The youngest of several children, King spent his first years on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Later, King's family moved to Brooklyn. King used humor to survive in the tough neighborhoods. As a child, King performed impersonations on street corners for pennies. When he was fourteen, King performed "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime" on the radio program Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour. He lost first prize, but ...

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Alan King, Alan King - Childhood, Alan King - Career, Alan King - Personal life, Alan King - Quotes, Alan King - Filmography, Alan King - Plays, Alan King - Books, Alan King - Sources

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The Hindu scriptures present the Sun as the most potent god. There are only five Puranic gods and the Sun is one of them but the images of the remaining four gods � Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesh and Durga � are also found in Him. In Surya Sahastranam several synonyms of the Sun are actually Vishnus names and at one place He is also called Jyotirlinga, representing Shiva. Mahakal is both the name of Shiva and the Sun.

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Éire (pronounced [ˈeːrʲə]) is the Irish name for Ireland. The name Éire is the nominative form in modern Irish of the name for the goddess Ériu, a mythical figure who helped the Gaels conquer Ireland as described in the Book of Invasions. Éire is still used in the Irish language today to refer to the island of Ireland as well as the Republic of Ireland. The dative form Éirinn is anglicized as Erin, which is occasionally used as a poetic name for Ireland in English, and which h ...

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• Éire - Éire in the Irish Constitution
• Éire - From Éire to the Republic of Ireland
• Éire - Footnote
• Éire - Additional reading and sources

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December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining. December 15 - Events. 533 - The Battle of Ticameron takes place between the armies of the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer and the eastern Roman Empire under the command of General Belisarius. 687 - St. Sergius I becomes Pope. 1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of ...

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• December 15 - Events
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• December 15 - Holidays and observances

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Meaning of Dreams in Islam

Few Western dream researchers have any familiarity with the rich dream traditions of Islam. The Muslim faith first emerged in seventh century B.C.E. Arabia as a profound revisioning of early Jewish and Christian beliefs and practices. One theme the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) drew from the scriptures of those two religions was a reverence for dreaming. In the Quran, as in the Jewish Torah and the Christian New Testament, dreams serve as a vital medium by which God communicates with humans. Dreams offer divine guidance and comfort, warn people of impending danger, and offer prophetic glimpses of the future. Although the three religions drastically differ on many other topics, they find substantial agreement on this particular point: dreaming is a valuable source of wisdom, understanding, and inspiration. Indeed, as I will propose in this brief essay, Islam has historically shown greater interest in dreams than either of the other two traditions, and has done more to weave dreaming into the daily lives of its members. From the first revelatory visions of Muhammed to the myriad dream practices of present-day Muslims, Islam has developed and sustained a complex, multifaceted tradition of active engagement with the dreaming imagination.

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CAPRICORN

The tenth sign of the Zodiac (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20). As symbolized by the mountain-top, the Fish-Goat is the culmination of all the signs (as its opposite, Cancer, is the origin and Nadir of all the signs). At this point materialization is complete and it is time to enter the spirit. It is the sign of kings and messiahs who sacrifice themselves for the common people.

Famous Capricornians: Tycho Brahe, Carlos Castaneda, Alan Watts, Humphrey Bogart, Marlene Dietrich, Gurdjieff, Mao-Tse-Tung, Matisse, Nostradamus, Paracelsus, Pasteur, Woodrow Wilson, Stalin, Loyala, Joan Baez, Nixon, Albert Schweitzer, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther King, Benjamin Franklin, Poe.

(See also: CAPRICORN , Magick, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul,)

Cat's Eye (a.k.a. Stephen King's Cat's Eye) is a 1985 horror film directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King. It is based on King's short stories The Ledge, Quitters, Inc., and The General (the former two appeared in his Night Shift story collection). The film is centered on a cat that is seeking out a young girl (played by Drew Barrymore) in order to save her from a supernatural danger. In the process of looking for her, the cat is a witness to other strange events, such as a ...

