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A (New York City Subway service) The A Eighth Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored blue on route signs, station signs, and the official subway map, since it runs on the IND Eighth Avenue Line through Manhattan.
A battery (vacuum tubes) In electronics, an A battery is any battery used to provide power to the filament of a vacuum tube. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "wet battery" (although there's no reason why a "dry" battery of suitable voltage couldn't be utilised for the purpose) The term comes from the days of valve (tube) radios when it was common practice to use a dry battery for the plate (Anode) voltage and a rechargeable lead/acid "wet" battery for the filament voltage.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush The proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is a metaphoric expression meaning that it is better to settle for what you have rather than risk losing everything by attempting to gain more.
A byahme mladi A byahme mladi (Bulgarian language:Рбяхме млади (English language:We Were Young) is a 1961 Bulgarian drama film directed by Binka Zhelyazkova and written by Hristo Ganev. The film is centres on the Bulgarian resistance to Nazism in Sofia during the Second World War.
A Balada de Praia do CĂŁes A Balada da Praia dos CĂŁes (Ballad of Dog's Beach) is a fiction novel relating the investigation into the murder of a political dissident, taking place around 1961. The novel is largely based on contemporary reports of a real murder that took place.
A Band A Band were a British musical collective formed in Nottingham in the late 1980's. Founded at the behest of saxophonist Vince Earimal who required a backing band, Earimal's habit of not turning up for live shows meant the unit quickly became an ever-changing, freeform improvisation unit.
A Band Apart A Band Apart was a production company created by a number of famous and acclaimed movie directors. Its name is a play on the French New Wave classic, Bande Ă part ("Band of Outsiders") by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, whose work was highly influential on the work of the company's members.
A Baoa Qu (Gundam) In Mobile Suit Gundam, the space fortress A Baoa Qu (Japanese: ) was Zeon's last defense line in the One Year War of the Universal Century for the Principality of Zeon. The name (variously spelled Abaoaqu or A Bao A Qu by fans) is taken from an obscure Malayan legend A Bao A Qu (Japanese: ) about a monster who guards the Tower of Victory.
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears is a children's book written and illustrated by Jules Feiffer It follows the hilarious tale of the young prince Roger who haphazardly sets out on a quest to prepare himself to become king. The book expresses the emotions of various individuals through two long-lost lovers reunited, several unlikely couples marrying, and a friend-turned-evil's attempts for revenge.
A Bathing Ape A Bathing Ape, or Bape, is a Japanese] [[clothing company specializing in urban streetwear. Bape's main focus is on clothing and the company produces a variety of clothing items, including but not limited to: shirts, polos, sweatshirts, parkas, jackets, denim, and most notably, the "Bape Sta," a shoe very closely resembling the Nike Air Force One.
A Battle of Wits (2006 film) A Battle of Wits (Chinese: 墨攻; Pinyin: Mò Gōng) is a Hong Kong film released in November 2006, based upon a Japanese manga of the same name. It stars Andy Lau, Fan Bingbing, Nicky Wu, and newcomer Choi Si Won.
A Beautiful Mind (film) A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. The film is loosely based on the more factual biography of the same name, which was written by Sylvia Nasar and published in 1998.
A Beautiful World A Beautiful World was a 2003 re-release of producer/singer/songwriter Robin Thicke's debut album Cherry Blue Skies. The album features the extra tracks "A Beautiful World" and "She's Gangsta".
A Beginning "A Beginning" is a instrumental song by The Beatles, and it was recorded in July of 1968. It was recorded in the same session where orchestral overdubs for "Good Night" were recorded, and composed by the same musicians.
A Believer Sings the Truth A Believer Sings the Truth is a gospel double album by American country singer Johnny Cash. Though eventually released by Columbia records, Cash had trouble convincing the label to release the album, and initially released it on his own on the Cachet label and as a radio special with added narration.
A Bell Will Ring A Bell Will Ring is the penultimate song off of British rock band Oasis' 2005 Don't Believe the Truth album. The song was written by guitar player Gem Archer and was played at the Glastonbury Festival along with The Meaning of Soul to launch the album.
A Benefit for Maryville Academy Pete Townshend Live: A Benefit for Maryville Academy (Platinum 9555) is a 1998 live album by English Rock musician Pete Townshend, member of The Who, recorded at the House of Blues in Chicago. It was produced by multi-instrumentalist Jon Carin, who has occasionally played for Pink Floyd and gives this album a special feel with the use of programmed drums and samples.
A Benihana Christmas "A Benihana Christmas" is the tenth episode of the third season of the US version of The Office. It originally aired on December 14, 2006, and was directed by Harold Ramis, who has helmed movies such as Caddyshack and Groundhog Day.
A Berlin Republic A Berlin Republic is a collection of interviews with JĂĽrgen Habermas conducted by various European media in the mid-1990s. Originally published as Eine Republik Berliner, the common thread of the interviews is Habermas's disagreement with resurgent German nationalism after the reunification with the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).
A Better Friend "A Better Friend" is the first single release by British indie rock band Hefner. The single, released on a 7" vinyl record via Boogie Wonderland in 1997, was limited to 500 copies and eventually led to the band being signed to Too Pure.
A Better Tomorrow A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色; pinyin: yīngxióng běnsè, Cantonese: ying1 hung4 bun2 sik1; literally True Colors of a Hero) is a 1986 Hong Kong action movie which had a profound influence on the Hong Kong movie-making industry, and later on an international scale.
A Better Tomorrow 2 A Better Tomorrow 2 (英雄本色 2; pinyin: yīngxióng běnsè èr) is a 1987 film, which is a follow-up to its popular predecessor, A Better Tomorrow. A Better Tomorrow 2 is notoriously known for its over-the-top violence, exaggerated blood and gore and body counts nearing the hundreds.
