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Biography of René Goscinny
René Goscinny (August 14, 1926 November 5, 1977) was a French author, editor and humorist, who is best known for the comic book Astérix, which he created with illustrator Albert Uderzo, and for his work on the early issues of the comic book series Lucky Luke with Morris. Early life Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, to a family of Polish-Ukranian Jewish descent; his parents were Stanisław "Simkha" Gościnny (the surname means hospitable in Polish), a chemical engineer from Warsaw, Poland, and to Anna Bereśniak Gościnna from Chodorków, a small village in the 2nd Republic of Poland, now Ukraine. Claude, René's older brother was born 6 years earlier; on December 10, 1920. Stanisław and Anna had met in Paris and married in 1919. The Gościnnys moved to Buenos...
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Biography of Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning musical theatre, film and television actress. Some of her best-known roles have included Glinda in Broadway's Wicked and Annabeth Schott in television's The West Wing. She is currently appearing in the role of Olive Snook on the ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies and is the current face of Jude Frances jewelry. Chenoweth has a distinctive speaking voice. In FHM's March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a soprano but is also able to belt. Early life Chenoweth was born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth (she added an "n" in her first name later because she thought that "Kristin" was a more operatic name than "Kristi") in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and was adopted at birth. Chenoweth's ance...
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Biography of Wim Wenders
Ernst Wilhelm ("Wim") Wenders (born August 14, 1945) is a German film director, playwright, photographer, and producer. He was born in Düsseldorf. Career and awards Wenders began his career in film as part of the New German Cinema in the late 1960s, making his feature directorial debut with Summer in the City in 1970. Awards that he has received include the Golden Lion for The State of Things at the Venice Film Festival in 1982, the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 for his movie Paris, Texas, and Best Direction for Wings of Desire at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Wenders was awarded honorary doctorates at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium in 2005. He was awarded the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno International Film Festi...
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Biography of Ben Barnes
Benjamin "Ben" Barnes (born August 20, 1981) is an English actor. He has appeared in the television series Doctors and Split Decision, and in the films Stardust, Bigga than Ben, and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. Early life Barnes was born in London, England to a psychiatrist father and therapist mother. He has a younger brother, Jack, and is an alumnus of King's College School, where he was a contemporary of film actor Khalid Abdalla and comedian Tom Basden. He studied Drama and English literature at Kingston University, London. Career It was revealed in the June/July 2008 issue of CosmoGIRL! magazine that he was a backup singer in the boyband Hyrise, who were in the running to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Barnes began working in ...
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Biography of Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress. She is known for the Amazonian title role in the fantasy-adventure TV series Wonder Woman which aired from 1975 to 1979. Early life Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter is English-American, and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican ancestry. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Globe High School in Globe, Arizona and Arcadia High School in Phoenix. She attended Arizona State University, but after being voted the "most talented" student, she dropped out in order to pursue a career in music. She toured as a singer with several rock groups before returning to Arizona in 1972. Career Carter entered a local beauty contest and achieved h...
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Biography of Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler OBE (born August 12, 1949, Glasgow, Scotland (birth time source: Caroline Gerard, Astrodatabank)) is a Scottish guitarist, singer, songwriter, and film score composer. Knopfler was originally best-known as the lead guitarist and vocalist for the band Dire Straits, which he founded in 1977. Since the final Dire Straits album in 1991, Knopfler has continued to record and produce albums as a solo artist, under his own name. Knopfler has occasionally played in other groups, such as the "supergroup" The Notting Hillbillies. Additionally, he has performed as a guest on works by other artists, including Bob Dylan, Bryan Ferry, Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Steely Dan and the late Chet Atkins. He has produced albums for artists such as Tina Turner, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan a...
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Biography of Thierry Neuvic
Thierry Neuvic is a French actor born August 3, 1970 in Montreuil. Filmography 2008 Aux armes, etc... (Cinéma) - Réal. Laure Hassan - Tchéky Karyo, Michaël Youn, Anne Parillaud 2007 Petits secrets et gros mensonges (Télévision) - Réal. Laurence Katrian - Michèle Laroque, Thierry Neuvic, Carole Richert 2006 Alerte à Paris ! (Télévision) - Réal. Charlotte Brändström - Claire Borotra, Thierry Neuvic, David Brecourt 2006 La Promeneuse d'oiseaux (Télévision) - Réal. Jacques Otmezguine - Lola Naymark, Thierry Neuvic, Maxime Leroux 2006 Mafiosa, le clan (Mini série TV) - Réal. Louis Choquette - Hélène Fillières, Thierry Neuvic, Daniel Duval 2005 Clara Sheller (Série TV) - Réal. Renaud Bertrand - Mélanie Doutey, Frédéric Diefenthal, Christophe Malavoy 2005 Tout pour plaire ...
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Biography of Aubrey Beardsley
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (August 21, 1872 March 16, 1898) was an influential English illustrator, and author, best known for his erotic illustrations. Beardsley was born in Brighton. In 1883 his family settled in London, and in the following year he appeared in public as an "infant musical phenomenon," playing at several concerts with his sister. He attended Bristol Grammar School in 1884, and in 1888 he obtained a post in an architect's office, and afterwards one in the Guardian Life and Fire Insurance Company. In 1891, under the advice of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, he took up art as a profession. In 1892 he attended the classes at the Westminster School of Art, then under Professor Fred Brown. He was aligned with the Yellow Book coterie of artists and w...
Biography of Nathalie Delon
French actress and film director. She was Alain Delon's former wife and the mother of Anthony Delon, also an actor....
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Biography of Bill Evans
William John Evans (better known as Bill Evans) (August 16, 1929 September 15, 1980) was one of the most famous and influential American jazz pianists of the 20th century. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Denny Zeitlin, and Keith Jarrett, as well as as guitarists Lenny Breau and Pat Metheny. The music of Bill Evans continues to inspire younger pianists like Fred Hersch, Bill Charlap, Geoffrey Keezer, Lyle Mays, and Eliane Elias. Evans is an inductee of the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame. Early life Bill Evans was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, to a mother of Rusyn ancestry and a father of...