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• Cat's Eye film - Awards
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Comedy Central 100 Greatest Standups of All Time was a special television show aired on Comedy Central in April, 2004. It was hosted by Dom Irrera, Judy Gold, Greg Giraldo, and Mario Joyner. Individual segments featured the guests Phyllis Diller, Richard Jeni, Pat Cooper, David Brenner, and Richard Lewis. Only American comedians could be chosen for this list. This program ranked the following comedians in this order: Richard Pryor George Carlin Lenny Bruce Woody Allen Chris Rock< ...

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2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It was designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the ...

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• 2004 - Events
• 2004 - January
• 2004 - February
• 2004 - March
• 2004 - April
• 2004 - May
• 2004 - June
• 2004 - July
• 2004 - August
• 2004 - September
• 2004 - October
• 2004 - November
• 2004 - December
• 2004 - Births
• 2004 - Deaths
• 2004 - January
• 2004 - February
• 2004 - March
• 2004 - April
• 2004 - May
• 2004 - June
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• 2004 - August
• 2004 - September
• 2004 - October
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• 2004 - December
• 2004 - Nobel Prizes

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In a parody of Playboy's centerfolds, each issue of Mad from 1964 on featured a "fold-in" on its inside back cover, designed by artist Al Jaffee. A question would be asked, which apparently was illustrated by a picture taking up the bulk of the page. When the page was folded inwards, the inner and outer fourths of the picture combined to give a surprising answer in both picture and words. With over 350 Fold-Ins to date, Jaffee has appeared ...

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Mad magazine, Mad magazine - History, Mad magazine - Recurring features, Mad magazine - Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine - Recurring images and references, Mad magazine - Contributors and controversy, Mad magazine - Awards, Mad magazine - Mad merchandising, Mad magazine - Imitators and variants, Mad magazine - Some of the Usual Gang of Idiots, Mad magazine - Some of the Unusual Gang of Idiots, Mad magazine - Recurring subsections, Mad magazine - Table of Contents, Mad magazine - Letters and Tomatoes Dept., Mad magazine - The Fundalini Pages, Mad magazine - Newer additions, Mad magazine - The MAD 20, Mad magazine - MAD v. Supreme Court

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Borscht Belt hotels, bungalow colonies, summer camps, and kuchaleyns (a Yiddish name for self-catered boarding houses) were frequented by Jewish New Yorkers, particularly in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Because of this, this area was also nicknamed the Jewish Alps and Solomon County, by the many people who visited there. Well-known resorts of the area included Brickman's, Brown's, the Concord, Grossinger's, Kutshers, the Nevele, ...

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Borscht Belt, Borscht Belt - History, Borscht Belt - Comedic legacy, Borscht Belt - Popular culture

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What's My Line? - Versions in the United States. A weekly American CBS radio version of What's My Line? was produced from May 1952 until July 1953. The regular panelists Dorothy Kilgallen, Bennett Cerf, Arlene Francis and Hal Block, along with host John Daly, premiered the radio version of their show on Tuesday May 20, 1952, while still performing the Sunday telecast. The debut mystery guest, in her only What's My Line? appearance, was Marlene Dietrich. Marlon Brando made his only What's ...

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What's My Line?, What's My Line? - Hosts and panelists, What's My Line? - Game play, What's My Line? - Standard rounds, What's My Line? - Mystery guest rounds, What's My Line? - Style of the show, What's My Line? - Alternate versions, What's My Line? - Versions in the United States, What's My Line? - Versions around the world, What's My Line? - Show trivia, What's My Line? - Related pages

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Mad magazine - Mad fold-ins. In a parody of Playboy's centerfolds, each issue of Mad from 1964 on featured a "fold-in" on its inside back cover, designed by artist Al Jaffee. A question would be asked, which apparently was illustrated by a picture taking up the bulk of the page. When the page was folded inwards, the inner and outer fourths of the picture combined to give a surprising answer in both picture and words. With over 350 Fold-Ins to date, Jaffee has appeared in more issues of Mad than any other artist. See also:

