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3 unusual facts about Golden Age


Big Bang Comics

Although it featured the Golden Age versions of Ultiman and Thunder Girl and used the name of the company's Golden Age superteam, the team also included Knight Watchman and a heroine called Masker (who appeared in BB #21), both of whom are exclusively Silver Age heroes in the published version of the universe.

Caravaggisti

The style garnered a number of adherents in Spain, and was to influence the Baroque or Golden Age Spanish painters, especially Zurbarán, Velázquez and Murillo.

Monsieur Stigmonus

Stigmonus showed Hal two possible futures for Helen: one in which she would grow to be “The Redeemer”, a being who would “lead this planet out of misery and into the Golden Age”, and another in which, one way or another, “she’ll come to a tragic end,” often depicted as being by her own hand.


Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music

The title makes references to old science fiction magazines (Astounding and Amazing Stories), the concept being that each piece of music (and its title) would be interpreted as an individual science fiction story.

Augenblick Studios

The studio is responsible for much of the animated content on MTV2's Wonder Showzen, as well as Comedy Central's weekly web series Golden Age.

Batman and the Mad Monk

It is the second part of Matt Wagner's two part Dark Moon Rising series, which are expanded and modernized versions of Golden Age Batman stories.

Exile of Ovid

Thus, the poet who had written in verses the radical change experienced by Men in the strange sensation that often accompanies humanity — the eminence of losing everything — between the wonderful Golden Age and the unfortunate Iron Age, left for exile.

Letter to King Henry II

a new Golden Age of Saturn, the binding of Satan for a thousand years, and universal peace and harmony, with the Church finally triumphant

Paul Gustavson

Gustavson also wrote/drew characters including Magno (premiering in Smash Comics #13, 1940); the Spider (premiering in Crack Comics #1, 1940); the Jester (in Smash Comics); and Rusty Ryan (in Feature Comics), whose uniform strongly evoked that of Captain America.

Salim Al-Hassani

He made his mark by utilising applied modern engineering analysis to recreate, in virtual 3D space, ancient machines, especially those invented during the Golden Age such as the machines of Al-Jazari and Taqi al-Din.

Sargon the Sorcerer

Taking his professional name from the ancient king of the same name, Sargon has had a checkered career, acting mostly as a hero during the Golden Age aided by his cartoonish fat little comic relief sidekick/manager Maximillian O'Leary as he battled crooks, spies and his azure-skinned archenemy the Blue Lama, Queen of Black Magic, but re-emerging in the Silver Age - as a villain, at least at first.

Shatranj

During the Golden Age of Arabic, many works on shatranj were written, recording for the first time the analysis of opening games, chess problems, the knight's tour, and many more subjects common in modern chess books.

Spirit King

Back in the original Golden Age of heroes, Roger Romaine began to kill women in the city of Portsmouth, believing that he would thus absorb their spirits and gain command of the dead to use against the living world.

Sunda Kingdom

Knowledge of the kingdom among Sundanese people has been kept alive through Sundanese Pantun oral tradition, the chant of poetic verses about the Golden Age of Sunda Pajajaran, and the legend of King Siliwangi ( Prabu Siliwangi), the most popular king of Sunda.

Tina Russell

She became one of the best known adult film actresses of the "Golden Age" of porn, admired for her fresh looks and evident enthusiasm for her on-screen liaisons.

Yolanda Varela

Among her most important films are, Dos tipos de cuidado (1953) alongside Golden Age-idols Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete, Llamas Contra el Viento and El Niño y el Muro (1965), the film was about the segregation and violence situation in Western Europe, it was directed by Ismael Rodriguez and filmed in East Berlin, Germany.


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Accademia degli Arcadi

The Accademia degi Arcadi was so called because its principal intention was to reform the diction of Italian poetry, which the founders believed had become corrupt through over-indulgence in the ornamentation of the baroque style, under the inspiration of pastoral literature, the conventions of which imagined the life of shepherds, originally supposed to have lived in Arcadia in the golden age, divinely inspired in poetry by the Muses, Apollo, Hermes and Pan.

Alex Olmedo

George Toley recruited him to play for the University of Southern California (USC), as he wrote in his book "The Golden Age of College Tennis, 2009".

Azteca Theater

Known as the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Cantinflas, Pedro Infante, María Félix, Agustín Lara, Pedro Vargas, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Pedro Armendáriz, Antonio Aguilar and José Alfredo Jiménez were among the luminaries seen at the Azteca Theater.

Brick Fleagle

He played during the Golden Age of jazz, performing with leading musicians including Miles Davis.

