1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. 1986 - Events. 1986 - January. January 1 - Spain and Portugal enter the European Community January 1 - Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. January 9 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business. January 12 - Space shuttle Columbia is launched with the fi ...

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1986 - January-March. January 1 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902) January 4 - Phil Lynott, Bassist of Thin Lizzy (b. 1949) January 7 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b. 1917) January 8 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (b. 1906) January 10 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) January 14 - Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921) January 24 - L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911) Janu ...

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Aliens is a 1986 science fiction movie starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser. It is a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. Aliens 1986 film - Overview. Directed by James Cameron from a story written by Cameron, David Giler, and Walter Hill, the film is more of a high-paced, action adventure film than the atmospheric sci-fi horror of the first film. It was tremendously successful, following Cameron's The Terminator in hel ...

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Aliens 1986 film - Accolades Aliens 1986 film - Impact Aliens 1986 film - Versions Aliens 1986 film - Trivia Aliens 1986 film - Editing and other errors Aliens 1986 film - Prequel Aliens 1986 film - Alien Quadrilogy Aliens 1986 film - Cast Aliens 1986 film - Crew

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1986 Governor General's Awards - Fiction. Winner: Alice Munro, The Progress of Love Other Finalists: Lois Braun, A Stone Watermelon John Metcalf, Adult Entertainment Aritha van Herk, No Fixed Address 1986 Governor General's Awards - Poetry. Winner: Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy Other Finalists: Christopher Dewdney, The Immaculate Perceptio ...

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1986 Governor General's Awards - Fiction. Winner: Yvon Rivard, Les silences du corbeau Other Finalists: Pierre Nepveu, L'hiver de Mira Christophe Sylvain Trudel, Le souffle de l'Harmattan 1986 Governor General's Awards - Poetry. Winner: Cécile Cloutier, L'écouté Other Finalists: François Charron, La chambre des miracles Normand de Bellefeuille, Catégoriques, u ...

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Science fiction in Croatia - Authors. Neven Anticevic Branko Belan (1912-1986) Milena Benini Jasmina Blazic Danilo Brozovic Radovan Devlic (1950-2000) Darije Djokic Zvonimir Furtinger (1912-1986) Vesna Gorse Marina Jandrejcic Tatjana Jambrisak Goran Konvicni Zoran Krusvar Igor Lepcin Darko Macan Kresimir Misak Dalibor Perkovic Slobodan Petrovski Br ...

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Christopher Stasheff (1944-present) is a science fiction author and fantasy author whose novels include The Warlock In Spite Of Himself (1969) and Her Majesty's Wizard (1986). He has a PhD. in Theatre and teaches radio and television at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Stasheff's stories could be categorized as "medieval fantasy"; they are filled with sorcery, monsters, castles, etc. Stasheff has written several series of ...

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Count Zero (ISBN 0441117732) is a science fiction novel written by William Gibson, originally published in 1986. It forms the middle volume of The Sprawl trilogy which includes Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive and is a prime example of the cyberpunk sub-genre. Eight years after the events of Neuromancer, strange things begin to happen in The Matrix, leading to th ...

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David Schneider (born April 15, 1986) is a British actor and comedian. Although he has had a small role in several movies, including the horror film 28 Days Later and a small part in Mission: Impossible, he is mostly known through his work in British television, in particular alongside Armando Iannucci and Steve Coogan. Schneider played the fictional BBC Commissioning Editor, Tony Hayers, who was physically assaulted by Alan Partridge which lead to the cancellation of Partridge's (fictional) show. He also played various ...

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Casualty is a long-running BBC television drama serial, first broadcast in 1986 and transmitted on BBC One. It was devised by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin. It is based in and around the fictional Holby City Hospital, situated in Holby, a fictional city bearing a close resemblance to Bristol, where the show is filmed. Bristol landmarks, including the docks and the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge, are regularly glimpsed in the outdoor scenes. The exterior shots of the hospital itself were formerly filmed at the city's technical college, but are now shot on a small industrial e ...