Mad magazine, Mad magazine - History, Mad magazine - Recurring features, Mad magazine - Mad fold-ins, Mad magazine - The Lighter Side of..., Mad magazine - Spy vs. Spy, Mad magazine - Don Martin gags, Mad magazine - A MAD Look At..., Mad magazine - Monroe, Mad magazine - Movie and TV show parodies, Mad magazine - Others, Mad magazine - Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine - Recurring images and references, Mad magazine - Contributors and controversy, Mad magazine - Awards, Mad magazine - Mad merchandising, Mad magazine - Imitators and variants, Mad magazine - Some of the Usual Gang of Idiots, Mad magazine - Some of the Unusual Gang of Idiots, Mad magazine - Recurring subsections, Mad magazine - Table of Contents, Mad magazine - Letters and Tomatoes Dept., Mad magazine - The Fundalini Pages, Mad magazine - Newer additions, Mad magazine - The MAD 20, Mad magazine - MAD v. Supreme Court

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Great Neck, originally called "Madnan's Neck", was settled in the late 17th century, not long after settlers landed on Plymouth Rock. The area had previously been inhabited by the Mattinecock Native Americans, who were pushed back by the colonists' expansion. In more recent days, Great Neck -- in particular the incorporated village of Kings Point -- provided a backdrop to F. Scott Fitzgerald's book The Great Gatsby. Thinly disguised as "West Egg," in counterpoint to Port Washington's more posh "East Egg," the next peninsula ove ...

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Great Neck New York, Great Neck New York - Villages of the Great Neck Park District, Great Neck New York - Geography Village of Great Neck, Great Neck New York - Demographics Village of Great Neck, Great Neck New York - History, Great Neck New York - Culture and tourism, Great Neck New York - Great Neck School District, Great Neck New York - People associated with Great Neck

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A grammatical tautology is often a fault of style. It was defined by Fowler as "saying the same thing twice". For example, "three-part trilogy" is tautologous because a trilogy, by definition, has three parts. "Significant milestone" and "significant landmark" are also, if less obviously, tautologous, because milestones and landmarks are again significant by definition (could one imagine an "insignificant landmark"?). Other examples of linguistic tautologies include "in this day and age", "helpful assistance", "new innovation", "rate of speed", "one (2-, 20-)year anniversary" ...

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Tautology, Tautology - Logical tautologies, Tautology - Subtlety, Tautology - Grammatical tautologies, Tautology - Mixed Language Tautologies, Tautology - Acronym Tautologies, Tautology - Intentional Tautologies, Tautology - Pop Culture Examples of Tautology

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Mad magazine - Mad fold-ins. In a parody of Playboy's centerfolds, each issue of Mad from 1964 on featured a "fold-in" on its inside back cover, designed by artist Al Jaffee. A question would be asked, which apparently was illustrated by a picture taking up the bulk of the page. When the page was folded inwards, the inner and outer fourths of the picture combined to give a surprising answer in both picture and words. With over 350 Fold-Ins to date, Jaffee has appeared in more issues of Mad than any other artist. See also:

Mad magazine, Mad magazine - History, Mad magazine - Recurring features, Mad magazine - Mad fold-ins, Mad magazine - The Lighter Side of..., Mad magazine - Spy vs. Spy, Mad magazine - Don Martin gags, Mad magazine - A MAD Look At..., Mad magazine - Monroe, Mad magazine - Movie and TV show parodies, Mad magazine - Others, Mad magazine - Alfred E. Neuman, Mad magazine - Recurring images and references, Mad magazine - Contributors and controversy, Mad magazine - Awards, Mad magazine - Mad merchandising, Mad magazine - Imitators and variants, Mad magazine - Some of the Usual Gang of Idiots, Mad magazine - Some of the Unusual Gang of Idiots, Mad magazine - Recurring subsections, Mad magazine - Table of Contents, Mad magazine - Letters and Tomatoes Dept., Mad magazine - The Fundalini Pages, Mad magazine - Newer additions, Mad magazine - The MAD 20, Mad magazine - Mad v. Supreme Court

