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A Free Quarren in the Palace: Tessek's Tale A Free Quarren in the Palace: Tessek's Tale is a short story from Tales from Jabba's Palace, a book set during the events of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. It is about Tessek, a Quarren, who lives in Jabba the Hutt's palace.
A Free Soul A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with; a mobster whom her father had previously gotten an acquittal for on a murder charge. A Free Soul stars Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable (the first screen appearance together of the future Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler).
A Funny Thing Happened at the Quick Mart A Funny Thing Happened at the Quick Mart is a 2004 independent film, written and directed by David Yarovesky. Only ten minutes in length, it stars, principally, Joey Kern and Rachel Nichols as two teens who encounter in a convenience store, then experience a truly insane series of events, leading to the film's payoff punchline 9 minutes in.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon is a 2001 documentary written, produced, and directed by Nashville, Tennessee-based filmmaker and investigative journalist Bart Winfield Sibrel, a critic of the United States space program and proponent of the theory that the six Apollo lunar landing missions between 1969 and 1972 were hoaxes perpetrated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA.)
A guide to Berlin In this short story, the narrator recounts to a friend his trip that day to the zoo. He short sections--"the Pipes," "The Streetcar," "Work," "Eden," and "the Pub"--he describes the life of the city in vivid detail.
A guide to the arrangement of British insects A guide to the arrangement of British insects is a seminal work of entomology. A monumental piece of work with over 10,000 insect names it was intended for his own use, but pressure for publication grew until it appeared in 1829.
A gwan pa cheon In Korean history, A Gwan Pa Cheon (아관파천 (俄館播遷)) was an event lasting from February 11, 1896 to February 20 1897, where the influence of the Pro-Japanese caused the Choson Kingdoms's King Kojong and his crown prince to temporarily flee Korea to Russia.
A G Steel Allan Gibson "AG" Steel (registered at birth as Alan Gibson Steel) (born 24 September 1858 in Liverpool, died 15 June 1914 in London) was a Lancashire and England cricketer, who was reckoned by some in his day to be the equal of the legendary W G Grace.
A Gamut of Games A Gamut of Games, written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969, contains rules for a large number of paper and pencil, card, and board games. Many of the games in the book had never before been published.
A Garden of Earthly Delights A Garden Of Earthly Delights is one of Joyce Carol Oates earliest works, it is the first in Oates’s self-described trilogy on contemporary American life. It follows Clara Walpole’s ill-fated life and the four men who shaped it.
A Garfield Christmas A Garfield Christmas is the sixth half-hour animated special based on the Garfield comic strip. It features the voice and music talent that is common in Garfield animated specials including Lorenzo Music (the voice of Garfield) and Lou Rawls (provides the songs).
A Gathering of Eagles A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 movie about the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond, a film written by his collaborator, Beirne Lay, Jr..
A General History of the Pyrates A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. Its author uses the name Captain Charles Johnson, but since no other record of such a person exists, it is usually considered a pseudonym.
A General Service List of English Words The General Service List is a list of roughly 2000 words published by Michael West in 1953. The words were selected to represent the most frequent words of English and were taken from a corpus of written English.
A Generation A Generation (Polish: Pokolenie) is a Polish film released in 1955, directed by Andrzej Wajda. This is his first film and the opening installment of his World War II trilogy, which is completed by Ashes and Diamonds and Kanal.
A Gentle Creature A Gentle Creature, sometimes also translated as The Meek One, is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story," and it chronicles the relationship between a pawnbroker and a girl that frequents his shop.
A Gest of Robyn Hode "A Gest of Robyn Hode" is Child Ballad 117. It is one of the oldest surviving tales of Robin Hood, printed between 1492 and 1534, but shows every sign of having been put together from several already existing tales.
A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine A Giant Alien Force More Violent & Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine is a 2002 Venetian Snares EP released on the Hymen label, consisting of one fifteen-and-a-half minute long experimental breakcore track. The packaging consists of a jewellery box-style case containing a 3" CD and a working television-shaped View-Master with a slideshow of artwork from Salt.
A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex A Girl's Guide to 21st Century Sex is an 8 part TV series about sex, billed as a documentary and running on the British broadcasting station five. The 45 minutes long episodes (including advertisements) were broadcast on Monday nights and presented by Dr.
A Glastonbury Romance A Glastonbury Romance is a novel by John Cowper Powys, published in 1932. Usually considered Powys' most famous work, the novel is part of his "Wessex Novels," also including Wolf Solent, Maiden Castle, and Weymouth Sands.