A Better Tomorrow 3 A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon is a Hong Kong action film released in 1989. It was directed by Tsui Hark and is a loosely-based prequel to John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, though it was released after A Better Tomorrow 2.
A BEE C A Bee C are a minor local political party in Brentford, England. They are the political side to the "Bias" group, an organistation formed of Brentford Football Club supporters - Brentford Independent Association of Supporters.
A Big Package for You A Big Package For You was a 2004 DVD release by Simple Plan. It included a DVD showing the band travelling, a CD single with the song (not previously released) "Crash and Burn" and two live tracks, and some souvenir photos in the form of square postcards.
A Bigger Bang Tour The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour is a worldwide concert tour taking place during 2005, 2006 and reportedly 2007, in support of their album A Bigger Bang. It has proven to be one of the longest such tours ever, especially in terms of large gaps between its portions, and moreover has become the highest-grossing tour ever May 2005, The Stones announced plans for another world tour starting August 21] at a [[press conference and a mini concert at the Juilliard School in New York.
A Bill of Divorcement A Bill of Divorcement is a British play written by Clemence Dane that debuted in 1921 in London. Dane wrote it as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman divorcing her husband.
A Bing Bang Holidang A Bing Bang Holidang is a charity holiday music album by Bleu. Released in 1999, it was released as a benefit for Boston Institute for Arts Therapy and featured contributions from Boston musicians and bands such as Guster, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Kay Hanley, and Bill Janovitz.
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, 2002, 897pp, (ISBN 0-7277-2939-X) discusses the lives of the people who were concerned with building harbours and lighthouses, undertook fen drainage and improved river navigations, built canals, roads, bridges and early railways, and provided water supply facilities. Volume one covers the years from 1500 to 1830.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie A Bit of Fry and Laurie was a British television series starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast by the BBC between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series, and totalled 26 episodes, including a 35 minute pilot episode in 1987).
A Bittersweet Life A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan insaeng) is a 2005 film by Korean director Kim Ji-woon. Highly cultural and ruthlessly violent, it illustrates the ethical codes in the Korean mob and how they clash with personal morality.
A Black Diamond District The A Black Diamond District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws its members from the western part of Southwest Virginia. The schools in the Black Diamond District compete in A Region D with the schools of the A Cumberland District, and the A Lonesome Pine District.
A Blighted Life A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and her subsequent release a few weeks later.
A Blind Bargain A Blind Bargain is a 1922 horror film starring Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, released through Goldwyn Pictures. It was directed by Wallace Worsley and is based on Barry Pain's 1897 novel, The Octave of Claudius.
A Blowout at Santa Banana A Blowout at Santa Banana was a 1914 American silent popular short film starring Charlotte Burton, Sydney Ayres, Louise Lester, Jack Richardson, Harry von Meter, Julius Frankenburg, William Tedmarsh, Jacques Jaccard, Caroline Frances Cooke, Edith Borella, Violet Knights, (as Violet Neitz), Chick Morrison (as Charles Morrison), Perry Banks amdVivian Rich.
A Body in the Bath House A Body In The Bath House is a crime novel by Lindsey Davis, first published in 2001, in the United Kingdom by Century, London and in the United States by Mysterious Press, New York. It is the thirteenth in the Falco series of mysteries, set in the Roman Empire primarily during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian.
A Bold Stroke for a Wife A Bold Stroke for a Wife is Susanna Centlivre's 18th-century satirical English play developed in 1717. The plot expresses the author's unabashed support of the British Whig Party: she criticizes the Tories, religious hypocrisy, and the greed of capitalism.
A Book from the Sky A Book from the Sky is the name given to an art exhibition created by Chinese artist Xu Bing (born 1955). It was first displayed in Beijing's China Art Gallery in 1988 and created a sensation in the Chinese art community.
A Book of Cats and Creatures A Book of Cats and Creatures is a 1981 anthology of 18 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Devils and Demons A Book of Devils and Demons is a 1970 anthology of 12 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Enchantments and Curses A Book of Enchantments and Curses is a 1977 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Ghosts and Goblins A Book of Ghosts and Goblins is a 1969 anthology of 21 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Charms and Changelings A Book of Charms and Changelings is a 1972 anthology of 15 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Kings and Queens A Book of Kings and Queens is a 1978 anthology of 10 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Magic Animals A Book of Magic Animals is a 1975 anthology of 11 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Magic Horses A Book of Magic Horses is a 1984 anthology of 16 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Magical Beasts A Book of Magical Beasts is a 1970 anthology of 37 fairy tales and fantasy poems from around the world that have been collected and presented, in other authors' versions, by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Manning-Sanders thus serves as the editor of this volume, whereas in many other anthologies she is retelling the tales that she has collected.
A Book of Ogres and Trolls A Book of Ogres and Trolls is a 1973 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Princes and Princesses A Book of Princes and Princesses is a 1970 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Sorcerers and Spells A Book of Sorcerers and Spells is a 1974 anthology of 12 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Spooks and Spectres A Book of Spooks and Spectres is a 1980 anthology of 23 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1963 film) A Boy Named Charlie Brown is an unreleased television documentary film about Charles M. Schulz and his creation Peanuts, produced by Lee Mendelson with some animated scenes by Bill Melendez and music by Vince Guaraldi.
A Bridge Too Far (novel) A Bridge Too Far, a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1974, tells the story of Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem in the occupied Netherlands during World War II. The title of the book comes from a comment made by British Lt.
A Brief Overview A Brief Overview is a promotional album by Beck, released in 2005. It is a retrospective including the first single from his then current release, Guero, going back through Sea Change, Mutations, Midnite Vultures, Odelay, One Foot In The Grave, and Mellow Gold.
