1979 in television - Ending this year

Crossroads was a British television soap opera set in a motel near Birmingham, England. It was first broadcast on ITV between 2 November 1964 and 4 April 1988. Crossroads soap opera - ATV series. Crossroads first aired five days a week, until the ITA decreed that it would go to four airings a week in 1967. In 1979, it moved to three times a week. The location of the Crossroads Motel was a fictional outskirt of Birmingham, "King's Oak" (there are real suburbs Kings Norton and Selly Oak). ...

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• Crossroads soap opera - ATV series
• Crossroads soap opera - Central TV series
• Crossroads soap opera - Crossroads Locations
• Crossroads soap opera - Carlton series
• Crossroads soap opera - Trivia

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Wile E. Coyote (also known simply as "The Coyote") and the Road Runner are cartoon characters from a series of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, created by Chuck Jones in 1949 for Warner Brothers. Chuck Jones based the films on a Mark Twain book called Roughing It, in which Twain noted that coyotes are starving and hungry and would chase a roadrunner. Chuck Jones once said of his most famous protagonist and antagonist that "Wile E. is my reality, Bugs Bunny is my goal." He originally created the Road R ...

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• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Premise
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Latin names
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Scenery
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The Acme Corporation
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - The rules
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Later cartoons
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Spin-offs
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Cultural references
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Commercial appearances
• Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Video games

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Signed to a record company at the age of sixteen, Grant's first, self-titled album (largely self-composed) in 1977, was a runaway success in terms of the Christian music market of the time. As an English major at Vanderbilt University, Grant made a few more albums before dropping out of college to pursue a career in music. These albums included 1979's My Father's Eyes (the title track written by Grant's future first husband, singer-songwriter Gary Chap ...

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Amy Grant, Amy Grant - Career, Amy Grant - Discography

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High-definition television - SECAM 755i. When Europe resumed TV transmissions after WWII, i.e. in the late 1940s and early 1950s, different countries used different resolutions. The UK used 405 lines, most other countries 625 lines (both numbers include the vertical gap, the actual resolution were lower), but France decided in 1948 to go for 819 lines. The French TV system thus became the world's first HDTV system, and by today's standards, the French system could be called 755i (not all lines could be used for t ...

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High-definition television, High-definition television - Notation, High-definition television - Standard resolutions, High-definition television - Standard frame or field rates, High-definition television - Comparison to SDTV, High-definition television - Close-up view, High-definition television - Format considerations, High-definition television - Technical details, High-definition television - Advantages of HD TV technology expressed in non-engineering terms, High-definition television - Stereoscopic 3D television is far more practical with HD technology, High-definition television - Early systems, High-definition television - SECAM 755i, High-definition television - MUSE, High-definition television - HD-MAC, High-definition television - Contemporary systems, High-definition television - Australia, High-definition television - Brazil, High-definition television - Canada, High-definition television - Europe, High-definition television - Japan, High-definition television - Republic of Korea, High-definition television - Mexico, High-definition television - United States, High-definition television - Recording compression and prerecorded media, High-definition television - Future media, High-definition television - Table of terrestrial HDTV transmission systems

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Björk and her contemporary media artist boyfriend Matthew Barney have a daughter, Isadora, born October 3, 2002. Björk also has a son, Sindri, born June 8, 1986, by Þór Eldon who was her bandmate in the 1980s post-punk group "The Sugarcubes". Her son Sindri Þórsson now has his own band called "Desida", where he plays bass. They garnered some positive reviews after their performance at Iceland_Airwaves in 2005. On the negative side, Björk has complained of being hounded by paparazzi in England and in 1996 two separate incidents ...

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Björk, Björk - Early Career, Björk - Popularity, Björk - The Sugarcubes, Björk - Solo career/Debut, Björk - Post, Björk - Homogenic, Björk - Vespertine, Björk - Family Tree/Greatest Hits, Björk - Medúlla, Björk - Army of Me-Xes, Björk - Drawing Restraint 9, Björk - Currently, Björk - Björk in Film, Björk - Her Name, Björk - Personal Life, Björk - Partial Discography, Björk - With The Sugarcubes, Björk - Solo studio albums, Björk - Other releases, Björk - Television, Björk - Films / Shortcuts, Björk - Bibliography, Björk - Related Bibliography

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Almost from the premiere episode, J.J., an aspiring artist, was the public's favorite character on the show and his frequently-invoked catch phrase "Dyn-o-mite!" became very popular. As the series progressed through its second and third year, however, Rolle and Amos, who played the Evans parents, grew more disillusioned with the direction the show was taking as J.J.'s antics and stereotypically buffoonish behavior took precedence in the storylines. Rolle was rather vocal about disliking the character of J.J. in a 1975 interview with Ebony ...