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Biography of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 (birth time source: Didier Geslain) August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed. Childhood Cartier-Bresson was born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, near Paris, France, the eldest of five children. His father was a wealthy textile manufacturer whose Cartier-Bresson thread was a staple of French sewing kits. He also sketched in his spare time. His mother's family were cotton merchants and landowners from Normandy, where he spent part of his childhood. The Cartier-Bresson family lived in a bourgeois neighborhood in Paris, ne...
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Biography of Christophe Willem
Christophe Willem, born on August 3, 1983 in Enghien-les-Bains, France, is a French singer and the winner of the fourth edition of Nouvelle Star. Early life Christophe's parents live in Deuil-la-Barre (Val-d'Oise), where they run a driving school. As a child, he learned figure skating and to play the piano. Later he learned to sing as part of a gospel choir "Young Voices". He also was composing songs at the age of fourteen. In 2004 he appeared in a Richard Anconina film, Alive, where he played the role of Henri, a young man with a golden voice who is, nevertheless, not considered suitable for the lead role in a musical. Since his film career did not continue after this, he returned to university, where he studied communication while working a number of part-time jobs, such as babysi...
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Biography of Dylan Sprouse
Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse (born August 4, 1992) are American identical twin brother actors. They are sometimes collectively referred to as Cole & Dylan, the Sprouse Bros., or the Sprouse Twins, and are known for their roles in the film Big Daddy, as Patrick Kelly in Grace Under Fire, Ross's son Ben on Friends (played by Cole), and for portraying the title characters on the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. As a result of the series' success, they have become "heartthrobs" and "overwhelming draws" among preteen and teen audiences. Height: 5' 4½" (1.64 m) Early lives The Sprouses were born in Arezzo, Italy to American parents Matthew Sprouse and Melanie Wright who at the time were teaching at an English language school in Italy. Dylan, named aft...
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Biography of Francis Lalanne
Francis Lalanne (born Francis-José Lalanne on 8 August 1958 in Bayonne) is a French singer, songwriter and poet. He is the brother of composer Jean-Félix Lalanne and film director René Manzor. Discography Studio albums 1979: Rentre chez toi 1980: Francis Lalanne 1981: Toi mon vieux copain 1982: Celle qui m'a emmené 1984: Amis d'en France 1985: Coup de foudre 1986: Mai 86 1988: De Corazón 1990: Avec toi 1992: Tendresses 1994: Les Inédits 1996: Face cachée 2000: Sans papiers 2003: D'une vie à l'autre 2005: Reptile 2009: Ouvrir son cur 2010: Blaïte music Live albums 1983: Lalanne à Pantin 1993: Zénith 93 2006: Au Casino de Paris Compilations 1995: Flash-Back 2007: ...
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Biography of Magic Johnson
Earvin Effay Johnson, Jr. (born August 14, 1959 in Lansing, Michigan), nicknamed Magic, is a retired American National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers. Before joining the NBA, the 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) point guard enjoyed success in NCAA college basketball, winning the title in 1979 with Michigan State University. With the Lakers, Johnson established a successful career as he won five NBA championships, played in nine NBA Finals series, and was elected three times for both NBA Finals Most Valuable Player and NBA Most Valuable Player. Johnson also played in 12 All-Star games and was voted into 10 All-NBA First and Second Teams, and led the league in regular season assists four times. Johnson is acknowledged as one of the most popular NBA basketball ...
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Biography of Christopher Nolan
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (born July 30, 1970) is a film director, writer and producer. The son of an English father and American mother, Nolan is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. He is married to Emma Thomas, his longtime producer. They have four children together and reside in Los Angeles. He often collaborates with his brother, author Jonathan Nolan. Nolan is best known for directing the psychological thriller Memento, and for reviving the Batman film franchise as the director of Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). He is also the founder of the production company, Syncopy Films. Early life Nolan was born in London and spent his childhood in both London and Chicago. Nolan began film-making at the age of seven using his father's Super 8 c...
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Biography of Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman (born August 14, 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer. Height: 5' 5½" (1.66 m) Brightman debuted as a dancer in troupes such as Hot Gossip and later released a string of disco singles. She achieved greater fame as a musical theatre performer and partner of theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom she originated several roles including Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera. Her 1984 marriage to Lloyd Webber attracted active tabloid coverage. The couple divorced in 1990, effectively ending her musical theatre career. After her divorce, Brightman established a position as a crossover artist with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson. Her style, a blend of classical vocals and pop-inspired instrumentation and arrangement, earn...
Biography of KRS-One
Lawrence Krisna Parker (born August 20, 1965, better known by his stage names KRS-One (a backronym for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone, also, K,R and S are letters from both his middle name and the name of the Hindu god, Krishna), and Teacha, is an American rapper of Jamaican descent. At the 2008 BET Awards, KRS-One was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for all his work and effort towards the Stop the Violence Movement as well as the overall pioneering of hip hop music and culture. Biography Lawrence Parker was born in the Bronx New York New York during the summer of 1965. Parker left home at 14 to become an MC, coming to live at a homeless shelter in the South Bronx where he was dubbed Krishna by residents because of his interest in the Hare Krishna spiri...
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Biography of Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 (birth time source: "Elliott Smith And The Big Nothing" by Benjamin Nugent) October 21, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, he resided for a significant portion of his life in Portland, Oregon, where he first gained popularity. After playing in the rock band Heatmiser for several years, Smith began his solo career in 1994 with releases on the independent record l...
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Biography of Patrick Pelloux
Patrick Pelloux, born August 19, 1963 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (birth time source: Jacques Sage, Villeneuve Saint Georges registry office), is a French Emergency physician. Bibliography Urgences, médecine et droit, actes du colloque, Paris, 3 décembre 1999, sous la direction d'Alain Garay et Patrick Pelloux, Éditions ENSP (ISBN 2-85952-708-7) Urgentiste (Éditions Fayard - 14 avril 2004) (ISBN 2213618690 et ISBN 978-2213618692) Le naufrage de la psychiatrie Sophie Dufau (Éditions Albin Michel- 30 août 2007), préfacé par Patrick Pelloux (ISBN 2226172688 et ISBN 978-2226172686) Histoires d'urgences (Éditions du Cherche Midi - 31 mai 2007) (ISBN 2749108969 et ISBN 978-2749108964)...
