Peter Rogers Dies Peter Rogers, the producer and creator of the much-loved Carry On… series of films, has died. He was 95.Rogers, who died at his home in Buckinghamshire on Tuesday, following a short illness, was the brains behind all 31 instalments of the hugely popular British comedy ...
of a wood and plaster Federal Hall replica in Bryant Park, which at the time was a neglected patch of land behind the New York Public Library and a favorite spot for the city’s homeless, their numbers rapidly growing during one of the worst years of the Depression (unemployment hovered ne...
… Unlike time travel, cybernetics (which refers to the integration of our biology with machines) is one science fiction theme that is part of our experiential reality. We can already control machines with our thoughts—but only with simple commands, like those needed tomove a wheelchairor play...
Among the actors he worked with during his time with Karno was another future comedy star, was Arthur Stanley Jefferson, known on stage as Stan Laurel. Stan ultimately served as Chaplin's understudy and backup while with the Karno company. Charlie met a girl in the chorus line named Hetty ...
Habits have always been part of every human's lives and they the will always influence and control what people do. Charles Duhigg does an excellent job of explaining this in his book, The Power Of Habit. However, Charles Duhigg’s intent for writing this book isn’t to just explain what...
and they were married by March 1525. For Mary he managed to buy the marriage of Thomas Stanley, second Baron Monteagle, and they were married in late 1527 or early 1528. In November 1527 he concluded negotiations with Wolsey and other councillors for a still more important match. For £26...
During the period 1884-1886, Cameron dedicated a large part of his time and efforts to his writing. Recently bereaved of his wife Lucie, Cameron devoted these three years to compiling the first edition of hisHistory of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish Schools of Med...
Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Abraham David Christian, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, William Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, John De Andrea, Gino...
and was famed as a virtuoso rivaling Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, and Friedrich Kalkbrenner.[6] Liszt once stated that Alkan had the most perfect technique he had ever seen.[7] At this time, (which coincides with the birth and childhood of his presumed son, Elie-Miriam Delaborde), he withdr...
By 1912, the Pearces had moved to Vancouver, B.C. Here they would welcome the arrival of two more children. On 24 Feb 1912, daughter Winnifred May Pearce was born and on 3 Sep 1913 son Stanley Owen Pearce joined the family. Pearce appears in the Henderson's Greater Vancouver City Direc...