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Encyclopedia - Brian Cox: Encyclopedia - Brian Cox
Brian Denis Cox, CBE (born June 1, 1946) is a Scottish actor (at least partially of Irish Catholic extraction), notable for being the fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia - Agamemnon
Agamémnon (Greek: Αγαμέμνων) ("very resolute"), one of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology, was the son of King At...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cox: Encyclopedia - Cox
Cox may mean: Coxswain Cox, Haute-Garonne, a commune of the Haute-Garonne département, in France Cox, Spain, a municipality of the prov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthony Hopkins: Encyclopedia - Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a British-American actor who was born Philip Anthony Hopkins in Margam, near ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - L.i.e.: Encyclopedia Ii - L.i.e. - Plot Summary
Howie Blitzer (Dano), still reeling from the death of his mother in a car accident on the titular highway, finds his only solace in the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Danny Phantom Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Danny Phantom Characters - Characters
List of Danny Phantom characters - Daniel Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom. Main article: Danny Phantom (character) See Danny Fenton - Dann...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermann Göring: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermann Göring - Göring's Last Days
Göring's last days were spent with Gustave Gilbert, a Jewish German-speaking intelligence officer and psychologist who was granted free ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Mann Film Director: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Mann Film Director - Career
Michael Mann film director - Early days. He spent 7 years in the United Kingdom, then moved back to the United States and began career ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Eye Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Eye Film - Plot Summary
Tagline: Fear Takes Flight Lisa Reisert (played by Rachel McAdams) has a fear of flying, and after attending her grandmother's funeral in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melvin Belli: Encyclopedia Ii - Melvin Belli - King Of Torts
Besides his famous personal injury cases, which earned for him his 'King of Torts' nickname, Belli was also instrumental in setting up so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bourne Supremacy Film: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bourne Supremacy Film - Plot Summary
The film begins with Jason Bourne being framed for the death of two CIA operatives in Berlin, Germany when his fingerprints are found at ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bourne Identity Film: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bourne Identity Film - Plot
In addition to updating the politics and technology the movie streamlines the plot of the novel, chiefly by dropping the business with Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Eye Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Eye Film - Plot Summary
Tagline: Fear Takes Flight Lisa Reisert (played by Rachel McAdams) has a fear of flying, and after attending her grandmother's funeral i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meryl Streep: Encyclopedia Ii - Meryl Streep - Awards
Streep has received countless awards, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame—all of which can be seen at numerous sites, includ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Titus Andronicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Titus Andronicus - Text Of The Play
Titus Andronicus was published in three separate quarto editions prior to the First Folio of 1623; these are referred to as Q1, Q2, and Q...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manhunt Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Manhunt Video Game - Gangs
There are five gangs encountered during the course of the game, plus the corrupt police force (who seem to think Cash is some sort of dru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Dragon: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Dragon - Synopsis
Graham, who captured Lecter, nearly getting killed in the process, is called out of retirement to help track down a serial killer known t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Match Point Movie: Encyclopedia Ii - Match Point Movie - Review
The movie is considered by many to be Woody Allen's finest movie again in more than a decade. The acting is superb, especially by Rhys-Me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adaptation.: Encyclopedia Ii - Adaptation. - Analysis
The screenplay is based on a true story. Based on the success of his screenplay for Being John Malkovich, Kaufman was hired to write a sc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Comedies
Shakespeare on screen - All's Well That Ends Well. BBC Television Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well (TV, UK, 1980) Released in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - A Republican Monarchy?