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Biography of Christian Slater
Christian Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor. Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Following a run on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, he made his Broadway debut as the lisping Winthrop Paroo opposite Dick Van Dyke in the 1980 revival of The Music Man. Additional Broadway credits include Merlin, Macbeth, Side Man, and The Glass Menagerie. He made his big screen debut in 1985 in the film The Legend of Billie Jean. In 1986, he had a significant role in the movie The Name of the Rose. In 2006 he appeared as the main character in Hollow Man 2 replacing Kevin Bacon as the invisible man, the sequel to Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man(2000). The last movie that was commercially successful for Christian slater was Broken arrow. Hes been on a slump since, but is showing promise for maki...
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Biography of Bourvil
André Bourvil, a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille (1966), was born André Robert Raimbourg (July 27, 1917, Prétot-Vicquemare, France). He died September 23, 1970 in Paris, of Kahler's syndrome. Bourvil wasn't born when his father was killed at war, and he spent his entire childhood in the village of Bourville, the name of which inspired his stage name. He married Jeanne Lefrique on January 23, 1943. After a battle with Kahler's syndrome, which attacks the bone marrow, he died at the age of 53. He is buried in Montainville (Yvelines). His roles In his comic performances Bourvil principally played roles of gentle and well-meaning characters who were often a bit obtuse or naive, s...
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Biography of Peter O'Toole
Peter James O'Toole (2 August 1932 (birth time and city source: Astrodatabank) 14 December 2013) was a British actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company, before making his film debut in 1959. He achieved stardom playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962) for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. He received seven further Oscar nominations for Becket (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972), The Stunt Man (1980), My Favorite Year (1982) and Venus (2006) and holds the record for the most Academy Award acting nominations without a win. He won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA ...
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Biography of Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso Díaz (born on July 29, 1981 in Oviedo, Asturias, Spain (birth time source: Luigi Stocchi Astrodatabank, BC)) is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and reigning, two-time, world champion. He currently lives in Oxford, England, and owns a house near Lake Geneva, Switzerland. On September 25, 2005 he won the World Driver's Championship title at the age of 24 years and 58 days, thus breaking Emerson Fittipaldi's record of being the youngest F1 champion and is also the youngest double champion. He is nicknamed El Nano. Born Fernando Alonso Díaz on July 29, 1981, in Oviedo, in the Asturias province of northern Spain. His mother worked in a department store and his father was employed as an explosives expert in the mining industry. Alonso has an older sister Lorena. Alon...
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Biography of Frances Cobain
Frances Bean Cobain, born August 18, 1992 in Los Angeles, California (birth time source: Astrodatabank, birth certificate), is the daugther of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Courtney Love met Cobain, on January 12, 1990, in Portland's Satyricon nightclub when the two still led underground rock bands. Love made advances but Cobain was evasive. Early in their courtship Cobain broke off dates and ignored Loves advances because he wasnt sure he wanted a relationship. Cobain noted, "I was determined to be a bachelor for a few months But I knew that I liked Courtney so much right away that it was a really hard struggle to stay away from her for so many months." Courtney Love first saw Cobain perform in 1989 at a show in Portland, Oregon; they talked briefly after the show and Love devel...
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Biography of Donnie Wahlberg
Donald Edmond Wahlberg, Jr. (born August 17, 1969) is an American actor and producer. He was a member of the popular 1980s and 1990s boy band New Kids on the Block and is the older brother of fellow actor Mark Wahlberg. With a background that includes music, feature films, and television, Wahlberg is now working as a producer. Early life Wahlberg was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, as the eighth of nine children, with older siblings Arthur, Jim, Paul, Robert, and Tracey, Michelle, Debbie, and younger sibling Mark. His father, Donald Edward Wahlberg, was a delivery driver, and his mother, Alma Elaine Donnelly, was a nurse and bank employee; the two divorced in 1982. His paternal grandfather was of Swedish descent, while the majority of his other ancestry is Irish. Wahlberg began p...
Biography of Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 February 2, 1996), better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in Singin' in the Rain, he dominated the Hollywood musical film from the mid 1940s until its demise in the late 1950s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Kelly among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking at No. 15. Early life Gene was the third son of James Kelly, a phonograph salesman, and Harriet Curran, who were both children of Irish Roman Catholic immigrants. He was b...
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Biography of Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962 is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the Blade trilogy films. Height : 5' 10" (1.78 m) Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, comedies, and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. In recent years, Snipes has moved behind the scenes in order to make his own films. To this end, he formed his own independent production company, Amen Ra Films, and its subsidiary Black Dot Media in 1991, to develop projects for film and television. Snipes was arrested on December 8, 2006 at Orlando International Airport. An arrest warrant had been issued for him on October 17, 2006, in a case alleging that he filed fraudulent claims f...
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Biography of Karlie Kloss
Karlie Elizabeth Kloss (born August 3, 1992) is an American model and ballet dancer. Kloss is ranked 4th on the Top 50 Models Women List by models.com. Vogue Paris declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. Early life and discovery Kloss was born in Chicago, Illinois, and her family moved to suburban St. Louis, Missouri in 1995. Before making it as a model, Kloss studied at Caston's Ballet Academy in 2002, a prestigious dance school in St. Louis. She soon became very talented at dance, and was in a number of performances such as the Nutcracker. Kloss has called her classical ballet training "a beautiful thing" that taught her how to move in the modeling world and was a great training ground for her runway walk. When Kloss was 13, she was discovered at a charity fashion...
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Biography of Priscilla (French singer)
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Biography of Ryan Lochte
Ryan Lochte (born August 3, 1984 in Canandaigua, NY) is an American world record swimmer who won medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Lochte specializes in the backstroke and individual medley, but is also a freestyle relay swimmer. He is noted for the speed and distance he attains while kicking underwater. He is noted for his rivalries with fellow Americans and world record holders Michael Phelps in the individual medley events and Aaron Peirsol in the backstroke races. Lochte made his Olympic debut after finishing second to Phelps in the 200 m individual medley at the US trials. He also qualified for the 4x200 m freestyle relay team. At the Olympics, Lochte combined with Phelps, Klete Keller and Peter Vanderkaay to upset the Australian team and capture the gold medal. He also narrowly ...
