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Alcohol belts of Europe

The famous prints Beer Street and Gin Lane (1751) by William Hogarth, helped to lobby for what became the "Gin Act" of 1751 which taxed and regulated gin.

Arthur Albert

His other television cinematography credits include ABC Weekend Special, The District, The $treet and The Glades.

Bob Cobert

His most notable themes in that genre include the themes for To Tell the Truth (1961-1967 theme), Password (1963-1967 theme), Blockbusters (1980-1982 theme), The $25,000 Pyramid (1982 update), Your Number's Up (1985 theme) and Chain Reaction (1980, 1986-1991 theme, itself a remake of the theme from Supertrain).

Boston Road Railway Station

Boston Road Railway Station was on the Western Line of the Auckland Suburban Railway Network, near St Peter's College and Auckland Grammar School.

Bullyparade

the Sissi film trilogy starring Romy Schneider (with Tramitz as the Austrian Emperor and Herbig as Sissi)

Classic TV Game Show Themes

# The $25,000 Pyramid (Opening Theme From 1982 to 1988) "Tuning Up" remake - Bob Cobert (1:14)

Devonshire Downs

Devonshire Downs is most widely known for hosting the three-day Newport Pop Festival in June 1969, featuring Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and nearly thirty other top acts.

Empire series

The Empire Duet or Empire series, two novels by Orson Scott Card

Federal Reserve Bank

the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that: "The Reserve Banks are not federal instrumentalities for purposes of the FTCA the Federal Tort Claims Act, but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations."

Freakies

The 1989 film The 'Burbs features a scene where Ray Peterson, portrayed by Tom Hanks, is on his couch eating from a box of Freakies.

Gottlob Berger

The sentence was reduced to 10 years in 1951 because of his refusal to kill The Prominente in Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, despite direct orders from Adolf Hitler.

Hamlet and His Problems

Next, Eliot names three sources on which Shakespeare is believed to have based his play: Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, The Ur-Hamlet, and a version of the play performed in Germany during Shakespeare's lifetime.

I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

David Bowie used to team this song with an updated version of the Flares 1960 doo-wop song "Foot Stompin'" during the (1974) Diamond Dogs tour, as heard on the compliation Rarest One Bowie.

I'll Follow the Sun

McCartney performed the song live during The 'US' Tour; he did too at the Paris Olympia on 22 October 2007, in Kyev for the Independence Concert on 14 June 2008, in Quebec City for the free outdoor concert on 20 July 2008, that was the 400th anniversary of the city, and at Tel Aviv, Israel, on 25 September 2008.

Inge Johansson

Inge Johansson (born May 10, 1977) is the bass player of the politically charged punk/rock band The (International) Noise Conspiracy, which he formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1998 together with Dennis Lyxzén, Sara Almgren, Ludwig Dahlberg and Lars Strömberg.

International Boy Scouts, Troop 1

On December 12, 1911, Clarence Griffin and the Scouts, mostly British and all students of Saint Joseph College, the primary and secondary school for foreign boys located on the "Bluff" in Yokohama, gathered at the Gaiety Theater on the Bluff to demonstrate Scouting skills and to officially celebrate the beginning of the troop.

Joe Craft Center

The Joe Craft Center, opened in January 2007, is a basketball practice facility and athletics office building attached to Memorial Coliseum on the "Avenue of Champions" at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.

KPXO-TV

Due to limited feed abilities, KPXO is not available over-the-air or on cable in many other areas of the state; as a result, the "Big Island" of Hawaii at one point received Ion and its predecessor networks via KLEI (channel 6), even though the entire state of Hawaii is a single television market.

Max Wielen

Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the "Great Escape" were killed.

Megacorporation

Such organizations are a staple of science fiction long predating cyberpunk, appearing in the works of writers such as Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Thea von Harbou (Metropolis), Robert A. Heinlein (Citizen of the Galaxy), Robert Asprin (The Cold Cash War) and Andre Norton (the Solar Queen novels).

Midtown Madness

The city is modeled after Chicago, including many of its landmarks, such as The 'L', Willis Tower (then known as Sears Tower), Wrigley Field, and Soldier Field.

MV Doña Paz

President Corazon Aquino described the accident as "a national tragedy of harrowing proportions...the Filipino people's sadness is all the more painful because the tragedy struck with the approach of Christmas".