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Animotion is a 1980s pop band best known for the songs "Obsession" and "Room to Move." Formed in 1983 from the remnants of a retro science fiction band called Red Zone, they signed a record deal with Polygram Records in 1984 and made 2 albums. During 1986 and 1987 Animotion toured extensively, appearing alongside performers such as Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, INXS, The Eurythmics, Simply Red, Phil Collins, and Genesis. In the midst of recording their third album, Animotion suddenly disbanded. They reunited on February 8, 2001 in resp ...

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American Enterprise (test) Pathfinder (mockup) Columbia (destroyed 2003) Challenger (destroyed 1986) Discovery (active) Atlantis (active) Endeavour (active) Explorer (mockup) Soviet/ Russian Buran (retired, destroyed 2002) Ptichka (unfinished) 2.01 (unfinished) 2.02 (dismantled) 2. ...

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Colin Baker (born June 8, 1943) is a British actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. Playing the Doctor from 1984 to 1986, he had a mass of curly fair hair and a lurid patchwork coat, and was assisted by companions Peri and Mel. Before being selected to replace Peter Davison as the Doctor, Baker was an established television actor, his most notable role having been that of Paul Merroney in The Brothers. Baker also guest starred as "Bayb ...

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Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1963, in Chicago, Illinois of Danish, Irish and Native American descent) is an Academy Award nominated actress and an alumna of New Trier High School. Audiences first caught a glimpse of Madsen as Princess Irulan in David Lynch's science fiction epic Dune (1984). Madsen first became popular with audiences in 1986 with her portrayal of a Catholic school girl who fell in love with a boy from a prison camp in Duncan Gibbons' Fire with Fire. Madsen's other noted film appearances inc ...

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Control may refer to one of the following. Control system, tech. for the ability to control some mechanical or chemical equipment. Control (album), a 1986 album by Janet Jackson. Control (Pedro the Lion album), a 2002 album by Pedro the Lion. Control (musician), a noise project of Thomas Garrison. Control (novel), a 1982 novel by William Goldman. Control (movie), a 2003 Hungarian movie (Kontroll in the native title). CONTROL, a fictional secret U.S. Government spy agen

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Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was a prolific American author and founder of the pseudoscience Dianetics and the controversial Church of Scientology. In addition to Scientological and self-help books, he wrote fiction in several genres, business management texts, essays, and poetry. L. Ron Hubbard - Biographical outline. The Church of Scientology has produced numerous biographical publications that make extraordinary claims about Hubbar ...

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Blind Guardian is a power metal (and more recently epic metal) band started in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, Germany. Before calling themselves Blind Guardian, the band released two demos under the name Lucifer's Heritage in 1986 and 1987. From the very beginning, Blind Guardian have been inspired by the fictional worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien and other fantasy authors, like Michael Moorcock, as well as traditional legends and epics. Over the years, a running theme has develop ...

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The Centurions (1985-1987) was a syndicated 30 minute science-fiction cartoon produced by Ruby Spears and animated in Japan by Sunrise. The series began in 1985 as a five-part miniseries and was followed in 1986/87 with a 60 episode series. There was also a line of tie-in toys made by Kenner and a comic produced by DC Comics. The Centurions TV series - Premise. In the near future, an evil genius, the cyborg Doc Terror, seeks to conquer the earth; he is assisted by Hacker, the cyborg sidekick a ...

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The Centurions TV series - Bibliography

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Aliens was nominated for seven Academy Awards and ended up winning two (Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects). Sigourney Weaver received her first Academy Award nomination (Best Actress) for this film. Although Weaver did not actually win, it was considered a landmark for a nomination for Best Actress to even be made for a science fiction / horror film, a genre usually given little recognition by the Academy in those years. Another actor whose career benefited from Aliens was Bill Paxton; he plays the reluctant grunt ...

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