwarf
February 25, 1873 - August 2, 1921) was an Italian operatic tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and the Americas, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic.
Enrico Caruso
one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.
Maria callas
February 1922 - 19 December 2004)[1] was an Italian lirico-spinto soprano popular in the post-war period. Among the most beloved opera singers,[2] she has been said to have possessed one of the most beautiful voices of the 20th century[3] which was focused primarily on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires.
Renata tebaldi
Spanish tenor, conductor and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, German, Spanish, English and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world. Although primarily a lirico-spinto tenor for most of his career, especially popular for his Cavaradossi, Hoffmann, Don José, and Canio, he quickly moved into more dramatic roles, becoming the most acclaimed Otello of his generation.[2][3][4] In the early 2010s, he transitioned from the tenor repertory into almost exclusively baritone parts, most notably Simon Boccanegra. He has performed 147 different roles.
Placido Domingo.
Catalan tenor who is particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini.[1] Born in Barcelona, he made his debut on the operatic stage at 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles, performed in the world's leading opera houses and in numerous recordings.
Josep Carreras
densely packed salt pan in Tooele County in northwestern Utah. The area is a remnant of the Pleistocene Lake
Bonneville salt flats
was a force of bodyguards used by Roman Emperors. The title was already used during the Roman Republic for the guards of Roman generals since the rise to prominence of the Scipio family around 275 BC. The Guard was dissolved by Emperor Constantine I in the 4th century.
Praetorian guard
family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor.
Gens
November 2, 1913 - October 20, 1994) was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes, and distinctive smile (which he called "The Grin").
Burt lancaster
was nominated four times for Academy Awards and won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. He also won a Golden Globe for that performance and BAFTA Awards for The Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and Atlantic City (1980).
Burt Lancaster
November 1906 - 17 March 1976), was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971).
Luchino Visconti
Wrote death in Venice
Thomas Mann
came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in 1950, before starring in the successful Doctor film series (1954-63). He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role; for The Servant (1963) and Darling (1965). His other film roles included Victim (1961), Accident (1967), The Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), The Night Porter (1974), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Despair (1978). He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992.
Dirk Bogarde
term used mainly to describe film or theatre stars who are adored to the point of adulation by their fans. The term almost exclusively refers to adult male actors.
Matinee idol
April 15, 1891 - January 18, 1923)[1] was an American actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".[2]
Wallace reid
won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934),[2] and was nominated for leading roles in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Clark gable
also found success commercially and critically with films such as Red Dust (1932), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), San Francisco (1936), Saratoga (1937) Boom Town (1940), The Hucksters (1947) Homecoming (1948),
Clark gable
1934 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The plot was based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title.
It happened one night
As of the 87th Academy Awards (2014), a total of 42 films have been nominated in all five of these award categories. Only three films have won all five of these major awards:
It happened one night, one flew over the cuckoos nest, silence of the lambs
so-called Big Five Academy Award categories.[1] The Big Five Academy Awards are those for
Picture director actor actress screenplay
He was born into a musical family and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was "Keep the Home Fires Burning", which was enormously popular during the First World War. His 1917 show, Theodore & Co, was a wartime hit
Ivor Novello
In the 1920s, he turned to acting, first in British films and then on stage, with considerable success in both. He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill, both in 1927. On stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom (1926). briefly went to Hollywood, but he soon returned to Britain where he had more successes, especially on stage, appearing in his own lavish West End productions of musicals. The best known of these were Glamorous Night (1935) and The Dancing Years (1939). From the 1930s, he often performed with Zena Dare, writing parts for her in his works. He continued to write for film, but he had his biggest late successes with stage musicals: Perchance to Dream (1945), King's Rhapsody (1949) and Gay's the Word (1951).
Ivor Novello
Which former capital city of the Inca was founded in around 1100 AD to a design intended to resemble a puma?
Cuzco
The 64-storey tall Gran Torre in Santiago is the tallest skyscraper in Latin America. It was designed by which Argentinian architect perhaps best-known for the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur?
