Agent Carter is an American television series created for ABC by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, inspired by the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger, and the 2013 Marvel One-Shot short film of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films and other television series of the franchise. The first season, consisting of eight episodes, originally aired from January 6 to February 24, 2015, while the second season, consisting of ten episodes, originally aired from January 19 to March 1, 2016. Agent Carter was canceled by ABC on May 12, 2016.

The series features the Marvel Comics character Peggy Carter, with Hayley Atwell reprising her role from the film series and One-Shot, as she must balance life as a secret agent with that of a single woman in 1940s America. Also starring is James D'Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, butler to Howard Stark who joins Carter for her missions, developing a strong platonic relationship with her. The pair are joined by series regulars Chad Michael Murray as Jack Thompson and Enver Gjokaj as Daniel Sousa, as well as Shea Whigham as Roger Dooley for the first season. Whigham signed on to the series knowing that his character, Dooley, would be killed off during the first season. Dominic Cooper portrays Stark, reprising his role from the films and One-Shot in a recurring capacity for the series. Agent Carter also introduces the origins of several characters and storylines from MCU films: Bridget Regan recurs as Dottie Underwood, an early product of the Black Widow program; and Ralph Brown recurs as Johann Fennhoff, the pioneer of Hydra's mind control techniques.

In addition to original characters, the series' cast also includes further characters based on various Marvel Comics properties, as well as more characters crossing over from the MCU films. The following list includes Agent Carters main cast, as determined by its producers, as well as all guest stars deemed to have had recurring roles throughout the series, and a supplementary list of other noteworthy guests.

Overview

Main characters

Peggy Carter

Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter (portrayed by Hayley Atwell) is an officer with the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) who worked with Captain America during World War II, falling in love with him before he seemingly sacrificed himself to stop the Nazi-division Hydra. Following the end of the war, Carter is working in a secretarial role despite her status as an agent. Approached by Howard Stark, whom she had also worked with during the war, to help clear his name after being framed for selling weapons to the USSR, Carter agrees to go behind the backs of her superiors. Her treason is eventually discovered by Agent Daniel Sousa, but she is let off when she helps stop the Russians. She goes on to earn the respect of her coworkers, instigate the defeat of Whitney Frost, and start a relationship with Sousa.

Atwell, who portrayed Carter in Captain America: The First Avenger, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the Agent Carter short film, expressed interest in reprising the role for the series in October 2013; ABC Entertainment president Paul Lee confirmed her involvement in January 2014. Carter is the first female character to headline a standalone story as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), ahead of popular comic characters such as Natasha Romanoff and Carol Danvers. Unlike other major Marvel heroes, Carter does not have any superpowers, instead the writers "always said her superpower is the fact that other people underestimate her. And she often uses that to her advantage". Atwell said it was "thrilling" to explore "the backdrop of this male-dominated world, where women are still in the workforce, unspoken for and struggling to find a place outside the home" and how it affects Carter, who must deal with this along with the missions she receives. For Carter's costumes, though some vintage pieces were used, most of her outfits were custom made to accommodate the scripted action scenes. Costume designer Giovanna Ottobre-Melton gave the outfits an "hourglass style with strength in the tailoring and defined shoulders, but not overly exaggerated." For the character's tactical gear, World War II underground military looks were referenced. Gabriella Graves portrays a young Carter.

Speaking about the influence that the apparent death of Steve Rogers has on Carter, Atwell explained that "It's only been a year and she's grieving him and I think what keeps her going is he was the greatest person she ever knew ... she's also determined to make sure that his work wasn't in vain." Following the first season, Atwell noted that Carter did not "win everyone's respect", with Jack Thompson taking credit for her actions, for example, but "she knows her value so she doesn't need that praise". For the second season, executive producer Michele Fazekas explained that after Carter "put a lot of things emotionally to bed", such as letting go of Captain America, she is now "more open to looking at her life and figuring out, does she want a relationship?" Fazekas added that Carter would start to realize that "not everybody has her ideals", even in the SSR.

The A.V. Club named Atwell's performance as one of the "Best Individual Performances" of 2015. Atwell was also nominated for Best Actress in a Television Series at the 41st Saturn Awards, but lost the award to Caitriona Balfe of Outlander.

Edwin Jarvis

Edwin Jarvis (portrayed by James D'Arcy) was charged with treason during the war after he forged the signature of his superior officer in an attempt to save the woman that would become his wife, Ana. Saved from this by Howard Stark, Jarvis becomes Stark's butler and is eventually offered to Carter as support for her mission to clear Stark's name. Befriending Carter, Jarvis came to enjoy his missions with her and chose to continue to help her with missions unrelated to Stark, such as the fight against Whitney Frost. For this, Ana became involved as well, until she was seriously injured by Frost. In retaliation, Jarvis unsuccessfully attempted to murder Frost.

Edwin Jarvis was announced to be in the series in July 2014. A butler to the Stark family in the original comics, Jarvis was first adapted in the MCU films as an artificial intelligence named J.A.R.V.I.S., created by Tony Stark. The official tie-in comic Iron Man 2: Public Identity explained that a more comic-accurate version of the character did exist in the MCU, with the butler Jarvis serving as a mentor to a young Tony and eventually inspiring his A.I.; the Jarvis seen in Agent Carter is a younger version of this butler, working for Howard Stark before Tony is born. D'Arcy was cast in the role in September 2014. Fazekas, explaining the introduction and development of Jarvis in the series, stated that "some of it has come from the comics and some of it we've developed ourselves. Some of it is influenced by James D'Arcy himself and his strengths." D'Arcy was initially nervous about portraying Jarvis's comedic side, given his history of "predominantly play[ing] psychopaths", and did not study Paul Bettany's performance as J.A.R.V.I.S. when approaching the character. Ottobre-Melton explained, in terms of costume design, that "Jarvis is a tweed suit man. He has a large responsibility handling Howard Stark's affairs, and needs to look polished at all times. He's a well-paid employee who can afford custom-made 3-piece suits, and has a British sensibility, so we put him in a finely tailored bold black and grey Herringbone suit."

Atwell referred to Carter's relationship with Jarvis as the series' comic relief, while Fazekas called their relationship "the center relationship of the show". Executive producer Tara Butters compared the relationship to that of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in the early seasons of The X-Files, where "you really believed they cared about each other but it wasn't sexual. That was very refreshing." Fazekas discussed giving Jarvis a major character arc in the second season, saying that he "really got a taste for adventure with Peggy in the first season, so, when she comes back into his life, he's so happy because he's so bored with being Howard Stark's butler ... what that starts is a really interesting story for him, which is, how much did he really understand about what Peggy does? For him, it's like a fun diversion, even though he's in danger ... we will see in Jarvis' story how he grows to understand that and where he comes out in the end. It will have a cost for him, and it will have an impact on his relationship with Peggy". D'Arcy reprised the role of Jarvis in the Marvel Studios film Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson (portrayed by Chad Michael Murray) is a war veteran and agent with the SSR who accidentally killed surrendering enemy soldiers, but hid the mistake, instead being praised as a hero. He takes the credit for Carter's work in defeating Leviathan, and is promoted to Chief of the New York SSR office. Thompson is shot by a mysterious person looking to take a redacted case file he has on "M. Carter".

Murray was cast in August 2014. He noted that, unlike his character on One Tree Hill, Thompson does not serve as the "moral compass" of the series, which meant that he would not be "confined to a box" and would instead be allowed to "really play things up and do what's unexpected." The costumes for the SSR agents in the series are meant to be distinctive to help explain their characters: Thompson wears single breasted suits with suspenders. The second season ends on a cliffhanger, with Thompson being shot by an unknown character. The executive producers insisted that Thompson was not necessarily dead, and that his fate would be revealed in a potential third season.

Murray described the character as chauvinistic and "chest-puffing", and compared him to Indiana Jones, stating that "he's working his way up to become the head of the SSR. His goal in life is to just be great at his job. So he has a large chip on his shoulder, which gives him an attitude." Butters stated that "The problem with Thompson is, he's such an opportunist, and he so wants to succeed above all other things, that he sometimes makes bad choices. I think he's not a bad guy, he just gets blinded by ambition." On the character's second season arc, Fazekas reiterated that he "puts his ambition and his ego over other things, over sometimes doing the right thing, and he often doesn't care who gets hurt or who is upset about it ... [But] he actually decides to do the right thing in the end at great cost to himself."

