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Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy Kindred Dick. His father, Edgar Dick, was a fraud investigator for the United States Department of Agriculture. He had a twin sister, Jane. They were born six weeks premature, and Jane died on 26 January 1929. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to California. The death of his twin had a profound effect on his writing, relationships, and every other aspect of his life. Dick's parents divorced when he was young, and he grew up with his mother. He went to high school in Berkeley ...

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Goebbels was born to accountant Friedrich Goebbels and his wife Marian Oldenhausen Goebbels in Rheydt (now a part of Mönchengladbach), a Protestant area in the Rhineland, although his family was Roman Catholic. A botched operation during his childhood resulted in a club foot which caused him to be rejected when he volunteered for military service at the beginning of World War I (he wore a metal brace on his leg for most of his life). {The nearest that he came to wartime service was from June 1917 to Oct 1917 he was a "Office Soldier" with t ...

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France, already fielding a large number of Curtiss P-36 Hawk fighters, ordered 140 as the Hawk 81A-1 but the French military had been defeated by the German Blitzkrieg before they had left the factory, and the aircraft were diverted to British Commonwealth service, as the Tomahawk I — in some cases complete with metric instruments. Deemed unsuitable for use as a fighter in Europe, where it was thought inferior to the Spitfire, Hurricane and Bf 109, the Tomahawk was used for ...

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Curtiss P-40 - US Army Air Force. The Flying Tigers were integrated into the USAAF as the 23rd Fighter Group. The unit continued to fly P-40s (of newer models) until the end of the war, racking up a high kill-to-loss ratio. The 57th Fighter Group, which also operated in the MTO, was equipped with the Curtiss fighter until early 1944, during which time they were credited with at least 140 air-to-air kills. It was the 57th that took part in the "Palm Sunday Massacre" which took place on April ...

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Philip K. Dick - Short stories. The short stories of Philip K. Dick have recently been republished in five omnibus volumes, as follows: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Stories, ISBN 0806511532 We Can Remember It for You Wholesale and Other Stories, ISBN 0806512091 Second Variety and Other Stories, ISBN 0806512261 The Minority Report and Other Stories, ISBN 0806512768 The Eye of the Sibyl and Other Stories, ISBN ...

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Philip K. Dick - Best-known novels. Time Out of Joint, another excellent depiction of a man discovering his world to be fake (in many ways very similar to the movie The Truman Show); The Man in the High Castle, which takes place in an alternate America ruled by the victorious Axis powers, and which features an early exploration by Dick into the questions of false worlds; The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, where Dick states in perhaps his clearest terms the b ...

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Steamboy - Cat's Cradle. There are elements that bear a certain similarity to Kurt Vonnegut's 1964 Cat's Cradle, such as a respected scientist who helps develop a new and potentially dangerous source of power, the transgenerational relay of techno-political responsibility, an artificial fuel which is an alternative structure of water (and which also catalyzes the molecules of liquid water into a solid ice), and a fictional island as a Deus ex machina.

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Steamboy - James Ray Steam. The main character is a 13 year old boy living in Manchester, England. A young inventor following the paths of his father and grandfather. Steamboy - Lloyd Steam. Ray's idealistic old grandfather. The original conceiver of the Steamball, which he succeeds in developing with his son Edward. A difference of opinions with his son Edward leads to friction between them. While Edward believes that science is an instrument of power, Lloyd simply wishes to u ...

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In keeping with the Steampunk subgenre of science fiction, the film employs alternative history: it is set in a factual 19th-century context, yet it features several geopolitical and industrial circumstances that developed differently or at a different pace, sometimes as a result of advanced technological paradigms that were accomplished via the science already present in the given zeitgeist. As evidenced by one of the early production sketches, Steamboy was envisioned as an amalgam between a Frank Reade Scientific Romance; a s ...

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Steamboy, Steamboy - Thematic Style, Steamboy - Nods, Steamboy - Cat's Cradle, Steamboy - Laputa, Steamboy - The Rocketeer, Steamboy - Characters, Steamboy - James Ray Steam, Steamboy - Lloyd Steam, Steamboy - Edward Steam, Steamboy - Scarlett O'Hara, Steamboy - Jason, Steamboy - Alfred, Steamboy - Freddie, Steamboy - Robert Stephenson, Steamboy - David, Steamboy - Archibald Simon, Steamboy - Plot summary, Steamboy - Easter Eggs, Steamboy - Scarlet O'Hara, Steamboy - Coronation Street

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Command & Conquer: Red Alert was designed as a prequel to the first C&C game Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn. During the Soviet campaign Kane makes infrequent appearances as an advisor to Stalin. Kane, it seemed, instigated the battles of Red Alert, in order to secure a power base for his Brotherhood of Nod. Indeed, Nadia (one of Stalin's advisors) asks the player to 'keep the peace' until Nod becomes active. Kane shoots her, and informs the player that he is the future. During the Allied Campaign, a news an ...

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Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy Kindred Dick. His father, Edgar Dick, was a fraud investigator for the United States Department of Agriculture. He had a twin sister, Jane. They were born six weeks premature, and Jane died on 26 January 1929. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to California. The death of his twin had a profound effect on his writing, relationships, and every other aspect of his life. Dick's parents divorced when he was young, and he grew up with his mother. He went to high school in Berkeley ...