Chasing Ghosts

Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade, a documentary film directed by Lincoln Ruchti about the golden age of video arcade games

Château

In Canada, especially in English, château usually denotes a hotel, not a house, and applies only to the largest, most elaborate railway hotels built in the Canadian Railroad golden age, such as the Château Lake Louise, in Lake Louise, Alberta, the Château Laurier, in Ottawa, the Château Montebello, in Montebello, Quebec, and the most famous Château Frontenac, in Quebec City.

Classic Images

Classic Images is a monthly American mail-subscription newspaper in tabloid format, founded in 1962 by film collector Sam Rubin, dedicated to film and television of the "Golden Age."

Coastal Monastery of St. Sergius

The golden age of the monastery is associated with Saint Ignatius Bryanchaninov who was in charge of the poustinia between 1834 and 1857.

Craryville, New York

The original design of Copake Country Club dates back to the legendary Golden Age Architect, Devereux Emmet, a founding member of the famous National Golf Links on Long Island as well as a prolific course designer.

Daredevils of Sassoun

The written literature of Armenia goes back to fifth century of our era, its Golden Age, when the Bible was translated into the vernacular from the original Greek and Syriac texts, Plato and Aristotle were studied in Armenian schools, and many original works of great interest to the modern specialist were produced by native historians, philosophers and poets.

Ed Salamon

Salamon’s first book ‘’Pittsburgh’s Golden Age of Radio’’, was published in 2010 by Arcadia Publishing, a leading publisher of local history books in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

Edward Chandos Leigh

He died, in the same year as W. G. Grace and his good friend Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane, of a broken heart mourning the loss of his two sons and the end of the golden age of cricket.

Falsetto

In Mexico, one of the greatest singers of falsete was Miguel Aceves Mejía, a singer and actor in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, known as the "Rey de Falsete", or "Falsetto King".

Frank Gotch

He achieved a level of popularity similar to that formerly held by boxer John L. Sullivan and harness racehorse Dan Patch, and enjoyed later by such sports heroes of the Golden Age of Sports as boxing's Jack Dempsey, baseball's Babe Ruth, tennis's Bill Tilden and golf's Bobby Jones.

Frank Schoonover

A prolific contributor to books and magazines during the early twentieth century, the so-called "Golden Age of Illustration", he illustrated stories as diverse as Clarence Mulford's Hopalong Cassidy stories and Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars.

History of Australian cricket from 1900–01 to 1918

David Frith, The Golden Age of Cricket 1890–1914, Lutterworth, 1978

Hollywood Taiwan

It was also called Forever Love, (Chinese: 阿嬤的夢中情人;Pinyin:A Ma De Meng Zhong Qing Ren. The original name was Hollywood Taiwan 臺彎有個好萊塢, later changed to Forever Love.) It commemorates the golden age of Taiwanese films.

Howard Thurston

Thurston is mentioned and appears briefly in Glen David Gold's novel Carter Beats the Devil (ISBN 0-7868-8632-3), concerning fellow stage magician Charles J. Carter and the Golden Age of magic in America.

Jan Verelst

John Verelst, also Jan or Johannes (1648-1734), Dutch Golden Age painter

John Dalby

He has worked with many notable performers, such as Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury, David Niven and Alec Guinness, to name but a few - but none more affectionately than with Evelyn Laye, the last of the stage and screen idols from the golden age of musical comedy.

Kit Downes

Downes plays regularly with his own trio, Stan Sulzmann, Troyka, The Golden Age of Steam, Sam Crockatt and Clark Tracey - and has played with Joe Locke, Gilad Atzmon, Empirical, Gerard Presencer, Seb Rochford, Iain Ballamy, Sarah Gillespie, Peter Ind, Gwyneth Herbert, John Warren and Eugene Skeef.

La Voz de Galicia

The Second Republic (1931–1936) is considered to have been the paper’s golden age as far as its columnists are concerned, with articles written by some of the period’s most relevant personalities, such as Josep Pla, Julio Camba, Gregorio Marañón, Azorín and Ramón Pérez de Ayala.

Mallet

Characters like Roger Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck and Tom and Jerry made use of mallets as part of their arsenal in the Golden Age of animation.

Maria Maksakova, Sr.

Maria Petrovna Maksakova, Senior (Мария Петровна Максакова, née: Sidorova; April 8, 1902, Astrakhan, Russian Empire – August 11, 1974, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet opera singer (mezzo-soprano), a leading soloist in the Bolshoi Theater (1923-1953), who enjoyed great success in the 1920s and 1930s, in the times often referred to as the Golden Age of the Soviet opera.

Mel Wasserman

In his tribute to Mel Wasserman, Dan Earle, founding headmaster of Rocky Mountain Academy and co-president of CEDU Schools, describes his time at CEDU as a “golden age of education”, during which "the idea of a holistic, integral education was born", with "an emotional growth curriculum running parallel to an academic, civic and wilderness curriculum".

