Elizabeth Taylor

She was born in Hampstead, London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (December 28, 1897 – November 20, 1968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (August 21, 1896 – September 11, 1994), who were Americans residing in Britain. Her older brother is Howard Taylor (born in 1929). Though sometimes referred to as "Liz," she is not fond of that name and prefers her given name to be pronounced Eee-lizabeth. Her first names are in honor of her paternal grandmothe ...

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1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the baby boom from returning GIs who went to college under the G.I. Bill and settled in suburban America. Most of the internal conflicts that had developed in earlie ...

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• 1950s - Entertainers
• 1950s - Sports figures

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Crash is a story about car-crash fetishist, who gets their sexual kicks by staging and participating in very real car-crashes, often with very real consequences. Ballard writes the book in a cold and detached language, giving the impression of an engineering report or a medical journal. The story is told through the eyes of a narrator named after the writer himself, but it centres on the sinister figure Vaughan, a “former TV-scientist, turned nightmare angel of the expressways”. Gathering around Vaughan, is a group of alienated pe ...

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1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. 1932 - Events. 1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with pia ...

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• 1932 - August-December
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Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American painter, filmmaker, publisher, and a major figure in the Pop Art movement. Andy Warhol - Biography. Andy Warhol, born as Andrew Warhola, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to a working class immigrant family of Ruthenian ethnicity from northeast Slovakia. He showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. In 1949 he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illust ...

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Asterix (French: Astérix) is a fictional character, created in 1959 as the hero of a series of French comic books by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). Uderzo has continued the series since the death of Goscinny in 1977. The books have been translated into many languages, even Latin and Ancient Greek. They are probably the most popular French comic in the world, and familiar to people of all ages in most European countries. Asterix is less well known in the United States and Japan, which both h ...

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• Asterix - Major recurring characters

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Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was an Anglo-Dutch actress, fashion model, and humanitarian. Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston in Brussels, Belgium, she was the only child of Joseph Anthony Ruston, an Anglo-Irish banker, and Baroness Ella van Heemstra, a Dutch aristocrat descended from French and English kings. Her father later appended the name Hepburn to his surname, and Audrey became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston. She had two half-brothers, Alexander and Ian Quarles van Ufford ...

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All My Children is a US soap opera which has been broadcast Monday through Friday on the ABC TV network since January 5, 1970. Originally a half-hour in length, the show moved to an hour in 1977. The show has taped over nine thousand episodes, with the 9,000th episode having aired on December 16, 2004. It is videotaped at ABC's television studio at 77 West 66th Street in New York City. All My Children was created by Agnes Nixon. Although Nixon had previously created One Life to Live for ABC following her success w ...

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• All My Children - Writers Guild of America Awards
• All My Children - Young Artist Awards
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1966 in film - Top grossing films. North America Thunderball Dr. Zhivago Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? That Darn Cat! The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming Lt. Robinson Crusoe, USN 1966 in film - Academy Awards. Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons - Highland, Columbia Best Actor: Paul Scofield - A Man for All ...

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1960 in film - Top grossing films. North America Ben-Hur Can Can Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho Operation Petticoat Suddenly, Last Summer The Apartment Solomon and Sheba On the Beach 1960 in film - Academy Awards. Best Picture: The Apartment - Mirisch, United Artists Best Actor: Burt Lancaster - Including:

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Barbie, the world's most famous and best-selling doll, debuted at the American International Toy Fair on March 9, 1959. The doll is produced by Mattel, inc. The highest-selling Barbie doll in Mattel's history, Totally Hair Barbie, was released in 1992. Totally Hair Barbie featured extra-long hair, which reached from her head down to her toes. Barbie - Development. In the 1950s Ruth Handler, "creator" of the Barbie doll, noticed that her daughter, Barbara, preferred to play with dolls that resembled a ...

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• Barbie - Collecting
• Barbie - Related merchandise
• Barbie - Terminology
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See also: 1962 in film 1963 1964 in film 1960s in film years in film film 1963 in film - Events. January 28 - Filming begins on Dr. Strangelove. May 26 - Filming on Dr. Strangelove ends. June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City. November 7 - The comedy It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres.Including:

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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these na ...

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Twentieth (20th) Century Fox, shorthand for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, is one of the major movie studios, located in the Century City area of Los Angeles, California, USA, just west of Beverly Hills. The studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch. 20th Century Fox - History. The company is the result of a 1935 merger of two entities, Fox Film Corporation founded by William Fox in 1914, and Twentieth Century Pictures, begun in 1932 by D ...

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Cleopatra VII Philopator (January 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC) was queen of ancient Egypt, the last member of the Ptolemaic dynasty and hence the last Hellenistic ruler of Egypt. Although many other Egyptian Queens shared the name, she is usually known as simply Cleopatra, and all of her similarly named predecessors have been mostly forgotten. As co-ruler of Egypt with her father (Ptolemy XII Auletes), her brother/husband Ptolemy XIV, and later her son Caesarion, Cleopatra survived a coup engineered by her brother's court ...

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Carrie Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. Carrie Fisher - Early Life. She was born Carrie Frances Fisher in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of Eddie Fisher (a well known singer) and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her younger brother is Todd Fisher. Her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens. She was married to singer Paul Simon but divorced after 11 months. She is currently dating documen ...

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Westboro Baptist Church is an organisation based in Topeka, Kansas, headed by minister Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. and notorious for running godhatesfags.com and other websites expressing its condemnation of various groups, (see "WBC Websites" below). Although its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations (however, there are numerous independent Baptist churches throughout the United States that are unaffiliated with such groups). The church describes itself a ...

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• Westboro Baptist Church - Quotes from Phelps' Sermons
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• Westboro Baptist Church - Criminal record
• Westboro Baptist Church - Violence against Westboro
• Westboro Baptist Church - Claiming divine vengeance
• Westboro Baptist Church - September 11 attacks and the space shuttle Columbia
• Westboro Baptist Church - London terrorist attacks
• Westboro Baptist Church - God Hates Canada and God Hates Sweden
• Westboro Baptist Church - Indian Ocean earthquake
• Westboro Baptist Church - Stance on adoption by same-sex couples
• Westboro Baptist Church - Hurricane Katrina
• Westboro Baptist Church - Picketing of Rehnquist's funeral
• Westboro Baptist Church - Picketing of Fred Rogers' memorial
• Westboro Baptist Church - Soldiers in Iraq
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Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was a Jewish American comedy actor. He is possibly best-known for his role as the gruff and less tidy member of The Odd Couple. Walter Matthau - Biography. He was born in New York City, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. There is a persistent rumor that his birth name was Matuschanskayasky [1], which is false, as are the rumors that his name was Matashansky or Matansky, or any of the other reported names. In truth– as reported by the authors of < ...

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Crash is a novel by J. G. Ballard first published in 1973 about a subculture of people who are sexually aroused by car crashes. They re-enact famous car crashes (such as those that killed James Dean and Jayne Mansfield), cause accidents themselves, and document other crashes. It was a highly controversial novel: famously one publisher's reader returned the verdict "This author is beyond psychiatric help. Do Not Publish." The novel was adapted and ...

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George Bryan Brummell (June 7, 1778 – March 30, 1840), better known as Beau Brummell, was an arbiter of fashion in Regency England and a friend of the Prince Regent. He led the trend for men to wear understated but beautifully cut clothes, adorned with elaborately tied neckwear. Brummell is credited with introducing and bringing to fashion the modern man's suit worn with tie. The suit is now worn throughout the world for business and formal occasions, even though its origin is England. He claimed to take five hours to dress, and recommended that boots be polished with champag ...

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