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Dean began his acting career with a Pepsi-Cola television commercial followed by a stint as a stunt tester in the game show Beat the Clock. He quit college to focus on his budding career but struggled to get jobs in Hollywood and succeeded in paying his bills only by working as a parking lot attendant at CBS studios. Following the advice of friends Dean moved to New York City to pursue live stage acting, where he was accepted to study under Lee Strasberg in the storied Actors Studio. His career picked up and Dean did several ep ...

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James Dean, James Dean - Childhood and education, James Dean - Acting career, James Dean - East of Eden, James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean - Giant, James Dean - Death, James Dean - Porsche 550 Spyder, James Dean - Legacy, James Dean - Sexuality, James Dean - Memorial, James Dean - Filmography, James Dean - Stage, James Dean - Television

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(all dates are for release) Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films. No. 13 (Unfinished, also known as Mrs. Peabody) (1922) Always Tell Your Wife (Uncredited) (1923) The Pleasure Garden (1925) The Mountain Eagle (1926) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) Downhill (1927) Easy Virtue (1928), based on a Noel Coward play The Ring (1927), an original story by Hitchcock. The Farmer's ...

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Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred Hitchcock - Biography, Alfred Hitchcock - Early life, Alfred Hitchcock - Pre-war British career, Alfred Hitchcock - Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock - Peak years and decline, Alfred Hitchcock - Themes and devices, Alfred Hitchcock - His character and its effects on his films, Alfred Hitchcock - His style of working, Alfred Hitchcock - Awards, Alfred Hitchcock - Quotations, Alfred Hitchcock - Other notes, Alfred Hitchcock - Filmography, Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films, Alfred Hitchcock - Sound films, Alfred Hitchcock - Television episodes, Alfred Hitchcock - Frequent collaborators

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Harold Bloom - Miscellaneous Books. (Editor) English Romantic Poetry, An Anthology, Doubleday, 1961, two-volume revised edition, Anchor, 1963. (Editor, with John Hollander) The Wind and the Rain, Doubleday, 1961. The Literary Criticism of John Ruskin, Edited and with Introduction by Harold Bloom, Anchor, 1965. (Editor, with Frederick W. Hilles) From Sensibility to Romanticism: Essays Presented to Frederick A. Pottle, Oxford University Press, 1965. ...

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Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom - Life, Harold Bloom - Bloom's Influence, Harold Bloom - Bibliography, Harold Bloom - Miscellaneous Books, Harold Bloom - Articles, Harold Bloom - Books About Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom - Awards

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Day was born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff in Evanston, Ohio to German immigrants. The second of two children, she was named "Doris" after silent movie actress Doris Kenyon, whom her mother liked. Her family was Catholic, despite her parents' divorce. She later embraced Christian Science. Day started out as a dancer, winning a contract that enabled her to travel to Hollywood with her partner, Jerry Doherty, in 1936, but turned to singing when she injured her leg in an auto accident in 1937. She sang with the big bands of Barney ...

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Doris Day, Doris Day - Biography, Doris Day - Songs, Doris Day - Filmography, Doris Day - Albums

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Before entering professional wrestling, Chris was involved in judo exclusively for 12 years, beginning at the age of 11. Chris and younger brother Neil Adams went on to win national and world championships in judo, with Neil going on to win a silver medal at both the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Chris himself was among the youngest Judo champions in the sport and was a member of the 1976 Summer Olympics Judo squad representing Great Britain, but never competed in the Olympics ...

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Christopher Adams, Christopher Adams - Career, Christopher Adams - Early Career, Christopher Adams - World Class and Texas, Christopher Adams - Personal troubles and sudden death, Christopher Adams - Profile, Christopher Adams - Championships and accomplishments

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Robertson Davies - Early life. Growing up, Davies was surrounded by books and language. His father, Senator William Rupert Davies, was a newspaperman, and both his parents were voracious readers. He, in turn, read everything he could. He also participated in theatrical productions as a child, where he developed a lifelong interest in drama. He attended Upper Canada College in Toronto from 1926 to 1932 and then studied at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 1932 until 1935. At Queen's he was enroll ...