Daniel Sousa

Daniel Sousa (portrayed by Enver Gjokaj) is a war veteran and agent with the SSR who experiences prejudice due to his crippled leg, for which he uses a crutch to support himself. Sousa's own investigation leads to him discovering Carter's status as a traitor. His relationship with Carter becoming complicated, Sousa accepts the position of chief of the Los Angeles SSR office to get some distance from her, and eventually begins a new relationship with Violet. However, Violet leaves Sousa when she discovers that he still has feelings for Carter; Sousa eventually begins a relationship with Carter, once they defeat Whitney Frost together.

Gjokaj was cast in the role in August 2014. "He was a soldier, and he had been very active all his life, and now he has to figure out how to use his brains, how to try to be smart," Gjokaj explained of the character. "He accepts his injury, he accepts his compromised status in society ... Peggy says, 'Forget this. I'm Peggy Carter. I'm going to do something else.' I think that's the difference between the two of them." Considering a potentially romantic relationship between Sousa and Carter, Gjokaj said, "I think there's definitely a situation where ... if she hadn't dated Captain America, he might ask her out for a drink. It's like if your new girlfriend dated Ryan Gosling. It's going to make you sweat a bit." For the second season, Gjokaj said, "you'll see him deal with actually being part of the machine. Not trying to get  the machine, but being the boss. The first season was him trying to be listened to, and now he's being listened to by a lot of people." The costumes for the SSR agents in the series are meant to be distinctive to help explain their characters: Sousa wears "sweater vests under his sport coats and pleated pants".

Ahead of the second season, Fazekas explained that after Carter turned Sousa down at the end of the first season, saying "Oh, let me take a rain check. I have something to do", Carter felt like a potential relationship was something she could consider, while Sousa "felt like he missed an opportunity there." Because of that, Sousa moved to Los Angeles to avoid Carter, and "They haven't spoken since he left. There's that interesting awkward [feeling] when they start working together again. But now Sousa has got a girlfriend and it's very serious, so that's a new thing for Peggy to deal with." Though Sousa and Carter do eventually get together in the second-season finale, the executive producers warned that this did not necessarily mean Sousa is Carter's future husband, who was first mentioned in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Gjokaj would reprise his role as Sousa during the seventh season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Roger Dooley

Roger Dooley (portrayed by Shea Whigham) is the chief of the New York SSR office. After talking to Russian psychiatrist Johann Fennhoff about his marital issues, Dooley is hypnotized by the latter into aiding the Russians before being placed in an exploding vest designed by Stark. Dooley manages to jump out a nearby window before the vest explodes and kills him, saving the SSR agents.

In September 2014, Whigham was cast as Dooley, for the first seven episodes of the series, since the character is killed off during the first season's penultimate episode. This decision was made to help build stakes for the series given that "everyone knows Peggy lives". The costumes for the SSR agents in the series are meant to be distinctive to help explain their characters: Dooley wears "the classic 1940s double-breasted looks. Many of his closet pieces are sourced 1940s vintage suits."

Dooley is not a well established character in the comics, so Whigham created his own background for him, feeling that "Dooley is [not] a political appointee. I think I worked my way up through good hard work." Unlike many of the other agents, Whigham believes that Dooley does respect Carter, saying "I think he likes her. I think he cares deeply. I'm not sure that he can always show that". When asked whether Dooley's death was what brings Carter and the other SSR agents together, Fazekas said that this was not necessarily the case, as Carter had already begun to earn that herself, but she did feel that it "sort of focuses everyone and affects everyone".

Recurring characters
The following is a list of guest characters that have recurring roles throughout the series. The characters are listed by the MCU media or season in which they first appeared.

Introduced in films

Howard Stark

Howard Stark (portrayed by Dominic Cooper) is a weapons developer who is framed for selling weapons to America's enemies. One of the weapons he created during the war was Midnight Oil, designed to give soldiers extra stamina during war, but instead it caused psychosis and led to them killing each other. The U.S. military stole Midnight Oil and used it on the Russians, and Fennhoff blames Stark for the ensuing massacre. Fennhoff hypnotises Stark into bombing New York, but Carter is able to convince Stark to stop. He moves on to set up his own film studio in Los Angeles.

In March 2014, Markus and McFeely stated that Howard Stark, the father of Tony Stark, CEO of Stark Industries, and a founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D., would be a recurring character in Agent Carter contingent on Cooper's willingness to reprise the role from The First Avenger and short film. In June 2014, Atwell confirmed that Cooper would be involved with the series. Ottobre-Melton designed Stark's outfits with his fugitive-status in mind, aiming to have him look "rich, comfortable, and sexy all rolled up into one." Stark doesn't wear a tie while on the run, unlike many men during the time, and tends to wear casual shirts with custom made jackets and vintage pants.

In describing the character, Cooper said "You don't know what he does in the depths of the evening, and he's gallivanting around." He continued, "I love dipping into ... some of that material of Howard Hughes, which I'm sure he's kind of been likened to", and described his biggest challenge in playing the character as "keeping it very realistic, but at the same time, tongue-in-cheek as well", and not making Stark "too broad". On Carter and Stark's relationship moving into the second season, Atwell said, "there's a new comfort level between Stark and Peggy ... they're on a bit more of an even level. She respects him hugely, but is also not afraid to comment on his lifestyle choices and how disgustingly misogynistic she finds him ... he does use women as a form of escapism for him and his Dionysian ways, but when it comes to Peggy, he doesn't see her as big boobs and red lips. He sees her as someone he can actually have a proper conversation with. Which probably scares the hell out of him".

In the first-season finale, the creators ensured that Stark spoke of Steve Rogers as "the greatest thing [he] ever did". This was done to set up the former's obsession with super soldier serums and identify "something/someone he's prouder of than his own son", which pays off in Captain America: Civil War: in the film, Stark is shown still attempting to recreate his super soldier serum in the 1990s; also, his love for Rogers adds to the antagonistic relationship between the latter and Tony.

Cooper was nominated for Best Guest Performance in a Television Series at the 41st Saturn Awards, and for Best Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 19th Online Film & Television Association Awards. He lost the awards to Wentworth Miller (for The Flash) and Jonathan Pryce (for Game of Thrones), respectively.

Introduced in season one

Angie Martinelli
Angie Martinelli (portrayed by Lyndsy Fonseca) is a waitress and aspiring actress who befriends Carter.

Fonseca was drawn to Martinelli's "funky personality", which differed from her much more serious previous role of Alexandra Udinov on Nikita. Fonseca and Atwell discussed keeping their characters as friends, rather than falling to "jealousy or cattiness. There's nothing but just support and interest and friendship, because a lot of times it's more complicated than that on shows." By July 2015, Fonseca was negotiating to return for the second season, and that December she was revealed to be returning for a dream sequence in "A Little Song and Dance". Fazekas said that Angie's appearance in the sequence is her acting as Carter's conscience, "speaking the things that Peggy maybe can't say to herself. It ties things back together from the first season and it's connecting all of these things in a way that only a dream can do."

Ray Krzeminski
Ray Krzeminski (portrayed by Kyle Bornheimer) is a misogynistic SSR agent who clashes with Carter, until he is killed by Dottie Underwood.

Bornheimer was cast in the recurring role by October 2014, as part of the series "stocking up on male counterparts" for Carter to deal with throughout the series. In terms of costume designe, Ottobre-Melton described Krzeminski as "a bit of a slob with his sport jacket, and open collar shirts." After the character's death, Butters explained that Carter would feel guilty about it moving forward, as it was her decisions that "inadvertently put Krzeminski at risk". His death also affected the series in general, with Fazekas explaining, "The stakes have changed now, they've gotten a lot more serious. The episodes that come subsequently really reflect that".

Rose Roberts
Rose Roberts (portrayed by Lesley Boone) is a switchboard operator who works for the SSR in New York and later in Los Angeles.

Discussing Rose's increased role in the second season, after making brief guest appearances in the first, Fazekas stated that the opportunity presented itself to "bring [Rose] out to L.A." for the second season, in order for Carter to have another person to talk to, "who knows her secrets and knows a lot about what's going on." Boone called Rose "a little bit of a bestie," trying to get information from Carter and Sousa to help "move things along" since she sees an attraction between the two. For the second season, Rose goes into the field, with Boone saying, "She gets recruited and she is  herself excited that she gets to go out there and be a bad woman. I think she's quite capable."

