1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1927 - Events. January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China Including:

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Catherine Howard (1520/1525? - February 13, 1542) was the fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England 1540-1542, sometimes known as "the rose without a thorn." She was born between 1520 and 1525, maybe 1521, probably in London, the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and granddaughter of the 2nd Duke of Norfolk. She married Henry VIII on July 28, 1540, at Oatlands Palace in Surrey, having caught his eye even before his divorce from Anne of Cleves was arranged. Catherine Howard - The Rise and Fall of Catherine HowardIncluding:

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Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was premiered at the Opéra Comique of Paris on March 3, 1875. For a year after its premiere, it was considered a failure; denounced by critics as 'immoral' and 'superficial'. Today, it is one of the world's most popular operas^Including:

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Cimetière de Montmartre is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as they presented health hazards. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century: Montmartre in the north, Le Cimetière du Père Lachaise in the east, Cimetière de Passy ...

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The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. In the early 19th century, on the orders of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, all the cemeteries in Paris were replaced by several large new ones. Outside the precincts of the capital, the Cimetière de Montmartre was built in the north, the Cimetière Père Lachaise in the east, and the Cimetière du Montparnasse in the south. The Cimetière ...

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Brian Donlevy (born Waldo Bruce Donlevy on February 9, 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; died April 6, 1972 in Woodland Hills, California, USA) was an American actor, known for many film roles from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Early in his career, Hollywood film bosses established a fictional background of Donlevy having been born in Portadown County Armagh Ireland. This was not true, although it remains a popular biographical myth. After lying about his age, Donlevy joined the American army in 1916 and saw service as a p ...

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Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was a British born, later American naturalized, actor, the most famous actor in early to mid Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director. His principal character was "The Tramp": a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity of a gentleman who wears a tight coat, oversized pants and shoes, a derby or bowler hat, a bamboo cane, and his signature square mustache. Chaplin was one of the most creative personalities in the silent film era; he acted in, directed ...

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• Charlie Chaplin - Early Childhood
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• Charlie Chaplin - Chaplin's Politics
• Charlie Chaplin - Chaplin: The Later Years
• Charlie Chaplin - Private life
• Charlie Chaplin - Media
• Charlie Chaplin - Trivia
• Charlie Chaplin - Filmography
• Charlie Chaplin - Short films as actor
• Charlie Chaplin - Feature films

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ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894–June 7, 1963) was a United States movie actress. In many of her film credits and contemporary articles, her name is rendered as Zazu Pitts. ZaSu Pitts - Personal life. ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas and grew up in Santa Cruz, California. Her unusual first name was coined from parts of the names "Eliza" and "Susan", female relatives who both wanted ZaSu's mother to name the child after them. Pitts was married to actor Tom Gallery from 1920 to 1932. They had ...

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By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by category Novelists - Playwrights Poets - Essayists Short Story Writers Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896–March 4, 1948) was a playwright, actor, and director. In his book Theatre and its Double, Artaud expressed his admiration for Eastern forms of theatre, particularly the Balinese Theatre. He admired Eastern theatre be ...

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Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her disabilities were caused by a fever in February, 1882 when she was 19 months old. Her loss of ability to communicate at such an early developmental age was very traumatic for her and her family; as a result, she became quite unmanageable. Helen Keller - Biography. Helen Keller - Childhood. Keller was bor ...

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Various authors and filmmakers have created dramatic portrayals of Jesus and his life. Many wanted to portray an accurate depiction of what his life is believed to have been like, while others have used the persona of Jesus as a narrative device to make a literary point and develop a story's theme. Because of the devotion of many people to the idea of Jesus, portrayals of him in works of fiction have been, almost without exception, fraught with controversy. Film portrayals of Jesus have, in particular, attracted protests and cr ...

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The Divine Comedy (in Italian "Comedia" or "Commedia", later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and one of the greatest of world literature. Its influence is so great that it affects the Western Christian view of the afterlife to this day. The Divine Comedy - Structure and story. The Divine Comedy is composed of thre ...

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• The Divine Comedy - Inferno
• The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio
• The Divine Comedy - Paradiso
• The Divine Comedy - Thematic Concern
• The Divine Comedy - Response and criticism
• The Divine Comedy - Original copies
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1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1924 - Events. 1924 - January. January 7 - Great fire in London harbour January 8 - Heavy blizzards in England January 10 - British submarine L-34 sinks in the English Channel - 43 dead. January 12 - Gopinath Saha shoots a man he erroneously thinks is a Police commissioner of Calcutta, Charles Augustus Tegart - he is arrested so ...

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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a British-born film director and producer, closely associated with the suspense thriller genre. He began directing in the United Kingdom before working mostly in the United States from 1939 onwards, becoming an American citizen in 1956. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the color era. Hitchcock remains one of the best known and most popular directors of all time, famous for his expert and often unriva ...

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• Alfred Hitchcock - His style of working
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• Alfred Hitchcock - Filmography
• Alfred Hitchcock - Silent films
• Alfred Hitchcock - Sound films
• Alfred Hitchcock - Television episodes
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For the album, see Sound Affects. Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of movies, video games, music, or other media. In motion picture and television production, a sound effect is a sound recorded and presented to make a specific storytelling or creative point without the use of dialogue or music. The term often refers to a process applied to a recording, without necessarily referring to the recordi ...

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Cinderella is a popular fairy tale; embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward, which received literally hundreds of tellings before modern times. The earliest version of the story originated in China around AD 860. It appeared in The Miscellaneous Record of You Yang (酉阳杂俎) by Tuan Ch'eng-Shih, a book which dates from the Tang Dynasty. The best-known version was written ...

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Anne of Green Gables is a children's book written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery; it was first published in 1908. Montgomery found her inspiration for the book in a newspaper article describing a couple that was mistakenly sent an orphan girl instead of a boy, yet decided to keep her. Montgomery also drew upon her own childhood experiences in rural Prince Edward Island. Montgomery used a photograph of Evelyn Nesbitt, clipped from an American magazine and pasted to the wall near her writing d ...

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Filmed in 1924, Body and Soul is the best-known silent film of pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. In it, Paul Robeson, the great singer/actor/athlete, made his first appearance in a motion picture. Written, produced and directed by Micheaux, it also starred Mercedes Gilbert, Julia Theresa Russell, Lawrence Chenault and Marshall Rogers. ...

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The Battleship Potemkin or Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It is a fictional narrative film meant to glorify a real-life event that occurred in 1905, the Battleship Potemkin uprising, when the crew of a Russian battleship rebelled against their oppressive officers during the Tsarist regime. Potemkin has been cal ...

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• The Battleship Potemkin - The Odessa Steps sequence
• The Battleship Potemkin - Previous censorship and recent restoration
• The Battleship Potemkin - Legacy

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Westwood is a district in western Los Angeles, California. Developed by the Janss family in the 1920s, it is best known as the home of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the epicenter of a large Iranian population. The eastern portions of the district are often thought of as a distinctly different neighborhood, Holmby Hills. Westwood Los Angeles California - Geography. Located in the northern central portion of Los Angeles' West Side, Westwood is bordered by Brentwood on the west, Bel-Air ...

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• Westwood Los Angeles California - Attractions
• Westwood Los Angeles California - Westwood Village
• Westwood Los Angeles California - Mormon Temple
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• Westwood Los Angeles California - The Millionaire's Mile

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