List of famous left-handed people - Baseball. Left-handedness is uniquely prized in baseball, among both hitters and pitchers. For hitters, the natural motion of swinging at a pitch gives a left-handed batter momentum running down the line to first. Left-handed batters typically also have a better view of the pitch thrown by a right-handed pitcher. Likewise, left-handed pitchers are valuable, in part because many left-handed sluggers have severe trouble hit ...

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The 1978 series was released on video with reasonable regularity between 1983 and 1999, many of which are still easy to find second-hand, although the sound and picture quality is not always what it could be. A four-disc DVD collection, containing 23 of the 26 episodes produced for the 1978 series (and two episodes from the 1996 series) was released in region 4 (Australia and New Zealand) in 2005. The box and disc art identify it as a release of 1996 series. (The distributor had licenced the 1996 series but due to an administrative glitch, it was supplied with master tapes and artwork for t ...

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In 1990 an interactive fiction computer game based on the first of the books, Five On A Treasure Island, was released. It was programmed by Colin Jordan and first released for the little known SAM Coupé by Enigma Variations. He originally started coding the game on the ZX Spectrum using his own "worldscape" technique. When the SAM Coupé was launched, he switched to it as the target platform while still hosting the code on the ZX Spectrum. He later ported it to the Amstrad CPC and completed the ZX Spectrum version. The game was al ...

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Famous Monsters of Filmland (which quickly became known to fans as simply FM) was originally conceived as a one-shot publication with no discernible future, but the first issue was so successful that it required a second printing to fulfill public demand and its established future as part of American culture were immediately obvious to both men. The success prompted spinoff magazines such as Spacemen, Famous Westerns of Filmland, Screen ...

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List of famous automobiles - Literature. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the book by Ian Fleming Christine from the Stephen King novel of the same name Rocinante, the modified camper driven by John Steinbeck in Travels with Charley List of famous automobiles - Movies. Bond Cars as driven by 007 Christine (a 1958 Plymouth Fury) from the movie of the same name (based upon the novel by Stephen King) The Mirthmobile from See also:

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List of famous duels - British and Irish duels. 1598: Playwright Ben Jonson kills actor Gabriel Spenser 1609: Sir George Wharton and Sir James Stuart; fought a duel over a game of cards in Islington; both were killed 1609: Sir Hatton Cheek and Sir Thomas Dutton; fought in Calais; both killed. 1613: Edward Bruce, 2nd Lord of Kinloss and Sir Edward Sackville (later 4th Earl of Dorset); fought a duel over a woman named Venetia Stanley. They fought in Bergen-op-Zoom, Netherlands to av ...

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Several well known authors emerged from here, including Paul Horgan, Joyce Carol Oates, Taylor Caldwell, and playwrights Ruben Santiago-Hudson ("Lackawanna Blues") and A.R. Gurney (The Dining Room and Love Letters). Mark Twain lived in Buffalo as a part-owner and managing editor of The Buffalo Express from 1869 to 1871. While not technically a Buffalonian, he's remembered by his readers for his time in Buffalo due to his stories "A Day at Niagara Falls" and "The Diaries of Adam and Eve", the ...

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Buffalo has a thriving theater and music scene that has spawned several national acts worth noting. Historical musicians of note include Jazz saxophonist Grover Washington Jr., seminal 1940s harmonic group The Modernaires, all graduates of Lafayette High School (the city's oldest public high school), singer-songwriter Willie Nile, and songwriters Harold Arlen and Jack Yellen. (Arlen's career was recently commemorated in Buffalo's twenties-era theater, Sh ...

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Buffalo's best-known athlete is probably Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn, who won the 1957 National League Cy Young Award while pitching for the Milwaukee Braves and amassed 300 wins in his illustrious 25-year career. Another famous former pitcher who hails from here is Orel Hershiser, who won the 1988 NL Cy Young Award, as well as the 1988 World Series MVP Award while pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In the early 20th century, Buffalo was a boxing mecca, and spawned world champions including light-heavyweight Jimmy Sl ...

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This list comprises the standard operatic repertory, arranged alphabetically by composer followed by city and date of first staged performance. All the operas in this list are discussed in standard guidebooks, such as The Penguin Guide to Opera, ed. Amanda Holden, 1994. Many splendid and under-appreciated masterpieces, aside from operatic curiosities, can be found in entries under the names of their individual composers. In many opera houses this international repertory is supplemented by local standards. An American list, for ...