Miriam Fry
Miriam Fry (portrayed by Meagen Fay) is the strict proprietor of The Griffith Hotel for Women, a boarding house where Carter lives.

Fay was cast as the woman in charge of the boarding house where Carter lives in October 2014, set for a minimum four-episode arc. Fay and the Griffith Hotel were introduced as a way to have more female characters in the series, as "We were troublingly dominated by men given that [Carter] was the only woman working in the SSR". The Griffith was based on the Barbizon Hotel for Women, one of the places in New York that "were considered safe places for women to live in the big city."

Dottie Underwood
Dorothy "Dottie" Underwood (portrayed by Bridget Regan) is a Russian sleeper agent disguised as a small-town girl from Iowa who moves next door to Carter. She reveals her true allegiance in an attempt to capture Carter, and later escapes after being defeated in a fight with the latter. Dottie resurfaces in an attempt to raid a bank account, only to be stopped by Carter and the SSR. She is taken into FBI custody, until Carter breaks her out to help her defeat Whitney Frost.

Underwood was created to give Carter a "strong female antagonist", and Butters noted that "we said, wouldn't it be great to have one of those people who is living right there with her be actually a bad guy?" In late January 2015, Butters and Fazekas revealed that Underwood is a product of the precursor to the Black Widow program. Regan did not know the character was a Black Widow when auditioning, but quickly learned after being cast, as the showrunners wanted her to change her then current red hair, in order to avoid being "a tip to the audience, because of Natasha [Romanoff]. They didn't want to imply that every Black Widow had red hair and they didn't want the audience to see it coming." Regan trained with a Taekwondo expert and studied Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow choreography from the films in preparation for the character's fight scenes, while Ottobre-Melton referenced her Black Widow status by using the colors red and black. Underwood's initial "small-town girl from Iowa" persona was based on Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz.

Butters and Fazekas stated that Underwood "doesn't quite understand what it's like to be a normal woman" after her upbringing in the program, and is intrigued by Carter. Regan elaborated that "she's never seen anyone like [Carter] before and she's never been beaten before. There's this competitive but playful obsession with her" which is seen with Underwood's "flirtation" and "feminine prowess". Regan continued, "She knows that to be on top she has to beat Peggy ... So Dottie does want to get under her skin. She tries to make her feel uncomfortable and that might be with a look or a glance or what she says." Atwell said, "Peggy has male baddies that she fights, but to have someone who is physically her equal—she's a Black Widow, incredibly capable and very smart—I think that shows some balance for Peggy, like a flip side of the same coin." After Carter defeats Underwood and Leviathan in the first season, Underwood becomes "a lone wolf ... she's a woman without a country right now, but she is more involved in the [overarching] case" for the second season than it initially appears.

Johann Fennhoff

Johann Fennhoff (portrayed by Ralph Brown) is a Russian hypnotist working for Leviathan, whose brother died from the effects of Stark's chemical weapon Midnight Oil. Fennhoff infiltrates the SSR under the guise of rescued psychiatrist Dr. Ivchenko, and steals Midnight Oil for himself. He then tries to use hypnosis to make Stark spread Midnight Oil over New York, but is defeated by Carter and the SSR. He is arrested, gagged, and imprisoned with Arnim Zola.

Fennhoff's history as Doctor Faustus in the comics is referenced in the series, with him shown reading Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Having Faustus meet Zola was intended to set up Hydra's use of mind control for the Winter Soldier program, as seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Hydra's system of brainwashing and mind control is also seen in the series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., where it is referred to as the Faustus Method.

Introduced in season two

Whitney Frost

Whitney Frost (portrayed by Wynn Everett) is the stage name of Agnes Cully, an actress and scientific genius forced to hide behind her husband, senatorial candidate Calvin Chadwick, due to the sexism of the age. She accidentally absorbs Zero Matter, which leaves her with a Zero Matter scar on her forehead, and the ability to absorb any living thing she touches. After she is purged of the Zero Matter, Frost goes insane and is committed to an asylum.

In August 2015, Butters and fellow executive producer Chris Dingess stated that Madame Masque would appear in the season, and that an actress had been cast in the role. Everett was confirmed to be playing the character that October. After being cast and seeing a picture of the comic version of the character, Everett felt "'They got the wrong girl,' only because I look nothing like her. I was very nervous about it ... [and] thought, 'They will probably dye my hair dark, and I'm going to need to work out a bit. And those are some pretty big boobs.'" However, the producers were looking to take a different approach to the character, taking inspiration from "Hollywood icons like Hedy Lamarr and Lauren Bacall". The character also does not wear the gold mask from the comics, though the show does reference this, with masks appearing in the background of many scenes featuring Frost. Ivy George and Olivia Welch portray younger versions of Cully during her time growing up in Broxton, Oklahoma.

Series head of make-up Debra LaMia Denaver explained that for the Zero Matter "wound" on Frost's face, the "guidelines were for it to be like a cracked porcelain doll and then the black matter would come from inside out. From there, Jay [Wejebe, makeup artist] designed the prosthetics that we use and Robin [Beauchesne, key makeup artist] created all the different avenues the dark matter takes." Using reference photographs and pre-made prosthetics, the make-up team were ultimately able to apply the effect to Everett in 30 minutes. The "crack" was then augmented with visual effects, to add depth, sentience, and an "infinite black" by color-correcting the image, with the effects animators studying "cracking glass to better capture the animation effect."

Fazekas said that, "Whitney is used to people treating her with a certain amount of deference, because she's a famous actress, and she's met her match in Peggy." She added that in the series, "You see the makings of a villain, but she doesn't start off evil. She starts off manipulative and not the nicest person you've ever met, but she's not a bad guy when you first meet her." Fazekas additionally noted how the sexist themes of the times were handled, by showing "that the only way Whitney Frost felt she could exert power in the world was through her husband, because she had been told her whole life, 'Nobody cares how smart you are, they care about how pretty you are.'" On Frost's relationship with Chadwick, Everett called him "her best friend. And like many friends and family, you end up [fighting], but he's always there ... he knows I can do what I say I can do, especially in the science world. So he's really the only one who gets me."

Jason Wilkes
Jason Wilkes (portrayed by Reggie Austin) is a scientist for Isodyne, the only company willing to hire him as a black man, who informs Carter of the company's Zero Matter discovery. He is rendered invisible and intangible following exposure to the substance, and under its influence he attempts to take drastic steps to gain power. He expresses remorse for his actions after the Zero Matter is eventually purged from his body and he regains tangibility.

Austin joined the cast as Wilkes in October 2015. Wilkes, who originates from the comics, was changed to a black character for the series, which allowed the series to address racism during the 1940s. On the race of the character, Austin said "it does play a factor. It can't not, really. It's Los Angeles—or [rather], America—in 1947. So race does play a factor". Butters added, "We wanted to tell a rich story around [the blatant racism that existed] and not feel like you're preaching about it, you know, 'Racism is not good.'" For when the character becomes intangible following exposure to Zero Matter, the series' science adviser theoretical physicist Clifford Johnson explained that the substance introduces the idea of moving in "another direction" from what is usually possible, and so Wilkes's intangibility is actually the Zero Matter taking him "somewhat off, towards the place it came from" in another dimension. Austin noted that this experience causes both fear and curiosity in Wilkes, and forces his role in the series to be more cerebral rather than action-focused as he is relegated to explaining science and planning until he regains his tangibility.

On how Wilkes connects to Carter, Austin said Wilkes is "one of the top scientists in his field [working at Isodyne], but he's had to work hard to get there. It's sort of a similar struggle of an African-American and a woman in the 1940s to try to succeed, so I think that they both see that in one another and that's part of where the chemistry and connection comes from." Expanding on the love triangle that forms between Wilkes, Sousa, and Carter, Austin said, "we're very nice to each other. We're professional. I think that Sousa likes Wilkes enough and it's the same the other way".

Calvin Chadwick

Calvin Chadwick (portrayed by Currie Graham) is Frost's husband, the owner of Isodyne Energy and secret member of the Council of Nine. He is a senatorial candidate for the Council, until he tries to turn over the powered-Frost to the Council out of fear; Frost absorbs him in retaliation.

Graham was announced as cast in the role in October 2015. He compared his relationship to Frost to that of Bill and Hillary Clinton, calling them "a power couple" and adding, "I think that Chadwick was probably attracted to her because of her beauty, [but she's] also a very smart woman, very successful, also probably a Type A. We really strive, both of us I think, as a very successful actress and with a very successful business[man]. The world is our oyster. We're going to make as many pearls as we can."