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Biography of Woody Harrelson
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor. He is probably best known for his role in the classic sitcom Cheers as Woody Boyd. Notable film roles include Mickey Knox in Natural Born Killers, Larry Flynt in The People vs. Larry Flynt, Dusty in A Prairie Home Companion and Carson Wells in No Country For Old Men. Early life Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas, the son of Diane Lou (née Oswald) and Charles Voyde Harrelson, who divorced in 1964; he has two brothers, Jordan and Brett, the latter of whom is a professional motorcycle racer. In 1979, in San Antonio, Federal Judge John Howland Wood was shot and killed by rifle fire by Charles Harrelson, who was a free-lance contract killer. He was convicted and eventu...
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Biography of Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (b. April 1996), Rory John Gates (b. 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 2002). Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, where she was valedictorian of her class at Ursuline Academy of Dallas. She earned bachelor degrees in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986 and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1987, and served as a member of Duke University's board of trustees from 1996 to 2003. Bill and Melinda met in 1987 at a Microsoft press...
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Biography of Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, film director, and film producer. Early life Arquette was born in New York City. Her father was actor Lewis Arquette, and her grandfather was comedian Cliff Arquette, best remembered for his "Charley Weaver" character, a fixture on the original Hollywood Squares. Arquette's mother, Mardi Olivia Nowak, was Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Poland. Arquette's father was a convert to Islam and a descendant of explorer Meriwether Lewis. Her siblings are actors Patricia, David, Richmond and Alexis Arquette. Through her brother David, she is the sister-in-law of actress Courteney Cox, and through her sister Patricia she is the former sister-in-law of actor Nicolas Cage. In 1963, Arq...
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Biography of Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine M. Stowe (born August 18, 1958) is an American actress. She was born in Eagle Rock, a working class suburb of Los Angeles, California, the eldest of three sisters. Her father was British, while her mother had immigrated from Costa Rica as a young woman. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis. At the age of 10, Stowe began taking piano lessons with the aim of becoming a concert pianist and also as a way of not having to socialize with other kids. Her Russian-born music teacher Sergei Tarnowsky (he taught Vladimir Horowitz before immigrating to the US), clearly had faith in her, teaching her from his deathbed. But when he died at the age of 96, she quit ("I just felt it was time to not be by myself anymore") and at 18 she went on her first date. She then studied cinema ...
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Biography of Stephanie Seymour
Stephanie Seymour (born 23 July 1968 in San Diego, California) is a supermodel who has done modeling work for many well-known fashion magazines and fashion designers. She has worked with several well-known photographers, including Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, and Gilles Bensimon. In its March 1991 and February 1993 issues, she posed nude in Playboy magazine. She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers. She started her modeling career working for local newspapers and department stores in her hometown at the age of 14. A year later she won the Elite Model Management Look of the Year model contest. Standing 5'10", Seymour is noted for her long, graceful legs in modeling swimwear, lingerie, hosiery, sleepwear, and clothing. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Seymour appeared in numerous ...
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Biography of H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror": the notion that some concepts, entities, or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror genre and is noted as creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of nonhuman creatures, as well as the famed Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works typically had a tone of pessimism, regarding mankind as insignificant and powerless in the universe. Lovecraft's readership was limited...
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Biography of Frédéric Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand (born August 21, 1947) is the French Minister of Culture and Communication. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, a screenwriter, a television presenter, a writer, producer and director. He is the nephew of the former French president François Mitterrand and the son of Edith Cahier, the niece of Eugène Deloncle, co-founder of La Cagoule. In June 2008, he was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome by Président Sarkozy , and in June a year later, was made minister of culture, following in the footsteps of André Malraux and François Léotard....
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Biography of Wendy Whoppers
Wendy Whoppers (born August 13, 1970) is the stage name of a big-bust feature dancer and pornographic actress originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Whoppers, with the aid of large breast implants, became a popular big-bust entertainer. Her first pornographic film was Palm Springs or Bust (1992), which also starred big bust performer Lisa Lipps. The two appeared in many films together. Height: 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m) Weight: 97 lb (44 kg) She had a total of 4 operations to enlarge her breasts from an original 34B, starting in 1989, ending with double lumin implants, which were made of one bag of 1000 cc's of silicone inside of another bag of 2000 cc's of saline. She retired from films in 1994, and has since had her breasts reduced. In addition to touring on the feature dancing circuit...
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Contents Entering the Lair of the Mother High Dragon Into the Depths of the Lair The Mother Entering the Lair of the Mother
After the devastating battle at Vigil's Keep it's time to regroup and figure out what to do next. Speak to your remaining advisors in the main hall and select who you want in your party. Depending on the outcome of a conversation later in the quest, this could potentially be the last time you can choose your companions. We recommend taking the two mages, Anders and Velana, and an additional warrior. Those mages will come in handy during the final battle and be useful throughout the quest's combat sequences. When you're ready, set out for the 'Lair of the Mother' location on the world map.
This entire area is a path to reach the Mother so in terms of orientation, there should be no problem. Enemies to look out for are Childer grubs and hatchlings and Armored Ogre Alphas. These Armored Ogres aren't as powerful as the one you faced at the end of the last quest in Vigil's Keep but still use the same tactics of grabbing and pummeling, so keeping your health topped off is essential. High Dragon
As you head further into the lair, you'll encounter a high dragon. These beasts are some of the nastiest fellows in all the land so gear up and use your most powerful magic attacks against it. Look out for it's fiery area of effect attacks as they knock your entire party down and leave you open to being eviscerated very quickly. Finish the dragon off and head into the tower ahead. Into the Depths of the Lair
Inside the tower Velana encounters her sister who has joined forces with The Architect. Being kind to Velana is your best bet here as it is possible that she will turn on you if she dislikes you.