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Robertson Davies, Robertson Davies - Biography, Robertson Davies - Early life, Robertson Davies - Middle years, Robertson Davies - The 1960s, Robertson Davies - The 1970s, Robertson Davies - The 1980s and 1990s, Robertson Davies - Awards and recognition, Robertson Davies - Bibliography, Robertson Davies - Essays, Robertson Davies - Novels, Robertson Davies - Short stories, Robertson Davies - Plays, Robertson Davies - Libretto, Robertson Davies - Letters, Robertson Davies - Collections

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She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Thomas E. LeSueur (1868-1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884-1958), who was of Irish and Scandinavian descent. Her older siblings were Daisy LeSueur, who died as a very young child, and Hal LeSueur. Her father, who was born in Tennessee, was of distant French Huguenot extraction. His ancestors immigrated from London, England, in the early 1700s to Virginia, where they lived for several generations. LeSueur was said to have abandoned the family in Texas; Crawford later said she had been ...

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Joan Crawford, Joan Crawford - Early life, Joan Crawford - Career, Joan Crawford - Marriages, Joan Crawford - Adopted children, Joan Crawford - Religion, Joan Crawford - Work at Pepsi, Joan Crawford - Final Years, Joan Crawford - Legacy, Joan Crawford - In pop culture, Joan Crawford - Filmography

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This article is about the mid-20th century North American airline, not to be confused with the late 20th-century Capitol Air Lines. A different "Capital Airlines," formerly Brown Air International, operated in the United Kingdom 1983–1990. It is also the name of a charter and air ambulance service in Kenya. Capital Airlines was an airline serving the eastern United States which was merged into United Airlines in 1961. Its primary hubs were National Airport near Washington, DC and Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburg ...

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• Capital Airlines - History
• Capital Airlines - Predecessors
• Capital Airlines - Pennsylvania Central Airlines
• Capital Airlines - Capital's last decade

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A series of bombings in June of 1919 sparked the FBI to more aggressive actions. The mayor of Seattle received a homemade bomb in the mail on April 28, which was defused. Senator Thomas W. Hardwick received a bomb the next day, which blew off the hands of his servant who had discovered it, severely burning him and his wife. The following morning, a New York City postal worker discovered sixteen similar packages addressed to well-known people of the time, including oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. There were 38 bombs in all, sent to prominent ...

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Red Scare, Red Scare - Origins, Red Scare - The Red Summer, Red Scare - Reactions, Red Scare - The Second Red Scare, Red Scare - Causes, Red Scare - Reactions, Red Scare - Contemporary accounts 1919 - 1924, Red Scare - Contemporary accounts 1945 - 1955, Red Scare - Secondary resources

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As the War drew to an end, he began searching for a seat to fight at the impending general election. Eventually he was selected for Ormskirk, which was then held by Stephen King-Hall. Wilson accidentally agreed to be adopted as the candidate immediately rather than delay until the election was called, and was therefore compelled to resign from the Civil Service. He used the time in between to write A New Deal for Coal which used his wartime experience to argue for nationalisation of the ...

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Harold Wilson, Harold Wilson - Birth and Early Life, Harold Wilson - In Parliament, Harold Wilson - Opposition, Harold Wilson - Prime Minister, Harold Wilson - Resignation, Harold Wilson - Death, Harold Wilson - MI5 plot?, Harold Wilson - Other conspiracy theories, Harold Wilson - Harold Wilson's First Cabinet 1964-1970, Harold Wilson - Harold Wilson's Second Government March 1974 - April 1976, Harold Wilson - Changes, Harold Wilson - Titles from birth to death

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Social justice is an important theme in the work The Bean Trees, and throughout her novels. In this novel the main character, Taylor, meets a family of Guatemalan immigrants, who explain how they were forced to leave their daughter behind to escape torture and death in their home country. In The Poisonwood Bible she also examines the role of the United States and other political powers in colonial and post-colonial ...

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Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver - Biography, Barbara Kingsolver - Literary themes, Barbara Kingsolver - Books, Barbara Kingsolver - External link, Barbara Kingsolver - Sources

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  * The asterisk denotes the club that won the Wild card for its respective league. ...