Ana Jarvis
Ana Jarvis (portrayed by Lotte Verbeek) is the free-spirited and quirky wife of Edwin Jarvis who quickly befriends Carter. She is wounded by Whitney Frost, resulting in internal complications that render her unable to have children.

The character was featured entirely off screen in the first season, often as a "disembodied voice". In July 2015, she was revealed to be physically appearing in the second season, and Verbeek was cast in the role by October 2015. Verbeek was in Europe when she auditioned for and got the part, and Agent Carter had not yet begun airing there, so Verbeek "didn't really know anything. I just talked to the showrunners, what is it about, what is the character about." Verbeek wanted to play more than just "the wife of", and noted that her take on the character is "somewhat unexpected with Jarvis being who he is ... Ana just brings a whole different dimension to him." Verbeek, who is Dutch, has "spent a lot of time in Budapest", which helped with the character's Hungarian accent.

On creating the character, Fazekas said the writers "wanted to be really specific about who the woman is that Jarvis is just madly in love with" in order to highlight the strong, platonic relationship Jarvis has with Carter. Fazekas added, "It makes sense in that, Jarvis likes Peggy Carter, so of course the woman he's in love with would not be a quiet, prim and proper lady ... We also wanted to be very clear that Peggy and Ana really like each other, and that there's no jealousy from Ana. Ana and Jarvis are so comfortable in their relationship, they're not going to be jealous of other people coming in and out of their lives." On some of the differences between Ana and Edwin, Verbeek said, "The first scene we had I walk in and I smack him on his ass, which is a sort of sexual, playful, fun thing they have. That's not something he would do, that's something she does, and he loves it." D'Arcy later revealed that Verbeek had improvised this on their first day on set, after having " flown in", calling it "brilliantly courageous ... to do it to an actor you don't know" and "so perfectly what they were hoping that Ana would be like."

Aloysius Samberly
Aloysius Samberly (portrayed by Matt Braunger) is an SSR lab tech who eventually goes out into the field with Carter, Sousa, Jarvis and Roberts to help them retrieve old atomic bombs at Roxxon Oil. He then assists them in defeating Frost.

Fazekas called him "a comedy guy, who plays the lab tech who is kind of disgruntled. He feels like, 'You agents, you just look down your nose at the lab techs,' and he's a thorn in Sousa's side. He's so funny because everything he says is completely earnest, but hilarious. He just annoys everyone ... [But] he also has his little hero moments as well." Butters called Braunger "a great comic addition to our cast."

Vernon Masters
Vernon Masters (portrayed by Kurtwood Smith) is a veteran of the War Department and subordinate of the Council of Nine, he was Thompson's mentor and boss in the War Department, and manipulates Thompson into doing the bidding of the Council.

In October 2015, Smith was cast in the "major recurring role" of Masters for the second season, having previously worked with Butters and Fazekas on their television series Resurrection. Though the executive producers never thought that they would be able to get Smith for the series, they developed and wrote Masters with the actor in mind. The character was intended to be killed off at the end of the season, and a version of that was filmed, but the writers ultimately decided to leave Masters' fate "ambiguous" as they enjoyed working with Smith, with Fazekas saying, "The nice thing about that is we could go both ways on it. Maybe we never see him again or maybe we see him again and by the way he's full of Zero Matter now. The last thing you saw was Whitney Zero Mattering him and then getting interrupted. But it's still in him. Either way, we wanted to keep our options open."

Joseph Manfredi

Joseph Manfredi (portrayed by Ken Marino) is the leader of the Maggia crime syndicate branch in Los Angeles who aids Frost, having previously dated her. He is also an old acquaintance of Howard Stark, and helps Stark and the SSR defeat Frost when she begins losing her mind to the Zero Matter.

Marino was cast in November 2015, on which Fazekas said, "He's obviously very funny, but he also is a great dramatic actor. We had talked about him for a different role, but it was too small of a role. Then we knew we wanted him in [the] Manfredi role. So that role became so much bigger because it was Ken." About the character, Fazekas added, "What I love about Manfredi is he's funny, he can flip on a dime and be a total psycho, and he is madly in love with Whitney and genuinely so—even when she's cuckoo. Their scenes together, there's such a tenderness to them". Since the character differs from its comic counterpart, Marino said "the two things [vital to the character]" were defining that Manfredi "definitely was the muscle for Whitney, and that he did have a true love for her." Marino wanted to make sure Manfredi "felt like he was an old-school tough guy" and felt that Frost was "the one true love for him", comparing their relationship to Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe's.

Guest characters
The following is a supplementary list of guest stars that appear in lesser roles or make significant cameo appearances. The characters are listed by the MCU media or season in which they first appeared.

Introduced in films

 Anton Vanko (portrayed by Costa Ronin, first in season one): Co-creator of the arc reactor with Howard Stark.
 Timothy "Dum Dum" Dugan (portrayed by Neal McDonough, first in season one): Leader of the Howling Commandos.
 Arnim Zola (portrayed by Toby Jones, first in season one): A Hydra scientist and prisoner of the SSR with Fennhoff.

Introduced in season one
  (portrayed by James Frain): An ex-Leviathan operative who steals Stark's inventions.
  (portrayed by Rob Mars): A former Coney Island strong man, now a thug for hire.
  (portrayed by James Landry Hébert): A Leviathanoperative.
  (portrayed by Ashley Hinshaw): Carter's roommate who is murdered by Demidov.
  (portrayed by James Urbaniak): A Roxxon Oil scientist.
  (portrayed by Alexander Carroll): An SSR agent hypnotized by Fennhoff.
  (portrayed by Ray Wise): The president of Roxxon Oil who is on the Council of Nine
  (portrayed by Devin Ratray): A truck driver bribed to aid Brannis.
  (portrayed by Ralph Garman)
 "Captain America" radio actor and "Kid Colt" film actor (portrayed by Walker Roach)
 "Betty Carver" radio actress (portrayed by Erin Torpey)
  (portrayed by Gregory Sporleder): A black market smuggler. Killed by Underwood before he can kill Carter.
  (portrayed by Kevin Cotteleer): An SSR scientist.
  (portrayed by Leonard Roberts): A Howling Commando.
  (portrayed by Alex Veadov): A Russian scientist and Leviathan prisoner.
  (portrayed by Richard Short): A Howling Commando.
  (portrayed by James Austin Kerr): A Howling Commando who is killed by a young Leviathan trainee.

Stan Lee and John Glover make cameo appearances as a shoeshiner patron and a journalist friend of Dooley, respectively. Chris Evans appears as Steve Rogers / Captain America via archive footage from Captain America: The First Avenger.

Introduced in season two
  (portrayed by Sarah Bolger): Sousa's new girlfriend in Los Angeles. She leaves him after learning of his feelings for Carter.
  (portrayed by Sean O'Bryan): An LAPD homicide detective exposed to Zero Matter.
 Isodyne receptionist (portrayed by Angela Cristantello)
  (portrayed by Chris Browning): A Council of Nine hitman.
  (portrayed by John Balma): An Arena Club host.
  (portrayed by Rey Valentin): An SSR agent under Sousa.
  (portrayed by Casey Sander): A businessman on the Council of Nine.
  (portrayed by Carole Ruggier): Peggy Carter's mother.
  (portrayed by Max Brown as an adult, Webb Baker Hayes as a boy): Peggy's brother, who is killed in World War II. This convinces her to join the Special Operations Executive.
  (portrayed by Samaire Armstrong): Whitney Frost's mother.
  (portrayed by Chris Mulkey): Wilma Cully's lover.
  (portrayed by Christopher Grove): An instructor of Peggy's at Bletchley Park.
  (portrayed by Kevin Changaris): Peggy's ex fiancé.
  (portrayed by John Kerry): A newspaper mogul on the Council of Nine.
  (portrayed by Tina D'Marco): Joseph Manfredi's grandmother.
  (portrayed by Tom T. Choi): Ana Jarvis's doctor in a hospital.

Louis van Amstel, Dmitry Chaplin, Karina Smirnoff, Anna Trebunskaya, Sasha Farber, and Damian Whitewood, professional dancers on Dancing with the Stars, make cameo appearances as dancers in Peggy's dream in "A Little Song and Dance".