From the beginning of the Revolution, Marie Antoinette remained skeptical about the chances of a compromise. However, she was not yet pre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Joan Allen: Encyclopedia Ii - Joan Allen - Career
In 1989 Allen returned to the stage and won a Tony Award in her Broadway debut performance in Burn This. She also starred in the Pulitzer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Troy Film - Deviations From Homer's Version Of The Myth
It would be difficult to give a fair assessment as to the historical accuracy of the film; there is very little if any "historical" accur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henry Ii Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Ii Of England - Biography
He was born on 5 March 1133 at Le Mans to the Empress Matilda and her second husband, Geoffrey the Fair, Count of Anjou. Brought up in An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia Ii - Agamemnon - The Trojan War
Agamemnon gathered together the Greek forces to sail for Troy. Preparing to depart from Aulis, a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dundee: Encyclopedia Ii - Dundee - History
William the Lion granted the town the status of burgh by royal charter in 1191. His brother, David, 8th Earl of Huntingdon is said to hav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hannibal Lecter: Encyclopedia Ii - Hannibal Lecter - Biography
Hannibal Lecter - Early life and murder spree. Hannibal Lecter was born in Lithuania in 1938 to wealthy parents. His father was a count...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - X2 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - X2 Film - Plot
After a harrowing attempt on the President's life, and the revelation that the mutant Nightcrawler was involved, public pressure to pass ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Stryker: Encyclopedia Ii - William Stryker - In The Comics
Stryker is a fundamentalist religious fanatic, with a military history which may have involved the Weapon X project, which resulted in Lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daphne Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Daphne Moon - Family
Daphne came from a large family of eight brothers in which she was the only daughter. She had a rather complex relationship with her domi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermann Göring: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermann Göring - Göring's Last Days
Göring's last days were spent with Gustave Gilbert, a Jewish German-speaking intelligence officer and psychologist who was granted free ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Story Of The Iliad
The Iliad narrates several weeks of action during the tenth and final year of the Trojan War, concentrating on the wrath of Achilles. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Ringer: Encyclopedia Ii - The Ringer - Ties With The Special Olympics
The film was originally pitched to Timothy Perry Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics, and the other board members of the Special Ol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Minus Man: Encyclopedia Ii - The Minus Man - Story
The movie centers around a serial killer (Owen Wilson) who picks victims who seem to be unhappy with their lives, the first example being...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Rookie 2002 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - The Rookie 2002 Film - Plot
Twelve years prior to the setting of the movie, Jimmy Morris (played by Dennis Quaid) injured his shoulder, putting an end to his minor l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Rookie 2002 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - The Rookie 2002 Film - Plot
Twelve years prior to the setting of the movie, Jimmy Morris (played by Dennis Quaid) injured his shoulder, putting an end to his minor l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tripartite System: Encyclopedia Ii - Tripartite System - History
Tripartite System - Origins. Prior to 1944 the British secondary education system was a fundamentally ad hoc creation. Access was not u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Braveheart: Encyclopedia Ii - Braveheart - Historical Accuracy
Braveheart is a work of fiction, which draws inspiration from real historical events. However, due to the intense level of detail in cost...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zodiac Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Zodiac Film - Synopsis
A notorious serial killer known only as "the Zodiac" haunted San Francisco during the late 1960s. Leaving several victims in his wake and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manhunt Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Manhunt Video Game - Controversy
The controversy surrounding the game stems from the graphic manner in which the player kills enemies. Almost all of the game's special "s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermann Göring: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermann Göring - The Personal Standards Of Hermann Göring
When Göring had been promoted to the unique rank of "Reichsmarschall" on July 19, 1940, he at once decided to choose a personal standard...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermann Göring: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermann Göring - In Fiction
In Philip José Farmer's Riverworld, a reincarnated Göring becomes a missionary for the Church of the Second Chance, a pacifist religion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Danny Phantom Characters: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Danny Phantom Characters - Relationships
List of Danny Phantom characters - Human Villains and Ghosts. See: List of Danny Phantom Human Villains and Ghosts ... See also:List ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manhunt Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Manhunt Video Game - Plot
The story revolves around a man on death row named James Earl Cash, sentenced to death by lethal injection due to a grievous crime, the n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melvin Belli: Encyclopedia Ii - Melvin Belli - Filmed Icon
