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- Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used by the film, television ... They are also used when creating the effect by normal means is prohibitively ...30 KB (4,494 words) - 19:11, 7 February 2023
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire (KBE ... Chaplin was one of the founders of United Artists Studios and he maintained ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 ... manufacturing business and himself served on the London County Council and ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was ... Newman's major film roles include The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963 ...38 KB (5,689 words) - 17:42, 21 November 2022
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- American Academy Award-winning actress of film and theater whose versatility ... At a time when American women were entering the workforce after World ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Rachmaninoff is remembered as one of the true artistic geniuses of ... his own works as soloist. He was one of the greatest pianists of his generation ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- ), 1903–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s ... reality. They were written and are set in the relatively liberal era in ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely ... on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 04:08, 3 May 2024
- composer and instrumentalist who became the leading exponent of ragtime ... he was undoubtedly familiar) was one of the first American composers to ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- Abraham M. Saperstein (July 4, 1902 – March 15, 1966) was the founder ... Saperstein is also an unsung hero in the area of civil rights. He ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- and conducted her scientific career. She was the first woman appointed to teach ... Mme. Curie was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. Together with ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- oriented entertainment that appeared after the American Civil War in the ... Vaudeville was indirectly an outgrowth of the Industrial Revolution ...25 KB (3,760 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based ... Cole Porters' songs and thoughts are about the many aspects of ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- and casino owner who became infamous in the final years of his life, when ... Hughes also gained fame as a record-setting pilot, flying around the ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- – March 28, 1953) is considered one of the most versatile athletes in ... Thorpe's violation of the amateur rules was a technicality that ...24 KB (3,676 words) - 21:00, 3 April 2024
- of Hollywood by an adoring public throughout the 1930s and 1940s—Hollywood ... His most iconic role was that of Rhett Butler in the 1930 epic film ...25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor ... Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- a noted and highly accomplished American film director. Although most famous ... Ford was a key figure in the creation of the iconic style of the classic ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- her work written in close association with the Imagist movement of Ezra Pound ... embrace H.D.'s prolific reading of the Latin and Greek classics, ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- and entertainer. She is regarded as being the first German actress to become ... as a cabaret singer, chorus girl, and film actress in 1920s Berlin; Hollywood ...31 KB (4,546 words) - 16:02, 6 November 2022
- of United Artists in 1919. She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in ... young ingénues pitted against a cruel world earned her the sobriquet ...32 KB (4,715 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected ... Conrad's works draw on the symbolism of the Romantics and the ...22 KB (3,429 words) - 21:20, 6 May 2024
- (July 19, 1893 – April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for ... He was born the third child and only son to his family in Bagdadi ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 - November 20, 2006) was ... Altman has frequently been a favorite with most of the best critics ...44 KB (6,977 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- unveiling filled U.S. Capitol." Tulsa World, 2007-06-05 [http://www ... By the mid-1930s, Rogers was beloved by the American people and was ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- His novels gained him a reputation as one of the most widely read writers of ... Graham Greene, known as a world-traveler, would often seek out adventure ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 10:04, 31 December 2022
- 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the movement ... 039; poems, written in a style that followed the patterns of everyday speech ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors ... Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than ...43 KB (6,624 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2022
- – July 29, 1983) was a Aragonese Spanish film director, writer, and sometime ... Luis Buñuel was born in Calanda, Teruel in the province of Aragón ...42 KB (7,001 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, born Eugene Louis Vidal, (October 3, 1925 – ... his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of ... In 1978, the Wildlife Conservation Society began working in the nation ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly ... M. Abell, Strauss disclosed that he had read the work of the Swedish mystic ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcoholic ... By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the Federal ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- The uncertainty principle, sometimes called the Heisenberg uncertainty ... Thus, in quantum physics, the outcome of even an ideal measurement ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 20:54, 1 May 2024
- was an influential and important figure in the development of sports journalism. In 1922 Rice became the first play-by-play announcer carried live ...14 KB (2,078 words) - 14:51, 31 December 2022
- Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, May 17, 1866 – Paris, July 1 ... there appears to have been a brief period in the late 1880s during which he ...29 KB (4,725 words) - 19:27, 13 February 2024
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... Tolkien used fantasy in the same way fabulists have used folk and ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- B.B. King, born Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015) ... King had a a large number of hits in the R&B market in the 1950s ...26 KB (3,986 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- a Turkish army officer and statesman. He was the founder and until 1934, the ... Atatürk was born in the city of Thessaloníki (Turkish: Selânik ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- in New York City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- States businessman and political figure, and the father of President John F ... He served briefly as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential ... Marino Crescent—then as now called "The Crescent"—in Clontarf, ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- symbolic and allegoric themes that draw the viewer into the same state ... Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, the art critic W ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- The America’s Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta ... During the year of the first World's Fair, American boatbuilders ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
