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2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
a Christian intellectual." And while Cicero was considered the "patron saint of the Renaissance era" – a title that would become fundamentally problematic for a number of Christians because of his pagan beliefs – Erasmus came to be known as the "prince of humanists" esteemed by many ... | 33,400 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
mastery that serves as a testament to his ability to imbue the teachings of Christ while embodying Cicero's concept of "imitator". For example, Christ told his disciples a parable of wheat and tares growing in the same field and that it was not their responsibility, but His, to separ... | 33,401 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
professional devotion as well as skill is aligned to "verba" (words), not to "res" (things). His real "gesta" (deeds) are "verba", the words, and not "res gestae", the actions of historical significance."
Erasmus indeed employs, primarily, deliberative and epideictic forms of rhetor... | 33,402 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
More’s "Utopia". "Christian Prince" serves as a guide for the teacher and the prince as well as all court personnel who might have any reason to speak to or with him and espouses Erasmus' rhetorical approach to Christocentric political theories and pedagogical praxes which he refers ... | 33,403 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
At the conclusion of the preface, Erasmus, on the basis of this "philosophia Christi," admonishes the prince that "among the countless distinctions which under God your merit will win for you, it will be no small part of your reputation that Charles was a prince to whom a man need he... | 33,404 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
and Plutarch who seems to have influenced Erasmus most, who will point the prince to Truth. Its opening sentence begins with Erasmus positing that "wisdom in itself is a wonderful thing ..., and no kind of wisdom is rated more excellent by Aristotle than that which teaches how to be ... | 33,405 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
told him he would grant whatever he asked, Solomon's prayer was for wisdom to lead God's people.
A similar rhetorical move in reverse can be found in a most noteworthy chapter of the treatise, "The Prince Must Avoid Flatterers." As Erasmus offers the pedagogue a recommended list of ... | 33,406 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
from Cicero the "Offices" and "Laws"; and from Plato, the "Republic", but because the work was lost at the time, he recommends his "Laws". The pagan number of works surpasses the number of biblical works. Erasmus justifies his approach of "dissoi logoi", arguing from two contrary acc... | 33,407 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
the standard of Christ."
Although offering an Augustinian-type approach by emphasizing the Christian prince's ability to interpret pagan texts, Erasmus would continue to have strained relations with some Church Fathers regarding his rhetorical methodologies toward Truth. Despite thi... | 33,408 |
2507659 | The Education of a Christian Prince | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Education%20of%20a%20Christian%20Prince | The Education of a Christian Prince
s with some Church Fathers regarding his rhetorical methodologies toward Truth. Despite this, the "Christian Prince" "saw ten editions during Erasmus' lifetime and was translated into a number of vernacular languages, which testifies to a general interest in the work."
# Quotes.
- ... | 33,409 |
2507704 | Sundance (rapper) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sundance%20(rapper) | Sundance (rapper)
Sundance (rapper)
Ericka Campbell (born April 4, 1972), better known as Sundance, is an American rapper, DJ and radio personality.
# Biography.
Ethell Day Sr. was awarded custody of Sundance three months after her birth and she remained in their care until she was twelve years old. She moved briefl... | 33,410 |
2507704 | Sundance (rapper) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sundance%20(rapper) | Sundance (rapper)
ic School in Gardena, California. She then attended Morningside High School in Inglewood, California but upon returning to Chicago, she finished at Austin Community Academy High School.
She took up DJing with her uncle, and in the late 1980s recorded a house record with Fast Eddie, "Git On Up", that ... | 33,411 |
2507729 | Paralimni | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paralimni | Paralimni
Paralimni
Paralimni () is a town within the kouloufi area of kouloufi, situated slightly inland from the island's kouloufi coast. Since the Turkish invasion in 1974, it has increased in size and status, due to the migration of many refugees fleeing from the north. Many of the people who work in the tourist i... | 33,412 |
2507729 | Paralimni | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paralimni | Paralimni
in the winter. At the beginning of the 20th century, the whole lakebed was reclaimed for agricultural purposes. Paralimni has not always been where it is now, and was built originally on a hill situated between Deryneia and its present location. In the 15th century, it was moved inland to avoid detection by p... | 33,413 |
2507729 | Paralimni | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paralimni | Paralimni
of mayor and municipal council; Nikos Vlittis was elected the first mayor, and served from 1986 to 2006. In December 2006, Vlittis lost the election to Andreas Evaggelou, who served as mayor until 2011. The town is also a stronghold for the centre-right Democratic Rally party. Architecturally, Paralimni has b... | 33,414 |
2507729 | Paralimni | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paralimni | Paralimni
houses.