A Gleam Invitational Handicap The A Gleam Invitational Handicap is a race for thoroughbred horses held in California, in the United States of America. It is held on the same day as the Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes at Hollywood Park, usually the beginning of July.
A Glimpse of Tiger A Glimpse of Tiger is a 1971 novel by Herman Raucher. It was his first original novel; his previous (and first) novel, Summer of '42, was based on his own screenplay of the same name, and written at the request of Warner Brothers as a means of promoting the film.
A Glorious Day A Glorious Day is the fourth single from Embrace's fourth studio album, Out Of Nothing. This single was released to coincide with the band's "Glorious Day" open air gigs on May 28 and 29, 2005, at Millennium Square in Leeds, United Kingdom.
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is a collection of short stories centering on Vietnamese-American immigrants in Louisiana, USA. Each story is unrelated, in that each one of them contains different narrators, characters, areas, and foci.
A Good School A Good School is a short novel by Richard Yates first published in 1978. It is set at a Connecticut prep school in the early 1940s and -- without describing a single lesson, exam, sporting event, or even the subject of the pupils' study -- relates the coming of age of a group of mainly WASP boys who at the same time prepare themselves, if half-heartedly, to go to war immediately after graduation.
A Good Time for a Dime "A Good Time for a Dime" is a 1941 Disney short in which Donald watches a risque Daisy perform a parody the Dance of the seven veils in a Mutoscope at a penny arcade nickelodeon peep show. Donald also struggles with a crane drop machine and a miniature airplane ride.
A Goofy Movie A Goofy Movie is a 1995 animated feature and musical film, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation Paris and released to theatres by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution, featuring the characters from the Disney Afternoon television series Goof Troop. A Goofy Movie has a direct-to-video sequel, An Extremely Goofy Movie, which was released in 2000.
A Grain of Wheat A Grain of Wheat is the third and best-known novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a novelist from Kenya. The novel weaves several stories together during the state of emergency in Kenya's struggle for independence (1952-1959), focusing on the quiet Mugo, whose life is ruled by a dark secret.
A Grand Day Out A Grand Day Out (full name A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit) is a 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol, featuring his characters Wallace and Gromit. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog Gromit.
A Grande FamĂ­lia A Grande Familia (The Big Family) is a critcally-acclaimed comedy and one of the most-watched shows in Brazil. The show is on air on Globo and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.
A Graphics Language A Graphics Language (AGL) is an extension of the BASIC programming language, implemented on Hewlett-Packard minicomputers to simplify controlling a plotter. AGL commands describe the desired graphics plotting function, which the computer relays to the plotter as several HP-GL instructions to the plotter.
A Graveyard for Lunatics A Graveyard for Lunatics is a mystery novel by Ray Bradbury, published in 1990. It is the second in a series of three mystery novels that Bradbury wrote featuring a fictionalized version of the author himself as the unnamed narrator.
A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions A Great Collection of Fabricated Traditions (Arabic: Al-Mawdu'at al-Kubrah) is a book written by Abul-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi. In it, he judged several hadith in the Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal to be either weakly transmitted or fabricated, though he himself belonged to Ibn Hanbal's legal school.
A Greek Slave A Greek Slave was a musical comedy in two acts, first performed on June 8 1898 at Daly's Theatre in London, produced by George Edwardes and ran for 349 performances. The score was composed by Sidney Jones with additional songs by Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross.
A Groovy Kind of Love "Groovy Kind of Love" is a pop single originally released in 1966 by The Mindbenders, as well as the title of the original studio album for which it appeared. It was written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager, but heavily based on the Rondo section of "Sonatina in G major," op.
A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch is track four of Dead Kennedys' 1985 album Frankenchrist. Jello Biafra's lyrics present an America more interested in the purchase of garish knick-knacks and celebrity worship than in solving actual problems, which Biafra uses as a springboard to criticise the naivete of the hippie movement.
A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way Of Life The Bodhicharyavatara, sometimes glossed as A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, is a famous Buddhist text written by Shantideva, around year 700. It has ten chapters dedicated to the development of an enlightened mind through the so called six perfections.
A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales is a 1963 collection of writings by science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardback by Doubleday and in paperback by Curtis Books in 1969.
A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation, quite often referred to as Gunshot was Trivium's third release. It features mainly screamed vocals and a what is generally seen as a complicated dual solo by both Matt and Corey.
A Guy Called Gerald A Guy Called Gerald is the stage name for musician, record producer and DJ Gerald Simpson from Moss Side in Manchester, United Kingdom, born in Macclesfield. He has proven to be among the most innovative modern electronic music figures to emerge during the 1980s.
