1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. 1982 - Events. 1982 - January. January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself into twenty-two subdivisions. January 10 - The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C is recorded at Braemar, in Aberdeenshire. This equals the record set in the same place in 1895. January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of ...

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1982 - January. January 1 - David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player January 2 - Cyrus Farivar, American journalist January 5 - Janica Kostelic, Croatian skier January 12 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player January 13 - Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player January 15 - Benjamin Agosto, American skater January 17 - Dwyane Wade, American basketball player January 19 - Jodie S ...

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1982 in South Africa - January. 7 January - A bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Soweto 8 January - Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas attack Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town 11 January - The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid launches the International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa 1982 in South Africa - February. South Africa ...

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Pamela Rosenberg came from a background of operatic productions in Germany and, specifically, from the Stuttgart Opera. In January of 2001, Pamela Rosenberg announced her first artistic initiative for San Francisco Opera, “Animating Opera”, a multi-year plan of interwoven themes and series. These included “Seminal Works of Modern Times”, “The Faust Project”, “Composer Portrait: Janacek/Berlioz”, “Women Outside of Society: Laws Unto Themselves”, “Metamorphosis: From Fairy Tales to Nightmares”, and “Outsiders o ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Fresh from 33 years of directing the Houston Grand Opera, Gockley took up his post on 1st January 2006 and plans to announce the 2006/2007 season on 11th January. Gockley's achievements in Houston were ennormous. He oversaw the major growth of the company and has been especially innovative in the presentation of 28 world premieres and six American premieres. ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Sir Aaron Klug, OM, FRS (born 11 August 1926 in Zelvas, Lithuania ) is a Lithuanian-born British physicist and chemist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy. Having moved to South Africa at the age of two, he graduated with a degree in science at the University of Witwatersrand and studied crystallography at the University of Cape Town before moving to England, completing his ...

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Arthur William Coles (August 7, 1892 - June 14, 1982), later Sir Arthur Coles, was a prominent Australian businessman and philanthropist. He was born in Geelong, Victoria and educated at the elite private school Geelong College. When World War I began, Coles enlisted as a private, fighting at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in France, and was wounded on three separate occasions before being commissioned as a lieutenant. Coles returned to Australia in 1919 and married Lillian Knight. He joined with two brothers and an ...

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Catherine Hicks (born August 6, 1951 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is an American actress. After attending University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she studied theology, Hicks began a career in acting. She first rose to prominence as Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope, a role she played from 1976 to 1978. In 1979, she was one of the leads in the television version of The Bad News Bears and in 1982 she took the lead role in the comedy/detective series Tucker's Witch opposite Tim Mathes ...

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Carlos Cardinal Amigo Vallejo, O.F.M. (born 23 August 1934) is a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Seville in the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Medina de Rioseca, Spain, Amigo Vallejo studied medicine in Vallodolid before joining the Franciscan order, later studying philosophy in Rome and psychology in Madrid. Ordained a priest in 1960, he became Archbishop of Tanger (Morocco) in 1973 and then became Archbishop of Seville in 1982. Amigo Vallejo was made Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 21 October 2003 and holds t ...

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The Addiator was a mechanical add/subtract calculator, made by Addiator Gesellschaft, Berlin. A sturdy design, variants of it were sold from August, 1920 until 1982. It was composed of sheet-metal sliders inside a metal envelope, manipulated by a stylus, with an innovative carry mechanism, doing subtract ten, carry one with a simple stylus movement. Only obsoleted by the electronic variety, it was simple and cheap. It also handled non-decimal measurements, like feet and inches, or pounds, shillings, and pence, wit ...

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Jeron Criswell King (August 18, 1907 – October 4, 1982) born Jeron Criswell Konig, and known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell, was an American psychic who was famous for his wildly inaccurate predictions. Criswell was born with the last name of Konig but later changed it to King and often represented it as his middle name, frequently credited as Jeron King Criswell. Criswell found cinematic infamy in the movies of Ed Wood, including Plan 9 from Outer Space and Orgy of the Dead. He was ...

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The Commodore 64 (C64, CBM 64/CBM64, C= 64) is a home computer with 64 kilobytes of RAM that was popular in the 1980s. Released by Commodore Business Machines (CBM) to the public in August 1982 at a price of US$595, it offered sound and graphics performance that was good compared to the standard at that time. During the Commodore 64's lifetime (between 1982 and 1993), total sales exceeded 22 million units ...

