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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Rita Moreno | | | |  Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley, California - GeographyBerkeley is located at 37°52'18" North, 122°16'29" West (37.871775, -122.274603)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 45.9 km² (17.7 mi²). 27.1 km² (10.5 mi²) of it is land and 18.8 km² (7.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 40.94% water.
Berkeley borders the cities of Albany, Oakland, and Emeryville and unincorporated Contra Costa County ...
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley, California - Transportation Berkeley is served by Amtrak, AC Transit, BART (Downtown Berkeley Station, North Berkeley, and Ashby Station) and bus shuttles operated by major employers including UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The only major freeway is Interstate 80. Each day there is an influx of thousands of cars into the city by commuting UC faculty, staff and students, making parking for more than a few hours an expensive proposition.
Berkeley has one of the highest rates of bicycle and pedestrian commuting in the nation. Berkeley is the safest city of its size for pedestrians and cyclists, a fact that new ...
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley California - Demographics The city's population is culturally diverse, with a significant portion in transient residence attending UC Berkeley. As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 102,743 people, 44,955 households, and 18,656 families residing in the city. The population density is 3,792.5/km² (9,823.3/mi²), one of the highest in California. There are 46,875 housing units at an average density of 1,730.3/km² (4,481.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 59.17% White, 13.63% Black or African American, 0.45% Native American, 16.39% ...
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| | | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Dorothy Dandridge - Hollywood
Dorothy Dandridge - Carmen Jones.
In 1954, Dandridge was cast in Carmen Jones, the remake of the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet. For this performance, she received an Academy Award nomination, although director Preminger initially had reservations about her casting, feeling that she was too chic to play the sultry "Carmen." The Negro community had high hopes for Dorothy Dandridge because of the Civil Rights Movement. Dorothy worked tirelessly to help the Movement in any way that she could. When Ca ...
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley California - Transportation Berkeley is served by Amtrak, AC Transit, BART (Downtown Berkeley Station, North Berkeley, and Ashby Station) and bus shuttles operated by major employers including UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The only major freeway is Interstate 80. Each day there is an influx of thousands of cars into the city by commuting UC faculty, staff and students, making parking for more than a few hours an expensive proposition.
Berkeley has one of the highest rates of bicycle and pedestrian commuting in the nation. Berkeley is the safest city of its size for pedestrians and cyclists, a fact that new ...
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| | | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Debbie Reynolds - Awards Reynolds was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress following her performance in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), a Golden Globe for The Debbie Reynolds Show on television (1970), a Golden Globe for the motion picture Mother (1996), and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for In & Out (1997). In 1997 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy.
In what Debbie herself called the worst blunder of her career, she made big headlines in 1970 when she instigated a fight with NBC for advertising cigarettes on her TV show, which she had expressly told the network not to. Although r ...
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Debbie Reynolds - Marriages and children Reynolds has been married three times:
Eddie Fisher (married 1955, divorced 1959)
Harry Karl (married 1960, divorced 1973)
Richard Hamlett (married 1984, divorced 1994)
She has two children, Carrie Fisher (of Star Wars fame) and Todd Fisher (born 1958).
In what was, for those times, an enormous scandal, Debbie's husband, singer Eddie Fisher left her to marry the recently-widowed Elizabeth Taylor. In an ironic twist, Elizabeth and Debbie were close friends and grew up together as chil ...
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Presidential Medal of Freedom - Insignia The badge of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is in the form of a golden star with white enamel, with a red enamel pentagon behind it; the central disc bears thirteen gold stars on a blue enamel background (taken from the crest of the U.S. coat-of-arms) within a golden ring. Golden American eagles with spread wings stand between the arms of the star. It is worn on a blue ribbon with white edge stripes around the neck.
A special grade of the medal, known as the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, has the abov ...
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - 1960s - People
1960s - World leaders.
Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia)
Prime Minister Harold Holt (Australia)
Prime Minister John McEwen (Australia)
Prime Minister John Gorton (Australia)
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker (Canada)
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson (Canada)
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Canada)
Chairman Mao Zedong (People's Republic of China)
President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China on Taiwan)
President Gama ...
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| | | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley California - Places Berkeley is the site of the University of California, Berkeley, the flagship campus of the University of California, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Hall of Science, Space Sciences Laboratory, and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, which are on the campus grounds. Another well-known educational institution in Berkeley is the Graduate Theological Union.
Other notable places include:
The Campanile belltower (Sather Tower) in the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Telegraph Ave ...
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley California - Geography Berkeley is located at 37°52'18" North, 122°16'29" West (37.871775, -122.274603)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 45.9 km² (17.7 mi²). 27.1 km² (10.5 mi²) of it is land and 18.8 km² (7.2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 40.94% water.
Berkeley borders the cities of Albany, Oakland, and Emeryville and unincorporated Contra Costa County i ...
See also:Berkeley California, Berkeley California - Places, Berkeley California - History, Berkeley California - Geography, Berkeley California - Demographics, Berkeley California - Transportation, Berkeley California - Mayors, Berkeley California - Notable Berkeley residents past and present, Berkeley California - Points of interest Read more here: » Berkeley California: Encyclopedia II - Berkeley California - Geography |
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| | | | | Rita Moreno: Encyclopedia II - 1960s - Big changes during the Sixties
1960s - In the United States.
The movement for civil and political rights for African Americans (in the early '60s usually called Negroes and in the later '60s Blacks), initially a non-violent movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Gandhian figures but later producing radical offshoots such as the Black Power movement and competing with the Black Panther Party and the Blac ...
See also:1960s, 1960s - Events and trends, 1960s - Technology, 1960s - Science, 1960s - War peace and politics, 1960s - Economics, 1960s - Culture, 1960s - Others, 1960s - Big changes during the Sixties, 1960s - In the United States, 1960s - In other Western countries, 1960s - In non-Western countries, 1960s - People, 1960s - World leaders, 1960s - Writers and intellectuals, 1960s - Sports figures, 1960s - Entertainers, 1960s - Further Viewing Read more here: » 1960s: Encyclopedia II - 1960s - Big changes during the Sixties |
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