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List of famous transmission sites - Belarus. Molodecno (VLF) List of famous transmission sites - Hungary. Budapest-Lakihegy (MW) Solt (MW) List of famous transmission sites - Poland. Raszyn (LW) Konstantynow (LW, shut down) Solec Kujawski (LW) Gliwice (MW, shut down) Li ...

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American Bill Bradley George H.W. Bush (left-handed, but batted right-handed in baseball) Bill Clinton Max Cleland (Lost part of right arm in a grenade accident in Vietnam.) Gerald Ford Barney Frank Benjamin Franklin James A. Garfield Herbert Hoover John Kerry (he is left-handed, but throws right-handed) Gavin Newsom (mayor of San Francisco) H. Ross Perot (thus, with Clinton and Bush, all three major 1992 U.S. presidential e ...

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List of famous bank robbers and robberies - Robbers. John Ashley Naomi Betts Bonnie and Clyde Butch Cassidy Harry Longabaugh "The Sundance Kid" Emmett Dalton and the Dalton Gang, 1890s William Daddano Sr. John Dillinger Johnny Dobbs Bill Doolin, 1890s Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd The James Brothers, Frank and Jesse Patty Hearst J.L. Hunter James-Younger gang Tom Ketchum ...

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Cuarteto Leo was the leading cuarteto band for almost 30 years running until the 1970s. It established the sonic texture that prevails in cuarteto to this day. In the 1980s, Carlos Mona Jiménez became the foremost exponent of cuarteto after the break-up of his two-member Cuarteto de Oro ("Golden Quartet"). He established a pattern of nonsense humor and extravagant behavior that many tried to ape without much success. One of his most popular songs was Quién se ha tomado todo el vino ("Who drank all the wine?"), which wa ...

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Famous Italian baptistries include: The Lateran Baptistery, Rome, the most significant and architecturally most influential baptistry in the Christian West, founded by Pope Sixtus III; The Baptistry of San Giovanni in Forte, Ravenna; The Baptistry of Parma; The Tuscan Romanesque Battistero di San Giovanni, associated with Santa Maria del Fiore, the duomo of Florence, rebuilt between 1059 and 1150; it contains Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise"; Baptistry competition The circul ...

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Wivenhoe is the home of the poet Martin Newell who every year also attends and is the main star at the May fair, which is located in the King George V playing field. It was also home to BAFTA-nominated actress Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the BBC adaptations of Agatha Christie's novels. It was once a favourite watering hole of Francis Bacon, the famous British artist, and several journalists and writers have been based in the lower end of the town - George Gale (former editor of The Spectator, Daily Telegraph cartoonist and ...

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Paschal Troparion, Tone V: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life. Troparion of the Holy Cross, Tone I: O Lord, save your people, and bless your inheritance! Grant victory to the Orthodox Christians over their adversaries, and by virtue of your cro ...

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A famous connection to Hitchin is the American actor/comedian Bob Hope who died in 2003. Bob Hope was originally born in Eltham in England and emigrated to the USA in 1907 at the age of four. However, he maintained strong links with his family back in England and still has family in Hitchin. Indeed, Bob Hope "claimed to have inherited his sense of humour from his paternal grandfather from Hitchin"[1] ...

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Gerard Cox Lee Towers Wouter Bos Arjan Erkel Jan Marijnissen Martin Schwab Ramon Sluijter Hermes House Band ...

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Many of the greatest debates over the historicity of certain historical or mythical figures have been settled (or at least greatly altered) by archeology. Most famously, the amateur archeologist Heinrich Schliemann dug up what he claimed were the ruins of Troy, the city which features in the Iliad and which scholars contemporary to Schliemann had dismissed as nothing more than a myth. The site is now accepted as that of Troy, although archeologists have bewailed Schliemann's careless destruction of the upper layers of the site in his ...

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Paschal Troparion, Tone V: Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life. Troparion of the Holy Cross, Tone I: O Lord, save thy people, and bless thine inheritance! Grant victory to the Orthodox Christians* over their adversaries, and by virtue of thy cross, preserve thy habitation. *In monarchies where Eastern Orthodoxy is the state religion, this troparion is often used as a national anthem with ...

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