A Guy Named Joe A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film made by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming, produced by Everett Riskin, from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm.
A Halo Called Fred A Halo Called Fred is an independent band that played on the college circuit, mostly in New Jersey and at Rutgers University. Their original songs can be loosely classified as comedy rock, citing influences such as The Beatles and The Muppets.
A Hand of Bridge A Hand of Bridge, a nine minute opera composed by Samuel Barber in 1959 with libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti, is one of the shortest operas that is regularly performed. It consists of two couples playing a hand of bridge.
A Handful Of Love A Handful Of Love (Chinese: 一屋兩家三姓人) is a TVB drama starring Jessica Hsuan and Joe Ma, this drama talks about an uncle taking care of his nephews/nieces because his sister and brother in law died. But the kids don't know that their parents are dead.
A Happy Coersion A Happy Coersion was a 1914 American silent popular short film based on a story by Theodosia Harris starring Perry Banks, William Bertram, Jacques Jaccard, Louise Lester, Jack Richardson (actor), Vivian Rich, Harry von Meter (as Harry
A Happy Death A Happy Death (original title La mort heureuse) was the first novel by French writer-philosopher Albert Camus. The existentialist topic of the book is the "will to happiness", the conscious creation of one's happiness, and the need of time (and money) to do so.
A Hard Day's Night (film) A Hard Day's Night (1964) is a British comedy film written by Alun Owen and starring The Beatles during the height of Beatlemania. The director was Richard Lester, the producer Walter Shenson and the director of photography Gilbert Taylor.
A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962 in Chip Monck's apartment in the basement of the Village Gate (now The Village Theater) on the corner of Bleecker and Thompson Streets in Greenwich Village.
A Harlot's Progress A Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now lost) and engravings (1732) by William Hogarth. The series shows the story of a young woman, Mary (or Moll) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country.
A Haunting A Haunting is a television series on Discovery Channel that, according to its websitechronicles "the terrifying true stories of the paranormal told by those who experienced real-life horror tales. It is about people who lived in haunted houses.
A Hazard of New Fortunes A Hazard of New Fortunes is a novel by William Dean Howells. First published in 1890, the book was well-received for its awareness of social injustice—indeed, the book, considered by many to be his best work, was one of three Howells had written with Socialist and Utopian ideals in mind; The Quality of Mercy in 1892, and An Imperative Duty in 1893.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (or AHWoSG) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents.
A Hero of Our Time A Hero of Our Time () is a short novel by Mikhail Lermontov, written in 1839 and revised in 1841. It is an example of the superfluous man novel, noted for its compelling Byronic hero (or anti-hero) Pechorin and for the beautiful descriptions of the Caucasus.
A History of π A History of π is a 1971 non-fiction book by physicist Petr Beckmann that presents a laymen's level-introduction to the concept of the mathematical constant π. It may be best known for the author's colorful and free-wheeling opinions about politics and culture.
A History of Christianity (Paul Johnson) A History of Christianity is a historical study of the Christian Religion written by British journalist and author Paul Johnson. The book was written in the mid 1970s and reflects what Johnson perceives as "...
A History of Knowledge A History of Knowledge (1991) is a non-fiction book written by Charles Van Doren. In it, Van Doren attempts to lay out a brief history of human thought, condensing over 5000 years of philosophy, learning, and belief systems into just 400 pages.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples A History of the English Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of the British stem of the English speaking people and the American branch, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the beginning of the First World War (1914). It was published 1956–58.
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a semi-fictional literary work by Julian Barnes. The book is sometimes categorised as a novel, a collection of short stories or even a set of essays — the ambiguity arising from the unique renditioning styles employed by Barnes at various places in the work.
A History of US [History of US is a 10-part (and one sourcebook) historical book series for children, written by Joy Hakim]. The series is published by the US branch of [[Oxford University Press and is currently in its third edition.
A History of Violence A History of Violence is a graphic novel written by John Wagner and illustrated by Vince Locke, originally published in 1997 by Paradox Press and later by Vertigo Comics, both divisions of DC Comics. It is also the source for the film of the same name directed by David Cronenberg, the first cinematic adaption of a work by John Wagner since 1995's Judge Dredd.
A History of Vodka A History of Vodka (, Romanized: Istoriya vodki) is a scholarly monograph by the kandidat of historical sciences William Pokhlyobkin, awarded the Langhe Ceretto Prize. Regarding the Soviet-Polish dispute on vodka in the late 70s and being finished in 1979, the work however was published just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
A Hogoheegee District The A Hogoheegee District is a high school conference of the Virginia High School League which draws its members from Southwest Virginia, many from the Bristol, Virginia area. The schools in the Hogoheegee District compete in A Region C (except wrestling which competes in Group A Region D) with the schools of the A Mountain Empire District, the A Pioneer District and the A Three Rivers District.