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2003 in baseball, 2003 in baseball - Major League Baseball final standings, 2003 in baseball - Postseason, 2003 in baseball - Other Champions, 2003 in baseball - Events, 2003 in baseball - January-June, 2003 in baseball - July-December, 2003 in baseball - Awards and honors, 2003 in baseball - Books, 2003 in baseball - Movies, 2003 in baseball - Births, 2003 in baseball - Deaths, 2003 in baseball - January-March, 2003 in baseball - April-June, 2003 in baseball - July-September, 2003 in baseball - October-December

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One of Mifune's fellow performers, one of the 32 women chosen during the new faces contest, was Sachiko Yoshimine. Eight years Mifune's junior, she came from a respected Tokyo family. They fell in love and Mifune soon proposed marriage. Yoshimine's parents were strongly opposed to the idea of marriage. Mifune was doubly an outsider, being a non-Buddhist as well as coming from Manchuria (which, to mainland Japanese, was associated with misfits and eccentrics). His profession also suggested financia ...

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Toshiro Mifune, Toshiro Mifune - Childhood, Toshiro Mifune - Entry into show business, Toshiro Mifune - Marriage, Toshiro Mifune - Popularity, Toshiro Mifune - Later life, Toshiro Mifune - Filmography, Toshiro Mifune - Television Appearances

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Main article: History of Yemen The port's convenient position on the sea route between India and Europe has made Aden desirable to rulers who sought to possess it at various times throughout history. Known as Arabian Eudaemon in the 1st century BC, it was a transshipping point for the Red Sea trade, but fell on hard times when new shipping practices by-passed it and made the daring direct crossing to India in the 1st century AD, according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. See also:

Aden, Aden - History, Aden - British Rule, Aden - Little Aden 1955 to 1967, Aden - Federation of South Arabia and the Aden Emergency, Aden - Independence

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Toynbee's ideas have not perhaps proved of great influence on other historians; his overall theory certainly was taken up by some scholars, for example, Ernst Robert Curtius, as a sort of paradigm in the post-war period. Curtius wrote as follows in the opening pages of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1953 English translation), following close on Toynbee as he sets the stage for his vast study of medieval Latin literature. Not all would agree with his thesis, of course; but his unit of study is the Latin-speaking world o ...

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Arnold J. Toynbee, Arnold J. Toynbee - Biography, Arnold J. Toynbee - Toynbee's ideas and approach to history, Arnold J. Toynbee - Influence, Arnold J. Toynbee - Criticism, Arnold J. Toynbee - Trivia, Arnold J. Toynbee - Works, Arnold J. Toynbee - Reference, Arnold J. Toynbee - External link

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His full ceremonial name is provided in the above section. Although often referred to as King Rama IX in English language translation, the name 'Rama' itself was never used in Thai. The name Rama IX was used to roughly approximate the word Ratchakal ti kao (รัชกาลที่ 9, lit. The Ninth Reign), which can be used to refer to this King. More commonly, Thai people refer to him as Nai Luang or Phra Chao Yu Hua (ในหลวง or พระเจ้า ...

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Bhumibol Adulyadej, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Early life, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Time in the USA, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Education, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Succession, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Marriage and family, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Coronation, Bhumibol Adulyadej - The second regency, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Styles, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Life as King, Bhumibol Adulyadej - The King and politics, Bhumibol Adulyadej - The royal projects, Bhumibol Adulyadej - The King and the people, Bhumibol Adulyadej - Private life

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In Northern Ireland, the SAS was involved from the early days in what became known as 'The Troubles', which started in 1969. Indeed, in the early days of The Troubles they operated openly in uniform wearing the SAS sand-coloured beret with the winged dagger cap badge. They were involved in Operation Flavius in Gibraltar in which three unarmed IRA members (including a woman) were killed. The three killed had been intending to detonate a bomb during a ceremonial event. According to the soldiers involved, they moved their hands to their pockets ...