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Commodore 64 - History
Commodore 64 - Origins Commodore 64 - Winning the market war Commodore 64 - C64 successors and the 64C Commodore 64 - An active demoscene Commodore 64 - 1990s and 2000s hardware
Commodore 64 - Hardware
Commodore 64 - Graphics and sound Commodore 64 - Hardware revisions Commodore 64 - Power problems
Commodore 64 - External hardware Commodore 64 - Software Commodore 64 - Representative screenshots Commodore 64 - Specifications
Commodore 64 - Internal hardware Commodore 64 - I/O ports and power supply
Commodore 64 - Trivia Commodore 64 - Notes

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Chris Eubank (August 8, 1966 - ), is a boxing legend and a British celebrity. Chris Eubank - Eubank the boxer. Born in Dulwich, Christopher Livingstone Eubanks (he later deleted the 's' from his surname) spent his early years in Jamaica before returning to the streets of East London, he spent his early teens at care homes or sleeping rough before his boxing brother Peter let Chris work as an assistant in his two fights with Barry McGuigan. Chris then flew to New York to live with his father in 1982, he atte ...

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Chris Eubank - In court Chris Eubank - Bankruptcy
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The Colecovision is Coleco's third generation video game console, released in August 1982. It offered arcade-like graphics and controllers, and an initial catalog of 12 titles, with 10 more promised titles on the way. All told, approximately 170 titles were released on plug-in cartridges during its lifetime. The controller was a flat joystick, two side buttons, and a number-pad, which allowed the user to put inserts for customized buttons. The majority of titles in its catalog were conversions from coin-operated arcade games. The Cole ...

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Colecovision - Similarities to other platforms

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Since 1923, SFO has presented the American debut of numerous artists, including Vladimir Atlantov, Inge Borkh, Boris Christoff, Marie Collier, Geraint Evans, Mafalda Favero, Tito Gobbi, Sena Jurinac, Mario del Monaco, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Margaret Price, Leonie Rysanek, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Giulietta Simionato, Ebe Stignani, Renata Tebaldi and Ingvar Wixell; conductors Gerd Albrecht, Valery Gergiev, Georg Solti and Silvio Varviso; and d ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Barbara Hambly (August 28, 1951 – ) is an American fantasy author. Barbara Hambly - Biography. She was born in San Diego, California and grew up in Montclair, California and has an older sister Mary and younger brother Ed. She went to the University of California at Riverside, earning a Masters degree in Medieval History in 1975. She spent a year in Bordeaux, France as part of her studies. Her first novel to be published was Time of the Dark by Del Rey in 1982. She has been, at various times ...

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Barbara Hambly - The Darwath series Barbara Hambly - Sun Wolf and Starhawk Barbara Hambly - Winterlands Barbara Hambly - The Windrose Chronicles Barbara Hambly - Star Trek Barbara Hambly - Vampire Novels Barbara Hambly - Beauty and the Beast Barbara Hambly - Sun-Cross Barbara Hambly - Star Wars Barbara Hambly - The Benjamin January Mysteries Barbara Hambly - Raven Sisters Barbara Hambly - Other Fiction Barbara Hambly - Nonfiction

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Father Walter Jackson Ong, Ph.D. (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003), was a thinker known today as an honorary guru among technophiles. He was a Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian, linguist, and philosopher. Walter J. Ong - Biography. Walter Jackson Ong, Jr. was born in Kansas City, Missouri to a Protestant father and a Roman Catholic mother; he was raised as a Roman Catholic. In 1933 he received a bachelor of arts degree from Rockhurst College, where he maj ...

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Walter J. Ong - Introduction Walter J. Ong - Ramus Method and the Decay of Dialogue 1958 Walter J. Ong - The Presence of the Word 1967 Walter J. Ong - Fighting for Life 1981 Walter J. Ong - Orality and Literacy 1982 Walter J. Ong - Hopkins the Self and God 1986 Walter J. Ong - An Ong Reader 2002 Walter J. Ong - Works about Ong
Walter J. Ong - Publications
Walter J. Ong - Lectures Walter J. Ong - Books
Walter J. Ong - Categories

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While the first performance of the San Francisco Opera was La bohème, with Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli, on September 26, 1923, in the city's Civic Auditorium and conducted by Merola, his involvement in opera in the San Francisco Bay Area had been ongoing since his first visit in 1906. Merola actually launched the company in 1922, convinced that the city could support a full-time opera organization and not depend upon visiting companies, which had been coming to the City since Gold Rush days. In fact, Merola’s initia ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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Following Adler's retirement announcement in June 1979, ”Terry” McEwen (b. Thunder Bay, Ontario 1929) was Adler’s hand-picked successor. Growing up in the Montreal area of Canada, McEwen learned to love opera at an early age, listened to the Met broadcasts, and at age 14, made a trip to New York one winter break to hear several of his favorite operas, which included Bidó Sayão and Jussi Bjorling in Rigoletto. As a singer, Sayão was forever to remain his ...

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San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Opera - Founder/General Director Gaetano Merola 1923 to 1953, San Francisco Opera - General Director Kurt Herbert Adler 1953 through 1981, San Francisco Opera - General Director Terence McEwen 1982 to 1988, San Francisco Opera - General Director Lotfi Mansouri 1988 through 2001, San Francisco Opera - General Director Pamela Rosenberg August 2001 through 2005, San Francisco Opera - General Director David Gockley from January 2006, San Francisco Opera - Significant American debuts at the SFO, San Francisco Opera - External link

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