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List of directors - Ba-Bi. Biju Viswanath Hector Babenco Lloyd Bacon John Badham King Baggot Maya Bankovic Boris Barnet Tom Barman Steve Barron Charles T. Barton Evgenij Bauer Michael Bay Warren Beatty Bahram Beizaii Marco Bellocchio William Bemister László Benedek Shyam Benegal Roberto Benigni Robert Benton Bruce Beresford ...

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1890s - Technology. Early commercial production of automobiles. 1890s - Science. Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity Discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm Röntgen Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and US geologist Thomas Crowder Chamberlain independently come to the conclusion that burning fossil fuels might cause global war ...

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Lynch has cited the Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka as an inspiration for his works. He described the twentieth century artist Francis Bacon as "to me, the main guy, the number one kinda hero painter". He continues to present art installations and stage designs. In his spare time, he also designs and builds furniture. Lynch was also responsible for the comic strip The Angriest Dog in the World. Lynch is a big fan of Bob's Big Boy restaurants, an Americana restaurant chain whose chief icon is a cartoon male with a ...

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David Lynch - As director. Six Figures Getting Sick (Short film) (1966) The Alphabet (Short film) (1967) The Grandmother (Short film) (1970) The Amputee (Short film) (1974) Eraserhead (1978) The Elephant Man (1980) Dune (1984) Blue Velvet (1986) The Cowboy and the Frenchman (Short film) (1988) Twin Peaks (TV series) (1990-91) Wild at Heart (19 ...

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1961 - January. January 2 - Gabrielle Carteris, American actress January 2 - Todd Haynes, American film director January 8 - Calvin Smith, American athlete January 13 - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress January 17 - Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player January 18 - Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player January 26 - Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player January 31 - Lloyd Cole, British singer and songwriter February 1 - Volker Fr ...

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1905 - January-April. January 2 - Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Army surrenders at Port Arthur, China; an event which shocked the world. January 22 - Massacre of Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, one of the triggers of the abortive Russian Revolution of 1905. January 26 - The Cullinan Diamond is found near Pretoria, South Africa at the Premier Mine. February 10 - Bomb kills grand duke Sergei in Moscow February 18 ...

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In December 2005, Lynch told the Washington Post that he had practiced transcendental meditation twice a day, for 20 minutes each time, for 32 years. [7]. He advocates its use in bringing peace to the world. He has launched the David Lynch Foundation For Conciousness-Based Education and Peace to fund research about TM's positive effects, and he promotes the technique and his vision by an ongoing tour of college campuses that began in September 2005. [8] (A streaming video of one of Lynch's public performances is available at his foundation's ...

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The 1910s represent the culmination of European militarism which had its beginings during the second half of the 19th Century. The conservative lifestyles during the first half of the decade, as well as the legacy of military alliances, would forever be changed by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne, on 28 June 1914. The murder would trigger a chain of events in which, within 30 days, war would break out in Europe, as well as other regions of the world. The long, wide, and protracted conflict ...

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Lynch has been married twice: Peggy Lynch (1967-1974), (one daughter Jennifer Chambers Lynch, the film director) Mary Fisk (21 June 1977-1987), (one son Austin Jack Lynch) He also has a son Riley Lynch with the film editor Mary Sweeney. ...

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Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film and served as President of the jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, where he had previously won the Palme d'Or in 1990. He was also honored in 2002 by the French government with the Legion of Honor. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Directing three times (for The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive) but has never won. ...

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1890s - World leaders. Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson (Canada) Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Canada) Emperor Franz Josef (Austria-Hungary) Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) Chancellor Leo von Caprivi (Germany) King Umberto I (Italy) Pope Leo XIII Czar Alexander III (Russia) Czar Nicholas II (Russia) Queen Victoria (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Lord Salisbury (United Kingdom) Prime Minister Willia ...

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June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. June 16 - Events. 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses 1586 - Mary Queen of Scots recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir 1745 - British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada 1745 - Sir William Pepperell captures the French Fortress Louisbourg in Louisbourg, N ... Including:

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Bertrand Russell - As a man. "Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man." — A.J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell, NY: Viking Press, 1972. Bertrand Russell - As a philosopher. "It is difficult to overstate the extent to which Russell's thought dominated twentieth century analytic philosophy: virtually every strand in its development either originated with him o ...

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