After speaking with Velana's sister head down the stairs in the tower until you reach the ground level where the Architect makes an appearance. This is a key point for making a choice as allowing him to live causes Justice to turn on you while killing him could potentially have Velana betray you. Of course, if your persuade skill is high enough simply making the choice you want to make and convincing the angered party member is enough to avoid a confrontation. Killing The Architect also removes the ability to call on The Architect to assist you during the game's final battle.
After you've moved on from your conversation with The Architect keep heading down the walkways and down the stairs of the two remaining towers, killing the enemy childer grubs, hatchlings, and hurlocks along the way. At the bottom of each tower are four spots to place crystals in. These crystals can be found in the clumps of flesh scattered throughout this entire area. Place the crystals you find into the slots to unlock more attacks from The Architect during the final battle against the Mother. The Mother
When you reach a long walkway where you can see the Mother off in the distance switch both of your mages' battle tactics to healer. This is crucial to defeating Mother as her attacks are relentless and simply too much for your party to manage with just health poultices. The first order of business while fighting the Mother is defeating the clusters of tentacles she has spread throughout the ground. Use your warriors to take the tentacles out while your mages do all the healing. Childer grubs and hatchlings unearth themselves throughout this battle so be sure to deal with them as soon as they appear since they have an attack that takes your party members out for a couple of precious seconds, leaving them exposed to the deadly tentacles.
Once the tentacles have all been destroyed (they do not regenerate) it's time to finish the Mother off. Get in close and slash away at her, using caution near the two tentacles she has nearest her as they grab and pummel you. Luckily, since you've already set your mages to be on healing duty you should be at nearly full health if they ever do grab you. Simply use physical attacks supplemented by your mage's magic attacks between all their healing to finish the demonic woman off. Congratulations, you've just completed Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening.
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i was reading a post by red streek (soz if name spelt wrong) and in it he mentioned habbohotel.
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I even hated that when I was twelve, if I remember correctly, there wasn't enough character space for me to fill a sentence with...
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I remember a conversation I had with a friend a couple of years ago, as we bemoaned the fact that size 14s were a lot more difficult to find than other sizes. And not only that, but items that were …
I remember a conversation I had with a friend a couple of years ago, as we bemoaned the fact that size 14s were a lot more difficult to find than other sizes. And not only that, but items that were made for a size-8 dummy just don't look as good when you move those sizes up a few brackets. We concluded that, when you are a smaller size, it's much easier to dress – not only is it easier to dress, but easy dressing is easier. What do I mean?
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Absolutely stunning fabric and look! Very happy with the product, and the feel of wearing it. Like hummingbird wings! However it runs very small. Fabric pulls tightly across shoulders with normal use, and I popped the back hem, which I had to re-stitch on my machine. Hems are stitched with a gauzy thread that frays and pulls easily, so I zig-zag stitched over the weak spots with stronger thread. If you have long arms, or broad shoulders, this will probably not fit you, even the med/large size. Still, a lovely costume piece!


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Ooh cool I didn't know that, cool find!
Sorry if this is old, but i found a secret fairway in Wii Golf. I haven't seen any talk about this, so i am assuming this has been undiscovered.
I made a video of it, check it out, and digg it if you have an account.
Ooh cool I didn't know that, cool find!
Lol, my brother-in-law found it on x-mas day when we were all playing, good for you for finding it! I never would have noticed lol!
That was meant to be Secret?
Good find but an Easy one. Lol found it without even knowing it... Thought it was just part of the Course lol..
No Longer Have A Wii
what hole is that on ?
nice find btw ... i get my ass whooped in golf ... so tips like that ... HOT!
wow cool find...i woulda never found that one (seeing that i never play golf cause i cant get stuff right in it)
The video won't work for me but I'm guessing it's that little patch of fairway to the left of the fairway on Hole 3.
If it isn't can someone please explain it in words.
From your description, I'd say your guess is spot on.Originally Posted by Wiily Good
I haven't noticed this at all. I'm gonna sling Wii Sports on tomorrow and investigate.
hey smurf will u ADDMY online code plz i added ures!!!!
Sabbz, i've played that hole probably nearly a hundred times and i've never noticed it!!!!!!! Thanks for enlightening me!


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Arkansas Child Support Chart Changes by Kevin Hickey
Arkansas' Child Support Chart (actually called the Family Support Chart) has been updated. The new chart became effective on May 3, 2007.
Interestingly, child support amounts in the lower half of the chart slightly increased while child support amounts in the upper half of the chart decreased. I'm not quite sure how that happened.
Other Notable Changes
Administrative Order No. 10 provides various interpretations, guidelines, etc. regarding the chart and figuring net income for different types of pay (wages, salary, commissions, self-employed, etc.). There are some interesting additions.
First, under Section III(b) Income Which Exceeds Chart, an example is given as to how to figure child support for a payor that has income which exceeds the chart. We have long known that there are percentages applied for the number of children that are involved. 15% of the net income is used for one dependent, 21% for two, and so on. But the example provided in this updated version of Administrative Order No. 10 clarifies how net income is to be calculated. You do not take 15% (using one dependent for example) of the entire net income amount. Instead, you go to the highest section of the chart, take that child support amount, and then apply the 15% to the amount above and beyond the chart and add them together. For example, let's say a payor has a net income of $6,000 per month. The Family Support Chart only goes as high as a net of $5,000 per month. So for one dependent, child support would be $691 based on a net income of $5,000 per month. Then, you take 15% of the amount over and above the chart - in our example that would $1,000. 15% of $1,000 is $150. So the total child support amount for a payor that has a net income of $6,000 per month, and one dependent child, would be $841 ($691 + $150). This is a much different result than if you simply took 15% of $6,000 per month - which would be a child support amount of $900 per month.
Second, some clarification is added to the self-employed payor paragraph. Line 22 of the payor's tax returns (last two years) is to be used in calculating income. A 2007 case is also cited as clarifying how to use the net worth approach in determining income.
Next, Section V. Deviation Considerations, a. Relevant Factors, has an added phrase to subsection 12 - "including the income of the custodial parent." This clearly means that the custodial parent's income may be considered for purposes of deviating from the chart's child support amount.
