1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. In the UK the first major 1980s fashion trend was sparked by the arrival of the New Romantics in the popular music charts in 1980. The election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister in 1979 is also considered to be a major turning point. In America, the decade was most poignan ...

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1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1963 - Events. 1963 - January. January 1 - CSIRO scientist Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Known as the Bogle-Chandler case. January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 - George Wallace becomes ...

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A bikini or two-piece is a type of women's bathing suit, characterized by two separate parts—one covering the breasts, the other the groin (and optionally the buttocks), leaving an uncovered area between the two garments. The shapes of both parts of a bikini closely resemble women's underwear, and the lower part of a bikini can therefore range from the more revealing thong or g-string to ...

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1980s - World Leaders. Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (Austria) Chancellor Fred Sinowatz (Austria) Chancellor Franz Vranitzky (Austria) Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia) Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Australia) President João Figueiredo (Brazil) President José Sarney (Brazil) Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (Canada) Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada) General Augusto Pinochet (Chile) Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic o ...

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Sex in film - Asia. A movie filmed by former Malaysia Airlines flight attendants as sex servers proved to be controversial. Since filming of actual Malaysia Airlines airplanes were used for this movie, the airline sued the producers. Many erotically charged films have been produced in the Philippines, much to the chagrin of feminists in that country. Sex in film - Europe. European movies are famous for their erotic scenes, particularly those from France and Germany. Pedro Almodovar of Spain is a prolific director that includes ...

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List of Filipinos - Disabled Sports. Adeline Dumapong - 2005 ASEAN ParaGames Powerlifting Gold Medalist ...

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Inventor Randall "Rand" Peltzer (played by Hoyt Axton) of Kingston Falls goes on a trip to New York City and decides to pick up a present for his son Billy (Galligan). A young Chinese boy (played by John Louie) takes Rand to his grandfather's small shop in Chinatown where Rand takes interest in a small, cute, furry creature called a mogwai (which, in Mandarin Chinese, translates literally as "evil spirit"). Mr. Wing (the Chinese boy's grand father and owner of the shop who is played by Keye Luke) refuses to sell the mogwai noting that owning ...

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Gremlins, Gremlins - Plot summary, Gremlins - Trivia, Gremlins - Awards, Gremlins - Technical data

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1963 - January. January 1 - CSIRO scientist Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler are found dead, believed to have been poisoned, in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney. Known as the Bogle-Chandler case. January 11 - The Whisky A Go-Go night club in Los Angeles, the first disco in the USA, is opened. January 14 - George Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. January 22 - Elysée treaty between France and Germany January 28 - Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clem ...

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"You're All I've Got Tonight" was covered by The Smashing Pumpkins in The Aeroplane Flies High. An instrumental version of "Moving in Stereo" was used as the theme for Phoebe Cates' famous pool scene in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. ...

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The modern bikini was invented by engineer Louis Reard in Paris in 1946 (introduced on July 5), and named after Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapon tests in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the atomic bomb. Reard's suit was a refinement of the work of Jacques Heim who, two months earlier, had introduced the "Atome" (named for its size) and advertised it as the world's "smallest bathing suit". Reard split the "atome" even smaller, but could not find a model who would dare to wear his design. He ended up hiring Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer ...

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Professional Children's School - Actors/actresses. Brooke Adams Trini Alvarado Adam Arkin Mischa Barton Bonnie Bedelia Milton Berle Tempestt Bledsoe Joan Blondell Jordana Brewster Claude Brooks Irene Cara Phoebe Cates Miles Chapin Holly Marie Combs Jerry O'Connell Donald O'Connor Kieran Culkin Macaulay Culkin Rory Culkin Sandra Dee See also:

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Beach music, also known as Carolina beach music, is a regional genre which developed from various musical styles of the forties, fifties and sixties. These styles ranged from big band swing instrumentals to the more raucous sounds of blues/jump blues, doo-wop, boogie, rhythm and blues. rockabilly and old-time rock and roll. A majority of the recordings that constituted and/or influenced beach music early on were originally termed "race music". As popular R&B tastes changed to encompass funk, disco, hip hop and gangst ...