See also
 List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series actors (Marvel Television)

References

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Season 2

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Ray Dream Studio was a low-end 3D modeling software application. Initially developed by Ray Dream, Inc. in 1989-1991 for the Macintosh, it was acquired and upgraded over the course of mergers with Fractal Design and MetaCreations. Ray Dream was less expensive than most other offerings, renowned for its ease of use, and boasted an impressive feature set including a sophisticated shader editor. Other software programs from the same developers, such as Fractal Design Painter 3D, were often introduced in basic form to the suite. A moderately limited version lacking animation capability was sold for $99 as Ray Dream Designer (later Ray Dream 3D), and quickly became a mass-market favorite.

The first three major revisions were very buggy. By the time of release of version 4, in late 1995, this had improved. In 1996, Ray Dream was acquired by Fractal Design, and in early 1997, Fractal Design merged with MetaTools to form MetaCreations. Versions 5.0 and 5.5 were released by MetaCreations. The software was then merged with its higher-end stepsister, Infini-D, to form Carrara, lending many user interface elements and gaining a better rendering engine. Today, Carrara is maintained by Daz 3D.

External Links/Sources
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1989 software

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Cumberland Street railway station, Glasgow, Scotland, was developed by the Glasgow and South Western Railway in 1900, as a replacement for Main Street station, Gorbals, following the doubling of the track from Port Eglinton to St Enoch station. It was in operation until 1966, when passenger services to St Enoch station ended. It has been proposed to reopen the station as part of the Glasgow Crossrail project.

In late October 2012 the Cumberland street building was sealed in with concrete blocks.

The station was originally called Eglinton Street, but its name was changed to Cumberland Street in the 1920s to avoid confusion with the Caledonian Railway's Eglinton Street station, which served trains operating from Glasgow Central.

Architecture
There were two separate station buildings at either end of the platforms. Parts of the derelict red sandstone building at the corner of Cumberland Street and Salisbury Street can still be seen. The two-storey building at the corner of Eglinton Street and Wellcroft Place was demolished without trace, leaving a landscaped area of ground between Eglinton Street and Abbotsford Place. William Melville, engineer to the Glasgow and South Western Railway, is credited as being the architect of the station buildings in 1899–1900. The remaining structure is now protected as a category B listed building.

References

External links
 CANMORE page featuring black and white photographs of both station buildings
 Dictionary of Scottish Architects buildings report
 Photographs and historical maps of Cumberland Street Station, Glasgow
 Video of the remaining building of Cumberland Street Station April 2011

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Louis Brown Johnson (September 22, 1934 – October 1, 2020), nicknamed "Sweet Lou", was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. Johnson's professional baseball career lasted for 17 seasons, and included 8 years in the majors: parts of 1960–1962 and 1965, and then the full seasons of 1966 through 1969. He threw and batted right-handed and was listed as  tall and .

Johnson did not establish himself as a big-league regular until he was almost 31 years of age. He had trials with the Chicago Cubs (34 games played in 1960), Los Angeles Angels (only one appearance in 1961), and Milwaukee Braves (61 games in 1962). Only after he was summoned to the Los Angeles Dodgers from Triple-A Spokane, when the Dodgers lost regular outfielder Tommy Davis to a broken ankle on May 1, 1965, did Johnson earn a foothold in the major leagues. He became the Dodgers' regular left fielder during their 1965 world championship season, started over 60 games in both left and right fields in 1966 (during which the Dodgers captured their second straight National League pennant), and started another 85 games in the Dodger outfield in 1967.

He remained in the majors for two more years as a reserve player with to the Cubs, Cleveland Indians and California Angels. Later in life, he was employed by the Dodgers' Community Relations Department.

Early life
Johnson was born on September 22, 1934, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Sidney Bell and Shirley Johnson. He had three brothers and one sister.

Johnson attended Dunbar High School in Lexington where played both basketball and baseball. He desired to play basketball at the University of Kentucky under coach Adolph Rupp. However, at the time, not only were members of the Southeastern Conference (of which Kentucky is an affiliate) not recruiting black athletes, most of its universities were segregated.

Early baseball career

Johnson was signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1953. After moving around from team to team in the minor leagues for about eight years, he made his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs in 1960. The Cubs traded Johnson to the Los Angeles Angels for Jim McAnany on April 1, 1961. In 1962, he played in 61 games for the Milwaukee Braves. However, after that, the Braves traded Johnson to the Detroit Tigers system, which sent him back to the minor leagues for the 1963 and '64 seasons. They then traded him to the Los Angeles Dodgers for the pitcher Larry Sherry.

Los Angeles Dodgers

Johnson made it back to the major leagues to stay for a stretch beginning in 1965 with the Dodgers when a broken ankle in early May sidelined Tommy Davis, their regular left fielder, for the remainder of the season. Johnson filled in for Davis, playing in 130 games for the Dodgers that season, recording a .260 batting average, 57 runs scored, and 58 runs batted in (RBIs).

On September 9, 1965, Johnson also scored the only run for the Dodgers in Sandy Koufax's perfect game against the Chicago Cubs; he walked in the 5th, went to second base on a sacrifice bunt, stole third base, and then scored on a throwing error by Cubs' catcher Chris Krug. Johnson also doubled in the 7th, for the only hit off Cubs pitcher Bob Hendley, making Johnson the only player in MLB history to reach base for either team in a nine-inning game.

The Dodgers made it to the 1965 World Series versus the Minnesota Twins, and in this Series, Johnson had eight hits, including two home runs, the second one being the game-winning one in the decisive seventh game.

With Tommy Davis back in left field, and Willie Davis in center field, Johnson played mostly in right field in 1966. Frequently batting third in the order, right ahead of tough hitter Tommy Davis, Johnson set career highs by playing in 152 games, getting 526 at-bats, 143 hits, 17 home runs, scoring 71 runs, with 73 RBIs. Johnson's batting average that season was .272, and the Dodgers made it to the World Series once again.

This was also Koufax's last year in baseball before retiring due to severe arthritis and constant pain in his pitching arm that had plagued him for over three seasons. In the 1966 World Series against the Baltimore Orioles, the Dodgers' offense hit rock-bottom, with the team getting shut out three times, and only scoring two runs in the four games. Johnson finished the series with four hits in 15 at-bats and flew out to Paul Blair for the final out of the Series.

Later baseball years

From this point on, Johnson's major league career rapidly wound down, as he broke his leg sliding into Joe Torre and played in just 104 games for the Dodgers in 1967, a combined 127 for the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians in 1968, and just 67 for the California Angels in 1969, with only a .203 batting average. He retired from baseball at the end of the 1969 season, at the age of 35.

In his approximately eight-year-long Major League career, Johnson posted a .258 overall  average with 48 home runs and 232 RBI in 677 games played. Defensively, he recorded a .981 fielding percentage playing at all three outfield positions.

Personal life
Johnson and his wife, Sarah, had three children: Lauren, Carlton, and Quinton. He died on October 1, 2020, after a period of ill-health.

References

Further reading

External links

Lou Johnson - BaseballBiography.com

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Medal of Honor: Vanguard is a first-person shooter video game, the tenth installment in the Medal of Honor series. It was developed by EA Los Angeles and Budcat Creations and released for the PlayStation 2 and Wii.

Plot
Players take on the role of Cpl/Sgt. Frank Keegan, a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, and 17th Airborne Division fighting the Axis forces of Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy.

The first mission takes place in 1943 during Operation Husky. Cpl. Keegan is in a C-47 aircraft somewhere off the coast of Sicily. when the airborne force he is assigned to is suddenly attacked by US Navy ships, believing the Allied planes to be German. Barely reaching the coast, the plane is ripped in half and Keegan and several other soldiers are thrown out. He manages to deploy his parachute and make it to the ground, where he meets up with his squad leader, MSgt. John Magnuson. They fight through the small coastal town against moderate opposition from Italian forces. The next morning the paratroopers fend off an enemy counterattack before clearing the main square and the rest of the town. Once through the town, they make their way to a nearby coastal bunker which houses several large cannons that threaten any Allied ships that come near. They blow the bunker open with explosives and shoot their way in, killing all of the German forces inside, before blowing up the cannons, finally safeguarding the Allied invasion force.