At the heart of Paralimni lies a shopping centre and a small entertainment scene, including modern cafes and bars. Because Paralimni has rapidly grown in size, Cyprus' biggest food retailers such as Carrefour have built or rented branches there. There are also many local supermarkets. The countryside... | 33,415 |
2507729 | Paralimni | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paralimni | Paralimni
the source of its wealth, and is still of great importance today.
# Sports.
Enosis Neon Paralimni FC, which plays in the Cypriot First Division, is the football team of the town. There is also a Conference team in Paralimni called Anorthosis Paralimniou.
# Protaras.
Protaras (; ) is a predominantly touris... | 33,416 |
2507729 | Paralimni | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paralimni | Paralimni
Cyprus grass snake, which was thought to be extinct since the 1960s until a man nicknamed "Snake George" rediscovered the species in the early 1990s. As a result, the lake was designated a Site of Community Interest (SCI).
# Notable residents.
- Michalis Konstantinou, footballer, born in Paralimni
- Solomo... | 33,417 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
Rary
In the "World of Greyhawk" campaign setting for the "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplaying game, Rary of Ket is a powerful archmage and ruler of the Bright Lands, also known as "Rary the Traitor".
In a storyline developed by TSR for a resetting of the Greyhawk campaign in 1991, Rary, a member of the Circle of Eig... | 33,418 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
Greyhawk in order to test new rules. His playtesters were friends and acquaintances, one of whom was Brian Blume, co-owner with Gygax of the nascent game company TSR. Rary was a low-level wizard created by Blume for play in Gygax's home campaign. However, Blume was not interested in developing the character into a... | 33,419 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
spells.
Rary was not a member of Gygax's original Circle of Eight, which was made up of eight of Gygax's own characters that he had developed during solo play, when his friend Rob Kuntz acted as Dungeon Master. However, after Gygax was ousted from TSR in 1985, the company took over creative control of the publish... | 33,420 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
dedicated to the proposition that no group or entity, no matter how good (or evil), should dominate the Flanaess. Gygax's own wizard, Mordenkainen, became the head of the Circle, while eight wizards from the Greyhawk campaign, made famous from their spells published in the original "Players Handbook", became the a... | 33,421 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
stock, six feet tall, 170 lbs, with auburn hair, bright green eyes, and a tanned complexion who favors tan robes with intricate gold patterns. Although originally described in TSR material as a man in his eighties, the new WotC storyline had Rary looking like a man in his fifties, having somehow reversed his aging... | 33,422 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
is characterized as too volatile for Rary's tastes.
# History.
The following information is outlined in material developed for the Greyhawk campaign world by TSR and WotC between 1988 and 2008.
## Origins.
Born around 511 CY in Ket, Rary was known as a quiet, dignified scholar and a skilled mediator and peacem... | 33,423 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
careful deliberation, Rary decided that the Circle of Eight was too quarrelsome to ever be effective in its goals. On the day of the signing of the Treaty of Greyhawk, he tried to eliminate the Circle but only succeeded in killing Tenser and Otiluke. Simultaneously, Robilar besieged the castle of Tenser, sacking i... | 33,424 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
often unwittingly employed as agents of Rary to help fulfill his goal.).
# Spells.
When Gary Gygax developed new spells for Dungeons & Dragons, he often borrowed wizards' names to give the spell names more verisimilitude. He borrowed the name of Brian Blume's retired wizard for the spells "Rary's mnemonic enhanc... | 33,425 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
"Rary's interplanar telepathic bond"
- "Rary's memory alteration"
- "Rary's mind scan"
- "Rary's mind shield"
- "Rary's plane truth"
- "Rary's protection from scrying"
- "Rary's replay of the past"
- "Rary's spell enhancer"
- "Rary's superior spell enhancer"
- "Rary's urgent utterance"
# Writings.
In a ... | 33,426 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
sometimes tried to convince players that Rary was not evil, merely misunderstood.
# Further reading.
- Broadhurst, Creighton. "Into the Bright Desert." "Dungeon" #98 (Paizo Publishing, 2003).