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Good Times, Good Times - Premise, Good Times - Topical situations, Good Times - Initial success, Good Times - Backstage tension, Good Times - Good Times without the parents, Good Times - Two-parters, Good Times - Production, Good Times - DVD and television reruns, Good Times - Adaptations, Good Times - Trivia

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1970s - Environmentalism. The seventies touched off a mainstream affirmation of the environmental issues early activists from the '60s, such as Rachel Carson, warned about. The moon landing that had occurred at the end of the previous decade transmitted back concrete images of the earth as an integrated, life-supporting system and shaped a public willingness to preserve nature. On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated its first Earth Day in which over two thousand colleges and universities and roughly ten thousand p ...

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1970s, 1970s - Worldwide trends in the Seventies, 1970s - Economy of the Seventies, 1970s - Oil crisis, 1970s - Social movements, 1970s - Environmentalism, 1970s - Feminism, 1970s - Gay rights, 1970s - Culture during the Seventies, 1970s - Emerging social perspectives in the Seventies, 1970s - The Seventies in music, 1970s - The Seventies in cinema, 1970s - The Seventies in television, 1970s - The Seventies in literature, 1970s - The Seventies in architecture, 1970s - The Seventies in science and philosophy, 1970s - The Seventies in sports, 1970s - The Seventies in technology, 1970s - National issues, 1970s - In the Middle East, 1970s - In Africa, 1970s - In India and Pakistan, 1970s - In Southeast Asia, 1970s - In Japan, 1970s - In the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc, 1970s - In the United States, 1970s - In the United Kingdom

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A partial list of his (some co-authored) fiction books in chronological order: Prelude to Space (1951) The Sands of Mars (1951) Islands in the Sky (1952) Against the Fall of Night (1953) Childhood's End (1953) Expedition to Earth (1953) [short story collection] Earthlight (1955) Reach for Tomorrow (1956) [short story collection] The City and the Stars (1956) Tales from the White Hart< ...

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Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke - Biography, Arthur C. Clarke - Bibliography, Arthur C. Clarke - Themes style and influence, Arthur C. Clarke - The adapted screenplays of Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke - Essays and short stories

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Joseph Cotten - Early Life and Career. Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Washington, D.C., Hickman School, where he studied acting. His work as a journalist, specifically a theatre critic, inspired him to become more involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and later in New York. Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with up-and-coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles. In 1937 he joined Welles' Mercury Theater Company, with which he starred in productions o ...

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Joseph Cotten, Joseph Cotten - Biography and Career, Joseph Cotten - Early Life and Career, Joseph Cotten - Citizen Kane, Joseph Cotten - Collaborations with Welles, Joseph Cotten - The Forties and Fifties, Joseph Cotten - The Sixties and Seventies, Joseph Cotten - Heaven's Gate, Joseph Cotten - Legacy, Joseph Cotten - Filmography

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Edwardian London has been depicted in several films, notably the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets in 1949, the Merchant Ivory E.M. Forster adaptation Howards End (1992) and the biopic Young Winston (1972). Wartime London has featured in many films, with The Man Who Loved Redheads and Zeppelin (1971) among those set during the First World War. The 1943 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp covered 40 years in the city, including the Edwardian era, the First World War and the Second Wor ...

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London in film, London in film - Historical London, London in film - Pre-Victorian London, London in film - Victorian London, London in film - 20th Century, London in film - Ealing Comedies, London in film - Swinging London, London in film - Romantic London, London in film - Thrillers, London in film - London Underground, London in film - Science fiction, London in film - Criminals, London in film - The other side of London, London in film - Kids London, London in film - Musical London

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Hogan was born to Italian-American Pete Bollea and Ruth Bollea, who is of French, Italian and Panamanian descent. Early in life, Terry Bollea was a standout in minor league baseball and also spent ten years playing bass guitar in several Florida-based rock bands, including Ruckus and Infinity's End. Many of the wrestlers who competed in the Florida territory at that time would visit the bars in which Bollea was performing. Bollea's impressive physical stature soon caught the attention of former top-drawing wrestler Jack Brisco and his brothe ...