A Hole In Texas A Hole In Texas is a novel by Herman Wouk. Published in 2004, the book describes the adventures of a high-energy physicist following the surprise announcement that a Chinese physicist (with whom he had a long-ago romance) had discovered the long-sought Higgs boson.
A Home of Your Own A Home of Your Own is a British comedy film made in (1964), directed by Jay Lewis. Entirely silent,with a musical score and sound effects, it is a series of gags set around a building site, featuring many familiar British comedy actors.
A Hostage and the Meaning of Life A Hostage and the Meaning of Life is an album by the rock band Brazil that deals with themes of technology, dehumanization, and frustration. Musically, it borrows from complex genres such as progressive rock and classical music, as well as the abrasive aesthetic of punk, and the ethereal guitar sounds of shoegazer pop.
A House A House were a band from Dublin, Ireland, formed in 1985, after the split of the band, Last Chance. They consisted of vocalist Dave Couse, guitarist Fergal Bunbury and bassist Martin Healy and drummer Dermot Wylie.
A House and Its Head A House and Its Head is a 1935 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Whenever she was asked which of her novels were her favorites, Compton-Burnett always referred to A House and Its Head and Manservant and Maidservant.
A House Divided The term comes from President Lincoln's "House Divided" speech - a reference to the Gospel of Mark chapter 3 verse 25, King James Version: "If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
A House Divided (board game) A House Divided is an American Civil War board wargame, designed by Frank Chadwick and released in 1981 by Game Designers Workshop. A House Divided won the Charles Roberts/Origins Awards for Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame of 1981 and Best Pre-20th Century Boardgame of 1989.
A House Is Not a Home (song) "A House Is Not a Home" is a 1964 song recorded by American singer Dionne Warwick. Written by produced by the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, the song was a modest hit for Warwick peaking at #71 on the pop singles chart as the b-side to the top 40 single, "You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart)".
A House Like a Lotus A House Like a Lotus (ISBN 0-374-33385-8) is a 1984 young adult novel by Madeline L'Engle. Its protagonist is sixteen-year-old Polly O'Keefe, whose friend and mentor, Maximiliana Horne, has sent her on a trip to Greece and Cyprus.
A House of Pomegranates A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1892). Wilde said once that this collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public.
A House to Let "A House to Let" is a short story by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. It was originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine.
A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld" is a single by the ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in October 1989 and made the UK Singles Chart in 1990, peaking at #78.
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard is a collection of four short stories by Paul Bowles that take place in a land where cannabis, rather than alcohol, customarily provides a way out of the phenomenological world. Thus, of the men in these stories, Salam uses suggestions supplied by smoking kif to rid himself of a possible enemy.
A Hunger Artist "A Hunger Artist" (Ein HungerkĂĽnstler), also translated as "A Fasting Artist", is a short story by Franz Kafka published in Die Neue Rundschau in 1922. The protagonist is an archetypical creation of Kafka, an individual marginalised and victimised by society at large.
A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad is a 2005 album by Ocean Colour Scene (OCS) and their last album release to date. Hyperactive Workout was originally due to be released in September 2004 but Sanctuary Records requested the band record a live album instead and pushed the release back to 'early 2005' (the album finally arrived on the 21st March).
A Chairy Tale A Chairy Tale is a 1957 animated short film by Scottish-Canadian film animation pioneer Norman McLaren, starring Claude Jutra and a most uncooperative chair. Using pixilation, the film humorously portrays Jutra's attempts to sit on the chair - and it on him - set to the music of Ravi Shankar.
A Challenge to the Cowards of Christendom A Challenge To The Cowards Of Christendom is the second album by the controversial Christian garage-punk band The Knights of the New Crusade, and their debut release on Alternative Tentacles Records, the label owned and founded by Jello Biafra. Already raising hackles amongst both the Contemporary Christian Music community and secular punk rock acts alike for their "uncompromising and literal devotion to the Holy Bible", the signing of the Knights to Alternative Tentacles raised even more eyebrows because of Biafra's equally open skepticism of all religions.
A Change in the Weather A Change in the Weather is a 1995 work of interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin, in which the player-character is caught in a rainstorm while out in the countryside. It won the Inform category at the inaugural 1995 Interactive Fiction Competition.
