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OFW Diaries, a public affairs television show in the Philippines


Aarøsund

Hans Christian Andersen, the world-famous writer of fairy tales, noted his stays in Aarøsund in his travel diaries.

Alan Clark Diaries

The Diaries were serialised into six episodes of The Alan Clark Diaries by the BBC and shown in 2004 with John Hurt and Jenny Agutter.

Angela Nissel

In one case, her friend applied "Buy The Broke Diaries!" stickers to ramen noodle packages and passed them out near bookstores.

Benjamin Ignatius Hayes

The books were later collected by Hubert Howe Bancroft, and the notes were formed into the book, Pioneer Notes From the Diaries of Judge Benjamin Hayes, 1849-1875.

Britannia Hospital

It was originally called Memorial Hospital, and according to David Sherwin's diaries Going Mad in Hollywood, was going to be financed by 20th Century Fox under Sherry Lansing.

Cai Qian

Some diaries say her name was Lin Yuyau (林玉腰) and that she had lived in Fangyuan, Changhua, Taiwan.

Collection of daily memos of Hashemi Rafsanjani

Collection of daily memoriess of Hashemi Rafsanjani is a collection of diaries written by Iranian politician Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

Costa Serena

In 2009 Costa Serena and her crew was featured in the six-episode National Geographic Channel documentary series "Cruise Ship Diaries".

Covert listening device

In 2003, Alastair Campbell (who was Director of Communications and Strategy from 1997-2003 for the UK PM) in his memoirs The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries alleged that two bugs were discovered in the hotel room meant for visiting British PM Tony Blair planted by Indian intelligence agencies.

Emil Holub

Inspired to visit Africa by the diaries of David Livingstone, Holub travelled to Cape Town, South Africa shortly after graduation and eventually settled near Kimberley to practise medicine.

Emily Coleman

The diaries she kept as an American expatriate in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, and in England in the 1940s through the 1960s, are valuable for chronicling her relationships with literary friends such as Djuna Barnes, who wrote much of her novel Nightwood while staying with Coleman and others at Peggy Guggenheim's country manor, Hayford Hall.

Evelyn Shuckburgh

In 1986 he published the diaries he wrote during the Suez Crisis, titled Descent to Suez.

Gerhard Weinberg

Together with Hugh Trevor-Roper and Eberhard Jäckel, Weinberg was one of the three experts on Hitler asked to examine the alleged diaries.

Harris Yulin

In 2009, he performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.

Ice Diaries

Ice Diaries is a show on the TLC network that follows four up-and-coming American figure skaters through the 2005/2006 Olympic season as each tries to make the 2006 Olympic team.

Idris Davies

After his death over two hundred of his manuscript poems and a short verse-play, together with the typescripts of his comprehensive wartime diaries, were deposited at the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth.

Jan Geurt Gaarlandt

One of his early successes was his discovery of the war diaries of Etty Hillesum in 1981.

John Hornby

The pair barely survived and Critchell Bullock's diaries formed the basis of Malcolm Waldron's book Snow Man: John Hornby in the Barren Lands first published in 1931.

John Rabe Communication Centre

With the help of the diaries of John Rabe it should set a base for the communication of international understanding, particularly between China and Japan.

Karlo Štajner

Title of Štajner's book "A Hand from the Grave " comes from Miroslav Krleža who mentions Štajner in his "Diaries" and compares him to the biblical Lazarus who rises from the grave.

Kenneth W. Rendell

Another of Rendell's interests is the American West, and in 2004–5 the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, Massachusetts, mounted an exhibition of letters, diaries, artifacts and art from his collection, acquired over decades.

Mark Jay Mirsky

Mirsky has also edited, and wrote the introduction for, Diaries: Robert Musil 1899-1942, and published several works and articles in The Partisan Review, New Directions Annual, The Boston Sunday Globe, and The New York Times Book Review.

Marty Chan

He is well known for his six-year run on CBC Radio of The Dim Sum Diaries, a series of short vignettes about his life growing up in small-town Northern Alberta as the only Chinese family around.