- Broadhurst, Creighton, Paul Looby, and Stuart Kerrigan. "Mysterious Places: The Brightlands." Wizards of the Coast, 20... | 33,427 |
2507688 | Rary | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rary | Rary
.
- Heard, Bruce. "Spells Between the Covers." "Dragon" #82 (TSR, 1984).
- Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. "Living Greyhawk Gazetteer" (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).
- Mona, Erik, and Gary Holian. "Wheels within Wheels: Greyhawk's Circle of Eight." "Living Greyhawk Journal" #0 (A... | 33,428 |
2507733 | Elijah Bond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elijah%20Bond | Elijah Bond
Elijah Bond
Elijah Jefferson Bond (January 23, 1847 in Bel Air, Maryland - April 14, 1921 in Baltimore, Maryland) was an American lawyer and inventor.
# Inventions.
Although he invented and patented items, including a steam boiler, he is best remembered for patenting what became known as the ouija board.... | 33,429 |
2507733 | Elijah Bond | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elijah%20Bond | Elijah Bond
.
Although he invented and patented items, including a steam boiler, he is best remembered for patenting what became known as the ouija board. He filed for a United States patent on May 28, 1890. Charles W. Kennard and William H. A. Maupin were listed as assignees. The patent was granted on February 10, 18... | 33,430 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Oliver Twist is a 2005 drama film directed by Roman Polanski. The screenplay by Ronald Harwood is based on Charles Dickens’s 1839 novel of the same name.
The film was preceded by numerous adaptations of the Dickens book, including several feature films, three televisi... | 33,431 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver through a lottery to ask for more food at the next meal, which he does. This results in Oliver being chastised, and the workhouse officials, who are wealthy men, decide to get rid of... | 33,432 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
and lock him in the cold dark cellar. The violent behavior of the orphan is duly brought to the notice of Mr. Sowerberry. Oliver is beaten, and knowing his life with the Sowerberrys will only get worse, he escapes on foot early the next morning.
With little food, Oliver determines to walk 70 m... | 33,433 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Soon, Oliver is being groomed to join their gang. On his first outing with the pickpockets, two of the boys steal a man’s handkerchief and Oliver is framed. However he is proven innocent by an eyewitness, and the owner of the handkerchief (the wealthy Mr. Brownlow) takes pity on Oliver, who had... | 33,434 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Fagin and Sikes worried that Oliver would "peach," and tell the authorities about their criminal activity. Oliver is put under supervision until Bill Sikes discovers the boy's connection to the rich Mr. Brownlow. During midnight, Sikes and his accomplice, Toby Crackit, force Oliver to aid them ... | 33,435 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
to kill Oliver after Sikes has recovered. Nancy has a maternal love for Oliver and does not want to see him hurt, but she is controlled by the abusive Sikes. She drugs Bill, and goes to Brownlow's house where she arranges to have him meet her on London Bridge at midnight so she can provide info... | 33,436 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
in their apartment.
The next day, information about Oliver and Fagin appear in the newspaper, along with Nancy's murder and the fact that Sikes is a suspect. Sikes's ever-present dog, Bullseye, is a dead giveaway to his identity. After unsuccessfully trying to kill the dog, Sikes takes up resi... | 33,437 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
they won't shoot if the boy is with him. When trying to scale the building using a rope, Sikes, distracted by his dog, loses his footing and accidentally hangs himself to death.
Some time later, Oliver is living comfortably with Mr. Brownlow again. Fagin was arrested for his pick pocketing act... | 33,438 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
boy's mind. As Mr. Brownlow escorts a tearful Oliver to his own carriage, gallows are being set up in the courtyard. Townspeople begin to gather to watch Fagin's execution, while Mr Brownlow and Oliver leave to start their new lives afresh.
# Cast.
- Ben Kingsley as Fagin
- Jamie Foreman as ... | 33,439 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Ian McNeice as Mr. Limbkins
- Alun Armstrong as Magistrate Fang
- Liz Smith as Old Woman
- Patrick Godfrey as Bookseller
# Production.
In "Twist by Polanski", a bonus feature on the DVD release of the film, Roman Polanski discusses his decision to make yet another screen adaptation of the ... | 33,440 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
featuring pickpocket skills were choreographed by stage pickpocket James Freedman and magician Martyn Rowland.
The film was shot in Prague, Beroun, and Žatec in the Czech Republic.
Polanski and Harwood entirely omitted the Maylie family from their film. Like the musical, but unlike Lean, they... | 33,441 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
Sikes to actually kill the boy, which never happens in the novel.