Cesar Pelli
After the Chilean-born artist who created them, what is the name of these famous ceramic tiled steps in Rio de Janeiro?
Selaron steps
Lake Titicaca is noted for its 42 man-made floating islands that were created by which ethnic group that lives on them?
Uru
underground Roman Catholic church built within the tunnels of a salt mine 200 metres (220 yd) underground in a Halite mountain near the town of , in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It is a very popular tourist destination and place of pilgrimage in the country.[2]
Zipaquira
It is the largest city in the world that is inaccessible by road.
Iquitos Peru
Islam pillar praying
Salat
Islam pillar charity
Zakat
Islam pillar declaration of faith
Shahada
Islam pillar fasting
Sawm
5 Islam pillars
Pray charity declare fast hajj
May 10, 1894 - November 11, 1979) was a Russian-American film score composer and conductor. Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his western scores, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Last Train from Gun Hill.
Dimitri tiomkin
4 Indiana Jones films
Raiders of the lost ark, temple of doom, last crusade, kingdom of the crystal skull
one of the three main antagonists in Raiders of the Lost Ark. He is a French archaeologist who takes credit for Indiana's findings.
Rene belloq
31 May 1922 - 6 October 1992) was an English film, television and theatre actor with more than 120 film and television credits.[1] He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In the 1980s, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in three consecutive years, the only actor ever to have achieved this. He is perhaps best known for portraying Dr Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and as Coleman in Trading Places (1983).
Denholm Elliott
(as the young Jones in The Last Crusade)
River Phoenix
born January 29, 1945) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his starring role as the private investigator Thomas Magnum in the television series Magnum, P.I. (1980-1988), based in Hawaii.
Tom selleck
appeared as Dr. Richard Burke on Friends, where he played the on-again, off-again love-interest of Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), and as A.J. Cooper on the TV series Las Vegas.
Tom selleck
Two people created friends
David crane Marta Kaufman
born February 23, 1994)[1] is an American actress and model. At age seven, her performance in the 2001 film I Am Sam earned her a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award at age eight in 2002, making her the youngest nominee in history.[2] As a child actress, she went on to appear in high-profile films such as Man on Fire (2004), War of the Worlds (2005) and Charlotte's Web (2006).
Dakota fanning
lead character in a series of detective novels written by Robert B. Parker. They were among his last works, and the first series in which the novelist used the third-person narrative. The series consists of nine books, starting with Night Passage (1997) and ending with Split Image (2010
Jesse stone
born 23 September 1953) is an English journalist. He is a newscaster and diplomatic and royal correspondent for BBC News.
Nicholas witchell
1939 RKO adventure film directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., loosely based on the poem of the same name by Rudyard Kipling combined with elements of his short story collection Soldiers Three.
Gunga din
Hindu goddess associated with empowerment, or shakti. She is the mighty aspect of the goddess Durga.[1] The name of means black one and force of time,[2] she is therefore called the Goddess of Time, Change, Power, Creation, Preservation, and Destruction.[
Kali
Hindu goddess of fertility, love and devotion; as well as of divine strength and power.[1][2][3] She is the gentle and nurturing aspect of the Hindu goddess Shakti and one of the central deities of the Goddess-oriented Shakta sect. She is the mother goddess in Hinduism and has many attributes and aspects. Each of her aspects is expressed with a different name, giving her over 100 names in regional Hindu stories of India.[
Parvati
Shivas wife
Parvati
usually described as having the dark complexion of water-filled clouds and having four arms. He is depicted as a pale blue being, as are his incarnations Rama and Krishna. He holds a padma (lotus flower) in his lower left hand, the Kaumodaki gada (mace) in his lower right hand, the Panchajanya shankha (conch) in his upper left hand and the discus weapon considered to be the most powerful weapon according to Hindu Religion Sudarshana Chakra in his upper right hand.