Also to Section V., a new section (c. Application of Deviation Factors) is added which makes it clear that the deviation factors are to be applied to the noncustodial parent as well as the custodial parent. (In practice I have always argued this, but its good to have it as an official part of the Administrative Order.)
Here's the link to the new chart and Administrative Order No. 10.
Kevin Hickey
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Fri 30 Mar 2007
Conspiracies, remote viewing, and "story"
Posted by Frank DeMarco under Remote Viewing, This World
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One of the attractions of the Monroe Institute, beyond the content of whatever course you happen to be taking, is the other participants. No matter how busy the course keeps you — and Skip and Carol certainly kept us busy enough — there is always time to talk, if only at meals or during the breaks between formal sessions. And although you might think that people sharing such an unusual common interest would tend to be all of a type, you would be wrong. Not only do people come from "all walks of life" as they say, but — or perhaps I should say therefore — all varieties of political opinion are to be met. Naturally, these opinions are not front and center during the week. Still, they come out.
One of our group was particularly into conspiracy theories, which led to interesting discussions, and so I awoke one morning having connected a couple of dots. It occurred to me that what we do in ordinary life, what we do when making sense of the world, is much the same process as what we do when remote viewing. We acquire perceptions, some or most of them accurate — and then we attach story to those perceptions. We connect the dots in ways that make sense to us, and confuse the persuasiveness of the story with the accuracy of the perceptions.
Thus it is possible — and, I now think, common — to turn accurate perception into highly misleading story. And the more acute the perception, perhaps the greater the temptation to assume that the story is correct. This would especially be true in reacting to other people's story when their story is clearly not informed by perceptions at the same depth or breadth as yours. The paradoxical result is that the more you learn about something, the more background you get, the more connections you are able to draw that are not in the common understanding, the farther afield you may wind up going.
We are all faced with the task of making sense of the world, if only unconsciously. So we create story. Where the story overlaps, we share a point of view. Where the story diverges, we think that we know more than others do, or they know more than we do, but in any case there is an unbridgeable gap.
So we are left in the uncomfortable position of knowing that we cannot know. Perception left as a raw perception would be as meaningless as my taking notes and saying "parallel lines, parallel lines." Yes they were parallel lines, but what did they mean? But as soon as we begin to interpret, we begin to create story.
Probably this great insight amounts merely to the fact that no one can understand the world. We can build models, and in fact in order to function we have to build models, but the map is not the territory.
This realization ought to remind us of the need for tolerance and charity in dealing with others, and of the need to cheerfully live with ambiguity in ourselves. I get the sense that at the end of our lives we may look at the record and say, "my God, the perceptions were pretty good but look at all that story I built!"
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Very nicely put Frank. Thanks for the insight.
The question is, whose conspiracy theory do you believe? Those who chose to believe George's story are Piscean "believers" who trust in faith. Those of us who are moving into the 4th dimension and need to "know" what happened acquire facts by reading very well written books like:
Pentagate By: Thierry Meyssan; or "The New Pearl Harbor" by David Ray Griffin
I plan to send "Pentagate" to Frank, and if he doesn't read it with an open mind, he's in big trouble.
Well fortunately, that's a place I'm used to.
The thing is, I am not taking a position on any given interpretation of reality. For instance, it is clear to me that neither John nor Robert Kennedy nor Martin Luther King nor Malcolm X. nor George Wallace were killed by "a lone deranged gunman." To believe that in the face of all the evidence, you would have to be deranged yourself. Nor am I naïve enough to believe the government's story about September 11.
However, disbelieving one thing still leaves you a far cry from knowing what to believe. And my point remains, we all invent a story to connect the dots of our perceptions. Therefore, we must always preserve a certain skepticism of our own certainties. it is one thing to know better than to believe official fairy tales. It is another, though,to remember how much we do not and cannot know. And I'm certain of that! 🙂


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National Weather Service forecasters predict a temperature of 50 degrees today, Sunday, March 30, 2014.
All major roads in the West Michigan area are clear, according to a report by Michigan State Police.
Sunny skies are also in the forecast today, with wind traveling at a light and variable speed.
Tonight, skies will be partly cloudy with a low of 34 degrees. A southeast wind will travel at 7 to 10 mph.
On Monday, the Muskegon area will see mostly sunny skies with a high of 59 degrees. Yes, that is dangerously close to 60.
For Monday night, forecasters predict a 40 percent chance of rain with mostly cloudy skies. The low will be 36 degrees and a south southeast wind will travel at 15 to 18 mph.


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"History sometimes gives us a terrible shock": Uses of the Past in Doctor Who, 1963-1989
History, and its related but distinct concept, "the past," are constant presences during the original 26 season run of Doctor Who. In the series' early years, it carried an educational mandate and the historical stories of the black and white era served this mandate well. Throughout the series, however, historical settings as well as the series' own narrative past served to convey information or knowledge to the Doctor Who viewer. This information encompassed storytelling, characterization, and the desire of the show's producers, at various times, to set out the parameters of the Doctor Who universe. The past—the show's own past in particular, was also used as a tool for—lacking a better term—fan pandering.
One can divide these uses of history and the past into two very broad categories— the historical past and the self-referential past. For the next few minutes we'll explore a few examples—by no means meant to be exclusive or exhaustive—of these types of stories which will, I hope, demonstrate that the presence of the past existed throughout the original run of Doctor Who from 1963 to 1989 and provide a lens through which one can examine the narrative development of the show as well as the changing relationship between the show and its fans.
The historical past in Doctor Who, by which I mean the use of historical settings or characters, has been part of the series from the very beginning. One example is the fourth story, Marco Polo, in 1964. Often, these types of stories (known to most fans as "historicals") use history as a setting: the Doctor and his companions arrive in Asia, meet figures such as Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, have an adventure and leave. During these stories, young viewers at home learn some schoolbook history about the connections between east and west in the medieval era. Similarly, stories such as The Reign of Terror (about the French Revolution), The Crusades, or the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve presented historical narrative blended with adventure to inform as well as entertain.