# Reception.
The film received mixed to positive reviews, holding a 'fresh' 60 percent score on movie Rotten Tomatoes. The consensus reads 'Polanski's version of Dickens' classic won't have audiences asking for more because whi... | 33,442 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
the movie... is consistent with its interpretation of Dickens's worldview, which could be plenty grim but which never succumbed to despair. There is just enough light, enough grace, enough beauty, to penetrate the gloom and suggest the possibility of redemption. The script... is at once efficie... | 33,443 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
moral universe, in which the motives and worldview of even the worst people are made comprehensible."
Lisa Schwarzbaum of "Entertainment Weekly" graded the film B+ and commented, "On the face of it, Roman Polanski's "Oliver Twist" is in the tradition of every faithful "Oliver Twist" ever filme... | 33,444 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
rated the film two out of four stars, calling it "drab and unfeeling" while "lacking the Polanski stamp." He further felt Barney Clark's performance as Oliver was "bereft of personality." Todd McCarthy of "Variety" echoed Travers' sentiments about Clark, labelling him "disappointingly wan and u... | 33,445 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
of "The Observer" wrote that the film was "generally disappointing, though by no means badly acted," and alleged that it lacked "any serious point of view about individuality, society, community."
# DVD release.
Sony Pictures released the film on DVD on 24 January 2006. It is in anamorphic wi... | 33,446 |
2507687 | Oliver Twist (2005 film) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver%20Twist%20(2005%20film) | Oliver Twist (2005 film)
y disappointing, though by no means badly acted," and alleged that it lacked "any serious point of view about individuality, society, community."
# DVD release.
Sony Pictures released the film on DVD on 24 January 2006. It is in anamorphic widescreen format with audio tracks and subtitles in ... | 33,447 |
2507738 | Ba (town) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ba%20(town) | Ba (town)
Ba (town)
Ba is a town in Fiji, 37 kilometres from Lautoka and 62 kilometres from Nadi, inland from the coast of Viti Levu, Fiji's largest island. Covering an area of 327 square kilometres, it had a population of 14,596 at the 1996 census. The town is built on the banks of the Ba River, after which it is nam... | 33,448 |
2507738 | Ba (town) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ba%20(town) | Ba (town)
it a cultural point for tourists. Sugar cane has long been the mainstay of the local economy, but some manufacturing projects have been established over the past fifteen years. Ba is part of the larger Ba Province, geographically the largest of Fiji's fourteen Provinces.
The town is also the home of some of ... | 33,449 |
2507738 | Ba (town) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ba%20(town) | Ba (town)
in 2005, 14 of the 15 seats were won by the National Federation Party, with the remaining seat going to an independent candidate. The mayor was Parveen Bala until the year 2010. Since then, the office of Mayor has been vacant, and Ba, along with other towns, has been under the control of an Administrator inst... | 33,450 |
2507738 | Ba (town) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ba%20(town) | Ba (town)
e. The mayor was Parveen Bala until the year 2010. Since then, the office of Mayor has been vacant, and Ba, along with other towns, has been under the control of an Administrator instead.
Prominent landmarks include the Rarawai Mill (on the outskirts of the town) and a large mosque near the river in the hear... | 33,451 |
2507698 | University College Players | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20College%20Players | University College Players
University College Players
The University College Players (or Univ Players for short) are the theatrical society of University College, Oxford.
# History.
The first production was in May 1941 when Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" was performed in co-operation with Merton College. Peter... | 33,452 |
2507698 | University College Players | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20College%20Players | University College Players
in "Twelfth Night" at the Oxford Playhouse.
Michael York (then Michael Johnson) was a Univ Players member in the early 1960s, before graduating with a degree in English in 1964. Peter Sissons, later to become a newscaster, was Treasurer of the Univ Players during his time studying at Univers... | 33,453 |
2507698 | University College Players | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20College%20Players | University College Players
Oxford Playhouse, with a script by Reggie Oliver and music by Michael Brand.
In the late 1970s, the Univ Players produced successful outdoor summer productions of "The Seagull" (1976, in St Hilda's meadow), "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and an adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" (1977 and 1978... | 33,454 |
2507698 | University College Players | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20College%20Players | University College Players
In May 2013, Elisabeth Watts directed Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer".
