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Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke (born August 7, 1884 in Washington D.C.; died May 14, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) was an actress primarily known to modern audiences for her role as Glinda, the Good Witch of the North in the musical The Wizard of Oz. Known as Billie Burke, she toured the US and Europe with a circus because her father, Billy Burke, was employed with them as a singing clown. One could say that Billie was bred for show business. Her family ultimately settled in London where she was fortun ... Including:

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Bert Lahr, born Irving Lahrheim, (August 13, 1895 - December 4, 1967) was a Jewish-American comic actor. Fittingly born a "Leo", he is best remembered today for his role as the Cowardly Lion (and the farmworker "Zeke") in the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, but known during his life for a career in burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway. Dropping out of school at the age of fifteen to join a juvenile vaudeville act, Lahr worked his way up to top billing on the Columbia Burlesque Circuit. In 1927 he moved to Broad ...

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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 thrilling movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 12, 2001. Psycho (1960) Jaws (1975) The Exorcist (1973) North by Northwest (1959) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Alien (1979) The Birds (1963) The French Connection (1971) Rosemary's Baby (1968)

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The rainbow has also been used in more contemporary settings, such as the song "Over the Rainbow" in the musical film The Wizard of Oz, and in selling Lucky Charms by alluding heavily to leprechaun mythology. One of the poems of William Wordsworth goes: My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old,

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Freytag is known for his analysis of the structure of ancient Greek and Shakespearean drama. According to Freytag, a drama is divided into five parts, or acts: exposition; rising action; climax (or turning point); falling action; and (depending upon whether the drama is a comedy or a tragedy) either a denouement or a catastrophe. (A comedy is a drama in which the protagonist, or main character, is better off at the end of the story than he or she was at the beginning; a tragedy is the opposite.) Freytag's analysis of dramatic structure is sometimes represented by ...

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Fred Phelps - Childhood. Fred Phelps was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in 1929, the first of two children; his sister, Martha-Jean, was one year younger. His father, Fred Wade Phelps, was a detective employed by the local railroad (a.k.a. a railroad bull), whose job it was to keep people from illegally riding the rails. Fred recalls his father often came home from work "with blood up to his shoulders". Fred's mother, Catherine Phelps, was a homemaker. The family were devout members of the Methodist Episcopal Chu ...

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Geoff Ryman's haunting evocation of Dorothy's childhood in Kansas is the central thread of his dark novel Was. His Dorothy (her surname spelled Gael) is given into the care of her aunt and uncle, Henry and Emma Gulch in Zeandale, Manhatten in 1875. Years of deprivation and abuse at their hands turn her into a disturbed young adult, retreating into a fantasy of her own past: the land of "Was". She encounters - and subsequently inspires - L. Frank Baum in a Kansas schoolroom. Alongside this theme are scenes from the life of Judy Garland ...

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For many forms of dwarfism, the best medical treatment that can be offered is accurate diagnosis, prognosis, and genetic counseling information. Treatments to enhance height have major drawbacks. Growth hormone treatment has been shown to accelerate growth velocity over 1-2 years, but it may make a relatively small difference in adult height and involves years of expensive injections. The Ilizarov limb lengthening surgery was pioneered in Russia in the 1970s and is now performed in many places. Other newer devices such as the orthofix ...

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