Beyond narrative, however, producers used the past as a means to convey metanarrative. One example of this was the serial The Aztecs. The Aztecs, first broadcast in the early summer of 1964, was not merely a story about the historical past but also a statement by writer John Lucarotti and script editor David Whitaker on their perceptions of time travel within the confines of the Doctor Who narrative. In this story, the Doctor's companion, Barbara attempts to change the path of Aztec civilization to prevent their conquest by the Spanish. The Doctor informs Barbara that she "cannot rewrite history! Not one line!" This not only set up conflict between two of the leads but also sent a message to the viewing audience at home. The declaration that neither the Doctor nor his companions can interfere with established history does a number of things that support both the educational and narrative missions of early Doctor Who.
This declaration created a split between the "historical" stories and the "science fiction" stories. If you, as the viewer, find yourself in Earth's past with historical figures that you may have learned about in school, don't worry'the history you learned, or the history you will learn through Doctor Who, is stable and unchanging. On the other hand, if you find yourself on a planet other than Earth, or on Earth in the future, or (in handful of cases in 60s Doctor Who) on Earth in the present, all bets are off; anything could happen in such a situation.
Of course, setting up these expectations allowed later production teams to subvert them down the road. One example of this subversion is Dennis Spooner's 1965 serial The Time Meddler. Most Doctor Who fans, when asked to name one significant thing about this story would reply that it was significant in Doctor Who history because it was the first appearance of the Meddling Monk, another member of the Doctor's society, the not-yet-called-so Time Lords. I would argue that the more significant feature of this story was the notion that Earth's history could be changed. Indeed, the Meddling Monk's plan (and, thus, the plot of the story) depended on this very fact. Here, as in the Aztecs, the show's producers used a historical setting and narrative to illustrate how the Doctor Who universe operated. In the case of The Time Meddler, the message was that the nature of time was to some degree mutable—that the history with which the viewer was familiar, in this case the Norman Conquest, could be changed. While—within the context of the Doctor Who universe—these lessons could be imparted anywhere in time or space, the connection between the notion of "history" and the Earth's past makes imprinting that lesson on the viewer more effective. King Harald was real; William the Conqueror was real. These weren't the Xerons or Sensorites—the stakes were much higher.
Although the genre of the "pure" historical story would virtually vanish after 1966—surfacing only for 1982's Black Orchid—the show's use of historical concepts and settings continued. The historical setting carries with it both narrative and production-related advantages over straight science fiction stories. Doctor Who stories set in Earth's past carried with them certain expectations that can be fulfilled or subverted depending on the desires of the creators. 1965's The Crusade, set during the Crusades (obviously), for example, uses the setting to convey a history lesson, as well as some swashbuckling sword fights and political intrigue. There's a lot packed into the four 25 minute installments of this David Whitaker penned story—something made possible through the use of a familiar historical setting. Viewers knew who Richard the Lionheart was and they had heard of the Saracens. The writer could limit infodump-style expository and jump right into the action. Thus, the historical story, characters, and setting serve the writer; providing a shorthand for getting the average viewer up to speed on who's who. Another production related advantage of the historical setting (whether the story has science fiction aspects or not) is the degree to which the story could be made to look televisually realistic. The BBC's long track record of well-produced historical fiction meant that the expertise and resources for creating, say, a Victorian mansion were more available than those required to create a realistic starship. Hence, one sometimes sees historical settings used in science fiction stories such as Ghostlight, The King's Demons, or the Masque of Mandragora.
Historical settings had purposes in classic Doctor Who beyond simply providing a temporal space for the action and characters. Producers used the past to initiate and continue conversations with viewers about the nature of the show itself and the uses of the past within the show. The historical past also provided a convenient narrative and visual shorthand to convey information to the viewer and to take full advantage of the often meager material resources allocated to the production of Doctor Who.
Doctor Who's own past is a historical source which the show plundered consistently throughout its history. Discounting continuity links that were, of course, necessary in serialized drama (starting off a story with a "Golly, that was a close call with the Monoids!" type of reference, for example) Doctor Who first referenced its own past in a self-conscious way in 1964 with "The Dalek Invasion of Earth." The list of recurring elements in Doctor Who—the Daleks, Cybermen, the Meddling Monk, the Master, UNIT, the Time Lords—-is extensive and these types of elements existed in all phases of the show's initial run. During no time, however, were the show's references to its own past more self-conscious than during the 1980s, especially during the Doctor-ships of Peter Davison and Colin Baker.
Starting with some repeats of 1960s stories and a compilation of clips featuring Tom Baker's companions saying "Doctor" as he died ("Logopolis" which also featured the return of arch-enemy the Master) the show's 1980s obsession with its own past spread to the extent that 19 out of 27 (I'm counting Trial of a Timelord as one story) stories featured a significant element from Doctor Who's past. Indeed some stories, like 1982′s Earthshock, featured one past element—the Cybermen—layered over another, in this case a series of clips of past Doctors from their adventures with the Cybermen. The origins of this backward-looking trend lie with the positive fan response to backward-looking elements during the first season of Peter Davison's run in Doctor Who. Producer John Nathan-Turner and Script Editor Eric Saward, relying (according to some sources—and the behind the scenes history of Doctor Who in the 80s is a paper in itself) on the advice of fan advisor Ian Levine, began to ensure that "continuity" references to previous adventures, aliens, characters, or concepts were as airtight as it was possible for them to be, given Doctor Who's long and varied past.
During Peter Davison's first season, these continuity references were fairly limited, but during the next season—the show's 20th—every story featured some element of the show's past as a key element. While this was exciting for fans, having come out of the 1970s, a decade in which star Tom Baker and producer Graham Williams indicated that the show's continuity was a minor concern in the production office, it had the effect of making the show more difficult for the general public to follow. Doctor Who has, since the development of a strong, organized fandom in the 1970s, walked a fine line between satisfying two audiences—fans and the general public. Fans in the 1970s, generally, thought the Graham Williams/Douglas Adams era went too far in playing to the audiences. The 1980s would see the pendulum swing the other way—the past would become a tool to tightly connect fans to the show.