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Hulk Hogan, Hulk Hogan - Career, Hulk Hogan - World Wrestling Federation: the first run, Hulk Hogan - American Wrestling Association, Hulk Hogan - New Japan Pro Wrestling, Hulk Hogan - Hulkamania, Hulk Hogan - World Championship Wrestling, Hulk Hogan - World Wrestling Entertainment: the comeback, Hulk Hogan - Mr. America, Hulk Hogan - Hall of Famer, Hulk Hogan - The Icon versus The Legend, Hulk Hogan - Legacy, Hulk Hogan - Controversy, Hulk Hogan - In wrestling, Hulk Hogan - Previous managers, Hulk Hogan - Quotes, Hulk Hogan - Finishing and signature moves, Hulk Hogan - Trivia, Hulk Hogan - Theme songs/entrance music, Hulk Hogan - Title history, Hulk Hogan - Pre-World Wrestling Federation era, Hulk Hogan - Awards

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In December 1989 Taylor launched an armed uprising from Côte d'Ivoire. His forces, known as the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), soon controlled most of the country. Doe was overthrown, and tortured to death the following year by Prince Johnson, at that time an ally of Taylor's. Doe's fall led to the political fragmentation of the country into violent factionalism. In mid-1990, Prince Johnson's supporters split from Taylor's group and captured Mon ...

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Charles Taylor, Charles Taylor - Childhood, Charles Taylor - Presidency and Civil War, Charles Taylor - Sierra Leone Civil War, Charles Taylor - Rise to power, Charles Taylor - End of rule, Charles Taylor - Resignation, Charles Taylor - Quotes, Charles Taylor - External link

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Over the next few years they achieved their greatest commercial success and continued to demonstrate their versatility. In 1980 the medium tempo dance single, "He's So Shy", reached number three on the charts, and the following year a slow, sultry, country and western flavoured song "Slow Hand" reached number two. "American Music" and "Should I Do It" were 1950s pop, while "I'm So Excited" was a frenetic contemporary dance track. All were significant hits. With the advent of MTV the sisters were able to exploit their visual style and ...

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Pointer Sisters, Pointer Sisters - Early Days, Pointer Sisters - First success as recording artists, Pointer Sisters - The quartet becomes a trio, Pointer Sisters - The height of their success, Pointer Sisters - Albums, Pointer Sisters - Singles

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Littlejohn frequently denounces asylum seekers, homosexuals and single parents, whom he sees as part of a "politically correct" elite, and is also against closer ties between Britain and the European Union, both these standpoints being in keeping with the viewpoint of his most recent employers, the Daily Mail and Sun. He was also very much in favour of the Iraq war in 2003, as was The Sun ...

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Richard Littlejohn, Richard Littlejohn - Career, Richard Littlejohn - Journalism, Richard Littlejohn - Radio, Richard Littlejohn - Television, Richard Littlejohn - Books, Richard Littlejohn - Opinions, Richard Littlejohn - Controversy and criticism, Richard Littlejohn - LBC radio programme, Richard Littlejohn - The Michael Winner incident, Richard Littlejohn - The Will Self incident, Richard Littlejohn - Attitudes to homosexuality, Richard Littlejohn - Johann Hari, Richard Littlejohn - Viz Magazine

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Following a showcase gig as part of London's first punk festival at the 100 Club in Oxford Street, the band was signed (for a large advance) to the major label EMI. The Sex Pistols' first single, "Anarchy in the UK", released on November 26, 1976, served as a statement of intent -- full of wit, anger and visceral energy. Despite a common misconception that punk bands 'couldn't play', the evidence of live recordings of the time reveal th ...

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Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols - Origins and early days, Sex Pistols - EMI and the Grundy Incident, Sex Pistols - Sid Vicious joins the band, Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen, Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Sex Pistols - Last UK gig, Sex Pistols - The end of the band, Sex Pistols - Post Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols - Influences and legacy, Sex Pistols - Members, Sex Pistols - Discography, Sex Pistols - Albums, Sex Pistols - Sid Vicious Solo album, Sex Pistols - Hit singles, Sex Pistols - References and further reading, Sex Pistols - Films

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The Jackson 5 - Members. Jackie Jackson (1962–1990), vocals tambourine and cow bell The eldest brother, Jackie was a high tenor singer and, prior to a musical career, a baseball player. He had a solo career, releasing three albums, and eventually married Enid Jackson, also later having an affair with singer Paula Abdul. Tito Jackson (1962–1990), vocals and lead guitar Another original member, baritone singer and guitarist Tito has enjoyed a solo career as a blues m ...

