OSCAR I - the first amateur satellite, launched December 12, 1961 by a Thor Agena B rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, piggybacked as ballast with Discover 36. It weighed 4.5 kg and was placed in a 372 x 211 km orbit, inclined 81.2 degrees, with an orbital period of 91.8 minutes. Over 570 amateurs in 28 countries heard its Morse code "hi hi" message on the two meter band. Its 140 mw battery-powered transmitter lasted 3 weeks. OSCAR I reentered on January 31, 1962. UO-11 UoSAT-OSCAR 11 (aka UoSAT 2)

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More examples of his controversial repartée: "I used to call Audrey Hepburn a walking X-ray." "A few years ago someone suggested that I read Spinoza. The first chapter in this particular volume was about superstitions and rituals. Here was my faith! Spinoza said rituals are all based on fear. My faith destroyed, I put down the book." "When Frank Sinatra, Jr., was kidnapped, I said, 'It ...

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Albert Finney is an English actor, born 9 May 1936 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. He has received several nominations and awards within the entertainment industry. Albert Finney - Career highlights. His most famous role was as Agatha Christie's master detective Hercule Poirot in the 1974 film Murder On The Orient Express. Finney was so effective in the role that he complained that it typecast him for a number of years. "People really do think I am 300 pounds [136 kg] with a French accent" h ...

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Albert Finney - Selected Filmography Albert Finney - External link

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Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906–March 27, 2002) had a career as a screenwriter, film director and producer that spanned more than 50 years and more than 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant film-makers during Hollywood's old age and many of his films achieved both critical and public acclaim. Billy Wilder - Life and work. He was born Samuel Wilder in Sucha, Austria-Hungary (now Poland). His parents, Max Wilder and Eugenia Dittler, were Jewish. He started work in late 1920s as sc ...

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The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and arguably the world. The Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization which as of 2003 had a voting membership of 5,816. Actors (with a membership of 1,311) make up the largest voting bloc. The most recent awards were the 77th Academy Awards. Academy Award - Oscar Statuette. The official name of the Oscarreretre statuette is the "A ...

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The Aston Martin V8 is a two-door saloon-type automobile manufactured in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1990. Aston Martin's customers had been clamouring for an eight-cylinder car for years, so Aston Martin designed a larger 2-door saloon for V8 applications. The engine was not ready, however, so in 1967 the company released the DBS with the straight-6 Vantage engine from the DB6. Two years later, Tadek Marek's V8 was ready, and Aston released the DBS V8. With the demise of the straight-6 Vantage in 1973, the DB ...

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Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, into a musical and Orthodox Russian Jewish family, Levant moved to New York with his mother, Annie, in 1922 after the death of his father, Max. He began studying under Zygmunt Stojowski, a well-established piano pedagogue. In 1928 Levant traveled to Hollywood where his career turned for the better. During his stay, he met and befriended George Gershwin. In just twenty years, 1929-1948, he would go on to compose t ...

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Oscar Wilde - Birth and early life. Wilde was born on October 16th, 1854, into a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, to Sir William Wilde and his wife Jane. Jane was a successful writer and an Irish nationalist, known also as 'Speranza', while Sir William was Ireland's leading ear and eye surgeon, and wrote books on archaeology and folklore. He was a renowned philanthropist, and his dispensary for the care of the city's poor, situated in Lincoln Place at the rear of Trinity College, Dublin was the forerunner of the Dublin Eye and Ea ...

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Poetry Poems (1881) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) Plays Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880) The Duchess of Padua (1883) Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896) Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) A Woman of No Importance (1893) Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894 ...

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Oscar Gutierrez - Mexico. Mysterio is a luchador as is his uncle, Rey Misterio, Sr. He debuted as a wrestler in April 1989 at the age of 14 in Tijuana, Mexico. He was too young to wrestle in the United States (U.S.) and athletic commission there would give him a license at his young age. Technically he was also underage in Mexico, but enforcement was generally lax. In Mexico, using the stage name Colibri (hummingbird in Spanish) he began a feud with another luchador, Psicosis which lasted several years eve ...

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Oscar Gutierrez - Mexico. He is a luchador as is his uncle, Rey Misterio, Sr. He debuted as a wrestler in April 1989 at the age of 14 in Tijuana, Mexico because he was too young to wrestle in the United States (no US athletic commission would give him a license at his young age, and technically he was also underage in Mexico but enforcement was generally lax). There, using the stage name Colibri (hummingbird in Spanish) he feuded with another luchador, Psicosis which carried over in to the States and laste ...

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Oscar Goodman - Ethics investigation. In February 2004, Robert Rose, a self-proclaimed ethics watchdog and retired auto mechanic, filed multiple complaints with the Nevada Ethics Commission claiming that during the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Goodman handed out to fellow Mayors, conference attendees and other political figures invitations to a cocktail party he was hosting. Rose alleged that this was nothing more than the Mayor abusing his power of office to help promote a business that is owned by his son Ross an ...

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Goodman was born to a Jewish family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received an undergraduate degree from Haverford College in 1961 and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1964. He was admitted to the Nevada Bar Association in 1965 and he served as Chief Deputy Public Defender in Clark County, Nevada from 1966 to 1967. He is married to Carolyn and they have four children. During his career as a defense attorney he represented defendants accused of being some of the leading organized crime f ...

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Oscar Gutierrez - Championship succession. ...

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Oscar Niemeyer was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1907, on a street that later would receive the name of his grandfather Ribeiro de Almeida. He spent his youth as a typical young Carioca of the time: bohemian and relatively unconcerned with his future. He concluded his secondary education at age 21. The same year, he married Annita Baldo, daughter of Italian immigrants from Padua. Marriage gave him a sense of responsibil ...

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At birth he was created Duke of Östergötland. He entered the navy at the age of eleven, and was appointed junior lieutenant in July 1845. Later he studied at Uppsala University, where he distinguished himself in mathematics. On June 6, 1857 he married Princess Sophia Wilhelmina, youngest daughter of Duke William of Nassau. He succeeded his brother Charles XV, on September 18, 1872, and was crowned as king of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim on July 18, 1873. At the accession he adopted as his motto Brödrafolkens väl ...

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There is an urban legend that Tomei's Oscar for My Cousin Vinny should have gone to someone else. The rumor goes that During the 'Oscar' ceremony, Jack Palance announced Tomei as winner, while actually there was another name on his note. The mistake was considered too embarrassing to correct. This rumor has been debunked by Snopes. ...

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In 1936, Lúcio Costa was appointed by Education Minister Gustavo Capanema architect of the new headquarters for the Ministry of Education and Public Health in Rio De Janeiro. In 1939, Niemeyer assumed the leadership of the team of architects (Lúcio Costa, Carlos Leão, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Jorge Moreira, Ernani Vasconcellos and Oscar Niemeyer, with Le Corbusier acting as a consultant in 1936) responsible for the Ministry that had assumed the task of shaping the ‘novo homem, Brasileiro ...

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In 1940 Niemeyer met Juscelino Kubitschek, who was at the time the mayor of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais. He and Minas Gerais Governor Benedito Valadares wanted to develop a new suburb to the north of the city called Pampulha, and commissioned Niemeyer to design a series of buildings to be known as the "Pampulha complex". The buildings were completed in 1943, and provoked some controversy. They received international acclaim following the 1942 exhibition of Brazilian architecture (Colonial and Modern) at the Ne ...

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