Meg Cabot

A sequel to the Princess Diaries film was released in 2004 and titled, The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

Mussolini diaries

He said further that the diaries had been found in a suitcase the dictator was carrying when he was caught by partisans in Dongo, at Lake Como, while he was fleeing to Switzerland in April 1945.

Nikki Bungaku

The medieval period saw the rise of diaries such as Abutsu Ni’s Izayoi Nikki and travel diaries such as Matsuo Bashō's Oku no Hosomichi.

Online diary

The formation of diary hosting websites such as Open Diary, Diary-X, Xanga, Femmunity and LiveJournal caused an explosive proliferation of online diaries and journals.

Peter Elbow

Elbow cites diaries, letters, stories, poems, and so forth as ways that students write for themselves with no teachers involved.

Pinoy Box Office

Popstar Diaries-Featuring the day in the life of Sarah Geronimo, Airs on Saturdays with replays on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Plains of Abraham

Later, the journals of the Chevalier de Levis and the Marquis de Montcalm referred to the Heights of Abraham, as did the diaries of British soldiers, who also employed the phrase Plains of Abraham.

Robert Popper

The third "Robin Cooper" book, The Timewaster Diaries, was published in 2007, was serialised on Radio 4's Book of the Week programme 16–20 July 2007, read by Paul Whitehouse.

Selling Hitler

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler.

However, to the dismay of all, including eminent historians such as Hugh Trevor-Roper (Alan Bennett) who verified the diaries as authentic, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

Sex Station

Porn Star Diaries was a one-off 30-minute documentary made by Sex Stations producers in 2006, featuring interviews with three female porn stars including Nina Roberts and Bobbi Eden, who then did a lesbian softcore photoshoot together.

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

Sick also features Flanagan's home movies, performance videos, and video diaries, as well as an excerpt of Flanagan's performance in the music video for "Happiness in Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails.

Tamara De Treaux

Her diaries supplied the main influence for the heroine "Cadence Roth" in his novel Maybe the Moon.

The Blunkett Tapes

The diaries were also the subject of two episodes of the Channel 4 Dispatches documentary in October 2006, and were read on BBC Radio 4 as book of the week in October 2006.

As Home Secretary during the Lincoln Prison riots in 2002, Blunkett accused in his diaries the then Head of Prison Service, Martin Narey "of dithering over the riots"

The Dead Men Diaries

The Dead Men Diaries is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Paul Cornell, featuring Bernice Summerfield, a character from the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky

The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky is a 2001 Australian film directed by Paul Cox about Vaslav Nijinsky.

The Dust Diaries

The Dust Diaries is an award-winning book by Owen Sheers, published in 2004.

Travelers of a Hundred Ages

This treatment is especially apparent when Keene writes of Matsuo Bashō's travel diaries, such as The Narrow Road to the North, or provides a window into an author's life, such as in the case of Fujiwara no Teika's Meigetsuki ("Chronicle of the Clear Moon").

Twofold Bay

The diaries of Bass show that he noted the bay when he passed it on his whaleboat voyage to Bass Strait in 1797/8.

Ulick O'Connor

He is also known for the autobiographical "The Ulick O’Connor Diaries 1970-1981: A Cavalier Irishman (2001)", which details his encounters with well-known Irish and international figures, ranging from political (Jack Lynch and Paddy Devlin) to the artistic (Christy Brown and Peter Sellers).

Vasily Grossman

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova (Pantheon, 2006 - ISBN 0-375-42407-5 ) - Based on Grossman's notebooks, war diaries, personal correspondence and articles.

Walid Khalidi

Under his guidance the Institute of Palestine Studies produced a long series of monographs in English and Arabic and several important translations of Hebrew texts into Arabic: 'The History of the Haganah', David Ben-Gurion and Shertok's diaries—texts that still await translation into English.

Warwick Todd

In keeping with the "blokey" style of many tour diaries, Todd refers to all players and support staff by their nicknames and not their real names (for example, "Pigeon" is Glenn McGrath and "Dizzy" is Jason Gillespie).

In contrast to Billy Birmingham's The Twelfth Man, Todd's diaries describe real-life matches played by the Australian cricket team, albeit including Todd as a player.


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