A Brief Vacation A Brief Vacation (Una Breve vacanza) is a 1973 Italian melodrama directed by Vittorio de Sica. The script, written by Cesare Zavattini, was inspired by an Apollinaire adage ("Sickness is the vacation of the poor").
A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book) A Briefer History of Time (2005, ISBN 0-553-80436-7) is a popular-science book from the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow. It is an update and rewrite of Hawking's 1988 A Brief History of Time.
A Brighter Summer Day A Brighter Summer Day (Traditional Chinese: 牯嶺街少年殺人事件) is a 4-hour film directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. The film is an extraordinarily large project for a Chinese-language film, not only for its duration for 4 hours, but also as it involved more than 100 amateur actors in different roles.
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A Brush With Fame A Brush With Fame was an ITV artistic show in which a number of people work, and looking for the best amateur, and talented artist. It was presented by Carol Smillie, and the last episode was broadcast on November 11, 2005.
A Bug and a Bag of Weed A Bug and a Bag of Weed is a 2006 comedy film directed by David Gonella and starring Sebastian Spence, Chris Cuthbertson, Drew Hagen, Nico Lorenzutti, Laura Kohoot, Nigel Bennett, Ryan Scott Greene, Amy Kerr, John Dunsworth, Veronica Reynolds and Christopher Shyer.
A Bug's Life A Bug's Life is a computer animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 14, 1998, and in the United Kingdom on 5 February 1999. It's also the second Disney/Pixar feature film.
A Bull Run District The A Bull Run District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws most of its members from Northern Virginia and in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley. The schools in the Bull Run District compete in A Region B with the schools of the A Dogwood District, the A James River District and the A Shenandoah District.
A Bullfighter's Guide to Space and Love A Bullfighter's Guide to Space and Love is an EP by the band Havalina. Serving as a prelude to the album Space, Love, & Bullfighting, this EP features alternate versions of three songs which would appear on the next album.
A Bushel and a Peck "A Bushel and a Peck" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls which opened at the 46th Street Theater on November 24, 1950.
A Buyer's Market A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve novel masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1952, it continues the story of narrator Nick Jenkins' with his introduction into society after boarding school and university.
A cappella A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella is Italian for like in the chapel (music); the term is due to the fact that Christian churches sang without instrumental accompaniment for the first several hundred years of its existence.
A capriccio A capriccio (Italian: "following one's fancy") is a tempo marking indicating a free and capricious approach to the tempo (and possibly the style) of the piece. This marking will usually modify another, such as lento a capriccio, often used in the Hungarian rhapsodies of Franz Liszt.
A class destroyer (1913) The A class of 1913 was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. They were constructed to the individual designs of their builders to meet Admiralty specifications, the only uniting feature being a specified top speed of 27 knots; all "27 knotter" vessels being classified by the Admiralty as the A class in 1913 to provide some system to the naming of HM destroyers.
A class torpedo boat Germany's A class torpedo boats were a class of single-funnelled torpedo boat / light destroyer designed by the Marineamt for operations off the coast of occupied Flanders in the First World War. The A designation was to avoid confusion with older classes and designs.
A Calculated Use of Sound Re-release A Calculated Use of Sound, created by post-hardcore metal band Protest The Hero, was re-released in 2004. It was originally released in 2003 without re-mastered tracks and the song "Soft Targets Make Softer Graves".
A Calendar of Wisdom A Calendar of Wisdom (Russian: ĐźŃŃ‚ŃŚ Жизни, Put' Zhizni), is a collection of insights and wisdom compiled by Leo Tolstoy between 1903 and 1910 published in 1910. The book, which title is literally translated as "Life's Way", was described by Tolstoy as "a wise thought for every day of the year, from the great philosophers of all times and all people" which he himself would consult daily for the rest of his life.
A Call For Unity "A Call For Unity" is a letter written on April 12, 1963 by eight white clergymen local to Birmingham, Alabama and published in a local newspaper. The writers urged an end to the Negro demonstrations "directed and led in part by outsiders" that were taking place in the area at the time, recommending that Negros engage in local negotiations and use the courts if rights are being denied.
A Camping We Will Go A Camping We Will Go is the 22nd episode in season 1 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, also known as simply Lowlands, is a music festival, held annually in the Netherlands in August. Lowlands is, together with Pinkpop, one of the biggest and most popular music festivals in the country, with about 60,000 visitors, over 200 acts and more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet, apart from the Grolsch stage, named after the beer brewer Grolsch, who has been the main sponsor of the festival for the last few years.
A Canção de Lisboa A Canção de Lisboa (lit. Lisbon Song) is a Portuguese film comedy from 1933, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva, Alfredo Silva, Ana Maria, Artur Rodrigues, Coralia Escobar, Eduardo Fernandes, Elvira Coutinho, Fernanda Campos, Francisco Costa, Henrique Alves, Ivone Fernandes, José Victor, Júlia da Assunção, Manoel de Oliveira, Manuel Santos Carvalho, Maria Albertina, Maria da Luz, Silvestre Alegrim, Sofia Santos, Teresa Gomes and Zizi Cosme.
A Canterbury Tale A Canterbury Tale (1944) is a British film by the film-making team of Powell & Pressburger. The film takes its title from The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, and loosely uses Chaucer's theme of 'eccentric characters on a religious pilgrimage' to highlight the wartime experiences of the citizens of Kent and encourage wartime Anglo-American friendship and understanding.
A Cantor's Tale A Cantor's Tale is a documentary by Erik Greenberg Anjou. The film profiles Jacob Mendelson, a practitioner of Jewish liturgical music who has dedicated his life to preserving the form's traditional vocal stylings.