Belli appeared in numerous films and television shows, frequently as himself, and is set to be played by Brian Cox in the 2006 film Zodia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Relationship Of Achilles And Patroclus
It is important to note, before reading the rest of this section, that the Ancient Mediterranean world had vastly different attitudes tow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Bourne Supremacy Film: Encyclopedia Ii - The Bourne Supremacy Film - Main Cast
The Bourne Supremacy film - Crew. Directed by: Paul Greengrass Written by: Robert Ludlum Produced by: Doug Liman Screenplay by: Tony G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tripartite System: Encyclopedia Ii - Tripartite System - Structure
Tripartite System - Organisation. Under the Tripartite System there were three categories of state-run secondary schools. Each was desi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tripartite System: Encyclopedia Ii - Tripartite System - Grammars In Northern Ireland
While vestiges of the Tripartite system persist in several counties, the largest area where the 11-plus system remains in operation is No...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Troy Film - Finance And Reaction
Troy screening's have earned its makers $133 million in the United States. Having cost $175 million to make, some thought that it was a f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melvin Belli: Encyclopedia Ii - Melvin Belli - Quote
Melvin Belli - Bibliography. 1950, The Voice of Modern Trials 1951, The Adequate Award 1952, The More Adequate Award 1952, The More Ad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Melvin Belli: Encyclopedia Ii - Melvin Belli - Personal Life And Finances
Belli was married six times. His marriage to the former Lia Triff ended with an scandalous, acrimonious and bitter divorce proceeding in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manhunt Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Manhunt Video Game - Weapons
The following are weapons Cash uses to execute his enemies. One-use-only weapons Plastic bag Glass shard (the glass shard can be found w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manhunt Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Manhunt Video Game - Unused Characters
Scarecrow: The secret identity of former Smiley leader Kenneth Jesperson. Although it is speculated that Kenneth was shown in the game as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Childhood
Marie Antoinette was the sixteenth child (the youngest and most beautiful daughter) of the Austrian Archduchess, later Queen and Empress,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Coronation And Reign
Louis XVI's coronation took place at Rheims during the height of a bread shortage in Paris. This is the context in which she is incorrect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Reputation
Marie Antoinette went down in history as a shallow, weak, self-indulgent and stupid person. Only royalists, who saw her as a martyr, view...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manhunt Video Game: Encyclopedia Ii - Manhunt Video Game - Characters
James Earl Cash: A vicious criminal who was sent to death row, but instead of a lethal injection, he only got a tranquilizer due to the w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Red Dragon: Encyclopedia Ii - Red Dragon - Response
Red Dragon was a box office success, earning $92,930,005 in the U.S. [1]. However, the film received a considerable amount of negative cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Iliad As Oral Tradition
The Iliad and the Odyssey were considered by Greeks of the classical age and after as the most important works in Ancient Greek literatur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - Technical Features And Translations
The poem is written in dactylic hexameter. The Iliad comprises roughly 16,000 lines of verse. Later Greeks divided it into twenty-four bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - Major Characters
As an epic, the Iliad contains a sometimes confusingly great number of characters. The latter half of the Iliad's second book (often call...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Relationship Of Achilles And Patroclus
It is important to note, before reading the rest of this section, that the Ancient Mediterranean world had vastly different attitudes tow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iliad: Encyclopedia Ii - Iliad - The Iliad In Subsequent Arts And Literature
Subjects from the Trojan War were a favourite among ancient Greek dramatists. Aeschylus' trilogy Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Life As Dauphine
Since they were not having sexual intercourse, Louis and Marie Antoinette remained childless for the first 7 years of their marriage. Spi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Marriage
Marie Antoinette was conveyed to the royal palace at Versailles, where she met her future grandfather-in-law Louis XV and the other membe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Childhood
Marie Antoinette was the fifteenth child (the youngest daughter; she had a brother one year younger) of the Austrian Archduchess, later Q...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermann Göring: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermann Göring - Quotes
"Guns will make us strong, butter will only make us fat." "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the lead...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermann Göring: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermann Göring - In Fiction
In Philip José Farmer's Riverworld, a reincarnated Göring becomes a missionary for the Church of the Second Chance, a pacifist religion...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dundee: Encyclopedia Ii - Dundee - City Of Discovery
Dundee - Electric street-lighting. Dundee was the first city in the world to have electric street lights, employing bulbs designed by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dundee: Encyclopedia Ii - Dundee - Modern Dundee
Dundee - Employment. Dundee has never regained its status as a major manufacturing centre. In the 1960s and 70s the arrival in the city...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia Ii - Agamemnon - Other Stories