Muay Thai

The ascension of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) to the throne in 1868 ushered in a golden age not only for muay but for the whole country of Thailand.

Polish Golden Age

During the Golden Age, several renowned writers and thinkers lived in Poland: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski, Piotr Skarga, Jan Kochanowski, Jan Dantyszek, Mikolaj Rej, Lukasz Gornicki and Stanczyk.

Rajesh Rajilal

His historical biopics of Queen Elizabeth I (Elizabeth and its sequel The Golden Age) garnered 7 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Cate Blanchett.

Ravesteyn

Arnold van Ravesteyn, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter, son of the former

Red Vienna

Sheldon Gardner: Red Vienna and the Golden Age of Psychology, 1918-1938 , Praeger Publishers, 1992

Robert Dunham

Dunham was an American living in Japan during most of the country's "Golden Age" of cinema, and worked in films directed by Ishiro Honda, Jun Fukuda, and Kinji Fukasaku.

Rupnagar district

This includes a gold coin issued by Chandragupta-Kumerdevi of the Gupta dynasty, which is also known as the golden age in ancient Indian history.

Sanskrit studies

The nineteenth century was a golden age of Western Sanskrit scholarship, and many of the giants of the field (Whitney, Macdonnell, Monier-Williams, Grassmann) knew each other personally.

Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The golden age of Serbs in the early Middle Ages comes with Prince Časlav Klonimirović (r. 927-960), who managed to include all former territories; He concluded a voluntary confederation with the local chiefs of Bosnia that brought them out of Venetian-Croatia's control.

Star Awards for Best Variety Show Host

Marcus Chin 陈建彬 — Golden Age Singing Contest 2008 黄金年华之斗歌竞艺2008

Stardust the Super Wizard

Some of his Golden Age adventures were reprinted by AC Comics decades later, and collected in the books I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets!: The Comics of Fletcher Hanks (2007, ISBN 1-56097-839-2), and You Shall Die by Your Own Evil Creation! (June 2009, ISBN 1-60699-160-4) edited by Paul Karasik.

Stephen du Perche

His chancellorship was noted, according to Hugo Falcandus, in that "he never allowed powerful men to oppress their subjects, nor ever feigned to overlook any injury done to the poor. In such a way his fame quickly spread throughout the Kingdom . . . so that men looked on him as a heaven-sent angel of consolation who had brought back the Golden Age".

Stom

Matthias Stom (c. 1600–after 1652), Dutch golden age painter, considered a master of the Utrecht Caravaggism

Sunda Kingdom

Most account and records of the Sunda Kingdom came from manuscripts dated from a period later than the Golden Age, such as Wangsakerta, Carita Parahyangan, Kidung Sunda, Bujangga Manik, and Pustaka Rajyarajya i Bhumi Nusantara.

Swedish jazz

The golden age of Swedish jazz is considered to be during the 1950s, with artists like Arne Domnérus, Lars Gullin, Alice Babs and Monica Zetterlund.

The Golden Age of Rock 'n' Roll

"The Golden Age Of Rock 'n' Roll" is a single released by Mott the Hoople, from their 1974 album The Hoople.

The Skies Belong to Us

The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (2013) is a narrative nonfiction book by United States author Brendan I. Koerner.

The Valentino Orchestra

The Valentino Orchestra—named after Rudolph Valentino—bases its repertoire of “sophisticated swing” on the standards of the golden age of American popular music—compositions by Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, and the many others who in the Jazz Age established what is often called the Great American Songbook.

Three Little Bops

The Big Bad Wolf, who first appeared in Pigs in a Polka and had previously appeared as Uncle Big Bad in The Turn-Tale Wolf, would appear in another two Golden Age cartoons: Now Hare This and False Hare, also as Uncle Big Bad.

United States Navy use of Hydrometer 1800s

Captain John Rodgers, Lieutenant Porter, and Dr. William Samuel Waithman Ruschenberger, all of the United States Navy did this as did Dr. Raymond, in the American steamer Golden Age, and Captain Henry Toynbee, (F.R.A.S., F.R.A.G.S) of the English East Indiaman the Gloriana.

Van Overbeek

Bonaventura van Overbeek (1660–1705), Dutch Golden Age draughtsman and engraver

Warren Casey

In the mid-1960s, Casey met Jim Jacobs while acting with the Chicago Stage Guild, and the two began collaborating on a play with music about high school life during the golden age of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s.

Yolanda del Río

Born the youngest daughter of 4 children, she was inspired at a young age by famous golden age Ranchera singers Lola Beltrán, Lucha Villa, or Amalia Mendoza played on the radio.