Vishnu
referred to within Hinduism as Maryada Purushottama,[4] literally the Perfect Man or Lord of Self-Control or Lord of Virtue. His wife Sita is considered by Hindus to be an avatar of Lakshmi and the embodiment of a great woman.[4][5]
Rama
the Hindu goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity (both material and spiritual). She is the wife and active energy of Lord Vishnu.[1] Her four hands represent the four goals of human life considered important to the Hindu way of life - dharma, kāma, artha, and moksha.[2
Lakshmi
Diwali in honour of what deity
Lakshmi
is widely revered as the remover of obstacles,[7] the patron of arts and sciences and the deva of intellect and wisdom.[8] As the god of beginnings, he is honoured at the start of rituals and ceremonies.
Ganesh
born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director, often working in collaboration with his wife, Kathleen Kennedy. With Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he was one of the founders of Amblin Entertainment
Frank marshall
born July 30, 1939) is an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, which included William Friedkin, Brian De Palma, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Michael Cimino and Francis Ford Coppola. His most critically acclaimed and well-known film is the drama The Last Picture Show (1971).
Peter bogdanovich
Set in a small town in north Texas from November 1951 to October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and his friend Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges). The cast includes Cybill Shepherd (in her film debut), Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid and John Hillerman. For aesthetic reasons it was shot in black and white, which was unusual for the time. The film features many songs of Hank Williams and other recording artists played throughout.
The last picture show
born October 5, 1951) is an American actress. She played Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Karen allen
During the magazine's most successful years, parody of every kind was a mainstay; surrealist content was also central to its appeal. Almost all the issues included long text pieces, shorter written pieces, a section of actual news items (dubbed "True Facts"), cartoons and comic strips. Most issues also included "Foto Funnies" or fumetti, which often featured nudity. The result was an unusual mix of intelligent, cutting-edge wit, combined with some crass, bawdy jesting.[
National lampoon
was an American publisher of comic books, which specialized in horror fiction, crime fiction, satire, military fiction and science fiction from the 1940s through the mid-1950s, notably the Tales from the Crypt series. In 1954-55, censorship pressures prompted it to concentrate on the humor magazine Mad, leading to the company's greatest and most enduring success.
Ec comics
Free third world internet by Facebook
Free basics
Name for Scottish poet laureate
Makar
Johnny Cash played one of his first prison concerts at San Quentin State Penitentiary on 1 January 1958. One of the prisoners at that concert was serving a 20-year sentence for robbery at the time. He later became a country music legend and created the 'Bakersfield' sound. Who was that prisoner?
Merle haggard
American country band best known as the back-up band for singer-songwriter Merle Haggard. Formed in the 1960s in Bakersfield, California, the band continued to tour with original co-founding member Norman Hamlet, as well as Haggard's children Dana and Ben.
The strangers
originated during the mid 1950s as a subgenre of American country music, replacing the chart dominance of the rough honky tonk music which was most popular in the 1940s and 1950s with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos".[1][2] It was an attempt "to revive country sales, which had been devastated by the rise of rock 'n' roll."[2]
Nashville sound
Her hits began in 1957 with Donn Hecht's and Alan Block's "Walkin' After Midnight", Hank Cochran's and Harlan Howard's "I Fall to Pieces", Hank Cochran's "She's Got You", Willie Nelson's "Crazy" and ended in 1963 with Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams".
Patsy cline
August 20, 1923 - July 31, 1964) was an American country and popular music singer-songwriter. With records charting from the 1950s to the 1980s, he became well known as a practitioner of the Nashville sound (a mixture of older country-style music with elements of popular music). Known as "Gentleman Jim", his songs continued to chart for years after his death.
Jim reeves
scored his greatest success with the Joe Allison composition "He'll Have to Go",[3] a great success on both the popular and country music charts, which earned him a platinum record. Released during late 1959, it scored number one on Billboard magazine's Hot Country Songs chart on February 8, 1960, which it scored for 14 weeks consecutive.