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The film takes place in New York City, a few years after the original movie, wherein Billy Peltzer (Galligan) had acquired Gizmo (voiced by Howie Mandel), a mysterious and cute furry creature called a Mogwai, which multiplies when exposed to water. The new creatures spawned by this method look similar to Gizmo, but are malicious. When these new Mogwai eat after midnight they mutate into green, lizard-like creatures with sharp teeth and claws, their new physique and strength given them the ability to channel their fiendish p ...

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Plot summary, Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Differences with the original, Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Mogwai/Gremlin Diversity, Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Video Game, Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Trivia

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Inventor Randall "Rand" Peltzer (played by Hoyt Axton) of Kingston Falls goes on a trip to New York City and decides to pick up a present for his son Billy (Galligan). A young Chinese boy (played by John Louie) takes Rand to his grandfather's small shop in Chinatown where Rand takes interest in a small, cute, furry creature called a mogwai (which, in Mandarin Chinese, translates literally as "evil spirit"). Mr. Wing (the Chinese boy's grandfather and owner of the shop who is played by Keye Luke) refuses to sell the mogwai noting that owning ...

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Gremlins, Gremlins - Plot summary, Gremlins - Trivia, Gremlins - Awards, Gremlins - Technical data

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Beach music - Artists Of Note. The best of beach music from the early decades, from both national and regional artists, is known today as "classic beach". However, there is more to beach music than just the "oldies". New recordings in this style are being produced regularly as part of the regional music industry in the Southeastern US. Current regional artists and groups who appear on the Beach and Shag music charts include Bill Pinkney and The Original Drifters, General Johnson and The Chairmen of the Boa ...

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The obvious sex appeal of the apparel prompted numerous film and television productions as soon as public morals changed to accept it. They include the numerous surf movies of the early 1960s and the television series, Baywatch. Iconic portrayals of bikinis in movies include Ursula Andress as Bond girl Honey Ryder in Dr. No (1962), Raquel Welch as the prehistoric cavegirl in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C., and Phoebe Cates in the 1982 teen film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. These scenes were recently ranked 1, 86, and 84 in Channel ...

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Bikini, Bikini - Modern origin, Bikini - Bikinis in modern culture, Bikini - Evolution of the bikini, Bikini - Media depiction, Bikini - Images of Roman bikinis, Bikini - External link

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Beach music - The Beach Bands. Another wave of artists, known today as the "beach bands" came into prominence in the mid sixties to early seventies, heavily influenced by the sound of Motown and the other prominent R&B labels of the day such as Atlantic Records, Stax, etc.. These included The In-Men, Ltd., The Attractions,The Embers, The Monzas, The Sardams, The Catalinas and the nationally-charting groups The Swinging Medallions, The Okaysions, and Bill Deal and the Rhondells. Many of these bands got their s ...

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Beach music, Beach music - Early History, Beach music - Socio-political Context, Beach music - Classic Beach, Beach music - Transition and Renewal, Beach music - The Beach Bands, Beach music - The Revival Years, Beach music - The Current Regional Beach & Shag Scene, Beach music - Artists Of Note, Beach music - Impact On Popular Culture

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Gremlins won the following awards: The 1985 Saturn Award for Best Director, Best Horror Film, Best Music, Best Special Effects, and Best Supporting Actress (Polly Holliday) from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films The 1985 Golden Screen Award The 1985 Young Artist Award for Best Family Motion Picture - Adventure The film was also nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Musical, Comedy, ...

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In recent years, the term monokini has come into use for topless bathing by women: where the bikini has two parts, the monokini is the lower part. Where monokinis are in use, the word bikini may jokingly refer to a two-piece outfit consisting of a monokini and a sun hat. The term was coined by Rudi Gernreich. The tankini is a swimsuit combining a tank top and a bikini bottom. A string bikini is a more revealing alternative style where both top and bottom are r ...

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Bikini, Bikini - Modern origin, Bikini - Bikinis in modern culture, Bikini - Evolution of the bikini, Bikini - Media depiction, Bikini - Images of Roman bikinis, Bikini - External link

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It took fifteen years for the bikini to be accepted in the United States. In 1951 bikinis were banned from the Miss World Contest. In 1957, however, Brigitte Bardot's bikini in And God Created Woman created a market for the swimwear in the US, and in 1960, Brian Hyland's pop song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" inspired a bikini-buying spree. Finally the bikini caught on, and by 1963, the movie Beach Party, starring Annette Funicello (emphatically not in a bikini, by mentor Walt Disney's personal request) and Frankie Avalon, led a wave ...

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