A Capela, Galicia A Capela (not to be mistaken with the nearby "Serra da Capelada" which extends itself along the coasts of Cedeira and Cariño city councils) is a City Council of Ferrolterra in North-western Spain in the Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Ferrolterra's population represents the third largest concentration of people in Galicia, and its disperse population exceeds 211,000 (2005).
A Car Without A Name A Car Without A Name was an automobile built in 1909 by a company that identified, in advertisements itself only as Department C, 19 North May Street, Chicago. The address had previous been the location where the Reliable-Dayton automobile had been built.
A Case of Conscience A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by James Blish, first published in 1959. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion; they are completely without any concept of God, an afterlife, or the idea of sin; and the species evolves through several forms through the course of its life cycle.
A Case of Rape This television movie tells the story of a wife and mother who is raped by the same man twice and her ordeals dealing with the actual rape and her subsequent dealing with the police and the trial. Elizabeth Montgomery plays victim Ellen Harrod and Ronny Cox portrays her husband, David.
A Case of You Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded the song "A Case of You" in 1971, during her early 'folk' period. The song was first released on the album Blue, and Mitchell later recorded it on her live album Miles of Aisles.
A Causa das Coisas A Causa das Coisas (ISBN 9723702746) is a Portuguese book written by Miguel Esteves Cardoso, published in 1986. The book is a selection of chronicles that he published when he was a collaborator on the weekly paper Expresso.
A Century of Cinema A Century of Cinema is a 1994 documentary directed by Caroline Thomas about the art of filmmaking (coinciding with cinema's 100th anniversary), containing numerous interviews with some of the most influential characters of the twentieth century.
A Century of Dishonor A Century of Dishonor (1881), by Helen Hunt Jackson, chronicles the experiences of Native Americans in the United States, focusing on examples of injustices. Among the episodes it documents are incidents in which Praying Town Indians were eradicated in the colonial period, despite their recent conversion to Christianity, because it was assumed that all Indians were the same.
A Cinderella Story (soundtrack) A Cinderella Story soundtrack is the soundtrack for the Hilary Duff movie, A Cinderella Story. It features 5 Hilary songs, including the hit collaboration with her sister Haylie, "Our Lips Are Sealed" (a cover song from The Go-Go's).
A City of Sadness A City of Sadness () is a 1989 film by Hou Hsiao-hsien about a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" wrought by the Kuomintang (KMT) on the Taiwanese people when they began to arrive from mainland China in the late-1940s.
A Civil Action A Civil Action is a 1998 film, starring John Travolta (as plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlichtmann) and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr. Both the book and the film are based on real-life events that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s.
A Civil War: Army vs. Navy A Civil War is a book published in 1996 by popular sports author John Feinstein. In it, Feinstein writes about his experiences spending time with both football teams of the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy during the 1995 season, leading up to the Army-Navy game at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, commonly referred to as the "Clean Break" report, was prepared in 1996 by a study group led by Richard Perle for Benjamin Netanyahu, the then-Prime Minister of Israel.
A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his third half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit, following 1989's A Grand Day Out and 1993's The Wrong Trousers.
A Cock and Bull Story A Cock and Bull Story (released in the United States and Australia as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2006 British comedy directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as the egotistical lead and "co-lead" actors in an adaptation of the novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.
A Colder War A Colder War is an alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It follows a "What If" scenario where the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos.
A Collection A Collection is a 2005 DVD by New Order, featuring the majority of their music videos, as well as three alternate versions, two new videos for older songs and a live performance. It is New Order's first DVD compilation, their previous video collections, (The Best Of) New Order and Substance only having been released on VHS or Laserdisc.
A Collection (album) A Collection is a greatest hits album by Third Eye Blind, released July 18, 2006 (see 2006 in music). The album contains all of their singles (with the exception of "Anything"), a handful of fan and band favorites, as well as three unreleased-via-LP songs: "Tattoo of the Sun", "My Time in Exile" and "Slow Motion" (with lyrics).
A Collection of Short Stories A Collection of Short Stories is an album by Houston Calls, released on August 2 2005 on Rushmore Records. The album is considered Houston Calls' debut album, however, they independently released two samplers beforehand.
A Common Reader A Common Reader was an American mail-order book catalogue established in 1986 by Alex Goulder and James Mustich, Jr. It was notable among general-interest book catalogues for its eclecticism, with large sections of each issue given over to obscure literary classics.
A Complete Demonstration A Complete Demonstration is a compilation of early demo tracks by the band VAST. It was made available online in 2005 as a limited edition piece, with the first five hundred copies being signed by Jon Crosby, as well as being numbered.
A Comprehensive Retrospective: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings A Comprehensive Retrospective: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings is a compilation album by hardcore band Shai Hulud. It is a collection of live recordings and early demos and was released after the band split up.
A Concert for Hurricane Relief A Concert for Hurricane Relief was an hour-long, music and celebrity driven live benefit broadcast, sponsored by the NBC Universal Television Group, in response to the Hurricane Katrina tragedy in the southeastern United States, in 2005. Simulcast from the New York studios of NBC located in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, PAX on September 2, 2005.
A battery (vacuum tubes) In electronics, an A battery is any battery used to provide power to the filament of a vacuum tube. It is sometimes colloquially referred to as a "wet battery" (although there's no reason why a "dry" battery of suitable voltage couldn't be utilised for the purpose) The term comes from the days of valve (tube) radios when it was common practice to use a dry battery for the plate (Anode) voltage and a rechargeable lead/acid "wet" battery for the filament voltage.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush The proverb "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is a metaphoric expression meaning that it is better to settle for what you have rather than risk losing everything by attempting to gain more.