Jim reeves
consisted of Jim McGuinn (lead guitar, vocals), Gene Clark (tambourine, vocals), David Crosby (rhythm guitar, vocals), Chris Hillman (bass guitar, vocals), and Michael Clarke (drums).[7] However, this version of the band was relatively short-lived and by early 1966, Clark had left due to problems associated with anxiety and his increasing isolation within the group.[
Byrds
Among the band's most enduring songs are their cover versions of Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Pete Seeger's "Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)", along with the self-penned originals, "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better", "Eight Miles High", "So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star", "Ballad of Easy Rider" and "Chestnut Mare".
Byrds
He began as an itineran singer and banjoist, and launched his own radio show The Wayfaring Stranger, which popularised traditional folk-songs. In 1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, and then became a major star of CBS radio. In the 1960s he successfully crossed over into country music, recording hits such as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny Way of Laughing." A popular film actor through the late 1940s and 1950s, best-known roles in that medium included parts in So Dear to My Heart and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as Rufus Hannassey in The Big Country, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Burl Ives
music appeared on a variety of charts, including country and western, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, in all earning him twelve gold and four platinum albums with his signature songs "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Annie's Song", "Rocky Mountain High", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", and "Sunshine on My Shoulders".
John Denver
Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock and roll standard written and first recorded by
Carl perkins
Rock N Roll and rockabilly tinged songs, such as "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody", and "Somethin' Else", captured teenage frustration and desire in the mid-1950s to the early 1960s.[1] He experimented with multitrack recording, Distortion techniques and overdubbing even on his earliest singles,[2] and was also able to play piano, bass and drums.[1] His image as a sharply dressed and good-looking young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 50s rocker, and in death he achieved an iconic status.[3]
Eddie cochran
became a major Broadway star in 1955, a major Hollywood star in 1956, and a leading celebrity in 1957.[1] She was also a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s and 20th Century Fox's alternative to Marilyn Monroe.[2][3] She was also known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts, such as wardrobe malfunctions.[4][5]
Jayne Mansfield
Born Vera Palmer
Jayne Mansfield
film career was short lived, she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe. She enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe, both in the 1955-1956 Broadway version and the 1957 Hollywood film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?. Her other major movie performances were for The Girl Can't Help It (1956), The Wayward Bus (1957), and Too Hot to Handle (1960). In the sexploitation film Promises! Promises! (1963), she became the first major American actress to have a nude starring role in a Hollywood motion picture.
Jayne Mansfield
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and racing driver. One of the most popular and successful country and western singers of all time for most of his near four-decade career.
Marty Robbins
August 12, 1929 - March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter and band leader who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos. They pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, a reference to Bakersfield, California,
Buck Owens
world's first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar. Its simple yet effective design and revolutionary sound broke ground and set trends in electric guitar manufacturing and popular music. Introduced for national distribution as the Broadcaster in the autumn of 1950, it was the first guitar of its kind manufactured on a substantial scale and has been in continuous production in one form or another since its first incarnation.[1]
Fender telecaster
was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, which made the sound of rock and roll possible. taught himself how to play guitar and while he is mainly known for rock music, he had an early career in country music.[1] He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on sound),[2] delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.[3]
Les Paul
Sang prisencolinensinainciusol
Adriano celentano
autobiography written by Australian actor Errol Flynn with the aid of ghostwriter Earl Conrad. It was released posthumously following the sudden death of the actor and became immensely popular for its cynical tone and candid depiction of the world of filmmaking in Hollywood.[
My wicked wicked ways
scatter graph of stars showing the relationship between the stars' absolute magnitudes or luminosities versus their spectral classifications or effective temperatures. More simply, it plots each star on a graph measuring the star's brightness against its temperature (color). It does not map any locations of stars.
Hertzsprung Russell diagram
He was later to be awarded a Nobel Prize in 1973; which Austrian behavioural psychologist (1983-1989) became a Russian Prisoner of War in 1942 ?
Konrad lorenz
Lion's Head, Devil's Peak and the Twelve Apostles are peaks in a range overlooking which coastal African city?
Cape town
trough in the central part of the endorheic basin of the Kalahari. All the water reaching the Delta is ultimately evaporated and transpired, and does not flow into any sea or ocean. Each year approximately 11 cubic kilometers of water spreads over the 6,000-15,000 km2 area. Some flood-waters drain into Lake Ngami.[1] The Moremi Game Reserve, a National Park, is on the eastern side of the Delta.