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Philip K. Dick, Philip K. Dick - Early life, Philip K. Dick - Dick and his visions, Philip K. Dick - VALIS, Philip K. Dick - Exegesis, Philip K. Dick - Marriages and children, Philip K. Dick - Death, Philip K. Dick - Dick's influence, Philip K. Dick - Influence for the story Pre-Persons, Philip K. Dick - Bibliography, Philip K. Dick - Best-known novels, Philip K. Dick - Novels by year, Philip K. Dick - Short stories, Philip K. Dick - Film adaptations of Philip K. Dick's works, Philip K. Dick - Awards, Philip K. Dick - Biographies, Philip K. Dick - Interviews

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Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Allies. General Gunter von Esling -- Played by Arthur Roberts. General Nikos Stavros -- Played by Barry Kramer. Tanya Adams -- Played by Lynne Litteer. Professor Albert Einstein -- John Milford. Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Soviet. Joseph Stalin -- Played by Gene Dynarski. Nadia -- Played by Andrea C. Robinson. Gradenko -- Played by Alan Terry. General Georgi Kukov -- Played by Cr ...

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Mayor Abe Beame accused Con Ed of "gross negligence" but would eventually feel the effect himself. He finished third in the Democractic primary to Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo. Koch would go on to win the mayoral election, due in part to the growing support for the death penalty following the looting. The heat continued for days after the blackout, reaching 102 on July 19 and 104 the next day, the second hottest on record. There is a popular urban legend that says that birth rate in New York City went up 35% nine months following th ...

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Traditionally the study of history was limited to the written word. However with the rise of academic professionalism and the creation of new scientific fields in the 19th and 20th centuries came a flood of new information that challenged this notion — archaeology, anthropology and other social sciences were providing new information and even theories about human history. Some traditional historians questioned whether these new studies were really history, since they were not limited to the written word. A new term, prehistory, was coined, to encompass the results of these new fields where they yeilded information abou ...

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Curtiss P-40 - US Army Air Force. The Flying Tigers were integrated into the USAAF as the 23rd Fighter Group. The unit continued to fly P-40s (of newer models) until the end of the war, racking up a high kill-to-loss ratio. The 57th Fighter Group, which also operated in the MTO, was equipped with the Curtiss fighter until early 1944, during which time they were credited with at least 140 air-to-air kills. It was the 57th that took part in the "Palm Sunday Massacre" which took place on April ...

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Curtiss P-40, Curtiss P-40 - Operational history, Curtiss P-40 - P-40 Units, Curtiss P-40 - US Army Air Force, Curtiss P-40 - British Royal Air Force, Curtiss P-40 - Royal Australian Air Force, Curtiss P-40 - Royal New Zealand Air Force, Curtiss P-40 - Soviet Union, Curtiss P-40 - Other nations, Curtiss P-40 - Variants, Curtiss P-40 - Specifications, Curtiss P-40 - P-40s on film, Curtiss P-40 - Related content

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In 1928, King George V gave Edward a home, Fort Belvedere, near Sunningdale in Berkshire. There Edward conducted relationships with a series of married women including Anglo-American textile heiress Freda Dudley Ward and Lady Furness (born Thelma Morgan) an American beauty of part-Chilean ancestry, introduced the Prince to fellow American Wallis Simpson. Simpson had divorced her first husband in 1927 and subsequently married Ernest Simpson, an Anglo-American businessman. Mrs. Simpson and the Prince of Wales ...

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King George V died on January 20, 1936, and Edward ascended to the throne as King Edward VIII. The next day, he broke royal protocol by watching the proclamation of his own accession to the throne from a window of St. James's Palace, in the company of the still-married Mrs. Simpson. It was also at this time that Edward became the first British monarch to fly in an aeroplane, when he flew from Sandringham to London for his Accession Council. It was now becoming clear that the new King wished to marry Mrs Simpson, especially when divorc ...

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A film adaptation has been under development for many years with the earliest attempt in 1989 with Terry Gilliam and Sam Hamm attached. The project was abandoned after trouble adapting the story. In 2003 Paramount Pictures attempted to revive the novel with a highly acclaimed script written by David Hayter. Darren Aronofsky was attached to direct but dropped out and was replaced by Paul Greengrass. The film was scrapped in June 2005 because of budget concerns. The ...

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Watchmen - Editions. Originally published as twelve individual issues (with the last nearly a year after the others), Watchmen was later printed as a graphic novel (ISBN 0930289234). A special hardcover edition was produced by Graphitti Designs in 1987, containing 48 pages of bonus material, including the original proposal and concept art. DC did not distribute the book in quantity as planned, but a small quantity were print ...

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Set in an alternative history in which superheroes are real, Watchmen is an adventure and crime drama that incorporates moral philosophy, popular culture, history, art, and science. Watchmen is composed of twelve chapters. The first begins with an extreme close-up of the Comedian's smiley-face badge, with a bloodstain in a distinctive arrow-like shape that will recur frequently throughout the series. Each subsequent chapter begins with a clock face, starting at 11:49 and progressing one minute toward midnight, in the vei ...

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In the early 1980s DC Comics, who had acquired a number of existing characters from Charlton Comics, commissioned a treatment from Moore for a mini-series about them. Watchmen is the resulting story, recast with new heroes to avoid continuity problems with the existing DC Universe and previously established characters. While the Watchmen characters were initally inspired by various Charlton Comics characters, it's worth noting that Moore borrowed elements of other comic book characters as well, and also drew upon his own i ...

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On November 16, 1936, Edward met with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin at Fort Belvedere and expressed his desire to marry Wallis Simpson when she became free to do so. The Prime Minister responded by presenting the King with three choices: he could give up the idea of marriage; marry Wallis against his ministers' wishes; or abdicate. It was clear that Edward was not prepared to give up Wallis. By marrying against the advice of his ministers, it was likely that he would cause the government to resign, prompting a constitutional crisis. The Pri ...

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