A byahme mladi A byahme mladi (Bulgarian language:Рбяхме млади (English language:We Were Young) is a 1961 Bulgarian drama film directed by Binka Zhelyazkova and written by Hristo Ganev. The film is centres on the Bulgarian resistance to Nazism in Sofia during the Second World War.
A Balada de Praia do CĂŁes A Balada da Praia dos CĂŁes (Ballad of Dog's Beach) is a fiction novel relating the investigation into the murder of a political dissident, taking place around 1961. The novel is largely based on contemporary reports of a real murder that took place.
A Band A Band were a British musical collective formed in Nottingham in the late 1980's. Founded at the behest of saxophonist Vince Earimal who required a backing band, Earimal's habit of not turning up for live shows meant the unit quickly became an ever-changing, freeform improvisation unit.
A Band Apart A Band Apart was a production company created by a number of famous and acclaimed movie directors. Its name is a play on the French New Wave classic, Bande Ă part ("Band of Outsiders") by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, whose work was highly influential on the work of the company's members.
A Baoa Qu (Gundam) In Mobile Suit Gundam, the space fortress A Baoa Qu (Japanese: ) was Zeon's last defense line in the One Year War of the Universal Century for the Principality of Zeon. The name (variously spelled Abaoaqu or A Bao A Qu by fans) is taken from an obscure Malayan legend A Bao A Qu (Japanese: ) about a monster who guards the Tower of Victory.
A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears is a children's book written and illustrated by Jules Feiffer It follows the hilarious tale of the young prince Roger who haphazardly sets out on a quest to prepare himself to become king. The book expresses the emotions of various individuals through two long-lost lovers reunited, several unlikely couples marrying, and a friend-turned-evil's attempts for revenge.
A Bathing Ape A Bathing Ape, or Bape, is a Japanese] [[clothing company specializing in urban streetwear. Bape's main focus is on clothing and the company produces a variety of clothing items, including but not limited to: shirts, polos, sweatshirts, parkas, jackets, denim, and most notably, the "Bape Sta," a shoe very closely resembling the Nike Air Force One.
A Battle of Wits (2006 film) A Battle of Wits (Chinese: 墨攻; Pinyin: Mò Gōng) is a Hong Kong film released in November 2006, based upon a Japanese manga of the same name. It stars Andy Lau, Fan Bingbing, Nicky Wu, and newcomer Choi Si Won.
A Beautiful Mind (film) A Beautiful Mind is a Academy Award-winning film inspired by the Nobel Prize (Economics) winning mathematician John Nash and his experiences of schizophrenia. The film is loosely based on the more factual biography of the same name, which was written by Sylvia Nasar and published in 1998.
A Beautiful World A Beautiful World was a 2003 re-release of producer/singer/songwriter Robin Thicke's debut album Cherry Blue Skies. The album features the extra tracks "A Beautiful World" and "She's Gangsta".
A Beginning "A Beginning" is a instrumental song by The Beatles, and it was recorded in July of 1968. It was recorded in the same session where orchestral overdubs for "Good Night" were recorded, and composed by the same musicians.
A Believer Sings the Truth A Believer Sings the Truth is a gospel double album by American country singer Johnny Cash. Though eventually released by Columbia records, Cash had trouble convincing the label to release the album, and initially released it on his own on the Cachet label and as a radio special with added narration.
A Bell Will Ring A Bell Will Ring is the penultimate song off of British rock band Oasis' 2005 Don't Believe the Truth album. The song was written by guitar player Gem Archer and was played at the Glastonbury Festival along with The Meaning of Soul to launch the album.
A Benefit for Maryville Academy Pete Townshend Live: A Benefit for Maryville Academy (Platinum 9555) is a 1998 live album by English Rock musician Pete Townshend, member of The Who, recorded at the House of Blues in Chicago. It was produced by multi-instrumentalist Jon Carin, who has occasionally played for Pink Floyd and gives this album a special feel with the use of programmed drums and samples.
A Benihana Christmas "A Benihana Christmas" is the tenth episode of the third season of the US version of The Office. It originally aired on December 14, 2006, and was directed by Harold Ramis, who has helmed movies such as Caddyshack and Groundhog Day.
A Berlin Republic A Berlin Republic is a collection of interviews with JĂĽrgen Habermas conducted by various European media in the mid-1990s. Originally published as Eine Republik Berliner, the common thread of the interviews is Habermas's disagreement with resurgent German nationalism after the reunification with the former German Democratic Republic (GDR).
A Better Friend "A Better Friend" is the first single release by British indie rock band Hefner. The single, released on a 7" vinyl record via Boogie Wonderland in 1997, was limited to 500 copies and eventually led to the band being signed to Too Pure.
A Better Tomorrow A Better Tomorrow (英雄本色; pinyin: yīngxióng běnsè, Cantonese: ying1 hung4 bun2 sik1; literally True Colors of a Hero) is a 1986 Hong Kong action movie which had a profound influence on the Hong Kong movie-making industry, and later on an international scale.
A Better Tomorrow 2 A Better Tomorrow 2 (英雄本色 2; pinyin: yīngxióng běnsè èr) is a 1987 film, which is a follow-up to its popular predecessor, A Better Tomorrow. A Better Tomorrow 2 is notoriously known for its over-the-top violence, exaggerated blood and gore and body counts nearing the hundreds.
A Better Tomorrow 3 A Better Tomorrow 3: Love & Death in Saigon is a Hong Kong action film released in 1989. It was directed by Tsui Hark and is a loosely-based prequel to John Woo's A Better Tomorrow, though it was released after A Better Tomorrow 2.
A BEE C A Bee C are a minor local political party in Brentford, England. They are the political side to the "Bias" group, an organistation formed of Brentford Football Club supporters - Brentford Independent Association of Supporters.