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The Jackson 5, The Jackson 5 - History, The Jackson 5 - Early career, The Jackson 5 - Influences, The Jackson 5 - Joining Motown, The Jackson 5 - Jackson 5 discovery credit discrepancy, The Jackson 5 - Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, The Jackson 5 - Popularization and franchise expansion, The Jackson 5 - Relationships and marriages, The Jackson 5 - Decline, The Jackson 5 - The move to CBS Records, The Jackson 5 - The 1980s and Michael's solo career, The Jackson 5 - Post-history and followers, The Jackson 5 - Miniseries, The Jackson 5 - Personnel, The Jackson 5 - Members, The Jackson 5 - Band personnel, The Jackson 5 - Discography, The Jackson 5 - Top Ten US and UK singles, The Jackson 5 - Albums, The Jackson 5 - Notes

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Hazelwood's colorful history began in 1673 with the discovery of the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers by French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette. LaSalle, another French explorer claimed the area for France and named it "Louisiana" after King Louis XIV .In 1762, the land was sold by the French to Spain. The Spanish government offered large land grants to pioneers. Settlers from Charlottesville, Virginia populated the Spanish owned territory, now known as the City ...

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Hazelwood Missouri, Hazelwood Missouri - Geography, Hazelwood Missouri - Demographics, Hazelwood Missouri - Overview, Hazelwood Missouri - History, Hazelwood Missouri - Neighboring Hazelwood, Hazelwood Missouri - Missouri links

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Talking Heads married punk rock sensibilities with poppy sounds, clipped funk, art school intellectualism, and later, world music. In David Byrne, they had one of the most distinctive front men of the period; they remained popular during their lifetime, and their concert film Stop Making Sense (which was made at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, and directed by Jonathan Demme) is widely acclaimed as one ...

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Talking Heads, Talking Heads - History, Talking Heads - With Brian Eno, Talking Heads - Post break-up, Talking Heads - Discography, Talking Heads - Studio albums, Talking Heads - Compilations, Talking Heads - Live albums and videos, Talking Heads - Feature-length film, Talking Heads - Singles

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Very soon after their arrival in January 1967, the Bee Gees were signed by Robert Stigwood, and added Australian musicians Vince Melouney (guitar) and former child actor Colin Petersen (drums). Their first single recorded in England was "New York Mining Disaster 1941" (1967), a surreal, haunting and macabre song that made the Top 20 on both sides of the Atlantic. Their album "Bee Gees' First" scored well with critics and the public, offering an innovative blend of rock and orchestral ballads such as the classics ...

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Bee Gees, Bee Gees - Early history, Bee Gees - 1960s in England, Bee Gees - 1970s: Saturday Night Fever, Bee Gees - 1980s and 1990s, Bee Gees - Later years, Bee Gees - Current news, Bee Gees - Awards and success, Bee Gees - Original Albums, Bee Gees - Compilations, Bee Gees - International Hit Singles, Bee Gees - Band, Bee Gees - Parodies of the Bee Gees

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Time travel can form the central theme of a book, or can be a plot device. The first widely-published story to feature time travel was probably the short story The Clock That Went Backward, written anonymously, which appeared in the New York Sun in 1881. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain may be the first example of time travel in literature. The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells is considered the literary masterpiece of the genre and the first instance of using technological means f ...

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Time travel in fiction, Time travel in fiction - Literature, Time travel in fiction - Science fiction, Time travel in fiction - Romance, Time travel in fiction - Children's fiction, Time travel in fiction - Films, Time travel in fiction - Science fiction, Time travel in fiction - Comedy, Time travel in fiction - Romance, Time travel in fiction - Children's films, Time travel in fiction - Television, Time travel in fiction - Babylon 5, Time travel in fiction - Star Trek episodes, Time travel in fiction - Star Trek Animation, Time travel in fiction - Games, Time travel in fiction - Video and computer games, Time travel in fiction - Board games, Time travel in fiction - Play by Mail

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