# Univ Revue.
John Albery organised the Univ Revue in the college Hall, starting in 1972, with Leslie Mitchell. It consisted of an irreverent series of sketches with some musical by both fellows and students o... | 33,455 |
2507698 | University College Players | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=University%20College%20Players | University College Players
Redcliffe-Maud and others.
Having been absent for a number of years, the Univ Revue returned in 2012. The 2012 Univ Revue consisted of:
- Lazlo Barclay
- Louise Carey
- James Carroll
- Victoria Empson
- Sam George
- Esmé Hicks
- Jack Peters
- Joe Prentice
- Jack Roxburgh
- James Sk... | 33,456 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
Ivan Mosjoukine
Ivan Ilyich Mozzhukhin (; —18 January 1939), usually billed using the French transliteration Ivan Mosjoukine, was a Russian silent film actor.
# Career in Russia.
Ivan Mozzhukhin was born in Kondol, in the Saratov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Penza Oblast in Russia),... | 33,457 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
three elder brothers finished seminary, Ivan was sent to the Penza gymnasium for boys and later studied law at the Moscow State University. In 1910, he left academic life to join a troupe of traveling actors from Kiev, with which he toured for a year, gaining experience and a reputation for dynamic stag... | 33,458 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
Spades" (1916, after Pushkin) and other adaptations of Russian classics.
# The Kuleshov Effect.
Mosjoukine's most lasting contribution to the theoretical concept of film as image is the legacy of his own face in recurring representation of illusory reactions seen in Lev Kuleshov's psychological montag... | 33,459 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
in 1917.
# Career in France.
At the end of 1919, Mosjoukine arrived in Paris and quickly established himself as one of the top stars of the French silent cinema, starring in one successful film after another. Handsome, tall, and possessing a powerful screen presence, he won a considerable following as... | 33,460 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
The group was headed by the renowned director Yakov Protazanov and included Mosjoukine's frequent leading lady Natalya Lisenko (billed in France as Nathalie Lissenko), whom he married and later divorced. Their ultimate destination was Paris, which became the new capital for most of the exiled former ari... | 33,461 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
of the Carnival"), released on 29 August 1921 and "Le Brasier ardent" ("The Blazing Inferno"), released on 2 November 1923. The leading lady in both films was the then-"Madame Mosjoukine", Nathalie Lissenko. "Brasier", in particular, was highly praised for its innovative and inventive concepts, but ulti... | 33,462 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
Many of the scenes seem to be taking place on sets that are disconcertingly larger than normal and one particularly striking staging has the husband entering the detective agency to find a synchronized line of men, presumably detectives, all wearing tuxedos and gliding about in formation. Mosjoukine rec... | 33,463 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
the August 14, 1926 edition of Motion Picture News mentions Mosjoukine's role in Michel Strogoff as Universal had just announced that they were bringing the film to the American market. Universal's Laemmle was mentioned as having signed Mosjoukine to come to America that fall. A few of the French produc... | 33,464 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
Valentino.
However, as it turned out, "Surrender", filmed in the summer of 1927, did not trust Mosjukine to carry the storyline. He was only the film's co-star, with the top billing and the central role going to Mary Philbin, a popular leading lady of the period who, eighteen months earlier, had the sh... | 33,465 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
survivor of the Revolution, it seemed only natural that the story would be set in that milieu.
Symptomatic of Mosjoukine's co-star status, he does not even appear in the first fifteen minutes of the film, which are occupied with the depiction of life in an Eastern European Jewish settlement on the eve ... | 33,466 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
past "Son of the Sheik" characterization of a dominant, forceful lover who initially takes women against their will, until they melt under the radiance of his sheer animal magnetism, it ran against Mosjoukine's European "Casanova" image as a fatalistically irresistible to whom women flock and "surrender... | 33,467 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
it was not the money-making hit that Laemmle expected. Mosjoukine received some good notices, but a number of critics doubted his suitability for American audiences. An even more ominous note, however, was sounded at the film's Broadway premiere on 10 October 1927. Another film, playing across the stree... | 33,468 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
in a Neuilly-sur-Seine clinic. All available sources give his age as 49 and year of birth as 1889. However, his gravestone at the Russian cemetery in the Parisian suburb of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois is inscribed with the year 1887.
# Personal life.
Mosjoukine had three elder brothers. Alexander Mozzhu... | 33,469 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
in several museums.