Okavango
Adjacent to the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is a 'conservation area'. Here the Masai live a pastoral lifestyle herding cattle within what is otherwise a nature reserve. The area's most striking feature is a crater, some 250 square kilometres in size, formed by an inactive volcanic caldera. This forms an isolated, but exceptionally rich eco-system. What is the name of the conservation area as well as the crater itself?
Ngorongoro
sometimes the Mountains of the Moon, is a mountain range of eastern Equatorial Africa, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Rwenzori
salt and soda lake in the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania. The lake is close to the Kenyan border and is in the Gregory Rift, which is the eastern branch of the East African Rift.[1] flamingo breeding ground d
Natron
unit of energy and work equal to 10−7 joules. It originated in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units.
Erg
formed an almost impenetrable barrier to the interior from Cape Town, and the early adventurers, explorers, hunters and travelers on the way to the Highveld unanimously denounced it as a frightening place of great heat, great frosts, great floods and great droughts.[6] Today it is still a place of great heat and frosts, and an annual rainfall of between 50-250 mm, though on some of the mountains it can be 250-500 mm higher than on the plains.[3]
Karoo
defined as a desert area that contains more than 125 square kilometres (48 sq mi) of aeolian or wind-blown sand[3] and where sand covers more than 20% of the surface.[2] Smaller areas are known as "dune fields". The largest hot desert in the world, the Sahara, covers 9 million square kilometres (3.5×106 sq mi) and contains several
Erg
better known as the Bight of Biafra) is a bight off the West African coast, in the easternmost part (beyond the Bight of Benin to the West) of the Gulf of Guinea. It extends from the River Delta of the Niger in the north until it reaches Cape Lopez in Gabon.[1]
Bonny
The man whose voice was familiar to millions of Londoners from his "mind the gap" tube announcements has died.
Phil sayer
He achieved notoriety after making a speech in which he jokingly denigrated the company's products, which caused the company's near collapse
Gerald ratner
American privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company set up by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos with its headquarters in Kent, Washington. The company is developing technologies to enable private human access to space with the goal to dramatically lower cost and increase reliability.
Blue origin
Cbi stands for
Confederation of British industry
Sme business acronym
Small and medium sized enterprises
Coach fashion produces
Handbags
Fashion label two interlocking letter C's one reversed
Chanel
has designed hats for Alexander McQueen, including his white collection for Givenchy Haute Couture, for Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, and for Valentino, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan.
Philip treacy
He is famous for having designed much of the personal and professional wardrobe of Audrey Hepburn, as well as clothing for clients such as Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1970.[2]
Hubert de givenchy
known for his avant-garde style and his Space Age designs. He prefers geometric shapes and motifs, often ignoring the female form. He advanced into unisex fashions, sometimes experimental, and not always practical. He founded his fashion house in 1950 and introduced the "bubble dress" in 1954.
Pierre cardin
He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us all" by Christian Dior and as "the only couturier in the truest sense of the word" by Coco Chanel, who continued "The others are simply fashion designers". He continues to be revered as the supreme deity of the European salons. On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline "The king is dead" (no one in the fashion world had any doubt as to whom it referred).
Cristobal balenciaga
neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its boundary to the north is Gramercy Park and Stuyvesant Town, to the south by the Lower East Side, and to the east by the East River. Generally, although definitions vary on the neighborhood's exact street boundaries,[3] is considered to be the area east of Broadway to the East River, between 14th Street and Houston Street.[1]
East village
Mt etna in Italian
Mongibello
volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. Its 3,718-metre (12,198 ft) summit is the highest point in Spain and the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic.