In the second mission, Keegan is part of a glider unit landed as part of Operation Neptune during the invasion of Normandy. The glider crashes hard during the landing and Keegan and the only other surviving soldier, Cpl. Garrett, move towards the rallying point, an old church near the edge of town, encountering large numbers of German troops along the way. Along the way they find two other members of their squad, Pfc. Pike and Pfc. Chalmers, who had parachuted into Normandy. Upon arriving, they find Sgt. Magnuson dangling from the church rafters, having landed there during the drop. Keegan manages to cut him down just as the Germans launch a counter-attack on the now trapped soldiers. They manage to fight off the German assault, but as he is opening a door leading out of the church, Keegan is knocked out by a German hiding on the other side. Waking up a short time later, Keegan and his squad then proceed to blow up several key bridges across the Normandy landscape, crosses one of the many flooded swamplands dotting Normandy, cut down several paratroopers stranded in trees, and finally locate bazooka components which Keegan assembles and uses to destroy a halftrack blocking their advance to the last bridge. As Keegan proceeds to plant charges on the final bridge, the explosives go off too early, killing some of Keegan's squadmates and leaving Keegan unconscious. Magnuson wakes him up next morning, but almost immediately gets shot in the head by a sniper. Keegan and his squad assault the house where the sniper was located and eliminate him. They then make their way to a large road bridge leading to a chateau where the Germans are headquartered. They fight their way across the bridge under heavy fire and through the chateau, only to discover it to be a trap and are quickly surrounded by four Tiger tanks that Keegan promptly eliminates. After the ambush, Keegan is promoted to the Sergeant due to Magnuson's death.

The third mission takes place during Operation Market Garden, where the newly promoted Sgt. Keegan now leads his squad through the battle. During the operation, Keegan's squad fights their way through the countryside until they reach the strategically important Grave Bridge, which they eventually capture. They then move on to the town of Grave, where they encounter heavy fire from MG42 machine gun emplacements throughout the town. Approaching the town square, Keegan and the other soldiers are attacked by a Tiger tank, which kills Chalmers before Keegan finally destroys it.

The fourth and final mission in the game takes place during Operation Varsity. Keegan, now transferred to the 17th Airborne Division, lands on the bank of the Rhine River, where he and the paratroopers take heavy fire from Wehrmacht forces. They make their way to a German industrial complex, where they fight off several brutal counterattacks before continuing on to a German trench system. After neutralizing the trenches and the defences surrounding them, Keegan must make his way alone through a wrecked factory full of German snipers. He manages to make his way through and regroups with the surviving members of his squad just outside of the complex just as hundreds of Fallschirmjager troops launch a major counter-attack with a large number of tanks in support. They successfully repel the attack, with a final scene showing the remaining German troops retreating back into the outlying hills.

Gameplay
The game shares many gameplay elements with Medal of Honor: Airborne. Players are able to customize their weapons, such as adding a telescopic sight to a M1 Garand rifle and a drum magazine for a Thompson submachine gun, although these upgrades are only available on certain levels.

At the start of each of the operations, players parachute onto a battlefield (with the exception of a glider insertion at the start of the Invasion of Normandy) and can roughly designate where they land. Players who land at points marked by green smoke will be able to pick up weapon upgrades and ammunition. Missions can be played out in different ways depending on where players lands and which weapons they obtain.

Content-wise, both versions of the game are the same. However, the Wii version implements the Wii Remote to accomplish such movements as crouching, jumping, making quick turns, weapon strikes, reloading, and shooting. These actions are accomplished with a standard video game interface (buttons and joysticks) on the PS2 version and are also an option on the Wii.

Multiplayer
Multiplayer has been included in the game in the form of a 2-4 player split-screen mode with both the Wii and PS2 versions. (The PS2 version requires a multitap to support more than two players.) This is currently the last Medal of Honor game to feature split screen mode.
There are five modes:
Deathmatch
Team Deathmatch
Capture the Flag
King of the Hill
Scavenger Hunt

Reception

Medal of Honor: Vanguard received "mixed" reviews on both platforms according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.

GameSpot gave the game 5.5 out of 10 for both the Wii and PS2 versions. Most criticism for the game focused the poor graphics engine, lack of online play, and poor enemy intelligence. Also criticized was the fact that many of the game elements were already featured in the series or by other World War II shooters (with the exception of the parachute drop). Aaron Thomas of GameSpot stated that "There's really no reason to pick it up on the PlayStation 2, and thanks to a higher price tag for the Wii version, there's very little reason to buy it for the Wii, either." United Kingdom-based website Mansized gave the Wii version two out of five, claiming, "Vanguard is a pretty shocking game."

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"Grey Day" is a 2-Tone song written by Mike Barson and recorded by British pop/ska band Madness. The song was the first single released from the band's third studio album 7. It was a big departure from their early ska sound with a much darker, miserable feel. The song title does not appear in the lyrics as a single phrase, though a couplet rhyming "grey" with "day" features in the chorus.

The song was written prior to the band becoming a success in the UK music scene, and the first performance of the song came back in 1978 at the Acklam Hall while the band were known as "The North London Invaders". The song was finally recorded in 1981 and was released as a single on 17 April 1981. The song spent 10 weeks in the UK Singles Chart, reaching a high of number 4. It was able to crack the charts in Australia as well, but only as high as number 82.

Music video
The music video for the single was filmed in March 1981. The majority of the video was shot on an open top bus as it drove around London, and in Bowmans shop window on Camden High Street, where the band performed the song.  The street they are featured walking down is Royal College Street just off Camden High Street; they're seen entering houses between 109 and 121. A recurring theme in the music video is common dreams such as dreaming; that one is flying or falling.

Appearances
"Grey Day" is one of Madness' most anthologised singles. In addition to its single release and appearance on the album 7, "Grey Day" also appears on the Madness collections Divine Madness (a.k.a. The Heavy Heavy Hits), Complete Madness, It's... Madness, The Business and Our House. It also features on all four US Madness retrospectives, Madness, Total Madness, Ultimate Collection and The Millennium Collection.

Formats and track listings
These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Grey Day".

7" single / Cassette single
"Grey Day" (Barson) - 3:37
"Memories" (Foreman) - 2:24

12" single
"Un Paso Adelante!" (Campbell) - 2:18
"Baggy Trousers" (McPherson/Foreman) - 2:46
"Grey Day" (Barson) - 3:37
"Take It or Leave It" (Thompson/Barson) - 3:27

Charts

Certifications and sales

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The Armenian Evangelical Peter and Elizabeth Torosian School () is a school in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon. The school was established as a kindergarten in 1951, by Rev Hadidian, and began with 20 children in a 2-roomed flat. By the next year, the number of students had almost doubled, and an elementary section was added. In 1966, the school moved to a new building in Amanos-Dora, which had been provided by Mr and Mrs Torossian – hence the school's name.

The present principal is Seta Karageozian.

History
The Armenian Evangelical Peter & Elizabeth Torosian School was founded in 1951 in Amanos area, which is located east of Beirut City. It started with kindergarten classes that developed into an Intermediate School by 1973. Rev. Yenovk Hadidian was the key person in the founding of this school and Mr. Augustin Badeer was another committed Evangelical who supported the growing steps of the school until it got the present three-floor building in 1981.
Torosian is a neighborhood school. Most of the students live a walking distance from school. Past principals include Alice Filhanessian, Hagop Boujikanian (1969-1973)

The school implements the Lebanese Government Curriculum in Kindergarten, Elementary and Intermediate levels.

The school's mission is to educate the Armenian new generation with Christian, Armenian, sound and decent education.

See also
Armenian Evangelical School of Trad (Trad, Lebanon)
Armenian Evangelical Guertmenian School (Ashrafieh, Lebanon)
Armenian Evangelical Shamlian Tatigian Secondary School (Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon)
Armenian Evangelical Central High School (Ashrafieh, Lebanon)
Yeprem and Martha Philibosian Armenian Evangelical College (Beirut, Lebanon)
Armenian Evangelical Secondary School of Anjar (Anjar, Lebanon)
Haigazian University (Riad El Solh, Beirut, Lebanon)

References

External links
Educational Council of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East (UAECNE)

Schools in Lebanon
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Jerrold Reinach Zacharias (January 23, 1905 – July 16, 1986) was an American physicist and institute professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as an education reformer. His scientific work was in the area of nuclear physics.

Biography
Jerrold Zacharias was born on January 23, 1905, in Jacksonville, Florida.  He went to Columbia University, where physicist I. I. Rabi became his mentor. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College in 1926 and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1931.