While it's easy to point at an anniversary story like The Five Doctors as an example of continuity overload, one need not look at a "special" story to see this in action. 1985's Attack of the Cybermen is a great example of how continuity references—a devotion to the series' past—could easily get out of hand. The story, for those who haven't seen it involves not just the Cybermen, but also a return to their adopted home planet of Telos (featured in 1967's Tomb of the Cybermen). If this were not enough, another strand of the plot revolves around the Cybermen attempting to avert the destruction of their original home planet of Mondas (a reference to their first appearance in 1966's The Tenth Planet). And, then, just in case there are any people still watching, the TARDIS lands in the junkyard at Totter's Lane, where the opening of An Unearthly Child took place back on November 23, 1963.
This is a story that makes little sense if one is not familiar with the source material. Fan/critics Tat Wood and Lawrence Miles addressed this continuity-driven story telling in their About Time series of books saying
"[Doctor Who] was not a program for casual viewers. But that didn't matter, because there was a fandom, guaranteed to watch anything with a police box in it. . .at conventions in the 1980s it became almost a ritual that teasing announcements of returning monsters, characters, or writers were greeted with enthusiastic applause. It seemed by 1985 that the programme was made largely to garner this approval."
Doctor Who in the 1980s was being made for an increasingly narrow fan audience. The increasingly intrusive continuity references and call-backs communicated to those fans that the show was, in a way, theirs as well as the BBC's. References to the show's past rewarded long time fans with a more fulfilling viewing experience. Doctor Who, thus, transitioned from a television show for the people of Britain to a "cult" show, made for a group of initiates into the higher orders of Who-lore. The message conveyed to fan-viewers was, "This is for you! Thanks for your support—here, have some Silurians!"
Like the historical stories of the 1960s, the continuity usages of the 1980s conveyed meaning from production to viewers. In this case, the continuity references help create a special bond between producer and fans, bolstered by the burgeoning fan commercial culture—magazines, conventions, home video releases, and the like. Whereas the connection created with the viewer in earlier times was based on a shared heritage of history and knowledge, this new connection was much narrower.
The notion of time travel is so embedded within the fabric of Doctor Who that the presence of "the past" often goes, if not unnoticed, then certainly under-appreciated. The past has served a number of purposes for the producers of the show since 1963. Earth historical settings provided an opportunity for producers to communicate narrative information to the viewer about the nature of time travel in Doctor Who. Historical settings had the practical advantages of limiting the need for excessive exposition and creating an opportunity for BBC set and costume designers to play to their strengths and create believable settings on the show's limited budget. References within Doctor Who stories to the show's own past—"continuity"—both recognized and resulted from a shift in the Doctor Who viewing demographic from a general family audience in the 1970s to a more circumscribed group of dedicated fans in the 1980s. Conscious callbacks to continuity created a link between the producer and the viewers, providing those fans with an increasing sense of ownership. You can't get away from the past in a show where the characters travel in time. Between 1963 and 1989, Doctor Who's producers embraced the concept of the past in a variety of ways which served their own production needs, the needs of casual viewers, and the needs of a dedicated fan-base.


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Pensión Montoreña - Seville
Pensión Montoreña is a convenient 2-star pension in the historic center of Seville. This accommodation lies in the Judería neighborhood, very close to Pilatos' House. Its excellent position, a few minutes away from the Cathedral and the Alcázar - World Heritage Site by Unesco - and its budget-friendly prices, makes the Pensión Montoreña the ideal accommodation for those who want to explore the Andalusian capital city with a low budget. Several bars, restaurants, and cafés can be found only a short walk away, while train and bus stations are easily reachable from the accommodation.
Pensión Montoreña occupies a typical Sevilian 9th-century house, restored to offer the maximum comfort. It features 24 rooms across 2 different buildings, and a central Andalusian court full of plants. The staff's pleasant ways and a quiet environment will help to make your stay in Seville unforgettable. Recreational opportunities abound, and the hotel offers free guided tours and has on-site bicycle rentals to explore the local trails that are also amenable to hiking. There is also a nearby running track and yoga classes are accessible. For the more adventurous, moped/scooter rentals and horseback riding are available nearby.
Services include 24 hour reception, laundry service, complimentary wireless Internet access, and luggage room. This property does not have an elevator. Noise-free guestrooms cannot be guaranteed. Specific rooms allow animals; other restrictions apply.
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The unpleasant side of pleasantries
I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to most of the women whom I have ever encountered.
My wife informs me that I have insulted you.
Apparently, calling you "ma'am" is akin to calling you old, unsightly and decrepit. And, the way she tells it, I should consider myself lucky that none of you has clocked me in the head for my poor choice of words.
Geez, I thought I was being polite.
I suppose I wouldn't have hurled so many insults if many of you that I encountered at stores, restaurants and entertainment complexes had been wearing name tags. I could have said, "Thank you for tearing my tickets in half, Mary," or, "I would love more cheese on my pasta, Gertrude." But without a name to use, I simply inserted the word, "ma'am."
Amy tells me this is horrible. I should refer to you as "Miss."
I've tried to explain to my wife that, to me, "Miss" refers to someone quite young. She responds by saying that most women like to be thought of as young, and many would be tickled to be referred to this way.
So "Miss" is a complement? But wouldn't I be insulting those women who are married?
I'm as perplexed by this as I am by those birthday cards my aunts, uncles and grandparents used to send me when I was a boy. They were addressed to, "Master Timothy Hahn."
To this day, I have no idea what that title means. I did know that, as the youngest in a household of nine, I was master of no one. I also knew that a card addressed like that usually indicated that there was money inside.
I am now flummoxed by this whole greeting thing. Should I still refer to men I encounter but don't know as "Sir," or will that make them feel like some stodgy British pipe-smoker who wears a fez and a monocle? Do I say, "Thanks for holding the door, dude" or, "Excuse me, chief, but are these the only toenail clippers you carry?" Or is there some hidden insult in these as well?
I guess the only safe bet is to avoid any personal reference in my conversations. Or maybe I should just call everyone "Master."
Let them try and figure it out.
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