A Change Is Gonna Come (song) "A Change Is Gonna Come" is a 1965 single by R&B singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, written and first recorded in 1963 and released under the RCA Victor label a month after his late 1964 death. Though only a modest hit for Cooke in comparison with his previous singles, the song became one of his first blatantly political songs, and came to exemplify the sixties Civil Rights Movement.
A Change Would Do You Good "A Change Would Do You Good" is the fourth single to be released from Sheryl Crow's 1996 self-titled album. It is preceded by "If It Makes You Happy", "Everyday Is A Winding Road", and "Hard to Make A Stand".
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a city comedy written in 1613 by English Renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton. Unpublished until 1630 and long-neglected afterwards, it is now considered among the best and most characteristic Jacobean comedies.
A Checklist and Census Catalogue of British and Irish Bryophytes A Checklist and Census Catalogue of British and Irish Bryophytes (ISBN 0-9507639-7-7) is a A5 softback book produced in 1998 by the British Bryological Society. It attempts to present a complete picture of the vice-county distribution of bryophyte species in Britain and Ireland (including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands).
A Chef in Love A Chef in Love, შეყვარებული კულინარის 1001 რეცეპტი in Georgian (Shekvarebuli kulinaris ataserti retsepti) is a 1996 Georgian film directed by Nana Dzhordzhadze.
A Child From The South A Child From the South was a 1991 television movie about a Nadia (played by Josette Simon), a young journalist, in political exile from South Africa since her father's assassination twenty years earlier and her return to cover a United Nations conference.
A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father 'A Child in the Dark, and a Foreign Father' is a short story written by the iconic Australian writer and poet, Henry Lawson. The story, often considered to be partially autobiographical, considers the rather bleak relationship between a man and his family.
A Child Is Waiting A Child Is Waiting is a 1963 MGM/United Artists film (BW, 104 minutes), starring Judy Garland and Burt Lancaster. It was the second film directed by John Cassavetes for the Hollywood studio system, and his third film overall.
A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions.
A Child's History of England A Child's History of England is a book by Charles Dickens. It first appeared in serial form in Household Words, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in three volume book form in 1852, 1853, and 1854.
A Children's Story A Children’s Story (Certi bambini), also known as Certain Children in Australia, was directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi in 2004 and is an Italian film which focuses on the life of an eleven year old boy growing up in an envronment of poverty and criminality in Naples. This was the second film to be made by the Frazzi twins, Il cielo cade (starring Isabella Rossellini and Jeroen Krabbè) having been released in the year 2000.
A Chinese Odyssey A Chinese Odyssey (Chinese: 大話西遊) is a 1994 duology, directed by Jeffrey Lau. They are actor Stephen Chow's most famous movies, the first one being A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box (西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒) and the second one being A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella (西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣).
A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton (粵音韻彙) is a book written by Wong Shik Ling (黃錫凌) within a few years before being published in Hong Kong, 1941. It is one of the most influential books on the research of Cantonese pronunciation.
A Chipmunk Christmas A Chipmunk Christmas is an animated christmas television special, featuring characters from Alvin and the Chipmunks. It aired on NBC in 1981, nine years after the death of Alvin and the Chipmunks creator Ross Bagdasarian (also known as David Seville).
A Choice of Magic A Choice of Magic is a 1971 anthology of 32 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies.
A Chorus Line A Chorus Line is a Broadway musical that opened at the Shubert Theatre on July 25, 1975 and closed on April 28, 1990 after 6,137 performances. It held the distinction of being the longest running show on Broadway until it was surpassed by Cats in 1997 and The Phantom of the Opera in 2006.
A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol (full title: A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas) is Charles Dickens' "little Christmas Book" first published on December 19,Dickens sent out advanced presentation copies on the 17th while the official release date was the 19th. He was sold out by the 22nd.
A Christmas Carol (1938 film) A Christmas Carol is a 1938 film adaptation of Charles Dickens's novelette. Made by MGM, and originally intended to star Lionel Barrymore, who played the role of Scrooge annually on radio, but was forced to drop out of the film because of his arthritis, the movie starred Reginald Owen as Scrooge and Gene and Kathleen Lockhart as the Cratchits.
A Christmas Carol (1971 film) A Christmas Carol (1971) is a 25-minute animated cartoon adaptation of Charles Dickens' venerable novella which was originally shown on ABC. It was animated and directed by Richard Williams, and starred Alastair Sim as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge (a role Sim had previously performed in the 1951 live-action film Scrooge).
A Christmas Carol (1984 film) A Christmas Carol is a 1984 television movie adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella. It was directed by Clive Donner (who had been an editor on an earlier film version of the story, 1951's Scrooge) and stars George C.

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