A Big Package for You A Big Package For You was a 2004 DVD release by Simple Plan. It included a DVD showing the band travelling, a CD single with the song (not previously released) "Crash and Burn" and two live tracks, and some souvenir photos in the form of square postcards.
A Bigger Bang Tour The Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour is a worldwide concert tour taking place during 2005, 2006 and reportedly 2007, in support of their album A Bigger Bang. It has proven to be one of the longest such tours ever, especially in terms of large gaps between its portions, and moreover has become the highest-grossing tour ever May 2005, The Stones announced plans for another world tour starting August 21] at a [[press conference and a mini concert at the Juilliard School in New York.
A Bill of Divorcement A Bill of Divorcement is a British play written by Clemence Dane that debuted in 1921 in London. Dane wrote it as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman divorcing her husband.
A Bing Bang Holidang A Bing Bang Holidang is a charity holiday music album by Bleu. Released in 1999, it was released as a benefit for Boston Institute for Arts Therapy and featured contributions from Boston musicians and bands such as Guster, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Kay Hanley, and Bill Janovitz.
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, 2002, 897pp, (ISBN 0-7277-2939-X) discusses the lives of the people who were concerned with building harbours and lighthouses, undertook fen drainage and improved river navigations, built canals, roads, bridges and early railways, and provided water supply facilities. Volume one covers the years from 1500 to 1830.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie A Bit of Fry and Laurie was a British television series starring former Cambridge Footlights members Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, broadcast by the BBC between 1989 and 1995. It ran for four series, and totalled 26 episodes, including a 35 minute pilot episode in 1987).
A Bittersweet Life A Bittersweet Life (Dalkomhan insaeng) is a 2005 film by Korean director Kim Ji-woon. Highly cultural and ruthlessly violent, it illustrates the ethical codes in the Korean mob and how they clash with personal morality.
A Black Diamond District The A Black Diamond District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws its members from the western part of Southwest Virginia. The schools in the Black Diamond District compete in A Region D with the schools of the A Cumberland District, and the A Lonesome Pine District.
A Blighted Life A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and her subsequent release a few weeks later.
A Blind Bargain A Blind Bargain is a 1922 horror film starring Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee, released through Goldwyn Pictures. It was directed by Wallace Worsley and is based on Barry Pain's 1897 novel, The Octave of Claudius.
A Blowout at Santa Banana A Blowout at Santa Banana was a 1914 American silent popular short film starring Charlotte Burton, Sydney Ayres, Louise Lester, Jack Richardson, Harry von Meter, Julius Frankenburg, William Tedmarsh, Jacques Jaccard, Caroline Frances Cooke, Edith Borella, Violet Knights, (as Violet Neitz), Chick Morrison (as Charles Morrison), Perry Banks amdVivian Rich.
A Body in the Bath House A Body In The Bath House is a crime novel by Lindsey Davis, first published in 2001, in the United Kingdom by Century, London and in the United States by Mysterious Press, New York. It is the thirteenth in the Falco series of mysteries, set in the Roman Empire primarily during the reign of the Emperor Vespasian.
A Bold Stroke for a Wife A Bold Stroke for a Wife is Susanna Centlivre's 18th-century satirical English play developed in 1717. The plot expresses the author's unabashed support of the British Whig Party: she criticizes the Tories, religious hypocrisy, and the greed of capitalism.
A Book from the Sky A Book from the Sky is the name given to an art exhibition created by Chinese artist Xu Bing (born 1955). It was first displayed in Beijing's China Art Gallery in 1988 and created a sensation in the Chinese art community.
A Book of Cats and Creatures A Book of Cats and Creatures is a 1981 anthology of 18 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Devils and Demons A Book of Devils and Demons is a 1970 anthology of 12 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Enchantments and Curses A Book of Enchantments and Curses is a 1977 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Ghosts and Goblins A Book of Ghosts and Goblins is a 1969 anthology of 21 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Charms and Changelings A Book of Charms and Changelings is a 1972 anthology of 15 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Kings and Queens A Book of Kings and Queens is a 1978 anthology of 10 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Magic Animals A Book of Magic Animals is a 1975 anthology of 11 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Magic Horses A Book of Magic Horses is a 1984 anthology of 16 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Magical Beasts A Book of Magical Beasts is a 1970 anthology of 37 fairy tales and fantasy poems from around the world that have been collected and presented, in other authors' versions, by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Manning-Sanders thus serves as the editor of this volume, whereas in many other anthologies she is retelling the tales that she has collected.
A Book of Ogres and Trolls A Book of Ogres and Trolls is a 1973 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Princes and Princesses A Book of Princes and Princesses is a 1970 anthology of 13 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Sorcerers and Spells A Book of Sorcerers and Spells is a 1974 anthology of 12 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Book of Spooks and Spectres A Book of Spooks and Spectres is a 1980 anthology of 23 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.
A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1963 film) A Boy Named Charlie Brown is an unreleased television documentary film about Charles M. Schulz and his creation Peanuts, produced by Lee Mendelson with some animated scenes by Bill Melendez and music by Vince Guaraldi.
A Bridge Too Far (novel) A Bridge Too Far, a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1974, tells the story of Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem in the occupied Netherlands during World War II. The title of the book comes from a comment made by British Lt.
A Brief Overview A Brief Overview is a promotional album by Beck, released in 2005. It is a retrospective including the first single from his then current release, Guero, going back through Sea Change, Mutations, Midnite Vultures, Odelay, One Foot In The Grave, and Mellow Gold.
A Brief Vacation A Brief Vacation (Una Breve vacanza) is a 1973 Italian melodrama directed by Vittorio de Sica. The script, written by Cesare Zavattini, was inspired by an Apollinaire adage ("Sickness is the vacation of the poor").