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Special Air Service, Special Air Service - Organisation, Special Air Service - Function, Special Air Service - Selection and Training, Special Air Service - Special Forces Briefing Course 2 days, Special Air Service - Fitness and navigation 4 weeks, Special Air Service - Initial continuation training 4 weeks, Special Air Service - Jungle training 6 weeks, Special Air Service - Combat survival 4 weeks, Special Air Service - Passing selection, Special Air Service - Specialist training, Special Air Service - Secrecy, Special Air Service - Insignia, Special Air Service - 1941-1945, Special Air Service - 1946-1979, Special Air Service - 1980-2001, Special Air Service - 2002-2005, Special Air Service - Northern Ireland, Special Air Service - Battle Honours, Special Air Service - The SAS in popular culture, Special Air Service - Other Special Forces based on the SAS

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Gabriel Figueroa - Camera operation. El vuelo glorioso de Barberán y Collar (1933) Vámonos con Pancho Villa (1935) María Elena (1935) Gabriel Figueroa - Cinematography. El jinete fantasma (1967) Pedro Páramo (1967) Domingo salvaje (1966) El escapulario (1966) ¡Viva Benito Canales! (1965) Cargamento prohibido (1965) See also:

Gabriel Figueroa, Gabriel Figueroa - Trivia, Gabriel Figueroa - Films in Mexico, Gabriel Figueroa - Camera operation, Gabriel Figueroa - Cinematography, Gabriel Figueroa - Lights, Gabriel Figueroa - Still photography, Gabriel Figueroa - Films in Hollywood, Gabriel Figueroa - Camera operation, Gabriel Figueroa - Cinematography, Gabriel Figueroa - Awards

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IKEA furniture is well known for its modern (often unusual) design. Also, because much of it is self-assembly furniture (also known as "flat-pack"), it is designed to be assembled by the consumer rather than being sold pre-assembled. IKEA claims this permits them to reduce costs and use of packaging by not shipping air—the volume of a bookcase, for example, is considerably less if it is shipped u ...

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IKEA, IKEA - History, IKEA - Products, IKEA - Community impact, IKEA - Store format, IKEA - Corporate structure, IKEA - Criticisms, IKEA - Diversity, IKEA - Design reform, IKEA - IKEA's debut in each country, IKEA - Notes

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After the 1954 Security hearings, Oppenheimer is reported to have been "like a wounded animal", and he started to retreat to a simpler life. In 1957, he purchased a piece of land on Gibney Beach in the island of St John in the Virgin Islands. He built a spartan vacation home on the beach, where he would spend holidays, usually months at a time, with his wife Kitty. Oppenheimer also spent a considerable amount of time sailing with his wife. Upon their death, the property was inherited by their daughter Toni, who then left it to "the people of ...

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Robert Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer - Early life and education, Robert Oppenheimer - Europe, Robert Oppenheimer - California, Robert Oppenheimer - Radical politics, Robert Oppenheimer - The Manhattan Project, Robert Oppenheimer - Los Alamos, Robert Oppenheimer - Trinity, Robert Oppenheimer - Japan, Robert Oppenheimer - Postwar activities, Robert Oppenheimer - Atomic Energy Commission, Robert Oppenheimer - Security hearings, Robert Oppenheimer - Institute for Advanced Study, Robert Oppenheimer - Final years, Robert Oppenheimer - Legacy, Robert Oppenheimer - Notes, Robert Oppenheimer - On Oppenheimer's first initial

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Aberdeen Football Club is a football team from Scotland, who compete in the Scottish Premier League. Formed in 1903 from the amalgamation of a number of clubs from Aberdeen, they have been one of the top clubs in Scotland. Sir Alex Ferguson was a highly successful manager of the team in the 1980s, guiding them to three league championships, and famously to victory in the 1983 Cup Winners' Cup, defeating Real Madrid in the final. Aberdeen are the only Scottish team to have won more than one European trophy. They play at P ...

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• Aberdeen F.C. - History
• Aberdeen F.C. - Origins of the club
• Aberdeen F.C. - Scottish Dominance
• Aberdeen F.C. - 90 minutes from the title
• Aberdeen F.C. - Into decline
• Aberdeen F.C. - Famous Players
• Aberdeen F.C. - Managers
• Aberdeen F.C. - Current Squad season 2005-2006
• Aberdeen F.C. - Honours
• Aberdeen F.C. - Trivia
• Aberdeen F.C. - Club Records

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