Another account makes him the son of Pleisthenes (the son or father of Atreus), who is said to have been Aerope's first husband. The fort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dundee: Encyclopedia Ii - Dundee - Education
Dundee - High School of Dundee. The High School of Dundee is one of Scotland's leading independent schools. It has its origins in the G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hannibal Lecter: Encyclopedia Ii - Hannibal Lecter - Lecter As Cultural Figure
While Harris' novels Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs were critically and commercially successful, it was not until the film adaptatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hermann Göring: Encyclopedia Ii - Hermann Göring - The Personal Standards Of Hermann Göring
When Göring had been promoted to the unique rank of "Reichsmarschall" on July, 19, 1940, he at once decided to choose a personal standar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henry Ii Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Ii Of England - Fiction
The assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket is the subject of the celebrated 1935 play "Murder in the Cathedral" by T. S. Eliot. A full...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Henry Ii Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - Henry Ii Of England - Appearance
Peter of Blois left a description of Henry II in 1177: "...the lord king has been red-haired so far, except that the coming of old age an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Coronation And Reign
Louis XVI's coronation took place at Rheims during the height of a bread shortage in Paris. This is the usual scene where she is incorrec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Motherhood
Marie Antoinette's first child was born at Versailles 19th December 1778. She was forced to endure the humiliation of a public birth in h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Histories
Shakespeare on screen - Henry IV Part 1. BBC Television Shakespeare Henry IV Part I (TV, UK, 1979) Released in the USA as part of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Shakespeare On Screen: Encyclopedia Ii - Shakespeare On Screen - Tragedies
Shakespeare on screen - Antony and Cleopatra. BBC Television Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra (TV, UK, 1981) Released in the USA as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Titus Andronicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Titus Andronicus - Reputation
Titus Andronicus is perhaps Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy; some measure of its matter can be gleaned from a single stage-direction: "En...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agamemnon: Encyclopedia Ii - Agamemnon - Early Life
Agamemnon's father Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adaptation.: Encyclopedia Ii - Adaptation. - Awards
The film won one Academy Award (Cooper for Best Supporting Actor) and was nominated for, but did not win, three others: Cage for Best Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Braveheart: Encyclopedia Ii - Braveheart - Political Effects
The film is credited with provoking a significant upsurge of Scottish nationalism, in particular with leading the majority of the Scottis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Braveheart: Encyclopedia Ii - Braveheart - Box Office
Braveheart is 270th in the largest amount grossed from a film (worldwide). In terms of actual figures, Braveheart's total lifetime gross ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Braveheart: Encyclopedia Ii - Braveheart - Awards
The film won numerous awards including the 1995 Academy Award for: Best Picture Direction, Mel Gibson Best Cinematography Makeup Best So...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Titus Andronicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Titus Andronicus - Date And Authorship
Most scholars date Titus to the early 1590s; it was certainly written prior to 1594, the date of its first published edition. None of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meryl Streep: Encyclopedia Ii - Meryl Streep - Later Career And Recent Work
Streep's career continued to climb in the 1980s, appearing in Woody Allen's Manhattan, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Silkwood, Out of Af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - The Fall Of Versailles
It was a few months before news arrived that a mob from Paris had taken the decision to march on Versailles. Rumours had spread in the ci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - The Countdown To Revolution
Coupled with the political disaster of the Affair of the Necklace, the royal family also suffered some terrible personal tragedies. In 17...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - The Affair Of The Necklace
Main article: Affair of the diamond necklace Louis, Cardinal de Rohan, a member of one of France's most prominent aristocratic houses, wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Imprisonment
Marie Antoinette did not ever truly recover from her husband's death. According to her daughter, "She no longer had any hope left in her ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Execution
On the morning of October 16th, a guard arrived to cut her hair and bind her hands behind her back. She was forced into a common, slow-mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meryl Streep: Encyclopedia Ii - Meryl Streep - Early Life And Career
Streep was born Mary Louise Streep in Summit, New Jersey, USA. Her father, Harry Streep Jr., was a pharmaceutical executive of Dutch desc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Marie Antoinette: Encyclopedia Ii - Marie Antoinette - Reputation
Marie Antoinette went down in history as a shallow, weak, self-indulgent and stupid person. Only royalists, who saw her as a martyr, view...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Daphne Moon: Encyclopedia Ii - Daphne Moon - Daphne And Niles
For many years the tall (5'10"), beautiful Daphne was the secret love of Frasier's brother, Niles Crane. Niles kept his feelings private ...   » Read the article