A Briefer History of Time (Hawking and Mlodinow book) A Briefer History of Time (2005, ISBN 0-553-80436-7) is a popular-science book from the English physicist Stephen Hawking and the American physicist Leonard Mlodinow. It is an update and rewrite of Hawking's 1988 A Brief History of Time.
A Brighter Summer Day A Brighter Summer Day (Traditional Chinese: 牯嶺街少年殺人事件) is a 4-hour film directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang. The film is an extraordinarily large project for a Chinese-language film, not only for its duration for 4 hours, but also as it involved more than 100 amateur actors in different roles.
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A Brush With Fame A Brush With Fame was an ITV artistic show in which a number of people work, and looking for the best amateur, and talented artist. It was presented by Carol Smillie, and the last episode was broadcast on November 11, 2005.
A Bug and a Bag of Weed A Bug and a Bag of Weed is a 2006 comedy film directed by David Gonella and starring Sebastian Spence, Chris Cuthbertson, Drew Hagen, Nico Lorenzutti, Laura Kohoot, Nigel Bennett, Ryan Scott Greene, Amy Kerr, John Dunsworth, Veronica Reynolds and Christopher Shyer.
A Bug's Life A Bug's Life is a computer animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 14, 1998, and in the United Kingdom on 5 February 1999. It's also the second Disney/Pixar feature film.
A Bull Run District The A Bull Run District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws most of its members from Northern Virginia and in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley. The schools in the Bull Run District compete in A Region B with the schools of the A Dogwood District, the A James River District and the A Shenandoah District.
A Bullfighter's Guide to Space and Love A Bullfighter's Guide to Space and Love is an EP by the band Havalina. Serving as a prelude to the album Space, Love, & Bullfighting, this EP features alternate versions of three songs which would appear on the next album.
A Bushel and a Peck "A Bushel and a Peck" is a popular song written by Frank Loesser and published in 1950. The song was introduced in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls which opened at the 46th Street Theater on November 24, 1950.
A Buyer's Market A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve novel masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1952, it continues the story of narrator Nick Jenkins' with his introduction into society after boarding school and university.
A cappella A cappella music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella is Italian for like in the chapel (music); the term is due to the fact that Christian churches sang without instrumental accompaniment for the first several hundred years of its existence.
A capriccio A capriccio (Italian: "following one's fancy") is a tempo marking indicating a free and capricious approach to the tempo (and possibly the style) of the piece. This marking will usually modify another, such as lento a capriccio, often used in the Hungarian rhapsodies of Franz Liszt.
A class destroyer (1913) The A class of 1913 was a heterogeneous group of torpedo boat destroyers (TBDs) built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1890s. They were constructed to the individual designs of their builders to meet Admiralty specifications, the only uniting feature being a specified top speed of 27 knots; all "27 knotter" vessels being classified by the Admiralty as the A class in 1913 to provide some system to the naming of HM destroyers.
A class torpedo boat Germany's A class torpedo boats were a class of single-funnelled torpedo boat / light destroyer designed by the Marineamt for operations off the coast of occupied Flanders in the First World War. The A designation was to avoid confusion with older classes and designs.
A Calculated Use of Sound Re-release A Calculated Use of Sound, created by post-hardcore metal band Protest The Hero, was re-released in 2004. It was originally released in 2003 without re-mastered tracks and the song "Soft Targets Make Softer Graves".
A Calendar of Wisdom A Calendar of Wisdom (Russian: ĐźŃŃ‚ŃŚ Жизни, Put' Zhizni), is a collection of insights and wisdom compiled by Leo Tolstoy between 1903 and 1910 published in 1910. The book, which title is literally translated as "Life's Way", was described by Tolstoy as "a wise thought for every day of the year, from the great philosophers of all times and all people" which he himself would consult daily for the rest of his life.
A Call For Unity "A Call For Unity" is a letter written on April 12, 1963 by eight white clergymen local to Birmingham, Alabama and published in a local newspaper. The writers urged an end to the Negro demonstrations "directed and led in part by outsiders" that were taking place in the area at the time, recommending that Negros engage in local negotiations and use the courts if rights are being denied.
A Camping We Will Go A Camping We Will Go is the 22nd episode in season 1 in the Barney and Friends television show which airs on PBS. The episode features Bob West as the voice of Barney, West was featured on the show from 1992 - 2001.
A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, also known as simply Lowlands, is a music festival, held annually in the Netherlands in August. Lowlands is, together with Pinkpop, one of the biggest and most popular music festivals in the country, with about 60,000 visitors, over 200 acts and more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet, apart from the Grolsch stage, named after the beer brewer Grolsch, who has been the main sponsor of the festival for the last few years.
A Canção de Lisboa A Canção de Lisboa (lit. Lisbon Song) is a Portuguese film comedy from 1933, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva, Alfredo Silva, Ana Maria, Artur Rodrigues, Coralia Escobar, Eduardo Fernandes, Elvira Coutinho, Fernanda Campos, Francisco Costa, Henrique Alves, Ivone Fernandes, José Victor, Júlia da Assunção, Manoel de Oliveira, Manuel Santos Carvalho, Maria Albertina, Maria da Luz, Silvestre Alegrim, Sofia Santos, Teresa Gomes and Zizi Cosme.
A Canterbury Tale A Canterbury Tale (1944) is a British film by the film-making team of Powell & Pressburger. The film takes its title from The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, and loosely uses Chaucer's theme of 'eccentric characters on a religious pilgrimage' to highlight the wartime experiences of the citizens of Kent and encourage wartime Anglo-American friendship and understanding.