Mosjoukine's second brother Aleksey (born 1880) served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army and was later enrolled to the Red Army. In 1931 he was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for Anti-Soviet agitation. In 1937 he was arrested for the second time on the same... | 33,470 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
was officially married three times. His first wife was a Russian and later French actress Natalya Lisenko (1884–1960). They married in the first half of the 1910s and divorced in 1927. In 1928 Mosjoukine married a Dutch actress Agnes Petersen (1906—1973). His third wife was a French actress of Russian o... | 33,471 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
name. Thus the boy was raised as Aleksandr Petrovich Telegin, although he was made aware of his real father. For several years Mosjoukine traveled with his civil wife and his son before returning to Moscow and marrying Natalya Lisenko. According to Telegin, his father always supported them by sending le... | 33,472 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
Arieh Kacew. In 1960 he wrote a novelized autobiographical account of his mother's struggles and triumphs, "La promesse de l'aube" ("Promise at Dawn"), which became the basis for an English-language play and a French-American film. The play, Samuel A. Taylor's "First Love", opened on Broadway at the Mor... | 33,473 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
Selected filmography.
- "The Kreutzer Sonata" (1911, dir. Pyotr Chardynin), as Troukhatchevsky
- "Defence of Sevastopol" (1911, dir. Vasily Goncharov and Aleksandr Khanzhonkov), as Admiral Vladimir Kornilov
- "The Night Before Christmas" (1913, dir. Ladislas Starevich), as The demon
- "Domik v Kolom... | 33,474 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
as Marquis Serge de Granier
- "Justice d'abord" (1921, dir. Yakov Protazanov)
- "" (1922, dir. Robert Boudrioz), as Henri
- "The House of Mystery" (1923, dir. Alexandre Volkoff), as Julien Villandrit
- "" (1923, dir. Ivan Mosjoukine), as Zed
- "Kean" (1924, dir. Alexandre Volkoff), as Edmund Kean
... | 33,475 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
(1927, dir. Edward Sloman), as Constantine
- "The President" (1928, dir. Gennaro Righelli), as Pepe Torre
- "The Secret Courier" (1928, dir. Gennaro Righelli), as Julien Sorel
- "The Adjutant of the Czar" (1929, dir. Vladimir Strizhevsky), as Prince Boris Kurbski
- "Manolescu" (1929, dir. Victor Tou... | 33,476 |
2507682 | Ivan Mosjoukine | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivan%20Mosjoukine | Ivan Mosjoukine
naro Righelli), as Julien Sorel
- "The Adjutant of the Czar" (1929, dir. Vladimir Strizhevsky), as Prince Boris Kurbski
- "Manolescu" (1929, dir. Victor Tourjansky), as Georges Manolescu
- "The White Devil" (1930, dir. Alexandre Volkoff), as Hadji Murat
- "Sergeant X" (1932, dir. Vladimir Strizhevsk... | 33,477 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
X-linked agammaglobulinemia
X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) is a rare genetic disorder discovered in 1952 that affects the body's ability to fight infection. As the form of agammaglobulinemia that is X-linked, it is much more common in males. In people with XLA, the white blood cell forma... | 33,478 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
serious and even fatal infections. A mutation occurs at the Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) gene that leads to a severe block in B cell development (at the pre-B cell to immature B cell stage) and a reduced immunoglobulin production in the serum. Btk is particularly responsible for mediating ... | 33,479 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
ethnic predisposition. XLA is treated by infusion of human antibody. Treatment with pooled gamma globulin cannot restore a functional population of B cells, but it is sufficient to reduce the severity and number of infections due to the passive immunity granted by the exogenous antibodies.
... | 33,480 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
with other inherited (genetic) defects of the immune system, known as primary immunodeficiency disorders.
# Signs and symptoms.
Affects males 50% of the time if mother is a carrier for the gene. Children are fine until 6–9 months of age. Present with recurrent infections with Streptococcus... | 33,481 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
enzyme plays an essential role in the maturation of B cells in the bone marrow, and when mutated, immature pro-B lymphocytes are unable to develop into pre-B lymphocytes, which normally develop into mature (naive) B cells that leave the bone marrow into the blood stream.
