Miser is the term for a person who is reluctant to spend money, usually for the point where he or she forgoes even basic comforts. It derives from the Latin, "miser", meaning "poor" or "wretched." In fiction, a miser is a stock character: a wealthy, greedy man who lives miserably in order to save and increase his treasure. Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge is an obvious example. A related stereotype is the capitalist as portrayed in, for example, Soviet propaganda. Both are usually moneylenders or industrialists, in any case bus ...

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France has been influential in the development of film as a mass medium and as an art form. Cinema of France - History. Cinema of France - Late 19th century to early 20th century. In the late 19th century, during the early years of cinema, France produced several important pioneers. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe and their screening of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat in Paris in 1895 is marked by many historians as the official birth of cinema ...

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Pierre Boulanger's early 1930s design brief - said by some to be astonishingly radical for the time - was for a low-priced, rugged "umbrella on four wheels" that would enable two peasants to drive 100 kg of farm goods to market at 60 km/h, in clogs and across muddy unpaved roads if necessary. It would use no more than 3 litres of gasoline to travel 100 km. Most famously, it would be able to drive across a ploughed field without breaking the eggs it was carrying. Boulanger later also had the roof raised to ...

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Main article: Economy of the German Democratic Republic Like other East European communist states, East Germany had a centrally planned economy (CPE), similar to the one in the former Soviet Union, in contrast to the more familiar market economies or mixed economies of most Western states. The state established production targets and prices and allocated resources, codifying these decisions in a comprehensive plan or set of plans. The means of production were almost entirely state owned. In 1985, for example, state-owned enterp ...

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List of famous short men - 4 ft 10½ in 149 cm. Robert Reich — college professor and statesman ...

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Born Edouard Ruault the son of a café waiter and a post office worker in Paris on January 26, 1921, he spent much of his early childhood with his grandmother in Taverny (in today's Val-d'Oise). His parents bought the Café de la Poste bar in the middle of Paris while he was a child and at the age of 15 he left school to work in the café. He had not enjoyed his studies but he taught himself music and piano. He particularly liked American jazz and embraced the music of Fats Waller. He often visited the Hot Club de France to hear the quintet of Stà ...

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Demographics of France - Middle Ages to 20th century. Starting around 1800, the historical evolution of the population in France has been extremely atypical in the Western World. Unlike the rest of Europe, France did not experience a strong population growth in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The birth rate in France diminished much earlier than in the rest of Europe. Consequently, population growth was quite slow in the 19th century, and the nadir was reached in the first half of the 20th ce ...

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In his comic performances Bourvil principally played roles of gentle and well-meaning characters who were often a bit obtuse or naive, such as his roles opposite the energetic Louis de Funès. Bourvil's well-meaning characters not only managed to make us laugh but also to save themselves from the Machiavellian designs of adversaries played by de Funès. Bourvil was, however, also capable of more dramatic roles such as the handyman in L'Arbre de Noël (1969). In this role he observes the relationship between a man he works for a ...

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July 31 - 1900 to Present. 1914 - Jean Jaurès, French politician (d. 1859) 1917 - Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet (b. 1881) 1944 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French pilot and writer (b. 1900) 1953 - Robert Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio and Presidential candidate (b. 1889) 1972 - Paul-Henri Spaak, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1899) 1980 - Mohd. Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924) 1993 - King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930) 2001 - Poul Anderson, A ...

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Cinema of France - Actors. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Mathieu Amalric Fanny Ardant Jean-Pierre Aumont Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour Emmanuelle Béart Monica Bellucci Juliette Binoche — Academy Award winner for her role in The English Patient Bernard Blier Bourvil Charles Boyer Capucine Leslie Caron Vincent Cassel Aurore Clément< ...

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List of French people - A. Isabelle Adjani Renée Adorée Anouk Aimée Arletty Antonin Artaud Fanny Ardant Jeanne Aubert Jean-Pierre Aumont Claude Autant-Lara Daniel Auteuil Charles Aznavour List of French people - B-C. Brigitte Bardot Emmanuelle Béart Jean-Paul Belmondo Charles Berling Sarah Bernhardt Suzanne Bianchetti ...

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Miser - Charles Huffman. Charles Huffman was a miser from the 1950's in the U.S. He was found dead on a Brooklyn, New York street with no money in his pockets. The police traced him to a $7/week room that was filled with bank books and more than $500,000 in stock certificates. He was characterized by Franz Lidz, in the New York Times, on October 26, 2003. ...

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Cinema of France - Late 19th century to early 20th century. In the late 19th century, during the early years of cinema, France produced several important pioneers. Auguste and Louis Lumière invented the cinématographe and their screening of L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de la Ciotat in Paris in 1895 is marked by many historians as the official birth of cinema. During the next few years, filmmakers all over the world started experimenting with this new medium, and France's Georges Méliès was influential ...

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East Germany - Music. Rock bands were expected to sing in German only. This seemed a logical constraint by Party leaders but it was somewhat unpopular amongst young people. Another problem for the authorities was having to check song texts very carefully for anti-socialist tendencies. The band Renft, for example, was prone to political misbehaviour, which eventually led to its breakdown. The Puhdys and Karat were popular mainstream bands, managing to hint at critical thoughts in their lyrics without being explicit. Like most mainstream acts, they appeared in popular youth magazines such a ...

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List of famous short men - 5 ft 5½ in 167 cm. Henry Armstrong — boxer Frank Capra — film director Charlie Chaplin — film director, actor Pablo Escobar — criminal Michael J. Fox — actor Josef Goebbels — statesman Dustin Hoffman — actor Chris Kattan — actor T.E. Lawrence — author, adventurer Louis Lepke — criminal Aristotle Onassis — entrepreneur Ross Perot — entrepreneur, politicianSee also:

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Barclay transcribed and interpreted early jazz numbers. He cowrote the songs Quand Tu M'Embrasses with Charles Aznavour, and Le Rock de Monsieur Failair with Boris Vian. He wrote the original soundtracks for several films, including Bob le flambeur (English title: Bob the Gambler; transliteration is "Bob the high roller") (1955) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. ...

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Main article: Subdivisions of East Germany In 1952, the Länder of East Germany were abolished, and East Germany was divided into fifteen Bezirke (districts), each named after the largest city: Rostock; Schwerin; Neubrandenburg; Magdeburg; Potsdam; Berlin; Frankfurt (Oder); Cottbus; Halle; Erfurt; Leipzig; Dresden; Karl-Marx-Stadt (now again Chemnitz); Gera; Suhl ...

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List of famous short men - 5 ft 2½ in 159 cm. Dudley Moore — actor Sonny Moore — musician Prince — musician ...

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List of famous short men - 4 ft 11½ in 152 cm. Joseph Schmidt — operatic singer ...

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