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• 28 Gerald Anthony • 27 Umberto Agnelli • 22 Richard Biggs • 20 Len Murray • 17 Tony Randall • 17 Ezzedine Salim • 9 Alan King • 9 Akhmad Kadyrov • 8(?) Nick Berg • 7 Waldemar Milewicz Other recent deaths May 2004 - Ongoing events. Reconstruction of Iraq – Occupation & Resistance Israeli-Palestinian conflict Liberal Party of Canada scandal War on Terrorism USA 9-11 Commission Same-Sex M ...

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May 2004, May 2004 - Events, May 2004 - Deaths in May, May 2004 - Ongoing events, May 2004 - Election results in May, May 2004 - Related pages, May 2004 - May 31 2004, May 2004 - May 30 2004, May 2004 - May 29 2004, May 2004 - May 28 2004, May 2004 - May 27 2004, May 2004 - May 26 2004, May 2004 - May 25 2004, May 2004 - May 24 2004, May 2004 - May 23 2004, May 2004 - May 22 2004, May 2004 - May 21 2004, May 2004 - May 20 2004, May 2004 - May 19 2004, May 2004 - May 18 2004, May 2004 - May 17 2004, May 2004 - May 16 2004, May 2004 - May 15 2004, May 2004 - May 14 2004, May 2004 - May 13 2004, May 2004 - May 12 2004, May 2004 - May 11 2004, May 2004 - May 10 2004, May 2004 - May 9 2004, May 2004 - May 8 2004, May 2004 - May 7 2004, May 2004 - May 6 2004, May 2004 - May 5 2004, May 2004 - May 4 2004, May 2004 - May 3 2004, May 2004 - May 2 2004, May 2004 - May 1 2004, May 2004 - Events by month

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He worked at several comedy clubs in New York City, including Catch A Rising Star and The Improv. For his budding career as a comedian, he changed his name to Prinze. He chose that because, according to his friend David Brenner, he wanted to be known as the "King" of comedy, but Alan King already had that last name, so he would be the "Prince" of comedy instead. In 1973, he made his first TV appearance on one of the last episodes of the Jack Paar Show. In December 1973, he had his biggest break, an appearance on The Tonight ...

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Freddie Prinze, Freddie Prinze - Career, Freddie Prinze - Personal life, Freddie Prinze - Untimely death, Freddie Prinze - After his death

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Tautology, often regarded as a fault of style, was defined by Fowler as "saying the same thing twice". In fact, it is not necessary for the entire meaning of a phrase to be repeated; if a part of the meaning is repeated in such a way that it appears as unintentional or clumsy, then it may be described as tautology. On the other hand, a repetition of meaning which improves the style of a piece of speech or writing is not usually described as tautology, although it may be a logical tautology. Below is a discussion of various patterns of semantic repetition and to what extent they are tautologies. Ta ...

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Tautology, Tautology - Tautology, Tautology - Examples of tautology, Tautology - Repetitions of meaning in mixed language phrases, Tautology - Repetition of an abbreviated word, Tautology - Intentional repetition of meaning, Tautology - Pop culture examples of tautology, Tautology - Logical tautologies, Tautology - Discovering tautologies

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The story of Rush Hour 2 continues from where the original left off, with Chief Inspector Lee (Chan) and Detective James Carter (Tucker) travelling to Hong Kong as a vacation. However, soon after they arrive a bomb explodes in the American Embassy. Inspector Lee is assigned to this case, which takes on a personal meaning for him when it is discovered the man behind it is Ricky Tan — his father's former partner and leader of the Triads, and a man who played an inst ...

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Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 2 - Plot, Rush Hour 2 - Trivia

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