A Cantor's Tale A Cantor's Tale is a documentary by Erik Greenberg Anjou. The film profiles Jacob Mendelson, a practitioner of Jewish liturgical music who has dedicated his life to preserving the form's traditional vocal stylings.
A Capela, Galicia A Capela (not to be mistaken with the nearby "Serra da Capelada" which extends itself along the coasts of Cedeira and Cariño city councils) is a City Council of Ferrolterra in North-western Spain in the Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Ferrolterra's population represents the third largest concentration of people in Galicia, and its disperse population exceeds 211,000 (2005).
A Car Without A Name A Car Without A Name was an automobile built in 1909 by a company that identified, in advertisements itself only as Department C, 19 North May Street, Chicago. The address had previous been the location where the Reliable-Dayton automobile had been built.
A Case of Conscience A Case of Conscience is a science fiction novel by James Blish, first published in 1959. It is the story of a Jesuit who investigates an alien race that has no religion; they are completely without any concept of God, an afterlife, or the idea of sin; and the species evolves through several forms through the course of its life cycle.
A Case of Rape This television movie tells the story of a wife and mother who is raped by the same man twice and her ordeals dealing with the actual rape and her subsequent dealing with the police and the trial. Elizabeth Montgomery plays victim Ellen Harrod and Ronny Cox portrays her husband, David.
A Case of You Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded the song "A Case of You" in 1971, during her early 'folk' period. The song was first released on the album Blue, and Mitchell later recorded it on her live album Miles of Aisles.
A Causa das Coisas A Causa das Coisas (ISBN 9723702746) is a Portuguese book written by Miguel Esteves Cardoso, published in 1986. The book is a selection of chronicles that he published when he was a collaborator on the weekly paper Expresso.
A Century of Cinema A Century of Cinema is a 1994 documentary directed by Caroline Thomas about the art of filmmaking (coinciding with cinema's 100th anniversary), containing numerous interviews with some of the most influential characters of the twentieth century.
A Century of Dishonor A Century of Dishonor (1881), by Helen Hunt Jackson, chronicles the experiences of Native Americans in the United States, focusing on examples of injustices. Among the episodes it documents are incidents in which Praying Town Indians were eradicated in the colonial period, despite their recent conversion to Christianity, because it was assumed that all Indians were the same.
A Cinderella Story (soundtrack) A Cinderella Story soundtrack is the soundtrack for the Hilary Duff movie, A Cinderella Story. It features 5 Hilary songs, including the hit collaboration with her sister Haylie, "Our Lips Are Sealed" (a cover song from The Go-Go's).
A City of Sadness A City of Sadness () is a 1989 film by Hou Hsiao-hsien about a family embroiled in the tragic "White Terror" wrought by the Kuomintang (KMT) on the Taiwanese people when they began to arrive from mainland China in the late-1940s.
A Civil Action A Civil Action is a 1998 film, starring John Travolta (as plaintiff's attorney Jan Schlichtmann) and Robert Duvall, based on the book of the same name by Jonathan Harr. Both the book and the film are based on real-life events that took place in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s.
A Civil War: Army vs. Navy A Civil War is a book published in 1996 by popular sports author John Feinstein. In it, Feinstein writes about his experiences spending time with both football teams of the United States Military Academy and the United States Naval Academy during the 1995 season, leading up to the Army-Navy game at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, commonly referred to as the "Clean Break" report, was prepared in 1996 by a study group led by Richard Perle for Benjamin Netanyahu, the then-Prime Minister of Israel.
A Close Shave A Close Shave is a 1995 animated film directed by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. It was his third half-hour short featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit, following 1989's A Grand Day Out and 1993's The Wrong Trousers.
A Cock and Bull Story A Cock and Bull Story (released in the United States and Australia as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2006 British comedy directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as the egotistical lead and "co-lead" actors in an adaptation of the novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne.
A Colder War A Colder War is an alternate history novelette by Charles Stross. It follows a "What If" scenario where the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos.
A Collection A Collection is a 2005 DVD by New Order, featuring the majority of their music videos, as well as three alternate versions, two new videos for older songs and a live performance. It is New Order's first DVD compilation, their previous video collections, (The Best Of) New Order and Substance only having been released on VHS or Laserdisc.
A Collection (album) A Collection is a greatest hits album by Third Eye Blind, released July 18, 2006 (see 2006 in music). The album contains all of their singles (with the exception of "Anything"), a handful of fan and band favorites, as well as three unreleased-via-LP songs: "Tattoo of the Sun", "My Time in Exile" and "Slow Motion" (with lyrics).
A Collection of Short Stories A Collection of Short Stories is an album by Houston Calls, released on August 2 2005 on Rushmore Records. The album is considered Houston Calls' debut album, however, they independently released two samplers beforehand.
A Common Reader A Common Reader was an American mail-order book catalogue established in 1986 by Alex Goulder and James Mustich, Jr. It was notable among general-interest book catalogues for its eclecticism, with large sections of each issue given over to obscure literary classics.
A Complete Demonstration A Complete Demonstration is a compilation of early demo tracks by the band VAST. It was made available online in 2005 as a limited edition piece, with the first five hundred copies being signed by Jon Crosby, as well as being numbered.
A Comprehensive Retrospective: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings A Comprehensive Retrospective: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Release Bad and Useless Recordings is a compilation album by hardcore band Shai Hulud. It is a collection of live recordings and early demos and was released after the band split up.
A Concert for Hurricane Relief A Concert for Hurricane Relief was an hour-long, music and celebrity driven live benefit broadcast, sponsored by the NBC Universal Television Group, in response to the Hurricane Katrina tragedy in the southeastern United States, in 2005. Simulcast from the New York studios of NBC located in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, PAX on September 2, 2005.
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