Teide
lead roles in the romantic-comedy fantasy Kate & Leopold (2001), the action-horror film Van Helsing (2004), the magic-themed drama The Prestige (2006),
Hugh jack man
She is married to fellow actor Hugh Jackman. They met on the set of Australian TV show Correlli in 1995.[15] The ceremony took place on 11 April 1996 at St. John's in Toorak, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.[16] After suffering two miscarriages,[15] she adopted two children with Jackman: son Oscar Maximillian (born 15 May 2000)[17] and daughter Ava Eliot (born 10 July 2005).[18]
Deborra lee Furness
First three x men films
X men, x2, x men the last stand
won the 2000 Saturn Award for Best Direction, its sequel X2 (2003), and Superman Returns (2006). He then directed the WW II historical thriller Valkyrie (2008), co-wrote/co-produced X-Men: First Class (2011) and directed the fantasy adventure film Jack the Giant Slayer (2013). In 2014, another X-Men film helmed by him was released, titled X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Bryan singer
Directed the usual suspects
Bryan singer
born May 12, 1966) is an American actor, director, producer and author. He has starred in "B-list" films, such as Threesome (1994), The Usual Suspects (1995), Bio-Dome (1996), Fled (1996), The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) and The Flyboys (2008). He also starred in the television series The Young Riders (1989-92) and as himself in the reality shows Celebrity Big Brother 2010 (UK) and Celebrity Apprentice. In 2004, he directed Livin' It, a Christian-themed skateboarding DVD.
Stephen baldwin
starred as Jack Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, winning two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work on the show, making him the male performer with the most SAG Awards.
Alec baldwin
first gained recognition appearing on seasons 6 and 7 of the CBS television drama Knots Landing, in the role of Joshua Rush. He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as the horror comedy fantasy film Beetlejuice (1988), as Jack Ryan in the action thriller The Hunt for Red October (1990), the romantic comedy The Marrying Man (1991), the superhero film The Shadow (1994), and two films directed by Martin Scorsese: the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator (2004) and the neo-noir crime drama The Departed (2006). His performance in the 2003 romantic drama The Cooler garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Alec baldwin
came to prominence playing Bond girl Domino Petachi in the 1983 film Never Say Never Again, opposite Sean Connery, and went on to receive a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Memo Paris in The Natural (1984). She also starred as Elizabeth in the controversial erotic romantic drama 9½ Weeks (1986) with Mickey Rourke, and as Vicki Vale in Tim Burton's blockbuster Batman (1989), which remains the highest-grossing film of her career. For her role in L.A. Confidential, she also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other films include I Dreamed of Africa (2000), 8 Mile (2002), The Door in the Floor (2004), Cellular (2004), and the upcoming The Nice Guys (2016).
Kim basinger
2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is the eighth installment of the X-Men film series. It is directed by Tim Miller. Written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the film stars Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, T. J. Miller, Gina Carano, Leslie Uggams, Brianna Hildebrand and Stefan Kapičić.
Dead pool
Dead pool alter ego
Wade wilsom
Plays deadpool
Ryan reynolds
has starred in films such as Van Wilder (2002), The Amityville Horror (2005), Definitely, Maybe (2008), The Proposal (2009), Buried (2010), The Change-Up (2011), Safe House (2012), The Voices (2014), Mississippi Grind (2015), and Woman in Gold (2015). He also portrayed the Hal Jordan version of the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern in the film of the same name (2011).
Ryan Reynolds
It is the fourth installment and the first spinoff in the X-Men film series. The film was directed by Gavin Hood, written by David Benioff and Skip Woods,
X men origins wolverine
Wolverine two alternative names
James howlett / Logan
2011 American science fiction superhero film, based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. It is the fifth installment in the X-Men film series. It serves as a prequel of the franchise. The film was directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Bryan Singer. The story is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and focuses on the relationship between Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr / Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and the origin of their groups—the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, respectively, as they deal with the Hellfire Club led by Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), who is bent on world domination.
X men first class
the controversial historical conspiracy legal thriller JFK (1991), the legal drama A Few Good Men (1992), the historical docudrama Apollo 13 (1995), and the mystery drama Mystic River (2003). Also on television, he starred in the Fox series The Following from 2013 to 2015.
Kevin bacon