During World War II, Zacharias was involved in both the Radiation Laboratory at MIT and the Manhattan Project.  In the former he helped develop practical radar uses for the United States Navy and in the latter he was head of an engineering division at Los Alamos Laboratory.

He helped build the MIT physics department after the war, and was responsible for recruiting Bruno Rossi and Victor Weisskopf to the Institute. During the Cold War he was the head of a number of defense-related studies hosted at MIT, such as Project Hartwell, Project Charles, and Project Lamp Light.  The Danish-American physicist Charles Lauritsen was also part of some of these projects.

In 1952 at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, which had recently been founded to study issues of air defense, the Lincoln Summer Study Group took place, where physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer other scientists urged that resources be allocated to air defense in preference to large retaliatory nuclear strike capabilities.  This stance was objected to by the United States Air Force, and in 1953 an anonymous, Air Force-sponsored article was published in Fortune that made the baseless accusation that Zacharias was part of a cabal of dissident physicists known as "ZORC" (Zacharias, Oppenheimer, Rabi, Charles Lauritsen) that was attempting to do damage to U.S. national security.  The subject of this non-existent cabal again came up during the Oppenheimer security hearing of 1954 when Zacharias denied a witness's claim to having seen the initials written on an MIT blackboard.

Zacharias developed the first practical version of the cesium-beam clock, often called an "atomic clock".  Developed in 1956, it later became the internationally accepted standard for timekeeping.

Concerned that traditional physics education at the secondary school level failed to convey a sense of excitement and inquiry, and a way of thinking about physics beyond rote memorization of equations, Zacharias both founded and ran the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC).  Begun in 1956, it gained additional funding and emphasis in the wake of the Sputnik crisis of 1957, and within ten years half of the country's high school physics students were using the PSSC curriculum of textbooks and experiments.

He was awarded the Oersted Medal in 1961 for contributions to the teaching of physics.  President John F. Kennedy said that year that Zacharias had "started a revolution in science teaching in the United States."

During the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, Zacharias worked for the White House's Office of Science and Technology. In the mid 1960s he hosted a series of lectures at Tufts University which acted as the spark for the formation of the pioneering artists-in-the-schools organization Teachers & Writers Collaborative. Zacharias continued to push for educational reform throughout the 1960s and 1970s through such projects as Elementary Science Study and the educational TV series Infinity Factory.  He was also the founder of Education Development Center, a global nonprofit that develops science and math curricula.

Zacharias died in 1986 at age 81. Zacharias' wife, Leona Zacharias was a scientist, researcher, and lecturer at Massachusetts Eye and Ear.

See also
 Physical Science Study Committee

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Inetkaes was an ancient Egyptian princess of the Third Dynasty, who reigned during the Old Kingdom.

Inetkaes was the only known child of Pharaoh Djoser and Queen Hetephernebti, and she was a granddaughter of Khasekhemwy and Nimaethap.

She is mentioned on the boundary stelae surrounding Djoser's step pyramid (these are now to be found in various museums) and is depicted on a relief found in Heliopolis (now in Torino). This shows the enthroned pharaoh accompanied by smaller figures of Inetkaes and Hetephernebti.

Sources

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Love on Credit () is a 2011 Chinese romantic-comedy film created by Zhang Yibai, adapted from one of its novels of Megan Tay, and released by Xiaoma Benteng. It was directed by Leste Chen. The film stars Lin Chi-ling, Chen Kun, Liao Fan, Tony Yang and Jiayi Zhang.

Plot
The film begins with a pair of twin sisters named XiaoHong and XiaoQing. They have two totally different personalities. XiaoQing believes in true love. By contrast, her elder sister XiaoHong only trusts money. XiaoQing is about to get married with her boyfriend of 10 years, Jiang Cheng. She had been working very hard to save money to buy her own house. But Jiang Cheng not only hung around everyday, but was also cheated and lent all of XiaoQing's saving to an unreliable friend. XiaoQing was too angry to leave Jiang Cheng and felt desperate to keep their love alive. She applied for many credit cards and dressed herself like a high-class lady so that she could get a rich man to marry her.

On the other side, Xiaohong has been in love with her boss for 10 years; waiting ruined all her hope for love. She decided to evaluate men according to their credit cards. Then she met Zhang Quan who could shop without limits. She believes the reason she made friends with Zhang Quan is solely because she loves his money. But is this really true?

Can Xiaohong and Xiaoqing achieve happiness at last?

Cast
 Lin Chi-ling as XiaoHong & XiaoQing: Two modern ladies who want to love but deny themselves true love
 Chen Kun as Zhang Quan: A rich lonely young man. Most of his childhood friends only wanted him when they needed money, so he has never had a serious relationship
 Liao Fan as Jiang Cheng: The boyfriend of XiaoQing who was cheated by his best friend into giving him his entire savings.
 Tony Yang as Shen Tao: A single rich man who can't deal with relationships with girls well. Many of his past girlfriends only dated him because of his money

Songs of the film
The theme song throughout the movie was also titled "Love on Credit". It was released on 19 September 2011. The composer, Wu Qingfeng, spent 20 minutes writing the song. At the first listen of the song, one of lead roles, Lin Chi-ling was too moved to cry.

She said "The song expresses my moods and feelings in the movie completely."

Love On Credit (Theme song)
Bird's Nest  (background music)
What Are You Worrying About  (background music)
Bird's nest  (background music)

Cast On the Set
Chen Kun said he threw Lin Chi-ling on to the bed on the first day of their working. Then he added more details. In the first act, Lin Chi-ling has to play a role of a drunk girl. To make the role more vivid, she drunk a lot.

According to Lin Chi-ling, during the process of making the movies, she dared not to look at Chen Kun's eyes, because they were extremely attractive. She was afraid of falling in love with Chen Kun during filming.

Introduced by direct Chen, three men in the film all have complex relationships with the role Lin Chi-ling played. So when Liao Fan claimed he is Lin Chi-ling's fiancé,Chen Kun expressed that Lin Chi-ling belongs to him in a hurry which made Lin Chi-ling very happy.

References
http://ent.sina.com.cn/f/m/loveoncredit/
http://movie.douban.com/subject/6225992/
http://ent.qq.com/d/movie/35/34984/

External links

http://finance.jrj.com.cn/life/2011/11/01161511461285.shtml
http://www.people.com.cn/h/2011/1018/c25408-2150838595.html
http://cq.people.com.cn/news/20111031/20111031161114203h.html
http://sh.focus.cn/news/2011-11-01/1562480.html

2010s Mandarin-language films
2011 romantic comedy films
2011 films
Chinese romantic comedy films
Films directed by Leste Chen

Love on Credit


The Dice Spelled Murder, by American novelist Al Fray, was published in 1957 by Dell Publishing Company, Inc. as a Dell (paperback) First Edition. The jacket notes
to Fray's subsequent novel, Come Back for More, refer to The Dice Spelled Murder as a "best selling" novel.

Plot introduction
Danny is a master with the dice and Velma could con any man into anything. As a pair they cruise the California convention circuit, hustling suckers and raking in the dough. Where will their greed finally take them? To the fulfillment of their dreams? Or to sudden, violent death?

Plot summary

Danny Hogan, a truck driver disaffected with his job at Torgus Trucking, meets beautiful Velma Reed in a seedy Los Angeles bar where she has been working as the bartender's shill, enticing lonely men to buy drinks. Danny doesn't recognize Velma, but the two of them attended the same high school in a distant city, where they were only casually acquainted.

Danny was expelled from high school after being caught using loaded dice in an after-school craps game. A short time later, and unbeknownst to Danny, Velma became pregnant and also left school and their home town. Now, a dozen years later, Velma recognizes Danny and renews their acquaintance. Appealing to his greed and his masculinity, she convinces him to use his skills with crooked dice in a confidence game to help her separate convention-goers from their money. At first reluctant because of a beating he received in the Army after being caught using altered dice, Danny eventually agrees, hoping to amass enough money to start his own trucking company. He soon comes to realize that Velma, too, has a loftier purpose in mind—buying a motel in Las Vegas that she can operate, in order to become "legit" and no longer feel ashamed of the way she earns money to support her young son, whom she has placed in a boarding school.