The disorder is inh... | 33,482 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
chance of XLA patients having a positive family history of genetic inheritance. The rest of the cases occur as random mutations. If a carrier female gives birth to a male child, there is a 50% chance that the male will have XLA. A carrier female has a 25% chance overall of giving birth to an... | 33,483 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
diagnosis usually begins due to a history of recurrent infections, mostly in the respiratory tract, through childhood. This is due to humoral immunodeficiency. The diagnosis is probable when blood tests show the complete lack of circulating B cells (determined by the B cell marker CD19 and/o... | 33,484 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
patient in their family should seek genetic counseling before pregnancy. Although the symptoms of a XLA and other primary immune diseases (PID) include repeated and often severe infections, the average time for a diagnosis of a PID can be up to 10 years.
# Treatment.
The most common treatm... | 33,485 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
IVIg, XLA patients may live a relatively healthy life. A patient should attempt reaching a state where his IgG blood count exceeds 800 mg/kg. The dose is based on the patient's weight and IgG blood-count.
Muscle injections of immunoglobulin (IMIg) were common before IVIg was prevalent, but ... | 33,486 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
treatment, if possible. One of the future prospects of XLA treatment is gene therapy, which could potentially cure XLA. Gene therapy technology is still in its infancy and may cause severe complications such as cancer and even death. Moreover, the long-term success and complications of this ... | 33,487 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
general have any beneficial effect on XLA patients as they lack normal ability to maintain immune memory.
XLA patients are specifically susceptible to viruses of the Enterovirus family, and mostly to: polio virus, coxsackie virus (hand, foot, and mouth disease) and Echoviruses. These may ca... | 33,488 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
is not known if XLA patients are able to generate an allergic reaction, as they lack functional IgE antibodies. There is no special hazard for XLA patients in dealing with pets or outdoor activities. Unlike in other primary immunodeficiencies XLA patients are at no greater risk for developin... | 33,489 |
2507689 | X-linked agammaglobulinemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-linked%20agammaglobulinemia | X-linked agammaglobulinemia
lobulinemia (CVID), and their clinical conditions and treatment are almost identical. However, while XLA is a congenital disorder, with known genetic causes, CVID may occur in adulthood and its causes are not yet understood.
XLA was also historically mistaken as Severe Combined Immunodefici... | 33,490 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
The Best of George Harrison
The Best of George Harrison is a 1976 compilation album by English musician George Harrison, released following the expiration of his EMI-affiliated Apple Records contract. Uniquely among all of the four Beatles' solo releases, apart from posthumous compilations,... | 33,491 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
failure to provide a faithful picture of Harrison's contribution to the Beatles' work, due to the omission of any of his Indian music compositions. In a calculated move by EMI and its American subsidiary, Capitol Records, the compilation was issued during the same month as Harrison's debut o... | 33,492 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
Horse 1976–1989" and the posthumously released "". The album was issued on CD in 1987 featuring the cover artwork from the original British release, rather than the design created in-house by Capitol and used in the majority of territories internationally in 1976. The compilation has yet to ... | 33,493 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
Capitol Records, a company with which Harrison had grown disaffected since August 1971, due to what author Alan Clayson describes as its "avaricious dithering" over the release of the "Concert for Bangladesh" album. In a final effort to force Capitol to distribute that live album at cost pri... | 33,494 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
Paul McCartney had chosen to re-sign with Capitol. The two record companies were now free to license releases featuring songs from the band's back catalogue and the individual members' solo work (except for McCartney's), without the need for artist's approval. Following EMI's reissue of the ... | 33,495 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
running order, the reversion to a pre-1967 royalty rate for the band, and what Starr termed Capitol's "craphouse" packaging.Clayson, "Ringo Starr", p. 262. After the record company had promised "the largest selling campaign in the history of the music business", the album was a commercial su... | 33,496 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
Your Past" sold reasonably well, in America, but their sales failed to match record-company expectations. For Harrison, there had been long delays between releases following the international success of his "All Things Must Pass" triple album in 1970–71, due first to his commitment to the Ba... | 33,497 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
As a result, by the time that Capitol came to prepare a compilation of his solo work the following year, he had effectively surrendered all artistic control over its content.
In the second half of 1976, thanks to the success of both "Rock 'n' Roll Music" and McCartney's world tour with his ... | 33,498 |
2507601 | The Best of George Harrison | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Best%20of%20George%20Harrison | The Best of George Harrison
for any of his songs to appear; and Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel having a top-ten hit in the UK with a cover of Harrison's composition "Here Comes the Sun". The planned Harrison greatest-hits compilation then became an experiment by Capitol whereby Beatles tracks were mixed with solo hits on... | 33,499 |
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