Nightrunner

the Nightrunner series, a multi-part fantasy series written by Lynn Flewelling

Rosemary Willis

Immediately after the upright-sitting President John F. Kennedy is first hidden at frame 207 by the "Stemmons Freeway" traffic sign in the Zapruder film, Willis suddenly, and beginning at Z-214, snaps her head very rapidly 90 to 100 degrees westward (completely away from the Depository southwest corner) within 0.16 second to then face Abraham Zapruder and the grassy knoll by Z-217.

Seolmacheon

The Seolmacheon in South Korea is a tributary of the Imjin River, which it joins at Jeokseong, and it was on Gloster Hill, between the two rivers, that the British Gloucestershire Regiment made their last stand against the Chinese in the Battle of the Imjin River, a major event in the Korean War, from 22–25 April 1951.

Tempelhof

After Pope Clement V officially abolished the Order of the Temple in 1312, the knights of Saint John (the Johanniter), backed by Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg, took over the villages of Tempelhof, Mariendorf, and Marienfelde.

The '59 Sound

Absolutepunk.net raved about the album, saying that it's "Packed full of vivid imagery and storytelling that resembles "Born to Run"/"Darkness on the Edge of Town"-era Springsteen, "The '59 Sound" is an impeccable work of punk-rock art where each listen offers something new, never taking any hint of imagination or personal effect away from the listener; this is the album The Killers wanted to make with "Sam's Town" but were unsuccessful at."

The '90s Are All That

The week before Memorial Day 2013 featured "Meme-orial Week," in which fans submitted their '90s Nick-themed memes for air during the block.

The '90s Suck and So Do You

The '90s Suck and So Do You is an album by punk band Angry Samoans released in 1999 (see 1999 in music).

The '92 Demos

At the time this was recorded, the band was a three-piece, with Scott Lucas on vocals and guitar, Matt Garcia on bass and Joe Daniels on drums.

The 'Human' Factor

The 'Human' Factor is a 1975 film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring George Kennedy and John Mills.

The 'Nam

Vietnam veteran Don Lomax, creator of the independent title Vietnam Journal, took over writing duties for The 'Nam in the early 1990s.

Marine Corps veteran and former Newsweek editor William Broyles, Jr., praised the comic for having "a certain gritty reality," but Jan Scruggs, President of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, questioned if the Vietnam War should be the subject of a comic book and if it might trivialize it.

The events depicted are sometimes famous ones, such as the Tet Offensive of 1968, and sometimes more personal ones, depicting the interaction between soldiers or between soldiers and the local populace of Vietnam, or between soldiers and their families, friends and others in the United States.

The 'W' Files

The 'W' Files (衛斯理) is a 2003 Hong Kong fantasy-adventure-mystery television period drama serial based on Ni Kuang's novel series Wisely, starring Gallen Lo as Wisely.

In the 1930s, Wisely returns to China from his overseas studies and runs a detective agency in Shanghai to investigate paranormal events.

The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime

Marc Summers was the show's announcer for its first few weeks and Johnny Gilbert announced the remainder of the series.

For the second season, the top prize consisted of two cars, ten pairs of round-trip Delta Air Lines tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, an outdoor spa, a new kitchen, living room, and dining room, and over $900,000 paid in annual installments of $36,000 for 25 years.

The $128,000 Question

The theme music was an updated version of the original composition by Norman Leyden and performed by Charles Randolph Grean, the show's musical director during its first season.

The Animal Years

Before performing Girl in the War at the 2006 annual dinner of the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C., Ritter stated that he intended to “to write about the United States of America, but instead it all came out sounding like a love song.

The Invisible Writing

In The Invisible Writing, Koestler recalls that during the summer of 1935 he "wrote about half of a satirical novel called The Good Soldier Schweik Goes to War Again..... It had been commissioned by Willy Münzenberg the Comintern's chief propagandist in the West ... but was vetoed by the Party on the grounds of the book's 'pacifist errors'..." (p. 283).

The Space Within US

It is composed of footage taken during his fall 2005 'US' Tour in the United States in conjunction with his Chaos and Creation in the Backyard album release, though some of his Beatles songs and songs from his previous albums are also performed.

U-Pick Live

After U-Pick Live's cancellation, the concept of user-chosen programming would not return until its comeback as part of The '90s Are All That in 2011.

Unearthed Films

Unearthed has imported, amongst others, Rubber's Lover, Pinocchio 964, Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre, Aftermath, City of Rott, ICHI-1, Bone Sickness, Frankenhooker, Philosophy of a Knife and its sequel, Dead Fury, Flexing with Monty, Junk and the Guinea Pig series.

Wendell J. Ashton

As director of LDS Public Affairs, Ashton dealt with the issue of the Howard Hughes "Mormon Will".


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