The bulk of the novel's action surrounds Velma's artful pickup of likely suckers at conventions, mostly in California cities, and Danny's subsequent fleecing of them in craps games. Their adventures bring them into contact with a number of ordinary and extraordinary characters, including a gay con artist toward whom Danny displays a disdain that was probably more politically correct in 1957 than it seems now. Various close calls ensue, and Danny loses some of his enthusiasm for the con. He tells Velma he wants to quit, but she convinces him to run the con with her one last time.

Along the way, and unbeknownst to Danny, Velma and another male friend, Joe Lovelli, have committed  blackmail. Velma has twice enticed men to her hotel room, where Joe waited in a closet with a camera. Using infrared film, Joe snapped photographs of the men in compromising positions with Velma. The blackmailers then extorted—or attempted to extort—hush-up money from their victims. Danny remains unaware of Velma and Joe's sideline until near the end of the book, when Velma's second blackmail victim, a mob-related big shot, propels the novel to its climax in a fatal car chase.

After struggling with a conflict between conscience and ambition, Danny mails the bulk of his dishonest gambling earnings to Velma's young son, keeping only enough to buy a good used truck so that he and Jill Conner—the pretty, young, former office manager at Torgus Trucking—can start their own trucking firm.

1957 American novels
Novels by Al Fray
Novels set in California

The Dice Spelled Murder


Võ Nguyễn Hoài Lâm (birth name: Nguyễn Tuấn Lộc, born Vĩnh Long July 1, 1995) stage name Hoài Lâm, is a Vietnamese male pop singer and actor.

Early life and career
Hoai Lam is a singer, majored in Vietnamese folk and country songs. He has become well known all over Vietnam after winning the first prize of the season 2 in reality television show Gương mặt thân quen (Your Face Looks Familiar) of Vietnam Television (VTV) in 2014. In the show Your Face Looks Familiar, he performed the role of Celine Dion, Mario Maurer, Andrea Bocelli, Marc Anthony, Adele and some other Vietnamese singers. He is a god son of Hoai Linh – an actor, MC and a singer in Vietnam

Hoai Lam is the only son of family with tradition in art performance. His father is South opera artist who used to be active alongside artist Cam Tien-one the most famous South opera artist in Ho Chi Minh City. His biological father's name is Nguyen Van Mo, his mother is Thai Thanh Loan. They both manage one South opera crew in Vinh Long which often operates South opera shows at fairs in Vinh Long.

Relationship with Hoai Linh
Back in 2008, when he was 13 years old, through introduction of his father, he went to Ho Chi Minh City to meet comedian Hoai Linh to learn singing and acting. After convincing, Hoai Linh decided to foster him and put him under stage name "Hoai Lam". Besides teaching him, Hoai Linh also introduced him to many TV and music shows. He also joined in many shows of Hoai Linh or as an assistance sometimes.

Hoai Lam often calls Hoai Linh "bo" (to distinguish Hoai Linh with his biological father who is called "cha")

Relationship with Dam Vinh Hung
Through Hoai Linh, Dam Vinh Hung taught Hoai Lam about vocal and stage techniques. It was said that Dam Vinh Hung agreed to help and support Hoai Lam as a pay back for Hoai Linh's previous help when Dam Vinh Hung started his career.

Career

Music
One of his debut performance was at liveshow Câu Hát Tình Quê as 9-year anniversary of female singer Bích Thảo on March 3,4/2009 which was held at Rainbow 126 Stage, Ho Chi Minh City. In December 2013, he recorded his first ever album title Ve Dau Mai Toc Nguoi Thuong consisted of 9 ballad songs which was produced and released by Rang Dong Studio

After the appearance in Gương Mặt Thân Quen TV show back in 2014, some of his songs had gone viral and drew much attention from the audiences.

Besides, he also recorded some covers by famous singers. However, these records was not officially released yet they was shared, viewed and streamed multiple times on online music streaming websites in Vietnam such as: Zing MP3, YouTube, Nhac Cua Tui,...

On August 5, 2014, he finally released his first pop single Như Những Phút Ban Đầu (composed by Tien Minh) on Zing MP3. The single was streamed for total 1 million views on Zing MP3 after 67 hours since the release (from 16:00 August 5, 2014 to 11:00 August 8, 2014) and gained 10 million of streaming after 23 days (until 12:9 August 28, 2014)

On September 2, 2014, the song Như Những Phút Ban Đầu and album Về Đâu Mái Tóc Người Thương together topped on Zing MP3 chart-one of the most popular online music chart in Vietnam.

On November 20, 2014, he released second single which was composed by himself titled Có Khi. The song was streamed for 1 million times on Zing after 28 hours since the release, up to now, the song has been streamed for 40 million times (December 25, 2015).

On January 28, 2015, he released short film MV directed by himself named Làm Cha, up to now, the MV has had more than 22 million views (December 25, 2015).

On February 10, 2015, he released an album titled Quay Về consisted 4 songs: Quay Về, Làm Cha, Me, Ngày Nào Còn Bé, up to now, the album has been streamed for 2 million times (December 25, 2015).

On May 16, 2015, he released the second album Vol. 2 Cô Bé Ngày Xưa which consisted of 8 ballad songs. The album was streamed for 1 million views after 2 days and topped on chart of Zing MP3 on May 26, 2015 as its total scoring was 4 times the album in second place. Up to now, the album has been streamed for 39 million times (December 25, 2015).

Acting
He also showed his acting skill and attractive sense of humor. He made appearance as supporting role in several comedies of comedian Hoai Linh and some of Nu Cuoi Moi Stage – Ho Chi Minh City. He also made appearance in some TV dramas such as: Những Con Búp Bê, Cha Rơ, Giọt Lệ Bên Sông, Đoạn Trường Nam Ai,....

In 2014, he was starred in Lunar New Year movie which was Quý Tử Bất Đắc Dĩ alongside famous actors and Hoai Linh, the movie was nationally released on February 12, 2015 and received much positive feedback and many reviews from the viewers.

In 2015, he continued to play a role in another Lunar New Year movie titled Tía Tui Là Cao Thủ which was released on January 29, 2016, the movie's revenue reached 50 billion after three weeks since the release.

Joining TV show "Guong Mat Than Quen"
Previously, he was only a newcomer which was barely recognized by the audiences, except those who prefer music tea rooms in Ho Chi Minh City and some at South West of South Vietnam. However, after winning the first prize of reality show Guong Mat Than Quen second season (2014), his name started to rise and begin to be well recognized by many.

In 2013, he made the first appearance on Guong Mat Than Quen first season as a guest of 9th gala show where he performed the song Về Đâu Mái Tóc Người Thương. Later, he continued to show up in final gala with the performance of the song Nghĩ Về Cha featuring Hoai Linh.

In 2014, through the introduction of composer Duc Huy (one of the judges of the show), he signed up for Guong Mat Than Quen second season. Throughout 12 episodes, he portrayed 13 artists and singers such as: Celine Dion, Mario Maurer, Andrea Bocelli, Marc Anthony, Dong Nhi, Khac Trieu, Adele, Quang Le, Nguyen Hung, Son Tung M-TP, Ha Thi Cau, Thanh Nga and Thanh Sang.

In first 11 shows, he scored 393 points in total and stayed on top over other 6 contestants. In final gala, for the portray of Thanh Nga and Thanh Sang, he continued to score the highest point and eventually won the first prize of the show based on evaluation from the judges, at the same time he was also the contestant that had the highest votes from the audiences and viewers for 58.15% via SMS and official website of the show.

However, during the show, he also faced several scandals, such as it was thought that he was favored by Hoai Linh (who is his godfather and the judge) and he was boycotted by Son Tung M-TP's fans due to the comment of the judge My Linh for saying his performance of the song Em Của Ngày Hôm Qua was better than Son Tung M-TP himself.

Reception from the audience
Despite of being a new face, Hoai Lam has a diverse fanbase due to his capability of performing various music genres such as ballads, golden music, folk songs, South opera, pop,...he also plays the drum, piano, guitar, etc.

The viral of Guong Mat Than Quen 2014 popularised him. Audiences like him because he performs folk ballads, unlike other pop singers.

Moreover, his image was built to be friendly and close to the audience, less scandalous, good moral, well communicated towards everyone. He is also well liked by other artists for his charming, polite and friendly behavior.

Besides his naive face which is also the big plus for his image. His fanclub has already widely expanded in Vietnam and overseas.

References

1995 births
Living people
21st-century Vietnamese male singers
Vietnamese male television actors
Vietnamese male film actors

Hoài Lâm